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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas, at the humble &s;uit and reque&s;t of &s;undry Our louing and</HI> well di&s;po&s;ed Subiects, intending to deduce a Colony, and to make a plantation in <HI>Virginia</HI> Wee, for the inlarging of Our Gouernment, increa&s;e of Nauigation and Trade, and e&s;pecially for the redu|cing of the &s;auage and barbarous people of tho&s;e parts to the Chri&s;ti|an faith, did incorporate diuers Noblemen, Gentlemen and others, ad|uenturers in the &s;ayd Plantation, and granted vnto them &s;undry Pri|uiledges and Liberties; among&s;t which, for their better helpe and a&s;&s;i|&s;tance to rai&s;e &s;ome competent &s;ummes of money to pro&s;ecute the &s;ame Plantation to a happy end, Wee did grant them licence to &s;et foorth, erect, and publi&s;h Lotteries, to continue for one yeere after the opening of the &s;ame, and further, during Our plea&s;ure; which liberty hath been by the &s;ame Company put in v&s;e diuers yeeres pa&s;t. Now fora&s;much as We are giuen to vnder&s;tand, that although Wee in granting the &s;ayd Licence, had Our eye fixed vpon a religious and Princely end and de&s;igne, yet the &s;ayd Lotteries, hauing now for a long time been put in v&s;e, doe dayly decline to more and more inconuenience, to the hinderance of multitudes of Our Subiects.</P>
<P>Wee who&s;e care continually waiteth vpon the generall welfare of Our people, haue thought it expedient, for the generall good of Our Subiects, to &s;u&s;pend the further execution of the &s;aide Lotteries, vntill vpon further deliberation and adui&s;ement, We &s;hall be more fully informed of the inconueniences and euils thereby ari&s;ing, and may ordaine due remedy for the &s;ame, without any conceit of withdrawing Our fauour in any degree from the &s;aid Company or plantation, and good worke by them intended.</P>
<P>And therefore We doe heereby expre&s;ly charge and command the &s;ayd Company and their &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ors, and all their Officers, Mini&s;ters, and Seruants, and all others, That from hencefoorth they de&s;i&s;t and forbeare, to v&s;e or execute any manner of grant or Licence from Vs for the keeping and continuing of any Lotterie, or to keepe or continue any Lotterie, within this Our Realme of England or the Dominions thereof, vntill &s;uch time as Wee &s;hall declare Our further plea&s;ure therein. And Wee likewi&s;e require all Iu&s;tices, Officers, and Mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, from hencefoorth, diligently and carefully to &s;ee this Our plea&s;ure executed, and to puni&s;h the infrin|gers thereof, as contemners of Our Royall command.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the eighth day March, in the eighteenth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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