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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation again&s;t tran&s;portation of Corne and Graine.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FOra&s;much as Wee &s;ee apparantly, that there is already great</HI> &s;car&s;itie of Corne and Graine of all &s;orts, and the &s;ame growen to very high rates and prices; And the weather al&s;o hath long bene, and &s;till continueth &s;o &s;trange and vn&s;ea&s;onable, as it giueth no hope of amed|ment, But rather is like much to impaire the Fruits of the earth that are to be expected of the next yeere; So as the poore mu&s;t needs &s;uffer extreame want, and the better &s;ort al&s;o finde it heauy and chargeable vnto them, except it plea&s;e GOD to deale mercifully with vs; And therefore Wi&s;edome requireth, That all meants be v&s;ed to prevent a&s;well Exportation of Corne and Graine out of the Kingdome, as vnnece&s;&s;ary wa&s;te and con&s;umption thereof at home. Wee threfore (who&s;e cares watch ouer Our people to pre&s;erue them from all inconueniences, Although Wee are not ignorant that this height of price groweth more out of the greedy coue|tou&s;nes of Buyers and Hourders of Corne, then out of the want or dearth thereof;) And though al&s;o the price of all kinde of Graines be, and for &s;ome good time pa&s;t hath bene &s;uch, as no Tran&s;|portation thereof can lawfully be made by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme; Yet to the end that the world may take knowledge of Our extraordinary care in this behalfe, and that no man haue hope to e&s;cape puni&s;hment, if he offend from hencefoorth in this ca&s;e; WE doe by this Our Proclamation &s;traitly charge and command all and &s;ingular Our Subjects, and other per|&s;ons what&s;oeuer, That they nor any of them pre&s;ume to cary or conuey out of this Realme, di|rectly or indirectly, and Wheat, Rye, Barly, Malt, Dates, Pea&s;e, Beanes, Fetches, Bucke, or any Corne or Graine what&s;oeuer, or the Meale or Flower thereof, vpon paine of Our heauy di&s;plea|&s;ure, and of &s;uch impri&s;onment, and other puni&s;hments, as vpon the contemners of Our Royall commandement in &s;o waighty and important cau&s;es, are and ought to be inflicted.</P>
<P>And We doe likewi&s;e hereby as &s;traitly charge and command all Our Cu&s;tomers, Comptrol|lers, Searchers, Waitours, and other the Mini&s;ters of Our ports, And the Farmours of Our Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies, and all other per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, That they &s;uffer no &s;uch Corne, Graine, Meale or Flower, as afore&s;aid, to be conueyed or caried out of this Realme; But &s;hall hinder and &s;top the &s;ame, if they haue meanes &s;o to doe; Or el&s;e &s;hall pre&s;ently vpon know|ledge thereof, complaine and giue knowledge of it to &s;ome principall Officers, to the end it be pre|uented, Vpon paine likewi&s;e of &s;uch puni&s;hments as are due to them that neglect Our Royall Commaundement.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Newmarket<DATE>the xix. of Ianuary, in the tenth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>ANNO DOM, 1612.</P>
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