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<NAME>Colm MacCrossan</NAME>
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<HEAD><Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q></HEAD>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE</P>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas His Maje&s;ty by His Proclamation of the Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, upon the con&s;iderations therein expre&s;&s;ed, prohibited the &s;etting to Sea any Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, to or for any parts or places beyond the Seas, until He &s;hould De|clare His Plea&s;ure to the contrary, His Maje&s;ty by and with the Advice of His Privy Council hath thought fit, and doth hereby Declare and &s;ignifie His Royal Will and Plea&s;ure to be, That the &s;aid Proclamation, and the Prohibition, and every other Clau&s;e, Matter and thing therein contained, &s;hall from henceforth cea&s;e and determine; And doth al&s;o further Declare, That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons will &s;et forth any Private Men of War again&s;t the States of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> or any their Subjects or Inhabitants, they &s;hall forthwith upon reque&s;t and application, have Letters of Marque in that behalf.</P>
<P>And His Maje&s;ty con&s;idering the inconveniences of many of His Subjects in and about the City of <HI>London,</HI> and places adjacent, and el&s;ewhere within <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> in the want of Coals, and for the prevention thereof, and encouragement of all per&s;ons concerned in the bringing and &s;upply of the &s;ame, hath thought fit, and doth hereby Declare and Command, That no Saylors, Seamen, or other per&s;on or per&s;ons imployed, or to be imployed in or about any Ship or Ve&s;&s;el bringing or carrying Coals from the Town or Port of <HI>New-Ca&s;tle upon Tyne,</HI> from <HI>Sunderland,</HI> or other Ports within His Maje&s;ties Dominions, or any the Members or Creeks thereof, or places adjacent to, or towards the &s;aid City of <HI>London,</HI> or el&s;ewhere in <HI>England</HI> or <HI>Wales,</HI> &s;hall be Pre&s;t, or otherwi&s;e hindred or mole&s;ted, either coming or returning, by any His Maje&s;ties Pre&s;s-Ma&s;ters, or other Officers or Mini&s;ters what&s;oever.</P>
<P>And for the better Security of the Per&s;ons and Ships bringing and conveying the &s;aid Coals, His Maje&s;ty is further graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, and doth Declare, That &s;ufficient Con|voys &s;hall be from time to time provided for their &s;afe Pa&s;&s;age and Conduct to and from the parts and places afore&s;aid; and all His Maje&s;ties Officers, Mini&s;ters and Subjects what&s;o|ever, both by Sea and Land, are required to take notice of this His Royal Plea&s;ure and Com|mand, and give due obedience thereunto at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI></HI> <DATE><HI>the Twenty &s;ixth day of <HI>April</HI> 1665. in the Seventeenth year of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1665.</P>
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