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<HEAD><FIGURE>
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</FIGURE>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; A Proclamation for re&s;traint of exce&s;siue Carriages, to the de&s;truction of the High VVayes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas in the Reigne of Our mo&s;t deare and Royall Father,</HI> King <HI>IAMES</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory, and &s;ince Our acce&s;&s;e to the Crowne, &s;euerall Proclamations haue beene publi&s;hed for the re|&s;traint of exce&s;&s;iue Carriages by common Carriers or others, to the de&s;truction of the High Waies of this Realme; and yet We finde by dayly experience, tho&s;e great abu&s;es are &s;till continued and increa&s;ed; whereby if timely remedy be not prouided, tho&s;e pub|like Nu&s;ances are like to hinder much the generall commerce of Our people, and become vnrepaireable, without exce&s;&s;iue charge and burthen to the Country. We therefore, by the aduice of the Lords and others of Our Priuie Councell, doe hereby &s;traightly charge and command, that from henceforth no common Carrier, nor other per&s;on what&s;oeuer, vpon the common High Wayes doe goe or trauaile with any Wagon, Weyne, Cart, or Carriage, whereon is or &s;hall be laden at once aboue twenty hundred weight; Nor that for the draught or carrying thereof, there be v&s;ed aboue fiue hor&s;es, or aboue foure Oxen and two hor&s;es, or aboue &s;ixe Oxen without hor&s;es at any one time, to the end that by the&s;e meanes the occa&s;ion of &s;uch exce&s;&s;iue carriages may be preuented. All which We do &s;traight|ly charge and command to be duely ob&s;erued, vpon paine of Our heauy indignation, and &s;uch other penalties and puni&s;hments, as by the Lawes or Statutes of this Our Realme, or otherwi&s;e, may be inflicted vpon the Offenders therein.</P>
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<P>And becau&s;e &s;uch extraordinary Carriages as of late yeares haue beene v&s;ed, haue hereto|fore by the opinion of Our Iudges beene held to be generall Nu&s;ances, and therefore the &s;ame ought by the Law to be &s;euerely puni&s;hed, as that wherein the publike hath an inte|re&s;t: We doe &s;traightly charge and command all Our Iudges and Iu&s;tices, that in their &s;euerall places they doe carefully and diligently enquire of all the&s;e Offences; and as much as in them lieth, doe puni&s;h the Offendors.</P>
<P>And Wee doe hereby admoni&s;h, and &s;traightly charge and command all tho&s;e whom it may concerne, that they be carefull from time to time to repaire and maintaine the High Waies, Bridges, and Cau&s;eys throughout this Our Realme, according to Our Lawes and Statutes in that behalfe, as they tender Our plea&s;ure, and will an&s;were the contrary at their perils.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e there may be no pretence for any to excu&s;e them&s;elues, Wee &s;traightly require and charge, that Information from time to time be giuen to Our Attorney generall, of ob|&s;tinate and notorious Offendors again&s;t this Our Royall command, which &s;o much impor|teth the common good and ea&s;e of Our people; To the end, that by a legall cour&s;e they may bee proceeded with, and receiue &s;uch puni&s;hment as their contempts and offences &s;hall de&s;erue.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, We doe hereby will and require all Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Iu&s;tices of peace, and all other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters in all Our Counties and places what&s;o|euer within this Our Realme, whom it may concerne, that they v&s;e their vttermo&s;t endea|uour for di&s;couery and puni&s;hment of all Offences and Offendors again&s;t this Our plea&s;ure and Royall commandment.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at the Court at Hampton-Court,</HI> <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of Nouem|ber, in the eleuenth yeere of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;aue the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of IOHN BILL. 1635.</P>
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