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<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation for the Vent of Cloth, and Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdome.</HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS We by Our Proclamations have upon ju&s;t Grounds re&s;trained and forbidden all Trade and Commerce to and from Our City of <HI>London,</HI> and all other Cities Townes, Ports and Places within this Our Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> which are not in Our actuall Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion and under Our obedience, but are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and held by the Rebels now in Armes again&s;t Us, or are Adhering, or A&s;si&s;ting to this Rebellion, untill they &s;hall return or be reduced to their due obedi|ence, thereby to prevent the Rebells of the meanes, which Trade and Commerce would afford them for the &s;upporting and maintaining of this unnaturall Warre again&s;t Us their Soveraigne, and again&s;t Our good Subjects. And whereas by Our Proclamation dated the one and Twenti|eth day of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, for the better venting of the Cloath and Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom, We did publi&s;h and Declare Our plea&s;ure to be, That it &s;hould be lawfull for any of Our Loyall Subjects, to carry all kind of Cloath and other Woollen Manufactures what&s;oever, to any Port or Ports, which then were, or after &s;hould be in Our obedience and po&s;&s;e&s;sion, and from thence (paying the Cu&s;tomes and other payments to Us, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;uch other payments as have been <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> place in Amity with Us. Which Licence or Freedom, We did likewi&s;e thereby give to all Merchants, Strangers, and their Factors, they only paying to Us Strangers-Cu&s;tomes and payments, and &s;uch other payments as have been u&s;ually an&s;wer|ed and paid for Licences of White Cloaths, as by Our &s;aid Proclamation may appeare. Now for the furtherance and quickening of the Vent of Cloath and Wollen Manufactures for the releife and benefit of tho&s;e Our Subjects (being very many) who&s;e Imployments and Livelyhood con&s;i&s;ts in clothing and Manufactures of Wooll, and who&s;e Condition, We have taken into Our Princely Con&s;ideration; And having heard the opinions of divers Merchants expert in Trade We have upon mature deliberation and debate with Our privy Councell, and with their advice thought fit for the pre&s;ent to abate of Our own profit &amp; Intere&s;t in the Cu&s;tomes, Duties, and payments of Merchants-Strangers for tho&s;e Manufactures and to make them equall with tho&s;e of Our own Subjects, for their better encouragement in the taking off and exportation of the &s;ame; And therefore We do by this Our Proclamation Ordain, Publi&s;h, and Declare, That from and after the date of this Our Proclamation, and untill We &s;hall otherwi&s;e provide and Ordain and &s;ignifie Our Plea&s;ure to the contrary, it &s;hall and may be lawfull to and for any Our Loyall Subjects, and likewi&s;e for any Strangers in amity with Us, to carry a|ny kind of Cloath, or other Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom what&s;oever to any Port or Ports, which either now are, or &s;hall be in Our obedience and po&s;&s;e&s;sion, and from thence (paying only &s;uch Cu&s;tomes and other payments to Us, and &s;uch other payments for Licences of White Cloaths as have been u&s;ually an&s;wered and payd by Our own Subjects) to Ship and Tran&s;port the &s;ame to any Forraigne place in Amity with Us. And to this purpo&s;e We Command all Our Ad|miralls, Vice-Admiralls, Captains of Ships, Captains of Forts, Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, and all other Officers Mini&s;ters, and Loving Subjects, to give way to the exportation of the &s;ame; And that they give the Merchants or their Factors, Strangers, or others neither in their Shipping, nor when they are at Sea, any interuption therein, they produ|cing their Cocquets that they Shipped forth their Landing from a Port under Our obedience, and in Our po&s;&s;e&s;sion. And likewi&s;e We command all Generalls, Colonells, Captaines of Hor&s;e and Foot, and other Our Officers of Our Army, that in their Conveying the &s;aid Commodities from any inward part of the Country to any Port as afore&s;aid, they give no in|terruption to any of Our Loyall Subjects or Forraigners, Trading as afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Oxford,</HI> <DATE>this 9<HI>^t^h</HI> day of <HI>April,</HI> in the Twentieth year of Our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; <HI>Printed at</HI> Oxford, <HI>by</HI> Leonard Lichfield, <HI>Printer to the &V;niver&s;ity,</HI> 1644.</P>
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