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<Q>HONI SO<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> QVI MAL Y PE<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters"></Q>
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</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION For Enforcing the due Execution of the Act of Parliament, Entituled, <HI>An Act for Setling the Profits of the Po&s;t-Office on his Royal Highne&s;s the Duke of</HI> York <HI>and his Heirs Males:</HI> And for Prevention of the Inconveniences ari&s;ing by the Infringement of the &s;aid Act.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Office of Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-General hath been Erected by Act of Parliament in the Twelfth year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, and the well ordering thereof is thereby declared to be a matter of general concernment, and of great advantage, as well for pre&s;ervation of Trade and Commerce, or otherwi&s;e: And whereas al&s;o the greate&s;t part of the Revenue and Profits thereby ari&s;ing, is by one other Act of Parliament in the Fifteenth year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, Granted and A&s;|&s;igned by His Maje&s;ty unto His mo&s;t entirely beloved Brother <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York,</HI> for and towards his Maintenance and Support; which Laws and Statutes, notwith&s;tanding &s;everal per&s;ons for their private lucre have lately practi&s;ed, and do &s;till continue in a &s;ecret and mo&s;t unlawful manner to make a general Collection of Letters, and to give them Conveyance and Delivery for Hire without any Authority from the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general, whereby not onely the Reve|nue ari&s;ing by the &s;aid Office is dimini&s;hed, but likewi&s;e &s;everal dangerous Corre&s;pondencies are pre&s;erved and maintained, and the Sediti|ous de&s;igns of many evil di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons are very much promoted. His Maje&s;ty therefore for the prevention hereof in time to come, and to the end that &s;uch per&s;ons who &s;hall pre&s;ume hereafter to offend in like manner, may remain without all excu&s;e, hath thought fit by this His Royal Proclamation, to require and enjoyn all His loving Subjects, and doth hereby &s;traitly Charge and Command all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons (other then the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general for the time being, his Deputies or A&s;&s;igns) that they pre&s;ume not either directly or indirectly to &s;et up any Office, or to contrive or practi&s;e any way or means for collecting and receiving of Letters and Pacquets, or to carry, recarry, or de|liver the &s;ame with &s;peed and for hire. And to this end His Maje&s;ty doth further Require and Command them and every of them, that they pre&s;ume not to &s;et up any Foot-po&s;t, Hor&s;e-po&s;t, Po&s;t, or Stage-coach, or Pacquet-boat, for carrying or recarrying of Letters or Pacquets, or to imploy or make u&s;e of any which &s;hall be &s;et up for that purpo&s;e, other then &s;uch as &s;hall be Licen&s;ed and Authorized by the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general for the time being, his Deputies or A&s;&s;igns. And becau&s;e &s;everal Carriers, Drivers of Stage-coaches or Waggons, Haglers, Ma|&s;ters of Ships, Pur&s;ers, or other Mariners do very often under colour and pretence of their re&s;pective Imployments, intermeddle with, and in|trude upon the Office of the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general, His Maje&s;ty doth hereby more particularly and expre&s;ly Charge and Command all Carriers, That they pre&s;ume not to carry any Letters other then &s;uch as &s;hall concern the Goods wherewith they are charged, beyond the fir&s;t Po&s;t-&s;tage to which they &s;hall arrive, and that they pre&s;ume not to outgo their Packs or Waggons, or deliver any Letters which they carry, &s;oon|er, or with more &s;peed then their re&s;pective Packs or Waggons &s;hall arrive. And His Maje&s;ty doth in like manner Charge and Command ill Drivers of Stage-Coaches, Haglers, and &s;uch like per&s;ons, That they pre&s;ume not in any kind, or upon any pretence what&s;oever, to in|termeddle with the conveyance and delivery of any Letters as afore&s;aid; but that they do from time to time refu&s;e all &s;uch Letters which &s;hall be &s;o tendred to them. And His Maje&s;ty doth al&s;o Charge and Command all Ma&s;ters of Ships, Bour&s;ers and Mariners, That they pre&s;ume not to carry any Ship-letters, other then the Letters of Merchants, Owners, and Ma&s;ters, beyond the fir&s;t Po&s;t-&s;tage to which they &s;hall arrive in <HI>England.</HI> And if any Carriers, Drivers of Stage-coaches, Haglers, Ma&s;ters of Ships, Pur&s;ers, or other Mariners &s;hall be found carrying of Letters unlawfully, or in any other manner, they &s;hall incur His Maje&s;ties high di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uffer the utmo&s;t penalty which can be inflicted upon &s;uch as &s;hall be found to have broken His Maje&s;ties Laws, and to be wilful contemners of His Royal Com|mand. And moreover, all Letters what&s;oever &s;ent or conveyed by &s;uch clande&s;tine and indirect wayes, and by per&s;ons not lawfully Autho|rized, &s;hall be lookt upon as Letters of dangerous con&s;equence, and &s;hall accordingly be &s;eized and brought to one of His Maje&s;ties Principal Secretaries of State, or to &s;ome one or more of the Lords of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council, to the end the &s;ame may be opened and in&s;pected, and the per&s;ons conveying or &s;ending them may be proceeded again&s;t according to Law. And for the better execution of His Maje&s;ties Command, and as a means to &s;ecure the Revenue ari&s;ing by the &s;aid Office, His Maje&s;ty will cau&s;e &s;uch Searchers, Waiters, and other Officers to be appointed in all convenient places, as may be fit and proper for the di&s;covery of &s;uch practi&s;es, and carrying &s;uch Let|ters, to be &s;eized, and &s;uch offenders names to be certified; And in the mean time His Maje&s;ty doth &s;trictly Charge and Command all May|ors, Sheriffs, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, Bayliffs, Searchers of His Maje&s;ties Ports, and all other His Officers and Mini&s;ters what|&s;oever within their &s;everal Iurisdictions and Offices from time to time, to make diligent &s;earch for all Mailes, Buggets and Baggs in any Ship, Ve&s;&s;el, Waggon, Coach, or other unlawful or unlicen&s;ed Carriage, and all &s;uch Letters which they find to be conveyed or carri|ed contrary to Law, to &s;eize and &s;end up to one of His Maje&s;ties principal Secretaries of State, or to &s;ome one or more of the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, together with the names of the per&s;ons offending, to the end &s;uch further proceeding may be had as &s;hall be found agreeable to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm. And that no man hereafter may complain for want of a &s;etled Po&s;t in or near particu|lar by-Towns or Places lying on the Po&s;t-Road, which complaint hath hitherto been made the excu&s;e or pretence for &s;ending and carrying of Letters by other indirect and unlawful conveyances, His Maje&s;ty doth hereby al&s;o Require and Command the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general for the time being, That upon or before the <HI>29^t^h</HI> day of <HI>September</HI> next, to take effectual care for the conveyance of all by-Letters, by e&s;tabli&s;hing Cor|re&s;pondencies at the lea&s;t charge and greate&s;t ea&s;e that may be, to the Countrey, in all con&s;iderable Market-Towns, with the next adjacent Po&s;t-&s;tages: And that he cau&s;e a Map or Card thereof to be forthwith Printed, to the end that all His Maje&s;ties Subjects may know where and to what place to addre&s;s their re&s;pective Letters. And His Maje&s;ty doth further Charge and Command all and every per&s;on or per|&s;ons, other then the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general for the time being, his Deputies or A&s;&s;igns, That they pre&s;ume not to prepare or provide any Hor&s;es or Furniture to let to hire unto, or in all or any the through-Po&s;ts, and per&s;ons riding Po&s;t by Commi&s;&s;ion or without, to and from all and every the parts and places of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> where any Po&s;t-Rodes are or &s;hall be &s;etled and e&s;tabli&s;hed, unle&s;s the Po&s;t-ma&s;ter-general, his Deputies or A&s;&s;igns &s;hall fir&s;t fail to provide and furni&s;h the per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o riding Po&s;t, with &s;ufficient Hor&s;es and Furniture, within the &s;pace of half an hour after demand thereof made, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at the Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the One and twentieth day of <HI>June,</HI> 1669.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>In the <HI>SAVOY,</HI> Printed by the A&s;&s;igns of <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1669.</P>
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