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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation prohibiting the v&s;e of the Net or Engine, called a Trawle.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie, taking into con&s;ideration</HI> the great de&s;truction made of Fi&s;h, by a Net or Engine, now called a Trawle, and finding that notwith&s;tanding former Proclamations pro|hibiting the v&s;e of that Net, Diuers Fi&s;her-men do &s;till v&s;e the &s;ame, whereby not onely &s;mall and vn&s;ized Fi&s;h, but euen the Fry, and Spawne, are vtterly de&s;troyed. And His Maie&s;tie hauing al&s;o found, that notwith&s;tanding many Statutes haue beene made for the pre&s;er|uation of the &s;aid Spawne and Fry: Yet neuerthele&s;&s;e, by the de&s;tructi|on thereof, there hath beene of late yeares a greater &s;carcitie of Fi&s;h then in former times; So that His Maie&s;ties Hou&s;hold and the Markets are not &s;upplied therewith as they were wont to be, and the whole kind of &s;ome Fi&s;h, formerly taken vpon the coa&s;ts of this Realme in great plenty, are in mo&s;t places therof now wholly de&s;troyed, being chiefly occa&s;ioned by fi&s;hing wth the &s;aid Trawle, which being laid forth at the Sterne of the Boat or Ve&s;&s;ell, and extended to a great breadth by a Pole at the bottome &amp; forepart of the Net (like an Oi&s;ter Dredge) is drawne &s;o neare the ground by a roape with Sinkers vnder it, as thereby the &s;malle&s;t Fi&s;h are moued, and the Boat being vnder&s;aile is drawne with that &s;trength or &s;wiftne&s;&s;e, that the Me&s;hes being contracted, it taketh them, and moueth al&s;o the Slyme and Spawne vpon the ground; For which cau&s;e his Maie&s;tie by Proclamation hauing heretofore inhibited the v&s;e of the &s;aid Trawle in &s;ome ca&s;es; But finding that it hath not wrought the reformation that was de&s;ired, and that the decay of fi&s;h vpon the&s;e coa&s;ts is likely to be continued, if any v&s;e at all of tho&s;e Nets &s;hall be permitted: His Maie&s;tie therefore (who&s;e chiefe&s;t care is, the welfare and good of His people) to preuent the&s;e inconueniences for the future, by the vtter and totall aboli&s;hing of the v&s;e of the &s;aid Net; Yet willing to giue the Fi&s;hermen &s;ome rea&s;onable time of prouiding them other fit in&s;truments for Fi&s;hing, doth (by the aduice of his Priuy Councill) hereby &s;ignifie and declare his Royall Will and Commandement to be,</P>
<P>That after the fir&s;t day of <HI>May</HI> now next comming, to Fi&s;herman, or other per&s;on or per|&s;ons what&s;oeuer, &s;hall v&s;e the &s;aid Net, called a Trawle in his or their Fi&s;hings, Nor any other like Engine or In&s;trument what&s;oeuer now made or deui&s;ed, or hereafter to be made or
<PB REF="2">deui&s;ed in imitation or re&s;emblance thereof. And that all &s;uch per&s;ons as betweene this and the &s;aid fir&s;t day of <HI>May</HI> next &s;hall be permitted to Fi&s;h with the &s;aid Trawle, &s;hall pa&s;&s;e their Boats, or Ve&s;&s;els, while&s;t they &s;o Fi&s;h in the Chanels and Deeps onely, and not in the Sholes and Flats, and that none of them &s;o Fi&s;h with their Boats, or Ve&s;&s;els vnder Sayle, but by being moued onely with the Set of the Tyde, and that the Me&s;h of their Nets be according to the Lawes and Cu&s;tomes of this Our Realme in that behalfe; vpon paine (for the fir&s;t offence) of the confi&s;cation and lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch their Nets, and the Boats and Ve&s;&s;els wherein they &s;hall &s;o Fi&s;h; And for their &s;econd offence to be further puni&s;hed by Fine and Impri&s;onment in His Maie&s;ties High Court of Starre-Chamber, or other His Courts of Iu&s;tice, for their con|tempt or neglect of His Maie&s;ties Royall Plea&s;ure, and Commandement herein declared.</P>
<P>And for the better reforming and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the Abu&s;es before-named; His Maie&s;tie doth hereby further &s;traitly charge and command, That from henceforth no Soale, Turbut, Purle, or Place, vnder the A&s;&s;ize of eight Inches in length be&s;ides the tayle, be caught, killed, bought or &s;old in any Market, or otherwi&s;e by Sea, or Land, by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, of what e&s;tate, degree, or condition &s;oeuer he, or they &s;hall be, vpon paine of the lo&s;&s;e of the &s;ame vn&s;ized Fi&s;h, which it &s;hall be lawfull for the Clerke of the Market, or any other his Maie&s;ties Officers, from time to time to &s;eize, take away, and giue to the poore where&s;oeuer the &s;ame Fi&s;h &s;hall be found by Sea or Land; And that the &s;aid Clerke of the Market, or other Officer, within &s;ixe dayes after &s;uch &s;eizure, doe deliuer to the Iudge of the Admiraltie, in who&s;e Iuri&s;diction the &s;aid vn&s;ized Fi&s;h &s;hall be found, or to the Vice-Admirall of the County, where the &s;ame &s;hall be &s;eized, a note vnder their hands of &s;uch Delinquents names, and of the place of their abode, with te&s;timony that the Fi&s;h by him or them &s;o &s;eized, was vn&s;ized; To the end that the Offenders therin, a&s;well the buyer, as the &s;eller of any &s;uch Fi&s;h, whether in Market, or otherwi&s;e, may be proceeded again&s;t and puni&s;hed by Fine, and Impri&s;onment, and otherwi&s;e, according to their demerits.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, His Maie&s;tie doth require and enioyne all his Iudges, and Iu&s;tices of Oyer and Terminer, Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;ize in their &s;euerall Circuits, and Iu&s;tices of Peace in their Se&s;&s;ions, and all Admirals and Vice-Admirals, their Deputies and Commi&s;&s;aries, and all Con&s;eruators of Riuers and Waters, Stewards of Leets, and other His Maie&s;ties Officers and Mini&s;ters from time to time, to make diligent inquiry of all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, as &s;hall offend in any of the premi&s;&s;es, contrary to His Maie&s;ties Will and Plea&s;ure herein expre&s;&s;ed, and thereupon to proceed again&s;t, and puni&s;h the Offendors by Fine and Impri&s;onment, or other|wi&s;e, according to His Maie&s;ties Lawes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at White-Hall, </HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;econd day of April, in the eleuenth yeare of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>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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