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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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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>A Proclamation for the Re&s;traint of exce&s;siue Carriages, to the de&s;truction of the High-wayes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas Our mo&s;t deare and Royall Father of euer ble&s;&s;ed me|mory,</HI> by his Royal Proclamation bearing date the &s;ixt of Augu&s;t, in the twentieth yeere of His Reigne of England, for the many rea&s;ons therein mentioned, for the publique good and ea&s;e of His People, did prohibite and &s;traitly charge and command; That no common Carrier, or other per&s;on, &s;hould goe or trauell with any Wayne, Cart, or Carriage with foure Wheeles, nor &s;hould carry with or vpon any Wayne, Cart, or Carriage, aboue the weight of twenty hundred; nor &s;hould draw any Wayne, Cart, or other Carriage, with aboue fiue Hor|&s;es at once, vpon &s;uch paynes and penalties as in the &s;aid Proclamation are expre&s;&s;ed. Since which time tho&s;e great di&s;orders are much more increa&s;ed, whereby, if it be not preuented, tho&s;e publique Nu&s;aunces which will de&s;troy the generall Commerce of Our People, will become vnremediable. Wee therefore by the aduice of the Lords and others of Our Priuy Councell, doe &s;traitly charge and command that from and after the Fea&s;t of <HI>S^t. Iohn Bapti&s;t</HI> now next en&s;uing, No common Carrier or other per&s;on vpon the Common High-wayes, doe goe or trauell with any Wayne, Cart, or Carriage, which &s;hall haue aboue two Wheeles. Nor that vpon any Wayne, Cart or Carriage, there bee laden at once aboue twenty hundred weight, Nor that for the draught thereof there be v&s;ed aboue fiue 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 bee preuented, all which Wee doe &s;traitly charge and command to be duely ob&s;erued, vpon paine of Our hea|uy indignation, and &s;uch other penalties and puni&s;hments as by Our Lawes can bee in|flicted vpon the Offendors. And becau&s;e &s;uch extraordinarie Carriages as of late yeares
<PB REF="2">haue beene v&s;ed, haue heretofore by the opinion of all the Iudges beene held to bee generall and publique Nu&s;aunces, and therefore the &s;ame ought by the Law to be &s;euerely puni&s;hed, as that wherein the publique hath an intere&s;t. Wee doe &s;traitly charge and command all Our Iudges and Iu&s;tices that in their &s;euerall places, they doe carefully and diligently en|quire of all the&s;e offences, and as much as in them lyeth, doe puni&s;h the offendors. And We doe al&s;o hereby require Our Attourney Generall for the time being, vpon notice giuen vnto him of any &s;uch Offendor, to pro&s;ecute them in a Legall cour&s;e in Our Court of Star-chamber, there to receiue &s;uch Cen&s;ure and Puni&s;hment, by Fine, Impri&s;onment, and otherwi&s;e, as their Contempts and Offences &s;hall de&s;erue. And We doe hereby admoni&s;h all tho&s;e whom it may concerne, that they be carefull to repayre and maintaine the Highwayes, Bridges, and Cau&s;eys throughout this our Realme, according to Our Lawes and Statutes in that behalfe made, and now continuing in force, as they tender Our plea&s;ure, and will an|&s;were the contrary at their perils. And becau&s;e there may bee no pretence for them to excu&s;e them&s;elues by rea&s;on of the&s;e exce&s;&s;iue Cariages, We &s;treitly charge and enioyne them for their owne ea&s;e, to giue true information to Our Attourney Generall, of all offences and offenders again&s;t this our Proclamation. And la&s;tly Wee 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;oeuer within this Our Realme, that they v&s;e their vttermo&s;t indeauour to di&s;couer and puni&s;h all offences and offendors again&s;t this Our plea&s;ure and Royall commandement.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at White Hall, </HI> <DATE><HI>the ninth day of March, in the Fift yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and Iohn Bill, Prin|ters to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXIX.</P>
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