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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>&leaf; A Proclamation touching the Manufactures of Playing-Cards, and Dice.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;ty, for the better imployment and re|liefe</HI> of the Card-makers and Dice-makers of the Realme, hauing of late taken order for a con&s;tant weekly buying and taking off from them, of their Manufactures of Cards and Dice, whereby they may be enabled to liue of their Trades: And for preuention of the&s;e common abu&s;es which haue been and are &s;till practi&s;ed, by the v&s;e of fal&s;e Cards and Dice, to the great deceit and dammage of His Subiects; His Maie&s;tie, by His Letters Patents, vnder His Great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> bearing date the nine and twentieth day of <HI>April,</HI> in the thirteenth yeere of His Reigne, hath appointed an Officer for the Searching and Sealing of all &s;uch good and merchantable Cards and Dice, as now are or &s;hall be hereafter either made within this Realme, or Imported into the &s;ame from any forraine, or other parts, before the &s;aid Cards and Dice &s;hall be vttered or put to &s;ale.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty therefore doth hereby declare His Royall Will and Plea&s;ure to be, and doth &s;traight|ly Charge and Command, That all per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, a&s;well Makers of Cards and Dice within the Realme, as Merchants or others, who &s;hall import the &s;ame from Forrain or other parts, do from henceforth from time to time, bring the &s;ame Cards and Dice to His Maie&s;ties Offi|cer, or his Deputies in <HI>London,</HI> and other remote places, to be there viewed, examined, and &s;ealed, if they &s;hall be found good and merchantable; paying to His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Officer, or his Deputies, vpon the &s;ealing thereof, &s;uch allowance and Fee, as by His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Letters Patents is ap|pointed in that behalfe.</P>
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<P>And His Maie&s;tie doeth hereby expre&s;&s;e His further Royall Plea&s;ure to be, That no per|&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, &s;hall, or doe hereafter pre&s;ume directly, or indirectly to buy, &s;ell, v&s;e, vtter, keep, or di&s;po&s;e of any Cards, or Dice what&s;oeuer within the Realme, before the &s;ame &s;hall be duely viewed, &s;earched, and &s;ealed by His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Officer, or His Deputies, vpon paine of the forfeiture of all &s;uch Cards and Dice, to be &s;ei&s;ed and taken by the &s;aid Officer, or his Deputies, or by &s;uch other per&s;on or per&s;ons, as &s;hall di&s;couer and finde out the &s;ame; and vpon the forfeiture al&s;o of Twelue-pence for euery paire of Cards, or Bale of Dice, which any &s;hall &s;o buy, &s;ell, v&s;e, keep, or put to &s;ale before they &s;hall be viewed and &s;ealed; The one moity of which &s;ei&s;ures, and forfei|tures, His Maie&s;tie appointeth to be to the Officer and parties who &s;hall &s;elfe the &s;ame, prouided the &s;aid forfeited Cards and Dice be afterwards duely brought to be &s;ealed; and the other moity thereof to be duely an&s;wered to His Maie&s;tie; And vpon &s;uch further penalties and puni&s;hments, as by the Lawes or Statutes of the Realme, or otherwi&s;e may be inflicted for their contempt or neglect herein. And for the ea&s;e of &s;uch Card-makers or Dice-makers, as are, or &s;hall be re&s;iding in parts remote from the City of <HI>London,</HI> it is prouided, that His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Officer &s;hall haue, and appoint his &s;euerall Deputies in meet places of the Realme, where it &s;hall be needfull, who &s;hall Seale without Fee all &s;uch old Stocks of merchantable Cards and Dice already made or impor|ted, as &s;hall be brought vnto the &s;aid Officer, or his Deputies, within one moneth now next com|ming; and &s;hall al&s;o Seale all &s;uch other merchantable Cards and Dice, as after that time &s;hall be made or imported, for the Allowance or Fee by His Maie&s;ties Letters Patents a&s;&s;igned to be recei|ued by the &s;aid Officer in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And His Maie&s;tie doth hereby require and Command, a&s;well all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Head-boroughs, and other His Maie&s;ties Officers and Mini&s;ters, as all His Cu&s;tomers, Collectors, Farmours, Searchers, and other the Officers of His &s;euerall Ports, within this Realme of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Towne of <HI>Barwick;</HI> That they, and euery of them in their &s;euerall Offices and places, be from time to time aiding, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Officer, and his Deputies, in the due execution of His Maie&s;ties Will and Plea&s;ure herein, and in His &s;aid Letters Patents declared and expre&s;&s;ed, as they will an&s;were the neglect of His Maie&s;ties Royall Commands herein.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at <HI>White-hall,</HI></HI> <DATE><HI> the fifteenth day of May, in the thirteenth yeare of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;aue the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&para; 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. 1637.</P>
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