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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140119.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>&leaf; A PROCLAMATION concernynge eatynge of vvhyte meates, made the .xvi. day of February, the .XXXII. yere of the reygne of the kynges mo&s;t royall maie&s;ty.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FOR AS MOCHE</HI> as by dyuers and &s;undry occa&s;yons, as well hearrynge, lynges, &s;altfy&s;h, &s;amond, &s;tockfy&s;he, as other kyndes of fy&s;he, ben this yere &s;kant, and al&s;o en|hanced in prices aboue the old rate and comen e&s;timation of theyr valour: &s;o that if the kynges louynge &s;ubiectes &s;hulde be enforced onely to bye and prouyde hearrynge and other &s;alte &s;tore of fy&s;&s;he, for the nece&s;&s;arye and &s;uffycient &s;u&s;tentation and mayntenaunce of their hou&s;holdes and families, all this holy tyme of Lent, accordyng as they haue ben wont in times pa&s;t to do, &amp; &s;huld not be, by &s;ome other conuenient meanes releued therin, the &s;ame myght and &s;huld vndoutedly redounde to their importable charge and dctryment. And for as moch as his hyghne&s;&s;e con&s;yderethe, howe this kynde and maner of fa&s;tynge, that is to &s;aye, to ab&s;teyne from mylke, butter, egges, che&s;e, and all other whyte meates, is but a mere po&s;ytiue lawe of the Churche, and v&s;ed by a cu&s;tome within this realme, and of none other &s;orte or nece&s;&s;itie, but the &s;ame may be, vpon good con|&s;iderations and groundes, altered and di&s;pen&s;ed with from tyme to tyme by the publike auctority of kinges and princis, whan &s;o euer they &s;hal perceiue the &s;ame to tende to the hurt and damage of their people. <HI>THE KYNGES</HI> hyghne&s;&s;e therfore mo&s;t graciou&s;ely con&s;idering and tenderyng the welthe and co~moditie of his people, hath thought good, for the con&s;yderations aboue reher&s;ed, to relea&s;e and di&s;pence with the &s;ayde lawe and cu&s;tome of ab&s;teynyng from whyte meates this holy tyme of Lent, And of his e&s;pecial grace and mere motion gyueth and granteth vnto al and &s;yngular his &s;ubiectes, within this his realme of England, Wales, Cales, Guynes, Hammes, and in all other his graces do|minions, free lyberty, faculty, and lycence, to eate all maner of whyte meates, as mylke, egges, butter, che&s;e, and &s;uche lyke, durynge the tyme of this Lent, without any &s;cruple or grudge of con&s;cience: any lawe, con&s;titution, v&s;e, or cu&s;tome to the contrary notwith &s;tandynge. Wherin neuer the le&s;&s;e his hyghnes exhorteth, and in the name of god requireth, all &s;uch his faythfull &s;ubiectes, as may, woll or &s;hall enioy this his &s;ayd graunte or faculty, that they be in no wy&s;e &s;cruple or doubtefull therof, nor abu&s;e or tourne the &s;ame into a Ae&s;hly or carnal libertie: but rather endeuour them &s;elfes to their po&s;|&s;ible powers with this libertie of eatynge of whyte meates, to ob&s;erue al&s;o that fa&s;te, which god mo&s;t &s;pecially requireth of them: That is to &s;ay, to renounce the world and the deuyl, with al their pompes and workes, and al&s;o to &s;ubdowe and repre&s;&s;e theyr carnal effections, and the corrupt workes of their fle&s;&s;he, accordyng to their vowe and profe&s;&s;yon made at the font &s;tone. For in the&s;e poyntes &s;pecially con&s;y&s;teth the very true and perfyt ab&s;tinence and fa&s;tynge of a Chri&s;ten man.</P>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KYNGE</CLOSER>
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<P>Tho. Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">thelet excudebat Cu~ priuilegio ad imprimendum &s;olum.</P>
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