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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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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 concerning the &s;eque&s;tration of the Office of Po&s;t-ma&s;ter for forraign parts, and al&s;o of the Letter-Office of <HI>England,</HI> into the hands of <HI>Philip Burlamachi</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> Merchant.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas We have received Information of divers abu&s;es and</HI> mi&s;bemeanours committed by <HI>Thomas Witherings,</HI> in the exe|cution as well of the Office of Po&s;t-ma&s;ter for forrain parts, as al&s;o of the Letter Office within Our own Dominions, and thereupon have been plea&s;ed to &s;eque&s;ter the &s;aid Offices into the hands of <HI>Philip Burlamachi</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> Merchant, who is to execute the &s;ame under the care and over&s;ight of Our principall Secreta|ries of State, till We &s;hall &s;ignifie Our plea&s;ure to the contrary, and have accordingly declared the &s;ame under Our Royall Hand and Signet, and commanded Our &s;aid Secretaries to &s;ee the &s;e|que&s;tration put in &s;peedy execution, and to take &s;uch cour&s;e that neither Our Service, nor the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Merchants, nor other Our Subjects, might thereby receive any prejudice or interruption. And whereas Our &s;aid Secretaries in pur&s;uance of Our &s;aid command, have not onely affixed Papers upon the old Exchange, to give notice of this Our plea&s;ure to all Our Subjects herein concerned, but have al&s;o given advice thereof as well into the parts beyond the Seas, as al&s;o into all places of Our own Dominions, to the end that the Service it &s;elf might continue in the &s;ame cour&s;e wherein it was formerly, and nothing at all changed or altered therein, but onely the hou&s;e where the &s;aid Offices are to be kept. But becau&s;e We under&s;tand, that the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Witherings</HI> hath &s;ince cau&s;ed certain Proclamations heretofore made and publi&s;hed by Our command concerning the &s;aid Offices, to be &s;et up and affixed upon the &s;aid Exchange, which may be a great di&s;traction to this Service, and may likewi&s;e rai&s;e &s;uch doubts in many of Our Subjects, as may cau&s;e them to make diffi|culty to conform them&s;elves to this Our plea&s;ure; We do therefore hereby &s;uper&s;ede Our &s;aid former Proclamations concerning this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, or &s;uch part of them, and every of them, as may be contrary to, or different from, this Our &s;eque&s;tration, till We &s;hall &s;ignifie Our plea&s;ure to the contrary, and do &s;traitly charge and command all Our Subjects whom it doth or may concern, to conform them&s;elves thereunto, and to the directions given by Our &s;aid Secretaries, for the ordering and managing of the &s;aid Offices, as they tender Our plea&s;ure, and will an&s;wer the contrary at their perils. Hereby promi&s;ing and declaring, that as We will defend and &s;ave harmle&s;&s;e all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons, that by conforming them&s;elves to this Our &s;eque&s;tration, and the Orders thereupon given, &s;hall contravene Our &s;aid Proclamation, or incur the penalties of them, &s;o We &s;hall cau&s;e all &s;uch as &s;hall oppo&s;e or di&s;obey this Our Royall will and plea&s;ure, to be puni&s;hed according to their demerits.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at Oatlands</HI> <DATE> <HI>the &s;ixth day of Augu&s;t in the &s;ixteenth yeer of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;tie. And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1640.</P>
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