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<DATE>2014-03-03</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140120.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="G">506.h.10[91]</STC>
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<FIGDESC>England's royal coat of arms, 1608</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> &leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WE are informed that there hath bene of late</HI> (through neglect of the Lawes of our Realme, and &s;uch good orders as haue bene taken) &s;o great a tran&s;portation of Hor&s;es into forraine parts, a&s;well for the number, exceeding rea&s;on, as in regard of the qualities and &s;tatures forbidden, as it hath both already cau&s;ed an exce&s;&s;iue price of Hor&s;es among our Subiects, and will with time vnfurni&s;h the Realme of &s;uffi|cient number for v&s;e and Seruice. For preuenting whereof, we doe &s;traitly charge and commaund all our Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, and all other Officers of our Ports, and other Officers what&s;oeuer, That they &s;uffer not any Hor&s;es to bee &s;hipped within any of their charges, or Tran&s;ported by what Licen&s;e or Warrant &s;oeuer, except it be vnder our owne hand, or vnder the hand of the Ma&s;ter of our Hor&s;e, vntil vpon &s;ome con&s;ideration had thereof by Vs and our Councell, Order bee taken how (in &s;ome ca&s;es agreeable to the Lawes of the Realme, and without inconuenience to our Subiects) Hor&s;es of &s;ome condition may in rea&s;onable number be permitted to bee tran&s;ported, and by what Warrant the &s;ame &s;halbe done, and the better &s;ort &s;tayed within the Realme for v&s;e and Seruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at Holdenby <DATE>the xiiij. day of Augu&s;t, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. ANNO 1608.</P>
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