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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.
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<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Proclamation for re&s;traint of the exportation, wa&s;te, and con&s;umption of Coine and Bullion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THE Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;ty con&s;idering the &s;carcity of money and coine of late</HI> yeeres growen within the Realme, occa&s;ioned partly by tran&s;porta|tion thereof out of this kingdome, and partly by the vnlawfull con&s;ump|tion thereof within the land, whereof many vn&s;ufferable inconueniences doe daily ari&s;e, &amp; more are like to en&s;ue, to the generall hurt and dammage of the whole common weale, if &s;ome timely and good remedy be not pro|uided; And calling to mind the many &amp; good Laws and Statutes made in the times of his mo&s;t noble progenitours and predece&s;&s;ors, Kings of this Realme, as al&s;o the &s;euerall Proclamations publi&s;hed by his owne Royall authority &s;ince the beginning of his mo&s;t happy Reigne: Not|with&s;tanding all which, and &s;ome remarkeable examples of Iu&s;tice in his high Court of Starre-chamber again&s;t &s;ome principall offenders in this kinde, many couetous and greedy per&s;ons, haue and dayly doe with great boldne&s;&s;e and contempt, continue and proceed in tho&s;e vnlawfull and offen&s;iue cour&s;es, tending to the exhau&s;ting of the trea&s;ure of the Realme, and vtter ouerthrow of trade and commerce within the &s;ame. And therefore his Maie&s;tie in his Princely wi&s;e|dome, and vpon nece&s;&s;ity of State, &s;ees it fit, that from hencefoorth all care and diligence in the di&s;co|uery, and all &s;euerity in the correction and puni&s;hment of &s;uch delinquents, without fauour to any, &s;hall be v&s;ed. And to the end that all men may take notice heereof, his Maie&s;ty thinketh fit to pub|li&s;h this his Proclamation, to the end that no man vpon hope of impunity, pre&s;ume heereafter to tran&s;gre&s;&s;e his Maie&s;ties Laws, or this his Royall commandement in that behalfe; heereby &s;traitly charging and commanding, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons, alien, denizen, or other &s;ubiect, of what e&s;tate, degree, quality or condition &s;oeuer, do at any time heereafter, without his Maie&s;ties licence, tran&s;port, carry, or conuey, or attempt, or endeuour to tran&s;port, carry or conuey out of this Realme, any golde or &s;iluer, either in Coine, Plate, Ve&s;&s;els, Iewels, Gold&s;miths worke, Bullion, or other Ma&s;&s;e, or o|therwi&s;e how&s;oeuer, vpon paine of his Maie&s;ties heauy indignation and di&s;plea&s;ure, and of the &s;eue|re&s;t cen&s;ure of his high Court of Starre-chamber, and &s;uch further paines, puni&s;hments and impri|&s;onments, as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme may be inflicted vpon them for &s;uch their offence.</P>
<P>And further, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, vpon the like paines or penalties, do ayd, a&s;&s;i&s;t, coun&s;aile, or any waies partake with any other per&s;on or per&s;ons, purpo&s;ing or attempting to tran&s;|port, carry or conuey out of this Realm, without his Maie&s;ties lycen&s;e, any Gold or Siluer, in Coyne, Plate, Ve&s;&s;ell, Iewels, Gold&s;mithes worke, Bullion, or other ma&s;&s;e, or otherwi&s;e how&s;oeuer; either by gathering or getting together &s;uch Gold or Siluer, or by packing vp the &s;ame fit for tran&s;portation, or conueying the &s;ame to or towards any Port, Hauen, or other place of exportation, or by any other way, meane, or colour what&s;oeuer. And that all &amp; &s;inguler Gold&s;miths, Merchants, &amp; their Factors, Ma&s;ters of &s;hips, Mariners, Pa&s;&s;engers&punc; and all other per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, that &s;hall haue any
<PB REF="2"> motice of Gold or Siluer in coyne, Iewells, Bullion, Plate, or Ve&s;&s;ell, or otherwi&s;e how&s;oeuer, which hath beene already exported within the &s;pace of three yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, or &s;hall be hereafter ex|ported, or &s;halbe &s;hipped for exportation, or &s;hall be gathered and got together by change, culling, or o|therwi&s;e, with intention to export, or with intention to put into the hands of them which &s;hould ex|port it, That they foorthwith reueale the &s;ame to the Lord Trea&s;urer of England, the Lord Pre|&s;ident of his Maie&s;ties Priuy Coun&s;ell, the vnder Trea&s;urer of the Exchequer, or to the Warden of the Cinque Ports, or his Deputie, or to &s;ome of his Maie&s;ties learned Coun&s;ell; for which di&s;couerie they &s;hall receiue in reward the one halfe of the &s;aid Gold or Siluer, or of the value thereof being &s;ei|zed or recouered to his Maie&s;ties v&s;e: And on the other part, if they &s;hall not di&s;couer the &s;ame, they &s;hall incurre and receiue condigne puni&s;hment, as by the Lawes of this his Maie&s;ties Realme, or by his Prerogatiue Royall &s;hall be meete to be inflicted vpon them. And for auoyding of all vnnece&s;|&s;ary con&s;umption and wa&s;te of Siluer and Gold within this Realme, which is much practi&s;ed of late by &s;ome Gold&s;mithes and Refiners, and tho&s;e that v&s;e the manufacture of Gold and Siluer threed; His Maie&s;tie doth hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that no Finer of Gold or Siluer, nor parter of the &s;ame by fire or water, from henceforth allay no fine Siluer, nor Gold, nor none &s;ell in any other wi&s;e, ne to any per&s;on or per&s;ons, but only to the Officers of his Maie&s;ties Mynts, Changes, and Gold&s;mithes within this Realme, only for the augmentation and amending of Coyne and Plate: And that no Finer nor Finers, Parter nor Parters &s;ell to no per&s;on any manner of Siluer in Ma&s;&s;e molten and allayed; and that no Gold&s;mith within this Realme melt or allay any fine Siluer, but only for making of Amels and for amending of Plate, to make it as good as &s;terling, as by the Sta|tute in that ca&s;e is prouided: Nor that they &s;ell no fine Siluer, nor other Siluer allayed, molten into Ma&s;&s;e to any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, nor one Gold&s;mith to another: But that the Statute in this behalfe made in the fourth yeere of His Maie&s;ties mo&s;t noble progenitor King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;e|uenth be in all points duly ob&s;erued and kept, vpon paine that euery per&s;on, offending to the contra|ry, &s;hall incurre His Maie&s;ties High indignation and di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uch puni&s;hment as by the Law or by His Maie&s;ties Prerogatiue Royall may be inflicted for &s;uch mi&s;demeanor &amp; contempt.</P>
<P>And for that the making of Gold and Siluer threed is found to be a great wa&s;te &amp; con&s;umption of Coyne &amp; Bullion of the Realme, Therfore His Maie&s;tie doth further prohibite &amp; forbid all making of Gold and Siluer threed, of what kind &s;oeuer, or by what&s;oeuer name it be called within this his Ma|ie&s;ties Realme: And doth &s;traitly charge and command, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, from the fea&s;t of Saint Michael the Archangell next en&s;uing, &s;hall pre&s;ume to buy, or put to &s;ale any Gold or Siluer threed, made within any His Maie&s;ties Dominions, vpon paine to incurre the vttermo&s;t &s;eueritie of the cen&s;ure and puni&s;hments afore mentioned.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Mannor of Greenewich,</HI> <DATE><HI>the eleuenth day of Iune, in the twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the fiue and fiftieth.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by <HI>BOHAM NORTON,</HI> and <HI>IOHN BILL,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXII.</P>
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