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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation concerning Far|thing Tokens.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas diuers Proclamations have beene publi&s;hed as well by Our</HI> late deare Father King <HI>Iames</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memorie, as by Our &s;elfe, to authorize the v&s;e of &s;uch Farthing Tokens as were made by au|thority of Our &s;aid Father or Our &s;elfe, and to re&s;traine the v&s;e of all others, with &s;traight prohibitions, that &s;uch as were authorized, &s;hould neither bee counterfeited, nor being counterfeited, &s;hould bee paid as Farthing Tokens betweene man and man; For as much as notwith&s;tanding the care taken herein, great quantities of counterfeit farthing Tokens haue beene made &amp; vented, both in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> to the contempt of Our Royall authority, and to the deceit of our people of both Realmes; We do therefore again publi&s;h and declare, That it is our plea&s;ure, that no Farthing Tokens &s;hall be paid, or receiued, or be in v&s;e among&s;t Our &s;ubiects of Our Realmes of <HI>England</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireland,</HI> but &s;uch as heretofore haue beene made, or hereafter &s;hall be made for Our &s;aid Realmes, by the authority of Our late Royall Fa|ther or Our &s;elfe: And that if any of them &s;hall either bee counterfeited, or any counterfeit To|kens, or any Copper pieces made for the v&s;e of Our Realme of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or any forraine parts, &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">e vented or v&s;ed, that in all &s;uch ca&s;es, all per&s;ons willingly, or knowingly offending therein, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t according to Our Lawes, and as tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours of Our authority and Royall Prerogative. And whereas by the abu&s;e of &s;ome particular per&s;ons (who&s;e onely aime is to make a private gaine and profit to them&s;elues) Our people in many parts of this Kingdom, and e&s;pecially poore labourers, who&s;e nece&s;&s;ities enforce them to take their hire in any money, are compelled many times to take all or mo&s;t part of their wages in Farthings, from &s;uch as buy great quantities at low rates, and make a commodity thereby: Which abu&s;e, as it hath beene a great burden, and grieuance to Our people in many parts of this Realme, &s;o it is to be feared it will hereafter turne to the great di&s;aduantage of Our Patentees, if it be not remedied by a timely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nformation.</P>
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<P>Wee therefore willing to preuent and meet with &s;uch growing euils and inconueniences, occa&s;ioned by forcing vpon Our &s;ubiects the &s;aid Farthing Tokens, which being rightly v&s;ed, are of them&s;elues very nece&s;&s;ary, and are made chiefly for the reliefe of the poore, and to bee vented and v&s;ed onely for exchanging in &s;mall &s;ummes, but not to bee put vpon any again&s;t their wills in great payments or otherwi&s;e, Doe hereby declare that it is vtterly vnlawfull and contrary to Our meaning, That any Farthing Tokens &s;hould be hereafter enforced vpon any poore Labourers, Workemen, or other per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, again&s;t their wills: And to the end that &s;uch Farthing Tokens which hereafter &s;hall be made by Our authority, may be the better knowne and di&s;tingui&s;hed from &s;uch as are counterfeit, We haue directed Our right tru&s;ty &amp; welbeloued, <HI>Henry</HI> Lord <HI>Matrauers,</HI> and Sir <HI>Francis Crane</HI> Knight, Chancellor of the mo&s;t Noble Order of the Garter (who haue vnder Vs the care and managing of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e) to cau&s;e the &s;aid Farthing Tokens to be made with &s;uch a di&s;tinction of Bra&s;&s;e, as will readily make them knowne from all others, and thereby free Our people from being any longer decei|ued; Which Farthing Tokens &s;o made We doe hereby authorize to pa&s;&s;e betweene man and man, within Our Realmes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI> for the value of Far|things, to be v&s;ed onely for exchange in &s;mall &s;umms, for the ea&s;e and conuenience of Our &s;aid Subiects that &s;hall be willing to accept the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And it is likewi&s;e Our plea&s;ure, That the &s;aid Farthing Tokens, and all other Farthing Tokens formerly made by authority from Vs, or Our late Father, of Copper onely, which are in v&s;e and pa&s;&s;e betweene man and man among&s;t Our Subiects, within Our Realmes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;hall from time to time be rechanged into the currant Moneys and Coynes of Our &s;aid Kingdomes, for the ea&s;e of Our people that &s;hall require &s;uch rechange.</P>
<P>And We doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command all Our Subiects to take notice of the &s;aid alteration of the Farthing Tokens and of this Our Care for the rechange; which Our will is &s;hould bee &s;o guided and gouerned, that men who &s;hall receiue the &s;aid Tokens in the v&s;e of their Trades may not be put to lo&s;&s;e thereby, nor yet any be encouraged vnder hope of the &s;ame, to get into their hands greater proportion of the &s;aid Farthing Tokens then may well &s;erue for their nece&s;&s;ary v&s;e and occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>And Wee doe hereby further authorize and require all Our Iudges, Iu&s;tices, and Barons of Our Exchequers of Our &s;aid Realmes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughes, and other Our Officers and Mini|&s;ters of Our &s;aid Realmes, that they and euery of them be from time to time furthering, ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting in the due accompli&s;hment and execution of Our Royall will and commandement herein declared.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at VVhitehall </HI> <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of March, in the eleuenth yeere of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; God &s;aue the King.</TRAILER>
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<P>&leaf; 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. 1635.</P>
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