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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
<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 prohibiting the making vp of Girdles, Belts, Hangers, and other Wares for mens wearing, or for Warre-&s;eruice, with Bra&s;&s;e-Buckles.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_VPon Petition lately exhibited vnto His Highne&s;&s;e by the Com|pany</HI> of Buckle-Forgers, Buckle-Filers, and Trimmers and Dre&s;&s;ers of Buckles, members of the Societie of Girdlers, <HI>Lon|don,</HI> informing His Highne&s;&s;e, that Buckles for Girdles, Hangers, Belts, or other Wares for mens wearing, and Warre-&s;eruice, were wont to bee well and truely forged, and made of Iron, in which Trade, the &s;ayd Company haue well and hone&s;tly gotten their li|uings, and thereupon haue maintained them&s;elues and Families in decent order, and that of late times, there is a &s;ubtill way found out by Ca&s;ting of Buckles in Bra&s;&s;e, in deceit of His Highne&s;&s;e Subiects:</P>
<P>His Highne&s;&s;e was plea&s;ed to referre the con&s;ideration hereof, to the Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> who appointed Commi&s;&s;ioners to call both &s;ides before them, and to examine the grieuances alleadged; And vpon hearing both &s;ides, haue made certificate to His Highne&s;&s;e, That tho&s;e Buckles which are Ca&s;t in Bra&s;&s;e, are brittle, and not &s;o &s;eruiceable as tho&s;e made of Iron, and that there are not aboue foure or &s;ixe per&s;ons within <HI>London,</HI> that make and Ca&s;t tho&s;e Buckles in Bra&s;&s;e, who doe not v&s;e it as the whole Trade of their liuing, but doe other worke, whereby they ray&s;e a good competencie of liue|lihood, and that there are three hundred per&s;ons who&s;e onely meanes to maintaine them|&s;elues and Families, is by Forging and making Iron Buckles and Harne&s;&s;e, and that tho&s;e
<PB REF="2">who ca&s;t the bra&s;&s;e Buckles can make more in one day, then ten of tho&s;e that make the Iron Buckles can doe, by rea&s;on of their &s;lightne&s;&s;e, and that if the Bra&s;&s;e Buckles which are brit|tle and vn&s;eruiceable &s;hould bee tolerated, tho&s;e great number of poore men that make the Iron Buckles (which are much more &s;eruiceable) with their families are like to bee impo|ueri&s;hed.</P>
<P>His Highne&s;&s;e to mainetaine a multitude of poore Artizans that hereby gaine their liuings, and that his people may not bee deceiued, Doth by this His Highne&s;&s;e Proclamation &s;trictly inhibite all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, That they doe not at any time hereafter make vp any bra&s;&s;e Buckles in Girdles, Belts, Hangers, or other wares v&s;ed for mens wearing, or for warre &s;eruice, or vent, or put to &s;ale any &s;uch Girdles, Belts, or Hangers, or other Wares here after to be made vp with bra&s;&s;e Buckles within this His Highne&s;&s;e Realme of <HI>England,</HI> vpon paine of His Maie&s;ties high Indignation, and di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uch further paines, and penalties as by the Lawes, and Statutes of this Realme, and by His Maie&s;ties Prerogatiue Royall, can, or may bee inflicted vpon Contemners of His Maie&s;ties Proclamations, and Royall Commands.</P>
<P>And His Highne&s;&s;e doeth by the&s;e pre&s;ents giue power, and authority, and expre&s;&s;e Com|mandement to all His Iudges, Iu&s;tices, His Aturney Generall for the time being, Maiors, Sherieffs, Balieffs, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Headboroughes, Con&s;tables, and other Officers what&s;oeuer, whom it may concerne, That they and euery of them, diligently attend the due execution of this His Highne&s;&s;e Proclamation, and vpon complaint made, proceede in His Highne&s;&s;e Court of Starre-Chamber, or el&s;ewhere, again&s;t &s;uch as &s;hall di&s;obey, or impugne the &s;ame, to the end the delinquents may receiue condigne puni&s;hment according to their de|merits, as they tender Our Plea&s;ure, and will auoyd the contrary, at their vtmo&s;t perills.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at the Court at Whitehall </HI> <DATE><HI>the twelfth day of Ianuary, in the eighth yeere of the Reigne of our Soueraigne Lord, CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAIESTIE: and by the A&s;signes of Iohn Bill. M.DC.XXXII.</P>
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