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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Queene.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the calling in and fru&s;trating all Commi&s;|&s;ions for the making of Salt-peter granted forth before that to George Euelin and others, the 28. of Ianuary 1587. whereby many of her Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects were greatly abu&s;ed, as al&s;o that all pe|ter made by the &s;aid later Commi&s;sions doe bring the &s;ame into her Maie&s;ties &s;tore, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie for the increa&s;e &amp; maintenance of her Highne&s;&s;e &s;tore of powder for the &s;eruice of the Office of her Ordinance, did heretofore graunt diuers Commi&s;&s;ions for the making of Salt-peter with|in this her Maie&s;ties Realme of England, by vertue whereof, &s;uch (to whom the execution thereof was committed) by colour of their &s;aid authoritie, and by rea&s;on of the generalitie of words therein contained, contrary to the true mea|ning of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions, haue forced and drawen from diuers and &s;undry her Maie&s;ties louing &s;ubiects great &s;eruices, and haue vnduely procured from them great exactions by taking of their woods and cariages, and by other in|direct meanes, to the great grieuance, and di&s;turbance of her Maie&s;ties &s;aid &s;ubiects: of which mi&s;demeanours (her Maie&s;tie hauing vnder&s;tanding) for the more ea&s;e of her Highne&s;&s;e &s;ubiects, and repre&s;&s;ing of &s;uch enor|mities, her Highne&s;&s;e by her Maie&s;ties letters of Commi&s;&s;ion bearing date the xxviii. day of Ianuary, in the xxx. yeere of her Maie&s;ties raigne, did graunt vnto George Euelin E&s;quier and others, full power and autho|ritie for the making of Salt-peter afore&s;aid, at their owne proper charges, and therein did not onely inhibite and forbid all &s;uch forcements and exactions of &s;eruices and other mi&s;u&s;ages of her &s;ubiects in their hou&s;es, grounds and woods, as had bene required and vrged by colour of the &s;aid former Commi&s;&s;ions, but al&s;o by the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ion did reuoke and call in all former Commi&s;&s;ions before the &s;aid <HI>28.</HI> day of Ianuary. Sithens the granting of which later Commi&s;&s;ion, diuers per&s;ons authorized by the &s;ame vnder the &s;aide George and Iohn Euelin for the working and making of Salt-peter, haue fraudulently procured to them&s;elues by indirect meanes &s;ome of the former Commi&s;&s;ions, and by colour of the &s;ame haue troubled many her Maie&s;ties &s;ub|iects, contrary to the expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure of her Maie&s;tie in that behalfe. Her Highne&s;&s;e therefore vpon due con&s;ideration of the premi&s;&s;es, and to the ende her Maie&s;ties louing &s;ubiects be not ouerpre&s;&s;ed, charged, nor preiudiced contrary to her Maie&s;ties &s;aid gracious intent, willeth and commandeth all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Shiriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, and all other her Maie&s;ties Officers &amp; mini&s;ters, by all due meanes to &s;earch and finde out &s;uch former Commi&s;&s;ions afore the &s;aid xxviii. of Ianuary, and the &s;ame to cancell, and all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons that from the publi&s;hing of this Proclamation, &s;hall goe about to attempt to worke or take vp any thing by colour of the &s;aid former Commi&s;&s;ions, that &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons by the next Iu&s;tice of Peace (where &s;uch offence &s;halbe done) be forthwith committed to pri&s;on, there to remaine during her Ma|ie&s;ties plea&s;ure. And where great quantities of Salt-peter made by vertue of her Maie&s;ties latter Commi&s;|&s;ion, be, and haue bene by the &s;aid peter-makers conuerted vnto other v&s;es then for her Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, as is expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ion, to the great di&s;appointment and di&s;furni&s;hing of her Maie&s;ties &s;tore of that proui&s;ion: Her Maie&s;tie therefore &s;traitly chargeth and forbiddeth all Salt-peter makers, and all other per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to &s;ell, buy, or otherwi&s;e procure vnto them&s;elues directly or indirectly by any wayes or means what&s;oeuer, any Salt-peter made or hereafter to be made by vertue of her Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion a|fore&s;aid, but that y^e &s;ame may be brought into her Maie&s;ties &s;tore within y^e Tower of London, according to the true intent of her Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion in that behalfe to them granted, vpon paine of &s;ixe moneths impri|&s;onment both to the buyer and &s;eller, and lo&s;&s;e of the Salt peter, or the value thereof &s;o &s;old and bought. And further, her Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tanding of &s;ome bad and euil di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons (to the hinderance of &s;o needfull a proui&s;ion to be had and made within this her Maie&s;ties Realme) practi&s;e to de&s;troy &amp; make wa&s;te &s;uch ground as the &s;aid Petermakers (to their great co&s;t and charges) haue made and founded for the &s;eruice afore&s;aid: Her Maie&s;tie therefore willeth likewi&s;e &amp; commandeth all Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Shirifes, Bailiffes and Con|&s;tables, and al other Officers and mini&s;ters within their &s;eueral limits, diligently to enquire from henceforth of &s;uch mi&s;demeanors, &amp; &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons that from henceforth &s;halbe found faultie and to offende in the premi&s;&s;es, to be by the next Iu&s;tices of the peace (where &s;uch offence &s;halbe done) committed to pri&s;on, there to remaine during the &s;pace of &s;ixe moneths, without Baile or mainpri&s;e, and vntil her Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure bee further therein knowen. Giuen at her Maie&s;ties mannour of Richmond, the xiii. of Ianuarie <HI>1589.</HI> In the <HI>32.</HI> yeere of her Highne&s;&s;e raigne.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Chri&s;topher Barker, printer to the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie. 1595.</P>
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