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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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<Q LANG="frm">DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; A Proclamation concerning Tynne.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas for the well ordering of the Tynne of this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> diuers and &s;undry good Cu&s;tomes, Lawes, and Ordi|nances haue beene heeretofore v&s;ed, made, and e&s;tabli&s;hed, by the wi&s;edome of former times, among&s;t which there hath beene euer &s;peciall care and proui&s;ion, that all the &s;aid Tynne &s;hould be duely brought to certaine places of Coynage, and there tryed and a&s;&s;ayed and peyzed at certaine Ballances, and by weight v&s;ed for that pur|po&s;e, and by a Stampe or Marke ordained for that purpo&s;e, &s;ealed and allowed before the &s;ame bee put to &s;ale within the Land, or offered to bee Shipped for Forreigne vent. And to that end al&s;o Our noble Progenitors haue beene at charge to erect and maintaine certaine Coynage hou&s;es in &s;euerall Townes within Our Counties of <HI>Deuon</HI> and <HI>Cornwall,</HI> lying mo&s;t commodious for the &s;aid Coynage, with Ballances and Weights there, and Officers and Mini&s;ters attending that &s;eruice. At which places at certaine dayes of Coynage and po&s;t-Coynage appointed, &s;peciall Officers of the Stannaries doe, and haue beene wont duely to attend, to receiue, try, a&s;&s;ay, peyze, coyne, &s;eale and allow the &s;aid Tynne, by &s;etting a Marke, Seale, or Stampe vpon the &s;ame.</P>
<P>By which meanes both Wee and Our Progenitors were &s;ecured of the emption or pre|emption and Coynage duties of the &s;aid Tynne, being ancient and vndoubted hereditarie
<PB REF="2">Reuenues annexed to Our Crowne in right of Our Duchie of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and al&s;o the Tynne had his iu&s;t and true a&s;&s;ay, according to the goodne&s;&s;e and richne&s;&s;e of it, that neither Our owne Subiects nor others might be defrauded in the buying of the &s;ame, nor yet the Subiect hindered by any vnnece&s;&s;ary delay in the lawfull Trading and Merchandizing thereof.</P>
<P>And whereas out of a Princely care to cheri&s;h and maintaine the Trade and Working of &s;uch a worthie and Staple Commoditie, of &s;o much honour and profit to this Common|wealth, Our deare Father (of ble&s;&s;ed memorie) did not long &s;ince take order to allow a greater price for the working and making thereof then euer was giuen before, which We haue hither-vnto continued.</P>
<P>And Our &s;aid late Father in His life time by &s;ad aduice, did &s;ettle the Tynne bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in a more orderly and better cour&s;e then euer before it was, a&s;well for the benefit of Vs, being then Prince, as for the contentment and &s;atisfaction of Our louing Subiects, the Merchants and Pewterers of <HI>London</HI> and other places.</P>
<P>Yet neuerthele&s;&s;e We are informed, That by the &s;ecret practice and combination of &s;undry ill minded and couetous owners and workemen of the &s;aid Tynne and Tynne works, a great part of the &s;aid Tynne hath beene heeretofore, and daily is bought and &s;old, receiued, deliue|red, and carried away vncoyned, a&s;well in Ships and other Ve&s;&s;ells, which vnder colour of comming to buy Corni&s;h Slate and Stone and &s;uch like occa&s;ions, vpon the coa&s;t of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> doe imbezill much vncoyned Tynne in Blockes, as al&s;o by Mariners and Seafaring men, who buy vp the Tynne in Barres, commonly called, Pocket Tynne, of Blowers and Mel|ters of Tynne and others, contrary to the ancient Ordinances of Our Stannaries afore&s;aid, to Our preiudice and wrong in Our &s;aid Reuenue, and the di&s;gracing of Our &s;aid Commo|ditie and abu&s;e of Our Subiects buying the &s;ame vntryed and not a&s;&s;ayed.</P>
<P>In re&s;pect whereof, as Wee might mo&s;t iu&s;tly extend the rigour of Our Lawes again&s;t &s;undry offenders notoriou&s;ly faultie in this behalfe, both again&s;t the Law and Cu&s;tome of the Realme and of the Stannaries, and again&s;t Our late deare Fathers Proclamation, which in Our naturall inclination to mercy Wee haue forborne; So Wee cannot in Our Princely care of the Common-wealth and Our owne right, but prouide for redre&s;&s;e and reformation of the&s;e great di&s;orders for the time to come; And finding that the Proclamation made by Our deare decea&s;ed Father, hath not wrought that good effect that was expected; We there|fore doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;traitely charge and command, a&s;well all and &s;ingular Our louing Subiects, as all other per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, that none of them pre&s;ume, vpon any colour, &s;hift, or pretence what&s;oeuer, at any time or times heereafter, to vtter, &s;ell, deliuer, or put to &s;ale, or to receiue, &s;hip, carry, land, or contract for any Blacke Tynne vnblowne, but &s;uch as cau&s;e the &s;ame to bee ca&s;t, melted downe, and blowne and brought to the place of Coy|nage, before it be &s;old for v&s;e, nor to &s;ell, giue, barter, or vtter any White Tynne, or Ca&s;t Tynne
<PB REF="3">before it bee fir&s;t Coyned and Stamped with Our Seale or Marke appointed for that pur|po&s;e, as afore&s;aid, vpon paine of forfeiture a&s;well of the &s;aid Tynne, and other condigne pu|ni&s;hment in ca&s;e of land carriage, as al&s;o of confi&s;cation of the Ships, Hoyes, Barques, Lighters, and other Ve&s;&s;ells wherein any &s;uch prohibited Tynne &s;hall bee &s;hipped or laden for tran&s;portation contrary to the intendment of this Our Proclamation, and al&s;o vpon paine of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and of &s;uch further penalties, forfeitures, and puni&s;hments in both ca&s;es, as by the Statutes and Ordinances of Our &s;aid Stannaries, or any other Law or Statute what&s;oeuer, or by the cen&s;ure of Our high Court of Starre-Chamber, for di&s;|obeying this Our Royall Commandement and Iniunction, or otherwi&s;e may bee inflicted vpon the offenders in this behalfe.</P>
<P>Giuing all Our louing Subiects to know, that any toleration or forbearance for the time pa&s;t &s;hall bee &s;o farre from iu&s;tifying or warranting the like abu&s;es to bee continued in time to come, as contrary wi&s;e it &s;hall aggrauate the fault thereof in re&s;pect of Our former clemencie.</P>
<P>And whereas Wee are giuen to vnder&s;tand, that there are certaine wandring Pettie-Chapmen, and Tinkers and others haunting much about the Tynne workes and places of melting of Tynne, who doe make it a v&s;uall Trade to buy and barter Blacke Tynne by the Bowle, and White Tynne vncoyned by the pound weight, or other &s;mall quantitie, and &s;o doe carry the &s;ame from the &s;aid places, to certaine priuate places of receipt, till hauing gotten by this vnlawfull meanes &s;ome &s;tore together, they vent or &s;pend the &s;aid Blacke Tynne be|fore it be blowne, and &s;ell the &s;aid White Tynne before it be Coyned, by &s;ea or by land where they finde be&s;t Chapmen, to the preiudice of Vs and Our louing Subiects as afore&s;aid:</P>
<P>Our will and plea&s;ure is, and Wee &s;traitely charge and command all and &s;inguler Our Iu&s;tices of Peace, and all the Officers and Mini&s;ters of the Stannaries, and others whom it &s;hall or may concerne, before whom any &s;uch Tinker, Pettie-Chapman, or other per&s;on of|fending &s;hall bee brought, diligently to examine and finde out, where, and of whom hee had the &s;aid prohibited Tynne White or Blacke found with him, and where and to whom hee meant or intended to &s;ell the &s;ame, or hath heeretofore &s;old any other of like &s;ort: And a&s;well the &s;aid Tinkers and Pettie-Chapmen, as all other per&s;ons who &s;hall bee found priuie to the buying or &s;elling, receiuing, deliuering, or bartering of the &s;aid Tynne Blacke or White, as afore&s;aid, to commit to Our Gaole of the Stannarie of that Countie where they &s;hall bee ta|ken, and otherwi&s;e to puni&s;h them according to the Lawes, Cu&s;tomes, and Ordinances of Our Stannaries, as the qualitie and nature of the offence &s;hall by the Lawes and Sta|tutes of this Realme de&s;erue, and for contempt of Our Royall Commandement and Procla|mation in this behalfe.</P>
<P>And where Wee haue lately granted to &s;ome of Our louing Subiects the emption or pre|emption of Tynne, during a terme vnexpired, and for reliefe of poore Pewterers of the Citie
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<PB REF="5">of <HI>London</HI> haue prouided, That if the &s;aid Le&s;&s;ees or Farmors &s;hall be minded to tran&s;port any Tynne in Barres, they &s;hall imploy the &s;aid Pewterers of <HI>London,</HI> or &s;ome of them that Our &s;aid Farmors &s;hall nominate for the ca&s;ting of Tynne out of Blockes into Barres, at &s;uch places as Wee &s;hall appoint, and in default of &s;uch appointment, at &s;uch places as Our &s;aid Farmors &s;hall appoint: Sithence which time many haue pre&s;umed to ca&s;t Tynne into Barres, both in the Counties of <HI>Cornwall</HI> and <HI>Deuon</HI> and el&s;ewhere, which is a meanes that a great part thereof is the more ea&s;ily conueyed from place to place and vented before the Coynage thereof, and others then Our Farmers haue opportunitie to tran&s;porte the &s;ame, contrary to Our agreements made with them: Wee doe &s;traitely inhibite all per&s;ons that none of them, other then &s;uch of the Pewterers of Our Citie of <HI>London</HI> as &s;hall bee nomi|nated by the Farmors of the emption or preemption of Tynne, for the time being, doe pre|&s;ume to ca&s;t any Tynne into Barres, and that none of them ca&s;t any Tynne into Barres but in the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> And that in the &s;ame Citie none bee &s;o ca&s;t but in &s;uch hou&s;es and places of melting as &s;hall bee de&s;igned or allowed of by Our &s;ayd Farmors, vpon the paines to bee inflicted vpon contemners of Our Commands in Our Court of Starre-Chamber and otherwi&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall <DATE>this two and twentieth day of Ianuary, in the ninth yeere of Our Reigne of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, FRANCE, and IRELAND.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> <HI>God &s;aue the King.</HI></CLOSER>
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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. 1633.</P>
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