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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation reuiuing and enlarging a for|mer Proclamation made in the Reigne of King Iames, prohibiting the bringing in of any Commodities traded by the Ea&s;tland Merchants into this Kingdome, a&s;well by Subiects as Strangers, not <HI>free of that Company, with a publication of certaine Statutes for the re|&s;traint of all His Maie&s;ties Subiects, from &s;hipping any Com|modities in Strangers Bottomes, either into, or out of this Kingdome.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_IT is a great part of Our Royall care, like as it was of Our</HI> Royall Father of ble&s;&s;ed memory decea&s;ed, to maintaine and in|crea&s;e the Trade of Our Merchants, and the &s;trength of Our Nauie, as principall Veines and Sinewes for the wealth and &s;trength of Our Kingdome. Whereas therefore the Society and Company of Our Ea&s;tland Merchants, trading the <HI>Baltique Seas,</HI> haue by the &s;pace of fifty yeers at the lea&s;t, had a &s;etled and con&s;tant po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of Trade in tho&s;e parts, and haue had both the &s;ole car|rying thither of Our Engli&s;h Commodities, and al&s;o the &s;ole bringing in of all the Commo|dities of tho&s;e Countreys, as namely, Hempe, Yarne, Cable-Yarne, Flaxe, Pot-a&s;hes, Sope-a&s;hes, Polonia Wooll, Cordage, Ea&s;tland Linnen Cloth, Pitch, Tarre, and Wood, wher|by Our Kingdome hath been much enriched, Our Shippes and Mariners &s;et on worke, and the honour and fame of Our Nation and Kingdome, &s;pread and enlarged in tho&s;e parts.</P>
<P>And whereas for their further encouragement, the &s;aid Company haue had and enioyed by Letters Patents vnder the great Seale of England, in the time of the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> Priuiledges, a&s;well for the &s;ole carrying out to tho&s;e Countreys of all Our En|gli&s;h
<PB REF="2" MS="y">Commodities, as al&s;o for the &s;ole bringing in of the aboue-named Commodities of the &s;ayd Countreys, with generall Prohibitions and Re&s;traints of others not Licen&s;ed and authorized by the &s;ayd Letters Patents, to traffique or trade contrary to the tenour of the &s;ame Letters Patents.</P>
<P>Wee minding the vpholding and continuance of the &s;ayd Trade, and not to &s;uffer that the &s;aid Society &s;hall &s;u&s;taine any violation, or diminution of their Liberties &amp; Priuiledges, haue thought good to ratifie and publi&s;h vnto all per&s;ons, as well Subiects as Strangers, the &s;ayd Priuiledges and Re&s;traints, to the end that none of them pre&s;ume to attempt any thing again&s;t the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And We doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command all Our Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, and all other Our Officers at the Ports, and al&s;o the Farmers of Our Cu&s;tomes, and their Depu|ties, and Wayters, that they &s;uffer not any Broad Cloth, Dozens, Ker&s;eys, Bayes, Skins, or &s;uch like Engli&s;h Commodities, to bee &s;hipped for exportation to tho&s;e parts, nor any Hempe, Flaxe, dre&s;&s;ed or vndre&s;&s;ed, Yarne, Cable-Yarne, Cordage, Pot-a&s;hes, Sope-a&s;hes, Polonia-wooll, Ea&s;tland-Linnen-cloth, Pitch, Tarre, or Wood, or any other Commodi|ties what&s;oeuer of tho&s;e Forreyne parts and Regions, wherein the &s;ayd Company haue v&s;ed to trade, to be Landed, except onely &s;uch as &s;hall be brought in by &s;uch as are free of the &s;aid Company. Prouided alwayes, that the Importation of Corne and Graine bee left free and without re&s;traint, Any thing herein conteined to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>Furthermore, whereas there hath been in ancient time diuers good and politique Lawes made again&s;t the &s;hipping of Merchandize in Strangers Bottomes, either Inward or Outward, as namely the Statutes of <HI>5. Rich. 2.4. Henr. 7.32. Henr. 8.</HI> which Lawes of later yeeres haue been much neglected, to the great preiudice of the Nauigation of Our Kingdome: Wee doe &s;traitly charge and command, that the &s;aid Lawes be from hencefoorth duely put in execution, &amp; that none of the &s;aid Company, nor any other, be permitted to Export or Import any of the aboue-mentioned Commodities in other then Engli&s;h Bottoms, vpon the Paines in the &s;aid Statutes contained, and vpon paine of Our high indignation and di&s;plea&s;ure to|wards all Our Officers and Mini&s;ters which &s;hall bee found &s;lacke and remi&s;&s;e in procuring and a&s;&s;i&s;ting the due execution of the &s;ayd Lawes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall </HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;euenth day of March, 1629. in the fift yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and Iohn Bill, Prin|ters to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXIX.</P>
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