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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<BYLINE>By the King.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For the careful Cu&s;tody and well Ordering of the New River brought from <HI>Chadwell</HI> and <HI>Amwell</HI> to the North parts of the City of <HI>London.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by Authority of two &s;everal Acts of Parliament made and Ordained in the Third and fourth years of the Reign of Our late Royal Grandfather King <HI>James</HI> (of ble&s;&s;ed memory) the River now running from <HI>Chadwell</HI> and <HI>Amwell,</HI> in Our County of <HI>Hertford,</HI> to the North parts of Our City of <HI>London,</HI> was at the great charge of Our &s;aid Grandfather, and other the Vnder&s;takers happily made and fini&s;hed, &s;ince which time the water there|of is di&s;per&s;ed by Pipes and Branches through the &s;everal Streets and Places of Our &s;aid City, the Liberties and Suburbs of the &s;ame, and el&s;ewhere, to the benefit and ea&s;e of Our Subjects there inhabiting, as well for the cleaning and &s;weet keeping of them in the times of Infection, as the pre&s;ervation and &s;afety of the Hou&s;es and Buildings, Goods and Riches therein, from the fearful danger of fire ca&s;ually happening; And &s;uch was the care and providence of Our &s;aid Grandfather, that the water in any place in the cour&s;e thereof &s;hould not at any time be troubled or corrupted (whereby the health or lives of the people might &s;uffer or be endangered) that by his Letters Patents of Incorporati|on dated the One and twentieth day of <HI>June,</HI> in the Seventeenth year of his Reign over this Our Realm of <HI>England,</HI> he created and erected a Governour and a Company, &s;uce&s;&s;ively to Regulate, and carefully to Over&s;ee all things appertaining to the &s;aid River; and &s;everal &s;trict Orders and Commands were made and given by Our late Royal Father (of ble&s;&s;ed memory) for pre&s;ervation of the &s;aid River, and preventing of &s;uch things as might be prejudicial thereunto; Notwith&s;tanding which, the pre&s;ent Governour and Company have repre&s;ented unto Vs, That great abu&s;es are daily committed: We therefore taking into Our Princely con&s;ideration, That the pre&s;ervation of the &s;aid River is of &s;o great and e&s;pecial con&s;equence, are graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed by this Our Royal Proclamation (with the advice of Our Privy Council) &s;traitly to Charge and Command, That all and every the Grants, Clau&s;es and Re&s;trictions in the &s;aid Acts of Parliament, Letters Patents, and in all other Our Letters Patents, Orders and Proclamations concerning the &s;aid River Enacted, Made, E&s;tabli&s;hed, Granted or Confirmed, be from time to time carefully obeyed, ob&s;erved, and performed; And We do hereby &s;trictly prohibit and forbid all and &s;ingular the Inhabitants of Our City of <HI>London,</HI> the Suburbs and Liberties there|of, Our City of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and al&s;o the inhabitants of Our &s;everal Counties of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Hertford,</HI> and likewi&s;e all the Plum|mers, Paviers, and other Artificers whom&s;oever, and every of them, That they nor any of them, do or &s;hall pre&s;ume at any time or times hereafter, without the privity, permi&s;&s;ion and allowance of the Governour and Company afore&s;aid for the time being, to in|termeddle with the &s;aid Works, or any of the Pipes or Branches thereof, or to convey or derive any Pipe or Branch, Pipes or Branch|es of the &s;aid Water into their or any of their Hou&s;es, or other places, nor &s;hall fetch or carry the water out of the &s;aid River, the Pipes or Branches thereof, or otherwi&s;e hinder, wa&s;te or con&s;ume, di&s;turb, infect, abu&s;e or corrupt the &s;ame River, by &s;etting up of Grates, overflowing of Grounds, making of Trenches or Drains, filling of Ponds, Fi&s;hing, watering of Cattel, keeping of Gee&s;e or Ducks thereupon, ca&s;ting of Carrion thereinto, or by doing or permitting any mi&s;u&s;ance, annoyance, let, &s;toppage, or prejudice what|&s;oever to the &s;tream of Our &s;aid River in any part of the Currant thereof, nor &s;hall cut, &s;poil, take away or de&s;troy any the Branches, Bridges, Wharfs, Po&s;ts, Rails, Banks, Mounds or Fences to the &s;aid River in any wi&s;e belonging or appertaining, or therewith injoyed, or lying neer, or behooful to the &s;ame, upon pain of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and of &s;uch pains, penalties and puni&s;hments, as by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom, or Our Prerogative-Royal can and may be inflicted upon the offenders for contempt of Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure herein declared: And We do hereby &s;traitly Charge and Command all Mayors, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Commi&s;&s;ioners of Sewers, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and all other Our Officers, Mini&s;ters and Subjects within Our &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> the Suburbs and Liberties thereof, Our Counties of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Hertford,</HI> whom the &s;ame &s;hall or may concern, That they and every of them hereafter be vigilant and circum&s;pect, that Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure herein declared, be from time to time effectually ob&s;erved; And that they and every of them in their &s;everal Offices and Places re&s;pectively, without excu&s;e or delay, be upon all occa&s;ions aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Governour and Company, their Officers and Mini&s;ters, in the &s;trict ob&s;ervance and execution of all and &s;ingular the Powers and Authorities, Limitations and Re&s;traints herein before mentioned, and in the Grants and Prohibitions afore&s;aid contained, according to the true intent and mean|ing of the&s;e pre&s;ents, when they &s;hall be thereunto required by them or any of them, as they and every of them tender Our Plea&s;ure, and will avoid the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the Three and twentieth day of <HI>June,</HI> 1669.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>In the <HI>SAVOY,</HI> Printed by the A&s;&s;igns of <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1669.</P>
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