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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
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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 TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation for quickning <HI>the Lawes made for the reliefe of</HI> the Poore, and the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing, pu|ni&s;hing, and &s;etling of the &s;turdie Rogues and Vagabonds.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas many excel|lent</HI> Lawes and Sta|tutes with great iudge|ment and prouidence haue been made in the times of Our late deare and Royall Father, and of the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> for the reliefe of the impo|tent, and indigent Poore, and for the puni&s;hing, &s;uppre&s;&s;ing, and &s;etling of the &s;turdy Rogues, and Vaga|bonds,
<PB REF="2">which Lawes and Sta|tutes, if they were duely ob&s;erued would be of exceeding great v&s;e for the peace &amp; plenty of this Realme, but the neglect thereof is the occa&s;i|on of much di&s;order, and many in|&s;ufferable abu&s;es. And whereas it is fit at all times, to put in execution tho&s;e Lawes which are of &s;o nece&s;|&s;arie, and &s;o continuall v&s;e: yet the apparant and vi&s;ible danger of the Pe&s;tilence, (vnle&s;&s;e the &s;ame by Gods gracious mercie, and Our prouident endeuours be preuented) doth much more require the &s;ame at this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>We haue therefore thought it fit, by the aduice of Our Priuie Coun|cell, by this Our publike Proclama|tion, &s;traightly to charge and com|mand, that all our louing Subiects in their &s;eueral places, doe v&s;e all po&s;&s;ible care and diligence as a prin|cipall meanes to preuent the &s;pread|ing, and di&s;per&s;ing of that contagi|ous
<PB REF="2" MS="y">&s;ickne&s;&s;e, to ob&s;erue and put in due execution, all the &s;aid Lawes made and prouided again&s;t Rogues and Vagabonds, and for the reliefe of the truely poore and impotent people. And in the fir&s;t place, Wee &s;trictly charge and command, that in Our Cities of London, and We&s;tmin&s;ter, and Suburbs there|of, and places adiacent thereunto, and generally throughout the whole Kingdome, that there bee carefull Watch, and Ward, kept for the apprehending and puni&s;hing of al Rogues and Vagabonds, who either in the &s;treets or high wayes, vnder the names of Souldiers, or Mariners, Gla&s;&s;e-men, Pot-men, Pedlars, or Petty-Chapmen, or of poore or impotent people, &s;hall bee found either wandring, or begging.</P>
<P>And Wee doe further &s;trictly charge and command, that all Con|&s;tables, Head-boroughs, and other Officers, doe v&s;e all diligence, to pu|ni&s;h,
<PB REF="3">and pa&s;&s;e away according to the Law, all &s;uch Wanderers, or Beggars, as &s;hall be apprehended, either in the Cities, or places afore|&s;aid, or in any other Cities, Towns, Pari&s;hes, or places within this Realme, and take great care that none pa&s;&s;e vnder the colour of coun|terfeit Pa&s;&s;es. And that all Iri&s;h Rogues, and Vagabonds be forth|with apprehended, where&s;oeuer they &s;hall bee found and puni&s;hed, and &s;ent home according to a former Proclamation, heretofore publi&s;hed in that behalfe. That all Hou&s;e|holders of who&s;e per&s;ons, or at who&s;e hou&s;es, any &s;uch Vagrants &s;hall bee taken begging, doe appre|hend, or cau&s;e them to be apprehen|ded, and caryed to the next Con&s;ta|ble, or other Officer to bee puni&s;hed, according to the Lawes. And that they forbeare to relieue them, there|by to giue them incouragement to continue in their wicked cour&s;e of life.</P>
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<P>That the Iu&s;tices of Peace in their &s;euerall places throughout this Kingdome be carefull either by Prouo&s;t Mar&s;hals, or by the high Con&s;tables, or otherwi&s;e by their good di&s;cretions effectually to pro|uide, that all Rogues and Vaga|bonds of all &s;orts bee &s;earched for, apprehended puni&s;hed and &s;uppre&s;|&s;ed according to the Law. And that once euery moneth at the lea&s;t, a conuenient number of the Iu&s;tices of Peace in euery &s;euerall Countie and Diui&s;ion, &s;hall meete together in &s;ome conuenient place in that Di|ui&s;ion, and take account of the High Con&s;tables, petty Con&s;tables, and other Officers within that Diui&s;i|on, how they haue ob&s;erued the Lawes and Our commandement touching the Premi&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>And that they &s;euerely puni&s;h all &s;uch as &s;hall bee found remi&s;&s;e or negligent in that behalfe. And We doe hereby &s;trictly charge and com|mand
<PB REF="4">as well all and &s;ingular Iu|&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, Head|boroughs, and other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters, as al&s;o all Our lo|uing Subiects of what e&s;tate or de|gree &s;oeuer to v&s;e all diligence, that all and euery hou&s;es or places which are or &s;hall bee vi&s;ited or infected with the &s;ickne&s;&s;e, bee carefully &s;hut vp, and Watch and Ward kept ouer them that no per&s;on or per&s;ons within tho&s;e places doe goe abroad, or depart from thence, during the time of &s;uch Vi&s;itation. And We doe hereby command all and &s;ingu|lar our Iudges of A&s;&s;ize in their &s;e|uerall Circuits to giue &s;peciall charge, and make &s;peciall inquiry of the defaults of all and euery the Iu|&s;tices of Peace who &s;hall not ob|&s;erue their meetings in the &s;euerall Counties and Diui&s;ions afore&s;aid, or &s;hall not puni&s;h &s;uch Con&s;tables or other Officers as being informed either by their owne view and
<PB REF="4" MS="y">knowledge, or otherwi&s;e are or &s;hal be found remi&s;&s;e or negligent in the Premi&s;&s;es, or in leauying &s;uch pe|nalties &amp; forfeitures as the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme re|quire again&s;t the parties offending herein. And thereof to informe Vs or Our Priuy Councell, to the end that &s;uch due cour&s;e may be taken either by remouing out of the Com|mi&s;&s;ion &s;uch negligent Iu&s;tices of the Peace, or otherwi&s;e by inflicting &s;uch puni&s;hment vpon them as &s;hal be due to &s;uch as neglect their owne duties, and Our Royall command publi&s;hed vpon &s;o important an oc|ca&s;ion.</P>
<P>And We doe hereby will require and command all and euery Our Iudges of A&s;&s;ize, Maiors, She|riffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;ta|bles, Headboroughs and other Our Officers, Mini&s;ters and Subiects whom it may concerne, that they carefully and effectually ob&s;erue
<PB REF="5">and performe all and euery the Pre|mi&s;&s;es, as they will an&s;were the neglect thereof at their vttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<P>And whereas Wee haue lately commanded a Booke to be printed and publi&s;hed containing certaine Statutes made and enacted hereto|fore for the reliefe of the Poore, and of Souldiers and Mariners, and for puni&s;hment of Rogues and Va|gabonds, and for the reliefe and or|dering of per&s;ons infected with the Plague, and al&s;o containing cer|taine Orders heretofore, and now lately conceiued and made concern|ing health: All which are nece&s;&s;arie to be knowen and ob&s;erued by Our louing Subiects, that thereby they may the better auoid tho&s;e dangers which otherwi&s;e may fall vpon their per&s;ons or e&s;tates by their neglect thereof. Wee haue thought it fit hereby to giue notice thereof to all Our louing Subiects, to the end
<PB REF="5">that none may pretend ignorance for an excu&s;e, in matters of &s;o great importance. And Wee doe hereby declare, that who&s;oeuer &s;hall bee found remi&s;&s;e or negligent in the execution of any part of the Pre|mi&s;&s;es, &s;hall receiue &s;uch condigne puni&s;hment for their offence, as by the Lawes of this Realme, or by Our Prerogatiue Royall can or may be iu&s;tly inflicted vpon them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Whitehal <DATE>the three and twentieth day of April, in the &s;ixt yeere of Our Reigne of England, Scot|land, France and Ireland.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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