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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 the well-ordering the Trade of making and &s;elling of Soape.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas Wee haue declared by two former Proclamations Our</HI> Princely care for the aduancement of the natiue Commodities of Our Kingdomes, the imployment of many of Our poore people, and the reformation of diuers former abu&s;es in making of Soape: Wee now finding by experience, that many factious and refractory per&s;ons haue not onely di&s;obeyed Our Royall Commandements, but haue &s;tudied diuers new wayes to hinder all Our good intentions to Our louing Subiects, &s;ome by v&s;ing of <HI>Ca&s;tile, Venice, Smyrna,</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> hard Soape from the We&s;terne parts, and by di&s;&s;oluing of it to multiply or increa&s;e it, who for|merly neuer v&s;ed any of that kinde in that maner, &s;ome by bringing in great quantity of Fi&s;h|oyle Soape, and other Soape from <HI>Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> and diuers other places, &s;ome by procuring the increa&s;e of making of Soape in places where &s;mall quantities of Soape were formerly made, &s;eruing onely for the places neare adioyning, and di&s;per&s;ing it ouer the Realme, where was neuer v&s;e of that Soape before, others by per&s;wading of Our Subiects that they could in&s;truct hou&s;holders, and other priuate per&s;ons to make Soape at ea&s;ie rates for their v&s;es, therein abu&s;ing and deceiuing them with purpo&s;e to cau&s;e them for a while to forbeare the v&s;e of the new made Soape, hoping thereby to ouerthrow the v&s;e of making Soap of the natiue commodities of this Kingdome. And be&s;ides all the&s;e inuentions, they haue not onely ray&s;ed the prices of the old Soape to &s;uch exce&s;&s;iue rates, that Our louing Subiects haue payed euen heere in Our Citie of <HI>London,</HI> &s;ixe pence a pound for the &s;ame, and in many o|ther parts of Our Kingdome eight pence, tenne pence, and twelue pence the pound, which was wont to be &s;old for three pence, or three pence halfe peny; But in like manner al&s;o to bring the new white Soape into di&s;like, they haue purpo&s;ely abu&s;ed and fal&s;ified it, and haue maliciou&s;ly pre&s;umed to &s;ell it by retaile for like inordinate prices. For the remedy of all which inconueni|ences, and for the better preuenting of their malice in the like attempts, We haue re&s;olued with the aduice of Our Priuie Councell to &s;ettle and e&s;tabli&s;h the Manufacture of Soape, accor|ding to &s;uch powers and proui&s;ions, as in ca&s;es of like nature haue from time to time beene or|dered and put in execution.</P>
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<P> And therefore for the better finding out and di&s;couery of all offenders again&s;t Our &s;aid two former Proclamations, and &s;uch as &s;hall di&s;obey Our further Commands in this Our pre&s;ent Edict, and the Decrees of Our Court of Star-Chamber, and Letters Patents made concer|ning the premi&s;es; Our will and plea&s;ure is, and Wee doe hereby require and Command, that the Keeper of Our Great Seale, or Our Trea&s;urer, Chancellor, and Barrons of Our Ex|chequer, or the Chancellor of Our Dutchie of Lanca&s;ter, for the time being re&s;pectiuely, &s;hall and doe award &s;uch and &s;o many Commi&s;&s;ions, to &s;uch per&s;ons, and of &s;uch tenour and effect as they &s;hall thinke fit, for the rectifying of the prices of Soape vpon any &s;uch complaint, as in that behalfe &s;hall bee made vnto them, and for the examining and finding out of all of|fences and offenders again&s;t Our Proclamations, Decrees, and Letters Patents, to the end that a&s;well the Importers, bringers in, carriers, and makers of all Soape prohibited, and the &s;ellers of Soape at prices exce&s;&s;iue, as the buyers, &s;ellers, &s;penders, and receiuers thereof, may receiue condigne puni&s;hment for their &s;euerall offences.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e &s;ome complaints haue deene made to Vs, and to Our Priuie Councell, by &s;ome particular Trade&s;men; As namely, Silke-Diers, Wooll-combers, Weauers, Say-thickers, Fullers, and the like, that their Trades doe require &s;ome other &s;orts of Soape, then &s;uch as now is v&s;ed and made by the &s;aid Corporation, and other then that which was formerly com|monly made in Our Citie of <HI>London,</HI> according to the quality of their &s;euerall Manufactures.</P>
<P>Therfore Our further will and plea&s;ure is, and Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command the Gouernour for the time being, and the Society of the Soape-makers, And doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents authorize them, and appoint that they &s;hall and may from time to time make, and cau&s;e to be made &s;uch quantities, and &s;uch a proportion of any other &s;ort of &s;oft Soape, as &s;hall bee requi&s;ite for the nece&s;&s;ary v&s;e of the &s;ayd Trade&s;men in their &s;aid &s;euerall Trades onely, and not otherwi&s;e, nor for any other v&s;e what&s;oeuer. Prouided alwayes, that no &s;oft Soape be fold to the &s;ayd Trade&s;men by the &s;aid Corporation, at the place where it &s;hall bee made, for aboue three pence the pound.</P>
<P>And to the end that Soape &s;hall not bee &s;old at any &s;uch exce&s;&s;iue prices and rates as now it is, by the fraud of the vndue-makers and Retaylers, but at &s;uch indifferent and moderate rates and prices as may bee conuenient betwixt the Buyer and the Seller: It is Our will and plea&s;ure, and Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that the Maior, Bayliffe, or other chiefe Officer in euery Citie and Towne corporate, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of two of the next Iu&s;tices of the Peace of that County, or the two next adioining Iu&s;tices of the Peace where the &s;aid Retaylers dwell out of a Citie or Towne Corporate, vpon any complaint that &s;hall bee made of any exce&s;&s;iue rates or prices, doe &s;et &s;uch rates and prices vpon all Soape that &s;hall bee Retayled, as they in their be&s;t Iudgements &s;hall thinke fit and rea&s;onable, con|&s;ideration being by them had, a&s;well of the &s;etled price payed to the Corporation, as of the Charge of Carriage, Sea-aduenture, and other charges and ca&s;ualties thereunto belonging, with fit and rea&s;onable gaines to the Retayler.</P>
<P>And if it &s;hall happen, that in any of the places afore&s;aid, there &s;hall be vnfit prices &s;et, where|by the Buyer, or Seller, may haue iu&s;t cau&s;e of complaint, then in euery &s;uch ca&s;e vpon com|plaint thereof made, Our will and plea&s;ure is, that all &s;uch pretended vndue proceedings, &s;hall bee examined and rectified, by &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ioners as &s;hall bee hereafter nominated and appointed by the Keeper of Our Great Seale, or Our Trea&s;urer, Chancellor, and Barons of Our Exchequer, or the Chancellor of Our Dutchie of Lanca&s;ter.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e the &s;aid Gouernour, A&s;&s;i&s;tants, and Fellow&s;hip of Soape-makers, are forced to bee at exce&s;&s;iue charges, by imployment of &s;euerall men in &s;earching, &s;ei&s;ing, and other di&s;couery of Soape, made or put to &s;ale, contrary to the tenour of the &s;aid Proclamations, Decrees, and Letters Patents, which being fal&s;ely, or corruptly made, or being put to fale vnmarked, con|trary to the &s;aid Decrees, Proclamations, and Letters Patents is to bee de&s;troyed, as hath beene v&s;ed by the Law, and common cu&s;tome of the Realme, whereby the &s;aid Fellow&s;hip re|ceiue no recompence for their charge and expence; Wee are therefore well plea&s;ed, that vpon complaint made in Our Court of Star-Chamber, or Exchequer, of &s;uch fal&s;ities, corruptions, or abu&s;es, that competent allowance for their charge and expence bee made vnto them, by that Court where they &s;hall complaine, out of the fines that &s;hall be &s;et vpon the Delinquents: And this Our Proclamation &s;hall bee a &s;ufficient warrant for making and giuing &s;uch al|lowance.</P>
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<P> And for di&s;couery of &s;uch fal&s;ities, corruptions, and abu&s;es, their Officers, and Mini&s;ters, may enter in to &s;earch, and &s;eize the &s;ame in any Hou&s;es, Cellers, Shops, Ware-hou&s;es, and other places what&s;oeuer, a&s;well within Liberties, as without; Requiring, and hereby &s;traitly Charging and Commanding, all Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, and other Our Officers, and louing Subiects, to bee ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto them in the doing and executing thereof without excu&s;e or delay.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e Wee haue prouided by this and Our form<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r Proclamations, Letters Patents and Decrees, that a &s;ufficient quantitie of good and v&s;efull Soape to be &s;old at rea&s;onable pri|ces, &s;hall at all times be in readine&s;&s;e for the v&s;e of our people, and Wee are re&s;olued &s;o to con|tinue Our care, that euery man may bee &s;erued thereof at euery Market-Towne, without being put to any vnnece&s;&s;ary trauaile there-abouts, &s;o as none &s;hall bee occa&s;ioned to v&s;e any the &s;hifts or inuentions afore&s;aid. Therefore Wee will and command, that no per&s;on or per|&s;ons, other then &s;uch as by the Decree in Our Court of Starre-Chamber heretofore made, are, or &s;hall bee permitted or allowed, doe at any time hereafter pre&s;ume to make any kinde of Soape in their priuate hou&s;es or el&s;where, either for their owne v&s;e or otherwi&s;e, vpon paine of incurring Our heauie di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uch puni&s;hment as their contempt in that behalfe &s;hall demerit.</P>
<P>And Wee doe hereby al&s;o &s;traitly charge and command, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oe|uer, either Our owne naturall borne Subiects, Denizens or Strangers, Merchants, Ma|riners, Artificers, or any other doe hereafter import or bring in, or attempt to import or bring into this Our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> or Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> any Soape from Our Kingdomes of <HI>Scotland</HI> or <HI>Ireland,</HI> or any manner or kinde of Soape, hard or &s;oft what&s;oeuer from any For|reigne parts, or to tran&s;port, Load, or cary any manner of &s;oft Soape not marked with the Marke in that behalfe ordained, and hereby prohibited, from or into any parts or places of this Our &s;aid Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> or Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> vpon paine of Our heauy di&s;plea&s;ure, and to vndergoe &s;uch further penalties and puni&s;hments as in ca&s;es of like nature are v&s;ually inflicted vpon the contemners of Our Royall command and authority.</P>
<P>And for the better performance and execution, of all and euery the premi&s;&s;es, Wee doe fur|ther Charge and Command, all and &s;inguler the Officers of Our Cu&s;tomes, within all and euery the Ports, and Hauens of Our &s;aid Kingdome, and Dominions, and the Creekes and members thereof, as al&s;o within Our Cinque Ports, and the members thereof: That they and euery of them doe not onely forbeare to take any entrie, or entries, or giue any Bill, or War|rant, for vnlading, or landing of any Soape prohibited as afore&s;aid, but doe al&s;o cau&s;e &s;eizure and &s;tay to bee made thereof to Our v&s;e, vpon paine of forfeiture of his or their Offices re&s;pec|tiuely, and vndergoing Our heauy di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uch other puni&s;hments as their neglects and contempts herein &s;hall be found to de&s;erue.</P>
<P>And wee doe al&s;o &s;traitly Charge and Command all Maiors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, Headboroughes, Tythingmen, and all other Our Officers, and Mini&s;ters, a&s;|well of Our Admiralty, as al&s;o Our Officers of the Cinque Ports, and all other Our louing Subiects to whom it &s;hall or may appertaine, that they and euery of them at all times hereaf|ter, and from time to time, be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Searchers, and their Deputies, and to &s;uch Our Commi&s;&s;ioners, as &s;hall bee from time to time appointed for or about this &s;er|uice: And al&s;o to bee from time to time likewi&s;e ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to all Our Cu&s;tomers, Searchers, Wayters, and all other per&s;on, or per&s;ons, therunto Deputed by the &s;aid Searchers, or their Deputies, in and for the Seizing, Searching for, or carying away of all &s;uch prohi|bited Soape, imported, brought in, or Landed, or hereafter to be imported, brought in, Lan|ded, made, bought, &s;old, vented, or di&s;po&s;ed, contrary to this Our Royall Command.</P>
<P>And Wee doe hereby require Our Attourney Generall for the time being, that from time to time he carefully proceed in Our Court of Starr-Chamber, or our Court of Exchequer again&s;t all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons that &s;hall pre&s;ume to offend or not yeeld obedience to Our command in the premi&s;&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at Theobalds <DATE>the thirteenth day of Iuly, in the tenth yeere of Our Reigne of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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