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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation touching the Surueying of the Seacoales of Newca&s;tle, Sunderland, and Blythe.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as the Commoditie of Seacoales of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> vpon <HI>Tyne, Sun|derland,</HI> and <HI>Blythe,</HI> within Our County of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> and Our County Palatine of <HI>Dure&s;me,</HI> and the places thereunto adioyning, is a merchandize &s;o v&s;efull, a&s;well in re&s;pect of the decay of wood already much wa&s;ted within this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> as al&s;o in re&s;pect of the tran&s;porting of them into forreigne parts to the aduancement of the Trade of this Kingdome, by the natiue commodity thereof, as that We haue thought it a matter well worthy Our &s;peciall care, and much im|porting the &s;tate and welfare of this Our Common wealth, to vphold and maintaine the repu|tation and value of the &s;ame:</P>
<P>And whereas vpon Information and Complaint made vnto Vs heretofore, of the many and great deceits, and abu&s;es, done and offered vnto Vs, and Our louing Subiects of this Our Realme of <HI>England</HI> by the Oa&s;tmen, Diggers, Getters, and Traders for Coale in the Coale|mines of <HI>Newca&s;tle, Sunderland,</HI> and <HI>Blythe</HI> afore&s;aid, and in all other places thereabouts, where the &s;aid Coales are digged and gotten, who in &s;tead of good and merchantable Coales, &s;end and bring vnto Our citie of <HI>London,</HI> and other parts of this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, much Blacke earth, Dro&s;&s;e, Slate, and other vnmerchantable &s;tuffe, which ari&s;eth in, and about the &s;aid Coale-pittes, and is blacke like Coales, but not fit to burne, or Fuelable, and which the Oa&s;t|men, Diggers and Traders in Coales, doe well knowe, and yet doe purpo&s;ely and voluntarily mingle the &s;aid deceitfull Blacke earth, Slate, Stone, and other vnfuelable &s;tuffe among&s;t their good Coales, and &s;ell and vtter the &s;ame for good and merchantable Coales, to the enriching of them&s;elues, the preiudice of the Common-wealth, and the di&s;grace, and di&s;credite of the &s;aid com|modity in forreigne parts:</P>
<P>Wee thereupon taking into Our princely care and con&s;ideration, the qualitie of the&s;e abu&s;es, and the con&s;equences thereof, and much de&s;iring a reformation of the &s;ame, yet Our care was, that the &s;aid abu&s;es informed of, might fir&s;t euidently appeare to bee &s;uch indeede, as they were alleadged to be, and the Offendors and their manner of offending di&s;couered thereby, the better to finde out a remedy to preuent the like inconueniences, and to that end Wee did referre the examination of the &s;ame, fir&s;t vnto &s;ome of Our Coun&s;ell learned in the Law at that time, who made certificate
<PB REF="2"> thereof vnto Vs, and afterwards the Lords, and others of Our Priuie Coun&s;ell, vpon Petition exhibited vnto them by the Traders, and Laders of Seacoales at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> did take con&s;ide|ration of the &s;ame, and did order and appoint a tryall thereof, to bee had by a legall proceeding in Our high Court of Starre-chamber; vpon which triall, as al&s;o by the certificate afore&s;aid, it did then appeare, That there were, and are &s;euerall &s;orts of Coales, at, or neere <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> &s;ome of tenne and eleuen &s;hillings the great Chaldron, which are good and fuelable, and &s;ome of foure or fiue &s;hillings the chaldron, which are dro&s;&s;ie, and vnfuelable, fit onely for Salt-pannes, and Lime-kilnes; And that albeit there are &s;ufficient &s;tore of good Coales to &s;erue the Realme of <HI>England,</HI> and forreigne vent, without any mixture of the bad, yet neuerthele&s;&s;e the Oa&s;tmen, and Traders for Coales at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> (claiming a &s;peciall Priuiledge to &s;ell them to the Shippers) haue v&s;ed voluntarily to mingle the good Coales with the bad and dro&s;&s;ie Coales, and to &s;ell them &s;o mingled to gether at the highe&s;t prices of tenne and eleuen &s;hillings the chaldron, warran|ting them all to bee of the be&s;t Coales, by this meanes gaining almo&s;t halfe in halfe, which &s;aid voluntary mingling, and corrupting of Coales, Our &s;aid Court of Starre-chamber found to be a great and generall abu&s;e and enormity to Our whole Realme, and very meete to be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, reformed and puni&s;hed, And did then decree, that the offendors, then the Defendants, &s;hould be committed to the Fleete, and fyned twenty pounds a piece.</P>
<P>And to the end that others might take notice, how far Our &s;aid Court did mi&s;like, &amp; condemne the &s;aid fraud and deceit, and their re&s;olution to puni&s;h the &s;ame, The &s;aid Court thought fit, and &s;o ordered, that the &s;aid Decree &s;hould bee publiquely read in open market, in the towne of <HI>New|ca&s;tle,</HI> where the &s;aid offence had beene committed, on two Market dayes, when mo&s;t people were a&s;&s;embled, for the more publique declaration thereof to the Countrey, as by the &s;aid Decree more at large appeareth.</P>
<P>And whereas, notwith&s;tanding that exemplary puni&s;hment, inflicted by Our &s;aid Court of Starre-chamber, as afore&s;aid, and the publique manife&s;tation thereof, before declared, Our de&s;ire for a due reformation of the abu&s;es before mentioned, did not take that effect which Wee expected, but the deceits, and abu&s;es afore&s;aid, did rather more and more increa&s;e, in&s;omuch as the Ma&s;ters, Wardens, A&s;&s;i&s;tants, and companies of Wood-mongers, Brewers, Chaundlers, and other Tra|ders in <HI>London</HI> for Newca&s;tle-Coales, became petitioners vnto Vs, crauing Our gracious fauour and a&s;&s;i&s;tance for the due reformation thereof; whereupon, and vpon con&s;ideration againe thereof had, by &s;euerall committees from the Lords, and others of Our Priuie Councell, at &s;eue|rall times, vpon &s;euerall petitions exhibited, a&s;well by the Wood-mongers, Brewers, Chaundlers, and Traders for Coales in <HI>London,</HI> and other Porte Townes within this Our Realme of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> as al&s;o by the Shippers, Ma&s;ters, &amp; Owners of Ships, trading for Coales from <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> a|fore&s;aid, and vpon &s;uruey, and examination of the true &s;tate of tho&s;e Coale-mines, and Coale-pits, by their Lord&s;hips &s;peciall directions had, and taken, it appeared, and was found, that the abu&s;es and deceits afore&s;aid, (notwith&s;tanding the pretences to the contrary) did yet continue, and that there was no meanes &s;o probable for reformation of the &s;ame, as the vigilant care and paines of faithfull and indu&s;trious per&s;ons, to be imployed and attendant at the Coale-pits, and Wharfes, of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and other places adiacent, and they to be furni&s;hed with ab&s;olute authority from Vs, for the prohibiting, and preuenting of the deceitfull mixture of Coales, by the Oa&s;tmen and others, and to make certificates of the goodne&s;&s;e, or badne&s;&s;e of Coales, for the buyers direction, and auoi|ding of deceits therein not di&s;cernable by the eye; And the &s;aid Lords, and others of Our Priuie Councell, did humbly propo&s;e vnto Vs, diuers limitations, orders, and proui&s;ions, which they con|ceiued fit and ob&s;eruable in the execution of the &s;ame. Wee therefore hauing well con&s;idered, and
<PB REF="3"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pprooued of the propo&s;itions, and proui&s;ions before mentioned, and of the great care, and extraor|dinary charge v&s;ed in the di&s;couery of the abu&s;es afore&s;aid, and of prouiding, propounding, and &s;et|ling a fit and apt meanes for the reformation thereof, haue graciou&s;ly beene plea&s;ed, not onely to reuoke all former Letters Patents, by Vs made for that purpo&s;e, (they in &s;ome particulars being found to bee defectiue,) but by other Our Letters Patents vnder. Our great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> bearing date the twentieth day of September, in the one and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of <HI>England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and of <HI>Scotland</HI> the &s;euen and fiftieth, Haue for Vs, Our Heires and &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ours, &s;traitly ordained, e&s;tabli&s;hed, charged and prohibited, that thereafter none of the &s;aid low prized Coales, called Panne coales, nor Dro&s;&s;e, blacke Earth, or other vnmerchantable &s;tuffe what&s;oeuer, &s;hall by any of the &s;aid Oa&s;tmen, Owners, and Diggers of the &s;aid <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> Coales, or by any other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, be mingled, mixed, or put among&s;t good and mer|chantable Coales, nor &s;hall at any time, or times hereafter, being &s;o mingled, be brought, or tran&s;|ported into any the Ports, or places of this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> or tran&s;ported into any the parts beyond the Seas, vpon paine of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and other the penalties therein contained.</P>
<P>And for the better ob&s;eruation and performance of Our will and plea&s;ure in the &s;ame, We haue in, and by Our &s;aid Letters Patents, made, ordained, appointed, con&s;tituted, and erected an office to haue perpetuall continuance, which for euer hereafter &s;hall be, and &s;hall be called the office of Surueyour of Coales to be &s;hipped at <HI>Newca&s;tle, Sunderland,</HI> and <HI>Blythe,</HI> or any of them, or at any other places adiacent, to be brought and tran&s;ported to Our citie of <HI>London,</HI> or other places of this Our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> or any the parts beyond the Seas; Which &s;aid office, We, of Our e&s;|peciall Grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion, and at the reque&s;t and nomination of Our late right tru&s;tie and right welbeloued Couzen and Councellour, <HI>Lodowicke</HI> Duke of <HI>Richmond</HI> and <HI>Lenox,</HI> &s;ince decea&s;ed, Haue by Our &s;aid Letters Patents graunted vnto Our tru&s;ty and welbelo|ued Sir <HI>Robert Sharpeigh</HI> Knight, and <HI>Alexander Haitely</HI> E&s;quire, to hold to them and their A&s;&s;ignes, for the &s;pace of one and twentie yeeres, with &s;uch Fees and Allowances, and &s;uch Cautions, Di|rections, Limitations, and Prom&s;ions for the execution thereof, as by the &s;aid Lords, and others of Our priuie Councell haue beene thought fit and adui&s;ed, as in, and by the &s;aid Letters Patents nore at large may appeare.</P>
<P>Now, to the end Our louing Subiects may perceiue with what care and caution Our &s;elfe and Our priuie Councell, haue proceeded in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e for the welfare of Our people, and the preuen|ion of all future inconuenience that may ari&s;e in a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of this nature, and to the end &s;uch as haue heretofore beene Delinquents in the premi&s;&s;es, may hereby take notice of Our plea&s;ure, and not plead their ignorance, as an excu&s;e for their mi&s;demeanour; Wee haue thought fit hereby to make manife&s;t and declare &s;uch &s;peciall and nece&s;&s;ary ob&s;eruations and directions, tending to the reformation afore&s;aid, and contained in Our &s;aid Letters Patents, as are mo&s;t meet to be publi|&s;hed, and of nece&s;&s;itie to be ob&s;erued in the performance of the &s;ame; And doe therefore &s;ignifie and declare Our will and plea&s;ure to be, and We doe hereby &s;traitly charge, prohibite and command, a&s;well all and euery the &s;aid Oa&s;tmen, and all others trading for Seacoales at <HI>Newca&s;tle, Sunder|and</HI> and <HI>Blythe</HI> afore&s;aid, and the places adiacent, or working thereon, or imployed in or about the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1+ letters">me, as al&s;o all and euery the Ma&s;ters and Owners of any Shippes, Boats, Hoyes, Crayer or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1+ letters">her ve&s;&s;els imployed for the conueying, tran&s;porting, or bringing the &s;aid Seacoales vnto Our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">id citie of <HI>London,</HI> or vnto any other Ports or places of this Our realme of <HI>England,</HI> or into any the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rts beyond the Seas, That they, or any of them pre&s;ume not to endeauour or attempt at any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ne or times hereafter, directly or indirectly by any practi&s;e or deui&s;e what&s;oeuer, to mingle or mixe
<PB REF="4"> any of the &s;aid low prized and vnfuellable Coales, Dro&s;&s;e, Slate, Blacke-earth, or other vnmer|chantable Coales, not well picked or wealled, among&s;t, or with any the &s;aid good, pure and fuel|able Coales, neither &s;hall buy, lade, or fraight into any their Ships, Boats, or other ve&s;&s;els any of the &s;aid dro&s;&s;y, and vnmerchantable Coales, as afore&s;aid, mingled with the &s;aid good and mer|chantable Coales; Nor &s;hall at any time or times hereafter conuey or tran&s;port any of the &s;aid ba&s;e and vnmerchantable Coales in any &s;hip or other ve&s;&s;ell what&s;oeuer, in which the &s;aid good and merchantable Coales are conueyed or tran&s;ported, nor together with the &s;aid good Coales; And that no woodmongers, wharfingers, merchants, or other traders in Coales what&s;oeuer, &s;hal at any time or times hereafter, lay or cau&s;e to be laid any of the &s;aid ba&s;er &s;ort of Coales vpon one and the &s;elfe &s;ame wharffe, together with the &s;aid good Coales.</P>
<P>And further, that none of the &s;aid Ma&s;ters or Owners of Ships or other ve&s;&s;els, &s;hall tran&s;|port or conuey any &s;uch mingled Coales, or any other Coales, of what nature or qualitie &s;oeuer, without Certificate from the Officer or Officers of Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors appointed for the &s;urueying of Seacoales, as afore&s;aid, their Deputie or Deputies, vnder the Seale of their &s;aid Office, te&s;tifying the goodne&s;&s;e, qualitie, or badne&s;&s;e of his and their Coales, and the quan|titie thereof fir&s;t had and obtained; And that no woodmonger, wharfinger, merchant, or trader in Seacoales in Our &s;aid citie of <HI>London,</HI> or in any other place or places what&s;oeuer, within this Our realme of <HI>England,</HI> &s;hall at any time or times hereafter, pre&s;ume or goe about to buy or take any Coales of any Shipper, Owner or Ma&s;ter of any Ship, or other ve&s;&s;ell what&s;oeuer, that &s;hall not &s;hew and produce &s;uch certificate, as afore&s;aid, vpon paine of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uch other paines, penalties and impri&s;onments, as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Our realme of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> or by Our prerogatiue Royall, can or may be inflicted vpon them for their di&s;obedience and contempt of Our Royall commandement in this behalfe.</P>
<P>And Wee will, and Our plea&s;ure is, that for the more certaine preuention of the abu&s;es afore|&s;ayd, All and euery the Oa&s;tmen, Fitters, and Coale-owners, Staithes-men, Merchants for Coales, and all and &s;inguler Ma&s;ters and Owners of Shippes or other ve&s;&s;els, when they or any of them &s;hall agree or contract together for any Coales to be conueyed or tran&s;ported, as afore&s;aid, that they and euery of them, by them&s;elues, their &s;eruants, deputies or agents, &s;hall from time to time deliuer, or cau&s;e to be deliuered vnto the &s;aid officer or officers of Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;|&s;ors or his or their deputie, or deputies for the time being, true notes and tickets in writing, te&s;tifying the &s;ortes and quantities of all &s;uch Coales, as from time to time they &s;hall contract for, and from what Staithes they &s;hall be &s;erued and &s;ent aboard, before the lading and clearing of the &s;ame, in &s;uch &s;ort and manner, as by Our Letters Patents before recited is directed and &s;et downe.</P>
<P>And whereas, in and by Our Letters Patents afore&s;aid, and vpon the offer of the Woodmong|ers, Brewers and other Traders for Coales in Our citie of <HI>London,</HI> and by the adui&s;e of Our &s;aid Priuie Councell, Wee haue granted a Fee of foure pence vpon euery great chaldron of Coales to be conueyed and tran&s;ported, as afore&s;aid, (tho&s;e that are to be tran&s;ported beyond the Seas by &s;trangers only excepted) to be paid vnto the officer or officers of Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors for &s;urueying of Seacoales, for their paines and charges in &s;urueying of them, and making certifi|cates, and keeping Regi&s;ters concerning the &s;ame; Our plea&s;ure is, that all and euery Ma&s;ters and Owners of &s;hips or other ve&s;&s;els, &s;hall from time to time, vpon their receiuing of their Cer|tificates afore&s;aid, pay or cau&s;e to be paid vnto the &s;aid Officer or Officers of Vs, Our Heires or Suc|ce&s;&s;ors, their Deputies or A&s;&s;ignes the &s;aid Fee of foure pence for euery great chaldron of Coales, by them to be conueyed or tran&s;ported, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And that the &s;aid Woodmongers, Wharfingers, common Brewers, Dyers, Chaundlers, and others buying Coales from the Shippes, or other ve&s;&s;els, and &s;elling the &s;ame againe in gro&s;&s;e,
<PB REF="5"> or by retaile, &s;hall well and duely an&s;were, and pay vnto the &s;ayd Shipper, Ma&s;ter, or Owner of any Shippe, or other ve&s;&s;ell, producing &s;uch certificate, the &s;aid Fee, or Allowance of foure pence vpon euery great Chaldron of Coales, by him or them payd vnto Our &s;ayd Officer or Officers, as afore&s;aid, without inhan&s;ing the prices of the &s;aid Coales vnto Our louing Subiects, that &s;hall buy them againe for their priuate v&s;e and expence, according to the aduice and order of the Lords, and others of Our Priuy Coun&s;ell therein.</P>
<P>And Our further will and plea&s;ure is, and Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command the &s;aid Sir <HI>Robert Sharpeigh,</HI> and <HI>Alexander Haiteley,</HI> vnto whom Wee haue granted the &s;aid Office of Surueyour of the Seacoales, as afore&s;aid, That they, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Robert Sharpeigh,</HI> and <HI>Alexan|der Haiteley,</HI> their Executors, Admini&s;trators, and A&s;&s;ignes, by them&s;elues or their &s;ufficient depu|ties or &s;eruants, doe, &amp; &s;hall from time to time, during the &s;aid terme in Our &s;aid Letters Patents to them therof made, contained, faithfully, indu&s;triou&s;ly, and carefully endeauour to &s;ee Our will and plea&s;ure in the premi&s;&s;es &s;trictly &amp; duely performed &amp; ob&s;erued; And to make true certificates, from time to time, of the quality and quantity of the &s;aid Coales, for the preuention of the abu&s;es afore&s;aid, according to our particular directions in Our Letters Patents afore&s;aid to them giuen. And if at any time or times it &s;hall happen, that the &s;ayd Surueyour or Surueyours, their de|putie or deputies, &s;hall wittingly and willingly make any fal&s;e certificate, and it be found at any &s;hippe or other ve&s;&s;ell, that the &s;aid Coales are contrary to &s;uch certificate, corrupted and mingled, and not &s;uch in trueth, as they are certified to be; Then Our plea&s;ure is, That the &s;aid Suruey|ours, their Executours, Admini&s;trators or A&s;&s;ignes, &s;o wittingly and willingly fal&s;ifying the tru&s;t Wee haue repo&s;ed in them, &s;hall make &s;ufficient re&s;titution and &s;ati&s;faction vnto &s;uch Merchant, Wood-monger, Wharfinger, and other Traders in Coales, for the Lo&s;&s;e and Dammage that he or they &s;hall &s;u&s;taine thereby.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, Wee doe hereby will and command all and &s;inguler Maiors, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, Waiters, Baylifes, Con&s;tables, Officers, and Mini&s;ters of Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ours, to whom it &s;hall, or may appertaine, that they, and euery of them, be from time to time, aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto the &s;aid Sir <HI>Robert Sharpeigh,</HI> and <HI>Alexan|der Haiteley,</HI> their Executors, Admini&s;trators, Deputies and A&s;&s;ignes, &amp; to all other the Officers of Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors in this behalfe, in all lawfull manner, for the due execution of Our &s;eruice herein, according to Our plea&s;ure herein &s;ignified.</P>
<P>And that they, and euery of them, doe from time to time, cau&s;e diligent &s;uruey, and inquiry to be made within their &s;euerall precincts, limits, and iuri&s;dictions, of all offenders in this behalfe, and together with Our &s;aid Officer, or Officers, to make &s;peedy certificate of their names without par|tiality, or conniuence vnto the Lords and others of Our Priuie Councell, or to Our Attourney ge|nerall for the time being, that they may be proceeded again&s;t in Our Court of Starre-chamber, or otherwi&s;e, according to their demerites. And Our will and plea&s;ure is, That a&s;well the &s;aid Lords, and others of Our Priuie Councell, as Our Attourney generall for the time being, v&s;e all care and diligence, to puni&s;h with &s;euerity, a&s;well the partiality, negligence, and remi&s;ne&s;&s;e of the &s;aid Maiors, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Surueyors of Coales, and other Officers afore&s;aid, in not making due &s;uruey, or certificate, as afore&s;aid, as the contemptuous behauiour of &s;uch, as &s;hall pre&s;ume to violate this Our Proclamation, or the Letters Patents before recited.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Newmarket</HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;ixteenth day of February, in the two and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and fiftieth.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by <HI>Bonham Norton</HI> and <HI>Iohn Bill,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXIIII.</P>
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