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<NAME>Olivia Bottum</NAME>
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<P>HONI &middot; SOIT &middot; QVI &middot; MAL &middot; Y &middot; PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV &middot; ET &middot; MON DROIT.</P>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas it is found by Experience, That Traffique with Infidels and Barbarous Nations not in Amity with Vs, and who are not holden by any League or Treaty, cannot be carried on without the E&s;tabli&s;hment of Forts and Factories in places convenient, the maintenance whereof requires &s;o great and con&s;tant Expence, that it cannot be otherwi&s;e defrayed, then by Managing the whole Trade by a Ioynt Stock; We in Our Royal Wi&s;dom taking the &s;ame into Our &s;erious Con&s;ideration, and more e&s;pecially having found by experience, That the whole Trade of the Coa&s;t of <HI>Guiny, Buiny</HI> and <HI>Angola,</HI> and other parts and places of <HI>Africa,</HI> &s;o much importing our Ser|vice, and the Enriching of this Our Kingdom, was very much abated, and attempted to be Ingro&s;&s;ed by Fo|reigners, and in eminent danger to be utterly lo&s;t, and taken from Vs, and Our loving Subjects, not onely by Foreign Force, but by the Violence and Incon&s;tancy of the Heathen Natives: For the Recovery and Pre&s;ervation whereof, We were Graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to encourage and invite Our loving Subjects to Rai&s;e a Ioynt Stock to be u&s;ed and imployed therein: And in con&s;ideration there|of, and for the better Securing of &s;uch as &s;hould come in and be concerned in the &s;aid Ioynt Stock and Trade, We did by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> bearing date the Seven and twentieth day of <HI>September,</HI> in the Four and twen|tieth year of Our Reign, Grant unto &s;everal of Our loving Subjects, the whole entire and onely Trade into and from <HI>Africa,</HI> from the Port of <HI>Sally</HI> in <HI>South Barbary</HI> inclu&s;ive, to the Cape <HI>de Bona E&s;peranza</HI> inclu&s;ive, with all the I&s;lands near adjoyning to tho&s;e Coa&s;ts, and comprehended within the Limits afore&s;aid, and did Incorporate them by the name of <HI>The Royal <HI>African</HI> Company of <HI>England;</HI></HI> And the &s;aid Company having rai&s;ed a very great Stock &s;ufficient to Manage the Trade thereof, have &s;ince, at their great Expence and Charge, Fortified and Setled divers Gari&s;ons, Forts and Factories, by which means they have &s;o Secured the &s;aid Trade, that the &s;ame doth now begin to flouri&s;h, and if not di&s;turbed, is likely to be further improved to the great benefit of this Our Kingdom; Neverthele&s;s, We are Informed by the humble Petition of the &s;aid Company, That divers of Our Subjects in &s;everal of Our Plantations in <HI>America,</HI> who are not Members of the &s;aid Company, nor any ways concerned in their Stock, do endeavour to reap the Benefit and Fruit thereof; and to that end have already &s;ent &s;everal Ships into tho&s;e parts to Trade, and are providing more, the which if it &s;hould be permitted, and not &s;trictly and pre&s;ently prevented, will di&s;able the &s;aid Company from &s;upporting the great Charge of maintaining the &s;aid Forts, Gari&s;ons and Factories, and con&s;equently, unavoidably occa&s;ion the lo&s;s of the whole Trade of tho&s;e Countreys: Wherefore for remedy thereof We have thought fit, with Advice of Our Privy Council, to Publi&s;h and Declare Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure to be, And We do hereby &s;trictly Prohibit and Forbid all and every of Our Subjects what&s;oever, Except the &s;aid Royal Company and their Succe&s;&s;ours, at any time or times hereafter, to &s;end or Navigate any Ship or Ships, Ve&s;&s;el or Ve&s;&s;els, or Exerci&s;e any Trade from any of Our Plantations, Dominions, or Coun|treys in <HI>America,</HI> to any of the Parts or Coa&s;ts of <HI>Africa,</HI> from <HI>Sally</HI> to <HI>Cape de Bona E&s;peranza,</HI> or any of the I&s;lands near thereunto, as afore&s;aid, or from thence to carry any <HI>Negro</HI> Servants, Gold, Elephants Teeth, or any other Goods or Merchandizes of the Product or Manufacture of the &s;aid Places, to any of Our <HI>American</HI> Dominions or Plantations, upon pain of Our high Di&s;plea|&s;ure, and the forfeiture and lo&s;s of the &s;aid <HI>Negro's,</HI> Gold, Elephants Teeth, and all other Goods and Merchandizes, and the Ships or Ve&s;&s;els which &s;hall bring or carry the &s;ame. And We do hereby al&s;o &s;trictly Require and Command all Our Governours, Deputy-Governours, Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Generals, Iudges of Our Courts of Admiralty, Commanders of Our Forts and Ca&s;tles, Captains of Our Royal Ships, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Provo&s;t-Mar&s;hals, Mar&s;hals, Comptrollers, Collectors of Our Cu&s;toms, Wayters, Searchers, and all other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters Civil and Military, by Sea or Land, in every of Our &s;aid <HI>American</HI> Dominions or Plantations, to take effectual care, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever within their re&s;pective Limits or Iurisdictions (except the &s;aid Company and their Succe&s;&s;ours) do &s;end or Navigate any Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, or Exerci&s;e any Trade from any of Our &s;aid Dominions or Plantations, to any part of the &s;aid Coa&s;t of <HI>Africa,</HI> within the Limits afore&s;aid, or from thence to Import any <HI>Negro</HI> Servants, Gold, Elephants Teeth, or other Goods of the Product of any of tho&s;e Parts, into any of Our &s;aid Dominions or Plantations in <HI>America;</HI> And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall pre&s;ume to act or do in any wi&s;e contrary to this Our Royal Proclamation, to the end Our Will and Plea&s;ure herein may be the better ob&s;erved, We do further Will, Require, and &s;trictly Command all Our &s;aid Governours, Deputy-Governours, Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Generals, Iudges of Our Court of Admiralty, Commanders of Our Forts and Ca&s;tles, Captains of Our Royal Ships, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Provo&s;t-Mar&s;hals, Mar&s;hals, Comptrollers, Collectors of Our Cu&s;toms, Wayters, Searchers, and all other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters Civil and Military, by Sea or Land, in every of Our &s;aid <HI>American</HI> Dominions and Plantations, That as often as need &s;hall require, they be Aiding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Royal <HI>African</HI> Company, their Succe&s;&s;ors, Factors, Deputies or A&s;&s;igns, to Attach, Arre&s;t, Take and Seize all &s;uch Ship or Ships, Ve&s;&s;el or Ve&s;&s;els, <HI>Negro</HI> Servants, Gold, Elephants Teeth, or Goods, Wares and Merchandizes, where&s;oever they &s;hall be found, for Our V&s;e, according to Our Royal Charter Granted to the &s;aid Company, upon pain of Our high Di&s;plea&s;ure, and as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their Perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the Thirtieth day of <HI>November,</HI> in the Six and twentieth year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</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. 1674.</P>
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