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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>&leaf; By the King.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation declaring His Maie&s;ties gracious intention, concerning His Commi&s;sion lately granted, to enquire of new Offices erected, and new Fees exacted in Courts of Iu&s;tice, &s;ince <HI>xj&ordm; Elizabethae.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas Our late deare and Royall Father, King IAMES of euer ble&s;&s;ed and happy memory, out of his Princely care for the good of His people, &amp; out of His Iu&s;tice to keepe them from exactions &amp; oppre&s;|&s;ions, was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to award a Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the Greal Seale of <HI>England,</HI> to diuers per&s;ons of qualitie &amp; worth, to enquire of, &amp; giue true information to His late Maie&s;ty, what new Offices had been erected in any of His Courts of Iu&s;tice, either Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Tem|porall, and when, and by what meanes, and what new Fees had beene exacted or receiued by any Officers, Mini&s;ters, or others, of, or in any of tho&s;e Courts; but departed this life, be|fore any returne made vnto him of that Seruice, by who&s;e death al&s;o, that Commi&s;&s;ion, among&s;t others, was determined.</P>
<P>Now Wee, ob&s;eruing the Acts of &s;o wi&s;e, and &s;o iu&s;t a Father, haue thought it fit, for the fur|therance of Iu&s;tice, and auoyding of oppre&s;&s;ion to Our louing Subiects, to make the like Com|mi&s;&s;ion, which Wee haue lately done vnder the Great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> and directed the &s;ame to diuers Lords, and others, authorizing and commanding Our &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners, dili|gently to attend that Our Seruice, and to giue vs a true and perfect Account, and Information <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> take notice of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and of Our gracious intention in the granting thereof, and to whome, and whitherto re&s;ort to make their complaints, or to &s;eeke for redre&s;&s;e, Wee haue thought fit to publi&s;h and declare, and Wee doe hereby publi&s;h and declare the &s;ame, and that Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners haue receiued Our expre&s;&s;e Commandement and Charge diligently to attend the execution of the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion, at &s;uch fit place or places, in, or about the Citie of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> as in their di&s;cretions &s;hall bee mo&s;t conuenient, for the acce&s;&s;e and di&s;|patch of all &s;uch as &s;hall re&s;ort vnto them to giue them any Information or light, for their better proceeding therein.</P>
<P>And Wee doe hereby further declare Our gracious and Royall plea&s;ure, that as on the one &s;ide Wee would haue no man pre&s;ume, without iu&s;t grounds, to &s;tirre vp cau&s;ele&s;&s;e complaints again&s;t any Court or Office, or again&s;t any Iudge, Officer or Mini&s;ter, of, in, or belong|ing vnto any Court or Office, &s;o on the other &s;ide, that no man &s;hould be di&s;heartned or di&s;|couraged to make knowen, and pro&s;ecute their iu&s;t complaints again&s;t any, Wee being re&s;olued to cary Our &s;elfe equally and indifferently towards all men, Our purpo&s;e herein beeing chief|ly to redre&s;&s;e &s;uch abu&s;es, as &s;hall bee di&s;couered for the ea&s;e and reliefe of Our Subiects, and not to make an Inqui&s;ition into the errours pa&s;t, vpon &s;light or weake grounds, or vncertaine Informations.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at White-Hall, <DATE>the Twelfth day of October, in the third yeere of Our Reigne, of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Jreland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXVII.</P>
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