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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">NSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION For preventing Frauds and Imbezlement in His Maje&s;ties Stores, particularly in Cordage and Nails.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, by His Proclamation dated the Nineteenth day of <HI>November, 1661.</HI> in the Thirteenth year of His Maje&s;ties Reign (among&s;t other matters therein contained for the better di&s;covery of any Imbezlements of His Maje|&s;ties Stores and Provi&s;ions of War, and to the end the Receivers of &s;uch Stoln Goods might not pretend ignorance) was plea&s;ed to Command, Publi&s;h and Declare, That all the Ropemakers who &s;hould thereafter work in His Maje&s;ties Yards, or &s;hould el&s;ewhere make any &s;ort of Cordage for the u&s;e of His Maje&s;ties Navy, &s;hould make the &s;ame in manner following <HI>(viz.)</HI> All Cables, Haw&s;ers, and other Cordage of the larger &s;ort, &s;hould be wrought with one &s;mall hair-line through every &s;trand thereof; all Coyls of &s;maller Cordage &s;hould have two &s;trands compo&s;ed of even threads, and the other &s;hould have one odd thread: As al&s;o, that on all other Stores, where it may be done without prejudice to the &s;aid Stores, or charge to His Maje&s;ty, as Nails, Spikes, and other the like Stores, that the Broad Ar|row &s;hould be put on &s;ome part of the &s;ame, whether by Stamp, Brand, or other way, as &s;hould be particu|larly directed by the principal Officers and Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Navy, to whom the care thereof was committed. And whereas &s;ince the publi&s;hing of His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Proclamation, it appears by experience, that the way of making Cordage as before appointed, is not only chargeable to His Maje&s;ty, but al&s;o inconvenient in the working of the Cordage; and that way of marking the Nails and Spikes doth not fully an&s;wer the end to which the &s;ame were intended; His Maje&s;ty thereof is plea&s;ed further hereby to Command, Publi&s;h and Declare, That from henceforward all the Ropemakers who &s;hall work in His Maje&s;ties Yards, or &s;hall el&s;ewhere make any &s;ort of Cordage for the u&s;e of His Maje&s;ties Navy, &s;hall make the &s;ame as is hereafter mentioned, <HI>viz.</HI> all the Cordage of three Inches and upwards, &s;hall (in&s;tead of be|ing wrought with one &s;mall hair-line through every &s;trand thereof, as afore ordered) be wrought with a white thread laid the contrary way, and the &s;maller Cordage, <HI>viz.</HI> from three Inches downwards &s;hall (in&s;tead of having two &s;trands compo&s;ed of even threads, and the third to have one odd thread as was before appoint|ed) be wrought with a twyne in lieu of a white thread to be laid the contrary ways, as afore&s;aid. And His Maje&s;ty doth further Command, That all the Nails and Spikes which &s;hall hereafter be made for His Ma|je&s;ties u&s;e (be&s;ides the Broad Arrow appointed to be &s;et on them as afore&s;aid) &s;hall be wrought on the heads with five &s;troaks, <HI>viz.</HI> four on the &s;ides, as is accu&s;tomary, and one larger then the re&s;t on the top thereof. And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby forbid all Artificers or Workmen whatever to make any Cordage, Nails, or Spikes &s;o marked, except for the u&s;e of His Maje&s;ties Navy: And doth likewi&s;e hereby Com|mand all His Maje&s;ties loving Subjects, That they forbear to buy or receive from any per&s;on what&s;oever, any Cordage, Spikes, or Nails marked as afore&s;aid, without particular order and leave from the principal Officers and Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Navy, upon pain of being proceeded again&s;t as Receivers of Stoln Goods, and as Imbezlers of His Maje&s;ties Stores. And for the better and more certain publi&s;hing the Marks of the Spikes and Nails, as afore&s;aid, His Maje&s;ty doth hereby enjoyn the principal Officers and Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Navy, with all convenient &s;peed to cau&s;e Patterns of them to be &s;ent to Shipwrights and Ironmongers-Hall re&s;pectively, there to remain for the Information of &s;uch as are concerned in the knowledge thereof. And it is His Maje&s;ties will and plea&s;ure further to Com|mand and Declare, That His Maje&s;ties aforementioned Proclamation of the Nineteenth of <HI>November, 1661.</HI> &s;hall, as to all other matters and things therein contained, excepting what is hereby thought fit to be alter|ed, &s;tand and abide in full force and vertue to all intents and purpo&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>December <HI>the Fifth, 1662. in the Fourteenth year of Our Reign.</HI></HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1662.</P>
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