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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140227.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the due A&s;&s;izing of Bread.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas a new Book intituled <HI>Artachthos,</HI> for the ju&s;t a&s;sizing and</HI> weighing of Bread, a&s;well with <HI>Avoirdupois</HI> weights, as with <HI>Troy</HI> weights, hath been lately compo&s;ed by the Art, indu&s;try and pains of Our welbeloved &s;ubject <HI>John Penkethman,</HI> gent. and Accomptant; By means whereof the A&s;&s;ize and weight of the &s;everall &s;orts of Bread, appointed by the Laws and Ordinances of this Our Realm of <HI>England,</HI> according to the different and variable prices of Wheat, may be certainly known and a&s;&s;ized, which Book (as it hath appeared un|to Our Privy-Councell, by Certificate from the Lord Mayor and Al|dermen of Our City of <HI>London</HI>) is exact and true, and doth ju&s;tly and truly &s;et forth the &s;ame, being rightly grounded upon the Statute made in the one and fiftieth yeer of the reign of King <HI>Henry</HI> the third, and will be of good u&s;e for Our &s;ubjects, and for the be|nefit of the Common-wealth, where the old Book formerly &s;et forth, Intituled, <HI>The A&s;&s;ize of Bread,</HI> (being made for <HI>Troy</HI> weights onely) is certified to be very fal&s;e and unfit for u&s;e: Neither could the Magi&s;trates &amp; Officers that have authority to a&s;&s;ize and weigh the Bakers Bread in mo&s;t parts of Our Kingdom, make u&s;e of the &s;aid old Book (in ca&s;e the &s;ame were true) for want of <HI>Troy</HI> weights, (which are very &s;carce, as Wee are informed) So that the Bakers, taking advantage of &s;uch defects, do continue their u&s;uall cour&s;e of offending, yet pa&s;&s;e unpuni&s;hed.</P>
<P>Wee therfore in favour of Arts, and good endeavours, have granted e&s;peciall priviledge to the &s;aid <HI>John Penkethman,</HI> for the &s;ole printing and publi&s;hing of the &s;aid new Book, Intituled, <HI>Artach|thos,</HI> during the terme of one and twenty yeers, in recompence of his &s;aid pains and his expence therein. And in re&s;pect Our &s;aid Subjects, e&s;pecially in the remote parts of Our Realm of <HI>England,</HI> and in Our dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> cannot otherwi&s;e take knowledge of the approbation gi|ven to the &s;aid new Book, and that they &s;hould be at all times hereafter thereby regulated in the A&s;&s;ize of Bread, Wee do hereby publi&s;h the Premi&s;&s;es unto all Our loving Subjects, and chiefly to all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and o|ther Our Officers &amp; Mini&s;ters, who&s;e duty it is to look unto the ju&s;t weight &amp; A&s;&s;ize of Bread according to the Law: Straightly charging and commanding them to take care that the &s;ame be duly ob&s;erved according to the &s;aid new Book, whereby the deceits now commonly practi|&s;ed in the under-weight of Bread may be di&s;cerned and prevented, and the offenders therein con|dignely puni&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter, </HI> <DATE><HI>the nineteenth day of November, in the fourteenth yeer of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1638.</P>
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