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<Q LANG="frm">DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; A Proclamation for the well ordering the making of white Starch within the Realm, and for re&s;traint of the Importation thereof from forreign parts.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas &s;undry great complaints have lately been made, and</HI> often renewed to Vs, and Our Privie Councell of the great abu&s;es, damage and inconveniences which have and daily ari&s;e to this Our kingdome, bythe great wa&s;te, con&s;umption and con|ver&s;ion of Wheat and grain of the growth thereof, fit for the food of man, into Starch, and by the anno yances occa&s;ioned thereby to Our people by the making thereof in places unfit and incon|venient for the &s;ame; Wee therefore having duly weighed the quality of the &s;aid complaints, wherein the Commonwealth is concerned, and con&s;idering that tho&s;e former provi&s;ions and Proclamations made by Vs and Our Royall Father have not produced that good ef|fect as was expected; Have incorporated &s;undry meet per&s;ons by Letters Patents under Our great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> bearing date the &s;ix and twentieth day of December la&s;t, by the name of Ma&s;ter, Wardens, A&s;&s;i&s;tants and Commonalty of the Society of Starch-ma|kers of <HI>London,</HI> with power and priviledge to them and their Succe&s;&s;ours to make and cau&s;e to be made in one joint &s;tock and not otherwi&s;e, all and all manner of white Starch to put to &s;ale, and therewith to furni&s;h this Our Kingdome, Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and town of <HI>Barwick</HI> at moderate and rea&s;onable prices, and to &s;earch for and &s;eize to Our u&s;e all &s;uch Starch as &s;hall at any time or times be made for &s;ale by any per&s;on or per&s;ons not being members of the &s;aid Company, except hee or they have &s;erved to the &s;aid Trade as Appren|tice
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<PB N="2" REF="2">by the &s;pace of &s;even yeers, or have &s;even yeers u&s;ed the &s;aid Trade as a member of the late Corporation of Starch-makers of <HI>London,</HI> and &s;hall be admitted &amp; allowed under the common Seal of the pre&s;ent Society, and al&s;o to &s;eize all &s;uch white Starch, as &s;hall be imported in|to Our &s;aid Realm, Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> Port or Town of <HI>Barwick;</HI> And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever &s;hould pre&s;ume to make any Starch, other then for the wearing Linen of him, or them, and their families, as by the &s;aid Letters Patents of incorporati|on more at large appeareth.</P>
<P>Now to the end that all Our loving Subjects may take knowledge of Our Royall plea&s;ure herein; Wee do hereby &s;traitly charge &amp; command, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;o|ever, other then &s;uch as are or &s;hall be members of the &s;aid Company of Starch-makers, or &s;hall have &s;erved &s;even yeers to the &s;aid Trade as Apprentice, or as members of the late Corporation of Starch-makers have u&s;ed that Trade &s;even yeers, and &s;hall be admit|ted into the pre&s;ent Society (which they are freely to do upon reque&s;t) &s;hall make any white Starch for &s;ale, or otherwi&s;e then for the wearing Linen of him, them, or their families, as is limited by the &s;aid Letters Patents; And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever &s;hall pre&s;ume to make the &s;ame of any Wheat-flour, Meal, or other Grain of the growth of this Our kingdome, or of other materials then of Pollard and Bran onely, or of grain to be imported from forreign parts: And to the intent that this Our Royall plea&s;ure may be effectually performed, and the fore&s;aid abu&s;es di&s;covered and reformed; Wee have ap|pointed a Surveyour, who being Our &s;worn Officer is to take care hereof, and render Vs an account from time to time, as there &s;hall be cau&s;e.</P>
<P>And for that the former promi&s;cuous making of Starch in divers parts of this king|dome, was a &s;peciall rea&s;on that the &s;aid Trade could not be regulated in an orderly way, but that divers ill affected per&s;ons, living in remote places did convert and con&s;ume great quantities of Wheat and Meal into Starch; Wee for the future prevention of all &s;uch a|bu&s;es, do hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons being members of the &s;aid Society, &s;hall make or work, or cau&s;e to be made or wrought any white Starch to put to &s;ale in any other parts of Our Kingdome, but onely in or neer Our Citie of <HI>London,</HI> or in &s;uch other parts and places as are or &s;hall be allowed, and approved of by Vs, or fix or more of Our Privie Councell, nor in any other manner then by the &s;aid Letters Patents of Incorporation is directed and appointed.</P>
<P>And Wee likewi&s;e do hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons, Our naturall born Subjects, Denizens, or Strangers, or others what&s;oever, do here|after import or bring, or cau&s;e to be imported or brought into Our Realm of <HI>England,</HI> Do|minion of <HI>Wales,</HI> Port or Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> from any the parts beyond the Seas, any white Starch what&s;oever, upon pain of the forfeiture to Vs of all &s;uch white Starch, as &s;hall be &s;o imported, and of &s;uch further penalties and puni&s;hments as &s;hall be meet to be inflicted upon the contemners of Our Royall Commands herein.</P>
<P>And for the better di&s;covery of the &s;aid offences and offenders herein, Wee do hereby likewi&s;e authorize the &s;aid Ma&s;ter, Wardens, A&s;&s;i&s;tants, and Commonaltie of the &s;aid
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<PB N="3" REF="3">Society, and &s;uch as &s;hall be in that behalf deputed by them under their common Seal (for whom they will an&s;wer) with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of a Con&s;table, or other lawfull Officer to enter into any Hou&s;es, Shops, Cellars, or other places what&s;oever, and al&s;o into any Ships, Barks, or other Ve&s;&s;els, and there to &s;earch for, &s;eiz and depo&s;ite in the hands of a lawfull Officer all &s;uch white Starch as &s;hall be found to have been unduly made or imported by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, and likewi&s;e to deface, de&s;troy and make &s;poyl of all Stuffe, Pollard, Bran, Meal, and other materials prepared for the making of Starch contrary to Our &s;aid Letters Patents, and Our Royall plea&s;ure herein declared; And thereof to give notice to Our Trea&s;urer, or Vndertrea&s;urer for the time being, within ten dayes next after every &s;uch &s;eizure made.</P>
<P>And Wee do further &s;traitly charge and command, That all Fats, Tubs, Stoves, Pans, Ce&s;terns, and other Ve&s;&s;els or Vten&s;els what&s;oever, which &s;hall hereafter be u&s;ed or imployed for the &s;teeping, drying, or making of any Starch contrary to Our &s;aid Let|ters Patents, and Our Royall plea&s;ure herein declared, &s;hall by the &s;aid Society of Starch|makers of <HI>London,</HI> or their Deputies (whom Wee do hereby in that behalf authorize, by, and with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of a Con&s;table or other lawfull Officer) be pulled up, defaced and made un&s;erviceable, and that the per&s;ons offending therein be further proceeded again&s;t and pu|ni&s;hed as &s;hall be meet for &s;uch their contempts.</P>
<P>And Wee do likewi&s;e further &s;traitly charge and command, That no per&s;on or per|&s;ons what&s;oever, do at any time hereafter pre&s;ume to with&s;tand or oppo&s;e the &s;aid Com|pany, their Searchers or Deputies in &s;earching for white Starch unduely made or import|ed, or the Materials prepared for the making thereof contrary to the tenour hereof, or &s;eiz|ing of the &s;ame Starch or Materials prepared, or in the defacing, demoli&s;hing, or de&s;troying of all &s;uch Fats, Tubs, Pans, Stoves, or other Vten&s;els what&s;oever, as &s;hall be erected or u&s;ed contrary to Our &s;aid Letters Patents.</P>
<P>And Our further will and plea&s;ure is, and Wee do hereby charge and command all and &s;inguler the Officers of Our Cu&s;toms within all and every the Ports and Havens of Our &s;aid Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Town of <HI>Barwick,</HI> and the Creeks and members thereof; and al&s;o within Our Cinque Ports and the members thereof, That they and every of them do not onely forbear to take any Entrie or Entries, or give any Bill, or Warrant for unlading of any forreign white Starch, prohibited to be imported contra|ry to Our Royall plea&s;ure herein declared, either by the name of Starch, or by or under any other name or title what&s;oever; But do al&s;o cau&s;e &s;tay, and &s;eizure to be made thereof to Our u&s;e, and within ten dayes after &s;uch &s;eizure or &s;tay &s;o made, to give notice of the &s;ame to the Ma&s;ter, Wardens and A&s;&s;i&s;tants of the &s;aid Society for the time being, or their De|puties, upon pain of Our di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;uch other puni&s;hments as their contempts or neglects herein &s;hall be found to de&s;erve.</P>
<P>And Wee do further &s;traitly charge and command, That no Grocer, Chapman, or o|ther per&s;on who u&s;eth to buy Starch to &s;ell again, &s;hall buy, utter, &s;ell, or otherwi&s;e bar|ter, or vent any Starch which they &s;hall know to have been made by any per&s;on or per|&s;ons
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<PB REF="4">who is not a known member of the &s;aid Company of Starch-makers; So as alwayes the &s;aid Company and the members thereof be ready to &s;ell the &s;ame, at and for &s;uch rea&s;ona|ble prices, as by their Indenture under their common Seal, bearing date the &s;ix and twen|tieth day of December la&s;t pa&s;t, they have undertaken, and covenanted with Vs to &s;ell the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And that no per&s;on pre&s;ume to &s;ell any white Starch as a huck&s;ter or hauker from door to door, in private or in &s;ecret, or otherwi&s;e then in their own proper and open Shops, or Warehou&s;es.</P>
<P>And whereas divers per&s;ons of mean and needy condition are and may happen to be imployed in the making of Starch, and preparing Materials for the making thereof by per&s;ons of better ability and e&s;tate, not under the Rule and government of the &s;aid Socie|tie; Wee do hereby therefore declare, that the Owners, Le&s;&s;ees, and Inhabitants of all and every the Hou&s;e and Hou&s;es wherein any &s;uch Starch for &s;ale &s;hall be made, or Ma|terials prepared for that u&s;e, by any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever not by and under the rule and government of the &s;aid Society, as well as the owners of &s;uch Starch or Ma|terials; and &s;uch as by, or with their Moneys, Stock, Materials, or otherwi&s;e imploy or &s;et them to work, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, as contemners of Our Royall Commands.</P>
<P>And We do likewi&s;e &s;traitly charge and command all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Mayors, She|riffes, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, Tythingmen, and all other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters; and al&s;o the Officers and Mini&s;ters of Our Court of Admiralty and Cinque Ports, and all others to whom it &s;hall appertain, that they and every of them at all times hereafter, and from time to time without excu&s;e or delay, be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Society of Starch-makers of <HI>London,</HI> their Searchers, and Deputies, and to all Our Cu|&s;tomers, Waiters, and all other per&s;on and per&s;ons in the due execution of all, or any the pre|mi&s;&s;es, when they &s;hall be thereunto required, as they will an&s;wer to the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at VVhitehall <DATE>the ninth day of February, in the fourteenth yeer of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>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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