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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation for the pre&s;eruation of Grounds for making of Salt-Peeter, and to re&s;tore &s;uch Grounds which now are de&s;troyed, and to command a&s;&s;i&s;tance to be giuen to his Maie&s;ties Salt-Peeter-makers.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas the making of Salt-Peeter and Gunne-powder within Our</HI> Realmes and Dominions, is a great benefit, &s;trength, &s;afety and defence to Vs and Our Subiects in generall, in that it effecteth and a&s;&s;ureth a certaine proui&s;ion thereof to be had for the furni&s;hing of Our &s;tores at all times, and from time to time with &s;uch needfull proui&s;ions, as in time of nece&s;&s;itie, being to be had from forraine parts, are not to be obtained but at the plea&s;ure of other Princes, at vnrea&s;onable rates and prices, and the &s;ame being &s;o obtained, may happen to be intercepted, or by contrary winds hindered, or vtterly lo&s;t by &s;hipwracke, or &s;uch like Ca&s;ualties on the Seas; And if no &s;uch hazard were, yet the &s;ame is not to be had but for ready mony to be tran&s;ported and paid for the &s;ame, whereby the Trea|&s;ure of Our Realmes would be much dimini&s;hed, and other forreine Realme thereby enriched: And &s;eeing there is within Our own Realmes great plentie of the Mine of Salt Peeter (if it be pre&s;erued, &amp; not &s;uffered to be de&s;troyed) the benefit whereof is not meet to be lo&s;t, nor the imployment of many of Our louing Subiects thereabouts to bee neglected, (which great ble&s;&s;ing of God vnto this King|dome, in giuing it meanes for the defence thereof, within it &s;elfe, can neuer be truely valued but by the want thereof) Wee heretofore, and at this time, haue committed the care of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to per&s;ons of Honour and e&s;peciall tru&s;t, to the end Our Kingdomes might not be vnfurni&s;hed with that proui|&s;ion, which &s;o much concernes the &s;trength, &s;afety, and defence thereof, and of Vs, and all Our Sub|iects in generall; neither on the other &s;ide Our Subiects might be wronged by the Salt-Peter ma|kers, who haue authority to make the &s;ame. Yet We are credibly giuen to vnder&s;tand, that this great ble&s;&s;ing of God vnto this Kingdome is abu&s;ed, &amp; like to be vtterly lo&s;t, by the euill dealings of many ill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons (who re&s;pecting more their own then the publike good) and hauing Douehou&s;es for breeding of Pigeons, being in &s;ome mea&s;ure a grieuance and an inconuenience, and an offence to Our Subiects in generall, in de&s;troying their Corne, and other Graine, much more then the profit which it any way bringeth, either to the publike, or owners thereof, might therefore well, without grudging, be contented to affoord the dung thereof for the increa&s;ing of &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a proui&s;ion, as concernes both the &s;afety of them&s;elues, and of the whole Kingdome; yet being not &s;en&s;ible of the great danger and inconuenience that the want of the&s;e proui&s;ions may bring vpon the Kingdome in generall, and them&s;elues in particular, doe take liberty vnto them&s;elues daily to v&s;e, and practi&s;e ma|ny wayes and deuices purpo&s;ely to &s;poile, kill, and vtterly to de&s;troy the Mines of Salt-Peeter, and the growth and increa&s;e thereof, a&s;well in &s;uch Douehou&s;es and Douecoats, as in Cellars, &s;tables, and other places in their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and occupations (wherein the &s;ame Mines are naturally apt to breed and increa&s;e, and which are allowed to be wrought and v&s;ed for Our &s;eruice) by carrying out of &s;uch places the ground or earth that is naturally good for that &s;eruice, &amp; laying the &s;ame vpon their land, and by pitching, pauing and laying of &s;uch places with Brickes, Stones, Planckes, Boardes, Lime, Sand or Grauell, by which meanes a great part of the be&s;t and mo&s;t &s;ufficient grounds, which heretofore haue beene good, and wrought for Our &s;eruice, are now &s;poiled and de&s;troyed, and the like practi&s;es are daily v&s;ed vpon tho&s;e grounds that yet remaine good, although the &s;ame hath been
<PB N="2" REF="2">forbidden by Our expre&s;&s;e Commandement in our Commi&s;&s;ion granted for that &s;eruice from time to time, for the &s;pace of the&s;e Tenne yeeres, vpon paine of Contempt in that behalfe. Notwith&s;tanding which Our Royall Commandement therein, the practi&s;e is &s;till continued (as wee haue beene certi|fied, a&s;well by &s;ome of the Lords and others of Our Priuie Councell, to whom Wee committed the care of this &s;o important and weightie a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, as al&s;o by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Our Nauie, to whom the &s;ame was referred) to the contempt of Our Royall Authoritie, and the vtter de&s;truction of Our &s;aid &s;eruice; In&s;omuch that if &s;ome great care and &s;peedie cour&s;e bee not taken to re&s;traine &s;uch doings, and to pre&s;erue the Mine and grounds for Salt-peeter that yet remaine good, and to re|&s;tore &s;uch (as haue formerly beene de&s;troyed) to their perfection, this Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> (which hath hitherto beene prouided for within it &s;elfe, and hath beene able to furni&s;h other Our Realmes and Dominions of proui&s;ion for Salt-peeter in time of need) mu&s;t in very &s;hort time bee driuen to bee beholding to forreine parts for the &s;ame proui&s;ion for the defence of Our Realmes.</P>
<P>Wee therefore, according to Our accu&s;tomed care, taking into Our Princelie con&s;ideration this &s;o weightie and important a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of State, Our care being alwayes to watch ouer the weale of Our Subiects, are re&s;olued to meete with and preuent the&s;e &s;o eminent and perillous enormities for the time to come; And for redre&s;&s;e thereof, doe heereby &s;ignifie Our plea&s;ure to all Our louing Subiects and others: And therefore doe by this Our Proclamation &s;traitly Charge and Com|maund, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, of what degree or qualitie &s;oeuer, within Our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> and dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> doe at any time or times heereafter, paue, or lay with Bricke, Stone, Plancke-boardes, Lime, Sand, Grauell, or other thing what&s;oeuer, that &s;hall or may any way hurt, hinder, or preiudice the growth and increa&s;e of the Mine of Salt-peeter, any Doue|hou&s;e or Douecoat, or any Warehou&s;e or Outhou&s;es, allowed by Our Commi&s;&s;ion to be wrought for Our &s;eruice, or any Cellar or Vault (excepting only in that part of the Cellar or Vault where the Beere lieth) and excepting &s;uch Cellars and Vaults onely, wherein Noblemen and Gen|tlemen doe lay or draw their Wine, Beere or Sider for the proui&s;ion of their hou&s;ehold: And that no Stables bee paued, pitched or grauelled, where the Hor&s;e feete v&s;e to &s;tand, but plancked onely, and neither Grauell, Stones, nor pitch bee deceitfully (as heeretofore hath beene v&s;ed) laid vnder the planckes, nor before the planckes next the Manger, purpo&s;elie to de&s;troy the growth of the Peeter, and to keepe the Peter-men from working, but onely good earth, and &s;uch as is fit and apt to breed and increa&s;e the Mines of Peeter: And that no Inkeepers, or others that keepe Stables for Trauellers and pa&s;&s;engers, doe v&s;e any deceitfull meanes or deuices, wherby to hinder or de&s;troy the growth of Salt-peeter in tho&s;e Stables, which are the principall places to bee kept for cheri&s;hing of that Mine, vpon &s;uch paines and penalties, as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Our Realme, or by the &s;eueritie or Cen&s;ure of Our Court of Starrechamber may be inflicted vp|on the offendors, for contempt of this Our Royall Command. And whereas Wee are certified, That many of the aforenamed places haue heeretofore had the Earth, that was naturally good for Our &s;eruice, caried out by the owners thereof, and la<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> vpon the Land, purpo&s;ely to de&s;troy the Mine of Saltpeeter, and in the &s;ame places haue beene layd Sand, Grauell, Lime, Stone, Brickes, boards, plankes and other things, which haue not onely di&s;abled tho&s;e places for being fit for Our &s;eruice, as otherwi&s;e they would haue beene, but doe al&s;o keepe &s;uch places from euer being good, or yeelding any Salt-peeter, &s;o long as they bee &s;o kept and continued: Wee doe therefore heereby &s;traitly charge and command, vpon the paines and penalties afore&s;aid, That all, and euery per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oe|uer, of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer, that haue in their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions or occupations any Douehou&s;e or Douecoat, that heeretofore hath beene, or now is laid with Bricke, Stone, Sand or Grauell, Lime, Plancks, or other things what&s;oeuer, to hurt or hinder the growth and increa&s;e of the Mine of Salt|peeter in any of the places afore&s;aid, That they, and euery of them being the owner, or pre&s;ent po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;our or occupier of any &s;uch Douehou&s;e or Douecoat, &s;o heeretofore, or at this pre&s;ent pitched, pa|ued or laid with Bricks, Stones, Lime, Sand, Grauell, Boards, plancks, or other thing what&s;oeuer, that doth or may hurt, hinder or preiudice the growth or increa&s;e of Salt-peter, doe within three Mo|neths after the date heereof, at his or their owne proper co&s;ts and charges, take vp and carrie out of e|uerie &s;uch place or places, all &s;uch Bricks, Sand, Stones, Grauell, Lime, Plancks, Boards or other things what&s;oeuer, that &s;hall &s;tand, or lie in any &s;uch place or places, being hurtfull or hindering to the growth and increa&s;e of the Mine of Salt-peter; And that they and euerie of them being the owner or pre&s;ent occupier or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of euery &s;uch place, doe within the time before limitted, lay againe in|to euery &s;uch place or places, out of which any ground, Bricke, Stone, Lime, Sand, Grauell, plancks or boards is taken vp or caried out, as is before mentioned, &s;o much of the riche&s;t, mellowe&s;t, and be&s;t mould of earth or hor&s;e-dung, being rotten and drie, as &s;hall leuell and fill vp the floore of euery &s;uch
<PB N="3" REF="3">Douehou&s;e or Douecoate, three foote deepe at the lea&s;t, to the end that all &s;uch places may bee the &s;ooner readie to furni&s;h Our &s;tore with the greater proportion and better Saltpeeter.</P>
<P>And if any per&s;on, or per&s;ons, of what degree or condition &s;oeuer, &s;hall, after the publi&s;hing of this Our will and plea&s;ure, pre&s;ume to carry, or &s;uffer to be carried out of any Douchou&s;e, Doue|coat, Cellar, or Vault, any ground or earth, that is good for this Our &s;eruice, or &s;hall lay, or &s;uffer to be laid into any &s;uch place, any Bricke, Stones, Sand, Grauell, Lime, Planckes, Boards, or other things, that &s;hall or may hurt or hinder the growth of Saltpeeter, or doe keepe, or &s;uffer to bee kept, contrary to the intent aboue mentioned, in any of their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or occupations, any &s;uch place, or places, that heretofore haue beene, or now are laid with Bricke, Stone, Lime, Sand, Grauell, Planckes, Boards, or other things hurtfull, or hindering to the growth and increa&s;e of Saltpeeter, and doe neglect or delay, to ca&s;t out the &s;ame out of euery &s;uch place, or places, and to fill againe and leuell, euery &s;uch place three foot deepe, at the lea&s;t, with &s;uch materialls as is before commanded, within the time limited; That then &s;uch paines and penalties, as afore&s;aid, &s;hall bee inflicted vpon the offendours, for contempt of this Our Royall command.</P>
<P>And Wee doe further will and Command, vpon the paines and penalties afore&s;aid, that from henceforth, no Saltpeeter makers, or their &s;eruants, that &s;hall dig any place, or places, allowed by Our Commi&s;&s;ion for the making of Saltpeeter, doe leaue the earth vnca&s;t in, in tho&s;e places where they &s;hall worke, but doe throw all &s;uch earth in the place againe, and then &s;pread, and lay the &s;ame in orderly &s;ort, for the better increa&s;e and growth of Saltpeeter (according as is prouided in our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and in the couenants by them &s;ealed) and that no owners of the &s;aid grounds &s;hall interrupt, or hinder them in their &s;o doing.</P>
<P>And moreouer, Our will and plea&s;ure is, and Wee doe hereby, giue full power, libertie, and au|thoritie, vnto our Saltpeeter-makers, and euery of them within the &s;euerall diui&s;ions, where they, or any of them, &s;hall be lawfully authorized to worke for our &s;eruice, that it &s;hall, and may bee law|full, for them, and euery of them, at all times in the day time, with the Con&s;table of the Towne, Pari&s;h, or place, to goe into the lands, hou&s;es, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of any Our louing Subiects, to &s;earch and &s;ee, how Our Commandement is obeyed and fulfilled, and the grounds made fit for Our &s;eruice, without any let, contradiction, or interruption of any of Our Subiects.</P>
<P>And whereas Wee are informed, that &s;ome of Our Subiects of eminencie, place, and authoritie (to the ill example of others) doe denie Our Saltpeeter makers the grounds allowed vnto them, to bee wrought for Our &s;eruice, by Our Commi&s;&s;ion, and are very backeward, and &s;low in giuing vnto Our Saltpeeter-makers, &s;uch a&s;&s;i&s;tance for taking &s;uch order, with &s;uch as denie the grounds, and cariages as by Our Commi&s;&s;ion is commanded; By which conniuence, Our authoritie is growne to bee contemned, and Our Saltpeeter-makers &s;u&s;taine &s;uch great lo&s;&s;e, and hindrance in doing of Our &s;eruice, that they are vtterly di&s;couraged, and di&s;abled in doing, or performing the &s;eruice required of them: The&s;e are therefore &s;traitly to charge and command all Our louing Subiects (vpon the paines and penalties afore&s;aid) that they and euery of them, doe from time to time quietly permit, and &s;uffer Our Saltpeeter-makers, and euery of them, that are lawfully au|thorized to doe Our &s;eruice, to haue &s;uch grounds, cariages, and other helpes and a&s;&s;i&s;tance, as by Our Commi&s;&s;ion is allowed vnto them, without any of their lets, hindrances, or delaies. And whereas information is giuen by the Deputie Saltpeeter-makers, and great complaint is made by them, that diuers euill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, doe daily per&s;wade and draw their &s;eruants, by giuing them money corruptly to &s;pare their grounds, from being digged for Saltpeeter, and thereby doe not onely defraud Our &s;eruice, but hinder the Saltpeeter-makers, that they cannot performe the proportion, which they are bound to deliuer into Our &s;tore;</P>
<P>We therefore, hereby &s;traitly charge and command, vpon the penalties afore&s;aid, that no per&s;on, or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, vpon the paines and penalties afore&s;aid, &s;hall corruptly, directly, or indi|rectly giue vnto any per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, pretending them&s;elues to be Saltpeeter-men, any monie to &s;pare their grounds, as afore&s;aid. And that no &s;uch Saltpeeter-man, or other per&s;on what&s;oeuer, &s;hall take any &s;uch bribes, vpon any pretence to the ends afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And for the more better, and &s;peedy performance of this Our &s;eruice, Our Will and plea&s;ure is, That the Commi&s;&s;ioners for our Nauie &s;hall from time to time take notice of all &s;uch complaints, as &s;hall be brought vnto them, touehing any offence that &s;hall bee committed contrary to this Our Proclamation; And that the Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall certifie the &s;ame to Our Right tru&s;ty and Right Welbeloued Cozen and Coun&s;ellor <HI>George,</HI> Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> Lord high Admirall of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and Our Right tru&s;ty and Welbeloued Coun&s;ellor <HI>George,</HI> Lord <HI>Carew,</HI> Ma&s;ter of Our Ordi|nance, to who&s;e e&s;peciall tru&s;t and care We haue committed the gouernment of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, by Our
<PB REF="4">Commi&s;&s;ion vnder Our great Seale of <HI>England;</HI> And that they, or either of them, &s;hall from time to time &s;end for all offenders complained of, and cau&s;e the offenders complained of, to be examined by Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners of Our Nauie, and vpon their report take &s;uch further order therein, by referring the offenders to be pro&s;ecuted in Our Court of Starre-Chamber, or otherwi&s;e, as to their wi&s;edomes &s;hall &s;eeme meet.</P>
<P>And further, We doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents Will and require all and &s;inguler Maiors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;ti|ces of Peace, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and all other Our Officers, and Mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, that they, and euery of them, in their &s;euerall Offices, and places, be diligent and ob&s;er|uant in the due execution of this Our Proclamation, and al&s;o to be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto &s;uch per|&s;on and per&s;ons and his and their Deputies, as are or &s;hall be &s;o (as afore&s;aid) authorized and appoin|ted, a&s;well for di&s;couery of any act or acts to be performed, contrary to the intent of the&s;e pre&s;ents, or the tenor of Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion vnder Our great Seale, as otherwi&s;e, in doing and executing of a|ny matter or thing, for the accompli&s;hing of this Our Royall commandement.</P>
<P>And further, Our Will and plea&s;ure is, And We doe hereby charge and command Our Attourney generall for the time being, to informe again&s;t &s;uch per&s;ons in Our &s;aid Court of Starre-Chamber, from time to time, who&s;e contempt and di&s;obedience again&s;t this Our Royall commandement, &s;hall be certified vnto him, and to pro&s;ecute euery &s;uch information &s;peedily and effectually, vntill the &s;ame &s;hall be brought to &s;entence; It being Our expre&s;&s;e Will and plea&s;ure, that &s;euere puni&s;hment &s;halbe executed vpon all the &s;aid offenders what&s;oeuer. And, as Wee haue &s;ignified Our plea&s;ure, how &s;e|uerely We will puni&s;h &s;uch as &s;hall di&s;obey this Our Proclamation: So We let Our louing Subiects to know, that on the other &s;ide, Our eares &s;hall be as open to heare the iu&s;t complaints of any Our Subiects again&s;t any the Salt-Peeter-makers, that &s;hall any way mi&s;demeane them&s;elues towards any of Our Subiects in places where they worke; It being alwayes Our Princely care to prouide, that no abu&s;e be offered to any of Our Subiects what&s;oeuer. And Our plea&s;ure is, that &s;uch per|&s;on or per&s;ons, who &s;hall be appointed to take care and charge of the execution of Our plea&s;ure in the premi&s;&s;es, or any per&s;on or per&s;ons, that &s;hall giue information therein, and follow the &s;ame, &s;hall haue the one halfe of the Fine, to be impo&s;ed vpon the offenders again&s;t this Our Proclamation, for their encouragement to be diligent and faithfull therein.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter, <DATE>the &s;ixe and twentieth day of December, in the two and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and fiftieth.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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