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<P>HONI : SOIT : QVI : MAL : Y : PENSE</P>
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<P><HI>A</HI> BOOKE OF PROCLAMA|TIONS, publi&s;hed &s;ince <HI>the beginning of his</HI> Ma|ie&s;ties mo&s;t happy Reigne ouer England, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>&V;ntill this pre&s;ent Moneth</HI> of Febr. 3. Anno Dom. 1609.</P>
<P>IMPRINTED AT London by <HI>Robert Barker,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excel|lent Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P><HI>Cum priuilegio.</HI></P>
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<P>&flower; HONI &flower; SOIT &flower; QVI &flower; MAL &flower; Y &flower; PENSE &flower;</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
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<HEAD>THE TABLE</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>&para; Anno Primo Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="1">1 _A Proclamation, declaring the vn|doubted Right of our Soueraigne Lord King <HI>Iames,</HI> to the Crowne of the Realmes of Eng|land, France and Ireland. Pag. 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">2 A Proclamation, &s;ignifying his Maie&s;ties plea|&s;ure, That all men being in Office of Gouernment at the death of the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> &s;hould &s;o continue till his Maie|&s;ties further direction. pag. 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">3 A Proclamation, declaring at what values certaine Moneys of Scotland, &s;halbe currant within England. pag. 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">4 A Proclamation for the di&s;patch of Pacquets betweene Lon|don and Berwicke, for the &s;eruice of the King. pag. 7.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="5">5 A Proclamation for the Kings attendance, and receiuing by the Sheriffes of the &s;euerall Counties. pag. 8.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="6">6 A Proclamation for the di&s;couery and apprehen&s;ion of <HI>Wil|liam Ruthen</HI> and <HI>Patricke Ruthen,</HI> brethren to the late Earle of <HI>Gowry.</HI> pag. 9.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="7">7 A forme of Proclamation to bee proclaimed by the Clarke of the Market, and hee to &s;ee it executed touching prices of Vi|ctuals. pag. 11.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="8">8 A Proclamation inhibiting the v&s;e and execution of any Char|ter or Grant made by the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> of any kinde of Monopolies, &amp;c. pag. 12.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="9">9 A Proclamation again&s;t vnlawfull Hunting. pag. 15.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="10">10 A Proclamation charging all actors or partners in the incur|&s;ion on the Borders, to re&s;ort to the Commi&s;sioners at a day li|mitted. pag. 17.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="11">11 A Proclamation for the vniting of England and Scotland. pag. 18.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="12"><PB REF="3">12 A Proclamation commaunding Gentlemen to depart the Court and Citie. pag. 20.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="13">13 A Proclamation that no man abu&s;e the Earle of Tyrone. pag. 21.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="14">14 A Proclamation concerning the patents for Tinne. pag. 22.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="15">15 A Proclamation concerning Warlike &s;hips at Sea. pag. 23.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="16">16 A Proclamation for the adiournement of part of Trinitie Terme. pag. 25.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="17">17 A Proclamation for the apprehen&s;ion of <HI>Anthony Copley</HI> pa. 27</ITEM>
<ITEM N="18">18 A Proclamation for reformation of great abu&s;es in Mea|&s;ures. pag. 29.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="19">19 A Proclamation &s;ignifying the Kings Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, tou|ching the re&s;ort of people to his Coronation. pag. 33.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="20">20 A Proclamation for Iu&s;tice to bee indifferently mini&s;tred to the Subiects of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI> pag. 34.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="21">21 A Proclamation for the deferring of <HI>S. Iames</HI> Faire, for cer|taine dayes. pag. 36.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="22">22 A Proclamation for the apprehen&s;ion of certaine Con&s;pira|tours. pag. 37.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="23">23 A Proclamation enioyning all Lieutenants, and Iu&s;tices of Peace to repaire into their Countries, and all idle per&s;ons to de|part the Court. pag. 38.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="24">24 A Proclamation prohibiting the keeping of <HI>Bartholomew</HI> Faire, and <HI>Sturbridge</HI> Faire. pag. 40.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="25">25 A Proclamation again&s;t Inmates and multitudes of dwellers in &s;trait Roomes and places in and about the Citie of <HI>London.</HI> And for the ra&s;ing and pulling downe of certaine new erected buildings. pag. 41.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="26">26 A Proclamation for the adiournement of part of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Terme. pag. 42.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="27">27 A Proclamation for the due and &s;peedy execution of the Sta|tute again&s;t Rogues, Vagabonds, idle and di&s;&s;olute per&s;ons. pag. 44.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="28">28 A Proclamation to repre&s;&s;e all Piracies and Depredations vp|on the Sea. pag. 46.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="29"><PB REF="3">29 A Proclamation for the further adiournement of part of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Terme from We&s;tmin&s;ter to Winche&s;ter. pag. 49.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="30">30 A Proclamation concerning &s;uch as &s;editou&s;ly &s;eeke reforma|tion in Church matters. pag. 53.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="31">31 A Proclamation again&s;t the vnlawfull conueying of goods be|tweene the two Realmes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI> pag. 55.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="32">32 A Proclamation for tran&s;plantation of the Greames. pag. 56.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="33">33 A Proclamation concerning the choice of Knights and Bur|ge&s;&s;es for the Parliament. pag. 57.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="34">34 A Proclamation commanding all Ie&s;uites, Seminaries and o|ther prie&s;ts, to depart the Realme by a day appointed. pag. 61.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="35">35 A Proclamation for the authorizing and Vniformitie of the Booke of Common prayer to be v&s;ed throughout the Realme. pag. 64.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="36">36 Orders for thorow Po&s;tes, and Curriers, riding in po&s;t in our affaires. pag. 67.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="37">37 Orders for the Po&s;tes of our Realmes, and for all men to ob|&s;erue and obey in the &s;peedy carriage of pacquets, directed for our affaires. pag. 70.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>&para; Anno &s;ecundo Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="38">38 A Proclamation for the true Winding or folding of Woolls. pag. 72.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="39">39 A Proclamation forbidding Londoners to re&s;ort to <HI>Bri|&s;toll</HI> Faire. pag. 75.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="40">40 A Proclamation for the prices of Victuals within the Verge of the Court. pag. 76.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="41">41 A Proclamation enioyning conformitie to the forme of the Seruice of GOD e&s;tabli&s;hed. pag. 76.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="42">42 A Proclamation appointing the day and place for the mee|ting of the Commi&s;sioners of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI> pag. 80.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="43">43 A Proclamation again&s;t &s;elling of Ships. pag. 81.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="44">44 A Proclamation concerning the Kings Maie&s;ties Stile, of King of Great Britaine, &amp;c. pag. 82.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="45"><PB REF="4">45 A Proclamation for the &s;earch and apprehen&s;ion of certaine Pirates. pag. 85.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="46">46 A Proclamation for Coynes. pag. 86.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="47">47 A Proclamation for the proroguing of the Parliament. pa. 90.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="48">48 A publication concerning all &s;orts of Gold and Siluer threed, granted by his Maie&s;ties Letters patents vnder the Great Seale. pag. 91.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="49">49 A Proclamation concerning Lea&s;es and A&s;&s;erts. pag. 95.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="50">50 A Proclamation for reuocation of Mariners from forreine Seruices. pag. 98.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="51">51 A Proclamation for Buildings, in &amp; about London. pag. 101.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>&para; Anno tertio Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="52">52 A Proclamation concerning A&s;&s;art Lands. pag. 104.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="53">53 A Proclamation with certaine Ordinances to bee ob|&s;erued by his Maie&s;ties Subiects toward the King of <HI>Spaine.</HI> pag. 105.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="54">54 A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament. pag. 108.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="55">55 A Proclamation to redre&s;&s;e the mi&s;-imployment of Landes, Goods, and other things giuen for Charitable v&s;es. pag. 109.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="56">56 A Proclamation again&s;t certaine calumnious &s;urmi&s;es concer|ning the Church gouernment of <HI>Scotland.</HI> pag. 111.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="57">57 A Proclamation for the annihilating of Commi&s;sions former|ly granted for taking vp of Hounds, &amp;c. pag. 113.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="58">58 A Proclamation for the &s;earch and apprehen&s;ion of <HI>Thomas Percy.</HI> pag. 114.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="59">59 A Proclamation denouncing <HI>Thomas Percie</HI> and other his ad|herents to be Traitors. pag. 115.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="60">60 A Proclamation promi&s;ing reward to him that &s;hall appre|hend <HI>Thomas Percie.</HI> pag. 117.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="61">61 A Proclamation for the &s;earching for, and apprehending of <HI>Robert Winter,</HI> and <HI>Stephen Littleton.</HI> pag. 118.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="62">62 A Proclamation warranting Sheriffes to pro&s;ecute Rebels in|to other Counties. pag. 118.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="63"><PB REF="4">63 A Proclamation for the apprehen&s;ion and di&s;couery of <HI>Iohn Gerrard, Henry Garnet,</HI> and <HI>O&s;wald Te&s;mond.</HI> pag. 120.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="64">64 A Proclamation touching a &s;editious rumour &s;uddenly rai&s;ed. pag. 122.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; Anno quarto Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="65">65 A Proclamation declaring what Flags South and North <HI>Britaines,</HI> &s;hall beare at Sea. pag. 123.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="66">66 A Proclamation for preuention of future abu&s;es in Purueyance. pag. 123.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="67">67 A Proclamation charging all Ie&s;uites, Seminaries, &amp;c. to de|part the land. pag. 129.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="68">68 A Proclamation for the &s;earch and apprehen&s;ion of certaine Pirates. pag. 132.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="69">69 A Proclamation touching Pa&s;&s;engers. pag. 133.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="70">70 A Proclamation for the adiournement of part of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Terme. pag. 135.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="71">71 A Proclamation forbidding all Londoners and other inhabi|tants of places infected, to re&s;ort to the Court. pag. 137.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>&para; Anno quinto Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="72">72 A Poclamation for &s;uppre&s;sing of per&s;ons riotou&s;ly a&s;|&s;embled for the laying open of Inclo&s;ures. pag. 139.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="73">73 A Proclamation &s;ignifying his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure a&s;|well for &s;uppre&s;sing of riotous a&s;&s;emblies about Inclo&s;ures, as for reformation of Depopulations. pag. 140.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="74">74 A Proclamation for repeale of a Statute made <HI>Anno</HI> 5. <HI>Rich.</HI> 2. and to re&s;traine the Kings Subiects from departing out of the Realme, and al&s;o concerning the tran&s;portation of Golde and Siluer. pag. 144.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="75">75 A Proclamation &s;ignifying his Maie&s;ties gracious pardon for the Offenders about Inclo&s;ures. pag. 146.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="76">76 A Publication &s;ignifying his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure touching a Li|cen&s;e
<PB REF="5"> granted by his Maie&s;tie to Sir <HI>Edward Hobby</HI> Knight, for buying and &s;elling of wools. pag. 148.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="77">77 A Proclamation concerning Starch. pag. 151.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="78">78 A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament. pag. 155.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="79">79 A Proclamation for Iurors. pag. 155.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="80">80 A Proclamation touching new buildings &amp; Inmates. pag. 159.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="81">81 A Proclamation for re&s;traint of the inhabitants of places in|fected, from comming to the Court. pag. 163.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="82">82 A Proclamation touching the Earles of <HI>Tyrone</HI> and <HI>Tyrcon|nell.</HI> pag. 164.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="83">83 A Proclamation for the apprehending of the Lorde <HI>Max|well.</HI> pag. 166.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="84">84 A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament. pag. 167.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="85">85 Orders conceiued by the Lords of his Maie&s;ties priuie Coun|&s;ell, and by his Highne&s;&s;e &s;peciall direction, commanded to bee put in execution for the re&s;traint of killing, and eating of Fle&s;h in the Lent, and to bee executed a&s;well by the L. Maior within the Citie and Suburbs of London, and by the Officers of the Liberties and exempt places in and about the &s;ame, as by order to be pre&s;cribed by the Lords Lieutenants of all the Counties of the Realme, to the Iu&s;tices of peace, Lords of liberties, and Officers of Corporate Townes. pag. 168.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>&para; Anno &s;exto Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="86">86 A Proclamation again&s;t the Tran&s;portation of Leather. pag. 171.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="87">87 A Proclamation commanding the Oath of Allegi|ance to bee tendred to all the Kings Maie&s;ties Subiects com|ming from beyond the Seas, except Merchants and men of qualitie. pag. 173.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="88">88 A Proclamation for the preuenting and remedying of the dearth of graine and other victuals. pag. 174.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="89">89 A Proclamation again&s;t making of Starch. pag. 176.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="90">90 A Proclamation for Buildings. pag. 180.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="91"><PB REF="5">91 A Proclamation for re&s;traint of the &s;hipping and tran&s;por|ting of hor&s;es. pag. 182.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="92">92 A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament. pag. 183.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="93">93 A Proclamation concerning Fines for Alienations of landes holden in Chiefe, made without Record. pag. 183.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="94">94 A Proclamation touching Maul&s;ters, common Brewers, and Ale-hou&s;e keepers. pag. 186.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="95">95 A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament. pag. 187.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="96">96 A Proclamation again&s;t Pirates. pag. 188.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="97">97 A Proclamation for pre&s;eruation of Woods. pag. 191.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="98">98 A Proclamation giuing a further day for Fines for Alienati|ons of lands holden in Chiefe made without Record. pag. 194.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>&para; Anno &s;eptimo Iacobi Regis.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="99">99 A Proclamation &s;ignifying his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, to confirme by all meanes the e&s;tates of his Subiects again&s;t all defects in their A&s;&s;urances, and all con|cealed Titles. pag. 196.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="100">100 A Proclamation touching Fi&s;hing. pag. 200.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="101">101 Articles to be performed by vertue of our Commi&s;sion of Sale annexed, touching Forre&s;ts, Parkes, and Cha&s;es. pag. 202.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="102">102 A Proclamation forbidding any per&s;on to cary Pacquets or Letters to or from any Citie or Towne, by foote, or on hor&s;e|backe, except &s;uch as are allowed by authoritie. pag. 204.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="103">103 Orders decreed vpon for the furtherance of our &s;eruice, as well in writing, as riding in Po&s;te, &s;pecially &s;et downe, and com|manded to be ob&s;erued, where our Po&s;ts are e&s;tabli&s;hed with|in our Countie of Kent. pag. 206.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="104">104 A Prohibition for Allome. pag. 209.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="105">105 A Proclamation again&s;t Hunters, Stealers and killers of Deare, within any the Kings Maie&s;ties Forre&s;ts, Cha&s;es or Parkes. pag. 211.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="106">106 A Proclamation for the adiournement of part of Michaelmas Terme. pag. 214.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="107"><PB REF="6">107 A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament. pag. 216.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="108">108 A Proclamation giuing a further time for the amendment of defectiue Titles. pag. 217.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="109">109 A Proclamation inhibiting the Importation of Pepper from forraine parts, by any other per&s;ons then tho&s;e of the <HI>East Indi|an</HI> Company. pag. 218.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="110">110 A Proclamation forbidding the making of Starch. pag. 220.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>ANNO PRIMO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, declaring the vn|doubted Right of our Soueraigne Lord King IAMES, to the Crovvne of the Realmes of England, France and Ireland.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as it hath plea&s;ed Almigh|ty God to call to his mercy out of this tran&s;itory life our Soueraigne Lady, the high and mighty Prince <HI>Elizabeth</HI> late Queene of England, France, and Ireland, by who&s;e death and di&s;&s;olu|tion, the Imperiall Crowne of the&s;e Realmes afore&s;aid are now ab&s;olute|ly, wholly, and &s;olely come to the high and mighty Prince <HI>IAMES</HI> the &s;ixt King of Scotland, who is lineally and lawfully de&s;cended from the body of <HI>Margaret,</HI> daughter to the high and Renowmed Prince, <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;euenth King of England, France, and Ireland, his great Grand|father, the &s;aid Lady <HI>Margaret</HI> being lawfully begotten of the bo|dy of <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> daughter to King <HI>Edward</HI> the fourth (by which hap|py coniunction both the hou&s;es of Yorke and Lanca&s;ter were vni|ted, to the ioy vn&s;peakeable of this kingdome, formerly rent and torne by the long di&s;&s;ention of bloody and Ciuil warres) the &s;ame Lady <HI>Margaret</HI> being al&s;o the elde&s;t &s;i&s;ter of <HI>Henry</HI> the eight of fa|mous memory King of England as aforea&s;aid:</P>
<P>Wee therefore the Lords Spirituall and Temporall of this Realme, being here a&s;&s;embled, vnited, and a&s;&s;i&s;ted with tho&s;e of her late Maie&s;ties Priuie Coun&s;ell, and with great numbers of o|ther principall Gentlemen of qualitie in the kingdome, with &s;he Lord Maior, Aldermen, &amp; Citizens of London, and a multitude of other good Subiects and Commons of this Realme, thir&s;ting now after nothing &s;o much as to make it knowen to all per&s;ons.
<PB N="2" REF="7"> who it is that by Law, by Lineall &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, and vndoubted Right is now become the onely Soueraigne Lord and King of the&s;e Imperiall Crownes (to the intent that by vertue of his power, wi&s;edome and godly courage, all things may be prouided for, and executed, which may preuent or re&s;i&s;t either forreine at|tempts, or popular di&s;order, tending to the breach of the pre&s;ent Peace, or to the preiudice of his Maie&s;ties future quiet) doe now hereby with one full voyce and con&s;ent of tongue and heart, pub|li&s;h and proclaime, That the high and mighty Prince, <HI>Iames</HI> the &s;ixt King of Scotland, is now by the death of our late &s;oueraigne, Queene of England of famous memory, become al&s;o our onely, Lawfull, Lineall and rightfull liege Lord, <HI>Iames</HI> the fir&s;t, King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the Faith, to whom as to our onely iu&s;t Prince, adorned (be&s;ides his vndoubted Right) with all the rare&s;t gifts of minde and body, to the infinite comfort of all his people and Subiects that &s;hall liue vnder him, we do ac|knowledge all faith and con&s;tant obedience, with all hearty and humble affections, both during our naturall liues for our &s;elues, and in the behalfe of our po&s;teritie. Hereby prote&s;ting and denoun|cing to all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, that in this iu&s;t and lawfull Act of ours, we are re&s;olued by the fauour of Gods holy a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and in the zeale of our owne con&s;cience (warranted by certaine know|ledge of his manife&s;t and vndoubted Right, as hath bene &s;aid be|fore) to maintaine and vphold his Maie&s;ties per&s;on and e&s;tate, as our onely vndoubted Soueraigne Lord and King, with the &s;a|crifice of our Liues, lands, goods, friends, and adherents, again&s;t all power, force, or practi&s;e, that &s;hall goe about by word or deed, to interrupt, contradict, or impugne his iu&s;t claimes, his entry into this kingdome, or any part thereof, at his good plea&s;ure, or di&s;o|bey &s;uch Royall directions as &s;hall come from him. To all which we are re&s;olued onely to yeeld our &s;elues, vntil the la&s;t drop of our bloods be &s;pent for his &s;eruice. Hereby willing and commanding, in the name of our Soueraigne Lord <HI>Iames</HI> the fir&s;t, King of all the fore&s;aid kingdomes. all the late Lieutenants, deputie Lieute|nants, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices, &amp; all Maiors, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughes, and all other Officers and Mini&s;ters what&s;oe|uer, that they be ayding &amp; a&s;&s;i&s;ting from time to time in all things that are or &s;hall be nece&s;&s;ary for the preuenting, re&s;i&s;ting and &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing of any di&s;orderly a&s;&s;emblies, or other vnlawfull act or at|tempt, either in word or deed, again&s;t the publique peace of the Realme, or any way preiudiciall to the right, honour, &s;tate or per|&s;on, of our onely vndoubted and deare Lord and Soueraigne that now is, <HI>Iames</HI> the fir&s;t, King of all the &s;aid kingdomes, as they wil
<PB N="3" REF="7"> auoyd the perill of his Maie&s;ties heauy indignation, and their owne vtter ruine and confu&s;ion. Be&s;eeching God to ble&s;&s;e his Maie&s;tie and his Royall po&s;terity with long and happy yeeres to reigne ouer vs.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Lee, Maior.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Cantuar.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho Egerton. C. S.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Buckhur&s;t. Th.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. Oxford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nottingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Northumberland.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gilbert Shrew&s;|bury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W. Derby.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. Worce&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>G. Cumberland.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>R. Su&s;&s;ex.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pembrok.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H. Lincolne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Clanricard.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ri. London.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob. Hereford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Norwich.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Laware.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Morley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H. Cobham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gray Wilt.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Scroope.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lomley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ed. Cromwell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob. Rich.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Hun&s;don.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>G. Chandoys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W. Compton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Norreys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>L. Howard of Wal|don.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W. Knollys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ed. Wotton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Stanhop.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob. Cecill.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ioh. Forte&s;cue.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Popham.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>March. 24. ANNO 1602.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, &s;ignifying his Ma|ie&s;ties plea&s;ure, That all men being in Of|fice of Gouernment at the death of the late Queene Elizabeth, &s;hould &s;o continue till his Ma|ie&s;ties further direction.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as it cannot be doubted, but as the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie hath taken great contentment in the mo&s;t duetifull and deuoted affection of his Subiects of this Realme, te&s;tified by the vniuer&s;all and ioyfull con&s;ent in publi&s;h|ing his Right, and acknowledgement of his Highne&s;&s;e for their Souereigne; &s;o on the other &s;ide, his Maie&s;ties Subiects will finde much ioy and comfort by receiuing knowledge of his graci|ous and louing acceptance of their &s;aid mo&s;t humble and mo&s;t af|fectionate &s;eruice and duetie: It is therefore very meet, That (his Maie&s;tie hauing of late, by his &s;euerall Letters of the eight and twentieth, and of the la&s;t of March, vnto &s;uch of vs the Nobilitie of this Realme, and others that were of the late Queenes Priuy Coun&s;el, as are here at his Highne&s;&s;e Pallace of <HI>Whitehall</HI> a&s;&s;em|bled for the &s;eruice of his Maie&s;tie and the State, &s;ignified his gracious acceptance, and Princely thankefulne&s;&s;e vnto all his
<PB N="4" REF="8"> Subiects, of what&s;oeuer degree or condition, for &s;uch and &s;o ex|traordinary demon&s;tration of their good will, and commanding the &s;ame to be further notified to all parts) we &s;hould publi&s;h and declare the &s;ame, by this Proclamation, in his name. And with|all, that we &s;hould declare and make knowen his Maie&s;ties plea|&s;ure deliuered likewi&s;e in the &s;aid Letters, touching the nece&s;&s;ary continuation (during his ab&s;ence, or vntill it &s;hall plea&s;e his Highne&s;&s;e to giue other commandement and direction) of &s;uch or|ders and proceedings for the pre&s;eruation of Peace, admini&s;tra|tion of Iu&s;tice, and gouernment of the State, as were formerly e&s;tabli&s;hed, &amp; &s;tood in force immediatly before the late Queenes decea&s;&s;e, which chiefly, and in effect is this: That whereas vpon the decea&s;&s;e of the late Queenes Maie&s;tie, the authority of the mo&s;t part of the Officers and places of Iuri&s;diction and gouern|ment within this Realme, &amp; in the Realme of Ireland, did cea&s;e and faile, the Souereigne per&s;on failing from whom the &s;ame were deriued, and thereupon through doubtfulne&s;&s;e, and want of authority for execution, in &s;uch per&s;ons as were inue&s;ted in the &s;ayd Offices and places, the &s;etled and ordinary cour&s;e of the af|faires of the State (if remedy were not prouided) might receiue di&s;turbance and preiudice by di&s;continuance and interruption: His Maie&s;tie in his Princely wi&s;edome, and care of the State (re&s;eruing vnto his owne iudgement hereafter the reformation and redre&s;&s;e of any abu&s;es in mi&s;gouernment vpon better know|ledge taken therof, in his due time) is plea&s;ed, and hath &s;o expre&s;ly &s;ignified, That all per&s;ons, that at the time of the late Queenes Maie&s;ties decea&s;&s;e, were duely and lawfully po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of any place or Office of authority, iuri&s;diction, or gouernment, either Ciuill or Martiall within this Realme, or in the Realme of Ireland, And namely, all Lieutenants, Sheriffes, deputy Lieutenants, Commi&s;&s;ioners of Mu&s;ters, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, and all others in place of Gouernment, either meaner or &s;uperiour, (as afore|&s;aid) &s;hal be, and &s;hall &s;o hold them&s;elues continued in the &s;ayd place and Offices, as formerly they held and enioyed the &s;ame, vn|till his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure bee further knowen. And that in the meane while (for the pre&s;eruation of Peace, and nece&s;&s;ary procee|ding in matters of Iu&s;tice, and for &s;afety of the State) all the &s;aid per&s;ons, of what&s;oeuer degree or condition may not faile, euery one &s;euerally according to his place, office, or charge, to proceed in the performance and execution of all dueties thereto belonging, as formerly appertained to them and euery of them, while the late Queenes Maie&s;ty was liuing.</P>
<P>And albeit the earne&s;t and longing de&s;ire in all his Maie&s;ties
<PB N="5" REF="8"> Subiects, to enioy the &s;ight of his Royall per&s;on and pre&s;ence (which hath mooued very many of good degree and quality, and &s;ome of them hauing place of charge in the Countrey where they dwell, to ha&s;ten and take their iourneys at this time vnto his highne&s;&s;e) be, for it &s;elfe, commendable in them, and acceptable to his Maie&s;ty, being an argument of their abundant ioy and glad|ne&s;&s;e: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, becau&s;e the ouer-much, and too frequent re|&s;ort and concour&s;e of people in tho&s;e parts where his Maie&s;ty as yet remayneth, or which are farre di&s;tant from the heart of this Realme, is at this pre&s;ent inconuenient, and may prooue more dangerous, both in re&s;pect that the Countrey whither &s;uch extra|ordinary re&s;ort is made, &s;hall be ouercharged with multitude, and therof &s;carcity &amp; dearth is like ynough to proceed, and al&s;o becau&s;e the&s;e more inward parts of the Realme &s;hal in the meane while be impayred in ho&s;pitality, and being de&s;titute of &s;uch a&s;&s;i&s;tance as is needfull, it may be doubted to what danger or di&s;turbance, for|reigne or dome&s;ticall, they may be expo&s;ed: His Maie&s;ty there|fore in his wi&s;edome both gratiou&s;ly accepting the good will of his Subiects, and withall regarding what is conuenient for his &s;eruice, and for the &s;ecuritie of the State at this time is plea&s;ed, and doth require, That &s;uch concour&s;e and re&s;ort into tho&s;e parts be forborne, and aboue all others, of tho&s;e per&s;ons that haue any place of charge or office, either on the Seacoa&s;t or the In-land, or are of good degree and quality in their Countrey: And that &s;uch orderly cour&s;e be hereafter holden (in the di&s;cretion of all &s;uch per&s;ons as afore&s;ayd) for repaire and re&s;ort to his Highne&s;&s;e pre|&s;ence at his comming into this Realme, as may conueniently &s;tand and agree with the care and &s;eruice nece&s;&s;arily belonging, and to be performed in all parts of the Realme, to his Highne&s;&s;e and the State, His Maie&s;ty being no le&s;&s;e graciou&s;ly di&s;po&s;ed, and willing (in all conuenient &s;ort) to giue contentment and plea|&s;ure to his owne eyes and minde, by the &s;ight of his mo&s;t loyall and louing Subiects, then they are infinitely de&s;irous to enioy the happine&s;&s;e of his Maie&s;ties per&s;on and pre&s;ence, who (we doubt not) long before this time is already &s;afe in this his Realme of England, though his Maie&s;ty forbeareth to come pre&s;ently to his City of London, vntill tho&s;e things can bee &s;et in readine&s;&s;e, which are fit and honourable for the reception of &s;o great and mighty a King.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Pallace of Whitehall,</HI> <DATE><HI>the fifth of April, in the fir&s;t yeere of his Maie&s;ties Reigne. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="6" REF="9">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation declaring at what values certaine Moneys of Scotland &s;hall be currant within England.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as both the Realmes of England and Scotland are among&s;t others by the prouidence of God Almighty, and lawfull right of de&s;cent vnited and incorporated together vnder the Imperiall Crowne of the high and mightie Prince <HI>Iames</HI> by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. And his mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie in his Princely wi&s;edome knowing how nece&s;&s;ary it is, for Commerce and Trade betweene his louing Subiects of both his &s;aid Kingdoms, That the true value at which certaine pieces of his Maie&s;ties Coine of Scotland &s;hall be currant within his Kingdome of England, &s;hould certainely bee made knowen and publi&s;hed to all his louing Subiects of both nations: And find|ing vpon triall &amp; certificate by his Maie&s;ties officers of the Mynt within his Towre of London (vpon commandement giuen vn|to them in that behalfe) That the Coine of Scotland called the &s;ixe-pound piece, of golde, is of the finene&s;&s;e of twentie and two Carrects, and that &s;ixe of tho&s;e pieces doe make an ownce: And al&s;o that the Coine of Scotland called the Marke piece of &s;iluer, is of the value of thirteene pence halfe-peny &s;terling: Hath there|fore publi&s;hed and declared, and by the&s;e pre&s;ents doth publi&s;h and declare, That the &s;aid Coine of golde called the &s;ixe-pound piece, &s;halbe from henceforth currant within his Maie&s;ties Kingdome of England, at the value of ten &s;hillings &s;terling, And that the &s;aid Coine of &s;iluer called the Marke piece, &s;hall bee from hence|forth currant within the &s;aid kingdome of England at the value of thirteene pence halfe-peny. And his Maie&s;tie doth hereby &s;pe|cially charge and command, that the rates and values before ex|pre&s;&s;ed, be from hencefoorth accepted and allowed of by all his lo|uing Subiects what&s;oeuer within the &s;aid Realme of England.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties pallace of Whitehall,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 8. <HI>of Aprill in the fir&s;t yeere of his Maie&s;ties reigne. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="7" REF="9">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the di&s;patch of Pacquets betweene London and Ber|wicke, for the &s;eruice of the King. To all Maiors, Shiriffes, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Po&s;t-ma&s;ters, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Hedboroughs, and all other the Kings Maie&s;ties Of|ficers and Subiects what&s;oeuer, to whome it &s;hall or may apper|taine, and to euery of them.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as there is pre&s;ent occa&s;ion of &s;peedy di&s;patch of Pacquets by Po&s;te, for the &s;peciall and important &s;eruice of our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maie&s;tie to and fro be|tweene <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Berwicke,</HI> and for that purpo&s;e it is fit and conuenient in this time &s;o full of bu&s;ines, that the Po&s;te-ma&s;ters of euery Stage be aided and a&s;&s;i&s;ted with fre&s;h and able Hor&s;es as nece&s;&s;itie &s;hall require, by the Magi&s;trates of Townes and villa|ges neere adioyning, for the quicke di&s;patch of the &s;aid Pacquets, vntill his Maie&s;ties bu&s;ine&s;&s;e bee better &s;etled vpon his arriuall into the&s;e Southerne parts: And whereas al&s;o the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie doth &s;hortly intend to begin his iourney from <HI>Berwicke</HI> toward his Citie of <HI>London:</HI> We hold it very nece&s;&s;ary to giue pre&s;ent order that &s;uch proui&s;ion be made of Po&s;te-hor&s;es and cariages for his Maie&s;tie and his Traine in all places where he &s;hall pa&s;&s;e. We haue therefore made choi&s;e of <HI>Thomas Mylles</HI> E&s;quire, Pay-ma&s;ter of all the Po&s;tes, and <HI>Rowland White</HI> Gent. Po&s;t-ma&s;ter of his Maie&s;ties Court, to &s;ee the &s;eruices aboue&s;aid well performed, Willing and requiring, and in his Maie&s;ties name charging and commanding all Sheriffes, Deputie Lieu|tenants, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Mayors, Bayliffes, and all other his Maie&s;ties Officers and louing Subiects, to take &s;uch &s;pecial or|der &amp; care in aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting al Con&s;tables and Po&s;t-ma&s;ters, and other vnder Officers where the occa&s;ion of Seruice &s;hall re|quire it, that &s;uch number of Hor&s;es may be prouided from time to time, and from place to place during his Maie&s;ties Iourney, a&s;well for the Pacquers as otherwi&s;e, as Ma&s;ter <HI>Thomas Mylles</HI> and <HI>Rowland White</HI> &s;hall giue direction for. And that tho&s;e num|bers of hor&s;es you &s;end in, be able and &s;ufficient hor&s;es, and well furni&s;hed of &s;addles, bridles, girts and &s;tirropes, with good guides to looke to them, who, for their &s;aid hor&s;es &s;hall demaund and receiue of &s;uch as &s;hall ride on them the prices accu&s;tomed.
<PB N="8" REF="10"> And further you are to &s;ee the &s;aid Gentlemen and their &s;eruants, that now are imployed and trauell about this &s;eruice, furni&s;hed, in doing thereof from place to place, of good and able Po&s;te-ma|&s;ters, at rea&s;onable prices. Whereof faile yee not as ye tender his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, and will an&s;were to the contrary at your vt|termo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From the Kings Maie&s;ties pallace of Whitehall</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight of Aprill. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Cant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pembrok.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Norwycen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Lawarre.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hen. Wind&s;or.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ed. Wotton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Egerton. C.S.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Derby.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ga. Kildare.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anth. Cirence&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ro. Rich.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>T. Darcy.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Popham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>T. Buckhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. Worce&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ri. London.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Roffen&s;.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Norrys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ro. Cecil.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. Oxenford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ro. Su&s;&s;ex.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ro. Hereford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>R. Morley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Sandys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Knollys.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the Kings at|tendance, and receiuing, by the She|riffes of the &s;euerall Counties.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie is graci|ou&s;ly minded to make his &s;peedy repaire from <HI>Barwick</HI> to his Highnes Citie of <HI>London,</HI> In which his iourny he is to pa&s;&s;e from thence through diuers Shires of this Realme: The&s;e are to notifie vnto all Sheriffes of the &s;euerall Counties through which his Maie&s;tie &s;hall &s;o pa&s;&s;e, that his Highnes will and plea|&s;ure is, that eche of them re&s;pectiuely being attended with the Iu&s;tices of Peace, and other Gentlemen of the &s;aid &s;eueral Coun|ties, faile not to waite on his Maie&s;tie, to receiue him at his fir&s;t entrance into the &s;ame Countie whereof they are Sheriffes, and &s;o to continue their attendance vntill &s;uch time as his Maie&s;tie come to the vttermo&s;t bounds of the &s;ame Countie, Where the Shiriffe of the next Countie is in like manner to attend and re|ceiue him: And this to be &s;o done from County to Countie, vntill his Maie&s;tie &s;hall come to the &s;aid Citie of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>And furthermore, for that it is requi&s;ite that &s;ufficient and plentifull proui&s;ions bee made in all &s;uch Counties and places where his Highne&s;&s;e &s;hall either lodge or re&s;t by the way, not one|ly for his Maie&s;tie and &s;uch noble Per&s;onages as &s;hall attend him, but al&s;o for the whole Traine: The&s;e are in his Highne&s;&s;e
<PB N="9" REF="10"> name to charge and command all Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, and others his Maie&s;ties Officers, Mini&s;ters and Subiects to whom it may appertaine, That they and euery of them take &s;pe|ciall care and regard, that all maner Victuals and other proui&s;i|ons nece&s;&s;ary and conuenient for his Maie&s;ty and his whole Traine, bee in conuenient time brought to all places where his Highnes &s;hall lodge or re&s;t in his pa&s;&s;age as afore&s;ayd, there to be vttered and &s;old for rea&s;onable priees: For all which, the owners thereof &s;hall from time to time receiue good and pre&s;ent payment. And as it is not doubted, but that all his Maie&s;ties good &amp; faith|full Subiects will be mo&s;t ready and willing to &s;hew them&s;elues forward and carefull in the due accompli&s;hment of the premi&s;&s;es, according to their loyaltie and duety: &s;o if any &s;halbe found di&s;o|bedient, negligent, or remi&s;&s;e therin, The&s;e are to let them know, that they are to &s;u&s;taine &s;uch condigne puni&s;hment as their of|fence in that behalfe de&s;erueth.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Pallace of Whitehall,</HI> <DATE><HI>the tenth of April, in the fir&s;t yeere of his Maie&s;ties Reigne. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the di&s;couery and apprehen&s;ion of William Ruthen, and Patricke Ruthen, brethren to the late Earle of Gowrie.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the Kings Maie&s;ty is enformed, that <HI>Willi|am Ruthen,</HI> and <HI>Patricke Ruthen,</HI> (two brethren to the late Earle of <HI>Gowrie,</HI> a dangerous traitour to his per|&s;on) haue crept into this Kingdome with malicious hearts a|gain&s;t him, di&s;gui&s;ing them&s;elues in &s;ecret places, where he is en|formed, that they doe not onely vtter cankered &s;peeches again&s;t him, but are practi&s;ing and contriuing dangerous plots, and de&s;|perate attempts again&s;t his Royal per&s;on; for effecting whereof, either by them&s;elues, or by &s;uch as they can per&s;wade &amp; &s;uborne thereunto, they leaue no meanes vne&s;&s;ayed: Bee it therefore knowen to all men by the&s;e pre&s;ents, That for the &s;peedy appre|hen&s;ion of the&s;e malicious and dangerous per&s;ons, <HI>William Ru|then</HI> and <HI>Patrick Ruthen</HI> afore&s;ayd, The Kings mo&s;t excellent Ma|ie&s;ty doeth &s;traitly command and charge all and &s;ingular She|riffes, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Maiors, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, and all &amp; euery other his highne&s;&s;e Officers within this his Realme
<PB N="10" REF="11"> of England, That they, and euery of them make diligent &s;earch and enquiry for the &s;ayd malicious per&s;ons <HI>William Ruthen</HI> and <HI>Patricke Ruthen,</HI> and to v&s;e all their be&s;t indeuours, a&s;well within all maner of Liberties, as without, for the di&s;couery, apprehen|&s;ion, and arre&s;ting the bodies of them the &s;ayd <HI>William Ruthen</HI> and <HI>Patricke Ruthen,</HI> and being apprehended or arre&s;ted, foorthwith, &s;peedily, and without any delay, to bring them, or cau&s;e them to be brought vnder &s;ome &s;afe cu&s;tody, before &s;ome of his Highne&s;&s;e mo&s;t honourable Priuy Coun&s;ell, there to be proceeded with and ordered, according as Iu&s;tice &s;hal require: And herein not to faile, as they and euery of them tender their duety to his Highne&s;&s;e, and will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<P>And the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;ty doeth moreouer &s;trait|ly charge and command all and euery Searcher, Cu&s;tomer and Officer of any Port within this Realme, and all other his High|ne&s;&s;e Subiects, of what Nature, qualitie, and condition &s;oeuer hee or they be, to who&s;e Hou&s;es the &s;aid <HI>William Ruthen,</HI> and <HI>Pa|tricke Ruthen,</HI> or either of them &s;hall re&s;ort, or to who&s;e know|ledge, notice or vnder&s;tanding it may come, where or in what pla|ces they the &s;aid <HI>William Ruthen,</HI> and <HI>Patricke Ruthen</HI> &s;hall bee, or into who&s;e hands they &s;hall come, to &s;tay, apprehend, and arre&s;t them, and to bring them before &s;ome of his Maie&s;ties Priuie Coun&s;ell as afore&s;ayd, Wherein if any &s;hall goe about to conceale them, or &s;hall not reueale their abode (if it be in their power to doe &s;o) His Maie&s;tie doeth hereby pronounce, that hee will for euer after, holde them as partakers and abettours of their malicious practi&s;es and intentions, for which they &s;hall feele the weight of his heauie&s;t indignation. And if at any time, any Subiects of his (out of their duety) &s;hall di&s;couer the per&s;ons afore&s;aid, or their re&s;idence, and yet &s;hall not finde them&s;elues able to pur&s;ue them, his Maie&s;ty doeth command them, to call for the ayde and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Highne&s;&s;e Officers, or any other his Subiects, whom his Maie&s;ty doeth al&s;o &s;traitly charge and command here|by, to be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting herein, as they will an&s;were to the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Burghley</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 27. <HI>day of April,</HI> 1603. <HI>In the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="11" REF="11">
<HEAD>&para; A forme of Proclamation to be pro|claimed by the Clarke of the Market, and he to &s;ee it executed touching prices of Victuals.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings Maie&s;tie &s;traitly chargeth and commaundeth, That euery man doe obey and keepe all &s;uch prices as is and &s;halbe prized and rated by the Clarke of the Market of his mo&s;t honourable hou&s;hold, and the Iury before him or his Deputie by the authoritie of his Office &s;worne and charged from time to time, and &s;o fixed and &s;et vpon the gates of the Kings Highnes Court and other places within the Verge: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer he be, doe in any wi&s;e pay more for Corne, victuals, hor&s;emeat, lodgings, or any kinde of victuals, then after the Rate and forme afore&s;aide, vpon paine of impri&s;onment, and further perill that &s;hall thereof fol|low, The &s;ame puni&s;hments to be inflicted a&s;well vpon them and euery of them, which doe or &s;hall pre&s;ume to pay any more, for any the things before mentioned, as vpon them and euery of them, which &s;hal vtter and &s;ell any maner of things contrary to the true meaning of this Proclamation.</P>
<P>And moreouer the Kings Highne&s;&s;e &s;traitly chargeth and commaundeth all Maiors, Iu&s;tices of peace, Bailiffes, Con&s;ta|bles, and all other his faithfull Officers, and euery of them, a&s;|well within liberties as without (within the Verge of his High|ne&s;&s;e Court) from time to time, when and as often as need &s;hal re|quire, diligently within their authority, to endeuour them&s;elues to &s;ee execution and due reformation of the premi&s;&s;es, according to Iu&s;tice and prices as afore&s;aid. And further it is ordered, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons, now v&s;ing, or which of right ought to v&s;e to &s;erue any Citie, Towne, or other place within the Verge of his Highne&s;&s;e Court, with any kinde of Corne, victuals, hor&s;emeat, Lodgings or any other nece&s;&s;aries, a&s;well vpon the Market day, as at any other time, bee any thing the more remi&s;&s;e or &s;lacke in making proui&s;ion for the &s;ame, then they or any of them hereto|fore haue bene, nor hide, lay a&s;ide, or v&s;e any colour of craft to de|ceiue the buyers thereof, whereby the Kings Highne&s;&s;e Traine within any Citie, Towne, or other place, and the inhabitants of the &s;ame &s;hould not be a&s;well &s;erued, and plenteou&s;ly furni&s;hed in euery behalfe, as it was before, or of right ought to haue bene, in defraude of this his Highne&s;&s;e ordinance, nor take or receiue any more then according to the prices which from time to time &s;hall
<PB N="12" REF="12"> &s;tand and be declared in maner afore&s;aid, vnder his Graces &s;eale of the office of the Clerke of the market, vpon paine of impri&s;on|ment, and further to make Fine vnto the Kings Highnes v&s;e, for his or their contempts therein.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation inhibiting the v&s;e and execution of any Charter or Grant made by the late Queene Elizabeth, of any kinde of Monopolies. &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THe Zeale and great affection, which we haue found in all &s;orts of people of this our Kingdom towards our Per&s;on, and that Right which wee had to the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of this Crowne, hath &s;o many wayes bene expre&s;&s;ed, as we cannot chu&s;e but make it manife&s;t to them all by &s;ome publike declaration, how great a de&s;ire it hath wrought in our heart to &s;hew our gra|cious acceptation of their deuotion towards vs, when&s;oeuer there &s;hall be offered either occa&s;ion or &s;ubiect, that may concerne their vniuer&s;all good. For though it be true, that our Right was &s;o a&s;&s;ured, that what&s;oeuer te&s;timonie could thereof be vttered, was but the duetie of Subiects, acknowledging that faith and loyaltie whereunto by the Lawes of God and Nature they were bound: yet doe we confe&s;&s;e, that there is in the true rules of Iu|&s;tice from the Soueraigne to the Subiect, a reciprocall office and re&s;pect, which they are bound in honour and co~&s;cience to ob&s;erue. The con&s;ideration whereof, hath mooued vs to thinke of &s;uch wayes, as for the pre&s;ent did occurre vnto vs, wherein we might make manife&s;t to our people, how willing we are now, and will be ready hereafter, to bee as forward in requiting their loue, as they haue bene in expre&s;&s;ing it. In which con&s;ideration while we were bu&s;ied, we were informed that the Queene our &s;i&s;ter de|cea&s;ed, finding &s;ome few yeeres before her death, that &s;ome things had pa&s;&s;ed her hand at the importunity of her &s;eruants, whom &s;he was willing to reward with little burden to her e&s;tate (otherwi&s;e by nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ions exhau&s;ted,) which though they had and might haue foundation in Princely prerogatiue, yet either by too large extending thereof, or for the mo&s;t part in re&s;pect that they were of &s;uch nature, as could hardly be put in v&s;e without hinde|rance to multitudes of people, or els committed to inferiour per|&s;ons, who in the execution thereof did &s;o exceedingly abu&s;e the
<PB N="13" REF="12"> &s;ame, as they became intollerable: Had purpo&s;ed to reuoke all Grants of that nature, and did begin with &s;ome, which were held mo&s;t vniu&s;t, putting the re&s;t to the examination of her Lawes to &s;tand or fall, as in the con&s;truction of Law they might con&s;i&s;t, or not. We, who though we had neuer had &s;uch an example, were euer oppo&s;ite in our owne nature to any thing that had colour of oppre&s;&s;ion, hold it our part not onely carefully to perfect all her good intentions, but to &s;tudy further by all good meanes, and with all expedition to put in practi&s;e all other cour&s;es whereby a people &s;o louing, &s;o duetifull, and &s;o deare vnto vs, may know and feele that we are as de&s;irous to make them happy by our Iu&s;tice and grace towards them in all rea&s;onable things, as they haue bene ready to increa&s;e our comfort and contentment in yeelding their loyalty and obedience towards our e&s;tabli&s;hment in tho&s;e Rights, which vnder God we doe enioy. Therefore we doe ex|pre&s;ly charge and command all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, That from hencefoorth they vtterly de&s;i&s;t and forbeare to v&s;e or execute any maner of Charter or Grant made by our late Si&s;ter the Queene decea&s;ed, of any kinde of Monopolies, or of any power or Licence to di&s;pence with, or di&s;charge any maner of penall Lawes (except &s;uch Grants onely, as haue bene made to any Corporation or Company of any Art or My&s;terie, or for the maintenance or en|largement of any trade of merchandize) vntill &s;uch time as the &s;ame Charter or Grant &s;halbe examined and allowed of by vs, with the adui&s;e of our Coun&s;ell, to be fit to be put in execution, without any preiudice to our louing Subiects. And where here|tofore many haue bene greatly preiudiced and delayed in &s;uing for their debts &amp; other dueties by &s;undry kind of Protections, and by pretence of other Priuiledges and exemptions: We charge and command, and our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is, That no Protec|tion, Priuiledge or exemption to delay any per&s;ons Suiterr Acti|on, &s;hall from hencefoorth bee receiued or allowed in any our Courts or els where, which are or &s;halbe contrary or repugnant to the Lawes of this Realme.</P>
<P>And furthermore, we wil and command, that no a&s;&s;ignements of Debts or Actions be made vnto vs by any that is, or pretendeth to bee indebted vnto vs, who is otherwi&s;e able and &s;ufficient by him&s;elfe, or by his Sureties, readily to pay the &s;ame Debt, nor any a&s;&s;ignment taken to our v&s;e of any Debt, other then &s;uch, as &s;hall then appeare to be a iu&s;t and true Debt. And for that we are certainely informed of many great di&s;orders and abu&s;es, to the great griefe of our louing Subiects as well by Salt-petermen and &s;uch as haue or pretend to haue Commi&s;&s;ion and Authority
<PB N="14" REF="13"> to make Salt-peter, as al&s;o by &s;undry Purueyors and Takers of Carts and other proui&s;ions for our v&s;e and &s;eruice: Therefore we do expre&s;ly charge and command, that the &s;ayd Salt-petermen, Purueyors and Takers, haue e&s;peciall care to execute their Offi|ces and Authorities without any maner of oppre&s;&s;ion, grieuance or wrong to be done to any our louing Subiects. And if they that haue the Commi&s;&s;ions, &s;hal abu&s;e the execution of them con|trary to this our declaration, We are plea&s;ed that &s;uch, as &s;hal be grieued therewith, &s;hall re&s;ort to vs or our Councell with their complaints. And we doe al&s;o giue expre&s;&s;e charge and comman|dement to al Lawyers, Atturneys, Officers and Clearkes, of and in any our Courts of Iu&s;tice what&s;oeuer, Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Tem|porall, that they nor any of them extort or take any vndue or ex|ce&s;&s;iue Fees, but &s;uch onely as are allowed to be had or taken in the &s;ame Courts. And to the end that our plea&s;ure and comman|dement may be duely and effectually performed, and ob&s;erued in the premi&s;&s;es: We doe hereby notifie and declare, that who&s;oeuer &s;hall pre&s;ume to breake or violate in any thing afore&s;aid our Roy|all commandements, they &s;hall thereby incurre our indignation and di&s;plea&s;ure, And that vpon complaint and proofe thereof made, wee will not faile to proceed to &s;uch &s;euere puni&s;hment a|gain&s;t &s;uch offenders according to their demerits, as &s;halbe fit for &s;o high and contemptuous an offence. The&s;e graces aboue &s;pe|cified, as we doe pre&s;ently extend to our people, and doe intend o|thers hereafter when wee &s;hall vnder&s;tand more particularly wherein we may yeeld them comfort: So becau&s;e things well meant may in the maner of the execution of them be abu&s;ed; and Complaints grounded vpon iu&s;t cau&s;es, may in the crauing of re|medy be accompanied with offen&s;iue proceedings, Wee haue thought good to admoni&s;h our Subiects, that we doe expect at their hands, that if in the things aboue &s;pecified, or in any other wherewith they &s;hall finde them&s;elues grieued (which haue not yet come to our knowledge) they &s;hall haue cau&s;e to &s;eeke any thing at our handes, they &s;hall forbeare all a&s;&s;embling and flock|ing together in multitudes, but &s;hall in lawful and decent maner without numbers, without clamor, or any other kind of di&s;order, re&s;ort to vs or our Councell by way of humble Petition; from whom they &s;hall receiue &s;uch an&s;were, as &s;hall make manife&s;t the zeale we haue to the ob&s;eruation of Iu&s;tice, and maintenance of their welfare, if their Complaints be iu&s;t. And on the other &s;ide, if we &s;hall perceiue that their petitions &s;hal &s;auour of humor, and tend onely to &s;lander and calumniation, and indeed haue no o|ther foundation, but &s;uch as often happeneth in vulgar people,
<PB N="15" REF="13"> vnder pretence of &s;eeking publique redre&s;&s;es to vtter priuate ma|lice: We would haue them vnder&s;tand hereby, that they &s;hall not onely di&s;plea&s;e vs therein, but finde that we hold it no le&s;&s;e the Of|fice of a Prince to protect their Magi&s;trates and Officers, and all publique per&s;ons in their iu&s;t cau&s;es, then to giue redre&s;&s;e to the vulgar &s;ort, when they haue in deed cau&s;e to complaine, again&s;t all per&s;ons how great &s;oeuer they be in rule or dignitie vnder vs: Re&s;eruing to our &s;elfe the Right iu&s;tly appertayning to our Pre|rogatiue, for that we would not haue it conceiued, that in doing the&s;e things out of our Grace, we doe intend to renounce tho&s;e ancient dueties and Priuiledges, which haue de&s;cended vpon vs with the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of our Kingdomes. And for that we are in|formed, that there hath bene heretofore great neglect in this kingdome of keeping the Sabbath day: For better ob&s;eruing of the &s;ame, and auoyding of all impious prophanation of it, we doe &s;traitly charge and command, that no Beare-bayting, Bul-bay|ting, Enterludes, Common Playes, or other like di&s;ordered or vn|lawfull Exerci&s;es or Pa&s;times be frequented, kept or v&s;ed, at any time hereafter vpon any Sabbath day.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Court at Theobalds</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 7. <HI>of May, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t vn|lawfull Hunting.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as his Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tandeth, that there be di|uers ancient and other good and nece&s;&s;ary Lawes and &s;ta|tutes of this his Kingdome of England, which do inflict and impo&s;e diuers grieuous Corporall and pecuniary paines and pu|ni&s;hments, extending in &s;ome ca&s;es to &s;entence of death (the la&s;t and greate&s;t puni&s;hment,) and in &s;ome ca&s;es to finall exile and ba|ni&s;hment out of their naturall Countrey for euer, vpon &s;uch as vnlawfully hunt or enter into any Forre&s;t, Parke, Cha&s;e, or War|ren, to kill or de&s;troy any Deere or Game with any Dogs, Nets, Gunnes, Cro&s;&s;ebowes, Stonebowes or other In&s;truments, En|gines, or meanes what&s;oeuer, or by any &s;uch vnlawfull meanes or deui&s;es to &s;poile or de&s;troy the game of Phea&s;ants, Partridges, Hearne, Mallard, &amp; &s;uch like, And al&s;o diuers other good Lawes and Statutes, prouided for the preuenting of the &s;ayd offences, and therefore doe prohibite vpon great paines and penalties a&s;|well the hauing or keeping, as the v&s;ing of any Deere hayes,
<PB N="16" REF="14"> Buck&s;tals, Dogs, Gunnes, Cro&s;&s;ebowes, Nettes and other En|gines, as by the &s;ame Lawes and Statutes appeareth: And yet his Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tandeth withall, that the &s;ame good Lawes and Statutes haue had (e&s;pecially of late time) little or no effect, in re&s;pect there hath not bene any due execution (the life of all Lawes) of the &s;ame, by &s;uch to whom the care and charge there|of appertained: by meanes whereof, &s;uch boldne&s;&s;e and di&s;obedi|dience hath growen, &s;pecially in the vulgar &s;ort, as that of late yeeres, the &s;euerall Games aboue mentioned, haue bene more ex|ce&s;&s;iuely and outragiou&s;ly &s;poyled and de&s;troyed, then hath bene attempted and practi&s;ed in former ages. His Maie&s;tie inten|ding a due and &s;peedy reformation of the &s;ayd abu&s;es &amp; offences, And that the &s;ayd good Lawes and Statutes be hereafter put in due execution, And yet of his Princely Clemencie and Benigni|tie, now in the beginning of his mo&s;t happy &amp; pro&s;perous Reigne towards all his louing Subiects, is graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, and doth by the&s;e pre&s;ents vouch&s;afe to publi&s;h to all his Subiects his in|tention and determination therein, to the end that none of them, (which his Maie&s;tie de&s;ireth) might hereafter incurre the &s;eueri|tie and puni&s;hment of the &s;ayd Lawes and Statutes: but like good and naturall Subiects for their owne &s;afety and good, obey and ob&s;erue the &s;ame. And therefore doeth &s;traitly charge and command all and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons, of what e&s;tate and degree &s;oeuer, not to hunt, kil, take or de&s;troy, by any of the wayes or meanes aboue&s;ayd, or by any other vnlawfull meane, deuice, or inuention what&s;oeuer, any of the Games aboue&s;aid, contrary to any of the afore&s;aid Lawes or Statutes: Nor that they haue, keepe, or v&s;e any of the &s;aid Deere haies, Buck&s;talles, dogges, gunnes, cro&s;&s;ebowes, nettes, and other things aboue mentioned, or any of them, contrary to any of the &s;aid Lawes or Statutes. And that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;hall, after this Proclamation made and publi&s;hed, offend in any of the premi&s;&s;es, again&s;t any of the &s;aid Lawes and Statutes, that then he &s;hall not onely vnder|go and &s;uffer the &s;euere &s;entence and puni&s;hment of the &s;ame, a&s;|well for &s;uch offences hereafter to be attempted or done, as for the like offences formerly committed, but al&s;o &s;uch paines and pe|nalties, as may be inflicted vpon &s;uch as wilfully contemne and di&s;obey his Commandement Royall. And his Maie&s;ty doeth further charge and command all Iu&s;tices, Officers and Mini|&s;ters what&s;oeuer, to whom in the&s;e ca&s;es it doeth appertaine, that they from hencefoorth diligently and carefully looke to the due executing, a&s;well of the &s;aid Lawes and Statutes and euery of them, as of his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and Royall Commaunde|ment,
<PB N="17" REF="14"> &s;ignified and declared by the&s;e pre&s;ents, And that without re&s;pect of any per&s;on or per&s;ons of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 16. <HI>day of May, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and in the &s;ixe and thirtieth of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation charging all Actors or Partners in the incur&s;ion on the Borders, to re&s;ort to the Commi&s;sioners, at a day limitted.</HEAD>
<P>THe foule and in&s;olent outrages lately committed vpon the borders of our Realmes of England and Scotland by per|&s;ons accu&s;tomed in former times to liue by rapine &amp; &s;poile, praying daily vpon our good and louing Subiects without feare of God or man, hath giuen vs iu&s;t cau&s;e to v&s;e all meanes conue|nient both for the reliefe of our Subiects damnified, and for pre|uention of the like mi&s;chiefe hereafter. Wherefore as of late wee gaue commi&s;&s;ion to proceed again&s;t tho&s;e per&s;ons, that were guil|tie of tho&s;e foule facts: So now againe, becau&s;e as yet &s;uch re|dre&s;&s;e hath not folowed as both our honour &amp; our good Subiects lo&s;&s;e doe require, We haue thought good to renew that our Com|mi&s;&s;ion to certaine per&s;ons of qualitie and of good vnder&s;tanding in the affaires of tho&s;e our Borders, And withall, to publi&s;h by o|pen proclamation to all men, but &s;pecially to &s;uch, as are guiltie, or were partakers of the foule incur&s;ions made vpon our fir&s;t co~ming to our Crowne of this our Realme of England, or any o|thers before or &s;ince, That wheras &s;ome of them haue of late &s;ub|mitted them&s;elues, and &s;ome others &s;eemed to be willing to &s;ub|mit them&s;elues to our mercie, Becau&s;e they and all others &s;hall know, that as we are a Prince that before all wordly re&s;pects what&s;oeuer affecteth the pre&s;eruation of Iu&s;tice among our peo|ple, and the puni&s;hment of &s;uch, as breake the Rules thereof, So that we are not indi&s;po&s;ed to &s;hew mercie where there is cau&s;e to extend it, and where the &s;ame is &s;ought at our hands in &s;uch due|tifull maner, as is meete: We doe therefore charge all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, who know them&s;elues to haue beene Actors, Part|ners, or of con&s;ent to that incur&s;ion aboue mentioned, or to any other breach of our peace within the Counties and Limits here|tofore called our Borders both of the Engli&s;h &s;ide and of the Scot|ti&s;h, that they do before the twentieth day of Iune next comming,
<PB N="18" REF="15"> re&s;ort to &s;uch place, where they &s;hall vnder&s;tand our Commi&s;&s;io|ners to be, and there &s;ubmit them&s;elues to &s;uch mercy and fauor, as we &s;hall thinke good to extend towards them: A&s;&s;uring them in the word of our royall and &s;upreme power, that who&s;oeuer of them &s;hall not before the &s;aid twentieth day of Iune haue &s;ubmit|ted him&s;elfe according to the tenour of this our Proclamation, &s;hall holde him&s;elfe for euer excluded from our mercie without hope at any time to obtaine grace or fauour, but to abide the ri|gour of &s;uch puni&s;hment, as our power can lay vpon him.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Manour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 17. <HI>day of May,</HI> 1603. <HI>in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;ixe and thirtieth.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the vniting of England and Scotland.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as the Kings Maie&s;ty, in his Princely di&s;po&s;iti|on to Iu&s;tice, hauing euer a &s;peciall care and regard to haue repre&s;&s;ed the &s;laughters, &s;poyles, robberies, and other enor|mities which were &s;o frequent and common vpon the Borders of the&s;e Realmes, and to haue reduced and &s;ettled the &s;aid Borders vnto a perfect obedience, to the comfort of his Highnes peaceable Subiects: The cour&s;e whereof hath bene heretofore impeded by the difference of the Borders, Engli&s;h and Scotti&s;h, till it hath now plea&s;ed Almighty God, in his great ble&s;&s;ing to this whole I&s;land, by his Maie&s;ties lawfull &s;ucce&s;&s;ion to the Imperiall Crowne of England, not onely to remooue this difference, but al&s;o to furni&s;h his Highne&s;&s;e with power and force &s;ufficient to pro&s;ecute that his Maie&s;ties Royall and worthy re&s;olution, as his Highne&s;&s;e hath already begunne, entending that the bounds po&s;&s;e&s;t by tho&s;e rebellious people, being in fertilitie and all other benefits nothing inferiour to many of the be&s;t parts of the whole Ile, &s;halbe no more the extremities, but the middle, and the In|habitants thereof reduced to perfect obedience: Yet notwith&s;tan|ding, as his Maie&s;ty is enformed, certaine di&s;ordered and wicked per&s;ons of both Marches, enemies to Peace, Iu&s;tice, and quiet|ne&s;&s;e, pretending ignorance of his Maie&s;ties re&s;olution for the V|nion of the two Realmes, already &s;etled in the hearts of all his good Subiects, and feeding them&s;elues with a &s;ini&s;ter conceit and opinion, that no &s;uch Vnion &s;hould be e&s;tabli&s;hed and take ef|fect, &s;till continue in all kinde of robbery and oppre&s;&s;ion, where|unto
<PB N="19" REF="15"> they are encouraged by the receipt and harbour granted vn|to them, their wiues, children, goods and geir in the Inland and peaceable parts of both the Realmes, highly to his Maie&s;ties contempt, and fru&s;trating of his Highne&s;&s;e Commi&s;&s;ion granted to the effect afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And therefore his Maie&s;ty for the better &s;ati&s;faction of all his good Subiects, who may &s;tand in any doubt of the &s;ayd Vnion, and to take away all pretence of excu&s;e from wicked and turbu|lent per&s;ons, hath hereby thought good to publi&s;h and make knowen to all tho&s;e to who&s;e knowledge the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;hall come, That as his Maie&s;tie hath found in the hearts of all the be&s;t di&s;po&s;ed Subiects of both the Realmes of al qualities, a mo&s;t earne&s;t de&s;ire, that the &s;ayd happy Vnion &s;hould be perfected, the memory of all preterite di&s;contentments aboli&s;hed, and the inha|bitants of both the Realmes to be the Subiects of one kingdome: &s;o his Highne&s;&s;e will with all conuenient diligence with the ad|uice of the E&s;tates and Parliament of both the kingdomes make the &s;ame to be perfited. And in the meane time till the &s;ayd Vni|on be e&s;tabli&s;hed with the due &s;olemnitie afore&s;aid, his Maie&s;tie doeth hereby repute, hold, and e&s;teeme, and commands all his Highne&s;&s;e Subiects to repute, holde, and e&s;teeme both the two Realmes as pre&s;ently vnited, and as one Realme and kingdome, and the Subiects of both the Realmes as one people, brethren and members of one body: And in regard thereof, that euery one of them ab&s;taine and forbeare to commit any kinde of robbery, blood&s;hed, or any other in&s;olence or di&s;order, or to receiue and har|bour the per&s;ons, wiues, children or goods of the fugitiues and Outlawes of either of the Realmes, but to conteine them&s;elues in peace and quietne&s;&s;e, and all &s;uch duetifull behauiour as be|commeth good and loyall Subiects, certifying all and euery per|&s;on who &s;hall doe, practi&s;e, or attempt any thing to the violating of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, that they &s;hall incurre the puni&s;hment due to the &s;ayd Rebels, and that the &s;ame &s;halbe executed again&s;t them with all rigor and extremity to the terror of others.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our Signet at our Mannour of Greenewich,</HI> <DATE><HI>the ninetenth of May. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="20" REF="16">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation commanding Gen|tlemen to depart the Court and Citie.</HEAD>
<P>AT our fir&s;t entrance into this our Realme, and in all the way as we haue pa&s;&s;ed, we tooke no &s;mall contentment in the re&s;ort of Noblemen, Gentlemen and other our Sub|iects comming to vi&s;it vs, holding their affectionate de&s;ire to &s;ee our Per&s;on, to be a certaine te&s;timonie of their inward loue. And in the &s;ame contentment we haue dwelled &s;ince our &s;oiourning at this place, and &s;hall euer remaine, as long as &s;uch concour&s;e of them to our Court may bee without grieuance and offence to the Body of this Realme. But hearing from all parts of our Kingdome, that by the remooue of great numbers of the princi|pall Gentlemen out of the &s;euerall Counties, a&s;well of &s;uch as haue charge there, as Deputie Lieutenants, or Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Mu&s;ters or for the peace, as others with their whole fa|milies, both th'excution of things incident to their charge is o|mitted, and Ho&s;pitalitie exceedingly decayed, whereby the reliefe of the poorer &s;ort of people is taken away, who had from &s;uch hou&s;es much comfort and ea&s;e towards their liuing: For reme|die of the inconueniences like to grow thereby, and al&s;o for that we finde the &s;ickene&s;&s;e already &s;omewhat forward within our Ci|tie of London, which by concour&s;e of people abiding there is very like to be increa&s;ed, and importeth vs a&s;well for our peoples &s;ake, as for the &s;afetie of our owne Per&s;on (who for the mo&s;t part liue in places neere the &s;aid Citie) to preuent by all prouident meanes: We haue bene moued rather to want for a time the contentment we haue in the &s;ight and re&s;ort of our Subiects to vs, then for our owne priuate delight, to giue way to &s;o great a mi&s;chiefe, as the continuall re&s;ort hither may breed. Wherefore wee doe hereby will and command all Gentlemen and others, a&s;well &s;uch as haue any kind of charge in the Counties of their ordinarie habi|tation, as of other &s;ort, That if they haue not &s;ome &s;peciall cau&s;e of attendance at our Court for our Seruice, or for &s;ome nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e concerning their owne e&s;tate, whereof they may informe our Priuie Councell, they &s;hall immediatly after the ende of this Terme depart our &s;aid Citie of London and the Suburbs there|of, and returne to their &s;euerall habitations in the Counties of their abode, vntill the time of our Coronation bee come, at what time we &s;hall not mi&s;like to haue them returne vntill that &s;olem|nitie be pa&s;&s;ed. And becau&s;e we perceiue that heretofore there
<PB N="21" REF="16"> hath bene a great neglect in obeying Proclamations publi&s;hed vpon iu&s;t cau&s;es, we doe admoni&s;h all tho&s;e whom this Proclama|tion concerneth, to be &s;o wary, as we haue not iu&s;t cau&s;e to make them an example of contempt, which we mu&s;t and will doe, if af|ter the Terme ended we &s;hall finde any making &s;tay here, contra|ry to this direction.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Manour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 29. <HI>of May, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and the</HI> 36. <HI>of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation that no man abu&s;e the Earle of Tyrone.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough the offences committed again&s;t the Queene our Si&s;ter decea&s;ed, and the honour of her E&s;tate by the Earle of <HI>Tyrone,</HI> were &s;uch as all Princes ought to be very &s;en&s;i|ble of, and not by the impunitie of offendors in &s;o high a nature, giue way to others to attempt the like: Yet becau&s;e wee haue vn|der&s;tood that before the death of the Queene, the &s;aide Earle hauing expre&s;&s;ed and made knowen to Her, many tokens of an vnfained repentance, had &s;o farre mooued her therewith, as &s;hee had giuen power to the L. <HI>Mountioy</HI> her Deputy, and now our Lieutenant of that Kingdom, to receiue him to mercy if he &s;hould &s;eeke it, which her purpo&s;e, we cannot but commend, as being de|riued fro~ the vertue of Clemencie, of no le&s;&s;e ornament to Prince|ly dignitie then is the rigor of Iu&s;tice: And for that the &s;aid Earle hath not onely done none offence again&s;t vs &s;ince our comming to this Crowne, but al&s;o, we are certainely informed by our Lieu|tenant, hath both abandoned his adherence to all forreine Prin|ces, and offered him&s;elfe in his owne per&s;on to doe &s;eruice vpon a|ny other Rebels within that Realme of Ireland; Wee could not thinke him worthy of le&s;&s;e fauour at our handes, then he had ob|tained at hers, again&s;t whom his faults were committed. And therefore he being now admitted by our &s;aid Lieutenant, by ver|tue of the power fir&s;t giuen by the Queene, and &s;ince confirmed by Vs, into his &s;tate and condition of a good Subiect, and in the rancke and dignitie of an Earle, And being al&s;o come ouer into this Realme to ca&s;t him&s;elfe at our feete, &amp; to te&s;tifie by his owne wordes, his vnfained &s;orrow of his former offences, and ear|ne&s;t de&s;ire of our mercy and fauour: Wee haue thought good to &s;ignifie to all men by the&s;e pre&s;ents, that wee haue receiued him into grace and fauour, and doe acknowledge him our Subiect, and a Nobleman of &s;uch rancke and place as in that our Realme
<PB N="22" REF="17"> of Ireland he is: And that therefore if any man &s;hall by words, or deed, abu&s;e the &s;aid Earle of <HI>Tyrone,</HI> or mi&s;behaue him&s;elfe to|wards him, and not yeeld him &s;uch re&s;pect and v&s;age, as belon|geth to a per&s;on of his &s;ort receiued into our fauour and good opi|nion, we &s;hall e&s;teeme it an Offence, de&s;eruing &s;uch puni&s;hment, as the contempt of our plea&s;ure &s;o expre&s;ly &s;ignified doth de&s;erue.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 8. <HI>day of Iune, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning the Patents for Tinne.</HEAD>
<P>WHere in a Proclamation (lately by vs publi&s;hed) for con&s;iderations therein expre&s;&s;ed, Wee pre&s;cribed a cour&s;e whereby the complaints of our people might be taken away, if the &s;ame &s;hould appeare to be iu&s;tly grounded; Hauing now &s;ince that time receiued particular information, that a Grant to certaine Patentees for the &s;ole preemption of Tinne, was very inconuenient and full of grieuance to our lo|uing Subiects: Wee, after long debate thereof before our &s;elfe and our Priuie Councell, where obiections of either &s;ide were made, and where the inconueniences were layed open, Haue re|&s;olued not onely to con&s;ider how the generalitie of our Subiects might be relieued in &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of this Grant, but how the &s;ame might be done without any iniu&s;tice to any particuler per&s;on, who is intere&s;&s;ed therein by vertue of Letters Patents vnder the great Seale of England, whereof we neuer intend to &s;eeke any cour&s;e of reuocation, but by an ordinary cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice, in which all our people are equally intere&s;&s;ed. In which re&s;pect, hauing commanded the Lords and others of our Priuy Councell to call before them the Patentees, &amp; then to offer them all &s;uch tri|all for the maintenance of that Patent, as the Iu&s;tice of this our Realme affordeth, The &s;aid Patentees haue rather yeelded in their owne duety and di&s;cretions, to &s;urrender the Patent, then to goe about to maintaine it: Whereof we thought it fit that all our good Subiects &s;hould take notice, as an Argument of our continuall care and de&s;ire to doe all things, which tend to the re|liefe of our people in any thing, whereby they receiue any maner of oppre&s;&s;ion, as long as they &s;hall duetifully and orderly appeale vnto vs for the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 16. <HI>day of Iune, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and in the</HI> 36. <HI>of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="23" REF="17">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning Warlike &s;hips at Sea.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough we haue made it knowen by publike Edict, that at our entrance into the&s;e our Kingdomes of England and Ireland, we &s;tood, as &s;till we doe, in good amitie &amp; friend|&s;hip with all the Princes of Chri&s;tendome, and therefore are care|fully to prouide, as much as in vs lieth, that none of them or their &s;ubiects &s;hould by any ho&s;tile action bee endamaged in their Per|&s;ons, Territories, or goods by any of our &s;ubiects either by lande or Sea: Yet we are not ignorant, that our late deare Si&s;ter the late Queene of England, had of long time warres with the King of Spaine, and during that time gaue Licences and Commi&s;&s;i|ons to diuers of her, &amp; our now &s;ubiects, to &s;et out and furni&s;h to Sea, at their charges, diuers &s;hips warlikely appointed, for the &s;urpri&s;ing and taking of the &s;aid Kings &s;ubiects and goods, and for the enioying of the &s;ame, being taken and brought home as lawfull prize. By vertue of which licen&s;es and commi&s;&s;ions, our &s;aid Subiects in the zeale and affection which they bare to the good of their Countrey, in the annoyance and &s;poile of the pub|like enemie of this State at that time, and in maintenance and employment of the Shipping and Mariners of England, other|wi&s;e through &s;cant of Traffique at that time, not &s;ufficiently &s;et on worke; Did furni&s;h out to the Seas diuers &s;hips warlikely appoynted, to their exceeding charge, vpon confidence to enioy what goods &s;oeuer they &s;hould take during the &s;aid Voyage, be|longing to the King of Spaine, or to any of his Subiects, accor|ding to the tenour of their &s;euerall Commi&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P>And whereas diuers of them, &s;ithence our comming by the grace and fauour of God to the Imperiall Crowne of the&s;e our Realmes and Dominions, haue taken by colour of the &s;aid com|mi&s;&s;ions, diuers Ships and goods belonging to the &s;ubiects of the King of Spaine, not knowing of any alteration or di&s;conti|nuance of the former warre betweene Spaine and England, and thereby are like to be extremely hindred, or rather many of them vndone (being a great number of our good &amp; &s;eruiceable &s;ubiects) if they may not be &s;uffered to enioy &s;uch goods as they haue &s;o ta|ken, before any notice giuen vnto them of the di&s;continuance of the &s;aid late warre: We in our Princely condition, hauing (aboue all things) tender care of the good e&s;tate of our louing and dueti|full Subiects, and willing to giue encouragement to all others
<PB N="24" REF="18"> hereafter, in time of our warres, to &s;hewe like forwardne&s;&s;e in venturing their liues and goods for the weakening of the publike enemie, and benefiting of this their Countrey: Haue thought good to &s;ignifie to all men by the&s;e pre&s;ents, that our wil and plea|&s;ure is, that all &s;uch as haue &s;et out, or furni&s;hed to the Seas, a|ny &s;hips of warre, by vertue of any the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions, and not hauing notice of our entrance into this Kingdome, haue at any time before the foure and twentieth day of Aprill la&s;t (which time we limit vnto all men of warre at Sea as a &s;ufficient &s;pace, with|in which they may haue taken knowledge of the di&s;continuance of the &s;aid warre) thereby taken any &s;hips, or goods belonging to any the &s;ubiects of the King of Spaine, and are already returned into any of our Dominions, &s;hall quietly enioy the &s;aid &s;hips and goods taken as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And further our will and plea&s;ure is that what&s;oeuer &s;hips or goods belonging to any &s;ubiect of the &s;aid King of Spaine, hath bene or &s;hall be taken at Sea, or land by any of our &s;ubiects by co|lour of any commi&s;&s;ion what&s;oeuer, after the &s;aid 24. day of Aprill la&s;t: the &s;ame &s;hall be forthwith &s;eque&s;tred from the Takers, to the v&s;e of the true Proprietaries, and re&s;tored vnto them vpon the fir&s;t claimes and proofes of their propertie, without any long or chargeable &s;uit of Law.</P>
<P>And wee further will and command, that all &s;uch our men of warre, as be now at Sea, hauing no &s;ufficient Commi&s;&s;ion as a|fore&s;aid, and haue taken, or &s;hall goe to Sea hereafter, and &s;hall take any the &s;hips, or goods of any &s;ubiect of any Prince in league or amitie with vs, &s;hall be reputed and taken as Pirates, and both they and all their acce&s;&s;aries, maintainers, comforters, abettors, and partakers &s;hall &s;uffer death as Pirates, and acce&s;&s;aries to pi|racie, with confi&s;cation of all their lands, and goods, according to the ancient lawes of this Realme. Commanding all our Of|ficers of the Admiraltie to &s;ee our commandement &s;euerely execu|ted, and commanding all other Officers of our Kingdomes and Dominions whom it may concerne, to giue their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the officers of the Admiraltie, for the better execution of our &s;ayd commandement, as they and euery of them failing therein, will an&s;were to the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of Iune, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France, and Ire|land, and in the &s;ixe and thirtieth of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="25" REF="18">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the adiourne|ment of part of Trinitie Terme.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as the infection of the Plague is at this pre&s;ent greatly increa&s;ed and di&s;per&s;ed a&s;well in the Cities of Lon|don and We&s;tmin&s;ter, as al&s;o in the Suburbs thereof, The Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie con&s;idering that great perill and danger might in&s;ue, not onely vnto his Royall per&s;on, the Queenes Maie&s;tie, the Prince, and Prince&s;&s;e, the honourable Emba&s;&s;adors from &s;undry forreine Princes, the Lords &amp; others of his Maie&s;ties honourable Priuie Councell, the Nobles of this Realme, and other his Maie&s;ties louing Subiects, if the people of all &s;orts, and out of all parts of this Realme, &s;hould re&s;ort or continue together for their Suits &amp; cau&s;es this in&s;tant Terme, commonly called <HI>Trinitie Terme,</HI> and hoping that by di&s;per&s;ing of the multitude of people now being in or about his &s;aid Cities, and by &s;taying the acce&s;&s;e of others to the &s;ame about Suits in Law, and by due ob&s;eruation of &s;uch good and nece&s;&s;ary Orders and di|rections, as are and &s;halbe pre&s;cribed in that behalfe, through the mercifull goodne&s;&s;e of Almighty God, the &s;ayd infection &s;hall bee &s;tayed, &s;o as the Coronation and Inauguration of his mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maie&s;ty, to the ine&s;timable and vniuer&s;all reioycing of all his louing and true hearted Subiects, with all Princely &s;olem|nities and honors thereunto apperteyning, may be accompli&s;hed and performed, at &s;uch time and place as his Maie&s;ty hath alrea|dy bene plea&s;ed to appoint, Hath therefore thought good by the aduice of his Priuie Councel, and Iu&s;tices of his Courts at We&s;t|min&s;ter, to adiourne part of the &s;ame Terme, That is to &s;ay, in and from the &s;econd Returne of this in&s;tant Terme, co~monly cal|led <HI>Octabis Trinitatis,</HI> vntil the fourth Returne of the &s;ame Terme, commonly called <HI>Tres Trinitatis,</HI> and that to bee for &s;uch cau&s;es onely, and for &s;uch intent and purpo&s;e, as hereafter is declared.</P>
<P>And therefore his Maie&s;tie doeth hereby &s;ignifie and declare, that his wil and plea&s;ure is, That Writs of Adiournement &s;halbe directed to the Iu&s;tices of either Bench, and to the Iudges of all other his Maie&s;ties Courts, to whom like Writts haue bene v&s;u|ally directed, giuing them authority to adiourne this in&s;tant Terme, in and from <HI>Octabis Trinitatis</HI> next, vntill <HI>Tres Trinitatis</HI> then next following, And the &s;ayd Adiournement to be made the fir&s;t day of the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Trinitatis,</HI> called the day of E&s;&s;oines.</P>
<P>And whereas his Maie&s;ty con&s;idering in his princely wi&s;e|dome
<PB N="26" REF="19"> what great preiudice might grow to many his good and lo|uing Subiects in their cau&s;es and Suits, if this Terme &s;hould be wholly adiourned, Hath therefore by the aduice of his &s;ayd Coun&s;ell and Iu&s;tices, determined to haue &s;ome part thereof to be holden and continued for &s;ome few dayes in the beginning and ending of the &s;ame, as is afore&s;ayd, His highne&s;&s;e mo&s;t gracious intention in that behalfe is, That the &s;ame dayes for which &s;ome part of this &s;aid Terme is to be holden, &s;halbe v&s;ed onely for the better expediting and continuing of Cau&s;es and Suits, and re|turning and &s;uing out of Proce&s;&s;e, and for &s;uch other like things, which may be performed and done in the ab&s;ence of the parties by their Attourneyes. And therefore his Maie&s;tie doeth by this his Proclamation &s;ignifie to all his louing Subiects, that his will and plea&s;ure is, That in and from the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Trinitatis</HI> next, there &s;hall not be any Trials by Iuries, or any Iudgements vpon Demurrers, or &s;peciall Verdicts or &s;uch like, in any of his highne&s;&s;e Courts of Kings Bench, Common Pleas, or Exche|quer. And al&s;o that there &s;hall not be any Iudiciall hearing or determining of any Cau&s;es or matters in any of his Maie&s;ties Courts of Starre Chamber, Chancery, Exchequer Chamber, Court of Wards, Duchy Chamber, or Court of Reque&s;ts, in or from the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Trinitatis</HI> next, during the &s;ayd Terme: And that no party &s;hall need to be pre&s;ent in per&s;on for any &s;uch cau&s;es or Suites, but the &s;ame may bee attended and done by their At|tourneys.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;ty doth hereby further notifie and declare, That no party &s;hall be compelled or need to appeare in per&s;on in any of his Maie&s;ties &s;ayd Courts, in or from the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Trinitatis</HI> next, at any time during this &s;aid Terme, but may make their ap|parance by their Attourneys, &s;auing only in Ca&s;es of Outlawry, and other the Ca&s;es mentioned in the Proui&s;o hereafter follow|ing: And al&s;o that no Iuries or any who~ the &s;ame may concerne, &s;halbe compelled or need to appeare in any of his highne&s;&s;e Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter in or from the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Trinitatis</HI> next, at any time during the &s;ayd Terme for any cau&s;e or matter what&s;oeuer, vnle&s;&s;e it be for &s;ome &s;peciall and important cau&s;e for his Maie|&s;ties &s;eruice onely.</P>
<P>Prouided neuerthele&s;&s;e, and his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and com|mandement is, That all Collectors, Receiuers, Sheriffes, and o|ther Accomptants, and all other per&s;ons that &s;hould or ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money in any of his Maie&s;ties Courts of Exchequer, Court of Wards and Liueries, or of his Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, or in any of them, or enter into any
<PB N="27" REF="19"> accompt in any of the &s;ayd Courts, &s;hal repaire to the accu&s;tomed places at We&s;tmin&s;ter, and there to pay and doe in euery behalfe as though no &s;uch Proclamation or Adiournement had bene had or made.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;ties further plea&s;ure and commandement is, That all Sheriffes &s;hall returne into his Maie&s;ties Court of Ex|chequer, Court of Wards and Liueries, and Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, all maner of Writs and Proce&s;&s;e i&s;&s;ued out of the &s;ame Courts, and returnable this Terme, which in any &s;ort concerne his Ma|ie&s;ties Reuenewes, Debts, or Dueties, at or before the dayes of Returnes thereof, into &s;uch Offices from whence the &s;ayd Writs and Proce&s;&s;e did i&s;&s;ue: And that all Commi&s;&s;ioners likewi&s;e re|turne all maner of Commi&s;&s;ions and Inqui&s;itions returnable this Terme, and from the &s;ayd Courts &s;ent, whereby his Maie|&s;tie is to receiue profit and commoditie: And all Sheriffes, Col|lectors, all maner of Accomptants, and euery per&s;on that is to pay any kinde of debt or duety vnto the Kings Maie&s;ty in any of the &s;ayd Courts, doe either by them&s;elues, their deputies, or Attour|neys, pay the &s;ame in &s;uch &s;ort as they ought to haue done if no &s;uch Proclamation or Adiournement had bene made, or el&s;e to &s;u|&s;taine &s;uch damage of I&s;&s;ues, Sea&s;ure, Fine, Amerciament, and penaltie to be impo&s;ed vpon them, as hath bene accu&s;tomed, with|out any hope to be di&s;charged thereof: And that all Sheriffes, by them&s;elues or their &s;ufficient Deputies, &s;hall giue their atten|dance at the day appointed for their oppo&s;all in the Court of Ex|chequer, to an&s;were their Returnes before his &s;ayd Barons, as hath bene heretofore accu&s;tomed: And if any default &s;hall bee made by any of the per&s;ons afore&s;aid, that then in re&s;pect of the Kings pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ary and extraordinary charges, Sergeants at Armes and Pur&s;uiuants &s;hall be &s;ent to bring them vp to an|&s;were their contempt and &s;lackne&s;&s;e in payment.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Manour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of Iune, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and the &s;ixe and thirtieth of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the appre|hen&s;ion of Anthony Copley.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough it cannot be without griefe to vs to publi&s;h, that in this our Kingdome we &s;hould finde any Subiect &s;o con|trary to all the re&s;t of our louing people, who in &s;o great
<PB N="28" REF="20"> multitudes haue made perfect proofe of their vn&s;potted loyalty to vs: Yet hath there &s;uch an accident happened &s;o farre beyond our expectation, as We could not conceale it without preiudice to our Selfe, and our E&s;tate, whereof we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues, that all our good &s;ubiects will be very &s;en&s;ible, that is, that it hath bene di&s;co|uered to Vs by &s;euerall per&s;ons, that one <HI>Anthony Copley,</HI> the yonger brother of one <HI>Copley</HI> that is lately returned from forreine parts into this Countrey, hath dealt with &s;ome to be of a con&s;pi|racie to v&s;e &s;ome violence vpon our Per&s;on, whereby mu&s;t either haue followed perill to our life, or danger of innouation in our State. Which <HI>Anthony Copley,</HI> hauing bene &s;ought for &s;ince his practi&s;ing with others, by the ordinary Officers and mini&s;ters of our State, in places about our Court, and our Citie of London, cannot yet be found: So as it &s;eemeth he lurketh very clo&s;ely, a|waiting opportunitie to attempt his trea&s;onable purpo&s;es, or to procure other of our Subiects to con&s;pire with him in &s;o di&s;loy|all a fact.</P>
<P>Wherefore we haue found it nece&s;&s;ary to make publike declara|tion to all our people of his wicked purpo&s;e, knowing well that all true and loyall Subiects, how&s;oeuer diuided from the State in matter of Religion, wil abhorre &s;o vngracious and traiterous a minde, of which good affection Wee require them all to make proofe, by doing their endeuours to di&s;couer and apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Anthony Copley</HI> where&s;oeuer he may be found: Charging all Lieutenants, Deputie Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Shiriffes, Con&s;tables, and all other our Mini&s;ters whom&s;oeuer, to bee diligent in enquiring and &s;earching for the &s;aide <HI>Anthony Copley:</HI> whom if they &s;hall happen to take, Our plea&s;ure is they &s;end him pre&s;ently to our Priuie Coun&s;ell, or to &s;ome of our ordi|narie Magi&s;trates, to abide the triall of our Lawes for his fact. And doe further declare, That if any per&s;on of our Realme &s;hall conceale, harbour, keepe or maintaine the &s;aide <HI>Anthony Copley,</HI> after they haue by this our Proclamation, or otherwi&s;e, notice of his traiterous purpo&s;e: We mu&s;t, as there is iu&s;t cau&s;e, extend a|gain&s;t them the power of our indignation, and the rigour of our Lawes, though We &s;hall be &s;ory to finde any &s;uch occa&s;ion giuen by any of our Subiects whom we doe hold &s;o deare.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 2. <HI>day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and the &s;ixe and thirtieth of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="29" REF="20">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for reformation of great abu&s;es in Mea&s;ures.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas for the auoyding of variety and deceits of Weights &amp; Mea&s;ures, diuers Statutes, Acts and good Ordinances haue heretofore bene made, That one Weight, and one Mea&s;ure &s;hould bee v&s;ed throughout the Realme, And where, according to the Statutes made in the ele|uenth and twelfth yeres of the reigne of the late King of famous memory King Henry the &s;euenth, there were made, &s;ent, and de|liuered into diuers Cities and Townes, &s;pecified in a Schedule vnto the &s;ayd Act of 11. <HI>H.</HI> 7. annexed, Weights and Mea&s;ures of bra&s;&s;e according to the Standards thereof remaining in the trea|&s;ury of the Exchequer, to remaine in the keeping of the Maior, Bayliffe, or other head Officer for the time being, of euery of the &s;ame City or Towne, as the Kings Standard of Weight and Mea&s;ure, with authority and power giuen by the &s;ame Statute, to the &s;ayd Maior, Bailiffe, or other head Officer, hauing the &s;aid Waights and Mea&s;ures, to make, &s;igne and print like Weights and Mea&s;ures vnto euery of the Kings Subiects, duely requi|ring the &s;ame, as by the &s;ayd Statutes more at large appeareth: And whereas al&s;o our late Soueraigne Lady <HI>Elizabeth</HI> late Queene of England, being enformed that the &s;ayd Standard mea&s;ures remayning in tho&s;e Cities and Townes, for the mo&s;t part were by long continuance of time, or for want of good kee|ping, or other defects or abu&s;es, differing and not agreeing with the ancient Standard or Mea&s;ures remayning in her highne&s;&s;e Exchequer at We&s;tmin&s;ter, by occa&s;ion whereof the Mea&s;ures commonly v&s;ed within the Realme were vncertaine, and vary|ing one from another, to the great &s;lander of the &s;ame, the di&s;quie|ting of the Subiects, and the deceyuing of many both buyers and &s;ellers, Did giue order and commandement to the L. Trea&s;urer and vnder Trea&s;urer, to cau&s;e all the ancient Standard mea|&s;ures of all tho&s;e &s;euerall Cities and Townes to bee brought in before them at the Exchequer at We&s;tmin&s;ter, to be examined and tried by the Standard mea&s;ure there remayning, according to which her Maie&s;ties commandement, the Lord Trea&s;urer and vnder Trea&s;urer haue cau&s;ed al the ancient Standard mea&s;ures of all tho&s;e &s;eueral Cities and Townes to be brought before them into the &s;ayd Exchequer, where diuers of them vpon diligent and due triall and examination haue bene found defectiue, differing
<PB N="30" REF="21"> and di&s;agreeing from the true and ancient Standard of the &s;aid Exchequer.</P>
<P>Whereupon the &s;ayd late Queene intending the common and publique good of all her louing Subiects, and to auoyd all diffe|rences and deceits of Mea&s;ure within her highne&s;&s;e Realme, vp|on good and deliberate adui&s;e, and due con&s;ideration therein had, Did not onely e&s;tabli&s;h the fore&s;ayd true and ancient Standard of Mea&s;ures remayning in the &s;aid Exchequer, there to continue and be, as her Maie&s;ties Standard, to examine, try, and &s;ize all other Mea&s;ures of the Realme by, from time to time as occa&s;ion &s;hall require: But al&s;o did giue commandement to the L. Trea|&s;urer &amp; vnder Trea&s;urer, to cau&s;e all the other Mea&s;ures which were brought before them (from the Cities and Townes afore|&s;aid) found vpon triall to be differing and di&s;agreeing from the true and ancient Standards of mea&s;ures of the &s;ayd Exchequer, to be broken.</P>
<P>And further her Maie&s;ty did giue order and commandement vnto the &s;ayd Lord Trea&s;urer and vnder Trea&s;urer, foorthwith to cau&s;e new Standards of mea&s;ures in Bra&s;&s;e to be made, tried, and approoued by the &s;aid true and ancient Standard of the Ex|chequer, and after true and iu&s;t examination and triall thereof had and made, to &s;ize and Seale (with the letter <HI>E.</HI> crowned) &s;uch and &s;o many Standard mea&s;ures, for euery of the &s;ayd &s;euerall Cities and Townes limitted to haue the cu&s;tody of Weights and mea&s;ures, according to the Queenes Standard for euery Shire by the &s;ayd &s;chedule annexed vnto the &s;ayd Statute made in the eleuenth yeere of the reigne of King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;euenth, there to remaine for euer in the keeping of the Maior, Bayliffe, or other head Officer for the time being of the &s;aid City and Towne as her Standard of mea&s;ure, as to them &s;hould &s;eeme nece&s;&s;ary and con|uenient. And al&s;o as many as may &s;erue and be conuenient for the Clarke of the Market of her highne&s;&s;e hou&s;hold (and through the Realme) or his Deputies, according to the Statute of <HI>Anno</HI> 16. <HI>R.</HI> 2. <HI>Cap.</HI> 3. And al&s;o as might or &s;hould &s;erue for any other her Maie&s;ties Officers or Subiects within this Realme as &s;hould make &s;uite for the hauing and obtayning of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And now our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maie&s;tie, minding likewi&s;e the quietnes and publike good of all his louing &s;ubiects, and for the right and iu&s;t maintenance, and execution of all tho&s;e good and godly Lawes in that behalfe heretofore made by his mo&s;t noble Progenitors, to be daily v&s;ed and put in execution a|mong&s;t all his &s;aid Subiects of this his Highne&s;&s;e Realme of England, a&s;well within Liberties as without; His Maie&s;ties
<PB N="31" REF="21"> will and plea&s;ure is, That the Maiors, Bayliffes, Portreues, Wardens, and other head Officers of euery of the &s;ayd Cities, Boroughs, Townes, Cinqueports, and places mentioned in the &s;chedule annexed to the &s;aid Statute of <HI>Anno</HI> 11. <HI>H.</HI> 7. which haue not already receiued the &s;ayd new Standard mea&s;ure from the &s;ayd Exchequer, before the fea&s;t of S. Bartholomew next com|ming, at the common charge of the &s;ame place, &s;hall &s;end &s;ome &s;uf|ficient per&s;on vnto the &s;aid Exchequer, authorized to receiue &s;uch Standards as &s;halbe deliuered vnto him, by the order &amp; appoint|ment of the &s;aid L. Trea&s;urer &amp; vnder-trea&s;urer, for the &s;aid City, Borough, Towne, or place, and to pay &s;uch rea&s;onable prices for the &s;ame, as vpon true valuation of the &s;ame &s;hall bee by the &s;ayd L. Trea&s;urer and vnder Trea&s;urer rated or a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed: which Stan|dards euery of the &s;ayd Maiors, Bayliffes, and other head Offi|cers vnto whom it &s;hall appertaine, &s;hall &s;afely keepe or cau&s;e to be kept in &s;ome &s;ure and conuenient place in the &s;ame Citie, Bo|rough, or Towne, and by them make or &s;ize, or cau&s;e to be made or &s;ized, other common mea&s;ures for the v&s;e of all maner of people in the &s;ame Citie, Borough, Towne, or place that &s;hal haue cau&s;e to v&s;e Mea&s;ures. And &s;hall al&s;o make, &s;igne, and print with the fir&s;t letter of the name of the &s;ame City, Borough, Towne, or place where the &s;ame &s;hall be &s;o made, &s;ized, and printed, like mea|&s;ures vnto euery of the Kings &s;ubiects duely requiring the &s;ame, taking &s;uch fees for the doing thereof as by the Statutes of the Realme are allowed, and no more. And euery of the &s;aid Maiors, Bayliffes, &amp; other head Officers of Cities, Boroughs, Townes, and places within this Realme, &s;hall further doe and cau&s;e to bee done, all &s;uch other Acte and Actes, thing and things, for the pro|uiding, hauing, and v&s;ing of the &s;ayd Standards of Mea&s;ures, as be limitted and appoynted to their or any of their authority by the &s;aid Statutes made in the eleuenth and twelfth yeeres of the late King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;euenth, or any other Statute or Ordinance what&s;oeuer: So as al the Mea&s;ures through the Realme may be reformed and made agreeable according to the Standard of the Exchequer, as by the &s;ayd Statutes in &s;uch ca&s;e is required. And his Maie&s;ty further &s;traitly chargeth and commandeth, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall from the afore&s;ayd fea&s;t of S. Bartholo|mew next comming, v&s;e any other Mea&s;ure or Mea&s;ures, but &s;uch as &s;halbe made or &s;ized, and re&s;pectiuely agreeing with the &s;ayd Standards, and printed and marked with the letter <HI>I.</HI> crowned, with &s;uch markes and letters for euery towne as before is limitted, vpon paine to be apprehended, committed to pri&s;on, fined and puni&s;hed, as contriuers and v&s;ers of fal&s;e Mea&s;ures,
<PB N="32" REF="22"> according to the Statutes in that ca&s;e made and prouided. And that this Proclamation for the better in&s;tructing of all his Ma|ie&s;ties Subiects, &s;hall before the fea&s;t of <HI>All Saints</HI> now next com|ming, be proclaimed in euery Market towne thorow the Realme, and be hanged vp, and fa&s;tened in a Table in the Market place by an Officer, where it may continue to be &s;eene and read by any that will. And that the defaults of Officers, of euery towne in this behalfe, &s;hall be enquired of and puni&s;hed by the Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;i&s;e, and Iu&s;tices of Peace in their Se&s;&s;ions, according to their di&s;cretions, as contemners of his Maie&s;ties commaundement. And that all the Standards and mea&s;ures what&s;oeuer, not &s;ized, marked and printed, and made re&s;pectiuely agreeing to and with the fore&s;aid Standard, and the true meaning of this Proclama|tion, &s;hall from the &s;ayd fea&s;t of <HI>All Saints</HI> next comming, which &s;halbe in the yeere of our Lord God 1603. be reputed and taken for vntrue Mea&s;ures, and &s;halbe broken, defaced and de&s;troyed by the owners of the &s;ame, or by &s;uch officers as haue or &s;hall haue authority to enquire of fal&s;e Weights and mea&s;ures.</P>
<P>And for the better execution hereof, his highne&s;&s;e expre&s;&s;e com|mandement is, That all Maiors, Bayliffes, and other head offi|cers of euery City, Shire, Towne, Borough or Market within this Realme, &s;hall immediatly after the &s;aid fea&s;t of <HI>All Saints,</HI> and &s;o from time to time according to the &s;ayd Statute, as all other Corporate, Borough, or Market Townes within this Realme, cau&s;e to be brought before them all the Mea&s;ures, within the &s;ame Cities, Boroughs, Corporate or Market Townes, to bee duely viewed and examined, and &s;uch as they &s;hall finde defectiue or di&s;agreeing vnto the fore&s;ayd Standard mea&s;ures, either in greatne&s;&s;e or &s;malne&s;&s;e, to cau&s;e to be broken and defaced, and fur|ther puni&s;hment to be done vpon the offenders therein, according to the Statute. And that the Iu&s;tices of Peace, or two of them (whereof one of them to be of the <HI>Quorum</HI>) &s;hall with all diligence and from time to time, by examination or enquirie heare and de|termine the defaults of all Maiors, Bayliffes, and other head Of|ficers of Cities, Boroughs, Corporate or Market Townes with|in their limits or authorities on that behalfe, and to &s;et Fines and Amercements vpon the offenders in that behalfe by their di&s;cre|tions, and tho&s;e to e&s;treat into the Court of Exchequer, and that vpon paine of the puni&s;hment due for &s;uch contempt.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, his Maie&s;ty &s;traitly chargeth and commandeth all Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;ize, Iu&s;tices of Peace, his highne&s;&s;e Clarke of the Market, his deputie or deputies, Maiors, Bayliffes, Stewards of Liberties, and all other his Maie&s;ties Officers and mini&s;ters
<PB N="33" REF="22"> what&s;oeuer, to cau&s;e this pre&s;ent Proclamation, and all Lawes, Statutes, and Ordinances, for the hauing and v&s;ing of true mea|&s;ures, and for the aboli&s;hing the v&s;e of fal&s;e mea&s;ures, to be put in execution according to their &s;euerall Authorities and Iuri&s;dicti|ons, as they herein tender the good &s;eruice of his Maie&s;tie, and the Common wealth of this Realme.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the fift day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ire|land, and of Scotland the &s;ixe and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation &s;ignifying the Kings Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, touching the re&s;ort of people to his Coronation.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as we finde that the infection within our City of London doeth dayly increa&s;e, and is like (to our griefe) ra|ther to augment then to dimini&s;h, a&s;wel by rea&s;on of the &s;ea|&s;on of the yeere, as by the great Concour&s;e of people to our &s;ayd Citie again&s;t the time of our Coronation, &s;ome to doe their duties in &s;uch nece&s;&s;arie &s;eruices, as to them belongeth at that &s;olemni|tie, and &s;ome for comfort they take in the &s;ight of our Per&s;on, of the Queene our deare wife, and of our children; Although there could be no greater ioy to vs then the pre&s;ence and confluence of all &s;orts of good Subiects at &s;uch a time, when the more there &s;hould be partakers of that publike reioycing, the more &s;hould bee our particular comfort: yet &s;uch is our feare le&s;t this their re&s;ort &s;hould worke a contrary effect both to their and our expectation, namely to be a meanes not onely of increa&s;ing the infection with|in our Citie, but of di&s;per&s;ing it into all places of this Realme, as we had rather forbeare &s;ome part of our ornament and cu&s;tome, which is due to the honour and &s;olemnitie of our Coronation, then by hauing the vttermo&s;t thereof perfourmed, be the occa&s;ion of &s;o great an euill to our people, as is the &s;preading of the infe|ction among&s;t them,</P>
<P>Wherefore wee haue thought it be&s;t to forbeare of that &s;olem|nitie, what&s;oeuer is not e&s;&s;entiall to it, and to deferre all &s;hew of State and pompe accu&s;tomed by our Progenitors, which is not of nece&s;&s;itie to be done within the Church at the time of our Co|ronation, as al&s;o to omit our &s;olemne entry and pa&s;&s;age through our Citie of London for this time, intending to performe the &s;ame
<PB N="34" REF="23"> hereafter in the winter, when we &s;hall perceiue our City to be free from &s;ickene&s;&s;e. And of this our purpo&s;e and of the cau&s;es there|of, we haue thought good to giue notice to all our Subiects by Proclamation, to the end that a&s;well tho&s;e of our &s;aid Citie may forbeare to proceed in &s;uch Shewes &amp; Ornaments, as we heare they out of their loue haue in hand to honour our &s;aide entry, as al&s;o all other people may ab&s;taine from re&s;orting to our &s;aid Citie at this time, other then &s;uch, as haue nece&s;&s;ary employment in that Solemnitie, and chiefly about &s;uch parts thereof as are to be performed onely within the Church: whom al&s;o we require to bring with them no greater Traine of &s;eruants, then of nece&s;&s;ity they mu&s;t v&s;e each of them in his degree about their per&s;ons, wherein they &s;hall both prouide for their owne good, and giue vs great &s;ati&s;faction in conforming them&s;elues dutifully to this our Admonition.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or,</HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;ixt day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland, the &s;ixe and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for Iu&s;tice to be indifferently mini&s;tred to the Subiects of England and Scotland.</HEAD>
<P>WEe haue &s;ince our entry into this Realme of Eng|land, had &s;peciall care to make all our Subiects know, with how equall affection we re&s;olued to pro|ceed in all things which &s;hould concerne the &s;afety or honour of our Kingdomes, for both which we know we are to make one and the &s;elfe-&s;ame accompt to Almighty God, vnder whom wee hold all earthly things; In which re&s;pect, we were very curious to preuent at our fir&s;t comming all maner of offences or affronts, which naturally do ari&s;e betweene &s;euerall Nations at their fir&s;t ioyning in &s;ociety and conuer&s;ation, neuer cea&s;ing to lay &s;euere commandement vpon our greate&s;t Subiects that came in with vs, to &s;uppre&s;&s;e any iniurious Actions of any of their Seruants or traine, towards the meane&s;t &s;ubiect of Engli&s;h birth, in whom from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t we haue ob&s;erued &s;o great loue and generall obedience to vs and our commandements: And when|&s;oeuer it hath come to our eares that any offence hath bene done by any of them, We haue made them know how much it hath di&s;|plea&s;ed vs. Notwith&s;tanding, becau&s;e we doe heare of many in|&s;olencies
<PB N="35" REF="23"> reported to be committed by our Nation of Scotland to our Engli&s;h Subiects, with this addition further, That the Ma|gi&s;trates and Iu&s;tices are thought to be remi&s;&s;e towards &s;uch, in doubt le&s;t the &s;ame &s;hould be offen&s;iuely reported to vs: We haue thought it conuenient a&s;wel for the &s;ati&s;faction of the one &s;ort, as for admonition to the others, to publi&s;h by open &s;ignification, That &s;eeing it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God to call vs to the Su|preme power ouer both, We are purpo&s;ed to be an vniuer&s;all and equal Souereigne to them both, and to admini&s;ter Iu&s;tice where there &s;hall be occa&s;ion, without any worldly re&s;pect to either of them. And therefore do hereby enioyne all Lieutenants, Depu|ty Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of Peace, and all other our Officers and mini&s;ters of this kingdome, that when&s;oeuer complaint &s;hall be made to any of them, that breach of Peace is committed by tho&s;e of our nation of Scotland, vpon the Subiects of England, or by the Subiects of England vpon tho&s;e of the nation of Scotland, In both which kindes wee heare of many great abu&s;es, though &s;ometimes aggrauated according to the humour of the repor|ters, they &s;hall carefully vpon euery complaint, examine with all indifferencie the particulars of euery &s;uch Action, and cau&s;e pu|ni&s;hment to be inflicted vpon the party offending, without re&s;pect of nation, according to the Lawes of this Realme.</P>
<P>And to the end they may not doubt to proceed to the execution thereof: As we doe hereby not onely a&s;&s;ure them that wee will &s;trengthen and maintaine all Officers and Magi&s;trates in the execution of their Offices, for the pre&s;eruation of the publike Peace of this Realme: So if we &s;hall &s;ee at any time that any Magi&s;trate &s;halbe &s;low to redre&s;&s;e &s;uch grieuances, or puni&s;h the Offenders, We &s;hall haue cau&s;e to thinke, that they are willing to nouri&s;h &s;ome cau&s;e of &s;uch rumors, the rather to &s;erue for colour or cau&s;e of further alienation, and &s;o by con&s;equence of &s;edition a|mong&s;t our people, &amp; an hinderance to that Vnion betweene both States, which is one of the greate&s;t benefits that we bring with vs to our people for their &s;trength and &s;afety; in gouerning of whom, though we mu&s;t v&s;e, as all other Princes doe, the mini|&s;tery of &s;ubordinate Mini&s;ters, yet God Almighty knoweth, that in our owne minde there is not a thought of partialitie towards either of them, but an internall de&s;ire and re&s;olution to affoord indifferent grace and Iu&s;tice to all: For demon&s;tration whereof we haue bene forced to publi&s;h thus much, le&s;t the iniquitie of fac|tion and vnruly &s;pirits might blemi&s;h the innocencie and inte|gritie of our heart towardes all our Subiects, whom wee hold dearer then our owne life.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;ore</HI> <DATE><HI>the
<PB N="36" REF="24"> eight day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yere of our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;ixe and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the deferring of S. Iames Faire, for certaine dayes.</HEAD>
<P>THe care we haue to preuent all occa&s;ions of di&s;per&s;ing the Infection among&s;t our people, doeth &s;ufficiently appeare by our former Proclamations, and that for that cau&s;e we are contented to forbeare at our Coronation all &s;uch ceremonies of honour and pompe v&s;ed by our Progenitors, as may draw ouer great confluence of people to our Citie. For which cau&s;e al&s;o be|ing informed that v&s;ually about the day of our Coronation inten|ded, and for &s;ome dayes after, a Faire hath bene v&s;ed to be kept in the fields neere our hou&s;e of S. Iames, and City of We&s;tmin&s;ter, commonly called <HI>S. Iames Faire,</HI> which if it &s;hould hold at the time accu&s;tomed, being the very in&s;tant of our Coronation, could not but draw re&s;ort of people to that place, much more vnfit to bee neere our Court and Traine, then &s;uch as by former Proclama|tions are re&s;trained. Wherefore we haue thought it nece&s;&s;ary to put off the keeping of that Faire for &s;ome few dayes: And to the end that all men may take notice thereof, doe publi&s;h the &s;ame to all mens knowledge, Requiring tho&s;e who are Lords of the Faire, or otherwi&s;e intere&s;&s;ed therein, That according to this our plea&s;ure, they doe forbeare to hold the &s;ayd Faire, and to re&s;ort thither, for the &s;pace of eight or ten dayes after the fir&s;t day of the v&s;uall holding thereof: Licen&s;ing them after that time to keepe the &s;ame, as they haue v&s;ed to do.</P>
<P>Furthermore, to auoyd ouer great re&s;ort to our Cities of Lon|don and We&s;tmin&s;ter at that time, for the cau&s;e of our Coronati|on, we haue thought good to limit the Traines of Noblemen and Gentlemen, hauing nece&s;&s;ary Seruice or attendance there, to a number certaine, <HI>Viz.</HI> Earles to &s;ixteene, Bi&s;hops and Barons to ten, Knights to &s;ixe, and Gentlemen to foure: which numbers we require each of them to ob&s;erue, and not to exceed, as they tender our fauour.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 11. <HI>day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland, the &s;ixe and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="37" REF="24">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the apprehen|&s;ion of certaine Con&s;pirators.</HEAD>
<P>WEe haue by our late Proclamation, publi&s;hed for the apprehen&s;ion of one <HI>Anthony Copley,</HI> &s;ignified what griefe it was vnto vs, that any &s;ubiect of this Realm, of how meane condition &s;oeuer, &s;hould giue vs iu&s;t cau&s;e to put in v&s;e the power of our Lawes for any offence again&s;t vs in matter of Loyaltie. And although we haue no litle comfort in the expe|rience which that fir&s;t occa&s;ion gaue vs, of the loue and obedience of the vniuer&s;al number of our Subiects, by who&s;e diligence and care of our per&s;on the &s;aid <HI>Copley</HI> hath bin apprehended: yet hath the &s;ame brought vs withall, cau&s;e of further griefe, in that by the &s;aid <HI>Copleys</HI> confe&s;&s;ion, there is di&s;couered a con&s;piracie of a great number of others to haue made an attempt not onely dangerous to our per&s;on, but to our whole &s;tate: wherof &s;ome principal gen|tlemen of qualitie are already apprehended, &s;ome others cannot yet be found by the ordinary mini&s;ters of our iu&s;tice. Wherfore, we haue thought good to giue knowledge of the~ to all our &s;ubiects by open proclamatio~, not doubting but to find as good fruits of their loue in their diligent enquirie after the&s;e per&s;ons, as wee did of <HI>Copley:</HI> Requiring and charging all Lieutenants, deputy Lieu|tenants, Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Con|&s;tables, and all other our Officers and Mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, to v&s;e all care and diligence in the enquiring, &s;earching for, and ap|prehending of Sir <HI>Griffin Markham</HI> Knight, and &s;uch other per|&s;ons, as are here in the foote of this Proclamation de&s;cribed. And if they &s;hall be &s;o happy as to finde any of them, to &s;end them pre|&s;ently vp to &s;ome of our Councell. And though we doubt not but that we &s;hall finde good proofe of the care of all good Subiects in doing their dueties herein: Yet &s;eeing it is a cau&s;e that doeth &s;o neerely concerne not onely our Per&s;on, but the &s;ubuer&s;ion of the State of this Realme, Wee cannot but adde this further charge, That if we &s;hall perceiue that any &s;hal v&s;e remi&s;&s;enes, negligence, or other omi&s;&s;ion of their duetie in pur&s;uing this our plea&s;ure, we &s;hall haue cau&s;e to iudge otherwi&s;e of them, and to proceede other|wi&s;e with them, then willingly we would haue cau&s;e to do with any Subiect of this Realme: in whome we mu&s;t acknowledge that in generall we haue found as much loue and duetie, as could po&s;&s;ibly be expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 16. <HI>day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and in the</HI> 36. <HI>of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<PB N="38" REF="25">
<HEAD>&para; The de&s;cription of the per&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P>SIr <HI>Griffin Markham</HI> hath a large broad face, of a bleake complexion, a bigge no&s;e, one of his hands is maimed by an hurt in his arme, receiued by the &s;hot of a bullet, hee hath thinne and little haire vpon his beard; All his brethren are tall of &s;tature, yong, and without any haire of their faces, of exceeding &s;warthy and bad complexions, and haue all very great no&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>VVIlliam Wat&s;on</HI> prie&s;t is a man of the lowe&s;t &s;ort, about xxxvi. yeeres of age, his haire betwixt a bram &amp; flaxen, he looketh a&s;quint, and is very purblind, &s;o as if he reade any thing he putteth the paper neere to his eyes, he did weare his beard at length of the &s;ame coloured haire as is his head. But information is giue~ that now his beard is cut.</P>
<P><HI>VVIlliam Clarke</HI> prie&s;t is a man of middle &s;tature, inclining to the lower &s;ort, about the age of xxxvi. yeeres, his haire is betwixt red and yellow, he keepeth his beard clo&s;e cut, he is not leane nor corpulent, but betwixt both, rather leane.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation enioyning all Lieu|tenants, and Iu&s;tices of Peace to repaire into their Countreys, and all idle per&s;ons to depart the Court.</HEAD>
<P>THe Solemnities of our Coronation being now performed according to the v&s;ages and cu&s;tomes of this our Realme of England, and with mutuall contentment, a&s;well of Vs in the zeale and loue of our people at the performance thereof ex|pre&s;&s;ed, as of them in the expectation of our gouernment; Wee haue entred into con&s;ideration of the &s;tate of the &s;euerall parts of the body of our Realme, and therein doe finde, that the ab&s;ence of the Noblemen and Gentlemen which are v&s;ed to re&s;ide there in &s;euerall quarters, is accompanied with great inconuenience, as well in the want of reliefe which the poorer &s;ort did receiue by their ordinary Ho&s;pitality, as al&s;o chiefly in the defect of gouerne|ment, whereby be&s;ides other inconueniences, through lacke of order, the infection of the plague &s;preadeth and &s;cattereth it &s;elfe into diuers places of the Realme, and is like further to increa&s;e, if by the pre&s;ence and care of &s;uch as are in authority and credit a|mong&s;t our people, they be not contained in &s;ome good cour&s;e, for the preuenting of that contagion.</P>
<P>Wherfore hauing taken order for the returning home into their Countreys of diuers of the Nobility of our Nation of Scotland, and others al&s;o, who to doe vs honour at our Coronation, haue attended here &s;ince the entring of Vs and the Queene our deare wife into this Kingdome: We haue thought good al&s;o to publi&s;h to all other good Subiects of this Realme, that our plea&s;ure is, and wee command that all &s;uch as are not our &s;eruants in ordi|nary, or be not bound to attendance about our Court by expre&s;&s;e
<PB N="39" REF="25"> commandement of vs, or our Councell, &s;hall immediatly depart home into their Countreys; Specially all deputy Lieutenants, and all &s;uch as are in Commi&s;&s;ion of the Peace, there to attend their &s;euerall charges, and chiefly to preuent by all good meanes the &s;preading of this contagion of the Plague. For &s;eeing now there is no nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e why any man &s;hould abide either a|bout our City of London, or about our Court, who is not our or|dinary &s;eruant, we &s;hall haue iu&s;t cau&s;e to be offended with &s;uch, as &s;hall contrary to this our plea&s;ure, voluntarily ab&s;ent them|&s;elues fro~ the places where their dueties do require they &s;hould a|bide. And whereas we are giuen to vnder&s;tand, That notwith|&s;tanding our former Proclamation, there do continually hang vp|on our Court, a great number of idle &amp; ma&s;terle&s;&s;e per&s;ons, a&s;well Scotti&s;h as Engli&s;h, who can giue no accompt of their abode here: For preuenting hereof our plea&s;ure is, That all Noblemen and Gentlemen our ordinary &s;eruants or attendants in Court, &s;hall pre&s;ently within three dayes after the publi&s;hing hereof, deliuer in to our Chamberlaine, to the officers of our Greencloth, and to our knight Mar&s;hall, to each of them a Roll of the names of &s;uch as be their &s;eruants in ordinary, wherein we require them to haue care to reteine no more then they mu&s;t needs be &s;erued with: With which Roll wee haue giuen charge, that the &s;aid Knight Mar&s;hall &s;hall continually ride, both in the day time and in the night about our Court, and whom&s;oeuer they &s;hall finde not con|teined in the &s;aid Roll, they &s;hall puni&s;h according to the Lawes of our Realme, or otherwi&s;e as &s;halbe thought meet for &s;uch con|tempts. And for that our plea&s;ure al&s;o is, during the time of this infection, That our Court be not followed with vnnece&s;&s;ary multitudes vnder pretence of Suites, We doe charge all Sutors to ab&s;taine from following of vs for this time, &s;auing onely &s;uch as haue Suits, or cau&s;e of attendance of our Councell for nece&s;|&s;ary &s;eruices. For the di&s;cerning whereof, wee haue appointed, that the Ma&s;ters of our Reque&s;ts, or one of them, with one of the Clearks of our Councel, or of our Signet, &s;hall re&s;ide at King&s;ton til Wedne&s;day next, of purpo&s;e to receiue the petitions of all &s;uch as &s;uppo&s;e they haue any nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e to attend for the &s;eruice at the Court, and &s;hall allow &s;uch as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e why for our &s;eruice they &s;hould be pur&s;ued, and all others deferre till the Winter: And after that day pa&s;&s;ed no Suitor &s;hall be allowed to follow the Court, vpon what pretence &s;oeuer, during this Con|tagion.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our honour of Hampton</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 29. <HI>day of Iuly, in the fir&s;t yeere of our reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scot|land the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="40" REF="26">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Faire, and Sturbridge Faire.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;preading of the infection in our City of London, and in the places next about it, doeth giue vs iu&s;t cau&s;e to be as prouident as a carefull Prince can be, to take away all occa&s;ion of increa&s;ing the &s;ame. And if &s;uch directions as we gaue, and our Councell, at our fir&s;t approching to the City, had bene o|beyed, it is like that (with Gods fauour) the &s;ickne&s;&s;e had neither growen to that height, nor &s;pread &s;o farre as now it is. But that hauing bene omitted by the negligence of &s;uch whom it mo&s;t con|cerned to haue had it performed, The &s;ame care of our peoples welfare mooueth vs as much as we may, to prouide for the time to come. And fora&s;much as there are at hand two notable Faires, vnto which there is v&s;ually extraordinary re&s;ort out of all parts of the kingdome, one in Smithfield neere our City of London, commonly called <HI>Bartlemew Faire,</HI> and the other neere Cambridge commonly called <HI>Sturbridge Faire,</HI> which if they &s;hould be held at the v&s;uall times, would in all likelyhood be the occa&s;ion both of the increa&s;e, and of di&s;per&s;ing of the contagion into all the parts of our Realme: Wee haue thought good by open declaration of our plea&s;ure, not onely to admoni&s;h, and to require all our louing Subiects, to forbeare to re&s;ort at this time to any of the &s;ayd two Faires, of <HI>Bartlemew</HI> neere London, and of <HI>Sturbridge,</HI> but al&s;o to enioyne to the Lords of the &s;aid Faires, and others intere&s;&s;ed therein, and of all other Faires within fifty miles of our City of London, that they &s;hal not hold the &s;aid Faires, nor any thing ap|pertayning to them, at the times accu&s;tomed, nor any time till they &s;hall be licen&s;ed by vs, vpon paine of &s;uch puni&s;hment, as for a contempt &s;o much concerning the vniuer&s;all &s;afety of our peo|ple, they &s;hall be adiudged to de&s;erue, Which they &s;hall be a&s;&s;ured that we will cau&s;e to be inflicted vpon them with all &s;euerity. For &s;uch is our de&s;ire to preuent an vniuer&s;all contagion among our people, which this infection threatneth, as we will not &s;pare any one who &s;halbe cau&s;e of di&s;per&s;ing &s;uch an euil among them. And we do further charge and enioyne vnder like penaltie, to all Citi|zens and inhabitants of our City of London, that none of them &s;hall repaire to any Faires held within any part of this Realme, vntill it &s;hall plea&s;e God to cea&s;e the infection now reigning a|mong&s;t them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight
<PB N="41" REF="26"> day of Augu&s;t, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland, the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t Inmates and multitudes of dwellers in &s;trait Roomes and places in and about the City of London: And for the ra&s;ing and pulling downe of certaine new erected buildings.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it falleth out by wofull experience, that the great confluence and acce&s;&s;e of exce&s;&s;iue numbers of idle, indigent, di&s;&s;olute and dangerous per&s;ons, And the pe&s;tering of many of them in &s;mall and &s;trait roomes and ha|bitations in the City of London, and in and about the Suburbs of the &s;ame, haue bene one of the chiefe&s;t occa&s;ions of the great plague and mortality, which hath not onely mo&s;t extremely a|bounded in and about the &s;aid City, and Suburbs thereof, and e&s;pecially in &s;uch &s;trait roomes and places, and among&s;t per&s;ons of &s;uch qualitie, but al&s;o from thence hath mo&s;t dangerou&s;ly ouer|&s;pread, and infected very many principall, and other parts of this Realme, (which Almighty God cea&s;e at his good plea&s;ure) His Maie&s;ty tendering the &s;afety of his louing Subiects, and min|ding, as much as in him lyeth, to auoyd the continuance or re|newing of &s;uch mortalitie, doeth by the aduice of his Priuy Coun|cell, not onely &s;traitly require and command that his Maie&s;ties good and profitable Orders and directions already publi&s;hed for the &s;taying (if God &s;o plea&s;e) of the &s;ame Infection, be carefully, &s;peedily, and duely executed, but al&s;o doeth &s;traitly prohibit and forbid, That no new Tenant or Inmate, or other per&s;on or per|&s;ons, be admitted to inhabite or re&s;ide in any &s;uch hou&s;e or place in the &s;aid City, Suburbs, or within foure miles of the &s;ame, which haue bene &s;o infected, during the continuance of this Plague and mortalitie, in or about the &s;ayd City, nor after, vntill &s;uch time and as it &s;halbe thought &s;afe and expedient by the prin|cipall Officers there for the time being, That is to &s;ay, if it be within the &s;aid City, by the Alderman of the Ward, or his Depu|tie; if without, then by the next Iu&s;tice of the Peace. Wherein his Maie&s;ty &s;traitly doeth charge and require euery of the &s;aid Al|dermen, and their Deputies, and euery Iu&s;tice of the Peace to whom it &s;hall appertaine, That they take &s;peciall care, that none of the fore&s;aid roomes, hou&s;es, or places be hereafter pe&s;tered with
<PB N="42" REF="27"> multitudes of dwellers, or with any Inmates. And that &s;uch of the &s;aid roomes, hou&s;es, or places as by Proclamation heretofore publi&s;hed, are ordered or appointed to be ra&s;ed or pulled downe, &s;hall foorth with, the &s;ame being now voyd, or as the &s;ame &s;hall hereafter become voyde, be ra&s;ed and pulled downe accordingly. And being once pulled downe, that they or any of them at any time afterwards, &s;uffer not any of the &s;ame to be newly erected, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Mannor of Wood&s;tocke,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 16. <HI>day of Sep|tember, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the adiourne|ment of part of Michaelmas Terme.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as the Kings Maie&s;tie our Soueraigne Lord is credibly informed, that the infection of the Plague is at this pre&s;ent in &s;undry places in and about the City of London, and in other places neere adioyning to the &s;ame, Whereas by the continuance thereof, through the greater repaire and re&s;ort of his louing Subiects, great perill and danger might not onely en&s;ue vnto his mo&s;t royal Per&s;on, but al&s;o to his mo&s;t louing Subiects repairing thither for their Suites and cau&s;es, and thereby al&s;o giue occa&s;ion of di&s;per&s;ing of the &s;ame into other parts of the Realme: His Maie&s;tie for the &s;aid nece&s;&s;ary con&s;iderations, and hoping that the &s;ame wil by the goodne&s;&s;e of Almighty God with the coldne&s;&s;e of the yeere, and &s;uch whole&s;ome Orders as are ta|ken in the &s;aid City, the rather cea&s;e by the adiournment of part of this next Terme of S. Michael now at hand, from the <HI>Vtas</HI> of the &s;ame, vntil the fourth returne of the &s;aid Terme, called <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis</HI> next comming His Maie&s;ty therefore of his e&s;peciall fa|uour and clemencie is plea&s;ed and contented to adiourne the &s;aid Terme of S. Michael (that is to &s;ay) from the <HI>Vtas</HI> thereof, vnto the &s;aid fourth returne of the &s;aid Terme called <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis</HI> next comming, which his Maie&s;tie &s;ignifieth to all and &s;ingul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> his louing Subiects of this his Realme, to the intent that they and euery of them which hath cau&s;e or commaundement to ap|peare in any of his highne&s;&s;e Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter in or at any day or time from and after the &s;aid <HI>Vtas</HI> of S. Michael, may tary at their dwellings, or where their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e otherwi&s;e &s;hall lie, without re&s;orting to any of the &s;aid Courts for that cau&s;e before
<PB N="43" REF="27"> the &s;aid <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis</HI> next comming, and that without danger of forfeiture, penaltie, or contempt to incurre towards his high|ne&s;&s;e in that behalfe. And neuerthele&s;&s;e, his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that two of his Iu&s;tices, (that is to &s;ay) of either Bench one, &s;hall the fir&s;t day of Michaelmas Terme, called <HI>Octabis Michaelis,</HI> according to the ancient order of the Lawes, keepe the E&s;&s;oines of the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Michaelis:</HI> at which <HI>Vtas</HI> of S. Michael, writs of adiournment &s;halbe directed to the &s;aid Iu&s;tices, giuing them authority to adiourne the &s;aid Terme of S. Michael (that is to &s;ay,) From the <HI>Vtas</HI> thereof, vntill the fourth returne, as before is &s;aid: And the &s;aid Adiournment &s;halbe made in the fir&s;t day of the &s;aid <HI>Vtas,</HI> commonly called the day of E&s;&s;oines. And further his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that all matters, cau&s;es and Suits depen|ding in any of his other Courts betweene party and party, as in his Highnes Courts of Chancery, Starchamber, &amp; Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Liueries, Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, and Court of Reque&s;ts, &s;hal haue continuance, and the parties &s;hall haue day from the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents vntill the &s;aid fourth Returne, as before is &s;aid.</P>
<P>Prouided alway, and his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and commande|ment is, that all Collectors, Receiuers, Sheriffes and other Ac|comptants, and all other per&s;ons that &s;hould or ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money in any of his Maie&s;ties Courts of Exchequer, Court of Wards and Liueries, and of his duchie of Lanca&s;ter, or in any of them, or to enter into any Ac|compt in any of the &s;aid Courts, &s;hall repaire vnto his Maie&s;ties hou&s;e of Richmond, where his highne&s;&s;e hath appointed &s;uch Of|ficers &amp; mini&s;ters, as for that purpo&s;e his Maie&s;tie hath thought expedient, and there to pay and doe in euery behalfe, as though no &s;uch Proclamation of Adiournement had bene had or made. And his highne&s;&s;e further plea&s;ure and commandement is, that all Sheriffes &s;hall returne their Writs and Proce&s;&s;e, again&s;t all &s;uch Accomptants and debters, at the dayes therein appointed. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons who ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money to his Maie&s;ty in any of the Courts and pla|ces afore&s;aid, do make default therein, That then his highne&s;&s;e Writs and Proce&s;&s;e &s;halbe awarded and &s;ent foorth again&s;t euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, and the &s;ame to be duely and orderly &s;er|ued, and returned by the Sheriffes and Officers thereunto ap|pointed, in &s;uch like maner and forme, as the &s;ame &s;hould haue bene if this pre&s;ent Proclamation had not bene made. And if a|ny Sheriffe or other Officer &s;hall make default, or be negligent in &s;eruing, executing, or returning of any the Writs and Proce&s;&s;e a|fore&s;aid,
<PB N="44" REF="28"> That then euery &s;uch Sheriffe and other Officer, &s;hall incurre &s;uch paines and penalties, as by the &s;aid Courts or any of them &s;halbe taxed and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed. Willing and commanding all and euery his Maie&s;ties Sheriffes, officers, mini&s;ters and Sub|iects to whom it doeth or &s;hall appertaine, to ob&s;erue and keepe their a&s;&s;emblies and apparances, with all their Returnes and Certificates, in his highnes &s;aid Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter in <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis</HI> next comming, then and there to be holden and kept, and there to doe their offices and dueties in euery behalfe, in like maner and forme as they &s;hould or ought to haue done, if this pre|&s;ent Proclamation had not bene had or made, as they will an|&s;were to the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Mannour of Wood&s;tocke,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 16. <HI>day of September, in the fir&s;t yere of his highnes Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland, the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the due and &s;peedy execution of the &s;tatute again&s;t Rogues, Vagabonds, idle, and di&s;&s;olute per&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas at a Parliament holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter in the nine and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of his Ma|ie&s;ties late deare &s;i&s;ter decea&s;ed Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> a profitable and nece&s;&s;ary Law was made for the repre&s;&s;ing of Rogues, Vagabonds, idle and di&s;&s;olute per&s;ons, wherewith this Realme was then much infe&s;ted, by the due execution of which Law, great good en&s;ued to the whole Common weale of this Realme, but now of late by the remi&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e, negligence, and con|niuencie of &s;ome Iu&s;tices of the Peace, and other Officers in di|uers parts of the Realme, they haue &s;warmed and abounded eue|ry where more frequently then in times pa&s;t, which will grow to the great imminent danger of the whole Realme, if by the good|ne&s;&s;e of God Almighty, and the due and timely execution of the &s;aid Law the &s;ame be not preuented.</P>
<P>And where to the end that no impediment might be to the due and full execution of the &s;ame Law, his highne&s;&s;e Priuie Coun|cell, according to the power to them in that behalfe giuen by the &s;aid Law, haue by their Order a&s;&s;igned places and parts beyond the Seas, vnto which &s;uch incorrigible or dangerous Rogues &s;hould according to the &s;ame Law be bani&s;hed and conueyed, as by the Order in that behalfe made, and vnder this pre&s;ent Pro|clamation
<PB N="45" REF="28"> particularly mentioned and &s;et downe, more at large appeareth: His Maie&s;tie purpo&s;ing (for the vniuer&s;all good of the whole Realme) to haue the &s;ame Law duely and fully execu|ted, doeth by adui&s;e of his Priuie Councell require all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bailiffes, Hedboroughs, Con&s;tables, and other Officers what&s;oeuer to whom it appertaineth, to &s;ee that the &s;aid Law be in all the parts, and branches of the &s;ame carefully, duely and exactly executed, as they and euery of them will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Mannour of Wood&s;tocke</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 17. <HI>day of Sep|tember, in the fir&s;t yere of his highne&s;&s;e Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and the &s;euen and thirtieth of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>&para; THE ORDER.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as it hath appeared vnto vs a&s;well by our owne viewes in our trauailes in this pre&s;ent progre&s;&s;e of his Ma|ie&s;tie, as al&s;o by good and credible information from diuers and &s;undry parts of the Realme, that Rogues grow againe and increa&s;e to be incorrigible, and dangerous not onely to his Ma|ie&s;ties louing Subiects abroad, but al&s;o to his Maie&s;tie and his honourable hou&s;hold and attendants in and about his Court, which growing partly through the remi&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e of &s;ome Iu&s;tices of the peace, and other Officers in the Counttey, and partly for that there hath bene no &s;uit made for a&s;&s;igning &s;ome place beyond the &s;eas, to which &s;uch incorrigible or dangerous Rogues might be bani&s;hed, according to the Statute in that behalfe made: Wee therefore of his Maie&s;ties priuie Councel, who&s;e names are here|unto &s;ub&s;cribed, finding it of nece&s;&s;itie to reforme great abu&s;es, and to haue the due execution of &s;o good and nece&s;&s;arie a Law, doe according to the power limitted vnto vs by the &s;ame Statute, hereby a&s;&s;igne and thinke it fit and expedient, that the places and parts beyond the Seas to which any &s;uch incorrigible or dange|rous Rogues &s;halbe bani&s;hed and conueyed according to the &s;aid Statute, &s;halbe the&s;e countreys and places following, <HI>viz.</HI> The Newfound Land, the Ea&s;t and We&s;t Indies, France, Germanie, Spaine, and the Low countreys, or any of them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>T. Buckhur&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Suffolke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>R. Cecill.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lenox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Deuon&s;hire.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. Wotton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Notingham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mar.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io. Stanhop.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="46" REF="29">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation to repre&s;&s;e all Pi|racies and Depredations vpon the Sea.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings Maie&s;tie being certainly enformed through the manifold and dayly complaints made to his highne&s;&s;e, a&s;|well by his owne Subiects as others, of the continuall Depredations, and Piracies committed on the Seas by certaine lewd and ill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons; and finding that the ordinary pro|ceedings held of late times for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the&s;e enormi|ties and offences, haue wrought le&s;&s;e reformation then was ex|&s;pected: In his Princely care to pre&s;erue Iu&s;tice, as one of the maine pillars of his E&s;tate, and for the &s;peedier &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all &s;uch Piracies and Depredacious crimes, mo&s;t hatefull to his minde, and &s;candalous to his peaceable gouernment, and for the better continuance of amitie with all other Princes and States; Hath with the adui&s;e of his Priuie Coun&s;ell, for the &s;peedy pre|uention or &s;euere puni&s;hment hereafter of &s;uch fowle crimes and Piracies, Set downe certaine Articles hereunto annexed, which his highne&s;&s;e commandeth all his Officers whom it may con|cerne, of what degree &s;oeuer, to &s;ee duely executed, Wherein if any maner of per&s;on &s;halbe found culpable or wilfully negligent, con|temptuous, or di&s;obedient, His Maie&s;tie declareth hereby, that puni&s;hment &s;halbe inflicted vpon him or them with &s;uch &s;euerity, as the example thereof &s;hall terrifie all others from committing any &s;o odious crimes, or contemptuous offences.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, that no man of Warre be furni&s;hed or &s;et out to Sea by any of his Maie&s;ties Subiects, vnder paine of death and confi&s;cation of Lands and goods, not onely to the Captaines and Mariners, but al&s;o to the owners &amp; Victuallers, if the com|pany of the &s;aid &s;hip &s;hall commit any Piracie, Depredation or murther at the Sea, vpon any of his Maie&s;ties friends.</P>
<P>Item, that if any por&s;on what&s;oeuer &s;hall vpon the Seas take any Ship that doeth belong to any of his Maie&s;ties friends and Allies, or to any of their Subiects, or &s;hall take out of it by force any goods of what nature or qualitie &s;oeuer, he or they &s;o offen|ding &s;hall &s;uffer death, with confi&s;cation of Lands and goods, ac|cording to the Law in that ca&s;e prouided.</P>
<P>Item, that all Admirall cau&s;es (except the cau&s;es now depen|ding before the Commi&s;&s;ioners for cau&s;es of Depredations) &s;hal|be &s;ummarily heard by the Iudge of the high Court of the Admi|raltie, without admitting any vnnece&s;&s;ary delay.</P>
<PB N="47" REF="29">
<P>Item, that no appeale from him be admitted to the defendant or defendants in cau&s;es of Depredation, either again&s;t the offen|ders, or their acce&s;&s;aries, before or after the offence committed, or tho&s;e in who&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion the goods &s;poyled are found, Vnle&s;&s;e fir&s;t by way of proui&s;ion, the &s;umme adiudged be payd to the plaintife vpon Sureties to repay it, if the Sentence &s;halbe reuer&s;ed.</P>
<P>Item, that no prohibition in &s;uch ca&s;es of &s;poile and their ac|ce&s;&s;aries or dependances be granted hereafter.</P>
<P>Item, that no &s;hip or goods taken from any his Maie&s;ties friends, &s;hall bee deliuered by any other order then vpon proofe made in the &s;aid Court of the Admiraltie, before the &s;aid Iudge or his deputie, to the end that a Record may be kept of all &s;uch re|&s;titutions made to &s;trangers, to &s;erue when occa&s;ion &s;hal require.</P>
<P>Item, that euery Viceadmirall is enioyned by this Proclama|tion (whereof he &s;hall take notice at his perill) to certifie into the &s;ayd Court of the Admiralty euery quarter of the yere what man of Warre hath gone to the Sea, or returned home within that time, with any goods taken at Sea, or the procedue thereof, vpon paine to lo&s;e to his Maie&s;tie (by way of Fine) for euery &s;uch de|fault forty pounds of currant money of England, to be an&s;wered into his Maie&s;ties Receipt of the Exchequer, by Certificate from the &s;aid Iudge of the Admiralty vnder the great Seale of that Office, to bee directed to the Lord Trea&s;urer and the Barons of the Exchequer.</P>
<P>Item, that all the Kings Subiects &s;hall forbeare from ayding or receiuing of any Pirate or Sea-rouer, or any per&s;on not being a knowen Merchant, by contracting, buying, &s;elling or exchang|ing with them, or by victualling of them or any of their company, whereby they or any of them &s;halbe the more enabled to goe or re|turne to the Seas to commit any Piracie or di&s;order, vpon paine for &s;o doing to be puni&s;hed pre&s;ently, as the principall offendors and Pirats ought to be.</P>
<P>Item, that the Viceadmirals, Cu&s;tomers, and the other Offi|cers of the Ports, &s;hal not &s;uffer any &s;hip to goe to the Seas before &s;uch time as they re&s;pectiuely in their &s;euerall Ports haue duely &s;earched and vi&s;ited the &s;ame, to the intent to &s;tay &s;uch per&s;ons as apparantly &s;hall be furni&s;hed for the Warres, and not for Mer|chandize or fi&s;hing. For if there &s;halbe any maner of &s;u&s;picion that the &s;aid per&s;on, though he &s;hall pretend to trade for Merchandize or Fi&s;hing, hath, or may haue an intent by his proui&s;ions or fur|niture, otherwi&s;e then to v&s;e the trade of Merchandize or fi&s;h|ing, that in &s;uch ca&s;e of &s;u&s;picion the Officers of the Ports &s;hall &s;tay, and in no wi&s;e &s;uffer the &s;ame to pa&s;&s;e to the Seas without
<PB N="48" REF="30"> good bonds by &s;ufficient Sureties fir&s;t had, to v&s;e nothing but a lawfull trade of Merchandize or fi&s;hing. And if the &s;aid Officers &s;hall &s;uffer any per&s;on otherwi&s;e to repaire to the Seas then a|boue is mentioned, they &s;hall not onely an&s;were for any Piracies which any &s;uch per&s;on &s;hall chance hereafter to doe vpon the Seas, but &s;hall &s;uffer impri&s;onment vntill the offendours may bee apprehended, if they &s;hall bee liuing. And generally his Ma|ie&s;tie declareth and denounceth all &s;uch Pirats and Rouers vpon the Seas to be out of his Maie&s;ties Protection, and law|fully to bee by any per&s;on taken, puni&s;hed, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ed with extremitie.</P>
<P>And whereas diuers great and enormous &s;poiles and Piracies haue bene of late time committed within the Straits of <HI>Gyblaltar</HI> by Captaine <HI>Thomas Tomkins</HI> gentleman, <HI>Edmond Bonham, Wal|ter Ianuerin,</HI> Mariners, and diuers other Engli&s;h Pirats, and the goods, moneyes and Merchandizes brought into England by them, haue bene &s;cattered, &s;olde, and di&s;po&s;ed of mo&s;t lewdly and prodigally, by the meanes of their Receiuers, comforters &amp; abet|tors, to the exceeding preiudice of his Maie&s;ties good friends the <HI>Venetians,</HI> whom they haue robbed, and to the great di&s;plea&s;ure of God, and di&s;honour of this State: His Maie&s;tie doeth expre&s;ly command al Lieutenants, deputy Lieutenants, Admirals, Vice-admirals and their deputies, and all other Officers of the Admi|ralty, and al Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, and all other his Officers and mini&s;ters what&s;oe|uer, to v&s;e all care and diligence in the inquiring, &s;earching for, and apprehending of all &s;uch Pirats, their receiuers, comforters, and abettors. And if they &s;hall by their trauailes and cares finde any of them, to &s;end them pre&s;ently vnder &s;afe cu&s;tody to the com|mon gaoles of Hamp&s;hire or Dor&s;et&s;hire, there to remaine with|out Baile or Mainpri&s;e, till the Lord high Admirall of England, or his Lieutenant the Iudge of the high Court of the Admiral|tie &s;hall di&s;po&s;e of them according to the Lawes in that ca&s;e pro|uided.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Citie of Winche&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the thirtieth day of Sep|tember, in the fir&s;t yere of his highne&s;&s;e Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and the &s;euen and thirtieth of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="49" REF="30">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the further ad|iournement of part of Michaelmas Terme from We&s;tmin&s;ter to Winche&s;ter.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, vpon in|formation giuen to his Highne&s;&s;e of the infection of the plague growen &amp; di&s;per&s;ed in his cities of London and We&s;tmin&s;ter, did by his proclamation dated at his Mannor of Wood&s;tock the &s;ixteenth day of September la&s;t pa&s;t, for the con|&s;iderations therein expre&s;&s;ed, cau&s;e the Terme of S. Michael to be adiourned vnto the fourth Returne thereof, commonly called <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis,</HI> Hoping by that time, through the goodne&s;&s;e of Al|mightie God, and &s;uch orders as by his Maie&s;ties e&s;peciall com|mandement were appointed to be kept and ob&s;erued, and by the coldnes of the aire, the &s;aide infection of the plague might haue bene &s;o much dimini&s;hed, as that the re&s;idue of the Terme might, without danger to his louing &s;ubiects, which his Maie&s;ty great|ly de&s;ireth, haue bene continued at We&s;tmin&s;ter: Fora&s;much as his Maie&s;tie hath &s;ince receiued knowledge, by Certificates &s;ent from London and We&s;tmin&s;ter, that the plague &s;till continueth, and therefore doubteth that if the &s;aide Terme &s;hould bee kept at We&s;tmin&s;ter from the &s;aid <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis,</HI> it could not bee but dangerous to &s;uch his louing &s;ubiects, who for Suits and other cau&s;es &s;hould make their nece&s;&s;ary repaire thither; Therefore vpon the con&s;iderations afore&s;aid, his Maie&s;ty hath by aduice of his Highnes Councell, thought it very expedient, that the Terme &s;hould be adiourned from the &s;aid Returne commonly called <HI>Men|&s;e Michaelis,</HI> vntill the Returne commonly called <HI>Cra&s;tino Sancti Martini</HI> next en&s;uing, and thereby the re&s;t of the v&s;uall Terme to be continued and kept, for which purpo&s;e e&s;peciall choi&s;e is made of his Maie&s;ties Citie of Winche&s;ter, in his County of Southam|pton, and at which place his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that now the re&s;idue of the Terme &s;hall bee kept: doeth therefore declare, and hereby &s;ignifie his will and plea&s;ure, that Writs of Adiournment &s;hall be directed to the Iu&s;tices of either Bench, and to the Iud|ges of all other his Maie&s;ties Courts to whome like Writs haue bene v&s;ually directed, giuing them authoritie to adiourne the re|&s;idue of the &s;aid Terme from We&s;tmin&s;ter afore&s;aid, vnto the &s;ayd Citie of Winche&s;ter, there to begin in the &s;aide <HI>Cra&s;tino Martini</HI> next en&s;uing, and &s;o to continue.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that two of his Iu&s;tices, that is
<PB N="50" REF="31"> to &s;ay, of either Bench one, &s;hall on the fir&s;t day of the &s;aide Re|turne, called <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis,</HI> according to the ancient Order of the Lawes, keepe the E&s;&s;oynes of the &s;aid <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis,</HI> and in the fir&s;t day thereof, commonly called the day of E&s;&s;oynes, the &s;ame Adiournement &s;hall be made from the &s;aid <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis,</HI> vntill <HI>Cra&s;tino Martini</HI> as afore&s;aid. And further his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that all matters, cau&s;es and &s;uits betweene party and partie, in his Highne&s;&s;e Courts of Chancery, Starre-chamber, Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Liueries, Dutchie of Lanca|&s;ter, and Court of Reque&s;ts, &s;hall haue continuance, and the par|ties &s;hall haue day from the &s;aid <HI>Men&s;e Michaelis</HI> vntill the &s;ayd <HI>Cra&s;tino Martini,</HI> at the &s;aid Citie of Winche&s;ter. Willing them and euery of them to whome it doeth appertaine, to ob&s;erue and keepe their apparances and a&s;&s;emblies in all and euery his High|ne&s;&s;e &s;aid Courts at the &s;ayd Citie of Winche&s;ter in the &s;ayd <HI>Cra|&s;tino Martini,</HI> in like maner, forme, and condition, as they would, &s;hould, or ought to haue done, if the &s;ayd Terme and Courts had bene holden and kept at We&s;tmin&s;ter, as they and euery of them will an&s;were at their perils, Any thing in his Maie&s;ties &s;aid for|mer proclamation to the contrary notwith&s;tanding. And yet ne|uerthele&s;&s;e his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and commandement is, for the greater &s;afety of his louing Subiects (which of any thing in this world hee chiefly de&s;ireth) in this infectious time, that no I&s;&s;ue triable by twelue or more Iurors this next Terme, &s;hall receiue triall in any of his Maie&s;ties Courts of Kings Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, And that neither any Iurors &s;ummoned, or to be &s;ummoned to appeare at any Returne or day of this next Terme, &s;hall appeare for triall of any &s;uch I&s;&s;ue, vnle&s;&s;e it be for high Trea&s;on, or any matters or cau&s;es Criminall, Nor any wit|ne&s;&s;e either &s;erued, or to be &s;erued with Proce&s;&s;e or otherwi&s;e, &s;hal appeare, or giue in euidence for triall of any &s;uch I&s;&s;ue, (Trea|&s;ons, and matters or cau&s;es criminall excepted) but that both Iu|rors and Witne&s;&s;es may &s;afely, according to his Maie&s;ties graci|ous meaning herein expre&s;&s;ed, re&s;ide and employ them in or about their owne affaires, without any forfeiture, penaltie, or lo&s;&s;e what&s;oeuer in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And whereas by the &s;ayd former Proclamation his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and commandement was, That notwith&s;tanding the &s;ayd former Adiournement, All Collectors, Receiuers, Sheriffes, and other Accomptants, and all other per&s;ons that &s;hould or ought to accompt, or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money in any of his Maie&s;ties Courts of Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Li|ueries, and of his Dutchie of Lanca&s;ter, or in any of them, or to
<PB N="51" REF="31"> enter into any Accompt in any of the &s;ame Courts, &s;hould repaire vnto his Maie&s;ties hou&s;e of <HI>Richmond,</HI> where his highne&s;&s;e had appointed &s;uch Officers and mini&s;ters, as for that purpo&s;e his Maie&s;ty had thought expedient, and there to pay and doe in eue|ry behalfe, as though no &s;uch Proclamation of Adiournement had bene had or made: And his highne&s;&s;e further plea&s;ure and commandement was, That all Sheriffes &s;hould returne their Writs and Proce&s;&s;e again&s;t all &s;uch Accomptants and debters at the dayes therein appointed: And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, who ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money to his Maie&s;tie in any of the Courts and places afore&s;aid, &s;hould make default therein, That then his highne&s;&s;e Writs and Proce&s;&s;es &s;hould be awarded and &s;ent foorth again&s;t euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, and the &s;ame to be duely and orderly &s;erued and returned by the Sheriffes and Officers thereunto appointed, in &s;uch like maner and forme as the &s;ame &s;hould haue bene, if the &s;aid former Proclamation had not bene made: And if any Sheriffe or other Officer &s;hould make default, or bee negligent in &s;eruing, execu|ting, or returning of any the Writs and Proce&s;&s;e afore&s;ayd, That then euery &s;uch Sheriffe and other Officer &s;hall incurre &s;uch paines and penalties, as by the &s;aid Courts or any of them &s;hould be taxed and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed: Now his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and comman|dement is, That all the &s;aid Collectors, Receiuers, Sheriffes, and other Accomptants, and all other per&s;ons that &s;hall or ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money, in any of his Maie&s;ties &s;aid Courts of Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Li|ueries, and of his Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, or in any of them, or to en|ter into any Accompt in any of the &s;ayd Courts, &s;hall from hence|forth vntil the end of the next Terme, repaire vnto his Maie&s;ties &s;aid hou&s;e of <HI>Richmond,</HI> where his highne&s;&s;e hath appointed &s;uch Officers and mini&s;ters as for that purpo&s;e hath bene thought ex|pedient, and there al and euery thing and things to be performed, done, ob&s;erued, and proceeded with in &s;uch maner and forme, as by the &s;ayd former Proclamation herein before recited, is pre&s;cri|bed and commanded.</P>
<P>And further, his Maie&s;tie con&s;idering that if there &s;hould hap|pen to be any acce&s;&s;e and apparance of his louing Subiects at the &s;aid City of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI> during the re&s;idue of the Terme, of &s;uch as haue had the Plague in their hou&s;es, or haue bene them&s;elues infected therewith, There might en&s;ue great perill and damage to tho&s;e that haue as yet bene cleare thereof, and &s;o further incon|uenience might grow thereby to the re&s;t of the Realme: His high|ne&s;&s;e therefore, for the auoyding thereof, doeth &s;traitly charge and
<PB N="52" REF="32"> command, That no &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons who haue bene &s;o in|fected, or haue had the Plague in their hou&s;es at any time &s;ince the twentieth day of Iuly la&s;t, of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer he or they be, &s;hall repaire to the &s;aid City of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI> during the re&s;idue of the &s;aid Terme, except he or they &s;halbe commanded by &s;peciall Proce&s;&s;e, or otherwi&s;e haue &s;peciall commandement for his or their per&s;onall appearance. And yet neuerthele&s;&s;e, euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o infected before his or their repaire to the &s;aid City of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> &s;hall before hee or they enter into any hou&s;e within the &s;aid City or Suburbs thereof, openly notifie and declare by &s;ome me&s;&s;age his or their e&s;tate touching his or their infection, with the cau&s;e for the which he or they &s;halbe called by Proce&s;&s;e or other commandement, to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;halbe appointed by the Lord Chancellor of England, to haue the charge of the gates and entries into the &s;ayd City; So as if the &s;ayd party &s;halbe ordered to come into the City, or into any Court within the &s;ayd City, the &s;ame &s;hall after during the time of his or their abode there, beare or hold vp in his or their hand vpright to be &s;eene one red Rod of the length of one yard or more, vpon paine of his Maie&s;ties di&s;plea&s;ure, and impri&s;onment of their bo|dies during his highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>And further his Maie&s;ty &s;traitly chargeth and commandeth all Iu&s;tices of Peace of the &s;aid County of Southampton, dwel|ling within twelue miles of the &s;aid City, and all Bayliffes, Con|&s;tables, and head Officers of any Boroughes, townes, villages or hamlets within eight miles of the &s;aid City, That they and euery of them &s;hall from and after the day of the proclayming of this Proclamation within the &s;ayd County, doe their be&s;t indeuours to make, &s;et forth, ob&s;erue, and cau&s;e to be ob&s;erued &s;uch good Or|ders, as by the goodne&s;&s;e of God may tend mo&s;t to the pre&s;eruati|on of all places within the &s;ame circuit of eight miles from infec|tion of the plague: And for that purpo&s;e to a&s;&s;emble them&s;elues together weekely at &s;ome conuenient place in the &s;ayd County from the time of the publi&s;hing of this Proclamation, vntill the end of the re&s;idue of the &s;aid Terme, a&s;well for the deui&s;ing, as for the execution of &s;uch good Orders. And that the &s;aid Iu&s;tices of Peace &s;hal in the fir&s;t day of the &s;itting in the re&s;idue of the Terme, &s;ignifie and declare vnto the Lord Chancellor of England, all that they and the &s;aid Con&s;tables and other the &s;aid Officers &s;hal then haue done in and about the premi&s;&s;es, and &s;hall al&s;o from time to time folow &s;uch directions as they &s;hal receiue from the &s;aid Lord Chancellour and other of his Maie&s;ties Councell at the &s;ayd Ci|ty, tending to the pre&s;eruation of the places within the circuit
<PB N="53" REF="32"> aboue &s;pecified from the &s;aid infection of the Plague, Not doub|ting but that a&s;well the &s;aid Iu&s;tices, as other the inferiour Of|ficers will carefully di&s;charge their duety in that behalfe, as they tender the continuance of his Maie&s;ties fauour, and wil an&s;were for the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Citie of Winche&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 18. <HI>day of Octo|ber, in the fir&s;t yeere of his reigne of England, France and Ire|land, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning &s;uch as &s;editiou&s;ly &s;eeke reformation in Church matters.</HEAD>
<P>AS we haue euer from our infancie had manifold proofes of Gods great goodne&s;&s;e towards vs in his protecting of vs from many dangers of our Per&s;on, very neerely threat|ning vs, and none more notorious then his happy conducting of vs in the late ca&s;e of our &s;ucce&s;&s;ion to this Crowne, which contra|ry to mo&s;t mens expectation we haue receiued with more quiet and concurrencie of good will of our people (otherwi&s;e perhaps of different di&s;po&s;itions) then euer in like accident hath bene &s;eene: So doe we thinke that the memory of his benefits ought to be a continuall &s;olicitation to vs to &s;hew our &s;elues thankefull to his diuine Maie&s;tie, wherein &s;oeuer opportunitie &s;halbe offered vs to doe him &s;eruice, but e&s;pecially in things concerning his honour and Seruice, and the furtherance of the Go&s;pel, which is the due|ty mo&s;t be&s;eeming Royall authority. Wherefore after our entry into this Kingdome, when we had receiued information of the &s;tate thereof at the decea&s;e of the Queene our &s;i&s;ter of famous me|mory, Although we found the whole Body thereof in generall by the wi&s;edome of her &s;elfe and care of tho&s;e who had the admini|&s;tration therof vnder her, in &s;uch good &s;tate of health as did great|ly commend their wi&s;edomes, as well in the Politique part of it, as al&s;o in the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, whereof &s;ince we haue vner&s;tood the forme and frame, wee are per&s;waded that both the con&s;titution and doctrine thereof is agreeable to Gods word, and neere to the condition of the Primitiue Church: Yet fora&s;much as experience doeth &s;hew dayly, that the Church militant is neuer &s;o well con|&s;tituted in any forme of Policie, but that the imperfections of men who haue the exerci&s;e thereof, doe with time, though vn|&s;en&s;ibly, bring in &s;ome corruptions: As al&s;o for that informations
<PB N="54" REF="33"> were dayly brought vnto vs by diuers, that &s;ome things v&s;ed in this Church were both &s;candalous to many &s;eeming zealous, and gaue aduantage to the aduer&s;aries, We conceiued that no &s;ubiect could be &s;o fit for vs to &s;hew our thankefulne&s;&s;e to God, as vpon &s;erious examination of the &s;tate of this Church, to redeeme it from &s;uch &s;candals, as both by the one &s;ide and the other were layd vpon it. For our in&s;truction wherein, we appointed a mee|ting to be had before our &s;elfe and our Coun&s;ell, of diuers of the Bi&s;hops and other learned men, the fir&s;t day of the next moneth, by who&s;e information and aduice we might gouerne our procee|ding therein, if we found cau&s;e of amendment. But by rea&s;on of the &s;ickne&s;&s;e reigning in many places of our kingdome, the vn|&s;ea&s;onable time of the yeere for trauaile, and the incommoditie of the place of our abode for &s;uch an a&s;&s;embly, we were con&s;trained to deferre it till after Chri&s;tmas: At which Con&s;ultation we &s;hall both more particularly vnder&s;tand the &s;tate of the Church, and receiue thereby light to iudge whether there be indeed any &s;uch enormities as are pretended, and know how to proceed to the re|dre&s;&s;e. But this our godly purpo&s;e we finde hath bene mi&s;con|&s;trued by &s;ome mens &s;pirits, who&s;e heat tendeth rather to combu|&s;tion then reformation, as appeareth by the cour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters"> they haue ta|ken, Some v&s;ing publique Inuectiues again&s;t the &s;tate Eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall here e&s;tabli&s;hed, &s;ome contemning their Authoritie and the Proce&s;&s;es of their Courts, &s;ome gathering &s;ub&s;criptions of multitudes of vulgar per&s;ons to Supplications to be exhibited to vs to craue that Reformation, which if there be cau&s;e to make, is more in our heart then in theirs. All which cour&s;es it is appa|rant to all men are vnlawfull and doe &s;auour of tumult, &s;edition, and violence, and not of &s;uch a Chri&s;tian mode&s;tie as be&s;eemeth tho&s;e, who for pieties &s;ake onely de&s;ire redre&s;&s;e of things they thinke to be ami&s;&s;e, and cannot but be the occa&s;ions of di&s;&s;enti|ous partialities, and perhaps of greater inconueniences among our people.</P>
<P>For preuenting whereof, We haue thought it nece&s;&s;ary to make publique declaration to all our Subiects, that as we haue rea&s;on to thinke the e&s;tate of the Church here e&s;tabli&s;hed, and the degrees and orders of Mini&s;ters gouerning the &s;ame, to be agreeable to the word of God, and the forme of the Primitiue Church, hauing found the &s;ame ble&s;&s;ed in the reigne of the late Queene, with great increa&s;e of the Go&s;pel, and with a mo&s;t happy &amp; long peace in the politique State, which two things, the true &s;eruice of God, and happine&s;&s;e of the State doe commonly concurre toge|ther: So are wee not ignorant, that time may haue brought in
<PB N="55" REF="33"> &s;ome corruptions, which may de&s;erue a reuiew and amende|ment, which if by the a&s;&s;embly intended by vs we &s;hall finde to be &s;o in deed, we will therein proceed according to the Lawes and cu&s;tomes of this Realme by adui&s;e of our Councell, or in our high Court of Parliament, or by Conuocation of our Clergie, as we &s;hall finde rea&s;on to leade vs; not doubting but that in &s;uch an or|derly proceeding, we &s;hall haue the Prelates and others of our Clergie no le&s;&s;e willing, and farre more able to affoord vs their duety and &s;eruice, then any other who&s;e zeale goeth &s;o fa&s;t before their di&s;cretion. Vpon which our Princely care, our plea&s;ure is, that all our Subiects doe repo&s;e them&s;elues, and leaue to our con&s;cience that which to vs onely apperteineth, auoyding all vn|lawfull and factious maner of proceeding, for that hereafter if a|ny &s;hall either by gathering the &s;ub&s;criptions of multitudes to Supplications, by contemptuous behauiour of any authority by the Lawes re&s;ting in Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons, by open inuectiues and vndecent &s;peeches either in the Pulpit or otherwi&s;e, or by di&s;obedience to the proce&s;&s;es proceeding from their Iuri&s;diction, giue vs cau&s;e to thinke that he hath a more vnquiet &s;pirit then becommeth any priuate per&s;on to haue toward publike authori|tie, We wil make it appeare by their cha&s;ticement, how farre &s;uch a maner of proceeding is di&s;plea&s;ing to vs, and that we finde that the&s;e Reformers vnder pretended zeale affect Noueltie, and &s;o confu&s;ion in all e&s;tates, whereas our purpo&s;e and re&s;olution euer was, and now is to pre&s;erue the e&s;tate a&s;well Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall as Politike, in &s;uch forme as wee haue found it e&s;tabli&s;hed by the Lawes here, reforming onely the abu&s;es which wee &s;hall appa|rantly finde prooued, And that al&s;o to doe by &s;uch mature adui&s;e and deliberation, as we haue aboue mentioned. Wherefore we admoni&s;h all men hereby to take warning, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at Wilton</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 24. <HI>day of October, of our Reigne of England France and Ireland the fir&s;t, and of Scotland the thirtieth and &s;euenth yeere. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t the vnlaw|full conueying of goods betweene the two Realmes of England and Scotland.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas wee are giuen to vnder&s;tand, that &s;ince our entrie into this Kingdome, many of our Subiects of our Realme of Scotland, and &s;ome al&s;o of England
<PB N="56" REF="34"> (who by ancient Lawes and cu&s;tomes of this Realme are bound to bring all &s;uch goods and merchandizes as pa&s;&s;e betweene the two Realmes, either to the Citie of <HI>Carlile,</HI> or towne of <HI>Barwicke</HI> (if the &s;ame be caried by land) or el&s;e to &s;hip the &s;ame at &s;ome port, whereby our Cu&s;tomes and dueties may be iu&s;tly an&s;wered to vs, do not ob&s;erue our Lawes, but to the intent to defraud vs of our &s;aid Cu&s;tomes, doe go with their goods and merchandizes ouer the Fels, and other by-pa&s;&s;ages, whereby great damage hath bin done to vs, and more is like to be, if the &s;ame bee not preuented: We haue therfore thought conuenient hereby &s;traitly to charge and command all our Subiects, as well of the one Realme, as of the other, That none of them pre&s;ume hereafter to pa&s;&s;e any goods from ech Realme to other, but either &s;hipped at &s;ome know|en Port, or el&s;e through our &s;ayd Citie of <HI>Carlile</HI> or Towne of <HI>Bar|wicke,</HI> vnder paine of confi&s;cation of all goods that &s;hall be &s;ea|zed pa&s;&s;ing any other way. And we hereby &s;traitly enioyne all Lieutenants, Deputy-Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, and all other our Officers, mini&s;ters, and louing &s;ub|iects what&s;oeuer, to haue a &s;peciall care and watch to the ob&s;er|uation of this our plea&s;ure, and to bee aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to any that &s;hall giue them information of the pa&s;&s;ing of goods by indi|rect wayes, and to &s;eaze or cau&s;e the &s;ame to be &s;eazed to our v&s;e, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at Wilton,</HI> <DATE><HI>the fourth day of Nouember, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ire|land, and the</HI> 37. <HI>of Scotland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for Tran&s;plan|tation of the Greames.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as all our Subiects in the North parts, who haue felt the &s;mart of the &s;poiles and outrages done vpon them at our fir&s;t entrie into this Kingdome by diuers Bor|derers, but &s;pecially by the <HI>Greames,</HI> cannot bee ignorant what care we haue had that puni&s;hment &s;hould be done vpon the offen|ders, hauing for that purpo&s;e to our great charge, maintained both Forces to apprehend them, and Commi&s;&s;ioners to trie them according to the Law, by who&s;e trauell, namely of our cou&s;in the Earle of Cumberland our Lieutenant there, with a&s;&s;i&s;tance of o|ther Commi&s;&s;ioners, things are brought to that point, that the
<PB N="57" REF="34"> Offenders are all in our mercy, and doe all (but &s;pecially the <HI>Greames</HI>) confe&s;&s;e them&s;elues to be no meete per&s;ons to liue in tho&s;e Countreys, And therefore haue humbly be&s;ought vs that they might be remoued to &s;ome other parts, where with our gra|cious fauour, they hope to liue to become new men, and de&s;erue our mercy. Although we doe confe&s;&s;e that we haue rather incli|ned to this cour&s;e of mercy, as a thing more agreeable to our Na|ture, then the taking of &s;o much blood as would be &s;hed if wee &s;hould leaue them to the iu&s;t cen&s;ure of the Law: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, le&s;t our good Subiects &s;eeing no &s;uch execution pre&s;ently follow of our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hould make other con&s;truction thereof, then is cau&s;e; We haue thought good to make knowen to them, that this cour&s;e for the pre&s;ent proceedeth from no alteration of our former dete&s;tation of &s;uch iniury, or want of care and affecti|on to our good Subiects, oppre&s;&s;ed by &s;uch heynous offenders; but onely for lacke of meanes to prouide pre&s;ently for the Tran&s;|plantation of the&s;e <HI>Greames</HI> el&s;ewhere, to the intent their lands may be inhabited by others of good and hone&s;t conuer&s;ation. We haue thought it not ami&s;&s;e for better effecting hereof, and for ea&s;e of the pri&s;ons, to di&s;mi&s;&s;e the vulgar &s;ort of them, retayning their heads and principals for pledges, not onely to be an&s;werable for their foorthcomming when they &s;hall be called for, but for their good behauiour al&s;o in the meane &s;ea&s;on. Of all which our re|&s;olution, we require all per&s;ons to take notice, and to comfort them&s;elues with full a&s;&s;urance, that they &s;hall finde the effects at all times of our promi&s;es in all things tending to the weale of our people.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Wilton,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 4. <HI>day of December, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning the choice of Knights and Burge&s;&s;es for the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WE haue (before this time) made knowen to our Sub|iects vpon diuers occa&s;ions, that we haue receiued &s;o great contentment in their generall conformitie and &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to all &s;uch cour&s;es, as might be&s;t e&s;tabli&s;h the po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion of this Crowne, according to the right of our Succe&s;&s;ion, as it would euer nouri&s;h in vs an earne&s;t de&s;ire to &s;hew our &s;elues carefull in all things, to pre&s;erue their greate&s;t affection, and to
<PB N="58" REF="35"> an&s;were that expectation, which (by their ioyfull maner of recei|uing vs) Wee perceiued they had conceiued of our gouernment: Whereof, as we well know, that Princes cannot yeeld, more ge|nerall, more cleare, or profitable proofe to their people, then by re|dre&s;&s;ing abu&s;es, wherewith they finde their Subiects iu&s;tly grie|ued, either in con&s;titution, or admini&s;tration of their Lawes in being, or by &s;eeking to e&s;tabli&s;h new Lawes for them, agreeable to the rules of Iu&s;tice, when&s;oeuer time doeth di&s;couer any de|fects in the former Policy, or when accidents in the State of any Common wealth require new ordinances: So &s;eeing both the&s;e things (which are of &s;o great moment in a State) haue accu&s;to|med to be con&s;idered and ordered (as in this, &s;o in other well go|uerned Common wealths) by a Lawfull a&s;&s;embly of the three E&s;tates of the Realme, commonly called The Parliament; Wee were de&s;irous to haue &s;ummoned them long &s;ince for that pur|po&s;e, if the Infection (reigning in the City of London, and other places of our Kingdome) would haue permitted the concour&s;e of &s;o great a multitude into one place, as that A&s;&s;embly mu&s;t nece&s;|&s;arily bring with it. Which great contagion being now by the goodne&s;&s;e of God abated, and likely (as we hope) to be &s;hortly quite extingui&s;hed in and about the &s;aid City, we haue re&s;olued to hold a Parliament at our City of We&s;tmin&s;ter, as &s;oone as we &s;hall finde, that the &s;ame may be done without the perill afore&s;aid. In which, as God doeth know, that we haue nothing to propound for &s;ati&s;faction of any priuate de&s;ire, or particular profit of our owne, but meerely and onely to con&s;ult and re&s;olue with our lo|uing Subiects of all tho&s;e things, which may be&s;t e&s;tabli&s;h the publike good, with the generall &s;afety and tranquillity of this Realme: (on which it hath plea&s;ed God to multiply &s;o many ble&s;&s;ings) &s;o to the intent that this a&s;&s;embly of our Parliament (being grounded vpon &s;o &s;incere an intent on our part) may be matched with a like integritie on theirs, And as it is the fir&s;t in our Reigne, &s;o to be found not onely worthy of the high Title it beareth, to be the highe&s;t Coun&s;ell of the kingdome, but al&s;o to be a pre&s;ident for hereafter of the true v&s;e of Parliaments, We haue bethought our &s;elfe, of as many wayes and meanes, as may be, to preuent tho&s;e inconueniences, which dayly ari&s;e and multiply by the peruerting of tho&s;e ancient good orders, which were deui&s;ed by the wi&s;edome of former times to bee ob&s;erued in calling of Parliaments.</P>
<P>Among&s;t which, becau&s;e there is no one point of greater con&s;e|quence, then the well chu&s;ing of Knights and Burge&s;&s;es, who as they doe pre&s;ent the body of the third e&s;tate, &s;o being eligible by
<PB N="59" REF="35"> multitude there are often many vnfit per&s;ons appointed for that Seruice: And where it is &s;o well knowen to euery priuate man of wit and iudgement (much more to vs who haue had &s;o long ex|perience of Kingly gouernment) how ill effects doe follow, when &s;uch as haue to doe in matters of Common wealth, &s;hall come to that great &amp; common Councell, with other then publike minds, &s;incere, and voyd of any factious humour or dependencie: We doe hereby &s;traitly charge and admoni&s;h all per&s;ons intere&s;&s;ed in the choi&s;e of Knights for the Shires, Fir&s;t, that the Knights for the County be &s;elected out of the principall knights or Gentlemen of &s;ufficient hability within that County wherein they are cho&s;en: And for the Burge&s;&s;es, that choice be made of men of &s;ufficiency and di&s;cretion without any partiall re&s;pects, or factious combi|nation, which alwayes breed &s;u&s;pitions, that more care is taken to compa&s;&s;e priuate ends, then to prouide for making good and whole&s;ome Lawes for the Realme. And becau&s;e it is no more po&s;|&s;ible to draw &s;ound Coun&s;els and re&s;olutions from incon&s;iderate or in&s;ufficient &s;pirits, then to haue a &s;ound or healthfull body compo&s;ed of weake and imperfect members: We doe likewi&s;e ad|moni&s;h all per&s;ons to whom it doeth appertaine, That &s;eeing the dealing in cau&s;es of Parliament, requires conueniencie of yeeres and experience, there may be great heed taken by all tho&s;e that will be accompted louers of their Countrey, That both Knights and Burge&s;&s;es may be cho&s;en accordingly, without de&s;ire in any particuler men to plea&s;e parents or friends, that often &s;peake for their children or kinne, though they be very yong, and little able to di&s;cerne what Lawes are fit to binde a Common-wealth, To the con&s;ultation whereof tho&s;e per&s;ons would be &s;elected princi|pally, of who&s;e grauitie and mode&s;t conuer&s;ation men are like&s;t generally to conceiue be&s;t opinion.</P>
<P>Next and aboue all things, concerning that one of the maine pillars of this E&s;tate, is the pre&s;eruation of Vnitie in the profe&s;|&s;ion of &s;incere Religion of Almighty God: We doe al&s;o admoni&s;h, that there be great care taken, to auoyd the choice of any per&s;ons either noted for their &s;uper&s;titious blindne&s;&s;e one way, or for their turbulent humors other wayes: becau&s;e their di&s;orderly and vn|quiet &s;pirits, will di&s;turbe all the di&s;creet and mode&s;t proceeding in that greate&s;t and graue&s;t Councill. Further we do command, that an expre&s;&s;e care be had, that there be not cho&s;en any per&s;ons Banquerupts or Outlawed, but men of knowen good behauiour and &s;ufficient liuelyhood, and &s;uch as are not onely taxed to the payment of Sub&s;idies and other like charges, but al&s;o haue ordi|narily payed and &s;ati&s;fied the &s;ame, Nothing being more ab&s;urd
<PB N="60" REF="36"> in any Common wealth, then to permit tho&s;e to haue free voices for Law making, by who&s;e owne actes they are exempted from the Lawes protection. Next, that all Shiriffes be charged that they doe not direct any Precept for electing and returning of any Burge&s;&s;es to or for any ancient Borough towne within their Counties, being &s;o vtterly ruined and decayed, that there are not &s;ufficient Re&s;iants to make &s;uch choice, and of whom lawfull e|lection may be made, Al&s;o to charge all Cities and Boroughes, and the inhabitants of the &s;ame, that none of them &s;eale any Blanckes, referring or leauing to any others to in&s;ert the names of any Citizens or Burge&s;&s;es, to &s;erue for any &s;uch City or Bo|rough, but that the inhabitants of euery &s;uch City or Borough, doe make open and free Election according to the Law, and &s;et downe the names of the per&s;ons whom they choo&s;e, before they &s;eale the Certificate.</P>
<P>Furthermore we notifie by the&s;e pre&s;ents, that all Returnes and Certificats of Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es, ought and are to be brought to the Chancery, and there to be filed of Record. And if any &s;hall be found to be made contrary to this Proclama|tion, the &s;ame is to be reiected as vnlawfull and in&s;ufficient, and the City or Borough to be fined for the &s;ame. And if it be found that they haue committed any gro&s;&s;e or wilfull default and con|tempt in their Election, Returne, or Certificate, That then their Liberties according to the Law, are to be &s;eized into our hands, as forfeited. And if any per&s;on take vpon him the place of a knight, citizen, or burge&s;&s;e, not being duely elected, returned, and &s;worne according to the Lawes and &s;tatutes in that behalfe prouided, and according to the purport, effect and true meaning of this our Proclamation, Then euery per&s;on &s;o offending to be fined and impri&s;oned for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>We do al&s;o hereby giue warning to the Lords and others that are to &s;erue in this Parliament, to haue &s;pecial care, (as they ten|der our di&s;plea&s;ure) That they admit none to haue the name or countenance of their &s;eruants and attendants, during the Par|liament, &s;eeing &s;uch que&s;tions of Priuiledge haue in times pa&s;t con&s;umed a great part of the time appointed for the Parliament, whereby the &s;eruice for the Realme hath bene hindered, and the Subiects drawen to great charges and expences, by attending much longer then otherwi&s;e needed.</P>
<P>Hau ng at this time bene the more carefull to &s;et downe a par|ticular Order and forewarning for preuenting of the&s;e &s;euerall abu&s;es afore mentioned, that thereby there may ari&s;e at that pub|like and &s;olemne meeting, &s;uch a comely proportion and laudable
<PB N="61" REF="36"> &s;ympathy betweene the honourable, iu&s;t, and nece&s;&s;ary Lawes that are to be made and e&s;tabli&s;hed at this Parliament, and the commendable di&s;cretion, with all other wi&s;e and vertuous quali|ties meet for &s;uch per&s;ons as are to be the members and a&s;&s;i&s;ters of vs, in &s;o honourable, lawfull, and nece&s;&s;ary an Action, as may both put vs, and all our good Subiects in a &s;ure expectation of a happy i&s;&s;ue to follow thereupon: We doubt not but the&s;e our di|rections thus made manife&s;t, &s;halbe duely ob&s;erued, according to the important con&s;equence thereof, and the perill of our heauy di&s;plea&s;ure to all tho&s;e that &s;hall offend in the contrary.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our honour of Hampton Court,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 11. <HI>day of Ianuary, in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, commanding all Ie&s;uits, Seminaries and other Prie&s;ts, to depart the Realme by a day appointed.</HEAD>
<P>HAuing after &s;ome time &s;pent in &s;etling the Politique affaires of this Realme, of late be&s;towed no &s;mall labour in compo&s;ing certaine differences wee found among our Cleargie about Rites and ceremonies heretofore e&s;tabli&s;hed in this Church of England, and reduced the &s;ame to &s;uch an order and forme, as we doubt not but euery &s;pirit that is led onely with pietie, and not with humor, &s;halbe therein &s;ati&s;fied: It appeared vnto vs in the debating of tho&s;e matters, that a greater contagi|on to our Religion, then could proceed from tho&s;e light differen|ces, was imminent by per&s;ons common enemies to them both, Namely, the great number of Prie&s;ts both Seminaries and Ie|&s;uits abounding in this Realme, a&s;well of &s;uch as were here be|fore our comming to this Crowne, as of &s;uch as haue re&s;orted hi|ther &s;ince, v&s;ing their functions and profe&s;&s;ions with greater li|berty, then heretofore they dur&s;t haue done, partly vpon a vaine confidence of &s;ome Innouation in matters of Religion to be done by vs, which we neuer intended, nor gaue any man cau&s;e to ex|pect, and partly vpon the a&s;&s;urance of our generall Pardon, gran|ted according to the cu&s;tome of our progenitors at our Corona|tion, for offences pa&s;t in the dayes of the late Queene, which Par|dons many of the &s;aid Prie&s;tes haue procured vnder our great Seale, and holding them&s;elues thereby free from the danger of the Lawes, doe with great audacitie exerci&s;e all Offices of their
<PB N="62" REF="37"> profe&s;&s;ion, both &s;aying Ma&s;&s;es, per&s;wading our Subiects from the Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed, and reconciling them to the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> and by con&s;equence &s;educing them from the true per&s;wa|&s;ion, which all Subiects ought to haue of their duety and obedi|ence to vs. Wherefore, fora&s;much as by way of prouidence to pre&s;erue their people from being corrupted in Religion, pietie and obedience, is not the lea&s;t part of Royall duety, we hold our &s;elfe obliged both in con&s;cience and in wi&s;edome, to v&s;e all good meanes to keepe our Subiects from being infected with &s;uper|&s;titious opinions in matter of Religion, which are not onely per|nitious to their owne &s;oules, but the ready way and meanes to corrupt their duety and allegiance, which cannot be any way &s;o &s;urely performed, as by keeping from them the mini&s;ters and in|&s;truments of that infection, which are the Prie&s;ts of all &s;orts or|dained in forraine parts, by authority prohibited by the Lawes of this land, Concerning whom therefore we haue thought it fit to publi&s;h to all our Subiects this open declaration of our plea|&s;ure. That where there be of Prie&s;ts at this pre&s;ent within our kingdome, be they Regular or without Rule, diuers &s;orts, &s;ome in pri&s;on, &s;ome at libertie, and of both, &s;ome hauing obtained our pardon vnder our great Seale, and &s;ome hauing no &s;uch pardon: And againe &s;ome that were here before our comming into this Realme, and &s;ome commen hither &s;ince: For all &s;uch as are in pri&s;on we haue taken order that they &s;halbe &s;hipped at &s;ome con|uenient port, and &s;ent out of our Realme as &s;oone as po&s;&s;ibly may be, with commandement not to returne againe into any part of our dominions, without our Licence obtained, vpon paine and perill of the Lawes being here in force again&s;t them, And for all others who are at libertie, whether hauing &s;ued out our Pardon or not, which we doe aduerti&s;e them and all our Subiects, that extending onely to matters done before the death of the late Queene, doth not exempt any Prie&s;t from the danger of the Law for his abode here &s;ince our &s;ucce&s;&s;ion to the Crowne aboue the time by the Statute limitted.</P>
<P>We doe hereby will and command all maner of Ie&s;uits, Semi|naries, and other Prie&s;ts what&s;oeuer, hauing Ordination from any authoritie by the Lawes of this Realme prohibited, to take notice That our plea&s;ure is, that they doe before the nineteenth day of March next en&s;uing the date hereof, depart foorth of our Realme and dominions, And that for that purpo&s;e it &s;halbe law|full to all Officers of our Ports, to &s;uffer the &s;aid Prie&s;tes to de|part from thence into any forreine parts, betweene this and the &s;aid nineteenth day of March: Admoni&s;hing and a&s;&s;uring all
<PB N="63" REF="37"> &s;uch Ie&s;uits, Seminaries, and Prie&s;ts of what &s;ort &s;oeuer, That if any of them &s;halbe after the &s;aid nineteenth day taken within this Realme or any our dominions, or departing now vpon this our plea&s;ure &s;ignified, &s;hall hereafter returne into this Realme or any our dominions againe, that they &s;halbe left to the penaltie of the Lawes here being in force concerning them, without hope of any fauour or remi&s;&s;ion from vs.</P>
<P>Wherefore we will and command all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of Peace, and all other our Officers and mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, to be vigilant and carefull after the &s;ayd nineteenth day of March pa&s;t, to doe their dueties and diligence in di&s;couering and apprehending of all Prie&s;ts that &s;hall remaine here contrary to this our declaration. Which though perhaps it may &s;eeme to &s;ome to pre&s;age a greater &s;eueritie towards that &s;ort of our Subiects, who differing in their profe&s;&s;ion from the Religion by Law e&s;tabli&s;hed, call them&s;elues <HI>Catholikes,</HI> then by our proceedings with them hitherto we haue giuen cau&s;e to ex|&s;pect: Yet doubt we not, but that when it &s;halbe con&s;idered with indifferent iudgement, what cau&s;es haue mooued vs to v&s;e this prouidence again&s;t the &s;aid Ie&s;uits, Seminaries, and Prie&s;ts, all men will iu&s;tifie vs therein. For to whom is it vnknowen, into what perill our per&s;on was like to be drawen, and our Realme vnto confu&s;ion not many moneths &s;ince, by a con&s;piracie fir&s;t con|ceiued by per&s;ons of that &s;ort, who hauing preuailed with &s;ome, had vndertaken to draw multitudes of others to a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;ame, by the authority of their per&s;wa&s;ions and motiues grounded chiefly vpon matter of con&s;cience and Religion? Which when other Princes &s;hall duely ob&s;erue, we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues they will no way conceiue that this alteration groweth from any change of di&s;po&s;ition now more exa&s;perate then heretofore, but out of ne|ce&s;&s;ary prouidence to preuent perils otherwi&s;e ineuitable, con&s;i|dering that their ab&s;olute &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to forreine Iuri&s;diction at their fir&s;t taking of Orders, doeth leaue &s;o conditionall an autho|rity to Kings ouer their Subiects, as the &s;ame power by which they were made, may di&s;pen&s;e at plea&s;ure with the &s;traite&s;t band of loyalty and loue betweene a King and his people. Among&s;t which Forreine powers, although we acknowledge our &s;elues per&s;onally &s;o much beholding to the now Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> for his kinde Offices and priuate temporall cariage towards vs in many things, as we &s;hall bee euer ready to requite the &s;ame towards him, (as Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> in &s;tate and condition of a Secular Prince) Yet when we con&s;ider and ob&s;erue the cour&s;e and claime of that Sea, we haue no rea&s;on to imagine, that Princes of our
<PB N="64" REF="38"> Religion and profe&s;&s;ion, can ex&s;pect any a&s;&s;urance long to con|tinue, vnle&s;&s;e it might be a&s;&s;ented by mediation of other Princes Chri&s;tian, that &s;ome good cour&s;e might be taken (by a generall Councell free and lawfully called) to plucke vp tho&s;e roots of dan|gers and iealou&s;ies which ari&s;e for cau&s;e of Religion as well be|tweene Princes and Princes, as betweene them and their Sub|iects, and to make it manife&s;t that no State or Potentate either hath or can challenge power to di&s;po&s;e of earthly Kingdomes or Monarchies, or to di&s;pen&s;e with Subiects obedience to their na|turall Soueraignes: In which charitable Action, there is no Prince liuing, that will be readier then we &s;hall be to concurre euen to the vttermo&s;t of our power, not onely out of particular di&s;po&s;ition to liue peaceably with all States and Princes of Chri|&s;tendome, but becau&s;e &s;uch a &s;etled amitie might (by an vnion in Religion) be e&s;tabli&s;hed among Chri&s;tian Princes, as might en|able vs all to re&s;i&s;t the common Enemie.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the xxij. day of February, in in the fir&s;t yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ire|land, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the Authori|zing and Vniformitie of the Booke of Common Prayer to be v&s;ed throughout the Realme.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough it cannot be vnknowen to our Subiects by the former Declarations wee haue publi&s;hed, what our pur|po&s;es and proceedings haue bene in matters of Religion &s;ince our comming to this Crowne: Yet the &s;ame being now by vs reduced to a &s;etled forme, we haue occa&s;ion to repeat &s;omewhat of that which hath pa&s;&s;ed; And how at our very fir&s;t entry into the Realme being intertained and importuned with informati|ons of &s;undry Mini&s;ters, complayning of the errors and imper|fections of the Church here, a&s;well in matter of Doctrine as of Di&s;cipline; Although we had no rea&s;on to pre&s;ume that things were &s;o farre ami&s;&s;e, as was pretended, becau&s;e we had &s;eene the Kingdome vnder that forme of Religion which by Law was e&s;ta|bli&s;hed in the dayes of the late Queene of famous memory, ble&s;&s;ed with a peace and pro&s;peritie, both extraordinary and of many yeeres continuance (a &s;trong euidence that God was therewith well plea&s;ed,) Yet becau&s;e the importunitie of the Complayners
<PB N="65" REF="38"> was great, their affirmations vehement, and the zeale where|with the &s;ame did &s;eeme to be accompanied, very &s;pecious; Wee were mooued thereby to make it our occa&s;ion to di&s;charge that duety which is the chiefe&s;t of all Kingly dueties, That is, to &s;ettle the affaires of Religion, &amp; the Seruice of God before their owne. Which while wee were in hand to doe, as the Contagion of the &s;ickene&s;&s;e raigning in our City of <HI>London</HI> and other places would permit an a&s;&s;embly of per&s;ons meete for that purpo&s;e; Some of tho&s;e who mi&s;liked the &s;tate of Religion here e&s;tabli&s;hed, prefu|ming more of our intents then euer wee gaue them cau&s;e to doe, and tran&s;ported with humor, began &s;uch proceedings as did ra|ther rai&s;e a &s;candal in the Church, then take offence away. For both they v&s;ed formes of publique &s;eruing of God not here al|lowed, held a&s;&s;emblies without Authority, &amp; did other things ca|rying a very apparant &s;hew of &s;edition, more then of zeale: whom we re&s;trained by a former Proclamatio~ in the moneth of October la&s;t, and gaue intimation of the Conference we intended to be had with as much &s;peede as conueniently could be, for the ordering of tho&s;e things of the Church, which accordingly followed in the moneth of Ianuary la&s;t at our Honour of <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, where before our &s;elfe, and our Priuy Coun&s;ell were a&s;&s;embled many of the graue&s;t Bi&s;hops and Prelats of the Realme, and many other learned men, as well of tho&s;e that are conformable to the State of the Church e&s;tabli&s;hed, as of tho&s;e that di&s;&s;ented: Among whom, what our paines were, what our patience in hearing and replying, and what the indifferencie and vprightnes of our Iudg|ment in determining, we leaue to the report of tho&s;e who heard the &s;ame, contenting our &s;elfe with the &s;inceritie of our owne heart therein. But we cannot conceale, that the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of that Conference was &s;uch as happeneth to many other things, which moouing great expectation before they be entred into, in their i&s;&s;ue produce &s;mall effects. For we found mighty and vehement Informations &s;upported with &s;o weake and &s;lender proofes, as it appeared vnto vs and our Councell, that there was no cau&s;e why any change &s;hould haue bene at all in that which was mo&s;t im|pugned, the Booke of Common Prayer, conteyning the forme of the publike Seruice of God here e&s;tabli&s;hed, neither in the doc|trine which appeared to be &s;incere, nor in the Formes and Rites which were iu&s;tified out of the practi&s;e of the Primitiue Church. Notwith&s;tanding we thought meete, with con&s;ent of the Bi&s;hops and other learned men there pre&s;ent, That &s;ome &s;mall things might rather be explaned then changed; not that the &s;ame might not very well haue bene borne with by men who would haue
<PB N="66" REF="39"> made a rea&s;onable con&s;truction of them: but for that in a matter concerning the Seruice of God we were nice, or rather iealous, that the publique forme thereof &s;hould be free not onely from blame, but from &s;u&s;pition, &s;o as neither the common Aduer&s;ary &s;hould haue aduantage to wre&s;t ought therein conteined, to other &s;ence then the Church of England intendeth, nor any trouble|&s;ome or ignorant per&s;on of this Church be able to take the lea&s;t occa&s;ion of cauill again&s;t it: And for that purpo&s;e gaue foorth, our Commi&s;&s;ion vnder our great Seale of England to the Archbi|&s;hop of Canterbury and others, according to the forme which the Lawes of this Realme in like ca&s;e pre&s;cribe to be v&s;ed, to make the &s;aid explanation, and to cau&s;e the whole Booke of Common Prayer, with the &s;ame explanations, to be newly printed. Which being now done, and e&s;tabli&s;hed anew after &s;o &s;erious a delibera|tion; Although we doubt not, but all our Subiects, both Mini|&s;ters and others will receiue the &s;ame with &s;uch reuerence as ap|perteineth, and conforme them&s;elues thereunto euery man in that which him concerneth: Yet haue we thought it nece&s;&s;ary, to make knowen by Proclamation our authorizing of the &s;ame, And to require and enioyne all men, a&s;wel Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall as Tem|porall, to conforme them&s;elues vnto it, and to the practi&s;e there|of, as the onely Publike forme of &s;eruing of God, e&s;tabli&s;hed and allowed to be in this Realme. And the rather, for that all the lear|ned men, who were there pre&s;ent, a&s;wel of the Bi&s;hops as others, promi&s;ed their conformitie in the practi&s;e of it, onely making &s;ute to vs, that &s;ome few might be borne with for a time.</P>
<P>Wherefore we require all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and all other publique Mini&s;ters a&s;well Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall as Ciuill, to doe their dueties in cau&s;ing the &s;ame to be obeyed, and in puni&s;hing the of|fendours according to the Lawes of the Realme heretofore e&s;ta|bli&s;hed, for the authorizing of the &s;aid Booke of Common Prayer. And we thinke it al&s;o nece&s;&s;ary, that the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops, doe each of them in his Prouince and Dioce&s;&s;e take or|der, That euery Pari&s;h doe procure to them&s;elues within &s;uch time as they &s;hall thinke good to limit, one of the &s;aid Bookes &s;o explaned. And la&s;t of all we doe admoni&s;h all men, that hereaf|ter they &s;hall not expect nor attempt any further alteration in the Common &amp; Publique forme of Gods Seruice, from this which is now e&s;tabli&s;hed, for that neither will wee giue way to any to pre&s;ume, that our owne iudgement hauing determined in a mat|ter of this weight, &s;halbe &s;wayed to alteration by the friuolous &s;ugge&s;tions of any light &s;pirit: neither are we ignorant of the in|conueniences that doe ari&s;e in gouernment, by admitting inno|uation
<PB N="67" REF="39"> in things once &s;etled by mature deliberation: And how nece&s;&s;ary it is to v&s;e con&s;tancie in the vpholding of the publique determinations of States, for that &s;uch is the vnquietne&s;&s;e and vn&s;tedfa&s;tne&s;&s;e of &s;ome di&s;po&s;itions, affecting euery yeere new formes of things, as, if they &s;hould be followed in their vncon|&s;tancie, would make all actions of States ridiculous and con|temptible: whereas the &s;tedfa&s;t maintayning of things by good adui&s;e e&s;tabli&s;hed, is the weale of all Common wealths.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the fifth day of March, in the fir&s;t yeere of our reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1603,</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="orders">
<HEAD>&para; Orders for thorow Po&s;ts, and Cur|riers, riding in Po&s;t in our affaires.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lords of the priuie Coun&s;ell endeuouring heretofore the like furtherance of the &s;eruice of the State, a&s;well in hor&s;ing &s;uch as ride on their Princes affaires, as the &s;peedy di&s;patch of Packets in all places, where Po&s;ts were erected and ordeined, con&s;idering, that for the &s;eruice of the one, a daily fee is allowed, and for the other no certaine wages at all, but the hire of the hor&s;es let out, and that often ill paide, whereby they &s;tand not &s;o bound to the one, as to attend the other: And that the townes and Countreys be&s;ides became many wayes vexed and perplexed, by the ouer great libertie of Riders in Po&s;te, &s;pecially by &s;uch as pretend publike &s;eruice by &s;peciall Commi&s;&s;ion, con|trary to the Kings meaning or their Lord&s;hips Orders: Who minding nothing more, then the particular good of his &s;eruants and Subiects: for the benefite of the one, reliefe of the other, and more regard to the good v&s;age of all Owners of hor&s;es, and the bea&s;ts them&s;elues, did thinke it expedient, to dige&s;t and &s;et downe &s;undry nece&s;&s;ary Orders indifferent for all parties to ob&s;erue and follow. Which Orders being by vs reuiewed and con&s;idered, are now according to the nece&s;&s;itie of the times, thought meete to be eft&s;oones allowed and publi&s;hed. The execution whereof we &s;eriou&s;ly recommending to the Ma&s;ter and Controller of all our Po&s;ts, for the better warranting and directing of Po&s;ts, &s;o farre as this &s;eruice may concerne them, Wee doe hereby &s;traightly charge and command, all and euery Lieutenants of Shires, de|putie Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of all A&s;&s;i&s;es and peace, Sheriffes, Maiors, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and all other his
<PB N="68" REF="40"> Officers, Mini&s;ters, and louing Subiects, to be ayding and a&s;|&s;i&s;ting to the &s;ame, with their vtmo&s;t helpe, authoritie and coun|tenance where need &s;hall require, as they tender the furtherance of the &s;eruice of the State, and our di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="1">1 Fir&s;t it is ordered, That in all places where Po&s;ts are layde for the Packet, they al&s;o as per&s;ons mo&s;t fit, &s;hall haue the benefit and preheminence of letting, furni&s;hing, and appointing of hor&s;es to all riding in Po&s;te, (that is to &s;ay) with Horne and Guide by Commi&s;&s;ion or otherwi&s;e, And to that end &s;hall keepe, and enter|taine of their owne, or haue in a readine&s;&s;e vnder their direction, &s;uch and &s;o many able and &s;ufficient Po&s;t hor&s;es, with conuenient furniture, as their owne abilities will beare, or that the contribu|tary proui&s;ion of the townes and Countreys &s;hal enable them vn|to, or afford. And if it fall out that Curriers or thorow-Po&s;ts, ri|ding in our affaires by &s;peciall Commi&s;&s;ion come &s;o thicke, or in &s;uch numbers, that their ordinary proui&s;ion will not &s;uffice, then the Con&s;tables of the places where they dwell, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the chiefe Magi&s;trates there, and of the Countreys adioyning, (being required in our name) &s;hall take vp, bring in, and &s;upply the Po&s;ts with hor&s;es where they may be had or hired.</P>
<P N="2">2 And like as in the Orders for the carrying of the Packets, the furtherance of our &s;eruice and the State, is onely aymed at, &s;o in this it is intended, that none be holden to ride on publique af|faires, but with &s;peciall Commi&s;&s;ion, and the &s;ame &s;igned either by one of our principall Secretaries of State, or &s;ixe at the lea&s;t of our priuy Coun&s;ell, or the Ma&s;ter and Comptroller generall of the Po&s;ts, for all iourneys outwards, and from the Court onely. And to the Court, the Lords of the priuie Coun&s;ell of Scotland, any Lieutenant, Deputie or Gouernours in Ireland, the Pre&s;i|dents of Coun&s;els, or Vicepre&s;idents e&s;tabli&s;hed in the North, or in the Marches of Wales, the Gouernour of Barwicke, Any Amba&s;&s;adour, Gouernours of townes, or Agents beyond the Seas, The Warden of the Cinque Ports, or his Lieutenant of Douer, &s;pecially &s;ending to the Court, to the body of the Coun&s;el, or Secretaries of State, or any Packet &s;o directed, that it may appeare, the partie di&s;patched therewith, rideth in our &s;peciall af|faires, (the Amba&s;&s;adors of forreine Princes within this our Realme, and the ordinary Po&s;ts for France and Flanders allow|ed, and by their badges &s;ufficiently commi&s;&s;ionated, excepted) and of all &s;uch &s;o riding in publike affaires, it &s;hall be lawfull for the Po&s;ts, or the Owners of the hor&s;es, to demand for the hire of ech hor&s;e after the rate of two pence halfe-peny the mile, (be&s;ides the Guides groats.) But of all others riding po&s;te with horne and
<PB N="69" REF="40"> Guide, about their priuate bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, the hire and prices are left to the parties di&s;cretions to agree and compound within them|&s;elues.</P>
<P N="3">3 It &s;hal not be lawful for any per&s;on what&s;oeuer riding in po&s;t by Commi&s;&s;ion or otherwi&s;e, to take and ride away the hor&s;e or hor&s;es of any man, Po&s;t or other, not hauing fir&s;t and aforehand fully payd and &s;ati&s;fied for the price and hire vnto the Owners or the Po&s;t for them, nor ride them further then the next immediate Stage without changing, without the knowledge and con&s;ent of the Po&s;t of the Stage, by whom he rideth in po&s;t, nor charge any hor&s;e &s;o taken to ride in po&s;te with any Male, or burden, (be&s;ides his Rider) that exceedeth the weight of thirtie pounds: Neither &s;hall any man &s;o riding in po&s;te, offer to ride any mans hor&s;e a|boue &s;euen miles the houre in Summer, <HI>viz.</HI> From the fir&s;t of A|pril, till the la&s;t of September, nor aboue &s;ixe in Winter, which &s;hall bee accounted the re&s;t of the yeere: And if any &s;hall wilfully di&s;obey herein or in any point hereof to the manife&s;t hurt or hin|derance of the hor&s;e or his Owner, The Officers &amp; Magi&s;trates of the place vpon complaint made, &s;hall &s;tay the parties offending vntill they haue giuen pre&s;ent &s;ati&s;faction, or &s;ufficient &s;ecuritie to repay the damage.</P>
<P N="4">4 Finally, as it is onely intended that our &s;eruice in this kind, be at all hands furthered, and the Po&s;ts to that end, in all their wants and wrongs to right them&s;elues by the helpe and autho|ritie of the Magi&s;trates, Townes and Countreys as aboue&s;aid: So if the &s;eruice &s;hall &s;eeme vnto any Po&s;t a burden ouer great for his priuate &s;tate to beare and vndertake, and the townes and Countreys (notwith&s;tanding the ea&s;e and quiet they reape there|by) no way willing to countenance, encourage or enable him thereto: or otherwi&s;e in regard of yeeres or indi&s;po&s;ition, &s;hall not &s;ee rea&s;on to vnderlie the charge, and trouble of the &s;eruice, as be|ing a hinderance to his &s;peciall duetie in the &s;eruice of the Packet: The Po&s;t in &s;uch ca&s;e attending his peculiar charge, the Con&s;ta|bles, and Magi&s;trates of the places &s;hall take order from time to time, that hor&s;es be prouided for all riding in po&s;te by Commi&s;&s;i|on, or &s;pecially &s;ent in our affaires as before&s;aid, in &s;uch &s;ort as they were &s;ubiect to doe before there were any Po&s;ts there, and as in places where are yet no &s;tanding Po&s;tes at all. Vnto whom al&s;o our plea&s;ure is, that the&s;e Orders &s;hall bee in force, and a|uaileable (being deliuered them from the Ma&s;ter and Comptrol|ler of the Po&s;ts) &s;o farre as they, and any branch of them may con|cerne the furtherance of publike &s;eruice, or their owne reliefe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="orders">
<PB N="70" REF="41">
<HEAD>&para; Orders for the Po&s;ts of our Realmes, and for all men to ob&s;erue and obey in the &s;peedy carriage of Packets, directed for our Affaires.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas heretofore the Lords of the Priuie Coun&s;ell to the Queene our Si&s;ter decea&s;ed, for great and weighty cau&s;es concerning the State, haue ende|uoured to &s;et downe, and publi&s;h &s;undry Orders, and generall di|rections for matters of Po&s;ting, e&s;pecially for the &s;peedy di&s;patch of Packets and Letters importing the Princes immediate Af|faires, the colour whereof &s;eruing priuate turnes, hath greatly fru&s;trated their endeuours:</P>
<P>It is now therefore, for the better warranti&s;e and direction of our Po&s;ts, thought meet and conuenient, that the former Orders be reuiued, and (according to the nece&s;&s;ity of the times) renewed and publi&s;hed in our name in maner as followeth.</P>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t, euery Po&s;t receiuing a dayly Fee, and entertained &s;pecially for the Packet, according to the proportion of his wages by the day, &s;hall keepe certaine Hor&s;es, to the number of two at the lea&s;t, with furniture conuenient, and tho&s;e alwayes to haue at hand in a readine&s;&s;e to runne with our Packets onely in Po&s;t, &s;o &s;oone as the &s;ame are brought to his hands. He &s;hall haue al|&s;o two Bags of Leather at the lea&s;t well lined with Bayes or Cot|ton, to cary the Packet in, and Hornes to &s;ound and blow, as oft as he meets company, or foure times in euery mile.</P>
<P N="2">2. Euery Po&s;t thus furni&s;hed, &s;hall at all houres receiue and cary, or &s;end away, all Packets or Letters brought vnto him, di|rected for our &s;peciall Affaires, dated on the out&s;ide, with the time and place of their fir&s;t deliuery, and &s;ub&s;cribed by the hands of our Principall Secretaries, and Ma&s;ter and Comptroller ge|nerall of the Po&s;tes: And for matters of the Nauy, or to the Ma|ritime Forts vpon the Sea coa&s;t, or principall Port Townes, by our Admirall of England: For matters of the Cinque Ports, by our Warden: For matters of Scotland, by our Trea&s;urer and Secretary of Scotland: And for Ireland, by our Lieutenant the L. <HI>MoHntioy,</HI> Or addre&s;&s;ed to them in the proper bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of their places, or to the body of our Coun&s;ell, from what per&s;ons or places what&s;oeuer: Of who&s;e names, and addre&s;&s;e onely, the Po&s;ts &s;hall take notice, according to the fir&s;t in&s;titution, and ori|ginall v&s;e of their &s;eruice, and of none other.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="71" REF="41">3. Euery Po&s;t &s;o receiuing our Packets, directed and &s;ub&s;cri|bed as aboue&s;aid, &s;hall within one quarter of an houre at the mo&s;t after they come to his handes, di&s;patch them away in Po&s;t, and &s;hall runne therewith in Sommer (that is, from the fir&s;t of April to the la&s;t of September) after &s;euen miles the houre: and in Winter (which &s;hall be e&s;teemed the re&s;t of the yeere) after fiue miles the houre at the lea&s;t, as the wayes affoord, and the wea|ther fall out.</P>
<P N="4">4. And that it may appeare from time to time (when, and as often as it &s;halbe required) with what care and diligence the &s;er|uice is at al hands applyed and performed, Euery Po&s;t &s;hall keepe a large and faire leger Paper Booke to enter our Packets in, as they &s;halbe brought vnto him, with the day of the moneth, houre of the day or night, that they came fir&s;t to his handes, together with the name of him or them, by whom or vnto whom they were &s;ub&s;cribed and directed, taking and entring onely &s;uch for our Packets, as come warranted as afore&s;aid, and all others to pa&s;&s;e as By-letters.</P>
<P N="5">5. La&s;tly, to the end that the Po&s;ts generally may the better attend their &s;euerall &s;eruices, and performe their dueties in that behalfe, Our plea&s;ure is, that they and euery of them &s;hall brooke and enioy the benefit of all former fauours allowed them, namely, That they and their &s;eruants be holden free and exempted from all Pre&s;ts and attendances at A&s;&s;i&s;es, Se&s;&s;ions, Inque&s;ts, and Mu&s;ters.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by his Maie&s;tie, and &s;ub&s;cribed by Sir Iohn Stanhop knight, Ma&s;ter and Comptroller generall of his High|ne&s;&s;e Po&s;tes.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1603.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="year">
<PB REF="42">
<PB N="72" REF="42">
<HEAD>ANNO SECVNDO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the true win|ding or folding of Wools.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas in the Parliament holden in the &s;euen and twentieth yeere of the Reigne of our mo&s;t noble Progenitor <HI>Edward</HI> the third late King of Eng|land, It is enacted, and ordeined a|mong&s;t other things, That all Wool|packers, and Winders of wools &s;hould be &s;worne, and take a corporall oath before the Maior of the Staple for the time being, truely and iu&s;tly to winde and packe all the Wools within the Realme; By force of which Statute the fellow&s;hip of Wool-win|ders, otherwi&s;e called Woolmen, are bound iu&s;tly and truely to winde and packe all &s;uch wools, as they meddle with throughout the Realme, to the publike good and commoditie of the whole Realme, By force of which Statute, and by the good Ordinan|ces made by the &s;aid fellow&s;hip, the &s;aid wools haue bin euer &s;ince iu&s;tly and truely wound and packed, vntill now of late diuers and many per&s;ons (contrary to the &s;ame Statute) taking vpon them to be Woolwinders in many places of this Realme, neither being &s;worne, nor expert in winding &amp; folding of wools, of which &s;ome be Glouers, Tailers, Weauers, Cordwainers, Barbers, Hu&s;|bandmen, and other Artifiters, haue gone about, and daily doe goe about thorowout this Realme in many places, practizing them&s;elues in winding and folding of the &s;ayd wools, by the pro|curement and meanes of the Owners, and Breeders of the &s;ayd wools, and doe wind vp, and deceitfully put into the &s;ayd Fleeces of wooll, &s;and, &s;tones, du&s;t, pitch, tarre, clay, yron, lead, double markes, &s;horlocks, doung, lambes wooll, clockets, lockes, hinder|&s;hankes, tailes, wa&s;hlocks, cummer, and many other deceiueable things, not onely to the great &s;lander of this Realme, but to the great lo&s;&s;e and preiudice of his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects, v&s;ing the craft
<PB N="73" REF="43"> and feat of Clothmaking within this Realme, and to the great a|bu&s;e and deceit of Merchants, and others, buyers of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>For reformation and redre&s;&s;e whereof, The Kings mo&s;t excel|lent Maie&s;tie, by the aduice of his Priuie Coun&s;ell, &s;traitly char|geth and commandeth, That no manner of per&s;on or per&s;ons, what&s;oeuer he or they be, at any time hereafter goe about, or take vpon him or them to winde or fold any manner of Wools in any Countrey where woolls are accu&s;tomed to be wrought, had or v|&s;ed, or in the Counties of Northampton, Lincolne, Leice&s;ter, or Rutland, for any Merchant of the Staple, Clothier or buyers, before he or they &s;hall be admitted and allowed, by the Ma&s;ter and Wardens of the Company and fellow&s;hip of the Woolmen of the Citie of London, or one of them for the time being, to the intent that he and they &s;halbe expert, and haue knowledge in the &s;ayd craft or my&s;terie, for the true winding and folding of wools. And that euery per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o allowed and admitted for an able and lawfull workeman, or workmen in forme afore&s;aid, &s;hall haue a Te&s;timoniall or Certificate of his allowance and admit|tance, vnder the Seale of the Maior of the Staple at We&s;tmin|&s;ter for the time being; And that none of the &s;ayd per&s;ons &s;o al|lowed and admitted, or that &s;halbe &s;o allowed and admitted, &s;hal goe about, or take vpon him or them, to Winde or fold any wools before he or they haue taken a corporal othe before the &s;aid Maior for the time being, That he or they &s;hall truely and iu&s;tly without deceit, winde, or fold all and &s;inguler &s;uch Wooll, or Wools, as he or they &s;hall take vpon him or them to winde or fold, and &s;hall not commit, v&s;e, or practi&s;e any deceit or guile therein, vpon paine that euery per&s;on which &s;hall take vpon him to winde or fold any maner of Wools being not admitted and &s;worne, as is afore&s;aid, or which &s;hall commit, v&s;e, or practize any deceit or guile therein again&s;t this our Proclamation, or again&s;t any the Lawes and &s;ta|tutes, in that behalfe made and prouided, &s;hall &s;uffer impri&s;on|ment ten dayes, and to be &s;et vpon the pillorie in the next Market towne, with a fleece of Wooll hanging about his necke, according to the tenour of a Proclamation heretofore &s;et foorth in the fifth yere of the reigne of our late decea&s;ed brother of famous memory King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixt, And of one other Proclamation &s;et out by our late &s;i&s;ter <HI>Elizabeth</HI> the Queenes Maie&s;tie decea&s;ed, bearing date the tenth day of Augu&s;t in the fourth yeere of her reigne.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;tie further &s;traitly chargeth and commandeth that no Grower, Breeder, Brogger or gatherer of any Wools in any his Highne&s;&s;e Counties where Wools are accu&s;tomed to be wrought by &s;worne men, or in the &s;aid Counties of Northamp|ton,
<PB N="74" REF="43"> Lincolne, Leice&s;ter, and Rutland, &s;hall at any time hereafter &s;et on worke any Woolfolder, or Woolwinder, to fold or winde his or their Wooll or Wools, vnle&s;&s;e the &s;aid Woolfolder, or Wool|winder bring with him or them a Te&s;timoniall, or certificat, vn|der the Seale of the &s;aid Maior of the Staple at We&s;tmin&s;ter for the time being: Te&s;tifying him or them to be &s;worne and admit|ted for an able workeman to fold and winde Woolls in maner and forme as is afore&s;aid, vpon like paine as is aboue expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>And further where by an Act made in the 23. yeere of the reigne of our mo&s;t noble predece&s;&s;our King <HI>Henry</HI> the eight of famous memory yet &s;tanding in force, It was enacted that no maner of per&s;on doe winde or cau&s;e to be wound any fleece of Wooll, not being &s;ufficiently Riuered or wa&s;hed, ne winde, or cau&s;e to bee wound within any Fleece any deceiuable things particularly mentioned in the &s;ame Act, or any other thing, whereby the fleece may be the more waightier, to the deceit and lo&s;&s;e of the Buyer, vpon paine the Seller of any &s;uch deceitfull Wools, to forfeit for euery &s;uch Fleece &s;ixe pence; His Maie&s;tie hath beene certainely informed, That notwith&s;tanding the &s;ayd good Act and Statute, much deceit is v&s;ed in wa&s;hing, winding, folding and packing of Woolls, and that for the mo&s;t part of vn&s;kilfull per&s;ons, contrary to the &s;ayd Act and Statute: His highne&s;&s;e therefore minding to haue the &s;ayd clau&s;es of the &s;aid Statute, and all Acts and Sta|tutes touching or in any wi&s;e concerning the auoyding of the &s;aid deceits, or made, and prouided for the true and lawfull winding, folding, and packing of the &s;aid Woolls, by expert and &s;kilfull per&s;ons, &s;halbe from hencefoorth duely ob&s;erued, and put in exe|cution, and the offenders again&s;t the &s;ame, to be corrected and pu|ni&s;hed according to the effect and true meaning thereof, doeth &s;traitly charge and command all and euery his Subiects what&s;o|euer, to whom it &s;hall and may appertaine, To ob&s;erue the true meaning of the &s;ayd Acts, vpon paine of forfeiture of the penal|ties therein contained, and as they will auoyd his highne&s;&s;e fur|ther di&s;plea&s;ure. And further his Maie&s;tie by the aduice afore|&s;aide, &s;traitly chargeth and commaundeth all and euery Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, and all other his highnes Officers and Mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, to whom it may appertaine within their &s;euerall Liberties, and precints, That they and eue|ry of them cau&s;e euery &s;uch Offender and Offenders, to bee puni|&s;hed for euery &s;uch offence and offences aboue mentioned, in &s;uch &s;ort as is aboue limitted, appoynted and declared. And that euery and what&s;oeuer Iu&s;tice of Peace, Maior, Shiriffe, Bai|liffe, or other Officer, doe refu&s;e, or doe not puni&s;h, or cau&s;e to bee
<PB N="75" REF="44"> puni&s;hed euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;o to him or them pre&s;en|ted, according to this pre&s;ent Ordinance, his or their faults be|ing duely prooued, &s;hall forfeit to the Kings Maie&s;tie twentie pounds to be payd into his Highne&s;&s;e Court of Exchequer; And further &s;hall incurre his Highne&s;&s;e di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Ea&s;t-Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 18. <HI>day of Iune, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of England, France &amp; Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation forbidding Lon|doners to re&s;ort to Bri&s;toll Faire.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as it hath plea&s;ed God of his exceeding goodnes, to &s;tay his heauy hand wherewith the la&s;t yeere he puni&s;hed our Citie of London by the infection of the Plague, Wee haue iu&s;t cau&s;e giuen vs both to be thankefull to his Diuine Ma|ie&s;tie for his goodne&s;&s;e, &amp; to bee as prouident as a carefull Prince can bee, to take away occa&s;ion of reuiuing the &s;ame. Wherefore, for that there is at hand a notable Faire at Bri&s;toll, commonly called S. <HI>Iames</HI> Faire, whereunto there is great re&s;ort, e&s;pecially from our Citie of London, and the &s;ickene&s;&s;e raigning now in the &s;aid Citie of Bri&s;toll, and places there-abouts: We haue thought good by open declaration of our plea&s;ure, to admoni&s;h &amp; require all our louing Subiects of our &s;aid Citie of London, to forbeare to re&s;ort at this time to the &s;ayd Faire, vpon paine of &s;uch puni&s;h|ment, as for a contempt &s;o much concerning the vniuer&s;all &s;afety of our people of our &s;ayd Citie, they &s;hall be adiudged to de&s;erue, which we &s;hall haue &s;o much the more cau&s;e &s;euerely to inflict, be|cau&s;e our returne to our &s;ayd City of London is like to bee very &s;oone for our abode there, about great and waighty cau&s;es, from which by reuiuing of the &s;ickene&s;&s;e in that place (which God for|bid) we might be put off, to the great hinderance of our affaires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight day of Iuly, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the</HI> 37. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="76" REF="44">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the prices of Victuals within the Verge of the Court.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas diuers Bakers, Brewers, Inholders, But|chers, and other Victualers through their greedy de|&s;ire of vnlawful gaine, not co~tented with rea&s;onable profit in vttering and &s;elling of Victuals vnto our Subiects in the Common wealth, and &s;pecially in our Progre&s;&s;e within the Verge of our Court, where our Nobilitie, Seruants and Traine (daily attending vpon our Per&s;on) are lodged and placed by our Harbingers, are vnlawfully exacted vpon with vnrea&s;onable and extreme prices by the &s;aid Victuallers, enhaun&s;ing the &s;ame Victuals, Hor&s;emeat, Lodgings, and all other nece&s;&s;aries, at a more deere price then it was &s;old for before our comming in Pro|gre&s;&s;e: Therefore our Will and plea&s;ure is, and wee doe hereby &s;traightly charge and command, That euery man doe obey and keepe all &s;uch Prices as is and &s;hall be prized, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and rated by the Clarkes of the market of our Hou&s;hold within the Verge of our Court, a&s;well within Liberties as without, and the Iurie before him, or his lawfull deputie, by vertue of his Office, &s;worne and charged from time to time: The &s;ame Rates and Prices not onely to be certified by our &s;ayd Clerke of the market or his De|putie, into our Compting hou&s;e; But al&s;o fixed and &s;et vpon the gates of our Court and other places within the Verge, as well within Liberties as without: And that no manner of per&s;on or per&s;ons of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer he or they be, doe in any wi&s;e pay more for Corne, Victuals, Hor&s;emeat, Lodging, or any other thing, then after the Rate and forme afore&s;aid, vpon paine of impri&s;onment, and to be Fined, with further puni&s;hment that &s;hall thereof follow: The &s;ame paines and puni&s;hments, and e|uery part thereof to be executed, a&s;well vpon them and euery of them which doe or &s;hall pre&s;ume to vtter and &s;ell any manner of thing or things contrary to the true meaning of this our Procla|mation, As vpon all tho&s;e which doe or &s;hall pre&s;ume to pay any more for any kind of Victuals, hor&s;emeat, Lodging, or any other nece&s;&s;aries, then is or &s;halbe rated and prized as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And moreouer we doe &s;traightly charge and command, That no maner of per&s;on or per&s;ons, now v&s;ing, or which hereafter &s;hall v&s;e, or of right ought to v&s;e, to &s;erue any Citie, Borough, Towne or other place, where our repo&s;e and abode is or &s;hall be, or el&s;e|where,
<PB N="76" REF="45"> within the Verge of our Court, a&s;well within liberties as without, with any kind of corne, victuals or any other nece&s;&s;a|ries, a&s;well vpon the market day, as at any other time, &s;halbe any thing the more remi&s;&s;e or &s;lacke in making of proui&s;ion for the &s;ame, then they or any of them now be, or heretofore haue beene, nor v&s;e any colour of craft to deceiue the buyers thereof, nor hide or lay a&s;ide the &s;ame their corne, victuals, hor&s;emeat, Lodgings, or any other nece&s;&s;aries, to dimini&s;h the market, whereby our whole Traine, within any Citie, Borough, Towne, or other the Inhabitants of the &s;ame, and other our Subiects thereunto re|&s;orting, &s;hould not be a&s;well &s;erued and as plenteou&s;ly furni&s;hed in euery behalfe, as it was before, or of right ought to haue bene, in defraud of this our Ordinance.</P>
<P>And furthermore we &s;traightly charge and expre&s;ly command all our Iu&s;tices of Peace, our Clerke of the market, his deputy or deputies, Maiors, Bailiffes, Shiriffes, Con&s;tables, and all other our faithfull officers, and euery of them, of Cities, Boroughs, Townes, Hundreds, and other places within the Verge of our Court, a&s;well within liberties as without: From time to time, when and as often as need &s;hall require, (vpon complaint by any partie iu&s;tly made) diligently euery of them within their autho|rities, forthwith to endeuour them&s;elues, to &s;ee iu&s;t puni&s;hment and due Reformation of the premi&s;&s;es, again&s;t &s;uch per&s;on or per|&s;ons as &s;hall offend herein, according to Iu&s;tice, and Prices as a|fore&s;aide.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Court of Whitehall</HI> <DATE><HI>the tenth of Iuly, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation enioyning con|formitie to the forme of the Seruice of God e&s;tabli&s;hed.</HEAD>
<P>THe care which we haue had, and paines which we haue taken to &s;ettle the affaires of this Church of England in an Vniformitie as well of Doctrine, as of Gouernment, both of them agreeable to the word of God, the doctrine of the Primitiue Church, and the Lawes heretofore e&s;tabli&s;hed for tho&s;e matters in this Realme, may &s;ufficiently appeare by our former actions. For no &s;ooner did the Infection of the Plague, raigning
<PB N="77" REF="45"> immediatly after our entry into this kingdome, giue vs leaue to haue any A&s;&s;embly, but we held at our honour of <HI>Hampton</HI> Court for that purpo&s;e a Conference betweene &s;ome principall Bi&s;hops and Deanes of this Church, and &s;uch other learned men as vn|der&s;tood or fauoured the opinions of tho&s;e that &s;eeke Alteration, before our &s;elfe and our Councell. Of which Conference the i&s;&s;ue was, That no well grounded matter appeared to vs or our &s;ayd Councell, why the &s;tate of the Church here by Law e&s;tabli&s;hed, &s;hould in any materiall point be altered, Nor did tho&s;e that before had &s;eemed to affect &s;uch Alteration, when they heard the contra|ry Arguments, greatly in&s;i&s;t vpon it, but &s;eemed to be &s;ati&s;fied them&s;elues, and to vndertake within rea&s;onable time to &s;ati&s;fie all others that were mi&s;&s;e-led with opinion that there was any iu&s;t cau&s;e of Alteration. Whereupon we publi&s;hed by our Pro|clamation what had bene the I&s;&s;ue of that Conference, hoping that when the &s;ame &s;hould be made knowen, all rea&s;onable men would haue re&s;ted &s;ati&s;fied with that which had bene done, and not haue mooued further trouble or &s;peech of matters, whereof &s;o &s;olemne and adui&s;ed determination had bene made. Notwith|&s;tanding, at the late A&s;&s;embly of our Parliament, there wanted not many that renewed with no little earne&s;tne&s;&s;e the Que&s;tions before determined, and many more a&s;well about the Booke of Common Prayer, as other matters of Church gouernment, and importuned vs for our A&s;&s;ent to many Alterations therein: But yet with &s;uch &s;ucce&s;&s;e, as when they had heard both our owne &s;peaches made vnto them at &s;undry times, &s;hewing the rea&s;ons of our former proceedings in tho&s;e matters, And likewi&s;e had had Conference with &s;ome Bi&s;hops, and other Lords of the Vpper|hou&s;e about the &s;ame, they de&s;i&s;ted from further pro&s;ecution thereof; finding, that of all things that might any way tend to the furtherance of Religion, and e&s;tabli&s;hment of a Mini&s;tery fit for the &s;ame, we had before with the adui&s;e of our Coun&s;ell, had &s;uch con&s;ideration, as the pre&s;ent &s;tate of things would beare, And taken order how the &s;ame &s;hould bee pro&s;ecuted by &s;uch meanes, as might be v&s;ed without any publique di&s;turbance or Innouation: And &s;o the end of all their motions and ouertures falling out to be none other in &s;ub&s;tance, then was before at the Conference at <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, That is, that no apparant or grounded rea&s;on was &s;hewed, why either the Booke of Common Prayer, or the Church di&s;cipline here by law e&s;tabli&s;hed &s;hould be changed (which were vnrea&s;onable) con&s;idering that particular and per&s;onall abu&s;es are remediable otherwi&s;e, then by making generall Alterations: We haue thought good once againe to giue
<PB N="79" REF="46"> notice thereof to all our Subiects, by publike Declaration, who we doubt not but will receiue great &s;ati&s;faction, when they &s;hall vnder&s;tand that after &s;o much impugning, there appeareth no cau&s;e why the forme of the Seruice of God, wherein they haue bene nouri&s;hed &s;o many yeeres, &s;hould bee changed: And con&s;e|quently to admoni&s;h them all in general to conforme them&s;elues thereunto, without li&s;tning to the trouble&s;ome &s;pirits of &s;ome per&s;ons, who neuer receiue contentment, either in Ciuill, or Ec|cle&s;ia&s;ticall matters, but in their owne fanta&s;ies, e&s;pecially of cer|taine Mini&s;ters, who vnder pretended Zeale of Reformation, are the chiefe Authors of diui&s;ions and Sects among our people. Of many of which, we hope that now, when they &s;hall &s;ee that &s;uch things as they haue propo&s;ed for Alteration, proue vpon triall &s;o weakely grounded, as de&s;erue not admittance, they will out of of their owne iudgement conforme them&s;elues to better aduice, and not omit the principall and &s;ub&s;tantiall parts of their duties, for &s;hadowes and &s;emblances of Zeale, but rather bend their &s;trength with our intent to ioyne in one end, that is, the e&s;tabli&s;h|ing of the Go&s;pel, and recouering of our people &s;educed out of the hands of the common aduer&s;aries of our Religion, which &s;hal ne|uer be well performed but by an Vniformitie of our endeuours therein. But if our hope herein faile vs, we mu&s;t aduerti&s;e them, that our duety towards God requireth at our handes, that what vntractable men doe not performe vpon admonition, they mu&s;t be compelled vnto by Authority, whereof the Supreme power re|&s;ting in our hands, by Gods ordinance, wee are bound to v&s;e the &s;ame in nothing more, then in pre&s;eruation of the Churches tran|quillitie, which by Gods grace we are fully purpo&s;ed to doe: And yet by adui&s;e of our Councell, &amp; opinion of the Bi&s;hops, although our former Proclamations both before the Conference and &s;ince, ought to be a &s;ufficient warning and admonition to all men, who are within the danger of them, Wee haue thought good to giue time to all Mini&s;ters di&s;obedient to the Orders of the Church and to Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Authority here by Law e&s;tabli&s;hed, and who for &s;uch di&s;obedience, either in the dayes of the Queene our &s;i&s;ter of famous memory decea&s;ed, or &s;ince our Reigne haue incurred any cen&s;ures of the Church, or penalties of Lawes, vntill the la&s;t of Nouember now next en&s;uing, to bethinke them&s;elues of the cour&s;e they will hold therein.</P>
<P>In which meane time both they may re&s;olue either to conforme them&s;elues to the Church of England, and obey the &s;ame: Or els to di&s;po&s;e of them&s;elues and their families &s;ome other wayes, as to them &s;hall &s;eeme meete: And the Bi&s;hops and others whom it
<PB N="80" REF="46"> concerneth, prouide meete per&s;ons to be &s;ub&s;titutes in the place of tho&s;e who &s;hall wilfully abandon their Charges vpon &s;o &s;leight cau&s;es: A&s;&s;uring them that after that day, we &s;hall not faile to do that which Princely prouidence requireth at our hands: That is, to put in execution all wayes and meanes that may take from a|mong our people, all grounds and occa&s;ions of Sects, diui&s;ions, and vnquietne&s;&s;e: Whereof as we wi&s;h there may neuer be occa|&s;ion giuen vs to make proofe, but that this our admonition may haue equall force in all mens hearts, to worke an vniuer&s;all con|formitie: So we doe require all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons, to doe their vttermo&s;t endeuours by confe|rences, arguments, per&s;wa&s;ions, and by all other wayes of loue and gentlene&s;&s;e to reclaime all that be in the Mini&s;tery, to the o|bedience of our Church Lawes; For which purpo&s;e onely wee haue enlarged the time formerly prefixed for their remoue or Re|formation, to the end that if it be po&s;&s;ible, that Vniformity which we de&s;ire, may be wrought by clemencie, and by weight of Rea|&s;on, and not by rigour of Law. And the like aduerti&s;ement doe we giue to all Ciuill Magi&s;trates, Gentlemen, and others of vn|der&s;tanding, as well abroad in the Counties, as in Cities and townes, Requiring them al&s;o, not in any &s;ort to &s;upport, fauour, or countenance any &s;uch factious Mini&s;ters in their ob&s;tinacie: of who&s;e endeuours we doubt not, but &s;o good &s;ucce&s;&s;e may fol|low, as this our admonition, with their indeuours, may preuent the v&s;e of any other meanes to reteine our people in their due obe|dience to vs, and in vnitie of minde, to the Seruice of Almigh|tie God.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Otelands</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 16. <HI>day of Iuly, in the &s;econd yeere of our reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation appointing the day and place for the meeting of the Commi&s;|&s;ioners of England and Scotland.</HEAD>
<P>WHere at the late Se&s;&s;ion of our Parliament of this our Realm of England, one Act is made authorizing certaine per&s;ons of both Hou&s;es to a&s;&s;emble and meete, and thereupon to treat and con&s;ult with certaine &s;elected Commi&s;&s;ioners to be nominated and authorized by authoritie of the Parliament of our Realme of Scotland, for the weale of both
<PB N="81" REF="47"> Kingdomes, at any time before the next Se&s;&s;ion of this Parlia|ment; And a like Acte is pa&s;&s;ed in our Parliament of our Realme of Scotland, to giue authority to Commi&s;&s;ioners nominated for that Nation, For the performance whereof, it is nece&s;&s;ary that a certaine time be prefixed: We doe therefore hereby make knowen, and publi&s;h to all our louing Subiects who are Commi&s;&s;ioners by the Acte appoynted for that Treatie, a&s;well of the one Nation, as of the other, That we haue found it expedient for the Commi&s;|&s;ioners of both Realmes, to appoynt the fir&s;t day of the &s;ayd mee|ting, to be on the twentieth day of October next en&s;uing the date hereof, at our Citie of We&s;tmin&s;ter, in the Chamber of our Pal|lace there, called the <HI>Painted Chamber.</HI> Whereof we require them all, and all others whom it may concerne, to take knowledge, and to keepe the day and place accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the fifteenth day of September, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ire|land, and of Scotland the eight and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t &s;elling of Ships.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie being certainely ad|uerti&s;ed of many Engli&s;h Ships with their furniture &s;old of late into forreine parts beyond the Seas, contrary to the Law and Statutes in that ca&s;e prouided, and to the great do|mage and hurt of his louing Subiects; Doeth expre&s;ly charge and command all Merchants, Owners of Ships, Mariners, and all other his Subiects whom it may concerne, That from henceforth they and euery of them &s;hall forbeare to &s;ell, trucke, ex|change or alienate any Engli&s;h &s;hip or Ve&s;&s;el, directly or indirect|ly, without &s;peciall licence fir&s;t obtained for the &s;ame, vnder the great Seale of England, Vpon paine for euery &s;uch offence, to &s;uffer impri&s;onment during the Kings plea&s;ure, and to vndergoe &s;uch forfeitures and Fines as by the Statutes, Lawes and Cu&s;tomes of this his Maie&s;ties Realme of England may bee in|flicted vpon them in that behalfe, as vpon tran&s;gre&s;&s;ers of the Lawes and Statutes, and contemners of his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t Royall Proclamation.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;tie doeth hereby &s;traitly charge all Admirals, Viceadmirals, and other Officers of the Admiraltie, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, and
<PB N="82" REF="47"> all other his Officers, whom it may concerne, that they doe care|fully inquire after all &s;uch as &s;hall offend in the premi&s;&s;es, and cau&s;e them to be apprehended, and committed whome they &s;hall finde guiltie, to the next Gaole, there to remaine vntill they and euery of them &s;hall bee bound with &s;ufficient Sureties, in com|petent &s;ummes, for their appearance before the Lords of his high|ne&s;&s;e mo&s;t honourable Councel at the next Starre-chamber day, and not to depart thence without &s;pecial leaue fir&s;t obtained. And if it &s;hall appeare that any of the &s;aide Officers haue v&s;ed negli|gence or conniuence herein, His Maie&s;tie will extend the paine of his di&s;plea&s;ure vnto them, and cau&s;e them to feele the &s;mart thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 15. <HI>day of Octo|ber, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning the Kings Maie&s;ties Stile, of King of <HI>Great Britaine,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>AS often as we call to minde the mo&s;t ioyfull and iu&s;t Re|cognition made by the whole body of our Realme, in the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of our high Court of Parliament, of that ble&s;|&s;ing which it hath plea&s;ed God to re&s;erue many yeeres in his pro|uidence to our Per&s;on, and now in the fulne&s;&s;e of the time of his di&s;po&s;ition, to be&s;tow vpon vs; Namely the ble&s;&s;ed Vnion, or ra|ther reuniting of the&s;e two mightie, famous, and ancient King|domes of England and Scotland, vnder one Imperial Crowne: So often doe we thinke, that it is our duetie to do our vttermo&s;t endeuour, for the aduancement and perfection of that worke, which is of his beginning, and whereof hee hath giuen &s;o many palpable &s;ignes and arguments, as hee that &s;eeth them not, is blinde, and he that impugneth them, doeth but endeuour to &s;epa|rate that, which God hath put together. For, to omit tho&s;e things which are euident to &s;en&s;e, That the I&s;le within it &s;elfe hath al|mo&s;t none but imaginarie bounds of &s;eparation without, but one common limit or rather Gard of the Ocean Sea, making the whole a litle world within it &s;elfe, the Nations an vniformitie of con&s;titutions both of body and minde, e&s;pecially in Martiall prowe&s;&s;es, a communitie of language, the principall meanes of Ciuil &s;ocietie, An vnitie of Religion, the chiefe&s;t band of heartie
<PB N="83" REF="48"> Vnion, and the &s;ure&s;t knot of la&s;ting Peace: What can be a more expre&s;&s;e Te&s;timonie of Gods authoritie of this worke, then that two mightie Nations, hauing bene euer from their fir&s;t &s;eparati|on continually in blood each again&s;t other, &s;hould for &s;o many yeeres immediatly before our Succe&s;&s;ion, be at peace together, as it were to this end, That their memory being free from &s;ence of the &s;mart of former iniuries, their minds might, in the time of Gods appointment, more willingly come together, That it hath plea&s;ed him &s;o to di&s;po&s;e, that this Vnion is not inforced by Con|que&s;t and violence, nor contracted by doubtfull and deceiuable points of tran&s;action, but naturally deriued from the Right and Title of the precedent Princes of both Kingdomes, concurring in our per&s;on, alike lineally de&s;cended from the blood of both through the &s;acred coniunction of wedlocke, An Vnion which is the work of God and Nature, and whereunto the works of force and policy cannot attaine? We may adde hereunto that which we haue re|ceiued from tho&s;e that be &s;kilfull in the Lawes of this land, That immediatly vpon our &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, diuers of the ancient Lawes of this Realme are <HI>Ip&s;o facto</HI> expired, As namely, that of E&s;cuage, and of the Naturalization or the Subiects, And that there is a greater affinitie and concurrence betweene mo&s;t of the ancient Lawes of both kingdomes, then is to be found betweene tho&s;e of any other two Nations, As namely, in &s;tates of inheritance and Freehold, as Fee-&s;imple, Fee-taile, Tenant for life, by Courte&s;ie, Dower and &s;uch like, In Ca&s;es of de&s;cents of inheritance, In te|nures of Lands, as of Knights &s;eruice, &s;ocage, Franke Almoigne, Burgage, Villenage, and &s;uch like, In writts and formes of Pro|ce&s;&s;e, In ca&s;es of Triall by Iuries, Grand Iuries, And la&s;tly in Officers and mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice, as Sheriffes, Coroners, and &s;uch like, which we leaue to be further con&s;idered by the Commi&s;|&s;ioners of both Realmes.</P>
<P>All which being matter prepared onely by the prouidence of Al|mighty God, and which by humane indu&s;try could not haue bene &s;o ordered; We, and all our Subiects ought fir&s;t with reuerence to acknowledge his Handy-worke therein, and to giue him our mo&s;t humble thankes for the &s;ame, and then to further by our en|deuours that, which his Wi&s;edome doeth by &s;o many &s;ignes point out to be his will: Whereof many particularities depending vp|on the determinations of the States and Parliaments of both Realmes, wee leaue them there to be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed, according to the Commi&s;&s;ions granted by the &s;euerall Acts of both Parliaments. And &s;ome other things re&s;ting in our owne Imperiall power, as the head of both, we are purpo&s;ed towards the building of this ex|cellent
<PB N="84" REF="48"> worke, to doe by our &s;elfe that, which iu&s;tly and &s;afely we may by our ab&s;olute power do. And for a fir&s;t &s;tone of this worke, whereupon the re&s;t may be layed, &s;eeing there is vndoubtedly but one Head to both peoples, which is our &s;elfe; And that vnfained|ly we haue but one heart and minde to communicate equally to both States, as lines i&s;&s;uing from one Center, Our Iu&s;tice, our fauours, and what&s;oeuer el&s;e dependeth vpon the Vnitie of our &s;upreme power ouer both, (God hauing mini&s;tred to vs &s;o iu&s;t cau&s;e to embrace them both with equall and indifferent loue, in as much as our birth, and the fir&s;t part of our life hath bene in the one, and the later part thereof is like to be for the mo&s;t part in the other:) Wee thinke it vnrea&s;onable, that the thing, which is by the worke of God and nature &s;o much in effect one, &s;hould not be one in name; Vnitie in name being &s;o fit a meanes to imprint in the hearts of people, a Character and memoriall of that Vnitie, which ought to be among&s;t them in deed.</P>
<P>Wherefore we haue thought good to di&s;continue the diuided names of England and Scotland out of our Regall &s;tile, and doe intend and re&s;olue to take and a&s;&s;ume vnto vs in maner &amp; forme hereafter expre&s;&s;ed, The name &amp; &s;tile of <HI>KING OF GREAT BRITAINE,</HI> including therein according to the trueth, the whole I&s;land. Wherein no man can imagine vs to be led by any humour of vaineglory or ambition, becau&s;e we &s;hould in that ca&s;e rather delight in a long enumeration of many Kingdomes, and Seigniories, (wherof in our inheritance we haue plenty ynough, if we thought there were glory in that kinde of Stile) but onely that we v&s;e it as a &s;ignification of that, which in part is already done, and a &s;ignificant prefiguration of that, which is to be done hereafter; Nor that we couet any new affected name deui&s;ed at our plea&s;ure, but out of vndoubted knowledge doe v&s;e the true and ancient name, which God and Time haue impo&s;ed vpon this I&s;le, extant, and receiued in hi&s;tories, in all Mappes and Cartes, wherein this I&s;le is de&s;cribed, and in ordinary Letters to our &s;elfe from diuers forreine Princes, warranted al&s;o by Authenti|call Charters, exemplifications vnder Seales, and other Records of great Antiquitie, giuing vs pre&s;ident for our doing, not borrow|ed out of forraine Nations, but from the actes of our Progeni|tors, Kings of this Realme of England, both before and &s;ince the Conque&s;t, hauing not had &s;o iu&s;t and great cau&s;e as we haue.</P>
<P>Vpon all which con&s;iderations we do by the&s;e pre&s;ents, by force of our Kingly power and Prerogatiue, a&s;&s;ume to our &s;elfe by the cleerene&s;&s;e of our Right, The Name and Stile of <HI>KING OF GREAT BRITAINE, FRANCE, AND IREAND,
<PB N="85" REF="49"> DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &amp;c.</HI> as followeth in our iu&s;t and lawfull Stile, And doe hereby publi&s;h, promulge and declare the &s;ame, to the end that in all proclamations, Mi&s;&s;iues forreine, and dome&s;ticall, Treaties, Leagues, Dedicatories, Im|pre&s;&s;ions, and in all other ca&s;es of like nature, the &s;ame may be v|&s;ed and ob&s;erued. And to the end the &s;ame may be the &s;ooner and more vniuer&s;ally diuulged both at home and abroad: Our will and plea&s;ure is, That the &s;ame Stile be from hencefoorth v&s;ed vpon all In&s;criptions vpon our currant Moneys and Coines of Gold and Siluer hereafter to be minted. And for that we do not innouate or a&s;&s;ume to Vs any new thing, but declare that which is and hath bene euident to all; Our will and plea&s;ure is, That in &s;uch Appellations or Nominations, as &s;hall be hereafter made by force of the&s;e pre&s;ents, the &s;ame &s;hall bee expre&s;&s;ed in &s;uch and the &s;ame maner and forme, and after &s;uch computation, as if wee had a&s;&s;umed and declared the &s;ame the fir&s;t day of our Reigne of our Realme of England; Forbearing onely for the pre&s;ent that any thing herein conteined doe extend to any Legall proceeding, in&s;trument, or a&s;&s;urance, vntill further order bee taken in that behalfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the twentieh day of October, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ire|land, and of Scotland the eight and thirtieth. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the Search and apprehen&s;ion of certaine Pirates.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it hath appeared vnto vs by the Records of our high Court of the Admiralty, That <HI>William Hull</HI> Captaine of a Ship called the <HI>Talbot of Topi&s;ham</HI> in our County of Deuon, And <HI>Philip Ward</HI> Captaine of a Ship cal|led the <HI>Thoma&s;ine of Dartmouth</HI> in the &s;aid Countie, <HI>Chri&s;topher Newman, Edward Follet,</HI> and <HI>Henry Burt,</HI> with diuers others their Complices and A&s;&s;ociats, &s;eruing as Mariners or Souldiers in the &s;aid Ships, re&s;pectiuely &s;tand indicted, for that they in No|uember 1602. with their Shippes in warlike manner appoynted within the <HI>Mediterranean Seas,</HI> did rob and &s;poile a Ship called <HI>la Serene</HI> of <HI>Olona</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> and the goods therein laden, belonging vnto diuers &s;ubiects of our good brother <HI>The mo&s;t Chri&s;tian King:</HI> And not content therewith, did al&s;o in mo&s;t &s;auage maner com|mit wilfull murther (a crime mo&s;t foule, odious and dete&s;table in
<PB N="86" REF="49"> the &s;ight of God, &amp; man) vpon the per&s;ons of diuers of the French men, being in the &s;ayd Ship, again&s;t the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme: We of our Princely care for the admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice (the maine pillar of our E&s;tate) doe with no le&s;&s;e zeale, as well for the fati&s;faction of forreine Princes, as for the example of others in like ca&s;es offending, intend to pro&s;ecute them, and all their Abettors, Complices and Acce&s;&s;aries, with the greate&s;t &s;e|neritie of our Lawes in that ca&s;e prouided: And therfore we will, and &s;trictly command all and euery our Officers and louing &s;ub|iects, that immediatly after the &s;ight of this pre&s;ent Proclamati|on, they and euery of them doe make diligent &s;earch and inquirie in all places a&s;well exempt, as not exempt, for the &s;ayd per&s;ons, and all and euery of them, and the &s;ame, or any of them &s;o found, to apprehend and commit to the next Gaole, there to be detained, vntill our high Admirall, or his Lieutenant Iudge of our high Court of the Admiraltie, vpon notice giuen vnto either of them, of the per&s;ons &s;o committed, &s;hall take order in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And moreouer our plea&s;ure is, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what|&s;oeuer, &s;hall wittingly or wilfully receiue, conceale, harbour, in|tertaine or lodge the &s;ayd Pirats and murtherers, or any of them, or any of their &s;ayd Complices and a&s;&s;ociats, into their hou&s;e or hou&s;es, after the &s;ight and knowledge of this Proclamation, (knowing them by circum&s;tances, credible informatio~s, or other|wi&s;e, to be the per&s;ons aforenamed) vpon paine vnto euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o receiuing, concealing, harbouring, inter|teining or lodging any of the &s;ayd Pirates and murtherers, or a|ny of their complices, of death and forfeiture of all their landes, goods and chattels, according to the Lawes and &s;tatutes in that ca&s;e prouided.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 12. <HI>day of Nouember, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for Coynes.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough it be mo&s;t certaine, that nothing is more appro|propriate to the Soueraigne dignitie of Princes, then the ordering of their Moneys, and &s;etting them at &s;uch prices and valuations, as they &s;hall thinke conuenient vpon nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;es; Yet haue we alwayes bene of opinion, that iu&s;t Princes &s;hould not v&s;e the libertie of their power in aba&s;ing or enhaun|&s;ing
<PB N="87" REF="50"> the prices of Moneys, without all re&s;pect to the common be|nefite of their Subiects. In which con&s;ideration it is euident to all men, that &s;ince our entrie into this Realme, we haue bene &s;o farre from changing the ancient and honourable Standard of the Starling Money of this our Realme of England, as wee haue on the contrary re&s;tored to our Realme of Ireland Moneis of pure Siluer, in lieu of the ba&s;e Coyne, with which the nece&s;&s;i|tie of the time, by accident of the warres, con&s;trained our &s;i&s;ter the late Queene of happy memory to pay the Armies.</P>
<P>Neuerthele&s;&s;e, it falling out at our fir&s;t comming out of Scot|land, (where wee had Coynes of Gold and Siluer not then cne|rant in this Realme) to be impo&s;&s;ible for our Nobilitie and other &s;eruants and Subiects attending vs in our iourney hither, to be prouided of currant Moneys of this Realme for their expen&s;es &s;o &s;oone as our &s;peed required; Wee did then giue valuation to the Coyne of Golde of Scotland, called the Sixe pound piece, to be currant here for ten &s;hillings of Siluer, and to be equall to the Engli&s;h Angel or Soueraigne of Gold: The authorizing where|of comming lately into con&s;ideration, among other points recom|mended by vs to be treated for the weale of both Kingdomes, by &s;ome of our Coun&s;ell of each of them, It hath appeared that the inconuenience is fit to be remoued, which groweth by our autho|rizing it to be equall to the Gold Coynes of England: Not that it is not worth in true value ten &s;hillings of our Siluer moneys of England, but becau&s;e that the Engli&s;h Coynes of Gold are not in regard of the Siluer Coynes, of the true proportion betweene Gold and Siluer accu&s;tomed in all Nations.</P>
<P>Whereupon our Councell hauing occa&s;ion to enter into fur|ther con&s;ideration of the Moneys of this Realme, with the a&s;&s;i|&s;tance of the Officers of the Mint, it appeareth very vi&s;ibly, that this errour in the proportion of the Gold moneys of England to the Siluer, hath bene a great cau&s;e of the tran&s;portation of Gold out of this Realme into forraine Countreys in &s;uch quantity, as of late yeeres hath bene v&s;ed, becau&s;e the &s;ayd Gold moneys are more worth in their true value, then here they were allowed. To which inconuenience long endured, being now re&s;olued to giue remedy, we haue cau&s;ed new Coynes both of Gold and Siluer to be made of &s;euerall &s;tampes, weights and values, but of one vniforme Standard and allay, to be currant within this our Kingdome of <HI>GREAT BRITAINE:</HI> that is to &s;ay, One piece of Gold of the value of Twentie &s;hillings &s;terling, to be called <HI>The Vnite,</HI> &s;tamped on the one &s;ide with our Picture formerly v&s;ed, with this our Stile, <HI>IACOBVS D'. G'. MAG'. BRIT'.
<PB N="88" REF="50"> FRAN'. &amp; HIB'. REX.</HI> And on the other &s;ide, our Armes Crowned, and with this word, <HI>Faciam eos in gentem vnam.</HI> One other Gold money of Tenne &s;hillings, to bee called, <HI>The double Crowne,</HI> And one other Gold money of Fiue &s;hillings, to be called, <HI>The Britaine Crowne.</HI> On the one &s;ide with our Picture accu&s;to|med, and our Stile as afore&s;aid, and on the other &s;ide, our Armes, and this word, <HI>Henricus Ro&s;as, Regna Iacobus.</HI> One other piece of Foure &s;hillings, to be called, <HI>The Thi&s;tle Crowne,</HI> hauing on the one &s;ide a Ro&s;e crowned, and our Title, <HI>IA'. D'. G'. MAG. BR. F. &amp; H. REX:</HI> and on the other &s;ide, a Thi&s;tle flowre crowned, with this word, <HI>Tueatur vnita Deus.</HI> Al&s;o pieces of Two &s;hil|lings &s;ixe pence, to be called, <HI>Halfe Crownes,</HI> with our Picture ac|cu&s;tomed, and this word, <HI>I'. D'. G'. Ro&s;a &s;ine &s;pina:</HI> and on the o|ther &s;ide, our Armes, and this word, <HI>Tueatur vnita Deus.</HI> And for Siluer moneys, pieces of Fiue &s;hillings, and Two &s;hillings &s;ixe pence, hauing on the one &s;ide our Picture on hor&s;ebacke, and our Stile afore&s;aid: And pieces of Twelue pence and Sixe pence, hauing our Picture formerly v&s;ed, and our Stile as afore&s;aid, And on the other &s;ide our Armes, and this word, <HI>Quae Deus con|iunxit, nemo &s;eparet.</HI> Al&s;o pieces of Two pence, hauing on the one &s;ide a Ro&s;e crowned, and about it, <HI>I'. D'. G'. Ro&s;a &s;ine &s;pina:</HI> And on the other &s;ide a Thi&s;tle flowre crowned, and about it, <HI>Tueatur vnita Deus.</HI> And one Pennie, hauing on the one &s;ide a Ro&s;e, and about it, <HI>I'. D'. G'. Ro&s;a &s;ine &s;pina:</HI> And on the other &s;ide a Thi&s;tle flowre, and about it, <HI>Tueatur vnita Deus.</HI> And the Halfe-pennie hauing on the one &s;ide a Ro&s;e, and on the other &s;ide, a Thi&s;tle flowre.</P>
<P>All which &s;euerall Coynes both of Gold and Siluer, we doe hereby publi&s;h, declare, and authorize to be among&s;t others here|tofore v&s;ed our Moneyes currant for this our Kingdome of <HI>Gteat Britaine,</HI> to bee v&s;ed and receiued by all the Subiects thereof, in all Receits and Payments, and in all manner of Traffiquing, Bargaining, and dealing betweene man and man, at the &s;euerall Rates and Values conteined in the Table hereunder written, ex|pre&s;&s;ing their true Values and weights, according to the accompt of the Mint men of both Nations.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;ixteenth day of No|uember, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>IT is to be remembred that the pound weight Engli&s;h, being 12. ounces Troy, doth ouer-poix the pound weight of Scotland 4.d. weight, and 9. graines Engli&s;h: Whereupon this Table is made, to di&s;tingui&s;h euery
<PB N="89" REF="51"> &s;euerall piece of Gold and Siluer Coine, according to the true weight of both Nations.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>&para; Engli&s;h Weights.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Peny weights 20</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Grains 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Mites 20</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Droits 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Periots 20</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Blanks 24</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="5">Pieces of Gold of</CELL>
<CELL>xx.s.</CELL>
<CELL>06</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="5">Of the&s;e 37. li. 4. s. make a pound weight Troy.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>x.s.</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>v.s.</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>iiij. s.</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>06</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ij.s. vj.d.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>02</CELL>
<CELL>06</CELL>
<CELL>06</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="7">Pieces of Siluer of</CELL>
<CELL>v.s.</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="7">Of the&s;e 3. li. 2. s. make a pound weight Troy.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ij s. vj.d.</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>xij.d.</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>vj.d.</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ij.d.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>j.d.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>02</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ob.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>06</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>&para; Scotti&s;h Weights.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Deniers 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Graines 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Primes 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Seconds 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Thirds 24</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Fourths 24</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="5">Pieces of Gold of</CELL>
<CELL>xx.s.</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="5">Of the&s;e 36. li. 10.s. 3.d.q. make 12. oz. Scotti&s;h. Or 48. li. 3.s. 8.d.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>x.s.</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>&frac12;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>v.s.</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>23</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>&frac34;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>iiij.s.</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>&frac34;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ij.s. vj.d.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>23</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="7">Pieces of Siluer of</CELL>
<CELL>v.s.</CELL>
<CELL>23</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="7">Of the&s;e 3. li. 10. d. q. or 4. li. 1. s.d. ob. di. q. di. di. q.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ij.s. vj.d.</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>06</CELL>
<CELL>&frac12;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>xij.d.</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>vj.d.</CELL>
<CELL>02</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ij.d.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>j.d.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>02</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ob.</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="90" REF="51">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the Proroguing of the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas at the late ri&s;ing of the fir&s;t Se&s;ion of our Parliament, We did prorogue the &s;ame vntill the &s;e|uenth day of February next, intending then to holde at that time another Se&s;&s;ion thereof: We haue &s;ince bene infor|med from diuers parts of our Realme, that &s;ome contagion of &s;ickene&s;&s;e doeth yet &s;o continue in many of our principall Cities and Townes, and is al&s;o &s;cattered in diuers other places of le&s;&s;e note, as if we &s;hould again&s;t the Spring of the yeere draw &s;o great a concour&s;e of people together, as the a&s;&s;embly of the Parliament bringeth with it, (the continuance wherof is vncertaine) it were much to be doubted, that the infection of the plague might be re|newed againe in our City of London, which is our Chamber, and the place of our mo&s;t ordinary re&s;idence, as it did the fir&s;t yeere of our entry, by rea&s;on of the great a&s;&s;embly at our Coronation, which if the &s;etling of our State here had not nece&s;&s;arily requi|red to be then performed, Wee would haue forborne. And fora&s;|much al&s;o as for the&s;e two yeeres pa&s;t, by rea&s;on of our entry into this our Kingdome, our Coronation, the holding of our Parlia|ment, and &s;uch other &s;olemnities, requiring the pre&s;ence of per|&s;ons of the be&s;t &s;ort, the mo&s;t part of the Gentlemen of qualitie of this Realme haue bene ab&s;ent from the places of their ordinary aboad, whereby the Countreys haue wanted their a&s;&s;i&s;tance in the gouernment of them, and our people the comfort of their pre|&s;ence and Ho&s;pitalitie: We haue therefore thought it conuenient to prorogue our &s;ayd Parliament vntill the third day of October next en&s;uing, at which time we intend by Gods grace to holde a|nother Se&s;&s;ion thereof, And in the meane time all tho&s;e, who re|paired hither about the Commi&s;&s;ion concerning the Vnion, or doe now re&s;ide here in expectation of that Se&s;&s;ion of our Parliament at the time appointed, may returne to their owne homes vntill the &s;ayd third day of October, when we will expect againe their attendance. And in the meane time we doe &s;traitly charge and command them, and all other who haue any tru&s;t to them from vs, either in the Commi&s;&s;ion of the peace, or otherwi&s;e for the good gouernment of our people, that they doe immediatly repaire home to their owne dwellings, to attend to &s;uch Seruices as to them belong to doe, whereof by their ab&s;ence both wee and our Subiects are defrauded.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin|&s;ter</HI>
<DATE><PB N="91" REF="52"><HI>the</HI> 24. <HI>day of December, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="publication">
<HEAD>&para; A Publication concerning all &s;orts of Gold and Siluer threed, granted by his Ma|ie&s;ties Letters Patents, vnder the great Seale.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we haue bene informed of the manife&s;t iniu|ries and wrongs done vnto vs by the &s;ecret bringing and conueying into this our Realm of England and other our Dominions of right gold threed, right &s;iluer threed, and right gold and &s;iluer threed, wrought and vnwrought in lace and otherwi&s;e, commonly called and knowen by the name or names of Venice gold, Venice &s;iluer, or Venice golde and &s;iluer, Florence gold, Florence &s;iluer, or Florence gold and &s;iluer, French gold, French &s;iluer, or French gold and &s;iluer, Millen gold, Mil|len &s;iluer, or Millen gold and &s;iluer, and Copper gold threed and Copper &s;iluer threed, and Copper gold and &s;iluer threed wrought and vnwrought in lace or otherwi&s;e, commonly called or knowen by the name or names of Cap gold, Cap &s;iluer, and Cap gold and &s;iluer, Cullen gold, Cullen &s;iluer, or Cullen gold and &s;iluer, Brid|ges gold, Bridges &s;iluer, or Bridges gold and &s;iluer, or by what other name or names &s;oeuer, in &s;ecret and vnlawfull maner with|out paying the Cu&s;tome and Sub&s;idy of right due and belonging to vs of or for the &s;ame: For remedie whereof wee haue thought good by our letters patents indented vnder our great Seale of England, bearing date the 13. day of Ianuary la&s;t pa&s;t, to demi&s;e and to farme let vnto <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their executors and a&s;&s;ignes, all the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies which at any time or times, during the &s;pace and terme of 16. yeeres next after the fea&s;t of <HI>S. Michael</HI> the Archangel la&s;t pa&s;t, before the date of the &s;ayd Letters Patents, &s;hould or ought to ari&s;e, renew, happen, grow due, or payable to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, of, for, or in re&s;pect of all or any of the &s;ayd wares, commodities and marchandizes of all or any of the &s;orts, or kinds afore&s;ayd, or cal|led or knowen by any of the names afore&s;ayd, which at any time or times during the &s;ayd terme of 16. yeeres, &s;hould be brought or tran&s;ported from any the parts beyong the &s;eas into this Realme of England, or any of the Dominions of the &s;ame, for &s;uch yeerely rent as by the &s;ayd Letters Patents is to vs, our heires and &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ors re&s;erued. And whereas al&s;o by the &s;ame Letters Patents
<PB N="92" REF="52"> we haue &s;traitly charged and forbidden all manner of per&s;ons o|ther then the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their exe|cutors, deputies, and a&s;&s;ignes, and other then &s;uch per&s;on or per|&s;ons, as within the &s;pace of &s;ixe moneths next after the publicati|on hereof, &s;hall become bound vnto the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell,</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> or to the &s;uruiuour of them, or to the a&s;&s;ignes of them, or of the &s;uruiuour of them, in a bond of fiue hundred pounds, of lawfull Engli&s;h money, for the due payment of &s;uch cu&s;tomes and &s;ub&s;idies, as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme ought to be an&s;wered and payd for the &s;ayd wares and commodities and euery of them, and not to vtter or &s;ell the &s;ame wares or marchandize, or any part thereof, before &s;uch time as the &s;ame wares or merchandize &s;halbe &s;ealed with the &s;eale men|tioned in the &s;aid Letters Patents, whereof the print and &s;tampe is &s;et and expre&s;&s;ed in the margent of the&s;e pre&s;ents (vnle&s;&s;e the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone</HI> &s;hall neglect or refu&s;e to &s;eale the &s;ame) to tran&s;port or bring from any the parts beyond the Seas, and to lay on land within this our Realme of England, or any of the Dominions of the &s;ame at any time or times, during the &s;ayd terme of &s;ixteene yeeres, any of the &s;ayd wares, commodi|ties or merchandize, of all or any the natures, &s;orts or kindes a|fore&s;ayd, or called or knowen by any of the names afore&s;ayd. And whereas al&s;o by the &s;ayd Letters Patents we haue granted that it &s;hall and may be lawfull to and for the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their and either of their executors, deputies, factours, and a&s;&s;ignes, and to and for all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons onely which &s;hall &s;o become bound, according to the purport and true meaning of the &s;ayd Letters Patents, to bring or cau&s;e to be brought from the parts beyond the Seas, into this our Realme of England, or any of the Dominions of the &s;ame, according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme, any of the &s;ayd wares, commodities or merchandize, of all or any of the kinds or natures afore&s;ayd, or called or knowen by any of the names afore&s;ayd:</P>
<P>And further by our &s;ayd Letters Patents we haue willed and commanded that no merchant, nor any other per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall within the &s;ayd terme of &s;ixteene yeres buy, acquire, obtaine or receiue within this our Realme of England, or any of the do|minions of the &s;ame, of any per&s;on or per&s;ons, to the intent to merchandize, bargain, vent or vtter againe in gro&s;&s;e or by retaile, or to worke or make in lace or fringe, any of the &s;ayd wares, com|modities or merchandizes of any the natures or kindes afore&s;aid, or called or knowen by any the names afore&s;ayd, vnle&s;&s;e the &s;ame be fir&s;t marked or &s;ealed with the &s;ayd Seale, vnle&s;&s;e the &s;ayde
<PB N="93" REF="53"> <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their executors, admini&s;tra|tors, deputies factours and a&s;&s;ignes, &s;hal wilfully refu&s;e or neglect to &s;eale the &s;ame vpon paine of our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and to &s;uffer &s;uch Fine and corporall puni&s;hment as offendours in ca&s;e of wil|full contempt of our expre&s;&s;e commandement ought to &s;uffer and &s;u&s;taine. And moreouer by the &s;aid Letters Patents our wil and plea&s;ure is &s;ignified, and we thereby willed and commanded that the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their deputies, fac|tours, &s;eruants, and a&s;&s;ignes, &s;hall haue conuenient place in the Cu&s;tome hou&s;e of London, and in all other cu&s;tome hou&s;es, and places of lading or vnlading of wares el&s;ewhere within Eng|land, or in any of the Dominions of the &s;ame, there, at their plea|&s;ure to be pre&s;ent, and to receiue, collect and inioy without inter|ruption of any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, all the &s;ayd cu&s;toms and &s;ub&s;idies according to our &s;ayd Letters Patents, and haue granted by the &s;ame Letters Patents vnto the &s;aid <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their deputies, factours, &s;eruants and a&s;|&s;ignes, being accompanied with the Con&s;table, or any other our officers for the time being, in lawful maner and from time to time, and at all times lawfull, meet and conuenient, during the &s;ayde terme of &s;ixteene yeeres, to &s;earch all &s;hips, ve&s;&s;els, boats, bot|tomes, hou&s;es, warehou&s;es, &s;hops or conuenient place or places what&s;oeuer, for all or any of the &s;ayd wares, merchandizes or commodities of any of the natures or kindes afore&s;aid, or called or knowen by any of the names afore&s;aid, whereof the cu&s;tomes and &s;ub&s;idies are granted or demi&s;ed by the &s;ayd Letters Patents, as &s;hall be brought or layd on land within this our Realme of Eng|land, or any of the dominions of the &s;ame within the &s;ayd terme of &s;ixteene yeeres, by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, before the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies due for the &s;ame &s;hall be payd or compounded for, to or with the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their exe|cutors, admini&s;trators or a&s;&s;ignes, and to take and &s;eaze the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And furthermore whereas wee haue by our &s;ayd Letters Pa|tents &s;traitly charged and commanded all and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons, Merchants denizens or &s;trangers what&s;oeuer, that they or any of them doe not attempt or pre&s;ume to vn&s;hip, di&s;charge, vnlade, and lay on land any of the wares, commodities, or mer|chandizes before mentioned, in any Port, hauen, creeke, place or places what&s;oeuer within this our Realme, before &s;uch times as the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies due and payable for the &s;ayd wares, merchandizes and commodities, and euery of them, be duely an|&s;wered, payd, or compounded for, to or with the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> or either of them, their, or either of their
<PB N="94" REF="53"> executors, admini&s;trators, deputies, &s;eruants, factors or a&s;&s;ignes, or &s;ome, or one of them, vpon paine that euery per&s;on, or per&s;ons, Merchants denizens or &s;trangers what&s;oeuer, that &s;hall vnlade, or lay on land any of the &s;ayd Wares, merchandizes or commodi|ties, (the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies whereof are by the &s;ayd Let|ters Patents demi&s;ed and granted) before &s;uch time as the Cu|&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies thereof &s;hall fir&s;t be duely an&s;wered, payd or compounded for, to or with the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> or either of them, their, or either of their executors, ad|mini&s;trators, deputies, factors, or a&s;&s;ignes, within the &s;aid terme of &s;ixteene yeeres in the&s;e pre&s;ents mentioned, &s;hall forfeit and loo&s;e all and euery the &s;ame Wares, merchandizes and commodi|ties &s;o vn&s;hipped, vnladen, di&s;charged or layd on land, before &s;uch time as the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies by the &s;ayd Letters patents demi&s;ed and granted payable for the &s;ame Wares, merchandizes or commodities, be or &s;halbe fir&s;t duely an&s;wered or compounded for, to or with the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> or either of them, their, or either of their executors, admini&s;trators, Factors, deputies or a&s;&s;ignes, the one moitie of all which forfei|tures to be to vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, to the v&s;e of vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, and the other moitie of the &s;ame forfeitures to be to the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> their execu|tors, admini&s;trators and a&s;&s;ignes, or to &s;uch other per&s;on or per|&s;ons as &s;hall fir&s;t &s;eaze the &s;ame to his or their owne v&s;es, without any accompt therof to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, to be rendred or payd for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And whereas by our &s;ayd Letters Patents wee haue charged and commanded all and euery Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Sur|ueyours, Searchers, Waiters, and other our Officers and Mi|ni&s;ters what&s;oeuer, of all and euery Ports, Hauens, creeks, mem|bers and pa&s;&s;ages within this our Realme of England and domi|nion of Wales, That they or any of them &s;hall not permit, tolle|rate, or &s;uffer directly or indirectly any Merchant Engli&s;h, deni|zen or &s;tranger, or other per&s;on what&s;oeuer, to di&s;charge, vnlade or lay on land any of the &s;ayd wares, merchandizes and commo|dities, the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;idies whereof are by the &s;ayd Let|ters Patents demi&s;ed and granted vnto the &s;aid <HI>Roger Pennel</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> before &s;uch time as the Cu&s;tomes and Sub&s;i|dies thereof be duely an&s;wered, payd or compounded for, to and with the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> or one of them, their, or one of their executors, admini&s;trators, a&s;&s;ignes, deputies, Factors or &s;eruants, or &s;ome of them, according to the true intent and meaning of the &s;aid Letters Patents. And that if any &s;uch
<PB N="95" REF="54"> Wares, merchandizes or commodities, be di&s;charged, vnladen or layed on land, that after knowledge thereof, they &s;hall forthwith and with all conuenient &s;peed, giue notice of &s;uch di&s;charging, vnlading or laying on land to the &s;ayd <HI>Roger Pennell</HI> and <HI>Richard Grim&s;tone,</HI> or one of their executors, admini&s;trators and a&s;&s;ignes, or to their deputies, Factors, or &s;eruants, to the ende they may take the benefit of our &s;ayd Grant, vpon paine of our di&s;plea&s;ure and indignation, and of &s;uch forfeiture, paine and puni&s;hment, as by the lawes of our Realme can or may be inflicted vpon them, and euery of them in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And we haue al&s;o by our &s;aid Letters patents &s;traitly charged, prohibited and forbidden all and euery the Owners, Farmers, or occupiers of all and euery Wharfes, Keyes, Brewhou&s;es, and other &s;uch like place and places of lading, or vnlading what&s;oe|uer, within this our Realme of England, That they nor any of them &s;hall not &s;uffer or permit any goods, wares, merchandizes or other commodities to be vn&s;hipped, vnladen, di&s;charged or laid on land, in any of the &s;ayd Wharfes, Keyes, Brewhou&s;es or other &s;uch like places of lading or vnlading, contrary to the Bookes of Cu&s;tomes made in the &s;euenth yeere of the raigne of our deare Si&s;ter <HI>Elizabeth</HI> the late Queene of England, vpon paine of our di&s;plea&s;ure and indignation, and of &s;uch paines and penalties as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme can or may be infli|cted on them for their offence in that behalfe, As by the &s;ayd Let|ters Patents more at large appeareth. All which premi&s;&s;es, to the intent our will and plea&s;ure in that behalfe might the better be knowen to all &s;uch our louing Subiects whome it may con|cerne, We are plea&s;ed that they &s;hould in our name bee publi&s;hed, notified and commended by the&s;e pre&s;ents to all and euery our lo|uing Subiects to be done and performed, vpon the paines and penalties afore&s;aid, according to the tenour and true intent of the &s;ayd Letters Patents.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>2. <HI>February.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning Lea&s;es and A&s;&s;erts.</HEAD>
<P>HIs mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie calling to his remembrance, that the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme hath euer bene enriched with Honours, Pallaces, Ca&s;tles, Lord|&s;hips, Mannors, Forre&s;ts, Parkes, Cha&s;es, Lands, Tenements, Reuenues and hereditaments, of a greater yeerely value, then a|ny
<PB N="96" REF="54"> King or Prince in <HI>Europe,</HI> And not finding any of them to haue bene by any of his Progenitors (Kings and Queenes of this Realme) &s;o indiuidually annexed to the &s;ayd Imperiall Crowne, but that the &s;ame hath bene &s;euered or diuided: And where it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God of his infinite and vn&s;peakeable mercy to|wards this Realme, both in pre&s;ent, and to all future po&s;teri|ties, not onely to ble&s;&s;e and enrich his Maie&s;ty with &s;uch a plen|tifull and Royall progenie, aboue the mo&s;t of the Kings of the world, as his louing Subiects and their po&s;terities &s;hal, by Gods prouidence, for euer be freed from all former feares, and liue in all happine&s;&s;e and &s;afety, vnder the certaine and ble&s;&s;ed gouernment of his Maie&s;ty, and his Royall i&s;&s;ue, vntill all the Kingdomes of the earth &s;hal haue an end, but al&s;o with &s;uch I&s;&s;ues, as God hath endued with &s;o many rare and excellent vertues and gifts both of body and minde, the multiplication of which his Royall po&s;te|ritie (to our further comfort) remayneth in Gods &s;ecret plea&s;ure: His Maie&s;tie intending to begin and leaue an example both to his owne and others, of his Royall and naturall care, as well for the certaine &s;upportation and amplitude of his Royall &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, Kings of this Realme, and for honourable Ioinctures to be made to the Queenes of this Realme for the time being, as al&s;o for com|petent &s;u&s;tentation and aduancement of the Kings yonger chil|dren, in honourable and pro&s;perous e&s;tate, as appertaineth; Hath (out of his Princely wi&s;edome and prouidence, by aduice of his Priuy Councell) re&s;olued to haue all tho&s;e Honours, Pallaces, Ca&s;tles, Lord&s;hips, Manours, Forre&s;ts, Parkes, Cha&s;es, Lands, Tenements and hereditaments, parcell of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of his Maie&s;ties Crowne of <HI>England,</HI> and of the Duchie of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> as are &s;et downe and expre&s;&s;ed in fourteene Schedules, to be indiui|dually and in&s;eparably, for the purpo&s;es and intents aboue&s;ayd, at the next Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, by Authoritie and con&s;ent of the &s;ame, vnited and annexed for euer hereafter to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme. His mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tan|ding, that the greate&s;t part of the premi&s;&s;es be in Lea&s;e for liues or yeeres in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and mo&s;t of them in Reuer&s;ion for terme of yeeres, All which be &s;ubiect not onely to &s;trict conditions, but al&s;o to diuers other que&s;tions and ambiguities, which cannot &s;o per|fectly and effectually be &s;alued and remedied after the &s;ayd Annex|ation, as they may now be, and in his Princely care and fauour to his louing Subiects tendering their quiet, without &s;eeking &s;uch aduantages, as his Maie&s;tie might by the Lawes of this Realme, by rea&s;on of the &s;ayd Conditions, and other defects: And to the end there may be a meane, whereby his Highne&s;&s;e &s;aid &s;ub|iects
<PB N="97" REF="55"> may with le&s;&s;e charge and attendance attaine to a conueni|ent Compo&s;ition in &s;uch ca&s;es; Hath by his Highne&s;&s;e Commi&s;|&s;ion vnder the great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> giuen full power and Au|thority vnto certaine Commi&s;&s;ioners in the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion mentioned, from time to time to giue and take order, a&s;well for the Surrender of any E&s;tate, Lea&s;e, or terme for yeeres, life or liues, mentioned to be demi&s;ed by any Letters Patents, Inden|tures, or writings, of any of the afore&s;ayd premi&s;&s;es or any part thereof, as thereupon, for &s;uch rea&s;onable and moderate con&s;ide|ration as &s;halbe thought fit by the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners to grant, demi&s;e, and let to Farme to euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o &s;ur|rendring the E&s;tate, Terme, or Intere&s;t, claimed by them as a|fore&s;ayd, or to &s;uch per&s;ons as they &s;hal nominate in that behalfe, &s;uch, and &s;o many of the premi&s;&s;es, as &s;hall be &s;o mentioned to be &s;urrendred, for the terme of Fourty yeeres or vnder in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion (other then Mar&s;h or &s;urrounded Grounds, and certaine other hereditaments, which may be demi&s;ed for a longer Terme, as hath bene heretofore accu&s;tomed) or for terme of &s;ixe liues or vn|der, or for &s;uch terme of yeeres, life, or liues, as &s;hall be by any per|&s;on or per&s;ons mentioned to be Surrendred. And further to grant, demi&s;e, and let to Farme to any per&s;on or per&s;ons in Re|uer&s;ion for rea&s;onable con&s;ideration, for the terme of one and twenty yeeres, or for &s;uch number of yeeres in Reuer&s;ion, as &s;hall be &s;o mentioned to be Surrendred as is afore&s;ayd, any of the fore|&s;aid premi&s;&s;es now in Lea&s;e, or E&s;tate to any per&s;on or per&s;ons, to commence and take effect after the Determination, Surren|der, or forfeiture of the pre&s;ent Intere&s;t, terme or e&s;tate.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;tie hath further for the great quiet and &s;afety of his louing Subiects, (whom it doeth concerne) authorized the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners to containe in euery Lea&s;e by force of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion to be made, &s;uch penalties of <HI>Nomine poenae</HI> or other rea&s;onable clau&s;es (in &s;teed of the &s;trict Proui&s;oes and Conditi|ons) as the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall in their wi&s;edomes and di&s;|cretions thinke fit, as by the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion more at large ap|peareth. And whereas his mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;ty, being infor|med that many of his louing Subiects, and their Ance&s;tors, haue for very &s;mall Rent of long and ancient time bene in quiet po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion of diuers Me&s;&s;uages, Lands, tenements, and hereditaments called A&s;&s;erts, Wa&s;ts, or Prepa&s;tures, which are, or were within the limits of &s;ome of his Maie&s;ties Forre&s;ts, Hath for the com|mon good and quiet of all his louing Subiects, and for auoyding of chargeable and tedious Suits, by one other Commi&s;&s;ion vn|der the great Seale of England, giuen full power and authority
<PB N="98" REF="55"> vnto certaine Commi&s;&s;ioners in the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion mentio|ned, for &s;uch con&s;iderations as are therein expre&s;&s;ed, to bargaine, &s;ell and conclude for his Maie&s;ty, and in his Highne&s;&s;e name, for any of the &s;ayd A&s;&s;ert lands, Wa&s;ts or Prepa&s;tures, to and with a|ny per&s;on or per&s;ons, and their heires in Feefarme, or other e&s;tate of inheritance, with a di&s;charge of the meane profits thereof, as by the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion more at large al&s;o appeareth. In con&s;i|deration whereof, and for that the time being runne out, and the &s;ayd Annexation once e&s;tabli&s;hed, the &s;ayd Farmers, Lea&s;&s;ees, oc|cupiers, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ours, and others clayming vnder them, cannot ob|taine to them&s;elues &s;o certaine and a&s;&s;ured meanes of their bene|fit, quiet and freedome from Que&s;tions, Suits, and troubles, for the comfort of them&s;elues, their wiues and children, as they now may: His mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;ty hath of his aboundant grace (with adui&s;e of his Priuie Councell) cau&s;ed this his Royall and Princely care and fauour to all his louing Subiects, to be by the&s;e pre&s;ents openly and vniuer&s;ally diuulged and publi&s;hed, to the end that all of them (whom it concerneth) may in time appre|hend, and take the benefit thereof, and none of them may be pre|uented of &s;o great a benefit, for want of timely knowledge or vn|der&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the xvij. day of February, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for reuocation of Mariners from forreine Seruices.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas within this &s;hort time &s;ince the Peace conclu|ded betweene vs and the king of <HI>Spaine</HI> and the Arch|dukes our good brothers, it hath appeared vnto vs that many Mariners and Seafaring men of this Realme, ha|uing gotten a cu&s;tome and habite in the time of the Warre to make profite by Spoile, doe leaue their ordinary and hone&s;t voca|tion and Trading in Merchantly Voyages, whereby they might both reape conuenient maintenance, and be &s;eruiceable to their Countrey, And doe betake them&s;elues to the &s;eruice of diuers for|reine States, vnder the title of men of Warre, to haue thereby oc|ca&s;ion to continue their vnlawful and vngodly cour&s;e of liuing by &s;poile, v&s;ing the &s;eruice of tho&s;e Princes but for colour and pre|text, but in effect making them&s;elues commonly no better then
<PB N="99" REF="56"> Pirats to robbe both our owne Subiects their Countreymen, and the &s;ubiects of other Princes our neighbours, going in their hone&s;t Trade of Merchandize: By which cour&s;es they doe im|peach the quiet traffique of Nations one with other, leaue our Realme vnfurni&s;hed of men of their &s;ort, if we &s;hould haue cau&s;e to v&s;e them, and inure them&s;elues to an impious di&s;po&s;ition of li|uing by rapine and euill meanes, although by rea&s;on of the Vni|uer&s;all peace wherein wee are at this pre&s;ent with all Chri&s;tian Princes and States, they may haue a more plentifull employ|ment in an orderly and lawfull Nauigation, then at any time of late yeeres they could haue had: We haue thought it nece&s;&s;ary in time to preuent the &s;preading of &s;uch a corruption among&s;t our Subiects of that &s;ort and calling, whereby our Nation will be &s;o much &s;landered, &amp; our Realme &s;o greatly di&s;aduantaged. Where|fore we doe will and command all Ma&s;ters of &s;hips, Pilots, Ma|riners, and all other &s;ort of Seafaring men, who now are in the Martiall &s;eruice of any forreine States, that they doe pre&s;ently returne home into their owne Countrey, and leaue all &s;uch for|reine Seruices, and betake them&s;elues to their vocation in the lawfull cour&s;e of Merchandize, and other orderly Nauigation, vpon &s;uch paines and puni&s;hments as by the Lawes of our Realme may be inflicted vpon them, if after this declaration of our plea&s;ure, they &s;hall not obey. And we doe al&s;o vpon the &s;ame paines &s;traitly charge and command al our Subiects of that pro|fe&s;&s;ion, that none of them &s;hall from hencefoorth take Letters of Marke or Repri&s;all, nor &s;erue vnder any that hath &s;uch letters of Marke or Repri&s;all from any forreine Prince or State what&s;o|euer, Nor otherwi&s;e employ them&s;elues in any warlike Seruices of any forraine State vpon the Sea, without &s;peciall Licen&s;e obtained from our &s;elfe, or from our high Admirall, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their perils.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as although we are in Peace with all Chri&s;tian Princes and States, yet during the continuance of the Warre betweene the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> and the Archdukes on the one &s;ide, and the vnited Prouinces of the Low-Countreys on the other &s;ide, many chances may happen, as &s;ome already haue hap|pened, of difficult interpretation to our Officers and Sub|iects how to behaue them&s;elues in &s;uch ca&s;es, vnle&s;&s;e they be ex|planed vnto them: Wee haue thought it conuenient to make an open declaration how our &s;aid Officers and Subiects &s;hall de|meane them&s;elues towards the Subiects a&s;well of the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> and Archdukes, as al&s;o of the States vnited in the ca&s;es following.</P>
<PB N="100" REF="56">
<P>Fir&s;t our plea&s;ure is, That within our Portes, Hauens, Rodes, Creekes, or other places of our Dominion, or &s;o neere to any of our &s;ayd Portes or Hauens, as may bee rea&s;onably con|&s;trued to bee within that Title, Limit, or Precinct, there &s;hall be no force, violence, &s;urpri&s;e, or offence &s;uffered to be done either from Man of warre to Man of warre, or Man of warre to Mer|chant, or Merchant to Merchant of either party, but that all of what Nation &s;oeuer, &s;o long as they &s;hall bee within tho&s;e our Ports and places of our Iuri&s;diction, or where our Officers may prohibite violence, &s;hall bee vnder&s;tood to be vnder our pro|tection to bee ordered by cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice, and be at peace each with other.</P>
<P>And whereos &s;ome of the Men of warre of ech &s;ide haue v&s;ed of late, and it is like will v&s;e in time to come, though not to come within our Ports, becau&s;e there they know wee can re|&s;traine violence, yet to houer and hang about the &s;kirts of our Ports, &s;omewhat to Seaboard, but yet &s;o neere our coa&s;tes and the entrie of our Harbours, as in rea&s;on is to be con&s;trued to be within the extent of the &s;ame, and there to await the Merchant of the aduer&s;e part, and doe &s;eaze and take them at their going out of our Ports, which is all one in a manner, as if they tooke them within our Port, and will bee no le&s;&s;e hinderance to the trade of Merchants: Our plea&s;ure therefore and commaunde|ment is to all our Officers and Subiects by Sea and Land, That they &s;hall prohibite, as much as in them lyeth, all &s;uch ho|uering of Men of warre of either &s;ide, &s;o neere the entrie of any of our Hauens or our Coa&s;tes, And that they &s;hall re&s;cue and &s;uc|cour all Merchants, and others that &s;hall fall within the dan|ger of any &s;uch as &s;hall await our Coa&s;tes in &s;o neere places, to the hinderance of Trade and Traffique outward and homeward from and to our Kingdomes. And for the better in&s;tructions of our Officers in the execution of the&s;e two Articles, Wee haue cau&s;ed to be &s;ent to them plats of tho&s;e Limits, within which we are re&s;olued that the&s;e Orders &s;halbe ob&s;erued.</P>
<P>And where it hath happened, and is like to doe often, that a Ship of warre of the one &s;ide may come into &s;ome of our Ports, where there &s;hall bee a Merchant of the other &s;ide: In &s;uch ca&s;e, for the benefit and pre&s;eruation of the lawfull Trade of Mer|chants, Our plea&s;ure is, That all Merchants Ships, if they will require it, &s;hall bee &s;uffered to depart out of the &s;ayd Port, two or three Tydes before the Man of warre, to the intent that the Merchant may bee free from the pur&s;uite of his aduer&s;ary. And if it &s;o happen, that any Ship or Ships of warre of the one
<PB N="101" REF="57"> &s;ide, doe finde any Ship or Ships of warre of the other &s;ide in a|ny our Ports or Roades afore&s;ayd; Like as our plea&s;ure is that during their abode there, all violence be forborne: So doe wee likewi&s;e commaund our &s;ayde Officers and Subiects both on Sea and Land, That the Ship of warre which came in fir&s;t, bee &s;uffered to depart a Tyde or two before the other which came in la&s;t, And that for &s;o long time they &s;hall &s;tay and detaine any &s;hip of warre, that would offer to pur&s;ue another out of any our Ports immediatly.</P>
<P>And where wee are infourmed, that notwith&s;tanding the &s;e|ueritie of our Lawes again&s;t receiuers of Pirats goods, many of our Officers of our Ports, and other inhabitants within and neere vnto them, doe receiue dayly Goods brought in from Sea by &s;uch as are indeed Pirats, if they, and the getting of their Goods, were well examined: We doe hereby admoni&s;h them all, to auoyd the receiuing or buying of any Goods from Sea, com|ming not into the Realme by lawfull cour&s;e of Merchandi&s;e, for that they &s;hall finde, wee are re&s;olued &s;o to preuent all occa&s;ion and encouragement of Pirats to bee v&s;ed by any our Subiects, as wee will cau&s;e our Lawes to bee fully executed according to their true meaning, both again&s;t the Pirats, and all Receiuers and Abetters of them, and their Goods.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Thetford</HI> <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of March, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for Buil|dings, in and about LONDON.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie &s;eeing of what nece&s;|&s;ary v&s;e Timber is, a&s;well for the maintenance of the Shipping and Nauie of this Realme, being a principall meane for the defence thereof, As for Building, and other needfull v&s;es: And vnder&s;tanding withall, how much and how extraordinarily the &s;ame hath beene, and is decayed and con&s;u|med in all parts of this Realme, In &s;o much as in the very City of London (being the principall Citie of this Realme) they are now dayly driuen to build with Beech, and other like kinde of Timber, being of &s;mall continuance, which in time will bee
<PB N="102" REF="57"> (if the &s;ame be not preuented) the notorious perill and decay of the &s;ame Citie: Doeth therefore &s;traitly charge and commaund, that a&s;well all Statutes and Lawes heretofore made, and now in force, for the pre&s;eruation of Timber, As that al&s;o concer|ning Inmates, and the erecting and continuing of Cottages, bee from henceforth duely and exactly put in execution. Forbid|ding withall, that none bee &s;o hardly vpon paine of Contempt, and his Maie&s;ties High di&s;plea&s;ure, as to conuert any part of any Tree, that may &s;erue for any v&s;e of Timber, to any Coale or Fire-wood. And for the better pre&s;eruation of Timber, and to auoid the vnnece&s;&s;ary con&s;umption thereof, His Maie&s;tie al&s;o &s;traitly chargeth and commandeth, That betweene this and the fea&s;t of S. Michael the Archangel next comming, no New hou&s;e bee built within the &s;ame Citie of London, or the Suburbes thereof, or within one mile of the &s;ame Suburbes, contrary to the Proclamations in that behalfe heretofore made. And that from and after the &s;ayd fea&s;t of S. Michael the Archangel, no per&s;on &s;hall build or erect any New hou&s;e, or the forefront of any Hou&s;e in any new Building, where any former Building was, within the &s;ame Citie or Suburbs, or within one mile of the &s;ayd Suburbs, except all the vtter wals and windowes thereof, and the forefront of the &s;ame be wholly made of Bricke, or Bricke and &s;tone, And the forefront thereof in euery re&s;pect &s;hall bee made of that vniforme order and forme, as &s;hall be pre&s;cribed vn|to them for that Street where &s;uch Building &s;hall happen to be, by the chiefe Magi&s;trates of the &s;ame Citie, being within the Citie and the Liberties thereof, and being out of the Citie by &s;uch Iu&s;tices of the Peace or other Magi&s;trates, as haue the go|uernment in that place, vpon paine to bee fined and impri&s;oned for the &s;ame, by order of the Court of Starchamber.</P>
<P>And to the end that &s;ome fitting and orderly cour&s;e may bee ta|ken and &s;et downe for vniformitie to bee kept in euery Sreete, where &s;uch Buildings &s;hall bee, His Maie&s;tie purpo&s;eth to di|rect out his Commi&s;&s;ion to di&s;creet and &s;kilfull per&s;ons, to con|&s;ider of, and &s;et downe &s;ome fit Orders and direction for the &s;ame. And his Maie&s;tie further expre&s;ly chargeth and com|maundeth all Maiors, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Con&s;tables, Stewards of Leets and Lawdayes, and all others his Maie|&s;ties louing Subiects, to whome it &s;hall or may appertaine, carefully to looke into, and execute the premi&s;es, and not to per|mit or &s;uffer any thing to be done contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Proclamation. And that they take order that
<PB N="103" REF="58"> &s;uch offenders or workemen, as &s;hall per&s;i&s;t in doing any thing to the contrary thereof after admonition to them in that behalfe to bee giuen, be bound to appeare in the &s;ayd Court of Starre-Chamber at the next &s;itting day of the &s;ame Court, there to bee proceeded again&s;t as contemners of his Maie&s;ties expre&s;&s;e Commaundement, Proclamation and Prerogatiue Royall.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Thetford</HI> <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of March, in the &s;econd yeere of his Maie&s;ties Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1604.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="year">
<PB N="104" REF="58">
<HEAD>ANNO TERTIO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning A&s;&s;art lands.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas by our Proclamation giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter the 18. day of February, in the &s;econd yeere of our Reigne of <HI>Great Britaine, France and Ire|land,</HI> we did publi&s;h &amp; make it knowen to our louing Subiects, that for their common good and quiet, and for auoy|ding of chargeable and tedious Suits, wee had by our Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the Great Seale of England, giuen full power and authority vnto certaine Commi&s;&s;ioners in the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion mentioned, for vs, and in our name to bargaine, &s;ell and conclude for diuers our Me&s;|&s;uages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments called A&s;&s;arts, Wa&s;ts or Purpre&s;tures, which are or were within the limits of &s;ome of our Forre&s;ts, to and with any per&s;on or per&s;ons, and their heires in Fee-farme, or other e&s;tate of inheritance, with a di&s;|charge of the meane profits, as by our &s;ayd Proclamation may more at large appeare: Whereupon wee doubted not but our lo|uing Subiects whom it did concerne, and who haue bene long in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ayd Landes at very low Rates, would haue taken care in time to haue prouided for their owne profit, &s;afetie and peace therein. And neuerthele&s;&s;e wee are of late enformed, that hitherto very few of them haue appeared before our &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners to compound or conclude for any of our &s;aid Me&s;|&s;uages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, as was expected, pre&s;uming (as it &s;eemeth) that they may take their owne times and lea&s;ure for it, and in the meane time &s;ome others neuer po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed of the &s;ayd Me&s;&s;uages, Landes, Tenements or Heredita|ments, haue in their default offered to compound and conclude with vs for the &s;ame. Wherein our de&s;ire is, that the long and ancient po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the &s;ayd Lands, &s;hould herein be preferred before all others.</P>
<PB N="105" REF="59">
<P>The&s;e are therefore to &s;ignifie our further plea&s;ure, That all &s;uch as be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of any the &s;ayd Me&s;&s;uages, Lands, Tene|ments or Hereditaments, and do purpo&s;e or thinke good for their owne profit, &s;afety and quiet, to compound or conclude with our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners for any the &s;aid Me&s;&s;uages, Lands, Tene|ments or Hereditaments called A&s;&s;arts, Wa&s;ts, or Purpre&s;tures, which are or were within the limits of any of our Forre&s;ts or Cha&s;es, &s;hall come in and attend our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners concer|ning the &s;ame, betwixt this and the fir&s;t of October, now next en|&s;uing, otherwi&s;e in their default we will di&s;po&s;e thereof to others as we &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Ea&s;t-Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 12. <HI>day of May, in the</HI> 3. <HI>yere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation with certaine Or|dinances to be ob&s;erued by his Maie&s;ties Subiects toward the King of Spaine.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the Kings Maie&s;ty hath alwayes bene ready to imbrace and cheri&s;h &s;uch a perfit amitie and friend|&s;hip betweene him and the King of Spaine, and the Archdukes his good brethren, as might &s;tand with his owne Ho|nour, and the common good of his people (For the better &amp; more particuler ob&s;eruation whereof, there hath beene lately pa&s;&s;ed a Treatie, wherein his Maie&s;ties Royall will and plea&s;ure is made &s;o notorious to the world in all things, as who&s;oeuer doeth, or &s;hall cro&s;&s;e the &s;inceritie of his Maie&s;ties intention by any action of theirs, cannot auoyd the cen&s;ure of high and wilfull contempt again&s;t his per&s;on and State,) Although his Maie&s;tie is not ignorant, that the&s;e offences for the mo&s;t part, are dayly com|mitted by &s;uch, as (partly out of their owne originall corruption, and partly by habite of &s;poile and rapine) are become &s;o in&s;en&s;i|ble or de&s;perate of the perill they draw vpon them&s;elues, and the imputation they ca&s;t vpon the honour of their Soueraigne (&s;o precious to him) as his Maie&s;tie is driuen for repaire thereof, to make open profe&s;&s;ion of his &s;inceritie in this kinde, more often then otherwi&s;e he would: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, his Maie&s;tie hauing lately found by many circum&s;tances, that mo&s;t of the&s;e great faults doe growe and multiply, by negligence of inferiour Offi|cers, (e&s;pecially &s;uch as are re&s;ident in the Ports, and dwell in the Maritime Counties,) from whome his Maie&s;tie expecteth &s;o
<PB N="106" REF="59"> continuall care and vigilancie (not onely out of feare of his Ma|ie&s;ties di&s;plea&s;ure, but euen for con&s;cience &s;ake,) as they &s;hould be rather indu&s;trious watches ouer tho&s;e that runne &s;uch wicked cour&s;es, then (in any degree) Receitors or abettors of the &s;ame, con&s;idering that tho&s;e are as well accomptable to God, that hin|der not the euill of others (being in their power, and incident to their peculiar places and dueties) as tho&s;e that are the per&s;onall Actors, or contriuers of the &s;ame: His Maie&s;tie hath thought it nece&s;&s;ary once again to publi&s;h to all per&s;ons of what place or con|dition &s;oeuer within his Maie&s;ties Dominions, the&s;e Rules and Ordinances following, as things whereunto he commaun|deth all per&s;ons (what&s;oeuer) to yeelde their duetifull obedience, vpon perill of his heauy indignation, and the grieuous paines be|longing to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, his Maie&s;tie commandeth that no Seaman or Mari|ner what&s;oeuer, &s;halbe &s;uffered to put him&s;elfe into any war|like &s;eruice at Sea of any forreine Prince or State, &s;traitly char|ging all that are in any &s;uch &s;eruice already, to leaue the &s;ame pre|&s;ently and without delay, and to record their apparance in their natiue Countrey, to &s;ome of his Maie&s;ties Officers, vpon paine to be held and puni&s;hed as Pirates.</P>
<P>Item, If any per&s;on offending, do at any time hereafter come into any port, or place of his Maie&s;ties Dominions, vpon what pretext &s;oeuer: his Maie&s;tie expre&s;ly chargeth all his Officers forthwith to apprehend the &s;ame, and to commit them to pri&s;on without Baile or Mainpri&s;e, and the Certificate thereof to bee pre&s;ently returned into the Admiraltie Court, to the end that they may be proceeded withall, according to the Lawes of the Realme, and the contents of his Maie&s;ties former Proclamations.</P>
<P>Item, His Maie&s;tie commandeth all his Subiects, (as they will auoyd his heauie indignation) to forbeare to be aiding or re|ceiuing of any Pirats, or &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall continue in any &s;uch warlike &s;eruice, as afore&s;aid, or any per&s;on not being a know|en Merchant, by contracting, buying, &s;elling, or by vicualling of them, or any of their Companie, vpon paine for &s;o doing, to be puni&s;hed pre&s;ently, as the principall Offenders and Pirates ought to be.</P>
<P>Item, That no &s;hipping, or men of warre, of what e&s;tate or condition &s;oeuer, going forth with commi&s;&s;ion of repri&s;all, or in any other warlike maner to &s;erue at Seas, &s;hall bee permitted in any of his Maie&s;ties ports, or in the members thereof to victuall or relieue them&s;elues with any warlike proui&s;ions, thereby to en|able them&s;elues the better, to any acts of ho&s;tilitie at Sea again&s;t
<PB N="107" REF="60"> any of his Maie&s;ties friends: but onely in their returne home|wards, if they happen to come into any of his Maie&s;ties ports, that then it &s;hall be lawfull for them to relieue them&s;elues with victuall or other nece&s;&s;aries to &s;erue them onely for the &s;pace of twentie dayes and no more, which is a proportion rea&s;onable to v&s;e in trade of merchandize.</P>
<P>Item, That all viceadmirals, Cu&s;tomers, or other Officers of the Ports &s;hall not &s;uffer any &s;hip of his Maie&s;ties Subiects to goe to the Seas, before &s;uch time as they (re&s;pectiuely in their &s;e|uerall ports) haue duely &s;earched and vi&s;ited the &s;ame, to the in|tent to &s;tay &s;uch per&s;ons as apparantly &s;hall bee furni&s;hed for the warres, and not for merchandize or fi&s;hing. And if there &s;hall be any maner of &s;u&s;pition, that the &s;ayd per&s;on (though he &s;hall pre|tend to trade for merchandize or fi&s;hing) hath or may haue any other intent by his proui&s;ions or furniture, then to v&s;e the trade of merchandi&s;e or fi&s;hing, that in &s;uch ca&s;e of &s;u&s;pition, the officers of the Ports &s;hall &s;tay, and no wayes &s;uffer the &s;ame to pa&s;&s;e to the &s;eas, without good bands with &s;ufficient &s;ureties fir&s;t had, to v&s;e nothing, but the lawfull trade of merchandi&s;e or fi&s;hing. And if the &s;ayd officers &s;hal &s;uffer any per&s;ons otherwi&s;e to repaire to the Seas, then aboue is mentioned, they &s;hall not onely an&s;were for any Pyracies, which any &s;uch per&s;on &s;hall chance hereafter to commit vpon the Seas, but &s;hall &s;uffer impri&s;onment vntill the offenders may be apprehended, if they &s;hall be liuing.</P>
<P>And further, as his Maie&s;tie declareth and denounceth gene|rally all &s;uch Pirates and Rouers vpon the Seas to be put out of his protection, and therefore to bee lawfully pur&s;ued and puni|&s;hed to the vttermo&s;t extremitie: &s;o becau&s;e his Maie&s;ty pre&s;u|meth, that all other States and per&s;ons in peace and friend&s;hip with him, will thinke it iu&s;t and honourable to proceede towards him, with the &s;ame &s;inceritie, which he ob&s;erueth towards them: His Maie&s;tie doeth al&s;o hereby notifie to the world, that where it falleth out that diuers of his Subiects are or may be entertained to &s;erue at Sea vnder Captaines and Commanders belonging to &s;ome forreine Prince or State, (which are now or may bee in termes of Ho&s;tilitie with any of his Maie&s;ties friends) thereby imagining, when they &s;hall (vpon occa&s;ion) enter with their &s;hips into any of his Maie&s;ties Harboroughs, that they &s;hall bee free from any interruption, according to the libertie of Common A|mitie and corre&s;pondencie which is v&s;ually ob&s;erued betweene Princes in &s;uch ca&s;es, onely becau&s;e the Commander or Captaine with &s;ome few per&s;ons be&s;ides are &s;trangers, and the re&s;t onely di&s;couered to be his Maie&s;ties Subiects: For as much as his
<PB N="108" REF="60"> Maie&s;tie (hauing made his iu&s;t and equall intentions thus appa|rant to all men by his publike Proclamations) would be loath to fru&s;trate the expectation of any his friends whom it doeth or may concerne: He doth hereby declare to all the world, that if he &s;hall hereafter finde any &s;uch fraudulent cour&s;e taken, in hope colou|rably to auoid the true con&s;truction of his &s;o iu&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary or|dinances, the breach whereof giues cau&s;e of further trouble and iealou&s;ies to ari&s;e betweene his Maie&s;ty and other Princes in the mutuall exerci&s;e of their Subiects free trade and entercour&s;e: he will make ab&s;olute &s;tay of any &s;uch &s;hips and per&s;ons, which &s;halbe &s;o brought into his Ports or Harboroughs, as per&s;ons and things wholly exempted from that protection and fauour, which he intendeth to maintaine and affoord to all others which &s;hall not in &s;uch kind go about to abu&s;e his Maie&s;ties integrity, who&s;e de&s;ire is to receiue no better mea&s;ure in any thing, then he is wil|ling to yeeld to others vpon the like occa&s;ions.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight day of Iuly, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas at the ri&s;ing of the late Se&s;&s;ion of our Par|liament, We prorogued the &s;ame vntill the third day of October now next en&s;uing: Wee haue &s;ince con&s;i|dered, that the holding of it &s;o &s;oone, is not &s;o conuenient, a&s;well for that the ordinary cour&s;e of our Subiects, re&s;orting to the Ci|tie for their v&s;uall affaires at the Terme, is not for the mo&s;t part vntill Al-hallowtide, or thereabouts: As al&s;o for that the con|cour&s;e of people which followeth the a&s;&s;embly comming from all parts of the Realme, in many whereof there may yet remaine &s;ome dregs of the late Contagion, may be an occa&s;ion to reuiue it in that place, where our mo&s;t abode is. And therefore wee haue thought it fit to prorogue it further for one moneths &s;pace, which will fall out vpon Tue&s;day the fifth day of Nouember next, at which day our purpo&s;e is (God willing) to hold the &s;ame. And do hereby giue notice to all, whom it concerneth, that they may frame their affaires accordingly, and attend at the &s;ayd fifth day of Nouember to that Seruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Ampthill</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 28. <HI>day of Iuly, in the</HI> 3. <HI>yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. An.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="109" REF="61">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation to redre&s;&s;e the mi&s;-imployment of Lands, Goods, and other things giuen for Charitable v&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, goods, chattels, money, and other things haue bene hereto|fore giuen, limitted, appointed and a&s;&s;igned, a&s;well by his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t noble Progenitors, as by &s;undry other wel di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons; Some for reliefe of aged, impotent, and poore people, &s;ome for maintenance of &s;icke and maymed &s;ouldiers and Mariners, Schooles of learning, Free-&s;chooles, and Schollers in Vniuer&s;ities; Some for repaire of Bridges, Ports, Hauens, Cau&s;e-wayes, Churches, Seabanks, and High-wayes; Some for education and preferment of Orphans; Some for or towards reliefe, &s;tock, or maintenance for hou&s;es of Correction; Some for marriage of poore Maydes; Some for &s;upportation, ayde, and helpe of yong Trade&s;men, Handicrafts men, and per&s;ons decaied; And others for reliefe, or redemption of pri&s;oners, or Captiues, and for ayd or ea&s;e of any poore inhabitants, concerning paiment of Fifteenes, &s;etting out of Souldiers, and other Taxes: Which Lands, Tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, money, and other things neuerthele&s;&s;e haue not not bene imployed according to the charitable intent of the giuers and Founders thereof, by rea&s;on of frauds, breaches of tru&s;t, and negligences in tho&s;e, that &s;hould pay, deliuer, and employ the &s;ame. For redre&s;&s;e and refor|mation whereof, remedy and reliefe haue bene prouided, in and by one Act of Parliament, made in the 43. yeere of the Reigne of the late Queene of famous memory, <HI>Elizabeth</HI> late Queene of England. By the due execution of which Act, in diuers and ma|ny parts of this Realme, much good hath en&s;ued, by the diligence and traueile of diuers of our charitable and well affected Sub|iects, by re&s;toring, and true employing of diuers and many of the &s;aid Gifts and Endowments, according to the true in&s;titution, ordinance, and intention of the Founders and donors in that be|halfe: And much more good his Maie&s;tie dayly expecteth &s;hould be done in &s;o Religious a ca&s;e, acceptable to God and al good men.</P>
<P>And whereas &s;uch as haue the care, charge and gouernment of the Colledges, Halles, and hou&s;es of learning within either of the Vniuer&s;ities of Cambridge or Oxeford, or of the Colleges of We&s;t|min&s;ter, Eaton, or Winche&s;ter, or of any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church, were pre&s;umed by the makers of the &s;aid Act, in re&s;pect
<PB N="110" REF="61"> of their profe&s;&s;ions and Offices (which ought to put them in con|tinuall memory of their dueties) to need no Law to enforce them to the performance of &s;o iu&s;t and charitable a worke, And there|fore did by &s;pecial Proui&s;o except and exempt them out of the &s;aid Act: His mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, in his godly meditations, cal|ling to his ble&s;&s;ed remembrance, how good and nece&s;&s;ary it is, That the deuout, godly, and charitable intents of the &s;aid Foun|ders and giuers &s;hould be exactly and duely performed, And no|thing doubting, but that the &s;ayd per&s;ons, bodies Politique and Corporate &s;o excepted, will a&s;well in di&s;charge of their owne con|&s;ciences (albeit they be not bound by the &s;aid Act) as for example to all others (that may be enforced thereby) wil &s;peedily, Chri&s;ti|anly, and exactly performe their &s;aid duety: Yet le&s;t that any in &s;o great a number &s;hould be found either &s;o remi&s;&s;e, as to neglect the &s;peedie employment of the &s;ame, or &s;o vncharitable and vncon|&s;cionable, as in any &s;ort, by fraude or deui&s;es to &s;eeke to peruert or ouerthrow the true in&s;titution and meaning of the &s;ayd Foun|ders or Giuers; His mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, in his Princely and Royall care, That the &s;ayd good and godly v&s;es and intents may be duely and &s;peedily employed, as is aboue&s;ayd, And that no per|&s;on or per&s;ons bodies Politike or Corporate (pre&s;uming to pa&s;&s;e away with impunitie) neglect, or not performe their dueties in that behalfe, Doeth (by adui&s;e of his Priuie Councell) &s;traitly charge and command a&s;well all and &s;inguler per&s;on and per&s;ons, bodies Politike and Corporate, within either of the &s;ayd Vniuer|&s;ities of Cambridge or Oxeford, or within We&s;tmin&s;ter, Eaton, or Winche&s;ter, or any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church afore&s;aid, as all other per&s;on and per&s;ons, bodies Politique and Corporate what&s;oeuer hauing any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, profits, goods, chattels, &s;ummes of money, or other things men|tioned to be giuen, limited, a&s;&s;igned or appointed to or for any of the good and charitable v&s;es aboue&s;aid, That they and euery of them doe wel and faithfully imploy the &s;aid Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, &s;ummes of money or other things, according to the true meaning, ordinance, and in&s;titution of the Founders, or giuers of the &s;ame, vpon paine of his Maie|&s;ties high di&s;plea&s;ure, and of &s;uch penalties and puni&s;hments, as they &s;hall iu&s;tly de&s;erue for contemning of his Royall commande|ment, in a cau&s;e &s;o iu&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary to be performed, and for their demerits in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And albeit his Maie&s;ty knoweth, that for and concerning &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, bodies politique and Corporate as be exemp|ted out of the &s;aid Act, &s;uch &s;ufficient remedy and reformation by
<PB N="111" REF="62"> vi&s;itations, and other lawfull meanes may be had in the ca&s;es a|boue&s;aid: Yet fora&s;much as the&s;e proceedings will require time, and draw the parties exempted out of the &s;aid Act, from their &s;tu|dies, and exerci&s;es of learning, and put them to no &s;mall charge; His mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, hath for their ea&s;e and profit taken this more &s;peedy cour&s;e by the&s;e pre&s;ents in maner and forme a|boue&s;ayd; Giuing all and &s;inguler the per&s;on and per&s;ons, bo|dies Politique and Corporate aboue&s;ayd a&s;&s;uredly to know, That who&s;oeuer &s;hall violate, or not performe his Maie&s;ties Royall commandement hereby publi&s;hed, that he, or they, or any of them &s;hall not hope to pa&s;&s;e away with impunity, but &s;hall vndergoe &s;uch paines, penalties, and puni&s;hments, as by the &s;euerity of the Lawes of this Realme, may be inflicted and impo&s;ed vpon &s;o grie|uous and vncharitable offendours.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Ca&s;tle of Rockingham</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 11. <HI>day of Augu&s;t, in the third yeere of his Maie&s;ties Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, again&s;t certaine calumnious &s;urmi&s;es concerning the Church gouernment of Scotland.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we haue euer &s;ince it plea&s;ed God to e&s;tabli&s;h vs in the Imperial Crowne of <HI>Great Britaine,</HI> equally regarded the good of both the late Kingdomes of Scotland and England, now happily vnited in our Royal per&s;on in one Monarchie, euer minding to maintaine and continue the good and lowable cu&s;tomes and Lawes whereby each of them hath bene the&s;e many ages &s;o worthily gouerned: neuerthele&s;&s;e &s;ome malitious &s;pirits, enemies to that common tranquilitie &s;o much de&s;ired by vs (forgetting the many proofes both publique and priuate, which we haue giuen of that our gratious affection to that our natiue and ancient countrey of <HI>North Britaine.</HI> of the freedome, libertie and priuiledges whereof we haue at all occa&s;i|ons taken &s;o &s;peciall a patrociny, as the &s;olemne a&s;&s;emblies of the E&s;tates of <HI>South Britaine,</HI> and Commi&s;&s;ioners from the E&s;tates of both Kingdoms haue bene eye witne&s;&s;es) haue not bene a&s;hamed to labour to peruert the minds of our be&s;t affected &s;ubiects, That whereas the in&s;olent and factious cariage of &s;ome of them hath merited mo&s;t &s;euere animaduer&s;ion, they would in&s;inuate them|&s;elues in the commi&s;eration of the multitude, by a&s;&s;uming vnto them a glorious profe&s;&s;ion of the maintaining of the Priuiledges
<PB N="112" REF="62"> and auctorized di&s;cipline, intended by vs (as they affirme) to be vt|terly ouerthrowne by a &s;udden and vn&s;ea&s;onable laying vpon them at this pre&s;ent the Rites, Ceremonies, and whole Eccle&s;ia|&s;ticall order e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church of this part of our King|dome of <HI>Britaine.</HI> And as we haue euer carefully regarded how conuenient it is to maintaine euery Countrey in that forme of gouernment which is fitte&s;t and can be&s;t agree with the con&s;titu|tion thereof, and how dangerous alterations are without good aduice and mature deliberation, &amp; that euen in matters of order of the Church, in &s;ome &s;mall Ilands vnder our Dominions, wee haue ab&s;tained from &s;uffering any alteration: So doubt we not, but our good Subiects will neuer be that credulous contrary to the knowen trueth, which hath euer appeared clearely in all our Actions, as to be in any doubt, but as in all our proceedings wee haue bene a Patrone of Religion and Iu&s;tice, (two in&s;eparable con&s;eruers of all Monarchies,) So hath all our &s;tudy and care euer bene to retrench and reforme all cour&s;es that caried any pre|iudice to that integritie whereat we haue euer aymed, and as by &s;o many good Lawes &s;et forth in our gouernment, Iu&s;tice hath attained to another perfection and &s;plendor, then it had in any our predece&s;&s;ors times, and with painefull and vnplea&s;ant bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, wee haue in the di&s;cipline of the Church taken away innu|merable abu&s;es and corruptions, which if they had not bene re|medied, had brought the puritie of Religion in extreeme danger. Yet we hope that none dare be &s;o impudent as to affirme that by our Soueraigne power, or ab&s;olute commandement we did the &s;ame (although we enioyed our auctoritie as freely as any King or Monarch of the world) but as the di&s;ea&s;e of the Ciuil body was euer cured by the adui&s;e of our three E&s;tates, So the defects of the Church by the helpe and coun&s;ell of tho&s;e who had greate&s;t in|tere&s;t in them, So as the pre&s;umption of our by-gone actions in our admini&s;tration, whiles we were pre&s;ent, the proofe of our fa|therly care towards this part of our kingdome &s;ince our re&s;idence here, may be &s;ufficient to &s;ecure vs again&s;t all &s;uch malitious ca|lumniations. And how euer in rule of pollicie we cannot but iudge it conuenient that two e&s;tates &s;o in&s;eparably conioyned, &s;hould be drawen to as great conformitie in al things as the good of both may permit; And that no Monarchy either in Ciuill or Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall pollicie hath yet attained to that perfection, that it needs no reformation, or that infinite occa&s;ions may not ari&s;e whereupon wi&s;e Princes will fore&s;ee for the benefite of their States, iu&s;t cau&s;e of alteration: Yet are we and haue euer bene re&s;olued, not to make any &s;udden or ha&s;ty change in the gouerne|ment
<PB N="113" REF="63"> of that part of our Kingdome, either Ciuil or Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, but with graue aduice and con&s;ent of our E&s;tates, and the wi&s;e&s;t and be&s;t &s;ort of them whom it mo&s;t properly concerns, much le&s;&s;e to trouble them with any vnnece&s;&s;ary alteration of indifferent and Ceremoniall matters, and that vpon &s;uch fore&s;eene aduan|tages, and preuention of confu&s;ion and euill to come, as the grea|te&s;t enemies of all Peace, obedience to Princes, and order in all gouernments &s;hal not obtrude any inconuenient to the contrary. And as by Gods holy a&s;&s;i&s;tance, we haue drawen that part of our Kingdome out of infinite troubles, factions, and cruel barbari|ties, and reduced the vttermo&s;t borders and confines thereof to Gods obedience, and acknowledging of our Lawes; (an E&s;tate neuer heard of before, &s;ince this Iland hath bene inhabited) So by the &s;ame diuine prouidence and our fatherly care ouer the whole Iland, we intend to tran&s;mit the &s;ame in good order, hap|py quietne&s;&s;e, and flouri&s;hing pollicie to that po&s;teritie where|with God hath ble&s;&s;ed vs, and after them to the worlds end; Like as for the more verification of our Honourable intention, and to &s;top the mouthes of the&s;e vnquiet &s;pirits, rai&s;ers of that fal&s;e &s;candall of alteration, We haue appointed a generall a&s;&s;embly to be holden at <HI>Dundee</HI> the la&s;t Tue&s;day of Iuly, whereat we expect reparation of tho&s;e di&s;orders in &s;o farre as belongeth to their cen|&s;ure, and to be freed in time comming of all &s;uch calumnies.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 26. <HI>day of September, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the annihila|ting of Commi&s;sions formerly granted for taking vp of Hounds, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>WHere vpon our fir&s;t comming to the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of this Kingdome, at the &s;ute of diuers per&s;ons, who had or pretended to haue from the Queene of famous me|mory our &s;i&s;ter decea&s;ed, Commi&s;&s;ions as annexed of cour&s;e to &s;e|ueral Offices which they held, for the taking vp of Hounds, Grey|hounds, Spaniels, and dogges of other &s;orts accu&s;tomed for Ve|nery, Faulconry or other &s;ports of Princes, Wee did renew vnto them their &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions, and grant the like to &s;ome others who had no offices, vpon diuers &s;ugge&s;tions made vnto vs, which Commi&s;&s;ions we haue &s;ince bene informed from diuers parts of our Realme, that inferiour Officers who haue bene tru&s;ted with
<PB N="114" REF="63"> them, haue abu&s;ed and do dayly abu&s;e, contrary to the meaning of the &s;ame, which was to be executed no further foorth then the nece&s;&s;ity of our &s;eruice &s;hould require: And fora&s;much al&s;o as we haue had good proofe that Gentlemen &amp; others, who delight in the like pa&s;time of hunting and hauking, haue &amp; wil be ready at all times of their owne good will and re&s;pect to our recreations, to furni&s;h vs of &s;ufficient number of dogges of all &s;orts, which we &s;hall haue cau&s;e to v&s;e, when they &s;hall be informed that we haue need of them: We haue therefore found it vnnece&s;&s;ary to con|tinue the execution of any our Commi&s;&s;ions heretofore giuen for that purpo&s;e, And do hereby notifie the &s;ame to all our Subiects, and expre&s;ly charge and command all tho&s;c, who haue any &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ions or Warrants from vs vnder our great Seale, or a|ny other our Seales, that they doe not onely forbeare to put the &s;ame in execution from henceforth, but al&s;o do bring in and deli|uer vp the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions and Warrants, into our Chancery, or any other Office, where they haue bene Sealed, within the &s;pace of Twentie dayes after the publi&s;hing hereof, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their perill. Willing al&s;o and comman|ding our Attourney generall, and all other of our Coun&s;ell lear|ned, that when&s;oeuer they &s;hall receiue information, that any per&s;on, who hath had &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ion from vs, &s;hall after the time aboue limitted execute the &s;ame, that they do pro&s;ecute their offence therein as in ca&s;e of contempt by all &s;uch wayes and meanes, as in like ca&s;e is v&s;uall.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 27. <HI>day of September, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the &s;earch and apprehen&s;ion of Thomas Percy.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas one <HI>Thomas Percy</HI> a Gentleman Pen&s;ioner to his Maie&s;tie, is di&s;couered to haue bene priuie to one of the mo&s;t horrible Trea&s;ons that euer was con|triued, that is, to haue blowen vp this day, while his Maie&s;tie &s;hould haue bene in the vpper Hou&s;e of the Parliament, attended with the Queene, the Prince, all his Nobilitie &amp; the Commons, with Gun-powder (for which purpo&s;e a great quantitie of Pow|der was conueyed into a Vault vnder the &s;aid Chamber, which is this morning there found) the Chamber where they &s;hould bee a&s;&s;embled, which <HI>Percy</HI> is &s;ithens fled: The&s;e are to will and com|mand
<PB N="115" REF="64"> all our Officers and louing Subiects what&s;oeuer, to doe that which we doubt not but they will willingly performe accor|ding to the former experience we haue had of their loue and zeale toward vs, That is, to make all diligent &s;earch for the &s;aid <HI>Percy,</HI> and him to apprehend by all po&s;&s;ible meanes, e&s;pecially to keepe him aliue, to the end the re&s;t of the Con&s;pirators may be di&s;coue|red. The &s;aid <HI>Percy</HI> is a tall man, with a great broad beard, a good face, the colour of his beard and head mingled with white haires, but the head more white then the beard, he &s;toupeth &s;omewhat in the &s;houlders, well coloured in the face, long footed, &s;mall legged.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the fift day of Nouember, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation denouncing Thomas Percy and other his ad|herents to be Traitors.</HEAD>
<P>VVHereas Thomas Percy Gentleman, and &s;ome o|ther his Confederates, per&s;ons knowen to bee &s;o vtterly corrupted with the &s;uper&s;tition of the Ro|mi&s;h religion, as &s;educed with the blindne&s;&s;e thereof, and being other wi&s;e of lewde life, in&s;olent di&s;po&s;ition, and for the mo&s;t part of de&s;perate e&s;tate, haue bin di&s;couered to haue contriued the mo&s;t horrible trea&s;on that euer entred into the hearts of men, again&s;t our Per&s;on, our Children, the whole Nobilitie, Cleargie, &amp; Com|mons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, which how&s;oeuer cloaked with zeale of &s;uper&s;titious religion, aymed indeed at the &s;ubuer&s;ion of the State, and to induce an horrible confu&s;ion of all things, In which they and all others of bankerupt and nece&s;&s;itous e&s;tate, might haue tho&s;e of better abilitie for a pray to repaire their beg|gerly Fortunes, and haue proceeded &s;o farre &s;ome of them in their deuili&s;h attempts, as to a&s;&s;emble in Troupes in our Counties of Warwicke and Worce&s;ter, where they haue broken vp a Stable, and taken out Hor&s;es of diuers Noblemen and Gentlemen, with|in our Towne of Warwicke, And no doubt but doe proceed fur|ther in their purpo&s;es, &s;eeking to rai&s;e &s;ome Rebellion in our Realme, and wil with many fained &amp; fal&s;e allegations &s;eeke to &s;e|duce diuers of our &s;ubiects, e&s;pecially with &s;hew of religion: Al|though wee are by good experience &s;o well per&s;waded of the loy|altie of diuers of our Subiects (though not profe&s;&s;ing true Reli|gion) that they doe as much abhorre this dete&s;table con&s;piracie
<PB N="116" REF="64"> con&s;piracie as our Selfe, and will be ready to doe their be&s;t ende|uours (though with expence of their blood) to &s;uppre&s;&s;e all At|temptors again&s;t our &s;afetie and the quiet of our State, and to di&s;couer whom&s;oeuer they &s;hall &s;u&s;pect to be of rebellious or trai|terous di&s;po&s;ition: Yet haue we thought good by this our open declaration, to giue warning and aduerti&s;ement to all our Sub|iects what&s;oeuer, of that horrible purpo&s;e of <HI>Percies</HI> and his Com|plices, and to di&s;tingui&s;h betwene all others, calling them&s;elues Catholickes, and the&s;e dete&s;table Traitors: And therefore doe de|nounce and publi&s;h all the per&s;ons hereunder named, Adherents to <HI>Percy,</HI> to be Traitours knowen, and that all others are in the &s;ame ca&s;e, who &s;hall in any wi&s;e either receiue, abette, cheri&s;h, en|tertaine, or adhere vnto them, or not doe their be&s;t endeuours to apprehend and take them.</P>
<P>Wherfore we will and command all our Lieutenants, Deputy lieutenants, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, and all other our Officers, Mini&s;ters and louing Subiects to take knowledge thereof, and to doe their be&s;t duties herein, as they wil an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill: Not doubting, but that they all, without regard of their pretence of Religion, will with one heart and will, employ them&s;elues for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing, apprehending, detecting, and di&s;couering of all &s;orts of per&s;ons any wayes likely to bee priuie to a Trea&s;on &s;o hatefull to God and men, and implying in it the vtter &s;ubuer&s;ion of this Realme, and dignitie thereof.</P>
<P>And where we doe heare that many do &s;pread abroad, that this Con&s;piracie was intended onely for matter of Religion, and that forreine Princes our neighbours are intere&s;&s;ed therein, which ru|mors are diuulged by bu&s;ie per&s;ons both to &s;candalize the Amitie wherein we &s;tand with all Chri&s;tian Princes and States, and to giue vnto lewde per&s;ons hope that they &s;hall be backed in their en|terpri&s;es by great Potentates: We doe delare, that we cannot ad|mit &s;o inhumane a thought, as to conceiue that any Prince, of what Religion &s;oeuer, could giue eare to &s;o &s;auage and barbarous and imagination: And that by &s;uch examinations as hitherto haue bene taken, we find them all, and their mini&s;ters cleere from any &s;u&s;picion of priuitie thereunto; whereof one infallible Ar|gument to vs is, That all the Mini&s;ters of forraine Princes, which are now here, made earne&s;t &s;ute to vs to bee pre&s;ent in the place that day. And therefore wee doe admoni&s;h and charge all our Subiects, that they &s;hall not &s;peake of any the Princes our neighbours, or their Amba&s;&s;adours, otherwi&s;e then reuerently, vpon paine of our di&s;plea&s;ure, and to be puni&s;hed as per&s;ons &s;ee|king
<PB N="117" REF="65"> the di&s;turbance of the Peace wherein we liue with our &s;ayd neighbours.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 7. <HI>day of No|uember, in the third yeere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Percy</HI> Gentleman.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Catesby</HI> E&s;quire.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;e Rookewood</HI> of Coldham Hall in Suffolke E&s;quire.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Winter</HI> Gentleman, brother of <HI>Robert Winter</HI> of Hud|dington in the Countie of Worce&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Grant</HI> of Northbrooke in the County of Warwick, gent.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Wright.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;topher Wright.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rober A&s;hfield</HI> &s;eruant to <HI>Robert Catesby</HI> E&s;quire.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, promi&s;ing reward to him that &s;hall apprehend Tho. Percy.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as it appeareth now in part, who were the Com|plices of <HI>Percy</HI> in his dete&s;table Trea&s;on publi&s;hed by our former Proclamations, in their a&s;&s;embling together to moue our people to Rebellion, Although perhaps many of them did ne|uer vnder&s;tand the &s;ecret and depth of his abhominable purpo&s;e; and that among&s;t tho&s;e which do flee for feare of our power, and for the guiltine&s;&s;e of their offence, Wee are informed that the &s;ayd <HI>Percy</HI> is: Wee haue thought it good to make knowen to all men, both that we put great odds betweene his part of the Trea|&s;on and other mens; And al&s;o, that fora&s;much as it importeth greatly that he &s;hould be taken, to the end that by his confe&s;&s;ions, the whole plot and the partners thereof might be di&s;couered, and from him&s;elfe the horrible purpo&s;e opened, which it is likely that many whom he hath &s;educed did neuer vnder&s;tand, And al&s;o that by the exemplary puni&s;hment of him, others be terrified fro~ &s;uch Trea&s;ons, as tend not onely to our de&s;truction, but to the confu|&s;ion and vtter di&s;&s;olution of the State: If any per&s;on &s;hall ap|prehend the &s;aid <HI>Percy,</HI> and bring him to vs or any our Officers a|liue; if that per&s;on be an offendour and paxtner with him in his Trea&s;on in what&s;oeuer degree, we will not onely giue him par|don of his life, lands, and goods, but al&s;o be&s;tow on him a reward of the value of one Thou&s;and pounds at the lea&s;t. And if he be no offendor, yet &s;hall he haue that or a greater reward. And for their a&s;&s;urance we doe hereby giue our pricely word.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 8. <HI>day of Nouember, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="118" REF="65">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the &s;earching for, and apprehending of Robert Win|ter, and Stephen Littleton.</HEAD>
<P>VVHere among&s;t other per&s;ons di&s;couered to be confe|derats in the late horrible Trea&s;on, for the de&s;truc|tion of our per&s;on and the whole E&s;tates of the Realme, one <HI>Robert Winter</HI> E&s;quire, is knowen to be a principall, who is fled for the &s;ame, and being not found among the company taken and defeated by the Sheriffe of our Countie of Worce&s;ter, doeth lurke in &s;ome places of our Realme: Although we doubt not, by that experience which in this cau&s;e we haue had of the di|ligence of our mini&s;ters in the apprehending of al per&s;ons, whom they &s;hall haue cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect; Yet becau&s;e the &s;aid <HI>Winter</HI> is vn|knowen to many, we haue thought it conuenient to publi&s;h a de|&s;cription of him, to the end he may the &s;ooner be found by tho&s;e who &s;hall lay wait for him, And to will and command all our Of|ficers, mini&s;ters and louing Subiects what&s;oeuer, to make all di|ligent &s;earch for the &s;aid <HI>Winter,</HI> and him to apprehend by all po&s;|&s;ible meanes, e&s;pecially to doe their be&s;t to keepe him aliue, to re|ceiue condigne puni&s;hment for his dete&s;table crime. The like di|ligence we doe al&s;o will and require them to v&s;e in the apprehen|ding of <HI>Stephen Littleton</HI> Gentleman, who&s;e de&s;cription is al&s;o hereunder written.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 18. <HI>day of Nouember, in the</HI> 3. <HI>yere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Robert Winter</HI> is a man of meane &s;tature, rather low then o|therwi&s;e, &s;quare made, &s;omewhat &s;touping, neere fourtie yeeres of age, his haire and beard browne, his beard not much, and his haire &s;hort.</P>
<P><HI>Stephen Litleton</HI> is a very tall man, &s;warthy of complexion, of browne coloured haire, no beard or little, about 30. yeeres of age.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, warranting She|riffes to pro&s;ecute Rebels into other Counties.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the cu&s;tody and &s;afe keeping of our &s;euerall Counties and Shires of our Realme of England, are by our ancient Common lawes committed to
<PB N="119" REF="66"> &s;euerall Sheriffes, being ancient con&s;eruators of the Peacr, and mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice within the &s;ame, who by force of their Offices may a&s;&s;emble, and take the power and &s;trength of our &s;aid Coun|ties and Shires committed to their charge, not onely for the due execution of Iu&s;tice, but al&s;o for the pre&s;eruation of our Peace, and the &s;peedy and timely di&s;&s;olution and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all In|&s;urrections, Rebellions, outragious Riots, Routes, and other ex|orbitant and vnlawfull a&s;&s;emblies, to the ende that &s;uch dange|rous attempts might be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed in their beginnings, and our louing Subiects liue and exerci&s;e their &s;cuerall vocations in all peace &amp; plentie; The good effect of the execution of which Lawes hath well appeared, in that the mo&s;t dete&s;table and diabolical Re|bellion of <HI>Percy</HI> and his complices in our Counties of Warwicke, Worce&s;ter, and Stafford, (that had bene &s;o &s;ecretly contriued, and &s;o long in hatching,) was by the peaceable mini&s;ters of our Lawes, and by due execution of their Offices, without any extra|ordinary power or forces, mo&s;t loyally, re&s;olutely, and &s;peedily &s;up|pre&s;&s;ed: And whereas &s;ome que&s;tion or &s;cruple hath bene (as we are enformed) moued among&s;t &s;ome of the vulgar, Whether any of our Sheriffes, may, with the power of their &s;euerall Counties or Shires, in pur&s;uit of Rebels and Traitors, follow them into any other County, Albeit by the Lawes of this Realme, Sheriffes, as it falleth out in dayly experience, in priuate ca&s;es betweene party and party (matters of no &s;uch eminent and publike danger and con&s;equence as this is) iu&s;tly and lawfully do the like, where|of we pre&s;ume few or none can be ignorant: Yet we meaning to giue &s;ati&s;faction to all, doe hereby publi&s;h and declare, That &s;uch pur&s;uit of Rebels and Traitors into other Counties, is not onely in &s;uch ca&s;es lawfull and iu&s;tifiable, But, that if any of our Sub|iects being thereunto required by any of our Sheriffes, &s;hall not follow and a&s;&s;i&s;t them in &s;uch pur&s;uit, that they are to be &s;euerely and &s;harply puni&s;hed for their high contempt and offence in that behalfe. But if in &s;uch pur&s;uit the Sheriffe of the &s;ame Coun|tie of Shire (whereunto &s;uch Rebels or Traitors &s;hall flie or e&s;|cape) &s;hall al&s;o come with the power of his County before &s;uch Rebels or Traitors be apprehended or &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, Then the She|riffe &s;o pur&s;uing from any other County or Shire &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t and ioyne with the Sheriffe in his proper County or Shire, for the apprehen&s;ion or &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of &s;uch Rebels and Traitors, And if &s;uch Rebels or Traitors &s;hall flie or e&s;cape into any hou&s;e or other place of &s;trength and defence, and &s;hal not yeeld them&s;elues being thereunto required by the Sheriffe or any of his company that &s;o &s;hall pur&s;ue them, but ob&s;tinately and wilfully make re&s;i&s;tance,
<PB N="120" REF="66"> That then it &s;hall be lawfull for euery &s;uch Sheriffe &s;o pur&s;uing with &s;uch power &amp; &s;trength, as he &s;hall collect, or &s;hal a&s;&s;i&s;t him, to beat downe, burne, or otherwi&s;e wa&s;t any &s;uch hou&s;e or place of defence for the better apprehen&s;ion or &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of &s;uch Rebels and Traitors. And albeit we de&s;ire that &s;uch indu&s;try and care may be taken, as that &s;uch offendors may be apprehended aliue, Yet we let it be knowen, that if otherwi&s;e through their rebelli|ous ob&s;tinacy and re&s;i&s;tance, &s;uch Rebellion cannot be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, That it &s;hall be lawfull and iu&s;tifiable in tho&s;e ca&s;es of nece&s;&s;itie, for the Sheriffe and his company a&s;&s;i&s;ting him, to kill and de&s;troy &s;uch Traitors and Rebels. And as the faithfull endeuours of our louing Subiects with &s;uch alacrity as they haue &s;hewed in this late Rebellion, is very acceptable vnto vs; So if in any &s;uch ca&s;e any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall vnder pretence of our publique &s;eruice, maliciou&s;ly and vniu&s;tly &s;eeke to reuenge any priuate quarrell, we let them know that they &s;hall not e&s;cape without &s;e|uere and condigne puni&s;hments according to their demerits in that behalfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 19. <HI>day of Nouember, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the apprehen|&s;ion and di&s;couerie of Iohn Gerrard, Henry Garnet, and O&s;wald Te&s;mond.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o manife&s;t to the world by all our proceedings hitherto towards tho&s;e Subiects of ours, which doe profe&s;&s;e the Ro|mi&s;h religion, how &s;low we haue bene to extend the &s;euerity of our Lawes (in matter of life) euen again&s;t the Romi&s;h Prie&s;ts them&s;elues, who &s;editiou&s;ly incite and warrant the ignorant Papi&s;ts to for&s;ake their naturall loue and loyaltie; as we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues that all which wee &s;hall now require hereby at the hands of our people, will appeare mo&s;t iu&s;t by the Lawes of na|ture, and by the &s;traight bonds of our peoples affections to vs their Soueraigne, and to their Countrey (although there were no &s;uch certaine po&s;itiue Lawes as there are, &s;o &s;traitly to enioyne the &s;ame, and vnder &s;o heauy paines.) And therefore &s;eeing it is now made plaine and euident by diuers examinations of many of tho&s;e pri&s;oners that haue bene the principall Con&s;pirators in the barbarous practi&s;e to de&s;troy (with powder) our owne Per&s;on and Po&s;teritie, with the whole State of the Realme in Parlia|ment
<PB N="121" REF="67"> a&s;&s;embled, that tho&s;e three Ie&s;uites vnder named, <HI>Iohn Gerrard ali&acirc;s Brooke, Henry Garnet ali&acirc;s Walley, ali&acirc;s Darcy, ali&acirc;s Far|mer, O&s;wald Te&s;mond ali&acirc;s Greenway,</HI> haue all three peculiarly bene practi&s;ers in the &s;ame; and being throughly per&s;waded that (in this trea&s;on &s;o foule and odious to euery good Subiects eares and hearts) we &s;hall find no man &s;o blind or impious, as for any di&s;tinction what&s;oeuer, to forbeare to doe their vttermo&s;t dueties for the di&s;couery and apprehen&s;ion of them that haue &s;o extraor|dinarily &s;inned again&s;t God, and betrayed vs:</P>
<P>We haue now thought good (in that con&s;ideration the rather) not onely to make knowen to all men, the bloody and cruel crimes whereof the&s;e particuler per&s;ons are guilty, but al&s;o to declare to all our Subiects hereby, That although the conformitie of all our Subiects to our commandements herein, &s;hall be no more then that which we doe a&s;&s;uredly promi&s;e our &s;elues from &s;uch lo|uing people, of who&s;e fidelitie wee haue had &s;o extraordinary ex|perience in like ca&s;es; Neuerthele&s;&s;e we are re&s;olued, that who&s;o|euer &s;hall be found to haue bene the particular occa&s;ion or in&s;tru|ment of their apprehen&s;ions, or any of them, &s;hall be particularly rewarded by vs, as diuers haue beene already, that haue &s;hewed their zeale and forwardne&s;&s;e for the pro&s;ecution and apprehen&s;ion of &s;ome of the&s;e Con&s;pirators: Adding thereunto this further prote&s;tation, That if it &s;hall appeare by any confe&s;&s;ions hereaf|ter, that any per&s;ons within our Dominions or Countreys (af|ter this declaration of the&s;e mens guiltine&s;&s;e in crimes &s;o farre beyond example) &s;hall pre&s;ume to be a Harbourer, maintainer, or Concealer of any of the&s;e three per&s;ons, or &s;hall not doe his be&s;t for their di&s;couery and apprehen&s;ion, That we are re&s;olued (without hope of mercy or forgiuene&s;&s;e) to &s;uffer the Lawes of the Realme, to be mo&s;t &s;euerely executed vpon them, as vpon tho&s;e whom wee e&s;teeme to be no le&s;&s;e pernicious to our Per&s;on, State and Com|mon wealth, then tho&s;e that haue bene Actors and concealers of the maine trea&s;on it &s;elfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 15. <HI>day of Ianuary, in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>De&s;cription of the &s;euerall parties aboue named.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IOhn Gerrard, ali&acirc;s Brooke,</HI> of &s;tature tall, and according there|unto well &s;et: his complexion &s;wart or blacki&s;h: his face large: his cheeks &s;ticking out, and &s;omewhat hollowe vnderneath the cheeks: the haire of his head long, if it be not cut off: his beard cut clo&s;e, &s;auing litle mu&s;tachoes, and a litle tuft vnder his lower lip: about fourtie yeeres old.</P>
<PB N="122" REF="67">
<P><HI>HEnry Garnet, ali&acirc;s Walley, ali&acirc;s Darcy, ali&acirc;s Farmer,</HI> of a midling &s;tature, full faced, fat of body, of complexion faire: his fore|head high on each &s;ide, with a litle thinne haire comming downe vpon the mid&s;t of the forepart of his head: the haire of his head and beard gri&s;led: of age betweene fiftie and three&s;core: his beard on his cheeks cut clo&s;e, on his chinne but thinne, and &s;omewhat &s;hort: his gate vpright, and comely for a fat man.</P>
<P><HI>OSwald Te&s;mond, ali&acirc;s Greenway,</HI> of meane &s;tature, &s;omewhat gro&s;&s;e: his haire blacke: his beard bu&s;hie and browne, &s;ome|thing long, a broad forehead, and about fourtie yeeres of age.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation touching a &s;e|ditious rumour &s;uddenly rai&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P>WHere a &s;editious rumour hath bene rai&s;ed this mor|ning, that &s;ome ill accident &s;hould bee befallen our per&s;on, and thereupon the people thereabouts haue bene rai&s;ed in Armes by direction from Con&s;table to Con&s;table, but with vncertaine knowledge from whom the fir&s;t ground &s;hould be rai&s;ed, or by what Warrant; Which we hold to be done purpo&s;ely by &s;ome tumultuous &s;pirits, to draw our Subiects together in Armes, to what intent we know not, vntill further examination may make it manife&s;t; Wee doe hereby make it knowen to all our louing Subiects, that (God be thanked) we remaine in good and perfect health: And doe require them to con|teine them&s;elues from a&s;&s;emblies, or gathering together in Armes or in conuenticles; A&s;&s;uring them&s;elues, that after due examination of this &s;editious Rumour, we will make knowen to them the Authors and intent thereof. And who&s;oeuer &s;hall not obey this our commandement, we &s;hall hold them for &s;editious, and breakers of our peace. And doe command all our Lieute|nants, deputie Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, She|riffes, and all other our Officers, mini&s;ters and louing Subiects, to doe their dueties in conteining our people within their due obedience, and to aduerti&s;e vs, or our Priuie Coun&s;el, of all di&s;turbers thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 22. <HI>day of March, in the third yere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1605.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="year">
<PB REF="68">
<PB N="123" REF="68">
<HEAD>ANNO QVARTO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation declaring what Flaggs South and North Britaines &s;hall beare at Sea.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas &s;ome difference hath ari&s;en be|tweene our Subiects of South and North <HI>Britaine</HI> traueyling by Seas, a|bout the bearing of their Flagges: For the auoyding of all &s;uch contentions hereafter, We haue with the adui&s;e of our Councell ordered; That from hencefoorth all our Subiects of this Ile and kingdome of <HI>Great Britaine,</HI> and the members thereof, &s;hall beare in their Mainetop the Red Cro&s;&s;e, com|monly called <HI>S. Georges Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> and the White Cro&s;&s;e commonly called <HI>S. Andrewes Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> ioyned together according to a forme made by our Heralds, and &s;ent by vs to our Admirall to be pub|li&s;hed to our &s;aid Subiects: And in their Foretop our Subiects of <HI>South Britaine</HI> &s;hall weare the Red Cro&s;&s;e onely as they were wont, and our Subiects of <HI>North Britaine</HI> in their Fore-top the White Cro&s;&s;e onely as they were accu&s;tomed.</P>
<P>Wherefore we will and command all our Subiects to be con|formable and obedient to this our Order, and that from hence|foorth they doe not v&s;e to beare their Flagges in any other &s;ort, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the twelfth day of April, in the</HI> 4. <HI>yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for preuention of future abu&s;es in Purueyance.</HEAD>
<P>SVch is the zeale and inward affection which we haue found in all &s;orts of our louing and loyall Subiects of this our Kingdome, as we are content to acknowledge, that (be&s;ides
<PB N="124" REF="69"> the Chri&s;tian care which all Kings are bound by the Law of God and nature to take ouer all their people) our owne &s;ence and ap|prehen&s;ion of their complaints, doeth dayly increa&s;e with the fee|ling we haue of their hone&s;t merits. In which re&s;pect, hauing ta|ken &s;ome more particular paines in the examination of diuers circum&s;tances, then is common to many princes; we did not only command all our Officers to be very diligent to trie out and pu|ni&s;h the offences of Purueyours with all &s;eueritie, but to fall into &s;erious con&s;ideration, how all occa&s;ion may bee taken away here|after, whereby tho&s;e inferiour Mini&s;ters, which are v&s;ed there|in, may make them&s;elues (vnder colour of our prerogatiue royal) the in&s;truments of corruption and rapine: A matter mo&s;t odious to our owne nature, who haue alwayes more de&s;ire to giue then to receiue from any our Subiects, except it be where nece&s;&s;itie in|forceth vs thereunto, euen for the &s;upport and pre&s;eruation of that &s;tate and dignitie wherein Almightie God hath placed vs. For better a&s;&s;urance whereof, We haue thought it very conueni|ent at this time, to take &s;ome occa&s;ion in this maner to expre&s;&s;e the fruits of our care and con&s;ideration concerning this particu|lar point of Purueyances.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, when wee were informed that &s;ome inferiour mini&s;ters had pre&s;umed to goe &s;o farre beyond their Commi&s;&s;ion, as they haue aduentured not onely to take timber trees growing (which being parcell of our Subiects inheritance were neuer intended by vs to be taken) without the good will and full contentment of the Owners, but haue accu&s;tomed al&s;o to take vp farre greater quantities of proui&s;ions for our hou&s;e and &s;table, then euer came or were needfull for our v&s;e (as mo&s;t e&s;pecially in wood, coale, hay, and cariage vpon our Progre&s;&s;e iourneys or remoues:) Although we haue no cau&s;e to doubt, but that our Officers of our Green-cloth haue bene and will be euer mo&s;t ready to &s;earch out and pu|ni&s;h all &s;uch offences vpon iu&s;t complaints, Yet we did not leaue the pur&s;uit and triall thereof to them onely, but did particularly direct our Attorney generall to informe again&s;t them on our be|halfe in our Court of Starre-chamber, where &s;ome of them vpon their confe&s;&s;ion, haue already receiued (by cen&s;ure of that Court) condigne puni&s;hment by Fine, impri&s;onment, pillorie, and loo|&s;ing of their eares, And &s;ome others &s;eeking to &s;aue them&s;elues by denying that wherewith they were charged, doe &s;till remaine vnder examination to receiue the like puni&s;hment, vpon due proofe thereof to be made again&s;t them. By which example wee per&s;wade our &s;elues, that all hone&s;t men will re&s;t &s;o well a&s;&s;ured of our good intention to reforme abu&s;es (euen to their greate&s;t &s;a|ti&s;faction
<PB N="125" REF="69"> when there is iu&s;t occa&s;ion) as they will carefully and willingly. continue their obedience and conformitie to tho&s;e cour|&s;es for furni&s;hing &s;uch proui&s;ions as are nece&s;&s;ary for vs which were taken by the con&s;ent of mo&s;t of the principall Gentlemen, and good Patriots in &s;euerall Counties, And whereof aboue &s;ix|teene Shires haue had continuance by the &s;pace of forty yeeres, E&s;pecially con&s;idering how many good, and wi&s;e Princes of this Realme, that haue gone before vs, where &s;uch agreements haue not bin made, haue held them&s;elues to their right of purueyance, which is one of the mo&s;t ancient flowers of the Crowne in our Progenitors, and mu&s;t de&s;cend to our po&s;teritie, whom God (we hope) both hath, and will &s;o farre enable with his ble&s;&s;ings, and graces, as they &s;hall prooue them&s;elues no le&s;&s;e able, nor worthy then any others, to enioy and pre&s;erue the right, of a iu&s;t and law|full Monarchie. Wherein, becau&s;e all wi&s;e men knowe &s;uffici|ently, that where&s;oeuer there mu&s;t be a tru&s;t in vulgar per&s;ons, it is not po&s;&s;ible to keepe their actions from errors, and abu&s;es; We haue thought it fit for a further demon&s;tration of our great care to preuent the &s;ame, to publi&s;h that which followeth, as well to terrifie the euil, as to comfort the well affected, who&s;e iu&s;t griefe &s;hall euer lie as neere vs, as our owne.</P>
<P>BE it therefore knowen hereby, that we doe giue expre&s;&s;e charge and commandement, that none of our Purueyours, nor other of our Officers or mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, that now are, or hereaf|ter &s;hall be, or any of them, or any of their deputies or &s;eruants, &s;hall take for vs, or in our name, or to or for any v&s;e what&s;oeuer, any timber trees of any our Subiects, growing in any place, or places what&s;oeuer, without the expre&s;&s;e con&s;ent, and agreement of the owner thereunto had and obtained. Of which particular abu&s;es we cannot conceale our mi&s;like, both in re&s;pect of the iniu|rie done thereby to that laudable policie of the Realme for main|taining of timber, &amp; al&s;o in the particular feeling we haue in our own affections how grieuous it is for any man to behold y^e fruits, and hone&s;t plea&s;ures of his owne labors or his ance&s;tors, defaced and &s;poiled by the lewde &amp; rauenous malice of ba&s;e companions.</P>
<P>SEcondly, becau&s;e we haue con&s;idered that our Subiects may be &s;ometime ouer burthened (again&s;t the meaning of our prin|cipall Officers) by the vnrea&s;onable taking of wood, coale, hay, oats and &s;uch like proui&s;ions in time of progre&s;&s;e: We do expre&s;ly charge and command all our Officers, mini&s;ters, or any of their deputies and &s;eruants, to forbeare to take either wood, coale, hay, or oats in larger proportion, then &s;hall bee found nece&s;&s;ary to bee expended for the Seruice of our hou&s;e and &s;table.</P>
<PB N="126" REF="70">
<P>ANd further our plea&s;ure is, that none of our Purueyours or takers of cariage, or Cart takers (for the time being) nor any of their deputies or &s;eruants, nor any other of our Officers or mi|ni&s;ters what&s;oeuer, &s;hal vpon our iourneys, remoues, or progre&s;&s;e, take vp any carts or cariages for any Noble man, gentleman, ar|tizan, or others what&s;oeuer, not being our &s;eruants in ordinary, and nec&s;&s;arily for that time to attend vs. In which point that it may the better appeare, how &s;paringly it &s;halbe v&s;ed, we do expre&s;|ly command, that there be no more cariages taken, then &s;hall bee particularly compri&s;ed in a li&s;t, which &s;hall be made for that pur|po&s;e, and &s;igned with the hands of the principall officers of our Chamber, hou&s;hold, and &s;table: And for the re&s;t, what&s;oeuer they be, either noble men, gentlemen, artizans, or others that doe fol|low vs, our expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure and commandement is, That they from hencefoorth at all times hereafter prouide their cariages (&s;uch as they &s;hall like to haue or v&s;e) at their owne proper co&s;tes and charges, and by their owne meanes, without v&s;ing in any &s;ort either our name or authority, or any of our Purueyours, or ny of their deputies or &s;eruants, for, or about the &s;ame.</P>
<P>ANd we doe withall hereby &s;ignifie vnto all and euery our pur|ueyors, their deputies and &s;eruants, and all others that may receiue any order from them touching purueyance of cariages, or the making of any the proui&s;ions afore&s;ayd for any our progre&s;&s;e, iourneys, or remoues, That if in any point therein they doe carry them&s;elues contrary to this our expre&s;&s;e prohibition in that be|halfe made, that for &s;uch their offences they &s;hall be proceeded a|gain&s;t in the &s;euere&s;t maner, and receiue &s;uch exemplary puni&s;h|ment, as by our Lawes may be inflicted vpon them.</P>
<P>ANd we do &s;traitly charge our principall Officers of our hou&s;e|hold and &s;table, and other officers of our Greencloth, vpon due information, and proofe made before them of any our mini|&s;ters offending in any the kindes before &s;pecified, to deliuer the &s;ayd offenders into the hands of &s;ome of the Iu&s;tices of Peace of the &s;ayd &s;hire or Countie, where the &s;ayd offence, or offences were committed, to the end they may proceed again&s;t them in as &s;euere maner, as the Law and Iu&s;tice of our Realme requireth, or al|loweth. And if any of the offences afore&s;ayd &s;hall &s;eeme fitter to be proceeded withall in the Court of Starre chamber, then in the Counties where the offences &s;hall bee committed; Then we doe &s;traitly charge and command our Atturney generall for the time being, that if information be giuen vnto him by any our Iu&s;tices of Peace of the mi&s;demeanor of any per&s;on &s;o deliuered, to &s;ee the &s;ayd offender pro&s;ecuted, and duely puni&s;hed. Prouided alwayes,
<PB N="127" REF="70"> that our meaning is not hereby to prohibite any our Iu&s;tices of Peace, vpon iu&s;t complaints of any of our louing Subiects, to examine, to binde ouer to the Se&s;&s;ions, or (if neede require it) to commit any &s;uch offenders in their &s;euerall Shires: And then, certifying the cau&s;e of &s;uch commitments to the Officers of our Greenecloth, to proceed (vpon good proofes) in further puni&s;hment of the faults, according to the Lawes of the Realme.</P>
<P>ANd We doe in like manner expre&s;ly prohibite and forbid all per&s;ons, after the end of this Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, to make and Purueyance without Commi&s;&s;ion for euery &s;euerall Shire, containing the kindes, and quantities (&s;o neere as may bee) which they are to puruey in &s;uch a Shire. And that to the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ions blanke Scedules bee annexed, which cannot bee taken off, wherein they &s;hall truely, in pre&s;ence of &s;uch high Con&s;table, or Con&s;tables, pettie Con&s;table, or Con&s;tables, Headborough, or Headboroughes, as &s;hall (by precept to him or them directed) bee priuie to the deliuery of any the proui&s;ions in the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion &s;pecified, enter their takings pre&s;ently, whereunto the &s;ayde Con&s;table, &amp;c. &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe their names or &s;igne Manuell. And that the Owners or Sellers, if they will, may pre&s;ently likewi&s;e &s;ub&s;cribe their names or marks to the &s;ame. And that when they haue fini&s;hed their takings in any &s;uch Shire, That then they deliuer a Duplicate of the &s;ayde Schedule containing their takings, and a true Copie of their proportions appoynted, to one of the next Iu&s;tices of Peace, to the ende it may appeare that their takings exceede not their Warrants.</P>
<P>FVrthermore, where We haue beene informed, that diuers complaints haue bene made of &s;ome hard cour&s;e taken by our Officers of our Greene-cloth towards diuers of our louing Subiects, at &s;uch times as they haue enformed again&s;t Pur|ueyours and &s;uch like Officers vpon abu&s;es; Although Wee haue no doubt, that any of our Officers will in any &s;uch ca&s;e &s;o much forget their re&s;pect to Iu&s;tice or Duety to Vs (the princi|pall Officers being Coun&s;ellers of State, and the re&s;t Knights and Gentlemen of good qualitie and di&s;cretion) yet to the intent our people may be &s;ati&s;fied that we haue no purpo&s;e to &s;uffer any interruption of Iu&s;tice, vnder pretext of our authoritie; We doe hereby declare it, and &s;o is our will and plea&s;ure, that in ca&s;e any of our louing Subiects &s;hall be impri&s;oned for &s;o doing, that the Iudges of our High Court at We&s;tmin&s;ter &s;hall award a <HI>Habeas corpus</HI> for their reliefe, according to our Lawes.</P>
<PB N="128" REF="71">
<P>ANd for the better &s;ati&s;faction of our people, of who&s;e loyaltie and inward affections we &s;tand &s;o much a&s;&s;ured, as they will not repine at any proui&s;ion deliuered by vertue of our Commi&s;&s;i|on, if it may appeare to come to our v&s;e, our wil &amp; plea&s;ure there|fore is, that our Iu&s;tices of Peace in euery &s;euerall County or Countrey where any proui&s;ion &s;halbe taken by vertur of our Commi&s;&s;ions, &s;hall at their quarter Se&s;&s;ions take particular reckning of the high and pettie Con&s;tables of all warrants com|ming vnto them from any mini&s;ter of ours, together with what proui&s;ions or carriages they haue deliuered vnto them by vertue of our Commi&s;&s;ion, the true and iu&s;t Certificate whereof they &s;hal halfe yeerely at the lea&s;t, vnder the hands and Seales of &s;ome of them certifie to our Trea&s;urer and Comptroller, or other our Of|ficers of <HI>Greencloth,</HI> who pre&s;ently by the parcels and accompts of our hou&s;e &s;hall duely examine the receit from &s;uch Purueyors. And if it be found by Certificate of the &s;aid Iu&s;tices or otherwi&s;e, that they haue taken more then they haue deliuered for our v&s;e or expence, vnle&s;&s;e it &s;hall appeare to haue had iu&s;t cau&s;e of mi&s;carry|ing by the way: then we require our Officers of Hou&s;hold, vpon paine of our di&s;plea&s;ure, without delay to &s;end the party &s;o offen|ding into the County where &s;uch offence or offences &s;halbe com|mitted, there to receiue puni&s;hment of life and member as the good and ancient Lawes of our Realme haue formerly ordeined and appointed.</P>
<P>FVrthermore, as we did in our returne out of <HI>Wilt&s;hire,</HI> being our fir&s;t progre&s;&s;e, vpon the examination of &s;ome abu&s;es, draw downe the number of our carriages to &s;uch a proportion as two full third parts was dimini&s;hed of the numbers before time v&s;ed: euen &s;o at this time, becau&s;e we conceiue that the matter of car|riages is the greate&s;t grieuance, And that it is oftentimes no le&s;&s;e trouble to our people to come emptie with their carts to Court to take in carriages, then to conuey them; We doe therefore here|by al&s;o command all per&s;ons v&s;ed in the &s;eruice of Cart-taking for our remoues, to forbeare to take either more carriages then are of nece&s;&s;itie to be v&s;ed, or to warne or charge carts in any Ci|tie, Towne, Burrow, or hundred aboue fourteene miles at any time di&s;tant from the place where they are to receiue their loding, vpon paine of loo&s;ing their Office and Seruice, and &s;uch further puni&s;hment as is to be inflicted vpon them for their contempts. And we doe likewi&s;e require all high Con&s;tables, vpon receipt of any Warrants from any our Cart-takers, their &s;eruants or depu|ties for warning of Carts within their hundreds, that they pre|&s;ume not to warne any but in &s;uch part of the hundreth as &s;halbe
<PB N="129" REF="71"> within compa&s;&s;e of the fourteen miles aboue &s;pecified, vpon paine of the penalties before expre&s;&s;ed; vnle&s;&s;e it &s;hall appeare by the iudgement and Order of the Iu&s;tices of that County, or &s;ixe of them at the lea&s;t, that it &s;halbe more for the ea&s;e of the Countrey to inlarge the extent of the number of miles afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>FVrther, wee charge and commaund the Purueiors of our Woodyard and Scullary, vpon taking of any proportion of Wood or coale for our proui&s;ion, not to medle or a&s;&s;ume authority vnto them&s;elues for warning any Carts for carriage of the &s;ame, but by direction of two at the lea&s;t of our Iu&s;tices of Peace next adioyning of that County, where &s;uch Wood, or coales &s;halbe ta|ken, to the end the &s;ame may be performed with the greate&s;t ea&s;e to our louing Subiects, vpon paine of loo&s;ing their Office, and &s;uch further puni&s;hment, as their contempt &s;hall require: Not doubting, but tho&s;e Iu&s;tices, which are made priuy to their Com|mi&s;&s;ion, wil v&s;e &s;uch care, and expedition at all times, for the fur|therance of our &s;eruice, and for the good and quiet of their Coun|trey, as wee &s;hall not be forced by their remi&s;ne&s;&s;e, to returne the wonted authoritie into the hands of the Purueyors.</P>
<P>ANd la&s;tly, as a further demon&s;tration of our inward affection to our people, notwith&s;tanding our ancient Right and Pre|rogatiue of Purueyance &s;o long continued, we haue cau&s;ed &s;ome of our Priuie Councell, (together with our chiefe Officers of the <HI>Greenecloth</HI>) to fall into pre&s;ent con&s;ideration how to prouide (as &s;oone as may be) &s;ome &s;uch conuenient number of Carts, wholly to be maintained vpon our owne charge, as may &s;erue vs when|&s;oeuer we &s;hall make any &s;udden remoue, or priuate iourneyes for our exerci&s;e, and recreation, without being forced to v&s;e any Com|mi&s;&s;ion, or to put the Countreys to any charge for furni&s;hing vs vpon any of tho&s;e vncertaine occa&s;ions.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our Signe manuell at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of April, in the fourth yeere of our Reigne of Great Bri|taine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation, charging all Ie|&s;uites, Seminaries &amp;c. to depart the land.</HEAD>
<P>WE doe not doubt but that all our Subiects (embrace|ing the true Religion profe&s;&s;ed in this Church of England, &amp; by Law e&s;tabli&s;hed within this Realme) are throughly per&s;waded of our con&s;tant re&s;olution for the main|tenance and defence of the &s;ame; Not onely becau&s;e we found it
<PB N="130" REF="72"> here &s;o many yeeres &s;etled, and ble&s;&s;ed of God in the long peace and pro&s;perity of our people, wherewith it hath bene accompa|nied &s;ince the fir&s;t &s;etting the &s;ame free from the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> &s;eruitude, But al&s;o and chiefly, becau&s;e our owne knowledge and vnder&s;tan|ding (illuminated by the Spirit of God) doeth a&s;&s;ure vs that the &s;ame is agreeable to his Diuine word, and to the doctrine of the Primitiue Church. Of which our purpo&s;e and determination, be&s;ides all other our former proceedings (&s;ince our entry into this kingdome) we haue giuen a new and certaine demon&s;tration by our con&s;ent to &s;uch two Acts, as haue bene pa&s;&s;ed in this Se&s;&s;ion of our Parliament, both tending to preuent the dangers, and di|mini&s;h the number of tho&s;e, who adhering to the profe&s;&s;ion of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> are blindly led (together with the &s;uper&s;tition of their Religion) both into &s;ome points of doctrine, which cannot con&s;i&s;t with the loyaltie of Subiects towards their Prince, and oft times into direct actions of Con&s;piracies and coniurations a|gain&s;t the State wherein they liue, as hath mo&s;t notoriou&s;ly ap|peared by the late mo&s;t horrible and almo&s;t incredible Coniura|tion, to blow vp vs, our children, and all the three E&s;tates in Par|liament a&s;&s;embled. All which notwith&s;tanding, and although by the&s;e late Trea&s;ons aboue mentioned, contriued and pur&s;ued (as they haue bene) with the priuitie and warrant of &s;o many of the principall Prie&s;ts of that profe&s;&s;ion, &amp; grounded vpon points of doctrine, (in that Church held and mainteined) there is &s;uffici|ent cau&s;e (if there had neuer bene any other enterpri&s;e vpon the &s;ame ground) to iu&s;tifie the proceedings of vs and our &s;aid Par|liament, in the making and execution of the&s;e la&s;t, and all other former Statutes, tending to the &s;ame end: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, &s;eeing the Soueraigne care appertaineth to vs, who haue the Soue|raigne power of Iu&s;tice in our hand, and the &s;upreme di&s;pen&s;a|tion of clemencie, and moderation of the &s;eueritie of our Lawes is likewi&s;e as proper to vs to v&s;e, when&s;oeuer we &s;hall finde it rea|&s;onable, the &s;ame de&s;eruing to be no le&s;&s;e allowed in vs (being in our Dominions Gods Lieutenant) then it is prai&s;ed in him, a|mong who&s;e highe&s;t Titles it is, That <HI>his Mercy is aboue all his workes:</HI> Although both Natures iu&s;t offence might be excu&s;ed, if we &s;uffered our &s;elfe to be tran&s;ported with &s;uch pa&s;&s;ions, as &s;o vile and barbarous prouocations do excite in humane &s;en&s;e, And our prouidence would be al&s;o commended, if we did with all vio|lence indeuour to extirpate out of our Realme, not onely &s;uch as were guilty of the attempt, but all others that gaue any cau&s;e to be &s;u&s;pected of bearing fauour to it, or of whom there is any iu&s;t occa&s;ion to conceiue that they may be corrupted with the like poy|&s;on:
<PB N="131" REF="72"> Yet cannot any prouocation or other re&s;pect, extingui&s;h in vs &s;o vtterly the exerci&s;e of that clemencie, whereunto Nature hath &s;o farre inclined vs, as we can be withholden from renew|ing &s;ome cour&s;e of lenitie againe in &s;ome particulars, &s;o farre foorth as it may be without the perill of our Religious and loyall people, that concurre with vs in the profe&s;&s;ion of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>And therefore to the end we might not haue any further &s;ub|iect mini&s;tred vnto vs, whereby we mu&s;t be prouoked to execute Iu&s;tice vpon tho&s;e, who (being called Religious per&s;ons, and pro|fe&s;&s;ed in diuers orders of their Church, as Prie&s;ts, Ie&s;uits, Se|minaries, and &s;uch like) haue not onely declared them&s;elues to be the &s;tirrers vp of our people to di&s;obedience, But when we were plea&s;ed formerly out of our meere Grace to &s;ignifie our Royall plea&s;ure for their departure out of this Realme vnpuni&s;hed, haue few or none of them taken hold of our Gracious fauour, but wil|fully, and (as it were) in &s;corne of the penalties which our iu&s;t Lawes could impo&s;e, haue &s;till continued their former practi&s;es, and contempt in their returnes: As we doe purpo&s;e to &s;end away out of our Realme euen tho&s;e of that condition, who&s;e liues are in our hands to take euery houre, if we were &s;o di&s;po&s;ed, (except|ing onely tho&s;e that are guilty of that horrible Trea&s;on;) So we haue once againe re&s;olued, and for the la&s;t warning doe denounce it by the&s;e pre&s;ents, (according to the tenor of our Lawes, and our former Proclamations) That they &s;hall all of them, that is to &s;ay, Ie&s;uits, Seminaries, Friers, or any other Prie&s;t what&s;o|euer, Regular or Secular, being made by authority of the church of <HI>Rome,</HI> depart out of this Realme of England and Wales, before the fir&s;t day of Augu&s;t next en&s;uing, vpon paine to incurre the vt|termo&s;t danger of our &s;aid Lawes. And for their better meanes to depart according to this our plea&s;ure, we doe hereby &s;ignifie to them, That if at any time before the &s;aid fir&s;t day of Augu&s;t, they or any of them, excepting <HI>Gerrard</HI> or <HI>Greenwell,</HI> &s;hall re&s;ort to any Port Towne of our Realme, and there declare him&s;elfe to the Magi&s;trate of the &s;aid Towne, or other Officers of our Port, that he is a Prie&s;t of any &s;ort what&s;oeuer, and that he is there to take &s;hipping for his pa&s;&s;age, they &s;hall &s;uffer him or them quietly to depart, and &s;hal &s;ee them &s;hipped and &s;ent away, and giue them therein furtherance for their departure.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e there may be &s;ome Prie&s;ts in hold in diuers parts of our Realme, not yet knowen to vs, We doe will and command all Sheriffes, Bayliffes, and Keepers of pri&s;ons, within twentie dayes after the publi&s;hing of this Proclamation, to aduerti&s;e our Priuie Coun&s;ell, or &s;ome of them, of the names of all &s;uch prie&s;ts,
<PB N="132" REF="73"> Ie&s;uits, Seminaries, or of any other &s;ort that are in their cu&s;to|dy, and by whom, and for what cau&s;e they were committed, to the end that thereupon we may giue order for their tran&s;portation.</P>
<P>And now lea&s;t happily this vnexpected cour&s;e of our &s;o oft rei|terated clemencie after &s;uch an example, &s;hould either &s;erue to en|courage the Prie&s;ts them&s;elues to affront our Iu&s;tice, or di&s;cou|rage tho&s;e good and deare Subiects of ours, who&s;e danger and de&s;truction wee know &s;hall neuer bee &s;euered from our owne, when&s;oeuer any &s;uch Proiects &s;hall be in motion; We doe hereby prote&s;t, that this is done with no other purpo&s;e, but to auoyd the effu&s;ion of blood, and by bani&s;hing them pre&s;ently out of our Do|minions, to remoue all cau&s;e of &s;uch &s;eueritie, as we &s;hall other|wi&s;e be con&s;trained to v&s;e towards the other &s;ort of our people, as long as tho&s;e Seducers &s;hall haue opportunitie to betray their con&s;ciences, and corrupt their loyaltie, towards whom our affec|tions doe &s;o vary with the Obiect, as we confe&s;&s;e, that we de&s;ire &s;till to make it appeare in the whole cour&s;e of our Gouernment, that we are farre from accompting all tho&s;e Subiects di&s;loyall, that are that way affected, and that we doe di&s;tingui&s;h of &s;uch as be caried onely with blinde Zeale, and &s;uch as &s;inne out of pre|&s;umption, and vnder pretext of zeale make it their onely occu|pation to per&s;wade di&s;obedience, and to practi&s;e the ruine of this Church and Common-wealth. And therefore as after times mu&s;t giue vs triall of all mens behauiour, &s;o mu&s;t all men expect that their owne de&s;erts mu&s;t be the onely mea&s;ure of their fortunes at our hands, either one way or other.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 10. <HI>day of Iune, in the</HI> 4. <HI>yeere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the &s;earch and apprehen&s;ion of certaine Pirates.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it hath appeared vnto vs by &s;undry credible informations and certificates from forreine parts, That <HI>Richard Gifford</HI> Captaine of a Ship or Flyboat, lately called the Fortune, and <HI>Richard Lux</HI> Ma&s;ter of a Ship cal|led the Hope well, <HI>William Mellon, Humfrey Ra&s;toll, Thomas Bet|ter, Robert Gyles, Iohn Thomas, Iohn Burrage, Baldwin Barber, Henry Radcliffe, Iohn Bani&s;ter, William Smith,</HI> with diuers others their Complices, and A&s;&s;ociats, &s;eruing as Mariners or Souldiers in the &s;ayd &s;hips, haue vnder colour of friend&s;hip and peaceable traf|fique,
<PB N="133" REF="73"> committed mo&s;t foule outrages, murders, &s;poiles and depre|dations within the <HI>Streits,</HI> and <HI>Mediterranean</HI> Seas, a&s;well with|in the ports as without, to the great offence of all our friends, to the extreme lo&s;&s;e and hurt of our Merchants trading tho&s;e parts, both in their per&s;ons and goods, and to the great di&s;plea&s;ure of God and men; We of our Princely care for the admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice (the maine pillar of our E&s;tate) doe with no le&s;&s;e zeale, a&s;well for the &s;ati&s;faction of forreine Princes, as for the example of others in like ca&s;es offending, intend to pro&s;ecute them, and all their Abettors, Complices and Acce&s;&s;aries with the greate&s;t &s;eue|rity of our Lawes in that ca&s;e prouided:</P>
<P>And therefore we will and &s;traitly command all and euery our Officers and louing Subiects, that immediatly after the &s;ight of this pre&s;ent Proclamation, they and euery of them doe make diligent &s;earch and inquirie in all places a&s;well exempt as not ex|empt, for the &s;ayd per&s;ons, and all and euery of them, and them, or any of them &s;o found, to apprehend and commit to the next Gaole, there to be deteined vntill our high Admirall, or his Lieu|tenant the Iudge of the high Court of the Admiraltie, vpon no|tice giuen vnto either of them of the per&s;ons &s;o committed, &s;hall take order in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And moreouer our plea&s;ure is, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what|&s;oeuer, &s;hall wittingly or wilfully receiue, conceale, harbour, en|tertaine or lodge the &s;aid Pirats and murtherers, or any of them, or any of their &s;ayd Complices or A&s;&s;ociates into their hou&s;e or hou&s;es, after the &s;ight or knowledge of this proclamation (know|ing them by pregnant circum&s;tances, credible informations or o|therwi&s;e to be the per&s;ons before named) vpon paine to euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o receiuing, concealing, harbouring, entertaining or lodging any of the &s;ayd Pirates and murtherers, or any of their complices, of death and forfeiture of all their lands, goods and chattels, according to the Lawes and Statutes in that ca&s;e prouided.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 13. <HI>day of Iune, in the fourth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France &amp; Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation touching Pa&s;&s;engers.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas in the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of our Parliament hol|den at We&s;tmin&s;ter the nineteenth day of March in the yeere of our Reigne of England, France and Ire|land
<PB N="134" REF="74"> the fir&s;t, and of Scotland the &s;euen and thirtieth; It was among&s;t other things enacted, That no woman nor any childe vnder the age of one and twenty yeeres (except Sailers or Ship|boyes, or Apprentice, or Factor of &s;ome merchant in trade of mer|chandize) &s;hould be permitted to pa&s;&s;e ouer the Seas, except the &s;ame &s;hould be by licence of vs, our Heires or Succe&s;&s;ors, or &s;ome &s;ixe or more of our Priuy Councel, thereunto fir&s;t had vnder their hands, vpon paine that the Officers of the Port that &s;hould wil|lingly or negligently &s;uffer any &s;uch to pa&s;&s;e, or &s;hould not enter the names of &s;uch Pa&s;&s;engers licen&s;ed, &s;hould forfeite his Office, and all his goods and chattels, And vpon paine that the Owner of any Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell, that &s;hould wittingly or willingly carie any &s;uch ouer the Seas, without licence as is afore&s;ayd, &s;hould forfeit his Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell, and all the tackle, And euery ma&s;ter or mariner, of or in any &s;uch Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell, offending as is afore|&s;ayd, &s;hould forfeit all their goods, and &s;uffer impri&s;onment by the &s;pace of twelue moneths without Baile, or Mainepri&s;e, As by the &s;ayd Acte of Parliament among&s;t other things may more at large appeare:</P>
<P>And whereas many &s;uch our Subiects, That is to &s;ay, Wo|men and per&s;ons vnder the age of 21. yeeres, haue from time to time iu&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;es and occa&s;ions to goe and pa&s;&s;e ouer the Seas, In which ca&s;es for euery &s;uch women and per&s;ons vn|der the age of twentie and one yeres to obteine &s;uch licence, either from our &s;elues, or from &s;ixe of our &s;ayd priuie Coun&s;ell according to the &s;ayd Law, is very inconuenient, and almo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible; We haue therefore thought conuenient, for the ea&s;e a&s;well of our &s;elfe and our &s;ayd Coun&s;ell, as of &s;uch of our Subiects as are of the condition mentioned in the &s;ayd Act of Parliament, to grant our Commi&s;&s;ion to per&s;ons of tru&s;t in certaine Ports of our Realme, lying mo&s;t apt and conuenient for pa&s;&s;age, That is to &s;ay, Lon|don, the Cinque Ports, Harwich, Yarmouth, Hull, and Way|mouth, to licence &s;uch women and per&s;ons vnder the age of 21. yeeres, as &s;hall haue iu&s;t cau&s;e to pa&s;&s;e out of our Realme, vpon due examination had of them, to pa&s;&s;e without perill to them|&s;elues, or the Officers of our &s;ayd Ports, Notwith&s;tanding the &s;ayd Statute or any thing therein conteined. And wee haue thought it fit to giue publique knowledge hereof to all our Sub|iects, and to all our Officers whom it may concerne, to the ende they may know what &s;hal be lawfull for them to do in tho&s;e ca&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at the Ca&s;tle of Farneham</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of Augu&s;t, in the fourth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="135" REF="74">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the ad|iournement of part of Mi|chaelmas Terme.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, finding that the infec|tion of the plague is at this pre&s;ent in &s;undry places of the Citie of London, and neere adioyning to the &s;ame, though not (God be thanked) with the mortalitie of great numbers; yet &s;o di&s;per&s;ed in diuers of the be&s;t and mo&s;t open &s;treets of the &s;ayd Citie, as doe giue iu&s;t cau&s;e to doubt, that the contagion thereof, by great re&s;ort of people, might be further &s;pread, a&s;well in the Citie, as into other parts of the Realme, whereby both danger might en&s;ue to his Royall Per&s;on, the Queene his deare&s;t wife, and his children, and to his mo&s;t louing Subiects repairing thi|ther for their Suits and cau&s;es, and likewi&s;e by &s;uch increa&s;e of the infection, if it &s;hould happen (which God forbid) the next Se&s;|&s;ion of his Highne&s;&s;e Parliament, appoynted for the great and waightie affaires of the Realme, might be prorogued: His Ma|ie&s;tie, for the&s;e nece&s;&s;ary con&s;iderations, and hoping that the in|fection will, by the goodne&s;&s;e of Almightie God, with the coldnes of the yeere, and &s;uch whole&s;ome Orders as are taken in his &s;ayd Citie, the rather cea&s;e by the adiournement of part of this next Terme of S. Michael now at hand, from the <HI>Vtas</HI> of the &s;ame, vntill the fourth Returne of the &s;ayd Terme called <HI>Men&s;e Micha|&euml;lis</HI> next comming. His Maie&s;tie therefore, of his &s;peciall fauour and clemencie, is plea&s;ed and contented, to adiourne the &s;ayde Terme of S. Michael, that is to &s;ay, From the <HI>Vtas</HI> thereof, vnto the &s;aid fourth Returne of the &s;ayd Terme, called <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI> next comming; Which his Maie&s;ty &s;ignifieth to all and &s;ingular his louing Subiects of this his Realme, to the intent that they and euery of them, which hath cau&s;e or commandement to ap|peare in any of his Highne&s;&s;e Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter, in or at any day or time from and after the &s;aid <HI>Vtas</HI> of S. Michael, may tarry at their dwellings, or where their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e otherwi&s;e &s;hall lie, without re&s;orting to any of the &s;ayd Courts for that cau&s;e, before the &s;ayd <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI> next comming, and that without danger of forfeiture, penaltie, or contempt to incurre towards his High|ne&s;&s;e in that behalfe. And neuerthele&s;&s;e his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, That two of his Iu&s;tices, that is to &s;ay, of either Bench one, &s;hall the fir&s;t day of Michaelmas Terme, called <HI>Octabis Micha&euml;|lis,</HI> according to the ancient order of the Lawes, keepe the E&s;|&s;oignes
<PB N="136" REF="75"> of the &s;ayd <HI>Octabis Micha&euml;lis.</HI> At which <HI>Vtas</HI> of S. Mi|chael, Writs of adiournement &s;hall be directed to the &s;ayd Iu&s;ti|ces, giuing them authoritie to adiourne the &s;ayd Terme of Saint Michael, that is to &s;ay, From the &s;ayd <HI>Vtas</HI> thereof, vntill the fourth Returne, as before is &s;ayd. And the &s;ayd adiournement &s;hall be made in the fir&s;t day of the &s;ayd <HI>Vtas,</HI> commonly called, the day of E&s;&s;oignes. And further his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, That all matters, cau&s;es and Suits, depending in any of his other Courts betweene partie and partie, as in his Highne&s;&s;e Courts of Chancery, Starchamber, and Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Liueries, Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, and Court of Reque&s;ts, &s;hall haue continuance, and the parties &s;hall haue day from the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents, vntill the &s;aide fourth Returne, as before is &s;ayd.</P>
<P>Prouided alway, and his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and commande|ment is, That all Collectors, Receiuers, Sheriffes, and other Accomptants, and all other per&s;ons, that &s;hould or ought to Ac|compt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money in any of his Ma|ie&s;ties Courts of Exchequer, Court of Wards and Liueries, and of his Duchie of Lanca&s;ter, or in any of them, or to enter into a|ny Accompt in any of the &s;ayd Courts, &s;hall repaire vnto the ac|cu&s;tomed places at We&s;tmin&s;ter, where his Highne&s;&s;e hath ap|pointed &s;uch Officers and mini&s;ters, as for that purpo&s;e his Ma|ie&s;tie hath thought expedient, and there to pay and doe in euery behalfe, as though no &s;uch Proclamation of adiournement had bene had or made. And his Highne&s;&s;e further plea&s;ure and com|mandement is, That all Sheriffes &s;hall returne their Writs and Proces again&s;t all &s;uch Accomptants and Debtors, at the dayes therein appointed. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, who ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money to his Maie&s;tie in any of the Courts and places afore&s;aid, doe make default there|in, That then his Highne&s;&s;e Writs and Proces &s;hall be awarded and &s;ent foorth again&s;t euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, and the &s;ame to be duely &amp; orderly &s;erued, and returned by the Sheriffes and Officers thereunto appoynted, in &s;uch like maner and forme, as the &s;ame &s;hould haue beene, if this pre&s;ent Proclamation had not bene made. And if any Sheriffe or other Officer &s;hall make default, or be negligent in &s;eruing, executing, or returning of a|ny the Writs and Proces afore&s;ayd, That then euery &s;uch She|riffe and other Officer, &s;hall incurre &s;uch paines and penalties, as by the &s;ayd Courts, or any of them &s;hall be taxed and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed; Willing and commanding all and euery his Maie&s;ties Sheriffes, Officers, Mini&s;ters and Subiects, to whome it doth or &s;hall ap|pertaine,
<PB N="137" REF="75"> to ob&s;erue and keepe their a&s;&s;emblies and apparances with all their Returnes and Certificates, in his Highne&s;&s;e &s;ayd Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter, in <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI> next comming, then and there to be holden and kept, and there to doe their Offices and dueties in euery behalfe, in like maner and forme, as they &s;hould or ought to haue done, if this pre&s;ent Proclamation had not bene had or made, as they will an&s;were to the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of September, in the fourth yeere of his Maie&s;ties Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation forbidding all Lon|doners and other inhabitants of places in|infected, to re&s;ort to the Court.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie, con&s;idering what pe|rill oftentimes en&s;ueth by the meanes of great a&s;&s;emblies of people in time of infectious di&s;ea&s;es; Doeth therefore &s;traitly charge and command, that no maner of per&s;on or per|&s;ons, of what e&s;tate, degree, or condition he or they be, inhabiting within the Cities of <HI>London,</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and the Suburbs of the &s;ame, or any other place where the Infection of the Plague is, or hath bene within &s;ixe weekes next before the date hereof, do pre&s;ume to re&s;ort, or come vnto his Highne&s;&s;e Court at <HI>White|hall,</HI> or where&s;oeuer it &s;hall plea&s;e the King, the Queene, or the Prince to lie or abide, vntil &s;uch time as his highnes plea&s;ure &s;hal be further knowen therein, except the Lords the Bi&s;hops of this Realme, the Iudges of the Law, his Maie&s;ties learned Councel, the principal Magi&s;trates of the Cities of <HI>London,</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;tcr,</HI> and all Hou&s;hold &s;eruants of his Maie&s;ties, and other nece&s;|&s;ary per&s;ons for proui&s;ions of his Highne&s;&s;e hou&s;hold, not hauing the Infection of the Plague in their hou&s;es, or neere vnto them, by the &s;pace of &s;ixe weekes, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o further by his Maie&s;tie thus prouided, That if any other (except before excepted) &s;hall haue nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e to re&s;ort or come vnto the Court from any of the places before named, the &s;ame per&s;ons &s;hall not come within the vtter gates of the Court, vntill they haue fir&s;t &s;ent one of the Kings Maie&s;ties Porters at the Gates, and to him declared, vnto whom they haue nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion to repaire within the Court, And thereupon the &s;ayd Porter &s;hall cau&s;e the parties to &s;tay abroad, without entring in|to
<PB N="138" REF="76"> any Hou&s;e, Tent, or company of any per&s;on, and &s;hall certifie the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlaine, the Trea&s;ourer, the Comptroller, the Secretary, the Vicechamberlaine, or any other of his Maie&s;ties Priuie Councell, or &s;ome of the prin|cipall Officers of the <HI>Greenecloth,</HI> if the matter &s;hall appertaine to the Kings Maie&s;ties Hou&s;hold, according to the qualitie of the matter, and of the per&s;ons with whom the parties haue to doe in the Court: and by a Warrant in writing vnder the hands of a|ny of the &s;aid Lords Coun&s;ellers, or Officers, or by &s;ignification from &s;ome principall per&s;on about them, certified to any of the Kings Maie&s;ties Porters, that the &s;ayd per&s;ons &s;hall or may come into the Court: then the &s;ayd Porter &s;hall permit and &s;uffer them &s;o to doe: otherwi&s;e the &s;ayd per&s;ons &s;hall be comman|ded to returne without any longer abiding, vpon paine of his Maie&s;ties grieuous di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;euere puni&s;hment in the Mar&s;hal&s;ey.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of Nouember, in the fourth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1606.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="year">
<PB N="139" REF="76">
<HEAD>ANNO QVINTO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for &s;uppre&s;sing of per&s;ons riotou&s;ly a&s;&s;embled for the laying open of Inclo&s;ures.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas &s;ome of the meaner &s;ort of our people did of late a&s;&s;emble them&s;elues in riotous and tumultuous maner within our County of <HI>Northampton,</HI> &s;ometimes in the night, &amp; &s;ometimes in the day, vnder pretence of laying o|pen enclo&s;ed grounds of late yeeres ta|ken in, to their dammage, as they &s;ay; The repre&s;&s;ing whereof we did fir&s;t re|ferre onely to the due cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice, and the ordinary proceedings of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Peace, and other our Mini&s;ters in &s;uch ca&s;es: Fora&s;much as wee haue perceiued &s;ince, that lenitie hath bred in them, rather encouragement then obedience, and that they haue pre&s;umed to gather them&s;elues in greater multitudes, as well in that County, as in &s;ome others adioyning, We finde it now very nece&s;&s;ary to v&s;e &s;harper remedies.</P>
<P>Wherefore, wee will and command all Lieutenants, deputy Lieutenants, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bailiffes, Headboroughs, Con&s;tables, and all other our Officers and mini|&s;ters to whom it may appertaine, if the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;hal continue &s;o a&s;&s;embled after Proclamation made, or any &s;uch new A&s;&s;em|blies be gathered in tho&s;e, or any other parts of our Realme, im|mediatly to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them by what&s;oeuer meanes they may, be it by force of Armes, if admonitions and other lawfull meanes doe not &s;erue to reduce them to their dueties. For we cannot but be iu&s;tly moued to &s;uch &s;eueritie again&s;t tho&s;e, who vniu&s;tly throw a &s;lander vpon our gouernment, by taking that pretence for their di&s;obedience: Seeing it is manife&s;t by Act of Parliament, pa&s;&s;ed &s;ince our comming to this Crowne, that we haue bene carefull to preuent &s;uch Enclo&s;ures, and Depopulations, and that it hath bene an ordinary charge giuen by vs to our Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;i&s;es,
<PB N="140" REF="77"> when they went to their Circuits, to enquire of all vnlawful De|populations and Enclo&s;ures, and to take order to remedy the &s;ame, and to puni&s;h the Offenders therein according to the due cour&s;e of Law. And it is well knowen to many, that we were now al&s;o in hand with &s;ome cour&s;e to be taken by adui&s;e of our Coun&s;ell for the performance thereof: From which our good pur|po&s;e and intent, this their pre&s;umptuous and vnduetifull procee|ding, might rather giue vs cau&s;e to de&s;i&s;t, then increa&s;e in vs any affection to relieue &s;uch di&s;ordered per&s;ons, &s;o farre attempting a|gain&s;t our Crowne and dignity, who chu&s;e rather to tru&s;t to their owne pride and ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, then to the care and prouidence of their Souereigne. Willing and commanding all our &s;aid Lieute|nants, Deputie Lieutenants, Sheriffes, and other our Officers and mini&s;ters aboue mentioned, to attend diligently to the exe|cution of this our plea&s;ure, and all other our louing Subiects to be obedient to them in the performance thereof, as they will an|&s;were the contrary at their perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 30. <HI>day of May, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation &s;ignifying his Ma|ie&s;ties plea&s;ure a&s;well for &s;uppre&s;sing of riotous A&s;&s;emblies about Inclo&s;ures, as for re|formation of Depopulations.</HEAD>
<P>IT is a thing notorious that many of the meane&s;t &s;ort of our people in diuers parts of our Kingdome, either by &s;ecret com|bination, wrought by &s;ome wicked in&s;truments, or by ill ex|ample of the fir&s;t beginners, haue pre&s;umed lately to a&s;&s;emble them&s;elues riotou&s;ly in multitudes, and being armed with &s;undry weapons, haue layd open in forcible manner a great quantitie of &s;euerall mens po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, &s;ome newly inclo&s;ed, and others of lon|ger continuance, making their pretence that &s;ome townes haue bene depopulated, and diuers families vndone by meanes of &s;uch Enclo&s;ures. In which &s;editious cour&s;es they haue per&s;i&s;ted not onely after many prohibitions by our Mini&s;ters in the &s;euerall Counties, but after particular Proclamations publi&s;hed by our Royall Authoritie, and which is more, when &s;o many meanes of lenitie and gentlenes were offered to reclaime them, as no prince would haue v&s;ed, but &s;uch a one as was both confident in the loy|all affections of his Subiects in generall, and compa&s;&s;ionate to|wards
<PB N="141" REF="77"> the &s;implicitie of &s;uch Offenders: many of them &s;tood out mo&s;t ob&s;tinately, and in open field rebelliou&s;ly re&s;i&s;ted &s;uch forces as in our Name, and by our Authoritie came to repre&s;&s;e them, whereupon in&s;ued by nece&s;&s;itie in the end that &s;ome blood was drawen as well by martiall execution, as by ciuill iu&s;tice.</P>
<P>Vpon this accident it &s;eemeth good vnto Vs to declare to the world, and &s;pecially to our louing Subiects, as well that which concerneth our affections (which vpon &s;euerall re&s;pects are diui|ded betweene comfort and griefe) as that which concerneth al&s;o our Princely intentions, which likewi&s;e are bent vpon the con|trary obiects and cour&s;es of grace and iu&s;tice. For fir&s;t of all wee find cau&s;e of comfort in our &s;elues in regard of the clearene&s;&s;e of our con&s;cience (to whome God hath committed the care and &s;u|preme gouenment of our people) from giuing cau&s;e or colour of &s;uch complaint; the matter whereof is &s;uch, as we take our &s;elues more intere&s;&s;ed therein then any our Subiects can bee: For as we cannot but know, that the glory and &s;trength of all Kings con&s;i&s;teth in the multitude of Subiects, &s;o may wee not forget that it is a &s;pecial and peculiar preheminence of tho&s;e Countreys, ouer which God hath placed vs, that they doe excell in breeding and nouri&s;hing of able and &s;eruiceable people, both for warre and peace, which we doe iu&s;tly e&s;teeme aboue all trea&s;ure and commo|dities, which our &s;ayd Dominions doe otherwi&s;e &s;o plentifully yeeld vnto vs. Neither in this particular ca&s;e of depopulation, can any man make doubt but it mu&s;t be farre from our inclinati|on to &s;uffer any tolleration of that which may be any occa&s;ion to decay or dimini&s;h our people, if we did con&s;ider nothing el&s;e, but that v&s;e and application which we may make (as other Princes doe) both of the bodies of our people to carry armes for defence of our Crowne, and of their goods and &s;ub&s;tance to &s;upply our wants vpon all iu&s;t and rea&s;onable occa&s;ions, &s;o as wee may by many rea&s;ons &s;ufficiently iu&s;tifie our care herein towards God and the world (fora&s;much as appertaineth to our Kingly Office) &s;eeing the &s;ayd Inclo&s;ures (lawfull or vnlawfull) were all or the mo&s;t part made before we had taken the Scepter of this gouern|ment into our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. Whereunto wee may adde (as wholy clean&s;ing and wa&s;hing our hands from the tolleration of the&s;e grieuances) the continuall and &s;trict charges &amp; commandements giuen by vs to our Iudges and Iu&s;tices, for the care and refor|mation of tho&s;e things which may be in any wi&s;e grieuous to our people in their &s;euerall Countreys, although in this point there is &s;ome defence alledged by our &s;ubordinate Mini&s;ters, and &s;peci|ally by the Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;i&s;e, that our people haue bene wanting
<PB N="142" REF="78"> to them&s;elues in the due and ordinary meanes which they ought to take, by pre&s;entment of &s;uch as are or haue bene guiltie of the&s;e oppre&s;&s;ions. But as we take comfort that the cau&s;es of the&s;e com|plaints haue not proceeded from our gouernment, hauing con|trariwi&s;e (before the&s;e &s;editious cour&s;es fir&s;t brake foorth) taken into our Princely con&s;ideration this matter of depopulating and decaying of Townes and families (whereof we are more &s;en&s;ible, then any other) with re&s;olution to cure what&s;oeuer is ami&s;&s;e, by iu&s;t and orderly remedies: So are we grieued to behold what the di&s;loyaltie and ob&s;tinacie of this rebellious people hath forced vs vnto, who being naturally inclined to &s;pare &s;hedding of blood, could haue wi&s;hed that the humble and voluntary &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and repentance of all tho&s;e Offenders, might both haue preuented the lo&s;&s;e of the life of any one of them, and the example of Iu&s;tice vpon &s;ome might haue preuented the lo&s;&s;e of more. And &s;eeing it was of &s;uch nece&s;&s;itie, that &s;ome in regard of their intollerable ob&s;tinacie in &s;o pernicious Trea&s;on &s;hould peri&s;h, rather then the &s;parkes of &s;uch a fire in our Kingdome &s;hould be left vnquenched, that it may yet &s;erue to put others in mind of their duetie, and &s;aue them from the like ruine and de&s;truction, for &s;uch and &s;o traiterous attempts hereafter: In all which con&s;iderations, for that which may concerne our Royall intention, as wee would haue all men know and conceiue, that neither the pretence of any wrongs receiued, nor our great mi&s;like of depopulation in gene|rall, can in any wi&s;e &s;tay vs any longer, from a &s;euere and iu&s;t pro|&s;ecution of &s;uch as &s;hall take vpon them to be their owne iudges and reformers, either in this or any other pretended grieuance: So on the other &s;ide, we are not minded that the offences of a few (though iu&s;tly prouoking our Royall indignation) &s;hall alter our gracious di&s;po&s;ition to giue reliefe in this ca&s;e, where it apper|teineth, were it for none other cau&s;e then in re&s;pect of &s;o many o|thers our good and louing Subiects, which might haue alledged like cau&s;e of griefe, and neuerthele&s;&s;e haue contained them&s;elues in their due obedience.</P>
<P>And therefore we doe fir&s;t declare and publi&s;h our Princely re&s;o|lution, that if any of our &s;ubiects &s;hall hereafter vpon pretences of the &s;ame or like grieuances, either per&s;i&s;t in the vnlawfull and rebellious Act already begun, or renew and breake forth into the like, in any parts of our Kingdome; We will preferre the &s;afetie, quiet, and protection of our Subiects in generall, and of the body of our State, before the compa&s;&s;ion of any &s;uch Offenders, bee they more or le&s;&s;e, and how&s;oeuer mi&s;led: and mu&s;t forget our na|turall clemencie by pur&s;uing them with all &s;euerity for their &s;o
<PB N="143" REF="78"> hainous trea&s;ons, as well by our Armes as Lawes, knowing well, that wee are bound (as the head of the politike body of our Realme) to follow the cour&s;e which the be&s;t phi&s;itians v&s;e in dan|gerous di&s;ea&s;es, which is, by a &s;harpe remedie applied to a &s;mall &amp; infected part, to &s;aue the whole from di&s;&s;olution &amp; de&s;truction. To which end we doe accordingly charge &amp; command all our Lieute|tenants, deputy lieutenants, &s;heriffes, Iu&s;tices of peace, &amp; al other Magi&s;trates of Iu&s;tice vnder vs, and all other our louing Sub|iects to whom it &s;hall any wayes appertaine, to doe and imploy their vttermo&s;t indeauors and forces for the keeping of our Sub|iects in peace and obedience, for preuention of all &s;uch riotous and rebellious A&s;&s;emblies, and de&s;troying them, (if any doe re|maine, or &s;hall happen to ari&s;e) by force of Armes, and by execu|tion (euen to pre&s;ent death) of &s;uch as &s;hall make re&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>On the other &s;ide we doe notifie and declare to all our louing Subiects, That we are re&s;olued, not out of any apprehen&s;ion or regard of the&s;e tumults and di&s;orders (which we know well to be onely dangerous to tho&s;e that attempt them, and which expe|rience may teach them, that they are in a moment to be di&s;per&s;ed) nor to &s;ati&s;fie di&s;obedient people, be they rich or poore: But meere|ly out of loue of Iu&s;tice, Chri&s;tian compa&s;&s;ion of other of our &s;ub|iects, who being likewi&s;e touched with this griefe, auoyded the like offences, As al&s;o out of our Princely care and prouidence to pre&s;erue our people from decay or diminution, to cau&s;e the abu&s;es of Depopulations and vnlawfull Inclo&s;ures to be further loo|ked into, and by peaceable and orderly meanes to e&s;tabli&s;h &s;uch a reformation thereof, as &s;halbe needfull for the iu&s;t reliefe of tho&s;e that haue iu&s;t cau&s;e to complaine, and therein neglect no remedy, which either the Lawes of our Realme doe pre&s;cribe, or our owne Royall Authority, with the aduice of our Councell can &s;upply.</P>
<P>For which purpo&s;e we haue already a&s;&s;embled our Iudges, and giuen them in charge &s;traitly, to make it one of their princi|pall cares a&s;well to di&s;couer the &s;ayd offences, as to con&s;ider how farre they may be touched in Law, and in what cour&s;e, and accor|dingly to proceed again&s;t them with all &s;eueritie. And yet becau&s;e the execution thereof requireth &s;ome time, though no more then mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;itie be employed therein, if any turbulent or &s;editi|ous &s;pirits by their impatience, or through their de&s;ire to &s;ati&s;fie their owne wicked humors, by moouing common troubles &s;hall &s;eeke to preuent the cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice by any &s;uch vnlawfull at|tempts, as haue bene lately v&s;ed, and abu&s;ing our gracious di&s;po|po&s;ition &s;hall take the pre&s;umption to be Reformers of the &s;aid in|conuenience by any force, becau&s;e they perceiue hereby how much
<PB N="144" REF="79"> we mi&s;like of it: We do once againe denounce vnto them the &s;ame &s;euere puni&s;hment, which belongeth to Rebels in the highe&s;t de|gree, And doe require all and euery our Magi&s;trates, Officers and mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice (according to their place of authoritie) and all our loyall Subiects according to their duety of a&s;&s;i&s;tance (laying a&s;ide all &s;lackene&s;&s;e or fond pitie) to &s;ee it duely put in exe|cution: As on the other &s;ide we doe promi&s;e, and are re&s;olued gra|ciou&s;ly to lend our eares to humble and iu&s;t complaints, and to affoord our people Iu&s;tice and fauour both in this and all occa&s;i|ons fit for a King to doe for his good Subiects in generall and in particular.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 28. <HI>day of Iune, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for repeale of a Sta|tute made Anno 5. Ric. 2. and to re&s;traine the Kings Subiects from departing out of the Realme; And al&s;o concerning the tran&s;portation of Gold and Siluer.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas at a Parliament holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter in the fift yeere of King <HI>Richard</HI> the &s;econd, the King de|fended the pa&s;&s;age vtterly of all maner of people, a&s;|well Clearkes as others in euery Port, and other Towne and place vpon the coa&s;t of the Sea, vpon paine of forfeiture of al their goods, except only the Lords and other great men of the Realme, and true and notable Merchants, and the Kings &s;ouldiers; And further prohibited diuers other things vpon paine that the offen|ders &s;hould forfeit, as much as they might forfeit, as by the &s;ayd Act appeareth: which &s;tatute was &s;eldome or neuer (e&s;pecially of late) put in execution, for that it was in &s;ome ca&s;es too rigorous, in others very darke and ob&s;cure, and now, fora&s;much as concer|neth the pa&s;&s;age of the Engli&s;h Subiects into the kingdome of Scotland, become voyd and extinct in re&s;pect of the happy Vni|on of both Kingdomes vnder one Soueraigne: His mo&s;t Excel|lent Maie&s;tie (preferting alwayes the tranquilitie of his louing Subiects, before &s;uch and &s;o great aduantage as he might reape by recouery of &s;uch penalties) hath not onely &s;uffered that parti|cular branch of the Statue afore&s;ayd to fall to the ground, (the continuation whereof were both vniu&s;t, and an apparant marke of &s;eparation) but hath bene content, be&s;ides that particular
<PB N="145" REF="79"> clau&s;e which was included in the Act pa&s;&s;ed at the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, for aboli&s;hing of Ho&s;tilitie, and the memorie of all things that depend thereon, to a&s;&s;ent (in fauour of the Subiect) to repeale the whole Statute it &s;elfe of <HI>Richard</HI> the &s;econd. And yet his Maie&s;tie (who&s;e care doeth euer watch ouer the weale of his Subiects) con&s;idering that the principall duetie and allegi|ance of al his Subiects, doeth chiefly con&s;i&s;t to attend at all times the &s;eruice and defence of their naturall Liege Lord, and of their deare and natiue Countrey, with all cheerefull readine&s;&s;e and a|lacritie, either within the Realme, or without, when they &s;halbe thereunto required: And fore&s;eeing in his Princely prouidence and wi&s;edome what danger (e&s;pecially in the&s;e dangerous daies) might in&s;ue to the whole State, if his Subiects might at their plea&s;ure pa&s;&s;e and depart out of this Realme into the Kingdoms, Countreys, Dominions and territories of forreine Kings, Prin|ces, States and potentates, hath vpon mature deliberation pro|uided remedy for the preuention of &s;uch mi&s;chiefe as might follow thereupon: And therefore his Maie&s;ty doeth (according to his Maie&s;ties Lawes and the re&s;olution of his Iudges, with whom con&s;ultation hath bene had, and agreeable to diuers Pre&s;idents in the reignes of King <HI>Edward</HI> the fir&s;t, &amp; King <HI>Edward</HI> the third (two mo&s;t prudent and renowmed Kings) and other of his noble Progenitors before the making of the &s;ayd late Act by the&s;e pre|&s;ents with the aduice of his Priuy Councell,) &s;traitly prohibite and forbid all maner of per&s;ons being naturall borne Subiects of this Realme, or any of the Dominions of the &s;ame, of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer they be, that they of any of them (other then &s;uch per&s;ons as were excepted in and by the &s;ayd Act, and other then Souldiers, Merchants, Mariners, and their Factors and Ap|prentices) &s;hall not any time hereafter without &s;peciall licence of his Maie&s;ty, or of any foure or more of his Priuy Councel (where|of the principall Secretary for the time being to be one) pa&s;&s;e or depart out of this Realme of England, or any of the dominions of the &s;ame, into the Kingdomes, Countreys, territories or domini|ons of any forreine King, Prince, State, or Potentate, vpon &s;uch corporall and other great and heauy paines and penalties as by our Lawes may be inflicted vpon &s;uch as &s;hall offend therein, for their &s;o heinous and vnnaturall offences again&s;t their naturall Liege Lord and Countrey in that behalfe.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes, that if any of the per&s;ons before excepted, &s;hall after his departure out of this Realme, doe, commit, put in vre, attempt, or a&s;&s;ent vnto any Act, deuice, plot, or thing again&s;t his mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;ty, or any of his Kingdomes or domini|ons,
<PB N="146" REF="80"> or again&s;t any of his Lawes or Statutes, that euery &s;uch per&s;on &s;o offending, &s;hal lo&s;e the benefite of the &s;aid exception, and &s;hall to all intents and purpo&s;es be taken and adiudged to be as one that maliciou&s;ly and contemptuou&s;ly pa&s;&s;eth or departeth out of this Realme contrary to the tenour and effect of the&s;e pre&s;ents.</P>
<P>And whereas by errour and vulgar opinion it is conceiued and giuen out by &s;ome, That all men at this pre&s;ent be at liberty to tran&s;port and carry out of this Realme any Golde or Siluer in Coyne, Iewels, Bullion, Plate or Ve&s;&s;ell, His Maie&s;ty vnder|&s;tanding thereof, cau&s;ed the Iudges of the Realme to be con&s;ul|ted withall in that point; who vpon due con&s;ideration and con|ference had among&s;t them, haue with one con&s;ent re&s;olued, that the tran&s;portation of all maner of Golde and Siluer in Coyne, Iewels, Bullion, Plate or Ve&s;&s;ell is ab&s;olutely prohibited and forbidden as well by the Statutes in the twentieth yeere of King <HI>Edward</HI> the fir&s;t, in the ninth yeere of King <HI>Edward</HI> the third, and in the &s;econd yeere of king <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixt, as by diuers other Sta|tutes vpon great and grieuous penalties and forfeitures. Vpon &s;ignification of which re&s;olution, his mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, to the intent that none of his louing Subiects through any erroni|ous conceit or opinion might be deceiued and indamaged, hath in his Princely clemencie cau&s;ed a&s;well the &s;aid re&s;olution of his Iudges, as the Statutes them&s;elues to bee particularized and publi&s;hed for the &s;afety of his louing Subiects: And further doeth by the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;traitly charge and command that all the &s;aid Lawes and Statutes concerning Tran&s;portation of Gold or Siluer be firmely holden, and kept and put in due execution. And doeth further prohibit and forbid all and all maner of per|&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to cary or tran&s;port out of this Realme any Gold or Siluer in Coyne, Iewels, Bullion, Plate, or Ve&s;&s;el, con|trary to any of the &s;ayd Lawes or Statutes, as they wil an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 9. <HI>day of Iuly, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation &s;ignifying his Maie&s;ties gracious Pardon for the Offenders about Inclo&s;ures.</HEAD>
<P>IN calling to our Princely remembrance, that in the late Re|bellion vpon pretence of Depopulation and vnlawfull Inclo|&s;ures, the greate&s;t number of the offenders haue not bene pro|ceeded
<PB N="147" REF="80"> with according to Iu&s;tice and their traiterous de&s;eruings, no nor &s;o much as apprehended or touched for the &s;ame, although they be in no better ca&s;e or degree, then tho&s;e few which haue &s;uf|fred or bene called in que&s;tion: There want not &s;ome rea&s;ons and circum&s;tances which (if we would con&s;ult onely with policie or pa&s;&s;ion) mought induce vs to further &s;eueritie, and a more gene|rall execution of the Law vpon the &s;ame offenders. For wee are not ignorant, that of all other &s;editions and rebellions, none doeth bring &s;uch infinite wa&s;te and de&s;olation vpon a Kingdome or State, as the&s;e popular In&s;urrections, which though they do &s;eldome &s;hake or indanger a Crowne, yet they doe bring a heape of calamities vpon multitudes of innocent Subiects, and chiefly vpon the Authors and Actors them&s;elues.</P>
<P>And againe, We do ob&s;erue, that there was not &s;o much as any nece&s;&s;itie of famine or dearth of corne, or any other extraordinary accident, that might &s;tirre or prouoke them in that maner to of|fend; but that it may be thought to proceed of a kind of in&s;olencie and contempt of our milde and gracious gouernment, which mought (in &s;ome Prince) turne the &s;ame into more heauy wrath and di&s;plea&s;ure. But wee neuerthele&s;&s;e hauing at the very en|trance of our Reigne, in the highe&s;t trea&s;ons again&s;t our owne Per&s;on, intermingled mercie with iu&s;tice, are much more incli|ned in this ca&s;e, which concerneth a number of poore and &s;imple people, to extend our naturall clemencie towards them. Where|upon we haue re&s;olued to &s;et wide open the gate of our mercy vn|to them, and to be&s;tow vpon them our free grace and Pardon, without further &s;uit or &s;upplication.</P>
<P>And therefore we doe hereby take and receiue all the &s;ayd Of|fenders, and euery of them, to our mercy, and of our grace and meere motion, freely pardon vnto them their &s;ayd Offences, and all paines of death or other puni&s;hment due for the &s;ame, and pro|mi&s;e vnto them, in the word of their naturall Liege Lord and King, that they &s;hall not be in any wi&s;e mole&s;ted or impeached, in life, member, lands or goods for their &s;ayd Offences, or any of them. So as neuerthele&s;&s;e, that before Michaelmas next they doe &s;ubmit them&s;elues, and acknowledge their &s;ayd Offences be|fore our Lieutenant, deputie Lieutenant, or Sheriffe in the County where they &s;hal remaine, whereof we will and command a note or entrie to be made and kept.</P>
<P>And we are further graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, that if any of them &s;eue|uerally or ioyntly &s;hal de&s;ire for their better a&s;&s;urance, to haue out Pardon vnder our great Seale, that our Chancellor &s;hall make the &s;ame vnto them without further warrant in that behalfe.
<PB N="148" REF="81"> Not intending neuerthele&s;&s;e to preiudice any our Subiects pri|uate &s;uit or Action, but &s;o much as in vs is, ab&s;olutely to acquite and di&s;charge them again&s;t vs, our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ours.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 24. <HI>day of Iuly, in the fift yere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Publication &s;ignifying his Ma|ie&s;ties plea&s;ure touching a Licence gran|ted by his Maie&s;tie to Sir Edward Hobby Knight, for buying and &s;elling of Woolls.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IAMES</HI> by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. Know ye that we of our &s;peciall Grace, certaine knowledge and meere mo|tion, &amp;c. Haue giuen Licence, liberty, power and authority, and by the&s;e Pre&s;ents for vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors doe giue Li|cence, liberty, power and authority vnto our welbeloued &s;eruant Sir <HI>Edward Hobbie</HI> Knight, his Executors, Admini&s;trators, A&s;|&s;ignes, Factors and Deputies, and to euery of them, that he and they and euery or any of them, by them&s;elues may prouide and buy, or cau&s;e to be prouided and bought yeerely during the &s;pace of fifteene yeeres next en&s;uing the date hereof, in any place or pla|ces within the Counties of Warwicke, Stafford, Salop, North|hampton, Leice&s;ter, Nottingham, Darby, Lincolne, Rutland, Cambridge, Huntington, Lanca&s;ter, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Hereford or Monmouth, or any of them, or in any of the Counties within Northwales or Southwales, at one time or &s;e|uerall times at his and their plea&s;ure and liberty, &s;o much Wooll as in the whole in any one yeere &s;hall not exceed the number and quantity of fiue hundred Seplars of Engli&s;h or Wel&s;h wools; So as the &s;ame be prouided and bought, and euery part thereof be be|&s;towed and kept in any County or Counties, where Clothes, Bayes or Ker&s;ies are v&s;ually v&s;ed to bee made, or in the City of Norwich, &amp;c. And that the &s;ame and euery part thereof bee by them &s;old in any of the &s;aid Counties, place or City of Norwich, which &s;hall and may there bee done vnto any our Subiects or o|ther per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to the mo&s;t profit and aduan|tage of the &s;ayd Sir <HI>Edward Hobbie,</HI> his Executors, Admini&s;tra|tors or A&s;&s;ignes, without incurring any danger, forfaiture or pe|naltie, one Act made in the fifth yeere of the late King <HI>Edward the &s;ixt,</HI> late King of England, or any other Act, Statute, Acts or &s;ta|tutes,
<PB N="149" REF="81"> Lawes, Cu&s;tome, Proclamation, Ordinance, re&s;traint or Commandement heretofore made by vs, or any our Progenitors, or hereafter by vs our Heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ors to be made to the con|trary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding. To haue and to hold, exer|ci&s;e and enioy the &s;ayd Licence, liberty, power and authoritie a|fore&s;aid, and all and &s;ingular the premi&s;es before by the&s;e pre&s;ents giuen and granted, or mentioned to be giuen and granted vnto the &s;aid Sir <HI>Edward Hobbie</HI> Knight as is afore&s;aid, to the &s;ame <HI>Edward Hobby</HI> knight, his Executors, Admini&s;trators, Deputies and A&s;&s;ignes, from the day of the date hereof, vntill the full ende and terme of 15. yeeres from thence next en&s;uing, and fully to be complete and ended. Yeelding and paying therefore yeerely, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And further in con&s;ideration of the yerely rent before in and by the&s;e pre&s;ents re&s;erued and paiable to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors as is afore&s;ayd, and to the intent that he the &s;aid &s;ir <HI>Edward Hob|bie</HI> Knight, his Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;ignes, may be the better able to pay to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, the &s;aid rent or &s;umme by the&s;e Pre&s;ents re&s;erued or mentioned to be payed, We do by the&s;e Pre&s;ents for vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, promi&s;e and grant to and with the &s;ayd <HI>Edward Hobby</HI> Knight, his execu|tors, admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;ignes, That we, our heires or &s;ucce&s;|&s;ors, or any of vs, &s;hall not, or will not make or grant any further or other Licence, grant or Letters Patents after the date of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, during the continuance of this our Grant or Licence, to any other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, for, or concerning the buying of any Wools, to the intent to &s;ell or vtter the &s;ame againe by Retaile or otherwi&s;e. Wherefore we do by the&s;e Pre&s;ents for vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, &s;traitly charge and command all our louing Subiects, as they tender our plea&s;ure, and vpon paine of our di&s;plea&s;ure, that they permit and &s;uffer the &s;ayd <HI>Edward Hob|by</HI> Knight, his Executors, Admini&s;trators, Factors and Depu|ties, and euery of them to v&s;e, exerci&s;e and execute the &s;ayd Licen|ces, powers and priuiledges, in the&s;e Pre&s;ents mentioned, and to take the &s;ayd benefit hereof to his and their proper v&s;e, according to the tenour and effect of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, without let, di&s;turbance or interruption of them or any of them. Willing and requiring all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, and other our mini&s;ters and Offi|cers where any per&s;on &s;halbe found di&s;turbing or re&s;i&s;ting the exe|cution of the Licence, liberties, powers or Priuiledges mentio|ned in the&s;e our Letters Patents, or any of them, to cau&s;e the di&s;turbers and re&s;i&s;ters from time to time to be attached as con|temners of our Regall power and authority, and to bee impri&s;o|ned vntill they &s;hall become bound with &s;ufficient Sureties to
<PB N="150" REF="82"> obey the&s;e our Letters Pattents, and not to di&s;turbe, interrupt or re&s;i&s;t the execution of them.</P>
<P>And further we doe for vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours &s;traitly charge, command and prohibit all and euery our louing &s;ubiects, that none of them doe &s;ue, implead or vexe in any Court of record what&s;oeuer the &s;ayd Sir <HI>Edward Hobby</HI> Knight, his executors, admini&s;trators, a&s;&s;ignes, factors and deputies or any of them, for and concerning buying of wools, to the intent to &s;ell them againe by retaile or otherwi&s;e, &s;o long as the &s;ayd wools &s;hall be bought and &s;old and vttered, according to the true intent of this our pre|&s;ent Licence and Graunt. And if any Suit &s;hall bee brought or pro&s;ecuted in any Court of Record again&s;t the &s;ayde Sir <HI>Edward Hobby</HI> Knight, his Executours, Admini&s;tratours, A&s;&s;ignes, Deputies and Factors, or any of them vpon any Statute or Ordinance what&s;oeuer, made again&s;t Engro&s;&s;ing and buy|ing of Woolles, to the intent to &s;ell them againe by Retaile, or otherwi&s;e, then and &s;o often wee doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, will, charge and require all and eue|ry Iu&s;tices and Iudges, of vs our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, of all and euery Courts of record of vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, where a|ny &s;uch Suit &s;hall be brought and pro&s;ecuted, and the Barons of the Exchequer, of vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, that they and eue|ry of them &s;hall v&s;e and imploy the vttermo&s;t of their authoritie, and take all cour&s;es, and do all things which may &s;tand with law and Iu&s;tice, for the &s;peedy &s;topping, repre&s;&s;ing and extingui&s;hing of all clamorous and contentious &s;uits and troubles, which may in any wi&s;e tend to the hinderance of the execution of this our Li|cence and Letters Patents, or to the impeaching or derogating from our Prerogatiue Royall in the granting of the &s;ame. And yet neuerthele&s;&s;e our will and plea&s;ure is, that if it &s;hall appeare or be alledged, that this our pre&s;ent Licence is or &s;halbe exceeded, or apparantly abu&s;ed, then our &s;aid Iu&s;tices, Iudges and Barons &s;hall or may proceed to the examination thereof, and puni&s;hment for &s;uch exce&s;&s;e, or apparant abu&s;e, according to the Lawes and Statutes of this our Realme.</P>
<P>And further al&s;o we doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents will and commaund the Trea&s;ourer, Chancellour, and Barons of the Exchequer, of vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, vpon the complaint of the &s;ayde Sir <HI>Edward Hobby,</HI> his executors, admini&s;trators, and a&s;&s;ignes, factors and deputies, and euery of them at all times during the &s;ayd Terme, to a&s;&s;i&s;t, protect and defend the &s;ayd Sir <HI>Edward Hobby,</HI> his executors, admini&s;trators and a&s;&s;ignes, factors and deputies, and euery of them, in all things needfull and nece&s;&s;ary,
<PB N="151" REF="82"> touching the lawfull exerci&s;e and v&s;ing of this our Licence and Grant for buying of Woolls as afore&s;ayd, by all &s;uch wayes and meanes, as to their di&s;cretion &s;hall &s;eeme meete and agreeable to the Lawes of this our Realme.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as it is found very profitable for our Realme of England, that the &s;aid Statute made in the fift yere of the reigne of the late King <HI>Edward the &s;ixt,</HI> &s;hould in other places of our Realme el&s;ewhere then within the Counties and places before mentioned be ob&s;erued and kept, and to the end that other our lo|uing Subiects in any places or Counties within our Realme, be&s;ide the &s;ayd Sir <HI>Edward Hobby</HI> &s;hould not be encouraged to breake the &s;ayd Statute in regrating and engro&s;&s;ing Woolls, We therefore doe by the&s;e Pre&s;ents for vs, our heires, &s;traitly charge, command, prohibite all and euery our louing Subiects other then the &s;ayd Sir <HI>Edward Hobby,</HI> his Executors, Admini&s;trators, Deputies and Factors during the continuance of this our Grant, that they nor any of them during the Terme afore&s;ayd, doe pre|&s;ume to buy and &s;ell any maner of Woolls by way of regrating or engro&s;&s;ing contrary to the &s;ayd Statute, vpon paine of the forfai|tures in the &s;ayd Statute contained, and of Fine and impri&s;on|ment, and incurring our high di&s;plea&s;ure and indignation. And if any man &s;halbe found in any place within this our Realme, of|fending contrary to the &s;aid Statute, and this our prohibition in regrating or engro&s;&s;ing of Woolls, then we doe by the&s;e Pre&s;ents for vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors &s;traitly charge and command all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bayliffes, and all other our Officers and mini&s;ters, to whom it &s;hall appertaine, to attach all &s;uch per|&s;ons as &s;halbe found &s;o offending contrary to the &s;ayd Statute, and this our Prohibition, and cau&s;e to be committed them, and euery of them to pri&s;on, vntil they &s;hall become bound with &s;uffi|cient Sureties for their good behauiours, and not to buy any Woolls to &s;ell againe, contrary to the &s;ayd Statute, And not to be relea&s;ed vntil they &s;hew full conformitie and obedience to the&s;e our Letters Patents, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Witne&s;&s;e our &s;elfe at We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 21. <HI>day of Augu&s;t, in the</HI> 5. <HI>yeere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning Starch.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not vnknowen to mo&s;t of our louing Subiecs, That in the time of the late Queene of famous memory, the making of Starch within this Realme of England, being a thing newly
<PB N="152" REF="83"> taken vp, and growen in few yeeres very frequent, and to bee much v&s;ed, the inconuenience thereof was found to be &s;o great, by the wa&s;ting and con&s;uming of corne fit for peoples food, That many Proclamations were then made from time to time, for the repre&s;&s;ing and vtter aboli&s;hing of the &s;ame. Howbeit, afterwards &s;ome particular per&s;ons, hauing procured a &s;peciall Licen&s;e, as well for the making of Starch within the Realme, as al&s;o for bringing in the &s;ame from forreine parts, the libertie of the Sub|iect was &s;o preiudiced, by reducing of that into few mens power, which in the Common libertie of the Subiect was free to all, That much offence did ari&s;e thereby, In&s;omuch as the &s;aid grant, being afterwards by her, in fauour to the Subiects, taken away vpon the complaints of the grieuance ari&s;ing thereby, and the making of that &s;tuffe within this Realme being then left to the libertie of all men to v&s;e it at their plea&s;ure, the &s;ame hath euer &s;ithence bene continued in many places of this Realme. In which &s;mall time of continuance, it falleth out by experience, that the toleration thereof to be made here, is accompanied with &s;o much offence to our people, as we perceiue by the Information which thereof we haue receiued, That her intent and purpo&s;e to repre&s;&s;e the making thereof, and to take away the inconuenience of the &s;ame, was not without good cau&s;e and iu&s;t ground. For it appea|reth by collection gathered, That the wa&s;te of corne &s;pent and con&s;umed in the making of this Stuffe in mo&s;t places of this our Realme, is &s;o exce&s;&s;iue, as it is not fit to bee &s;pared from peoples Food, to &s;erue in &s;o vaine and &s;lender an v&s;e; For that it cannot be, but the &s;pending thereof in Starch (e&s;pecially in times where|in the plenty of Corne &s;hall not be very abundant) mu&s;t needs en|crea&s;e both the &s;carcitie, and the prices thereof, aboue that which is fit to be &s;uffered. And further it appeareth by the Complaints and Certificats, to vs and our Councell &s;ent from diuers Iu&s;tices of the Peace of &s;euerall parts, (e&s;pecially about our City of Lon|don, and the Counties neere adioyning) That the making there|of is not without exceeding annoyance to the people dwelling neere the places where it is made, by rea&s;on of the noi&s;ome &s;tench and vn&s;auoury &s;mells ari&s;ing of and by the &s;ame: which breeding infectious aires, cannot but encrea&s;e mo&s;t contagious &s;ickne&s;&s;es and di&s;ea&s;es, e&s;pecially in the&s;e times of common Infection: A danger fit to be preuented, in that prouidence which wee owe to the welfare of our people, as in euery part of the Realme general|ly, &s;o e&s;pecially in our City of London, being our Chamber, the ordinary place of our abode for the be&s;t part of the yeere, and of the re&s;ort of all &s;orts of our Subiects for their nece&s;&s;ary affaires.</P>
<PB N="153" REF="83">
<P>Which incommodities, hauing bene by vs, with the aduice of our Councel, throughly con&s;idered, We had a determination for the redre&s;&s;e thereof, and for the policie of our Realme, vtterly to take away the making of Starch within it, of what Stuffe, or vnder what pretence &s;oeuer. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, vpon the humble &s;uit of a great number of our louing Subiects lately made vnto vs, it being apparant, that the vtter aboli&s;hing and taking away there|of, would be a great hinderance to them in their trades, and be|reaue many of them of the meanes of their nece&s;&s;ary liuing and maintenance; And being likewi&s;e enformed, that there may wel be &s;pared, both in our City of <HI>London, We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and other the great Cities and Townes of the Realme, great quantities of Branne, and other &s;uch cour&s;er Stuffes, of which the be&s;t and fi|ne&s;t Starch is v&s;ually made; We, tendering the good and benefit of our &s;aid Subiects, and being well plea&s;ed, in our Princely care and de&s;ire of the Publike good, to yeeld vnto them the libertie and free v&s;e of their needfull Trades, and of all due and conuenient meanes of their nece&s;&s;ary maintenance, And yet holding it as fit and needfull to prouide for the redre&s;&s;e of all abu&s;es and inconue|niences, growing both by the needle&s;&s;e wa&s;ting of the &s;tore of Corne within our Realme, and al&s;o by the publike annoyance and offence giuen vnto our Subiects, by the noy&s;ome making of Starch in mo&s;t places of our Kingdome as afore&s;aid, Haue there|fore, with the aduice of our Councell, thought it good to giue au|thoritie vnto certaine per&s;ons of good qualitie and credite, by Commi&s;&s;ion vnder our great Seale of England, from time to time to view and &s;uruey, &amp; allow al places and hou&s;es within any part of our Kingdome, where any Starch is or &s;halbe made, and with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Maior, or chiefe Magi&s;trate of that place which &s;hall be next adioyning to any &s;uch place of Starch-ma|king, to &s;ee that none be from hencefoorth made of Wheat, but onely of cleane Branne, and &s;uch like cour&s;er &s;tuffe; And that none &s;hall hee made in any &s;uch place, as may bee to the iu&s;t an|noyance and offence of our louing Subiects, but onely in &s;uch places, and in &s;uch order, as by the di&s;cretion and appointment of our &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners, and &s;uch Magi&s;trates next adioyning, &s;halbe thought fit.</P>
<P>And to the end all men may thereof take knowledge, and may conforme them&s;elues thereunto accordingly, we haue thought it meet to publi&s;h our plea&s;ure herein by Proclamation, willing and commanding all maner of per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, that now doe or &s;hall hereafter v&s;e the making of Starch within any place of this our Kingdome where&s;oeuer, pre&s;ently from hencefoorth to for|beare
<PB N="154" REF="84"> to make any more Starch of Wheat, either whole, brui&s;ed, or gro&s;&s;e grounden, or of meale, Rubbles, or any &s;uch like &s;tuffe. And we doe al&s;o will and command all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to forbeare and &s;urcea&s;e the making of any Starch in any place or places of this our Realme of England what&s;oeuer, except onely in &s;uch places as by the view, allowance, and appointment of our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners thereunto by vs to be ordained, with the a&s;&s;i|&s;tance of the Magi&s;trates as afore&s;aid, &s;halbe thought fit and con|uenient, vpon paine not onely of the forfeiture of all &s;uch Starch &s;o made contrary to our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure hereby &s;igni|fied, of which the one halfe &s;hall be to the party &s;eizing the &s;ame, and the other halfe to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, but al&s;o to in|curre &s;uch further puni&s;hment as for their contempt in a matter tending &s;o much to the good and benefite of our people, &s;hall bee thought fit to be inflicted vpon them.</P>
<P>And we doe al&s;o require all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, She|riffes, Bayliffes, Headboroughes, and all other our Officers, mi|ni&s;ters, and louing Subiects what&s;oeuer, that they be from time to time ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, or &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;halbe by them deputed and appointed to &s;ee this our Ordinance executed, and that they be carefull euery one within his charge to cau&s;e this our plea&s;ure to be obeyed, and to interrupt and &s;uppre&s;&s;e all per&s;ons who &s;hall attempt to make a|ny Starch otherwi&s;e, or in any other places then &s;uch as &s;hall be &s;o allowed and appointed as afore&s;aid, after the publi&s;hing of this our plea&s;ure to the contrary. And al&s;o to &s;eize their &s;tuffe, or to di&s;po&s;e and de&s;troy the &s;ame as things noy&s;ome and offen&s;iue to all our people. And for the doing thereof, the&s;e &s;hall be to you and euery of you a &s;ufficient Warrant.</P>
<P>And furthermore for vs, our Heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors we will and command, That all per&s;ons now v&s;ing to make Starch in any part of this our Realme of England, hauing a de&s;ire to continue the &s;ame, of Branne and Pollard onely, vpon the publi&s;hing of this our Proclamation, if they dwell within forty miles of our City of <HI>London,</HI> vpon the la&s;t day of September next en&s;uing, and if their dwelling be further off, then vpon the la&s;t day of Octo|ber now next following &s;hall make their repaire, or cau&s;e their names to be giuen and &s;ent vp in writing vnto our &s;ayd Com|mi&s;&s;ioners, at the Founders Hall in <HI>London,</HI> together with a Cer|tificate from &s;ome Iu&s;tice of Peace, or from the Maior, or chiefe Magi&s;trate of the Citie, Towne, or place in or neere where their dwelling is, &s;ignifying thereby their de&s;ire and intent to continue the making of Starch as afore&s;ayd, to the intent our &s;ayd Com|mi&s;&s;ioners
<PB N="155" REF="84"> may take order for the &s;ame according to our plea&s;ure hereby &s;ignified and expre&s;&s;ed. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons now v&s;ing to make Starch, &s;hall neglect or refu&s;e to make their re|paire, or to giue vp his or their names with &s;uch Certificate in writing, &s;o &s;ignifying his or their de&s;ire and intent to continue the making of Starch as afore&s;aid, Our wil and plea&s;ure is, that all and euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, &s;hall for euer after bee de|priued of the libertie to make any &s;tarch of any &s;tuffe what&s;oeuer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Salisbury</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of Augu&s;t, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas at the ri&s;ing of the late Se&s;&s;ion of our Par|liament, we prorogued the &s;ame vntill the &s;ixteenth day of Nouember now next en&s;uing, For as much as the infection of the plague is now in &s;ome parts of our City of London, So that it is to be feared that if the Terme and Parlia|ment &s;hould meet together, and thereby draw a double concour&s;e of people from all parts of the Realme thither, it might giue oc|ca&s;ion both to increa&s;e the &s;ayd &s;ickne&s;&s;e thereabouts (where our mo&s;t abode is) and to di&s;per&s;e it into other parts of the Realme, Wee haue therefore thought it fit to prorogue it further into the Winter, that is to &s;ay, to the tenth day of February next, at which day our purpo&s;e is, God willing, to hold the &s;ame; And doe here|by giue notice to all whom it concerneth, that they may frame their affaires accordingly, and attend at the &s;ayd tenth day of Fe|bruary to that &s;eruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the la&s;t day of September, in the fift yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, &amp; Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for Iurors.</HEAD>
<P>AS it is a principall part of our Kingly Office, to admini|&s;ter Iu&s;tice to our people, by which our Crowne and &s;cep|ter is al&s;o e&s;tabli&s;hed and confirmed: So we conceiue, that we may truely and iu&s;tly thus farre reape the fruit of a good con|&s;cience, as to be witne&s;&s;e to our &s;elfe, and likewi&s;e to report our &s;elues, not onely to our Priuie Coun&s;ell, (which are acquainted
<PB N="156" REF="85"> with our more &s;ecret cares and cogitations) and our Iudges and Coun&s;ell at Law (with whom we haue had more frequent confe|rence, then Princes formerly haue v&s;ed) but generally al&s;o to all other our louing &s;ubiects, in regard of &s;ome our publike actions, Whether in the&s;e few yeeres of our Reigne (notwith&s;tanding we could not be at our fir&s;t entrance &s;o well enformed, as now we are, in the Lawes and Cu&s;tomes of this our Realme) we haue not ex|erci&s;ed and employed our Princely care, power and meanes, for the furtherance and aduancement of Iu&s;tice duely and &s;peedily to be admini&s;tred to all our louing Subiects. For it appeareth, that we haue to that end bene at charge to encrea&s;e the number of our Iudges in our principall Benches, haue endeuoured to mo|derate &s;ome differences and contentions among&s;t our Courts in point of Iuri&s;diction, to auoyd double vexation of Suits, and haue from time to time, in per&s;on giuen more &s;trait charge and admonition to our Iudges before the Circuits and vi&s;itations, and receiued againe from them more &s;trait accompts and reports at their returnes, then hath bene heretofore accu&s;tomed. And as we haue bene thus carefull concerning our Courts, and Iudges of the Law: So may wee in no wi&s;e omit to extend our Princely care to per&s;ons of another condition, on whom (though they bee not to bee termed Iudges) there lieth a principall part of Iu|dicature: which are tho&s;e, who by the Cu&s;tome of the Realme are called Iurors, which &s;erue to trie and decide the I&s;&s;ues &amp; points of fact in all controuer&s;ies and cau&s;es. A matter no le&s;&s;e impor|tant to the &s;umme of Iu&s;tice, then the true and iudicious expo&s;i|tion of the Lawes them&s;elues. For euen that Iudgement which was giuen by a King in Per&s;on, and is &s;o much commended in the Scriptures, was not any learned expo&s;ition of the Lawe, but a wi&s;e &s;ifting and examination of the fact, where te&s;timony was ob|&s;cure and failed. To which &s;ort of per&s;ons al&s;o the Law of this our Realme doeth a&s;cribe &s;uch tru&s;t and confidence, as it doth not &s;o ab&s;olutely tie them to the euidences and proofes produced, but that it leaueth both &s;upply of te&s;timonie, and the di&s;cerning and credit of te&s;timonie to the Iuries con&s;ciences and vnder&s;tanding.</P>
<P>But herewithall we con&s;ider with our &s;elues, That this pro|ceeding by Iurie (which is one of the ancient lawes and cu&s;toms of this our Iland of Great Britaine, and almo&s;t proper and &s;in|gular vnto it, in regard of other Nations) as it is an excellent in|&s;titution in it &s;elfe, &s;o neuerthele&s;&s;e it is then laudable and good, when tho&s;e per&s;ons, which &s;erue vpon the &s;ayd Iuries, are men of &s;uch qualitie, credit and vnder&s;tanding, as are worthy to bee tru&s;ted with &s;o great a charge, as to trie mens liues, good names,
<PB N="157" REF="85"> lands and goods, and what&s;oeuer they hold deare in this world. Wherein we cannot but ob&s;erue, and highly commend the wi&s;e|dome of the Lawes of this our Realme (taking them in their owne nature, before abu&s;es crep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> in) which haue in this poynt &s;o well prouided. For as in the triall of any Peere of this Realme, the Law doeth not admit any to pa&s;&s;e vpon him but Peeres: So in the triall of any of the Commons (which the Lawe beholdeth but as one body) there is no per&s;on what&s;oeuer of that body by rule of Law exempted, in re&s;pect of his qualitie and degree onely, from the &s;eruice vpon Iuries: whereas on the contrary part the Law hath limitted, that none &s;erue, except hee haue a certaine proportion of Freehold. And yet notwith&s;tanding, time and a|bu&s;e haue &s;o emba&s;ed the e&s;timation of this &s;eruice, and altered the v&s;e thereof, as Sheriffes, Vnder&s;heriffes, Bailiffes, and other inferiour Mini&s;ters, do not onely &s;pare Gentlemen of quality, in a kinde of awe, and vnwillingne&s;&s;e to offend them, but doe like|wi&s;e for lucre, gaine and reward, forbeare to returne many of the able&s;t and fitte&s;t per&s;ons; So that the Seruice oftentimes re&s;teth vpon &s;uch as are either &s;imple and ignorant, and almo&s;t at a gaze in any cau&s;e of difficultie, or el&s;e vpon tho&s;e that are &s;o accu&s;tomed and indured to pa&s;&s;e and &s;erue vpon Iuries, as they haue almo&s;t lo&s;t that tenderne&s;&s;e of Con&s;cience, which in &s;uch ca&s;es is to be wi&s;hed, and make the &s;eruice, as it were an occupa|tion and practi&s;e.</P>
<P>Vpon the&s;e grounds therefore, and vpon adui&s;e taken with our Priuie Councell, and conference with our Iudges and Councell at Law, We haue re&s;olued to giue &s;ome remedy to tho&s;e abu&s;es, and to re&s;tore the forme of trials in this our Realme of England, to the ancient integrity and credit, as much as in vs lyeth. And therefore we doe hereby publi&s;h and declare to all our louing &s;ub|iects, that they take light from vs of the greatne&s;&s;e of this &s;eruice, and that the Gentlemen of be&s;t qualitie doe put away that vaine and vntrue conceit, that they are any wayes di&s;graced, or di&s;e&s;tee|med, if they be called vpon or v&s;ed in this part of Iu&s;tice, to be tri|ers of the fact, Knowing that all Iudgement is Gods principally, and by him committed vnto vs within the Precinct of our King|domes, as his mini&s;ter vpon earth, to whom likewi&s;e they are &s;ubordinate. And wee doe likewi&s;e charge and command all our Iudges, Iu&s;tices, &s;heriffes, Vnder&s;heriffes, Bayliffes and others to whom it may appertaine, To take knowledge that this is our expre&s;&s;e wil and plea&s;ure, That all per&s;ons which haue Freehold, according to the Law, &s;halbe returned to &s;erue vpon Iuries, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require. Fore&s;eeing al&s;o that they v&s;e a re&s;pect, that
<PB N="158" REF="86"> the &s;ame per&s;ons be not too often returned and troubled, but that the &s;eruice may re&s;t more equally &amp; indifferently vpon the whole body of &s;ufficient Freeholders i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> euery county, the one to ea&s;e and relieue the other, and that there be a di&s;cretion v&s;ed, as well in re|turning the mo&s;t principal per&s;ons vpon the greate&s;t cau&s;es, as in &s;orting men of quality with their equals, as neere as may be.</P>
<P>And now that we haue thus declared our earne&s;t care and zeale for the furtherance of Iu&s;tice in this kind, &s;eeing it hath bin v&s;ual for &s;heriffes and other mini&s;ters (to whom it appertaines) to for|beare the returning of diuers per&s;ons, in re&s;pect that they were &s;onnes to P&eacute;eres of our Realme, or men of extraordinary place and calling, which we haue no way mi&s;liked, &amp; do wel allow: In|tending likewi&s;e that &s;uch, &amp; &s;o conuenient re&s;pect be v&s;ed parti|cularly to our Iu&s;tices of Peace, in regard of the place they hold, and their co~tinual imploiments, as they may be no oftner v&s;ed in &s;eruices of that nature, then &s;hal be nece&s;&s;ary: And fora&s;much as we do wel con&s;ider that it may &s;o fall out many times, that diuers per&s;ons be&s;ides tho&s;e aboue named, and &s;uch other as the Lawe for naturall impotency di&s;pen&s;eth withall in an ordinary cour&s;e, may like wi&s;e be found meet to be forborne in the&s;e &s;eruices: we do hereby declare, that we are al&s;o re&s;olued by vertue of our preroga|tiue (and according to the ancient pre&s;idents of our progenitors) to grant &s;pecial exemption by our letters Patents to &s;ome &s;uch per|&s;ons, and vpo~ &s;uch &s;pecial cau&s;es as we &s;hall thinke iu&s;t and rea&s;o|nable, not meaning from henceforth to leaue it in the power of a|ny other, but in the &s;pecial ca&s;es afore&s;aid, to do that which is on|ly proper to our &s;elfe. In which cour&s;e (as in al the re&s;t of our pro|ceedings) although it appeareth vnto vs by a Certificate lately made fro~ the &s;heriffes, of the &s;tate of the Freeholders in this king|dome, that the multitude of them is great &amp; are otherwi&s;e as cer|tainly enformed, that the one halfe is not certified: and although we haue bene &amp; are daily importuned for &s;ome particular exemp|tio~s by diuers per&s;ons, a&s;wel knights &amp; gentlemen, as other free|holders of good ability: neuerthele&s;&s;e, becau&s;e it may appeare that we do and euer will pre&s;erre the precious care of Iu&s;tice before an other &s;econd con&s;iderations, we re&s;olue there &s;halbe &s;o good a mo|deration in the number, a&s;well as in the choice of the per&s;ons, as no preiudice &s;hal ari&s;e therby in the ordinary cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice, al|though our meaning be, that all &s;uch Grants &s;o to be made by vs, &s;hal extend a&s;wel to al cau&s;es concerning our &s;elfe, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, as our &s;ubiects. All which we haue thought fit to noti|fie by this our Proclamation.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 5, <HI>day of October, in the</HI> 5. <HI>yere of our Reigne of Great Bri|taine, &amp;c. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="159" REF="86">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation touching new Buildings and Inmates.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings Maie&s;tie perceiuing the great inconueniences, which dayly doe ari&s;e by the continuall additions of a mul|titude of new buildings in the Citie of London and the Suburbs and Confines thereof, and the filling and pe&s;tering of hou&s;es with Inmates and &s;eueral dwellers (&amp; tho&s;e of the wor&s;e &s;ort) almo&s;t in euery &s;eueral Roome, whereby both the people in|crea&s;ing to &s;o great numbers, are not well to be gouerned by the wonted Officers and ordinary Iuri&s;diction of the &s;ame, and like|wi&s;e the prices of Victuals are by that meanes exce&s;&s;iuely in|haunced, and the health of his louing Subiects, not onely tho&s;e which inhabite in and about the &s;ayd Citie, but al&s;o all others repairing thither from all parts, (in re&s;pect either of the v&s;uall re&s;iance of his Maie&s;ties Court thereabouts, or otherwi&s;e for or|dinary Iu&s;tice) indangered (whereof the pre&s;ent Infection in and about this Citie, makes his Maie&s;tie the more &s;en&s;ible) And moreouer the other good Townes and Boroughs of his King|dome by rea&s;on of &s;o great receit for people in and about the &s;aid City, are much vnpeopled, and in their trading, &amp; otherwi&s;e decay|ed, for remedie of which inconueniences, there haue been diuers politique and nece&s;&s;ary Proclamations, a&s;well in the time of the late Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> of famous memorie, as &s;ince his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t happy reigne, publi&s;hed &amp; deui&s;ed: His Maie&s;tie mindes to require accompt a&s;well of tho&s;e that haue neglected the execu|tion of them, as to puni&s;h the offenders again&s;t the &s;ame: And further by the deliberate adui&s;e of his Priuy Councell hath de|termined, to take yet a more &s;trait and &s;euere cour&s;e, for the auoi|ding of the like inconueniences hereafter. For although there be manife&s;t cau&s;e of greater concour&s;e of people to the &s;aid Citie, and by con&s;equence, of habitation and receit for them, by rea&s;on of the largene&s;&s;e of his Highne&s;&s;e dominions, &amp; the vniuer&s;all peace wherein his Maie&s;tie liues and gouernes: yet notwith&s;tanding his Maie&s;ty (con&s;idering that the foundations already laid with|in the &s;aide City and Suburbs and Confines of the &s;ame cannot but be &s;ufficient for all that &s;hall haue iu&s;t cau&s;e to dwell or abide hereabouts) hath therfore re&s;olued, that vnle&s;&s;e it bee in &s;ome rare ca&s;es, and by &s;pecial Licence, as hereafter in the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;halbe pre&s;cribed, there &s;hall bee no more new buildings erected in or neere the &s;ayde City of London: and al&s;o that tho&s;e that
<PB N="160" REF="87"> &s;hall bee erected vpon olde foundations, &s;hall bee &s;uch as &s;hall both adorne and beautifie his &s;ayde Citie, and bee le&s;&s;e &s;ubiect to danger of fire, and cau&s;e le&s;&s;e wa&s;te of Timber (fitter to be re|&s;erued for the &s;hipping of his Realme) and likewi&s;e &s;uch as in regard of the charge of building, can not bee inhabited but by per&s;ons of &s;ome ability. And becau&s;e the former Proclamati|ons of this kinde heretofore publi&s;hed are &s;euerall, and in &s;ome points defectiue: therefore his Maie&s;ty hath thought good (not intending thereby to di&s;pen&s;e with former offenders) to make and publi&s;h one cleare Proclamation dige&s;ted into plaine and di&s;tinct Articles, that the offenders hereafter may be without all colour of excu&s;e, as they are already without all iu&s;t defence. And there|fore his Maie&s;ty doeth &s;traitly charge and command all maner of per&s;ons, of what quality &s;oeuer they bee, duely to ob&s;erue and fulfill, and all Officers and per&s;ons in Authority whom it may concerne, duely, carefully, and diligently to &s;ee ob&s;erued, fulfil|led, and put in execution the&s;e Articles folowing.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, That no manner of buildings, bee they dwelling Hou|&s;es, Stables, Shops, Stalles, or any other building what&s;oe|uer, be from hencefoorth erected, or attempted to be erected with|in the City of London, or the Suburbs thereof, or within the di|&s;tance of two miles, to be taken from any of the gates of the &s;ayd city (except it be vpon the foundation of a former dwelling hou&s;e, or in or vpon &s;ome inner Court or Yard of the &s;ame hou&s;e:) And if any building contrary to this Article of his Maie&s;ties prohibi|tion &s;hall happen to be begun, that the &s;ame bee foorth with by the Iu&s;tices of Peace within that limit, or Alderman of the Ward, or any of them, &s;tayed from any further proceeding. And a&s;well &s;uch Builder, as the workemen vpon &s;uch building to bee com|mitted to pri&s;on, and bound ouer to an&s;were their contempt in the Starre Chamber, and the Timber or other &s;tuffe imployed or to be imployed thereupon, to be &s;old by the &s;ayd Iu&s;tices, or Aldermen, or any of them, to the reliefe of the poore of the Pari&s;h where the &s;ayd building &s;hall happen to bee. And in ca&s;e through neglect, or ouer&s;ight, any &s;uch building happen to be fini&s;hed, or in part done before &s;tay made thereof: that neuerthele&s;&s;e the &s;ame may be &amp; &s;hall be by the &s;aid Iu&s;tices or Aldermen, or any of them at any time within &s;euen yeres after the fini&s;hing of the &s;aid buil|ding, pulled downe, and the offenders puni&s;hed, and the &s;tuffe and matter of the &s;aide building be&s;towed as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>AL&s;o all newe buildings that are already erected contrary to that which is prohibited by the former Article, concerning buildings to be erected hereafter, and are not at this pre&s;ent fini|&s;hed,
<PB N="161" REF="87"> &s;hal be immediatly pulled downe, and the offenders and &s;tuffe ordered as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>ALl &s;uch new buildings as afore&s;aid, which haue bene ere|cted at any time within fiue yeeres before the date of this Proclamation, &s;hal not in any wi&s;e be pulled downe: but neuer|thele&s;&s;e, if they be at this pre&s;ent voyde of a Tenant, they &s;hall not be inhabited nor let to any vnle&s;&s;e the owners &s;halbe content that the Churchwardens and Mini&s;ter by allowance of two or more of the Iu&s;tices of Peace of that diui&s;ion, or Alderman of the Ward &s;hall di&s;po&s;e of them to &s;ome of the poore of the Pari&s;hes that are de&s;titute of hou&s;es, or for the good and behoofe of the &s;aid poore, and at and vnder &s;uch rents as they &s;hall allow: and in ca&s;e any &s;uch building bee alreadie demi&s;ed, that then &s;uch hou&s;e be not let againe, either in reuer&s;ion, or vpon the expiration of the for|mer e&s;tates, but in &s;uch &s;ort and order as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>ANd if any hou&s;e &s;hall be let contrary to this Article, as well the taker as the Lea&s;&s;or to be deemed an offender, and to be committed to pri&s;on, and bound ouer to an&s;were the &s;ame in the Starrechamber.</P>
<P>PRouided neuerthele&s;&s;e, that if any per&s;on &s;hal erect, or hath ere|cted for the inlargement of his dwelling hou&s;e, any building ioyning to the &s;ame, he &s;hall not be taken or helde to be an offender again&s;t this Proclamation, &s;o as the precinct of ground within the &s;aid addition or enlargement, amount not to any more then a third part of the precinct of ground within the olde foundation, and that it be v&s;ed with the former for one onely habitation.</P>
<P>ALl Sheds and &s;hops which haue bin builded or &s;et vp with|in the limits afore&s;aide at any time within fiue yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, &s;halbe forthwith pulled downe, and the &s;tuffe of them ordered as is before directed touching other buildings to be pulled down: And no Cellars erected within this fiue yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, to bee v|&s;ed for lodgings, or tipling or victualling hou&s;es.</P>
<P>NO new buildings &s;hall be hereafter erected vpon the founda|tion of any former dwelling hou&s;e, or within the precincts thereof, within the Citie or Limits afore&s;aide, except the fore|front of the &s;ame, and all the vtter walles and windowes thereof &s;halbe wholly made of Bricke and Stone, or one of them: and the forefront al&s;o thereof &s;hall bee made in that vniforme &s;ort and order, which &s;hall bee pre&s;cribed by the Alderman of the Ward within the Citie and the Liberties thereof, and by two or more Iu&s;tices of Peace within the Suburbs and other Precinct afore|&s;aid, for the better beautifying of the Streete where the &s;ayde Building &s;halbe erected, vpon paine that euery per&s;on offending
<PB N="162" REF="88"> again&s;t this Article, &s;hall be Fined, and Impri&s;oned for the &s;ame by Order of the Court of Starrechamber.</P>
<P>ALl new Buildings that for the time already pa&s;&s;ed haue bene built &s;ince the fir&s;t day of March in the &s;econd yeere of his Maie&s;ties Reigne, and haue not their forefronts and walles of Bricke as afore&s;ayd, contrarie to his Maie&s;ties Proclamation in that behalfe at that time publi&s;hed, &s;hall bee certified by the Iu&s;tices or Aldermen vnto his Maie&s;ties learned Councell, that there may bee a pre&s;ent proceeding again&s;t the offenders in that behalfe.</P>
<P>ANd fora&s;much as the Diuiding of Hou&s;es into &s;euerall Te|nements and Habitations, and the letting of part of Hou&s;es and Chambers to Inmates and Vnder&s;itters, is no le&s;&s;e incon|uenient then exce&s;&s;iue Building as well in regard of &s;urcharge of people, &s;pecially of the wor&s;e &s;ort, as for breeding and &s;preading of Infection, be&s;ides other inconueniences proper to this abu&s;e, His Maie&s;tie doeth further charge and &s;traightly command, that the&s;e Articles following bee al&s;o duely ob&s;erued and obeyed.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, That no per&s;on within the Citie or Limits afore&s;aid, doe diuide any dwelling Hou&s;e by Lea&s;e, &s;ufferance, or other|wi&s;e, into any more Tenements or dwellings then are at this pre&s;ent v&s;ed within the &s;ame.</P>
<P>THat no per&s;on doe hereafter receiue into any Hou&s;e any In|mates or Vnder&s;itters, or any more families then one.</P>
<P>THat no man that &s;hall erect a new hou&s;e vpon or within the precincts of an olde Foundation, &s;hall diuide the &s;ame into more Tenements or &s;euerall dwellings, then were v&s;ed in the &s;ayd former hou&s;es.</P>
<P>ANd for the more certaine execution of euery Article of this his Maie&s;ties Proclamation, His Maie&s;tie further com|mandeth, that the Alderman in euery Ward, and the Iu&s;tices of Peace within the Limits afore&s;aid, doe make diligent view, per|ambulation, and enquirie of euery of the &s;aid offences, and them to certifie to his Maie&s;ties learned Coun&s;ell once in the begin|ning of euery Terme, that there may be a &s;trict and &s;euere pro|ceeding therein, as appertaines. And &s;uch Iu&s;tices or Aldermen which &s;hall be found negligent or remi&s;&s;e in the execution of the&s;e Articles, his Maie&s;tie will haue cen&s;ured and puni&s;hed as con|temners of his Royall commandement, and to be remoued from being Iu&s;tice of Peace, as vnworthy &s;o to be.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Roy&s;ton</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 12. <HI>day of October, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="163" REF="88">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for re&s;traint of the inhabitants of places infected, from comming to the Court.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie con&s;idering what peril oftentimes en&s;ueth by the meanes of great a&s;&s;emblies of people in the time of infectious di&s;ea&s;es, Doeth therefore &s;traitly charge and command. That no per&s;on or per&s;ons of what e&s;tate, degree or condition he or they be, inhabiting within the Cities of <HI>London</HI> or <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> the Suburbs of the &s;ame, or any other place where the infection of the Plague is, not being hou&s;|hold &s;eruants to his Maie&s;tie, or nece&s;&s;ary per&s;ons for proui&s;ions of his hou&s;hold, doe pre&s;ume to re&s;ort or come vnto his Highne&s;&s;e Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> or where&s;oeuer it &s;hall plea&s;e his Maie&s;tie to lye or abide, vntill &s;uch time as his Highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure &s;hall bee further knowen herein, (except the Lords, the Bi&s;hops of this Realme, the Iudges of the Law, the King and Queenes learned Councell, the principall Magi&s;trates of the City of <HI>London,</HI> his Highne&s;&s;e hou&s;hold &s;eruants, and nece&s;&s;ary per&s;ons for proui&s;ions of his Maie&s;ties hou&s;hold, not hauing the infection of the plague in their hou&s;es, or neere vnto them, during the time afore&s;aid.)</P>
<P>It is al&s;o further by his Maie&s;tie thus prouided, That if any other (except before excepted) &s;hall haue nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e to come vnto the Court from the &s;aid Cities of <HI>London, We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> the &s;aid Suburbs or other places before declared, the &s;ame per&s;ons &s;hall not come within the vtter gate of the Court, vntil they haue fir&s;t &s;ent vnto one of the Kings Maie&s;ties Porters at the gates, and to him declared vnto whom he hath nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion to re|paire within the Court, and thereupon the &s;aid Porter &s;hal cau&s;e the party to &s;tay abroad, without entring into any hou&s;e, tent, or company of any per&s;ons, and &s;hall certifie the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberleine, Ma&s;ter Trea&s;ourer, Ma&s;ter Comptroller, the Vice chamberlein, or one of them, or &s;ome of the principall Of|ficers of the <HI>Greencloth,</HI> if the matter appertaine to the Kings Maie&s;ties hou&s;hold, or to &s;ome other of the Lords, or other of his Maie&s;ties Priuie Councell, according to the qualitie of the mat|ter, and of the per&s;ons with whom the party hath to doe in the Court, and by a Warrant in writing, &s;igned with the hands of any of the &s;aid Lords, Councellers, or Officers, certified to any of the Kings Maie&s;ties Porters, that the &s;aid per&s;on &s;hall, or may come into the Court, then the &s;aid Porter &s;hall permit and &s;uffer him
<PB N="164" REF="89"> &s;o to doe: otherwi&s;e the &s;ayd per&s;ons &s;hall be commanded to re|turne without any longer abiding, vpon paine of his Maie&s;ties grieuous di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;euere puni&s;hment in the Mar&s;hal&s;ea.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;econd day of No|uember, in the fifth yeere of his Highne&s;&s;e Reigne of Great Bri|taine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation touching the Earles of Tyrone and Tyrconnell.</HEAD>
<P>SEeing it is common and natural in all per&s;ons of what con|dition &s;oeuer, to &s;peake and iudge variably of all new and &s;udden accidents, And that the flight of the Earles of <HI>Ty|rone</HI> and <HI>Tyrconnell,</HI> with &s;ome others of their fellowes out of the North parts of our Realme of <HI>Ireland,</HI> may haply proue a &s;ubiect of like di&s;cour&s;e: Wee haue thought it not ami&s;&s;e to deliuer &s;ome &s;uch matter in publique, as may better cleare mens iudgements concerning the &s;ame; not in re&s;pect of any worth or value in the&s;e mens per&s;ons, being ba&s;e and rude in their Originall; but to take away all &s;uch inconueniences as may blemi&s;h the reputation of that friend&s;hip which ought to be mutually ob&s;erued betweene vs and other Princes. For although it is not vnlikely, that the report of their Titles and dignities, may draw from Princes and States &s;ome &s;uch courte&s;ies at their fir&s;t comming abroad, as are incident to men of extraordinary rancke and qualitie: Yet when we haue taken the be&s;t meanes we can to lay them open in euery condition, we &s;hal then expect from our friends and neighbors all &s;uch iu&s;t and noble proceedings, as &s;tand with the rules of honour and friend&s;hip, and from our Subiects at home and abroad, that duety and obedience (in their carriage toward them) which they owe to vs by in&s;eparable bonds and obligations of Nature and Loyalty, whereof we intend to take &s;trait accompt. For which purpo&s;e we doe hereby fir&s;t declare that the&s;e per&s;ons aboue men|tioned, had not their creations or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions in regard of any line|all or lawfull de&s;cent from ance&s;tors of blood or vertue, but were onely preferred by the late Queene our &s;i&s;ter of famous memory, and by our &s;elues for &s;ome rea&s;ons of State before others, who for their qualitie and birth (in tho&s;e prouinces where they dwel) might better haue challenged tho&s;e honours which were confer|red vpon them. Secondly we do profe&s;&s;e, That it is both knowen to vs and our Coun&s;el here, and to our Deputie and State there, and &s;o &s;hall it appeare to the world (as cleare as the Sunne) by
<PB N="165" REF="89"> euident proofes, That the onely ground and motiue of this high contempt in the&s;e mens departure, hath bene the priuate know|ledge and inward terrour of their owne guiltine&s;&s;e: Whereof be|cau&s;e we heare that they doe &s;eeke to take away the blot and infa|mie by diuulging that they haue withdrawen them&s;elues for matter of Religion, (a cloake that &s;erues too much in the&s;e dayes to couer many euil intentions) adding al&s;o thereunto &s;ome other vaine pretexts of receiuing iniu&s;tice, when their rights &amp; claimes haue come in que&s;tion betweene them and vs, or any of our Sub|iects and them, we thinke it not impertinent to &s;ay &s;omewhat thereof.</P>
<P>And therefore, although we iudge it needle&s;&s;e to &s;eeke for many arguments to confirme what&s;oeuer &s;hall bee &s;ayd of the&s;e mens corruption and fal&s;hood, (who&s;e hainous offences remaine &s;o fre&s;h in memory &s;ince they declared them&s;elues &s;o very mon&s;ters in na|ture, as they did not onely withdraw them&s;elues from their per|&s;onall obedience to their Soueraigne, but were content to &s;ell o|uer their natiue Countrey to tho&s;e that &s;tood at that time in the highe&s;t termes of ho&s;tilitie with the two Crownes of England and Ireland) yet to make the ab&s;urditie and ingratitude of the allegations aboue mentioned, &s;o much the more cleare to all men of equall iudgment, We doe hereby profe&s;&s;e in the word of a King, that there was neuer &s;o much as any &s;hadow of mole&s;tation, nor purpo&s;e of proceeding in any degree again&s;t them for matter con|cerning Religion: Such being their condition and profe&s;&s;ion, to thinke murder no fault, mariage of no v&s;e, nor any man worthy to be e&s;teemed valiant that did not glory in rapine and oppre&s;&s;ion, as we &s;hould haue thought it an vnrea&s;onable thing to trouble them for any different point in religion, before any man could per|ceiue by their conuer&s;ation, that they made truely con&s;cience of a|ny religion. So we doe al&s;o for the &s;econd part of their excu&s;e af|firme, (that notwith&s;tanding all that they can claime, mu&s;t be ac|knowledged to proceed from meere grace vpon their &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion after their great and vnnaturall trea&s;ons) there hath neuer come any que&s;tion concerning their rights or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, wherein wee haue not bene more inclinable to doe them fauour, then to any of their Competitours, except in tho&s;e ca&s;es wherein we haue plain|ly di&s;cerned that their onely end was to haue made them&s;elues by degrees more able then now they are, to re&s;i&s;t all lawfull au|thoritie (when they &s;hould returne to their vomit againe) by v|&s;urping a power ouer other good Subiects of ours, that dwell a|mong them better borne then they, and vtterly di&s;claiming from any dependancie vpon them.</P>
<PB N="166" REF="90">
<P>Hauing now deliuered thus much concerning the&s;e mens e|&s;tates and their proceedings, We will onely end with this conclu|&s;ion, That they &s;hall not be able to deny, when&s;oeuer they &s;hould dare to pre&s;ent them&s;elues before the Seat of iu&s;tice, that they haue (before their running out of our Kingdome) not onely en|tred into combination for &s;tirring &s;edition and inte&s;tine rebellion, but haue directed diuers in&s;truments, as well Prie&s;ts as others, to make offers to forreine States and Princes (if they had beene as ready to receiue them) of their readine&s;&s;e and re&s;olution to ad|here to them, when&s;oeuer they would &s;eeke to inuade that King|dome. Wherein among&s;t other things, this is not to be forgotten, That vnder the condition of being made free from Engli&s;h go|uernment, they re&s;olued al&s;o to comprehend the vtter extirpation of all tho&s;e Subiects that are now remaining aliue within that Kingdome, formerly de&s;cended from the Engli&s;h race. In which practi&s;es and propo&s;itions, folowed and fomented by Prie&s;ts and Ie&s;uits (of who&s;e function in the&s;e times the practi&s;e and per&s;wa|&s;ion of &s;ubiects to rebell again&s;t their Soueraignes, is one &s;pecial and e&s;&s;ential part and portion) as they haue found no &s;uch encou|ragement as they expected and haue boa&s;ted of: &s;o Wee doe a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues, that when this declaration &s;hall bee &s;eene and duely weighed with all due circum&s;tances, it will be of force &s;ufficient to di&s;per&s;e and to di&s;credit all &s;uch vntrueths, as the&s;e contempti|ble creatures &s;o full of infidelitie and ingratitude, &s;hall di&s;gorge again&s;t vs, and our iu&s;t and moderate proceeding, and &s;hall pro|cure vnto them no better v&s;age then they would wi&s;h &s;hould be af|forded to any &s;uch packe of Rebels, borne their Subiects, and bound vnto them in &s;o many and &s;o great obligations.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 15. <HI>day of Nouember, in the</HI> 5. <HI>yere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the appre|prehending of the L. Maxwell.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the <HI>Lord Maxwell,</HI> a noble man of our realme of Scotland, being our pri&s;oner in our Ca&s;tle of <HI>E|dinburgh,</HI> for great di&s;orders there committed, hath broken pri&s;on, which by the Lawes of that our Realme is trea|&s;on, and in his breach hath done violence to the Porter of the Ca|&s;tle, hauing &s;ore wounded him, And likewi&s;e attempted to haue deliuered Sir <HI>Iames Mac Donnell,</HI> a per&s;on guiltie of many hey|nous
<PB N="167" REF="90"> offences, pri&s;oner in the &s;ame place: After which e&s;cape hee is now (as we are informed) fled into this our realme of England, and lyeth lurking in and about our Citie of London: Hauing had heretofore good proofe of our peoples loue and deuotion towards vs, in their readine&s;&s;e to di&s;couer and apprehend an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;ons guil|tie of Trea&s;ons again&s;t vs and our e&s;tate, We haue thought it fit to publi&s;h vnto them the e&s;cape of the &s;ayde L. <HI>Maxwell,</HI> and the cau&s;e thereof; And to require and charge all Lieutenants, deputy lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughes, and all other our officers, mini&s;ters and louing Subiects, to doe their be&s;t endeuour to di&s;couer and apprehend the &s;ayd L. <HI>Maxwell,</HI> and to deliuer him, if he &s;hal light into their hands, to &s;ome of our Officers, and to giue knowledge thereof to vs or our Priuie Councell.</P>
<P>And to the end they may the better finde and di&s;couer him, they &s;hall know him by the&s;e &s;ignes, Hee is about the age of three <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nd twentie yeeres, tall and &s;lender, of a whiti&s;h complexion, his face full of pockholes, his no&s;e &s;hort and low in the mid&s;t, a litle haire on his chinne of a white colour, the haire of his head &s;omewhat darker, and his legs are very long and &s;mall.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the nineteenth day of De|cember, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for proroguing of the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we did lately prorogue our Parliament till the tenth day of February now next en&s;uing, Wee haue for diuers &s;peciall cau&s;es vs moouing, thought fit to prorogue the &s;ame againe till the &s;euen and twentieth day of October now next en&s;uing, at which day our purpo&s;e is (God willing) to holde the &s;ame, And doe therefore hereby giue notice to all whome it may concerne, that they may frame their affaires accordingly, and attend at the &s;ame &s;euen and twentieth day of October to that &s;eruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 10. <HI>day of Ianuary, in the fift yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="orders">
<PB N="168" REF="91">
<HEAD>&para; Orders conceiued by the Lords of his Maie&s;ties Priuie Coun&s;ell, and by his Highne&s;&s;e &s;pecial direction, commanded to be put in execution for the re&s;traint of killing, and eating of Fle&s;h in the Lent, and to be executed a&s;well by the Lord Maior within the Citie and Suburbs of London, and by the Officers of the Liberties and exempt places in and about the &s;ame, as by order to be pre&s;cribed by the Lords Lieutenants of all the Counties of the Realme, to the Iu&s;tices of Peace, Lords of Liberties, and Officers of Corporate Townes.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>&para; <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1607. <HI>The</HI> 22. <HI>of Ianuary, in the</HI> 5. <HI>yere of his Ma|ie&s;ties Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tanding of the great di&s;orders heretofore, and e&s;pecially the la&s;t Lent, committed in killing and eating Fle&s;h in the time of Lent, chiefly in the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the Liberties thereto adioy|ning, &s;traitly chargeth and commandeth. That the&s;e Orders fol|lowing, be ob&s;erued and put in execution.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, there &s;hall be onely eight Butchers licenced by the Lord Maior within the City of London, <HI>viz.</HI> foure in Ea&s;tcheape, and foure in S. Nicolas Shambles, who &s;hall be of the poorer &s;ort, and &s;hall not pay any thing for their Licences, nor ioyne with them any partners.</P>
<P>That euery of the &s;aid Butchers &s;o to be licenced within the City and Liberties thereof, doe vtter and &s;ell in their open &s;hops, in &s;uch &s;ort as in open time they are accu&s;tomed to doe, and at &s;uch Rates and prices, as &s;halbe &s;et downe by Order of the Lord Ma|ior of <HI>London</HI> for that City, and the Liberties thereof: and be&s;ides euery Butcher &s;hall keepe a perfect Booke what quantity of fle&s;h they kill euery day, and of what kinds, and to what per&s;ons they &s;ell and vtter the &s;ame, and the &s;aid Butchers to certifie the Lord Maior, to the end the Lords of his Maie&s;ties Priuy Coun&s;el may be informed by him, how the lawes &amp; &s;tatutes in this behalfe pro|uided, are ob&s;erued within the &s;aid City and Liberties thereof.</P>
<P>That there be licenced to kill and vtter Fle&s;h in the Suburbs of the &s;aid City, as in the Counties of Middle&s;ex &amp; Surrey neere vnto <HI>London,</HI> onely 10. Butchers, and the&s;e to be licenced by the Iu&s;tices within the &s;euerall Limits, whereof two to be of the <HI>Quorum,</HI> that is, two without Temple Barre in the Pari&s;h of S. Clement Danes, two without Smithfield Barres in the Pari&s;h of S. Pulchres, or Clarketonwell, or one of them, one in White-cro&s;&s;e
<PB N="169" REF="91"> &s;treet, one in Norton Folgate, one in White Chappell, one in S. Katherines, two in Southwarke, and for the City of <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter,</HI> and the Liberties thereof, two Burchers to be licenced by the chiefe Officer of that Liberty, and tho&s;e to be as before expre&s;|&s;ed, for the &s;aid City and the Liberties, of the poorer &s;ort inhabi|ting in tho&s;e places, and to be licenced without any money, or o|ther con&s;ideration to be giuen for the &s;ame, and to be bound to ob|&s;erue the like Orders in euery re&s;pect, as tho&s;e that are to be ap|pointed for <HI>London,</HI> and the &s;aid Clerke of the Market, Officer and Iu&s;tice, there to &s;ee them, hnd to &s;et the prices of the Victuall to be vttered in tho&s;e places.</P>
<P>That no per&s;on be permitted to kil or &s;ell any Fle&s;h but to tho&s;e that are licenced, nor in any other place then before is &s;pecified, vpon paine to forfeit the Fle&s;h to be giuen to the poore in the pri|&s;ons, and to &s;uffer impri&s;onment.</P>
<P>That the Con&s;tables, Churchwardens, and other publike Of|ficers be authorized in <HI>London,</HI> and the Liberties thereof, by the Lord Maior, and by the Iu&s;tices in the Counties of Middle&s;ex and Surrey, and the forenamed Officers in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> to make &s;earch, and to &s;ee that the licenced Butchers, nor any other do kill or vtter any Fle&s;h, nor do any thing contrary to the&s;e Orders.</P>
<P>And for the better knowledge of the trueth of di&s;orders in this kinde, and redre&s;&s;e of the inconueniences, the Lord Maior of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and euery other Officer here appointed, &s;hal call before them, and &s;end for any of the &s;eruants of any Inholders, Victuallers, Tauerners, and keepers of ordinary Tables, and &s;uch other that vtter Victuals, to examine them vpon their corporall oathes, what Fle&s;h is, or hath bene during the Lent &s;ea&s;on, dre&s;&s;ed, killed, vttered, or eaten in their hou&s;es, which if they &s;hall refu&s;e to doe, then to commit to pri&s;on the &s;aid &s;eruants &s;o refu&s;ing vpon their oathes to declare the trueth.</P>
<P>That the Lord Maior him&s;elfe &s;hal grant no warrant for buy|ing of fle&s;h in Lent, but to &s;uch as &s;hall haue or &s;hewe him licence in writing, according to the Lawes of the Realme to eate Fle&s;h, and the &s;ame licence to be viewed and regi&s;tred, and bookes to be kept thereof, to be &s;hewed when the &s;ame &s;halbe required, vnle&s;&s;e it be to Emba&s;&s;adours and Agents of forraine Princes.</P>
<P>That the Lord Maior &s;hal now pre&s;ently before Lent, or at the beginning thereof, cau&s;e all Inholders, keepers of Ordinary ta|bles, Victuallers, Alehou&s;e keepers, and Tauerners within the Citie and liberties thereof to appeare before him, or &s;uch per&s;ons as he &s;hall appoint meet for that purpo&s;e, and &s;hal take bonds with &s;ufficient Sureties of euery of them in good &s;ummes of money,
<PB N="170" REF="92"> <HI>viz.</HI> 100. pound the principall, and the Sureties 30. pound a peece to his Maie&s;ties v&s;e, not to dre&s;&s;e any fle&s;h in their hou&s;es this Lent time for any re&s;pect, nor &s;uffer it to be eaten, except it bee for &s;ome &s;uch per&s;on that lieth in their hou&s;e, that al&s;o hath licence through &s;ickene&s;&s;e, or other nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e to eate fle&s;h. Al&s;o like bonds &s;hall bee taken of the Poulters, not to vtter any Poultry ware, but to &s;uch as &s;hall be likewi&s;e licen&s;ed to eat fle&s;h, and that &s;uch as will not giue &s;uch bonds, that they be &s;ecluded from all vt|terance of victuals during the Lent &s;ea&s;on, excepting tho&s;e Poul|ters that do ordinarily &s;erue his Maie&s;ties hou&s;hold, of whom like bonds &s;halbe taken by his Maie&s;ties officers of the <HI>Greencloth:</HI> the like bonds with &s;ureties &s;halbe taken of the like per&s;ons vpon like penalties by the chiefe officers of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> &amp; the liberties therof.</P>
<P>And for the Butchers and other that come with victuals of fle&s;h out of the Countrie to the Citie, the Lord Maior &s;hall cau&s;e cer|taine per&s;ons to watch at the Gates and other like places in the Suburbs where fle&s;h may be brought in, to view and &s;earch, and to intercept the &s;ame. The Carriers of the &s;ayd victuals of fle&s;h if any &s;hall be taken, to be guided to the per&s;ons hou&s;es that haue li|cen&s;e, &amp; this watch to be continued dayly during the whole time of Lent: And if any of tho&s;e watchmen be found negligent &amp; cor|rupt in his charge, then he to be committed to pri&s;on, there to con|tinue during the whole Lent. And in ca&s;e the &s;ame &s;hall be found to be brought to any per&s;on not warranted, or licen&s;ed to eat it as is afore&s;ayd, then the &s;ame to be forfeited and &s;old at the direction of the Lord Maior for the v&s;e of the poore in the Ho&s;pitals and Pri&s;ons in the Citie, and the bringers to be impri&s;oned.</P>
<P>And for that it is to be doubted that the Fi&s;hmongers, vpon the ob&s;eruation of the &s;aid orders, will take occa&s;ion therby to inhan&s;e the prices as well of fre&s;h as of Sea fi&s;h, it is thought meete that the Lord Maior &s;hall take order with the &s;ayd Fi&s;hmongers, that as well the &s;alt as fre&s;h fi&s;h &s;hall be vttered at rea&s;onable prices.</P>
<P>That euery of the butchers to be licen&s;ed as afore&s;ayd, be bound in a &s;ufficient bond with good Sureties to his Maie&s;ties v&s;e, to ob&s;erue the&s;e orders in euery re&s;pect, and the&s;e bonds to be taken by the Lord Maior, and other the Officers afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And as tho&s;e orders are expre&s;ly deui&s;ed to be executed in the ci|tie of London, and places neere to the &s;ame: &s;o his Maie&s;ties plea|&s;ure and commandement is, that the execution of the&s;e or like or|ders be performed by the commandement of his Maie&s;ties Lieu|tenants to be &s;ent to the Iu&s;tices of peace in all Shires within their rule, &amp; to all other officers in townes corporate, or in any li|berties, with like order for bonds to be taken to his Maie&s;ties v&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="year">
<PB N="171" REF="92">
<HEAD>ANNO SEXTO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t Tran&s;|portation of Leather.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas we vnder&s;tand, that diuers of our louing Subiects haue made com|plaint, that the price of Neates-Lea|ther is lately rai&s;ed to &s;uch a height, as it proueth very grieuous to the poorer &s;ort, who haue dayly v&s;e thereof: Such is and &s;halbe euer our care and re&s;olu|tion to preuent, or reforme all things that may be burthen&s;ome to any of our people ouer whom Almighty God hath committed to vs the vniuer&s;all care, as wee haue bene no le&s;&s;e curious to finde and &s;earch out the true cau&s;e, then to prouide for the remedy of the inconuenience, And therein particularly to be &s;ure to take away all meanes or colour for any &s;uch grieuance, that may (either in trueth or apprehen&s;i|on) ari&s;e from any action of our owne. For which purpo&s;e, al|though we doe dayly &s;ee by common experience, that exce&s;&s;iue prices grow vpon our Subiects by the practi&s;e and greedine&s;&s;e of priuate per&s;ons, who either by Fore&s;talling and ingro&s;&s;ing of commodities, or by combyning to keepe them at high prices, or by conueying them out of our Realme by &s;tealth, doe increa&s;e the rates a&s;well of foraine, as home bred commodities, without any Act of ours: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, becau&s;e we haue ob&s;erued that &s;ome euil affected people, in this, as in diuers other things, are more in|clined to impute the cau&s;e of grieuance to &s;ome thing done by vs, then to re&s;ort to the maine and original grounds of the &s;ame; We haue for more &s;urety, cau&s;ed our Councell to take information what Licences we haue giuen, (which haply may haue bene &s;ome pretext for abu&s;e in that kinde) and thereby finding that &s;ome &s;mall quantitie of that commoditie hath bene Tran&s;ported by vertue of a Licen&s;e granted at our fir&s;t comming, at the Suite of &s;ome forraine Princes our Allies, whom we could hardly then re|fu&s;e, although it be knowen to the world, that we did not giue Li|cence
<PB N="172" REF="93"> for any Leather by name, but generally for the Tran&s;por|ting of forbidden commodities, and that onely to the &s;umme of &s;ixe thou&s;and pounds in value, which could be no occa&s;ion of &s;uch &s;carcitie: Yet becau&s;e it is not vnlikely but that &s;ome Neates-Leather might he hereafter i&s;&s;ued by vertue of that Licence (as &s;ome hath bene already) contrary to our meaning, We did not onely (&s;o &s;oone as this came to our eares) giue pre&s;ent order to our Trea&s;ourer of England to re&s;traine all v&s;e of Licences (if any there were or be) concerning the tran&s;portation of &s;uch Leather, whereof there is no &s;uch plentie within our kingdome, but that what&s;oeuer is caried away, may be &s;oone felt in the &s;carcitie and dearene&s;&s;e thereof at home, But for the more &s;ure preuention of this grieuance, and that all our louing Subiects may be wit|ne&s;&s;es of our care in this behalfe, We doe now by the&s;e Pre&s;ents reuoke and di&s;anull all Licences and Tolerations concerning Tran&s;portation of Neates-Leather, (if any there be) And do fur|ther expre&s;ly prohibite and forbid all maner per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, That they attempt not from hencefoorth to cary or conuey away, or cau&s;e or con&s;ent to be caried or conueyed away out of this our Realme, any Neates-Leather, or Neates-Hides raw before they be perfect Leather.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e we doe by the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;traitly charge and com|mand al our Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, Surueyors, and other our Officers of our Ports, That they doe not onely in|forme our &s;aid Trea&s;ourer, what Neates-Leather, or Neates-hides raw they haue knowen to be Tran&s;ported at any time &s;ince the beginning of our Raigne, at what Ports, and by whom; But al&s;o that they be from henceforth watchfull that none pa&s;&s;e by a|ny practi&s;e, pretence, or colour what&s;oeuer, as they, and euery of them will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perils. Know|ing that from hencefoorth they &s;hall haue no excu&s;e by pretence of Licences or other Tolerations, ina&s;much as wee haue reuoked and di&s;auowed them (if any &s;uch there bee) by the&s;e Pre&s;ents. Willing yet further all our Subiects that can learne or vnder|&s;tand and abu&s;e in this behalfe, That they al&s;o re&s;ort to our &s;aid Trea&s;ourer and informe him thereof, whereby he may detect the fraud, corruption, and confederacie of our &s;aid Officers, if they &s;hall conceale the &s;ame. And &s;uch di&s;couerers &s;hall receiue &s;uch reward as their &s;eruice &s;hall de&s;erue.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 31. <HI>day of March, in the</HI> 6. <HI>yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="173" REF="93">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation commanding the the Oath of Allegiance to be tendred to all the Kings Maie&s;ties Subiects comming from beyond the Seas, except Merchants and men of qualitie.</HEAD>
<P>IT hath beene our de&s;ire and di&s;po&s;ition in all the cour&s;e of our gouernment (as one of the be&s;t and &s;afe&s;t remedies) to extend our natural clemencie in forewarning Offenders, where rea|&s;on of State will not permit vs to v&s;e the &s;ame in di&s;pen&s;ing with their offences; And hauing lately ob&s;erued that diuers of our Subiects haue repaired into our Realme of England from the parts beyond the Seas (being per&s;ons of meane condition, and of wandring cour&s;e of life, and vnknowen to any of credit that might vndertake for them) who haue refu&s;ed to take the Oath of Allegiance, lately by our Parliament deui&s;ed: Wee cannot but conceiue that &s;uch per&s;ons are not vnlike to become bad in&s;tru|ments of practi&s;e and perill again&s;t our State. For con&s;idering that wee had neuer any intention in the forme of that Oath to pre&s;&s;e any poynt of Con&s;cience for matter of Religion, but onely to make &s;ome di&s;couery of di&s;loyall affection: the refu&s;all thereof in any per&s;on mu&s;t both induce a vehement &s;u&s;pitio~ in it &s;elfe, and much more in &s;uch a one as may bee probably &s;uppo&s;ed to haue come from &s;uch parts, where he may haue conuer&s;ed with Trai|tours and Fugitiues, and is al&s;o of a needie fortune, which may make him apt for any dangerous or de&s;perate imployment: And therefore we haue re&s;olued, and accordingly doe charge and com|mand all per&s;ons authorized by Law, to mini&s;ter the &s;ayd Oath, that taking information from the Officers of our Ports, and by all other good wayes and meanes, they faile not to tender the &s;ame Oath at the Ports to all our Subiects comming from be|yond the Seas, (not being knowen merchants or men of &s;ome qualitie) and vpon refu&s;all thereof the Law to be &s;euerely execu|ted, which willeth to commit them to pri&s;on vntill the next A&s;&s;i|&s;es, or generall quarter Se&s;&s;ions, and &s;o vpon a &s;econd refu&s;all to be brought within the degree of a <HI>Praemunire.</HI> Wherein, becau&s;e the penaltie is &s;o grieuous (of which neuerthele&s;&s;e we can not in our Princely prouidence make any alteration) We haue thought good to notifie our re&s;olution, and order giuen therein, which we doubt not, but will be in &s;mall time di&s;per&s;ed abroad; to the end that &s;uch as now are, or hereafter &s;hall bee in forraine parts,
<PB N="174" REF="94"> and finde in their owne hearts &s;uch affections, as can not &s;tand with the &s;ayd Oath, may know their perill, and thereby either refraine their comming in, or expect the execution of our Lawes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 29. <HI>day of Aprill, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the preuen|ting and remedying of the dearth of Graine, and other Victuals.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings Maie&s;tie hauing taken knowledge of the high prices of Graine and other victuals, lately and very &s;ud|denly growen in &s;undry parts of this Realme, And finding no &s;ufficient rea&s;on thereof, doth iudge that the rich Owners of Corne doe keepe their &s;tore from common markets, thereby to en|crea&s;e the prices therof, Or els that the &s;ame is engro&s;&s;ed vnduely into few hands, and &s;o the multitude of poore people hauing no Graine of their owne growing, mu&s;t needs &s;u&s;taine great lacke. His Highne&s;&s;e therefore for remedie thereof, hath cau&s;ed &s;peciall Orders to be made and publi&s;hed through all parts of this realme, bearing date the fir&s;t day of Iune 1608, and Intituled, <HI>Orders ap|poynted by his Maie&s;tie, &amp;c.</HI> By which the Iu&s;tices of Peace in all parts of the Realme, are directed to &s;tay all Engro&s;&s;ers, Fore&s;tal|lers and Regraters of Corne, and to direct all Owners and Far|mers, (hauing Corne to &s;pare) to furni&s;h the markets rateably and weekely, with &s;uch quantities as rea&s;onably they may and ought to doe, and to &s;ee diuers other Articles ob&s;erued and perfor|med, tending to the preuention and remedy of this inconuenience. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, becau&s;e his Maie&s;tie doth well know, that the life of the&s;e his gracious, godly, and politique Con&s;titutions, depends vpon the carefull and diligent execution of the &s;ame: His High|ne&s;&s;e doth therefore by this his Proclamation (to the end that no per&s;on whome it may concerne, &s;hall or may pleade ignorance) &s;traitly charge and command all Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, and other his Officers and Sub|iects what&s;oeuer, That they take knowledge of the &s;ayd Orders, and ob&s;erue and cau&s;e the &s;ame to be ob&s;erued, as &s;hall appertaine vnto them, as they tender his di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e there may be iu&s;t cau&s;e to feare, that notwith&s;tan|ding all the &s;trait proui&s;ions that are lately taken again&s;t tran&s;|portation of Graine, yet vnder colour of conueying of it from port
<PB N="175" REF="94"> to port within the lande, &s;ome may bee conueyed into forraine parts: Therefore for further proui&s;ion in that behalfe, be&s;ides the bonds in that ca&s;e appoynted to be taken, His Maie&s;tie comman|deth and giueth licence to any per&s;on that &s;hall haue cau&s;e to &s;u&s;|pect that any &s;uch corne is or &s;hould be &s;hipped, or prouided to bee &s;hipped by lawfull authoritie to be caried to any other Port, that the &s;ame may be by fraud caried out of the Realme; &s;uch per&s;on hauing &s;uch cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect, &s;hall giue information thereof to a|ny Iu&s;tice of peace, or publike officer dwelling neere to the Port, Which Iu&s;tice or Officer &s;hall with the &s;ayd Informer, repaire to the Cu&s;tome hou&s;e of any &s;uch Port or Creeke where Corne is &s;hipped, or prouided to be &s;hipped, and there &s;hall duely examine both the Officers of the Cu&s;tome hou&s;e, and the &s;ellers, buyers, and &s;hippers of the corne vpon their &s;euerall oathes, whether they know of any intention directly, or indirectly, to haue the &s;ayd Corne to be caried out of the Realme. And further al&s;o, when by their Oathes they &s;hall cleare them&s;elues of any &s;uch intention (thereby the &s;u&s;pition conceiued being cleared) yet the Officers of the Ports that haue authority to take bonds, &s;hall &s;hew the par|ties, who vpon pregnant &s;u&s;pition &s;hall require the &s;ame, and giue them in writing the contents of the bond, with the names of the parties bound, being &s;ufficient to an&s;were the &s;ame, the true quantitie of the graine, and the ports to which it is intended to haue the &s;ame caried: And if notwith&s;tanding &s;uch proui&s;ion of good a&s;&s;urance taken, there &s;hall afterwards any doubt followe, that notwith&s;tanding the &s;ayd bonds the &s;ayd corne &s;hall be caried out of the realme, The partie that &s;hal haue cau&s;e &s;o to &s;u&s;pect the &s;ame, &s;hall repaire to &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace, whome his Maie&s;tie doeth hereby command to examine the trueth at the Port where|unto the &s;aid Corne was appoynted. And for that purpo&s;e the of|ficers of that port &s;hall make plaine declaration whether any &s;uch corne, or what quantity therof came to that port within the time limitted; And if by good proofe it &s;hall any wayes appeare, that there hath beene any fraud in any officer of the Port, or fal&s;hood in the Tran&s;porter by carying it out of the Realme, the Officer of the Port &s;hall bee depriued of his Office, and &s;uffer impri&s;on|ment, and make Fine to his Maie&s;tie at his plea&s;ure; And the Tran&s;porter for carying it out of the Realme, and the &s;eller and buyer, or either of them being priuie thereto, &s;hall be committed to pri&s;on for the &s;pace of one yeere, and the &s;hip forfeited; And the Informer for his labour and reward, &s;hall haue both the halfe of the value of the corne tran&s;ported, and the halfe of the Fines im|po&s;ed vpon the offenders. And for the triall of the&s;e offences, and
<PB N="176" REF="95"> execution of the puni&s;hments and Fines, the &s;ame &s;hall bee tryed in his Maie&s;ties exchequer, as all Informations are vpon penall Statutes, where all expedition &s;hall be v&s;ed, or before the Iu&s;ti|ces of A&s;&s;i&s;e in their Circuits, or before any Iu&s;tices of Peace in the Se&s;&s;ions where the offence &s;hall bee committed, hauing any authoritie to heare and determine any penall Law.</P>
<P>Finally, his Maie&s;tie is particularly informed of &s;ome inten|tions of &s;undry per&s;ons of abilitie to keepe Ho&s;pitalitie in their Countreys, to leaue their Ho&s;pitalities, and to come to the Citie of London, and other Cities and Townes corporate, thereby lea|uing the reliefe of their poore neighbours, as well for food, as for good rule, and with couetous mindes to liue in London, and a|bout the Citie priuately, and &s;o al&s;o in other Townes corporate, without charge of company. For with&s;tanding whereof, his Maie&s;tie chargeth all maner of per&s;ons, that &s;hall haue any &s;uch intention during the time of this Dearth, not to breake vp their hou&s;holds, nor to come to the &s;ayd Citie, or other townes corpo|rate, And all others that haue of late time broken vp their hou&s;e|holds, to returne to their hou&s;es againe without delay. Of the performance and execution of which his Maie&s;ties orders, It is his Highnes plea&s;ure that the Iu&s;tices doe make certificate vpon all occa&s;ions to his Maie&s;ties Priuie Councell, and more parti|cularly for his Highne&s;&s;e better &s;ati&s;faction, what price Corne and victuals doe beare.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Oatlands,</HI> <DATE><HI>the &s;econd day of Iune, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t making of Starch.</HEAD>
<P>ALbeit our great care to prouide for the good and welfare of our louing Subiects, hath at all times appeared in the whole cour&s;e of our Proceedings &s;ince our comming into this Kingdome, a&s;wel for preuenting, as for remouing all abu&s;es and inconueniences; And knowing, that there is not any one thing, that can be more bitter and grieuous vnto all &s;orts of peo|ple (e&s;pecially tho&s;e of the poorer &s;ort) then the feare or feeling of &s;carcitie and dearth of Corne, and other Victuals, Wee haue not onely in regard thereof, giuen former commandement by our pro|clamation, and other Orders lately publi&s;hed, to prouide again&s;t the great &s;carcitie and dearth of corne, but al&s;o for the more &s;ure|tie,
<PB N="177" REF="95"> in a matter of &s;o great con&s;equence to our people, vpon diuers Certificats and complaints to vs and our Coun&s;el &s;ent from &s;un|dry the Iu&s;tices of Peace of &s;euerall parts of this Realme, We did both giue &s;trict direction for re&s;trayning the exce&s;&s;iue making of Starch, becau&s;e we conceiued it might be a meanes to wa&s;te the Corne and Graine of this our Realme, and vpon the humble &s;uit of the better &s;ort of the Starch makers them&s;elues, did authorize certaine &s;elected per&s;ons, by Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the Great Seale of England, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Magi&s;trates in all places of this Kingdome, to &s;ee and take order, that no Starch &s;hould bee made of Wheat, or of any other &s;tuffe fit for the food &amp; &s;u&s;tenance of man, but onely of cleane Branne, or &s;uch like cour&s;er &s;tuffe. Since which time, hauing bene enfourmed, that our great care and earne&s;t de&s;ire in that behalfe, hath not &s;orted to that good ef|fect which was then purpo&s;ed, by rea&s;on that many bad and ill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, which neuer before had v&s;ed the making of Starch, haue &s;ince that time, out of a greedy de&s;ire, and for coue|tou&s;ne&s;&s;e of gaine, newly &s;et vp, and erected Starch-making in &s;undry places of this land, without any allowance from our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and the Magi&s;trates authorized thereunto, And that many others al&s;o, who formerly v&s;ed Starch-making, haue &s;ince continued to make it of Wheat, and other &s;tuffe, which might haue &s;erued in times of dearth, for the reliefe of the poorer &s;ort of our people, Whereby we doe perceiue and fore&s;ee, that by the v&s;e of Starch-making, both the &s;carcitie and dearth of Corne, may be al&s;o continued or increa&s;ed, if it &s;hould not &s;peedily be preuented: Although wee haue vouch&s;afed of late to relea&s;e the payment of Cu&s;tome to all per&s;ons which would bring in any forreine Corne, thereby the better to &s;upply the pre&s;ent want at home; And albeit we &s;hall by this cour&s;e which followeth, lo&s;e great part of the be|nefit which ari&s;eth vnto vs from the voluntary contributions of the Starch-makers: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, in our Princely care, and de|&s;ire of the Publique good, and to the intent that all occa&s;ions may be remoued and taken away, which &s;hall or may in any &s;ort be pre|iudiciall to our Subiects, who&s;e welfare we preferre before pro|fit or aduantage to our &s;elfe, by expending or employing either any Corne, Graine, or other &s;tuffe in the making of Starch, that may be of v&s;e to them within this Realme, e&s;pecially in this time, wherein &s;o great a &s;hew of &s;carcity and want appeareth, as by the expence of &s;o great quantities of &s;undry &s;orts of Graine dayly brought from forreine parts into &s;euerall Ports of this our Realme appeareth, but principally into our Port of <HI>London:</HI> From whence, for&s;omuch as we are certified, that among&s;t &s;undry
<PB N="178" REF="96"> great quantities of Corne and graine that now are daily brought thither from forreine parts, good &s;weet; and merchantable, to the great reliefe of our Subiects, there are al&s;o &s;ome parcels of corne brought, which by foule weather and contrary winds happening to take wet, and to be long deteined at Sea, one thereby become &s;o much decayed, mu&s;tie, and vn&s;auory, as the lame is altogether vnhol&s;ome for the food and &s;u&s;tenance of man, and not fit for any other v&s;e, then onely to be conuerted and made into Starch, and that for the good of &s;uch Merchants, whom &s;uch mi&s;fortune &s;hall &s;o befall.</P>
<P>Wherefore we hauing with the aduice of our Councell concei|ued, that it is very requi&s;ite for the time to prohibit and &s;uppre&s;&s;e the making of Starch in all places of this our Realme and Do|minion afore&s;aid, and to giue order that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer &s;hal hereafter make, or cau&s;e to be made, any Starch of any Corne, Graine, or other &s;tuffe what&s;oeuer in any place or places within our &s;aid Realme of England and Dominion of Wales, except onely in &s;uch maner, and of &s;uch &s;tuffe as is herein prouided, and hereafter expre&s;&s;ed, and to that end haue thought fit to &s;ignifie our plea&s;ure to all louing Subiects by our Procla|mation: Willing and &s;traitly charging and commanding all, and all maner of per&s;ons what&s;oeuer which now doe, or heretofore haue v&s;ed the making of Starch within any place or places of our Kingdome of England and dominion of Wales what&s;oeuer, and which haue or &s;hall haue an intent or purpo&s;e to make &s;tarch, from henceforth to &s;urcea&s;e and forbeare to make any Starch at all, either of Wheat, Pollard, Branne, or any other &s;tuffe what&s;o|euer, and al&s;o that they do not pre&s;ume at any time or times here|after to &s;teepe or cau&s;e to be &s;teeped or put in water, or to prepare or prouide any Wheat, Pollard, Branne, or other &s;tuffe what&s;oe|uer, with intent and purpo&s;e to make the &s;ame into Starch, vn|le&s;&s;e it be onely of &s;uch decayed and mu&s;ty Wheat, bare Branne, or &s;uch other &s;tuffe, not fit for mans &s;u&s;tenance as afore&s;aid, and that onely by &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;halbe thereunto appointed, nominated and allowed by &s;ome of our Priuy Councell, or by &s;uch other di&s;|creet per&s;ons as they &s;hall thinke <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t to &s;elect, nominate, and au|thori&s;e for that purpo&s;e, and the &s;ame to be done onely in or neere our Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and other places neere ad|joyning, where &s;uch corrupt Wheat and &s;tuffes are mo&s;t v&s;ually had in greate&s;t quantities, and not el&s;ewhere, and the rather, for that in other places more remote from our &s;aid City of <HI>London,</HI> the due ob&s;eruance and execution of this our command cannot be &s;o well and carefully looked vnto as is meete.</P>
<PB N="179" REF="96">
<P>To which end, and that none &s;hall or may vnder colour of &s;uch corrupt Wheat and other &s;tuffes, make or cau&s;e to be made into Starch any Wheate, Meale, Flower, Rubbles, or other &s;tuffe what&s;oeuer fit for mans food; Our will and plea&s;ure is, and we do hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that there &s;halbe appoin|ted by our &s;aid Councell, certaine hone&s;t and di&s;creet per&s;ons, who &s;hall and may haue full power and authoritie at all times hereafter to view all and euery parcell of mu&s;ty Wheat, Branne, and other &s;tuffes what&s;oeuer which &s;halbe offered to be &s;teeped or made into Starch, before &s;uch time as the &s;ame &s;tuffe or any part thereof &s;halbe put in water, &s;teeped, or made into Starch by any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o for the time being to be allowed by our &s;ayd Councell to make Starch as afore&s;aid. And if any per&s;on or per|&s;ons what&s;oeuer &s;hall attempt or pre&s;ume after the la&s;t day of Iu|ly in&s;tant, to offend or do contrary to our expre&s;&s;e wil and plea&s;ure hereby &s;ignified: Wee doe by the&s;e Pre&s;ents let them know and vnder&s;tand that our will and plea&s;ure is, that he or they &s;o offen|ding, &s;hall not onely loo&s;e and forfeit all the Starch &s;o made or to be made, of which the one halfe &s;halbe to the party &s;ei&s;ing the &s;ame, and the other halfe to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors: But our mea|ning al&s;o is with all &s;euerity to proceed again&s;t all &s;uch offendors, and for their contempt of our prerogatiue Royall in a matter ten|ding &s;o much to the good and benefit of our people, to inflict &s;uch further puni&s;hment as is v&s;uall in ca&s;es of &s;uch contempt. And whereas the manifold abu&s;es heretofore committed in the ma|king of Starch, contrary to our expre&s;&s;e command in our Procla|mation la&s;t publi&s;hed, haue for the mo&s;t part growen and bene oc|ca&s;ioned through the &s;lackne&s;&s;e and remi&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e of Iu&s;tices of Peace, and other our Magi&s;trates and Officers whom we haue charged and tru&s;ted to haue the care and ouer&s;ight hereof: We do now therefore &s;traitly charge and command all and &s;ingular Iu|&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Head|boroughes, and all other our Officers and &s;ubiects what&s;oeuer, That they do at all times carefully and diligently &s;ee and take or|der, that this our Ordinance and Royall commandement hereby &s;ignified and expre&s;&s;ed, be in all points duely performed, and that they doe not &s;uffer any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer within any of their precincts, from and after the la&s;t day of this moneth of Iuly in&s;tant, to make or cau&s;e to be made directly or indirectly a|ny Starch in any place or places within this Realme of Eng|land and dominion of Wales afore&s;aid, but that they doe to their vttermo&s;t power and endeuour by all lawful meanes hinder and &s;uppre&s;&s;e the &s;ame. And we doe further wil and command them
<PB N="180" REF="97"> and euery of them, and doe al&s;o for vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, giue and grant vnto them and euery of them full power and au|thoritie not onely to breake and teare in pieces the ve&s;&s;els of all &s;uch per&s;ons wherein any &s;uch Starch &s;halbe found to be made, contrary to our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure herein &s;ignified, but al|&s;o that they doe cau&s;e all and euery &s;uch offendors to be bound o|uer with Sureties in good bonds to our v&s;e for their appearance before vs and our Priuie Councell in our Court of Starcham|ber, there to an&s;were to their &s;aid contempts. And if they or any of them &s;hall refu&s;e to enter into &s;uch bonds, then to commit eue|ry per&s;on &s;o offending vnto pri&s;on, there to remaine vntill further order by vs and our Councell &s;halbe taken for their enlargement and relea&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the fift day of Iuly, in the &s;ixt yere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for Buildings.</HEAD>
<P>THe continuall new Buildings, and addition and increa&s;e of buildings in &amp; neere about the City of <HI>London</HI> is grow|en to that exce&s;&s;e, and doeth draw together &s;uch an ouer|flow of people, &s;pecially of the meaner &s;ort, as can hardly be either fed and &s;u&s;teined, or pre&s;erued in health or gouerned, which doth not onely threaten, but hath already bred and brought foorth at diuers times dearth of victuals, infection of plague, and mani|fold di&s;orders, which his Maie&s;tie in his Royall wi&s;edome before this time fore&s;eeing, hath &s;ince his happy comming to the Crowne, by two &s;euerall Proclamations, The one in the &s;econd yeere of his Highne&s;&s;e Reigne concerning building with Bricke, the other in the fift yeere of his Reigne concerning building vpon new foundations, (wherein neuerthele&s;&s;e the former ordinance touching Bricke buildings is continued) &s;ought to giue remedie and proui&s;ion for the &s;ame; But &s;uch hath beene and is the coue|tous de&s;ire of gaine and priuate benefit ari&s;ing of &s;uch buildings, ioyned with a neglect of Iu&s;tices and Officers in executing his Maie&s;ties &s;ayd Proclamations, as many per&s;ons haue pre&s;umed and aduentured to offend again&s;t them, both to the continuance and increa&s;e of the former euils and inconueniences, and to the manife&s;t ill example of contempt and di&s;obedience in a ca&s;e &s;o no|torious, and in the view of the whole Kingdome: His Maie&s;tie neuerthele&s;&s;e not forgetting (though vpon &s;o iu&s;t cau&s;e of indig|nation) his accu&s;tomed clemencie, hath thought good to make a
<PB N="181" REF="97"> difference betweene the offenders and their ca&s;es, and for &s;uch as haue offended in not building with Bricke, in as much as the of|fenders were in great multitude, and might haue &s;ome colour of nece&s;&s;ity, or pretended impo&s;&s;ibilitie, though vniu&s;tly, as them|&s;elues mu&s;t needs confe&s;&s;e, if they looke abroad, and &s;ee what is done in other well polliced Cities of <HI>Europe,</HI> His Highne&s;&s;e gaue order that after &s;ome exemplar cen&s;ure of a few offenders by &s;en|tence in the <HI>Star-chamber,</HI> the re&s;idue &s;hould be admitted to compo|&s;ition according to his Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion of grace for that purpo&s;e granted, wherein his Maie&s;ties expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure was, That the Fines &s;hould bee &s;o milde and moderate as might make the Offenders them&s;elues &s;en&s;ible of his Maie&s;ties lenitie and gracious di&s;po&s;ition, and might make all others perceiue, That it was not his Maie&s;ties profit that was &s;ought, but onely the re|pre&s;&s;ing of the inconuenience, and the pre&s;eruing of the authori|tie of his Maie&s;ties Royall commandements for the publique good, from contempt. But for the &s;econd &s;ort of offenders, which haue erected new foundations where no buildings were before, which had no maner of circum&s;tance to extenuate their offence, but many to aggrauate the &s;ame, being again&s;t a Proclamation &s;o lately publi&s;hed, and &s;o &s;traitly penned, and immediatly after a &s;euere &s;entence in the <HI>Star-chamber,</HI> his Maie&s;ty hath directed that all &s;uch Offenders, (the number of which cannot be many being within the compa&s;&s;e of one yere) &s;halbe proceeded with in the <HI>Star-chamber.</HI> But as his Maie&s;tie doth not thinke fit to admit at all to grace that kind of Offenders, &s;o his Highne&s;&s;e doth publi&s;h and declare, That for the other point of Bricke building, no man doe hereafter expect any the like fauour of Compo&s;ition, as his Ma|ie&s;tie was plea&s;ed onely at this time for the auoyding of rigor and extremitie to grant and extend: But his Maie&s;ties will and plea|&s;ure is, That his &s;ayd ordinance bee hereafter &s;traitly ob&s;erued, and maintained, and the offenders again&s;t the &s;ame with all &s;eue|ritie puni&s;hed. And to the end to remoue and take away all colour of pretended nece&s;&s;ity in that point, His Maie&s;tie is graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed that his former proclamations be explained and qualified in maner and forme following, That is to &s;ay, That if any per|&s;on that &s;hall hereafter erect any building vpon an old foundation within the precincts limitted in the proclamation publi&s;hed in the fift yeere of his Highne&s;&s;e raigne, &s;hall make it appeare, That ei|ther the quantitie of the ground whereupon the olde foundation &s;tandeth, is of too &s;mall a proportion to receiue a Bricke building, or that the hou&s;e is &s;ituate in &s;o ob&s;cure or meane a Lane or Alley, as is not fit for &s;uch a building, or that the trade of &s;uch per&s;on as
<PB N="182" REF="98"> intendeth &s;uch building, is the trade of a retailing &s;hopkeeper, and of &s;uch a nature as his &s;hop and building cannot with any conue|nience be built with Bricke, and thereupon &s;hall obtaine certifi|cate vnder the hands of the L. Maior, the Recorder, and the Al|derman of the Ward, if the building be within the Citie or the li|berties thereof, and vnder the hands of two Iu&s;tices of the peace, whereof one to be of the <HI>Quorum,</HI> if it be out of the Citie and Li|berties, And &s;hall further vpon the &s;ayd Certificate, procure a li|cence vnder the hands of any foure of his Maie&s;ties priuy Coun|cell, whereof, the Lord Chancellour, L. Trea&s;ourer, L. Priuie Seale, and Chancellour of the Exchequer for the time being, to be two in allowance of the &s;ame, That in &s;uch ca&s;e &s;uch per&s;on &s;o building, &s;hall not be deemed and taken for an offendour again&s;t his Maie&s;ties proclamations, any thing in the &s;ayd Proclamati|ons, or either of them to the contrary hereof in any wi&s;e notwith|&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Tuddington</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 25. <HI>day of Iuly, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for re&s;traint of the Shipping, and tran&s;por|ting of Hor&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>WE are informed that there hath bene of late (through neglect of the Lawes of our Realme, and &s;uch good orders as haue bene taken) &s;o great a tran&s;portation of Hor&s;es into forraine parts, a&s;well for the number, exceeding rea&s;on, as in regard of the qualities and &s;tatures forbidden, as it hath both already cau&s;ed an exce&s;&s;iue price of Hor&s;es among our Subiects, and will with time vnfurni&s;h the Realme of &s;ufficient number for v&s;e and Seruice. For preuenting whereof, wee doe &s;traitly charge and command all our Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, &amp; all other officers of our Ports, and other Officers what&s;oeuer, that they &s;uffer not any hor&s;es to be &s;hipped within any of their charges, or tran&s;ported by what Licen&s;e or warrant &s;oeuer, except it be vnder our owne hand, or vnder the hand of the Ma&s;ter of our Hor&s;e, vntill vpon &s;ome con&s;ideration had thereof by vs and our Councell, order be taken how (in &s;ome ca&s;es agree|able to the Lawes of the Realme, and without inconuenience to our Subiects) Hor&s;es of &s;ome condition may in rea&s;onable num|ber be permitted to be tran&s;ported, and by what Warrant the
<PB N="183" REF="98"> &s;ame &s;halbe done, and the better &s;ort &s;tayed within the Realme for v&s;e and Seruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at Holdenby</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 14. <HI>day of Augu&s;t, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we did lately prorogue our Parliament till the &s;euen and twentieth day of October now next comming; Fora&s;much as the late encrea&s;e of the &s;ick|ne&s;&s;e in and about our City of London, maketh vs loth to draw a concour&s;e of people together, &s;o great, as the Terme and Parlia|ment holding at one time would make, le&s;t thereby an augmen|tation of infection &s;hould folow: We haue thought fit to prorogue the &s;ame againe vntill the ninth day of February now next en&s;u|ing, at which day our purpo&s;e is (God willing) to holde the &s;ame, And do therefore hereby giue notice to all whom it may concerne, that they may frame their affaires accordingly, and attend at the &s;ame ninth day of February to that &s;eruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE><HI>the fourth day of September, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation concerning Fines for Alienations of Lands holden in Chiefe, made without Record.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it is acknowledged by all men (as it mu&s;t needs be) that Fines for Alienations of lands holden in Chiefe, are of right due vnto vs &amp; our Crowne, as one of the mo&s;t ancient, iu&s;t, and Royal reuenues belonging to the &s;ame; And yet it is as well knowne, that Lands of that na|ture haue beene, and are often aliened by Feoffements, Grants of Reuer&s;ions, Wills, Exchanges, Couenants, and other like con|ueyances made without Record, for which no Fines are an&s;we|red, onely becau&s;e the Conueyances are not of Record, and there|fore cannot come (without great charge) to the knowledge of our Officers, to who&s;e care the &s;ame doeth appertaine, but are wil|fully, and again&s;t con&s;cience by the Purcha&s;ers hidden and con|cealed, whereas Fines are as well due in that ca&s;e, as if the &s;ame
<PB N="184" REF="99"> Conueyances were of Record, and are accordingly required and payed without exception, where&s;oeuer they are di&s;couered: In which re&s;pect, there was about a yeere pa&s;t, in diuers Counties a cour&s;e taken, as well to finde out &s;uch Alienations without Re|cord by Commi&s;&s;ions of enquiry, and other lawfull meanes, as al|&s;o to require and take &s;uch Fines as &s;hould be found due according to the Law, of all tho&s;e that &s;hould appeare to bee liable to the &s;ame Fines.</P>
<P>Fora&s;much as we haue euer bene enclined to v&s;e grace and fa|uour, rather then &s;euerity, euen in tho&s;e things which all men know to be mo&s;t clearly due to vs, as in this ca&s;e among&s;t others, wherein no man can challenge any exemption in cour&s;e of Iu|&s;tice from payment of a full yeeres value of the Lands &s;o Aliened, e&s;pecially being &s;uch as haue &s;o ill de&s;erued any fauour at our hands, from whom they haue &s;o long withheld our due, &amp; meant &s;till to doe, vnle&s;&s;e they &s;hould be by &s;ome extraordinary care and charge laied open and di&s;couered, we haue bene plea&s;ed (notwith|&s;tanding all their former cour&s;es, &s;o farre to the preiudice of vs in our iu&s;t dueties and demands) both to make &s;tay of execution of all and euery of tho&s;e Commi&s;&s;ions, and other enquiries formerly &s;ent out, whereof the charge and di&s;quiet would fall heauily vp|on our Subiects: and haue al&s;o re&s;olued by this our gracious Proclamation to make knowen to all tho&s;e who know them|&s;elues an&s;werable for any &s;uch Fines, that we will be content out of our princely fauour to forbeare tho&s;e meanes which will ea&s;ily di&s;couer trueth, &amp; remit vnto them the greater part of our Fines, according to the Articles hereunto annexed. Prouided alwayes, that they &s;hall willingly and duetifully pay the re&s;t of that which we &s;hall not forgiue, for our owne proper v&s;e into the Office of A|lienations, where our mini&s;ters wil bee ready to giue them a di&s;|charge vpon receit thereof.</P>
<P>Of which great fauour, ea&s;e and benefite, though we are well per&s;waded that mo&s;t of our louing Subiects, as well in di&s;creti|on as in duety, wil be glad to take hold, and to yeeld vs a gratefull acceptation; Neuerthele&s;&s;e, becau&s;e we haue had good experience that many per&s;ons are more apt to &s;hew them&s;elues backward in taking hold of grace and fauour, when the &s;ame is offered, then o|therwi&s;e, we finde it likewi&s;e nece&s;&s;ary for vs in ca&s;es of this na|ture (where by fraud and couine our ancient Rights are &s;ought to be concealed or extingui&s;hed by the practi&s;e of priuate men, or are omitted or neglected by tho&s;e that &s;hould &s;earch after things of that nature) to declare hereby, that who&s;oeuer &s;hall not offer him&s;elfe to make &s;uch &s;ati&s;faction as is expre&s;&s;ed in the Articles
<PB N="185" REF="99"> hereafter mentioned, before the end of <HI>Hillary</HI> Terme next, at the furthe&s;t, mu&s;t not expect any further fauour at our handes, then that which they may challenge by the cour&s;e of our lawes, which no man can binde vs to mitigate further then he &s;hould de&s;erue, or we &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed to doe out of our inward clemencie, which Princes &s;eldome v&s;e, when wilfully the &s;ame is not accepted, ac|cording to that grace and bounty wherewith it is offered.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at our Honor of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of October, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>&para; The Articles in this Proclamation mentioned.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 NO Fines &s;halbe required for Alienations without Re|cord, but where tho&s;e Alienations were made &s;ithence the fourteenth yeere of the late Q. <HI>Elizabeth.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 The Fines for Alienations of E&s;tates of inheritance pa&s;t, &s;halbe for &s;uch as come in, and offer Compo&s;ition vpon this Pro|clamation, but a third part of the yeeres value: But if they come not in betweene the date of this Proclamation, and the ende of <HI>Hillarie</HI> Terme next, then to pay, (as by Lawe they ought) the yeeres value.</P>
<P N="3">3 And for Alienations of E&s;tates for liues pa&s;t, the Fines &s;hall be the fourth part onely of the yeeres value, if they yeeld them|&s;elues voluntarily within the time afore&s;ayde, Or otherwi&s;e to pay the whole yeeres value, As in the ca&s;e of E&s;tates of Inheri|tance, the Law making no difference in the&s;e ca&s;es.</P>
<P N="4">4 Vpon Alienations of E&s;tates of inheritance that &s;hall bee made hereafter without Record, there &s;hall bee payed but two parts of the three, of &s;o much as &s;hall be due by Law, in &s;uch ca&s;es both vpon pardons and licences, if the parties them&s;elues within foure moneths after &s;uch Alienations made, &s;hal fir&s;t di&s;couer the &s;ame, and offer Compo&s;ition at our office of Alienations.</P>
<P N="5">5 Vpon E&s;tates for liues that &s;halbe made hereafter without Record, there &s;halbe payd vpon licences and pardons both, but the halfe of that, that by Law ought to be payd in &s;uch ca&s;es, if the parties them&s;elues di&s;couer the &s;ame, and offer compo&s;ition with|in the foure moneths as afore&s;ayd.</P>
<P N="6">6 The valuation of lands in the&s;e ca&s;es, &s;hall not be made ac|cording to the very value, but as is v&s;ed in the Office of Alienati|ons, where the&s;e Alienations &s;hall bee ordered as all others are: And therefore for in&s;truction in that behalfe, it will be nece&s;&s;ary that the Conueyances be brought &amp; &s;hewed to the Officers there.</P>
<P N="7">7 No Fine at all &s;hall be required vpon Alienation of E&s;tates
<PB N="186" REF="100"> for life or liues pa&s;t, where the E&s;tate is ended without fraud.</P>
<P N="8">8 Such as &s;hall pay their Compo&s;ition for Alienations pa&s;t, &s;hall haue this ea&s;e in pa&s;&s;ing of their Pardons, that many may be ioyned in a Pardon, and pay among them but the charge of one Pardon, and the &s;ame charge &s;hal be no more then the charge was for the Pardons granted vpon the Coronation.</P>
<P N="9">9 Such as &s;hall pay their compo&s;ition in &s;uch ca&s;e for the time pa&s;t, &s;hall not be compelled to plead their Conueyance in the Ex|chequer at large, as the v&s;e is.</P>
<P>&para; They that &s;hall compound &s;hall not appeare in per&s;on, but may take order by Attorneys or Solicitors to di&s;patch that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in the Terme time at the Office of Aliena|tions, where they &s;hall finde the Officers ready to giue them di&s;patch.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation touching Mault|&s;ters, Common-brewers and Alehou&s;e-keepers.</HEAD>
<P>VVHereas the Kings Maie&s;tie, for the better reliefe and &s;u&s;tentation of the poorer &s;ort of people within this his Kingdome, in this time of &s;carcity &amp; dearth of Corne and Graine, did out of his Princely and gracious di&s;po|&s;ition, lately cau&s;e certaine Orders to be generally publi&s;hed and &s;ent into all the Counties, Cities, and principall places of this Realme, for the &s;eruing of the Markets from time to time with conuenient quantities of Corne and Graine, whereby the poore might be chiefly prouided for with &s;o much thereof, as &s;hould bee nece&s;&s;ary for them at rea&s;onable rates: And whereas it hath plea|&s;ed God to giue this yeere greater increa&s;e of Barley then of other Graines, which of it &s;elfe, or being mingled with Wheat or Rye, wil make good Bread, e&s;pecially for the poorer &s;ort of people: His Maie&s;tie is giuen to vnder&s;tand, that of this great quantitie of Barley (whereof the greate&s;t part ought and might be made into Bread as afore&s;aid) much is by the infinite multitude of Mault|&s;ters, like to be turned into Mault as hitherto it hath bene, and then againe by Common-brewers brued into &s;trong Beere and Ale, which con&s;umes double the Mault that is needfull, and &s;erues not for v&s;e, but for drunkennes and exce&s;&s;e; Although both by the Lawes now in force, and by the &s;aid Orders lately pub|li&s;hed, there is proui&s;ion again&s;t the&s;e abu&s;es. His Maie&s;tie therefore continuing his Princely care for the pre&s;eruation and
<PB N="187" REF="100"> reliefe of his poore Subiects, And to the ende that the great wa&s;te and con&s;umption of Barley in making of mault may bee preuen|ted, and that the poore may haue &s;ufficient &s;tore of Barley to make bread for their &s;u&s;tenance at rea&s;onable prices, in this time of &s;car|citie of Wheat and Rye, Hath therefore thought good, and by this his Proclamation doeth &s;traitly charge and command all Iu&s;ti|ces of peace, Maiors, Con&s;tables, Headboroughes, and other his Officers to whom it appertaineth, That they forth with after the publi&s;hing of this his Proclamation, doe carefully and diligently cau&s;e the Lawes and Statutes of this his Realme, concerning mault &amp; Mault&s;ters, and concerning the a&s;&s;ize and price of beere to be put in due execution, and by all meanes to dimin&s;h the num|ber of Mault&s;ters, and to e&s;tabli&s;h good Orders to &s;uch as they &s;hall allow &s;till to mault for the &s;paring of Barley, as much as may be, As al&s;o to &s;ee that common Bruers, Alehou&s;e keepers, and all others that &s;ell Ale or Beere, make their Beere and Ale not too &s;trong, but of &s;uch rate and price, as may occa&s;ion lea&s;t ex|pence of mault, and whereby they may vtter their Beere at lowe and rea&s;onable prices, that the poorer &s;ort may haue the greater proportion for their money.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;tie doth likewi&s;e &s;traitly charge and commaund all Mault&s;ters, common Bruers, Alehou&s;e keepers, and &s;uch as &s;ell Beere or Ale, to ob&s;erue and keepe a&s;well the Lawes and &s;ta|tutes of this Realme in that behalfe made, as his Maie&s;ties &s;ayd orders lately publi&s;hed, and all other Orders and directions of the &s;ayd Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Bailiffes and other Officers here|after to be made, according to his Maie&s;ties gracious comman|dement in this Proclamation conteined.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at Thetford</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 12. <HI>day of December, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the proroguing of the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we did lately prorogue our Parliament till the ninth day of February now next comming: For|a&s;much as the dearth and &s;car&s;itie of all kinde of Vic|tuall is at this pre&s;ent great, And if it &s;hould draw &s;o great a con|cour&s;e of people hither as the Parliament wil bring, it would not onely more increa&s;e the prices of all things hereabouts (which are already very high) but al&s;o draw many Gentlemen out of
<PB N="188" REF="101"> their Countreys, where their Ho&s;pitality will giue much reliefe to their poore neighbors. Wee haue therefore thought fit to pro|rogue the &s;ame againe vntill the ninth day of Nouember now next en&s;uing, Whereof we doe hereby giue notice to all whom it may concerne, that they may frame their affaires accordingly, and attend at the &s;ame ninth day of Nouember to that &s;eruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 4. <HI>day of Ianuary, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t Pirats.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings Maie&s;tie, hauing bene informed through the manifold complaints made to his Highne&s;&s;e by his owne Subiects as others, of the many depredations and Pira|cies committed by lewd and ill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, accu&s;tomed and habituated to &s;poile and rapine, in&s;en&s;ible and de&s;perate of the pe|rill they draw vpon them&s;elues, and the imputation they ca&s;t vp|on the honour of their Soueraigne &s;o precious to him, as for re|dre&s;&s;e therof he is inforced to reiterate and inculcate his loathing and dete&s;tation not onely of the crimes, but al&s;o to manife&s;t to the world his &s;inceritie and exceeding de&s;ires for the due and &s;peedy &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the delinquents; And hauing lately found by ma|ny pregnant circum&s;tances, that mo&s;t of the&s;e great faults are continued by the conniuence, or corruption in many the &s;ubordi|nate Officers, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are re&s;ident in &amp; neere the Ports and Maritine Counties: In his Princely care to pre&s;erue Iu|&s;tice, as one of the maine pillars of his E&s;tate, and for the &s;peedy preuention of &s;uch fowle crimes, and the &s;euere puni&s;hment and extirpation of &s;uch enormious offendors (mo&s;t hatefull to his minde, and &s;candalous to his peaceable gouernment) and for the pre&s;eruation and continuance of amitie and good corre&s;ponden|cie with all other Princes and States, hath with the adui&s;e of his Coun&s;aile thought it nece&s;&s;ary at this pre&s;ent, to publi&s;h the&s;e Articles and Ordinances in&s;uing: Wherein if any &s;hall be found culpable, refractory, or contemptuous, his Maie&s;tie is re&s;olued and hereby declareth, that &s;uch puni&s;hment &s;hall bee inflicted on him or them &s;o offending, that others may bee exemplarily fore|warned, from committing &s;o odious factes, and be deterred from ayding, relieuing, comforting, or abetting &s;uch and &s;o enormious malefactors.</P>
<P>IF any per&s;on what&s;oeuer &s;hall vpon the Seas, or in any Port or hauen, take any Ship that doeth belong to any of his Maie|&s;ties
<PB N="189" REF="101"> Subiects, friends, or Allies, or &s;hall take out of it by force, a|ny goods of what nature or quality &s;oeuer: he or they &s;o offending &s;hall &s;uffer death, with confi&s;cation of lands and goods, according to the Law in that ca&s;e prouided.</P>
<P>IF any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o offending, doe at any time hereafter come into any Port or place of his Maie&s;ties dominions, his Maie&s;tie expre&s;ly chargeth all his Officers foorthwith to appre|hend him and them, and to commit them to pri&s;on, without baile or Mainprize, and that the name of the per&s;on and cau&s;e of his impri&s;onment, be foorthwith certified into the Admiraltie, that &s;peedy order may be taken for further proceeding, and execution according to Law, and the contents of his Maie&s;ties former Pro|clamations.</P>
<P>ALl his Maie&s;ties Subiects &s;hall forbeare from furni&s;hing, victualling, ayding, receiuing, relieuing, comforting or abet|ting any Pirate or Sea-rouer, or any per&s;on not being a knowen Merchant, by contracting, buying, &s;elling, bartring or exchang|ing with him or them, vpon perill of his Maie&s;ties heauie indig|nation, and the grieuous paines by Law belonging to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>ALl Admirall cau&s;es &s;halbe &s;ummarily heard by the Iudge of the Admiraltie without admitting any vnnece&s;&s;ary delay, and no Appeale from him &s;hall be allowed to the defendant or de|fendants in ca&s;es of depredations or &s;poile, either for the Offen|ders, or their acce&s;&s;aries before or after the offence committed, or tho&s;e in who&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion the goods &s;poyled are found, vnle&s;&s;e fir&s;t by way of proui&s;ion the &s;umme adiudged be payd to the plaintife vpon Suerties to repay it, if the Sentence &s;halbe reuer&s;ed. And no prohibition in &s;uch cau&s;es of depredation and &s;poile, and their acce&s;&s;aries and dependants &s;hall be hereafter granted again&s;t the Admiraltie.</P>
<P>NO Ship or goods taken from any his Maie&s;ties friendes, &s;hall bee deliuered vpon any other order, then vpon proofe made, or certificate exhibited in the &s;aid Court of the Admiraltie, to the end that a Record may be kept of all &s;uch re&s;titutions made to &s;trangers, to &s;erue if occa&s;ion &s;hall require.</P>
<P>ANd for the preuenting of future mi&s;chiefes, euery Viceadmi|rall is enioyned by this Proclamation (whereof he is to take notice at his perill) to certifie into the &s;aid Court of the Admiralty euery quarter of the yeere, what Ship or Ships warlikely ap|pointed, hath gone to the Sea, or returned within that time with any goods taken at Sea, or the procedue thereof, vpon paine to lo&s;e to his Maie&s;tie (by way of Fine) for euery &s;uch default, forty pound of currant money of England, to be an&s;werable into his
<PB N="190" REF="102"> Maie&s;ties receipt of the Exchequer, by certificate from the &s;ayd Iudge of the Admiraltie, vnder the great Seale of that Office, to bee directed to the Lord Trea&s;ourer, and the Barons of the Ex|chequer.</P>
<P>THe Viceadmirals, Cu&s;tomers, and other Officers of the Ports, &s;hall not &s;uffer any Shippe to goe to Sea, before &s;uch time as they re&s;pectiuely in their &s;euerall Ports, haue due|ly &s;earched and vi&s;ited the &s;ame, to the intent to &s;tay &s;uch as appa|rantly &s;halbe furni&s;hed for the warres, and not for merchandi|zing or fi&s;hing. And if there &s;halbe cau&s;e of &s;u&s;pition by the proui|&s;ions, or furniture, or extraordinary number of men, or &s;u&s;pected per&s;ons therein, that the &s;aid Ship &amp; company is otherwi&s;e to be imployed then in Merchandize or Fi&s;hing; then in &s;uch ca&s;e of &s;u|&s;pition, the Viceadmirals and Officers of the Ports, &s;hall &s;tay and in no wi&s;e &s;uffer the &s;aid Ship to pa&s;&s;e to Seas, without good Bonds with &s;ufficient Sureties had in the double value of the Ship, and her furniture, to v&s;e nothing during their &s;ayd Voy|age, but lawfull trade of Merchandize or Fi&s;hing. And if they &s;hall &s;uffer any &s;uch per&s;ons otherwi&s;e to repaire to the Seas then is aboue mentioned, they &s;hall &s;uffer impri&s;onment vntill the offendors may be apprehended, and &s;hall be an&s;werable to the parties grieued, for their contempt and offence in this behalfe committed.</P>
<P>ANd whereas diuers great and enormious &s;poiles and Pira|cies haue bene heretofore committed within the Straits of <HI>Giblatar</HI> and other places by Captaine <HI>Iohn Ward</HI> and his adhe|rents, and other Engli&s;h Pirats, and the Goods, Moneyes and Merchandizes haue bene and are &s;old, di&s;per&s;ed and di&s;po&s;ed of, mo&s;t lewdly and prodigally by the meanes of their receiuers, com|fortors and abettors, to the great preiudice of his Maie&s;ties good friendes the <HI>Venetians,</HI> and others in league and amitie with his Maie&s;tie, whom they haue &s;o robbed and &s;poyled: His Maie&s;tie doeth hereby expre&s;ly charge and command all Lieutenants, de|puty Lieutenants, Viceadmirals and their Deputies, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Captaines of his Maie&s;ties Ships, and all other Offi|cers of the Admiraltie, and all Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Con|&s;tables, and other his Officers what&s;oeuer, as they and euery of them tender his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, and vpon perill of his Maie|&s;ties indignation, to v&s;e all care and diligence, and their be&s;t and vttermo&s;t indeuours, in the inquiring, &s;earching for, and appre|hending of all &s;uch Pirats, their receiuors, comfortors and abet|tors. And if they &s;hall by their traueiles and care finde any of them, to &s;end them pre&s;ently to the next common Gaole, there
<PB N="191" REF="102"> to remaine without Baile or Maineprize, till the Lord high Ad|mirall of England, or his Lieutenant the Iudge of the Admiral|tie may be aduertized thereof, and &s;hall di&s;po&s;e of them according to the Lawes in that ca&s;e prouided.</P>
<P>LA&s;tly, fora&s;much as his Maie&s;tie is aduertized that this Pi|rate <HI>Ward</HI> and others, are made the more able to continue in &s;trength and power, to infe&s;t the Subiects of all Chri&s;tian Prin|ces and E&s;tates, by meanes of that receipt and protection which is giuen them in <HI>Tunis, Argiers,</HI> and the places adioyning, His Maie&s;ty doeth hereby &s;traitly prohibite all his Subiects what|&s;oeuer that &s;hall goe to Sea, that they nor any of them, &s;hall &s;ell, alien, barter, or exchange any Ordinance, powder, cordage, or any proui&s;ion what&s;oeuer, &s;eruiceable for the warre or &s;hipping, dire|ctly or indirectly, to or with the &s;aid <HI>Ward,</HI> or his adherents, or a|ny other Pirate or Pirates what&s;oeuer, vnder paine of death as acce&s;&s;aries in ca&s;es of Piracie. Neither &s;hall any of his Maie&s;ties Subiects, re&s;iding for the time in <HI>Tunis, Argiers,</HI> or in any other place in <HI>Barbary,</HI> or the places adioyning, or hereafter re&s;orting thither, dare to buy, barter, exchange, or receiue directly or indi|rectly any goods taken at the Seas, vpon any pretext what&s;oe|uer, vnder paine of confi&s;cation of his owne proper Goods, lands and chattels here in England, and &s;uch other puni&s;hment as by Law may bee inflicted vpon &s;o contemptuous and grieuous an offendour.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Whitehall</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight day of Ianuary, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for pre&s;eruation of Woods.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as by a late view and Suruey had and made of the mo&s;t part of our Woods in diuers Counties of this Realme, It is certified vnto vs that great &s;poiles and deua|&s;tations are committed, both within our Forre&s;ts, Chaces, Parks and Wa&s;ts, not onely by bordering Inhabitants, but euen by Woodwards, Keepers, and other of our owne inferiour Officers, &s;uch as ought to haue had the chiefe care of the pre&s;eruation ther|of, and al&s;o in and vpon our Mannours, Lord&s;hips and deme&s;ne Lands, by Tenants, Bailiffes and Reeues, by their vniu&s;t ta|king, and improuident a&s;&s;igning Timber trees and Woods, farre beyond all rea&s;onable proportion of allowance: And fora&s;much
<PB N="192" REF="103"> al&s;o as diuers apparant abu&s;es, are likewi&s;e committed in the &s;aid places by &s;undry &s;ini&s;ter practi&s;es to decay our &s;aid Woods, and to make them Windfals and pretended Fees; the continuance wher|of hath bene &s;o long and dangerous, as without pre&s;ent reforma|tion, there is like &s;uddenly to follow &s;uch want of Timber and Wood, as by no future prouidence can be in meete time &s;upplied; Fora&s;much as we out of our de&s;ire to pre&s;erue and increa&s;e our Woods, of our Princely care haue hitherto forborne to draw any benefit to our &s;elues by &s;ale thereof, And al&s;o for that we find, that by the practi&s;es afore&s;ayd, and other the like, our &s;ayd Woods are dayly more wa&s;ted, &s;poiled, and defaced, then if wee did make an yeerely competent Reuenue of the &s;ame: We therefore (as re&s;pec|tiue of the good of our po&s;terities, as our owne) haue endeuoured to take cour&s;e to &s;top the &s;ayd abu&s;es, and all others too long pra|cti&s;ed, and to worke the meanes not onely of better pre&s;eruation of our &s;ayd Woods in times to come, but al&s;o of a pre&s;ent multi|plication and increa&s;e of Timber and Wood to all future ages. And to the end that our care may appeare to extend to the pre&s;er|uation and increa&s;e of timber, a&s;well in generall to others, as to our &s;elues, We haue thought meet by this our Proclamation, not onely to diuulge our &s;peciall plea&s;ure touching our owne woods, But al&s;o &s;trictly to command and charge all our louing Subiects in generall, That in their owne woods they pre&s;ume not hereaf|ter to defraud the true meaning of our Statutes in tho&s;e ca&s;es prouided, by cutting and falling the yong &s;torers, when they v&s;u|ally fell their Vnderwoods, which the Statute intended and ap|pointed to be altogether pre&s;erued for Timber: Wherein if they &s;hall be found to offend, they are to expect no fauour, as doing an apparant wrong to the Common wealth, be&s;ides the breach of Law, and our Royall commandement.</P>
<P>And wee doe al&s;o &s;traitly command all our louing Subiects, That for auoyding of future &s;poiles, they nor any of them pre&s;ume from henceforth to commit any Act, vnder what&s;oeuer colour or pretence, not warranted by the true intent of our Lawes, or the Grants made vnto them, whereby our &s;ayd Woods may be dimi|ni&s;hed, defaced or abu&s;ed. And further, that neither our Keepers of Walkes, or Rangers, or other Officer or Officers what&s;oeuer, in Forre&s;ts, Chaces or Parks, doe vnder colour of brow&s;e for our Deere, Feewood or fuell for them&s;elues, or other pretence what|&s;oeuer, pre&s;ume to cut or take more then &s;hall nece&s;&s;arily &s;uffice, without wa&s;tefull expence or colourable &s;ale; Neither that they nor any of them, nor any other Subiect what&s;oeuer, aduenture to head or &s;hred any Timber tree or trees, but to take onely &s;uch
<PB N="193" REF="103"> lops for brow&s;e, as the trees which haue bene v&s;ually lopped &s;hall affoord, and that not in greater proportion then is meete and ne|ce&s;&s;ary. And that no inhabitant in or neere any of our Forre&s;ts, Chaces or Wa&s;ts, cut off the head or principall branches, or &s;pall out, chip, barke or girt the bodies of any timber tree, or likely to proue timber tree, nor to cut or take any yong &s;aplings of Oake, Elme, A&s;he, Beech, or any other tree likely to proue timber, grow|ing in any of our &s;ayd Forre&s;ts, Chaces or Wa&s;ts, nor to enter in|to any of our Coppi&s;es or Vnderwoods, to cut, &s;poyle or wa&s;te the &s;ame vnder any pretence or colour, except it be for nece&s;&s;ary v&s;es, and the &s;ame lawfully warranted. And that no Tenant of any our Honors, Mannors, Lord&s;hips or Lands, Le&s;&s;ee or Copihol|der, doe take any timber for Building, or decaying tree for their fuell, nor any Steward, Bailiffe, Reeue, or other Officer, doe a&s;|&s;igne any tree or trees for any v&s;e, but that hee and they &s;ee good warrant from our Trea&s;ourer or Chanceller of our Exchequer, or Duchie re&s;pectiuely, except in &s;mal reparations which may re|quire ha&s;te, Or &s;uch as may be amended with an allowance of a tree, two, three or foure at the mo&s;t. In which ca&s;es the Suruey|ors of the Woods of that County, or Steward of the Mannour, or three of the better &s;ort of the Tenants of the &s;ayd Mannour, dwelling in or neere the &s;ame, &s;hall and may view and con&s;ider of the cau&s;e of the &s;aid reparation or allowance, and allot vnto them &s;upply without &s;uch vnlawfull practi&s;es of fauour or partialitie, as haue bene too common and frequent. Vnto which view and allowance, if it be made by the &s;ayd Surueyour of the woods, or Steward of the Mannour, &s;ome three of the better &s;ort of the &s;ayd Tenants, if there be &s;o many, or foure, where there be not &s;o many, &s;halbe al&s;o made parties and acquainted therewith, And thereupon &s;uch allowance being from time to time by &s;uch war|rant or a&s;&s;ignement made, we doe &s;traitly charge and commaund the &s;ame to be at the next Court of the &s;ayd Mannour by the &s;ayd Tenants pre&s;ented vpon their Oathes, that &s;hall &s;o view the &s;aid wants, or &s;hall be acquainted with the &s;ame, Setting downe in writing what and how many trees haue beene deliuered, vpon what land, to whom, and to what v&s;es, and &s;pecially by what warrant. And whether the &s;ame were nece&s;&s;ary or not, the &s;ame to be done truely and without partialitie, as they will an&s;were the contrary.</P>
<P>And furthermore, whereas for the better maintenance and pre&s;ent &s;upply of the e&s;peciall wants of our Nauie, wee haue ap|pointed and authorized our Officers of the &s;ame, by &s;ome &s;kilfull and expert per&s;ons by them to be cho&s;en &s;or that purpo&s;e, to elect
<PB N="194" REF="104"> and make choice in euery of our Counties a&s;&s;igned for pre&s;ent &s;ale all &s;uch timber and trees, as by the commi&s;&s;ions to them directed, and the &s;euerall articles therein contained, &s;hall be thought fit to be re&s;erued for the e&s;peciall v&s;e of our &s;ayd Nauie, and the &s;ame to marke for that purpo&s;e; We doe now likewi&s;e by the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;traitly charge and command, a&s;wel all our &s;euerall officers with|in our &s;euerall Forre&s;ts, Parkes, Chaces, Mannours and lands, as all other our louing Subiects to whome in any &s;ort it may appertaine, that neither they nor any of them, doe at any time hereafter cut or lop, or &s;uffer to be cut or lopped, any trees appoin|ted and marked by our &s;ayd Officers, or any of them, to and for the v&s;e of our Nauie, for any other v&s;e what&s;oeuer, notwith|&s;tanding any Warrant that &s;hall bee produced or pretended for the &s;ame, except the &s;ame Warrant bee &s;igned with our owne Royall hand.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen vnder our hand at Roy&s;ton</HI> <DATE><HI>the fourteenth day of February, in the &s;ixt yere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation giuing a further day for Fines for Alienations of Lands holden in Chiefe, made without Record.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas to moderate and qualifie the Fines, forfei|tures and lo&s;&s;es, which we in our wi&s;edome did fore|&s;ee might prooue heauy vnto very many of our Sub|iects, that had made Alienations of their Lands holden in Chiefe without Licence, by priuate Conueyances without Record: We did of our Gracious inclination and Royall regard of the quiet, ea&s;e, and benefit of all &s;uch of our &s;aid Subiects (who&s;e Lands or e&s;tates were by &s;uch Alienations without Licence, made &s;ubiect to an&s;were vnto vs any Arrerages, I&s;&s;ues or meane profits) by our Proclamation bearing date the fir&s;t day of October la&s;t pa&s;t before the date hereof, publi&s;h, propound, and offer certaine fa|uours, remedies and meanes of rea&s;onable and ea&s;ie Compo&s;iti|ons for &s;uch Alienations, So as they did come in and take the benefite of our &s;aid Princely offers, and fauours, before the end of <HI>Hillary</HI> Terme then next en&s;uing the date of our &s;ayd Procla|mation, although &s;uch per&s;ons making tho&s;e &s;ecret conueyances, of purpo&s;e to defraud vs of our due, de&s;erued no fauour: Fora&s;|much as we doe vnder&s;tand that diuers of our Subiects whome it concerneth, hauing &s;ithence the publi&s;hing of our &s;aid Procla|mation
<PB N="195" REF="104"> adui&s;ed and con&s;idered with their learned Councell a&s;wel of the lo&s;&s;es, forfeitures &amp; damages, which they haue incurred by rea&s;on of &s;uch Alienations, as al&s;o of the great fauour and bene|fit offered vnto them by our &s;ayd Proclamation, haue and dayly doe humbly compound with our Officers of our &s;aid Alienations, thereby very thankfully and duetifully accepting of our grace and fauour in that behalfe:</P>
<P>And being further giuen to vnder&s;tand, that the knowledge of our &s;ayd Proclamation did &s;o lately come into diuers parts of our Realme, and to the vnder&s;tanding of many our Subiects, as they could not (through the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of the time pre&s;cribed by our &s;aid Proclamation) con&s;ider and re&s;olue of their &s;euerall Ca&s;es; Wee haue therefore thought good, according to our Princely and gra|cious di&s;po&s;ition and purpo&s;e in this behalfe, not to binde, or con|fine our fauours to &s;uch &s;traitne&s;&s;e of time, as that our louing &s;ub|iects &s;hould not be able therein to make v&s;e of the &s;ame. And ther|fore con&s;idering the waightine&s;&s;e of the cau&s;e, and well allowing that our &s;ubiects &s;hould haue conuenient time to take coun&s;el and adui&s;e for the performance of their &s;ayd Compo&s;ition; And to the end that they may haue no iu&s;t excu&s;e, if they &s;hall bee put to an|&s;were vs our due, according to the Lawe, when they &s;hall haue wilfully refu&s;ed our fauour: We doe by this our Proclamation, publi&s;h, &s;ignifie and declare, That all &s;uch of our Subiects as &s;hal before the Fea&s;t of <HI>All Saints</HI> next en&s;uing, offer Compo&s;ition to our &s;ayd Officers of the &s;ayd Alienations, according to the Arti|cles conteined in our &s;ayd former Proclamation, &s;halbe admitted to make their Compo&s;itions accordingly, and &s;hall haue and enioy all &s;uch benefit, profit and fauour, as they might or &s;hould haue had, if they had compounded within the time limitted by our &s;aid former Proclamation, Any thing in our &s;ayd former Proclama|tion conteined to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>Prouided that &s;uch as &s;hall not take benefit of this extent of our fauour, are not to expect afterward any further enlarge|ment of time, nor other di&s;pen&s;ation what&s;o|euer in that behalfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Court at Roy&s;ton</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 18. <HI>day of February, in the &s;ixt yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1608.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="year">
<PB REF="105">
<PB N="196" REF="105">
<HEAD>ANNO SEPTIMO IACOBI REGIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation &s;ignifying his Ma|ie&s;ties plea&s;ure, to confirme by all meanes the e&s;tates of his Subiects again&s;t all defects in their A&s;&s;urances, and all concealed Titles.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie (ha|uing alwayes before his eyes a &s;erious con&s;ideration of that great and weigh|tie charge which is committed to him for the gouernment of &s;o many famous Countreys and people, ouer whom the <HI>KING</HI> of Kings hath made him Su|preme head and Ruler, and doeth expect at his hands (out of duety to his diuine Maie&s;tie) the &s;ame care and feeling of all things concerning his Subiects, which the naturall head (by in&s;tinct of Nature) hath of the lea&s;t member of the naturall body; is plea&s;ed now, a&s;well out of his long experience of Regall Authoritie, exerci&s;ed in another great and ancient Kingdome, before his comming to the Crowne of England, as out of the Rules of his owne Iu&s;tice and moderate di&s;po&s;ition in all things, to &s;eeke to be enformed particularly and fully, Whether the cour&s;es that haue bene taken, or may hereaf|ter for enquiry or recouery of his Maie&s;ties rightfull Titles (ca&s;t vpon him by Law) may not more di&s;turbe and endomage his good and louing Subiects, then &s;tands with the iu&s;t mea&s;ure of his owne de&s;ires; who e&s;teemeth his greate&s;t riches to be inclu|ded in the trea&s;ury of his Subiects hearts. In which re&s;pect, although his Maie&s;tie is not ignorant, that by the rule of Law no time can preiudice the Rights of the Kings of this Realme, but that contrarywi&s;e, the continuance of time is &s;ayd in Law rather to increa&s;e, and aggrauate the wrong, then to extenuate or purge the &s;ame; And that in many ca&s;es betweene Subiect and Sub|iect (by common experience) ancient po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions are euicted and ouerthrowen by titles more ancient: Yet &s;uch is his highnes di&s;po&s;ition, as he is willing to make them finde, both the effects of
<PB N="197" REF="106"> his bountie and grace, and the due mea&s;ure of his integritie and con&s;cience. And therefore being enformed by his Maie&s;ties Com|mi&s;&s;ioners and Officers, (employed a&s;well ordinarily, as extra|ordinarily, in the care of his Reuenues) That the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of his Subiects, haue, and doe dayly fall within the danger of Law (a&s;well concerning their Lands of Inheritance, as their Lea&s;es from his Maie&s;tie or his Progenitors for liues or yeeres) by ma|ny wayes and meanes; Not onely vpon points of defect in forme, but euen in points of &s;ub&s;tance mo&s;t iu&s;t and weightie; As in re|&s;pect of exchanges with the Crowne, not duely conueyed or execu|ted on the Subiects part; Of the fal&s;itie of con&s;iderations mate|riall, vpon which the Letters Patents haue bene obteined; Of the fal&s;itie of &s;ugge&s;tions, whereby the King hath bene deceiued, and &s;ometimes ancient Crowne Lands haue bene caried away, as if they had bene but new augmentations of Reuenues by At|tainder, or the like; Of Intailes made to the Kings of this Realme, or de&s;cended to them from their Ance&s;ters, whereby it appeareth, that the King hath not bene truely enformed of his e&s;tate, when he made his grant, hauing no intention of di&s;inheri|&s;on of his I&s;&s;ue in Taile, again&s;t the Law; Of referring to other Letters Patents, where many times there are none &s;uch, as by the recitall are &s;uppo&s;ed; Of in&s;ufficient &s;auing, or prouiding for that e&s;tate or benefite, which is intended to the King vpon the Letters Patents, by way of Exception, Re&s;eruation, or other|wi&s;e; Of want of proper and apt words, &s;uch as the Law doth re|quire, euen in a ca&s;e betweene Subiect and Subiect; Of pa&s;&s;ing their Grants vnder a wrong Seale, contrary to the grounds of Law, or expre&s;&s;e Acts of Parliament; Of want of Offices, or in|&s;ufficiencie of Offices, whereby the Kings Title not rightly ap|pearing, his Grants could not but pa&s;&s;e in darkene&s;&s;e; And many other the like defects in matter and &s;ub&s;tance, be&s;ides the defects, errours, omi&s;&s;ions, and mi&s;pri&s;ions in writing &amp; in forme, which are no le&s;&s;e dangerous in &s;trictne&s;&s;e of Law: And his Maie&s;ty be|ing further enformed, That the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of his louing &s;ubiects may al&s;o be impeached and brought in que&s;tion vpon other Ti|tles not hauing any dependance vpon defectiue letters Patents, but vpon other points of diuers natures, and yet all warranted by the Lawes of this Land; As vpon E&s;cheats by Attaindors or otherwi&s;e, vpon Title accrued by Di&s;&s;olution, Surrender, Sup|pre&s;&s;ion, or relinqui&s;hing of Mona&s;teries, encrochments vpon his Maie&s;ties Wa&s;tes and high wayes, which is a meere v&s;urpation and intru&s;ion vpon his Maie&s;ties po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, not coloured by any pretence of Title; Vpon occupation of drowned land by time re|couered
<PB N="198" REF="106"> from the Sea, which by his Maie&s;ties Prerogatiue be|longeth to the Crowne; Vpon Tythes detained, which lie out of all Pari&s;hes; vpon Alienations in Mortmaine, purcha&s;es by A|liens, and the like; And la&s;tly vpon condition broken for non pay|ment of Rent at the dayes appointed, and other the like Acts not performed: His Maie&s;tie conceiueth it to bee a worke worthy of him&s;elfe to &s;ettle (as much as in him is) at once, a peace and quiet|ne&s;&s;e in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of his Subiects.</P>
<P>And as his Maie&s;tie hath heretofore &s;u&s;pended the rigour of a Legall pro&s;ecution in the&s;e ca&s;es, and turned it into a gracious compo&s;ition, vpon a &s;ummary con&s;ideration of the title, whereby both the charge of Suit, and the extremitie of Euiction mought bee auoided: So his Highne&s;&s;e vnder&s;tanding, that euen that cour&s;e of fauour doth not an&s;were or attaine (in &s;ome circum&s;tan|ces) to that mea&s;ure of grace, which he intendeth to his louing Subiects; Is plea&s;ed, that there be a ce&s;&s;ation al&s;o of that former proceeding. And therefore although his Maie&s;tie knowes, that no ordinary forme of Legall proceeding, concludes the intere&s;t, nor time extingui&s;heth the right of Soueraigne Princes, that many prerogatiues a&s;&s;i&s;t him, that the voyce of the Lawes inter|prets the be&s;t to be taken for him, and that hee hath all aduanta|ges, &s;auing a heart that will take no aduantage: And although the pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;itie of his e&s;tate (whereof the &s;plendor and great|ne&s;&s;e is &s;o enlarged) may iu&s;tly per&s;wade any lawfull improoue|ment of the profits of the Crowne; Yet it hath plea&s;ed him, as a pledge of greater fauour intended towards his Subiects, then euer they receiued from his Predece&s;&s;ors, (&s;etting apart all other con&s;iderations of profit to him&s;elfe, or power ouer his good Sub|iects in this kinde) by this Proclamation to declare, that he is fully re&s;olued, that all his louing Subiects &s;hall partake of this grace, to haue all the &s;tates of their lands confirmed and made perfect, and to be di&s;charged of all meane profits and i&s;&s;ues what|&s;oeuer heretofore due or incurred, notwith&s;tanding any of the de|fects or imperfections before mentioned, or any other what&s;oe|uer; So as their e&s;tates bee not by time expired and determined before, as in ca&s;e of Intailes already &s;pent and runne out: In which ca&s;e the deteining of any Land from his Maie&s;tie is &s;o in|iurious, as no priuate man could willingly endure to be &s;o defrau|ded. For which grace and fauour, as the Subiect &s;hall be no fur|ther charged for euer hereafter, then by payment of fiue yeeres Fine at the vttermo&s;t, according to the old Rent, and the &s;ame to be Rated onely as it appeareth to be in value by former Office, by particuler, or els by Oath or <HI>Affidauit,</HI> before &s;ome Commi&s;&s;io|ners
<PB N="199" REF="107"> without further examination thereof, or any maner of di&s;|couery or declaration of any imperfection or inualidity of their Titles in any of tho&s;e things for which they made offer of Com|po&s;ition: So his Maie&s;tie doeth not doubt, but his di&s;creet and louing Subiects (comparing all circum&s;tances together, a&s;well con&s;iderable in his owne per&s;on as theirs) with due acknowledg|ment and gratitude wil imbrace this fauour &s;o graciou&s;ly offered, and not to fore&s;low the time of acceptation of it, which his Ma|ie&s;tie doeth hereby limit to bee before the ende of Michaelmas Terme next, &s;eeing they and their po&s;teritie may thereby bee &s;o well &s;ecured in their e&s;tates and patrimonies for euer. For the perfit accompli&s;hment of which his Maie&s;ties gracious intenti|on towards his louing Subiects, thus expre&s;&s;ed by this declara|tion, his Highne&s;&s;e is plea&s;ed by his Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the great Seale of England, to giue full and ab&s;olute power and authority to certaine &s;elected Commi&s;&s;ioners of his Maie&s;ties priuy Coun|&s;ell and others, to giue order and warrant for &s;uch Gifts, Grants, Confirmations, and other A&s;&s;urances to be made and pa&s;&s;ed vn|der the Great Seale of England, or Seale of the Duchie of Lan|ca&s;ter, or by Fines to be leuied, or by all or any other tho&s;e wayes and meanes as &s;halbe found needfull and requi&s;it for the &s;euerall Ca&s;es, And as by the Coun&s;aile learned of the parties that &s;hall de&s;ire &s;uch a&s;&s;urances re&s;pectiuely, vpon conference with his Maie&s;ties learned Coun&s;aile &s;hall be thought fit and rea&s;onable. And for their better and more ab&s;olute A&s;&s;urance again&s;t all fu|ture doubts or que&s;tions what&s;oeuer, his Maie&s;tie doeth by the&s;e pre&s;ents publi&s;h and declare, that he is &s;o willing to confirme and e&s;tabli&s;h their e&s;tates, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions again&s;t all Claimes, Titles and exceptions what&s;oeuer, that he is plea&s;ed that it be propoun|ded to the next Parliament, That &s;uch Gifts, Grants, Confirma|tions, and other A&s;&s;urances as &s;halbe made in performance and execution of this his Princely intention, may be ratified and con|firmed again&s;t him, his heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors for euer, by authori|tie of Parliament; And al&s;o to giue his Royall a&s;&s;ent thereunto, when they &s;halbe brought to that point: And doeth likewi&s;e here|by promi&s;e to giue to any his louing Subiects (that &s;hall &s;eeke it) his Royall couenant to be in&s;erted into the Bookes of their A&s;&s;u|rances to the effect afore&s;aid. And for the ea&s;e of charge to the Subiect in pa&s;&s;ing &s;uch their A&s;&s;urances; It hath plea&s;ed his Highne&s;&s;e a&s;well to giue order that there &s;halbe an abatement of the ordinary Fees payed at the Seales, as al&s;o to permit diuers per&s;ons to ioyne in one Patent, til their &s;euerall purcha&s;es doe a|mount to fortie Pounds according to the old Rent, whereupon
<PB N="200" REF="107"> the Compo&s;ition &s;halbe grounded. And becau&s;e the &s;aid Commi&s;|&s;ioners being mo&s;t of them of his Maie&s;ties Priuy Coun&s;el, (and therefore ordinarily imployed in the greate&s;t affaires of the King|dome) &s;hall not haue &s;o fit meanes at all times to receiue &amp; heare the fir&s;t motions of his Maie&s;ties Subiects, that &s;hall de&s;ire &s;uch new a&s;&s;urances as afore&s;aid; His highnes hath therefore appoin|ted his Atturney and Sollicitor generall, to be ready from time to time to heare and conferre with his Subiects and their. Coun&s;ell concerning the premi&s;&s;es, that they may bee &s;ure to receiue their di&s;patch with all po&s;&s;ible expedition and fauour.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at White-hall</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 22. <HI>day of April, in the &s;euenth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation touching Fi&s;hing.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>IAmes by the Grace of God King of <HI>Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;ingular per&s;ons to whom it may appertaine, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Although we doe &s;uf|ficiently know by our experience in the Office of Regall dignitie (in which by the fauour of Almighty God, we haue bene placed and exerci&s;ed the&s;e many yeres) as al&s;o by the ob&s;eruation which wee haue made of other Chri&s;tian Princes exemplary Actions, how farre the ab&s;olutene&s;&s;e of Soueraigne power extendeth it &s;elfe, And that in regard thereof we need not yeeld accompt to any per&s;on vnder God, for any Action of ours, which is lawfully grounded vpon that iu&s;t prerogatiue: Yet &s;uch hath euer bene, and &s;halbe our care and de&s;ire to giue &s;ati&s;faction to our neigh|bour Princes, and friends, in any Action which may haue the lea&s;t relation to their Subiects and E&s;tates, as we haue thought good (by way of friendly premonition) to declare vnto them all, and to whom &s;oeuer it may appertaine, as followeth.</P>
<P>Whereas wee haue bene contented &s;ince our comming to the Crowne, to tolerate an indifferent and promi&s;cuous kinde of li|bertie to all our friends what&s;oeuer, to fi&s;h within our &s;treames, and vpon any of our coa&s;ts of Great Britaine, Ireland, and other adiacent I&s;lands, &s;o farre foorth as the permi&s;&s;ion or v&s;e thereof might not redound to the empeachment of our Prerogatiue Roy|all, nor to the hurt and damage of our louing Subiects, who&s;e pre&s;eruation and flouri&s;hing e&s;tate we hold our &s;elfe principally bound to aduance before all worldly re&s;pects: So finding that our conniuence therein, hath not onely giuen occa&s;ion of ouer great encrochments vpon our Regalities, or rather que&s;tioning
<PB N="201" REF="108"> for our Right, but hath bene a meanes of much dayly wrongs to our owne people that exerci&s;e the trade of Fi&s;hing, as (either by the multitude of Strangers, which doe preoccupy tho&s;e places, or by the iniuries which they receiue mo&s;t co~monly at their hands) our Subiects are con&s;trained to abandon their Fi&s;hing, or at the lea&s;t are become &s;o di&s;couraged in the &s;ame, as they hold it better for them, to betake them&s;elues to &s;ome other cour&s;e of liuing, whereby not onely diuers of our Coa&s;t-townes are much decayed, but the number of Mariners dayly dimini&s;hed, which is a matter of great con&s;equence to our E&s;tate, con&s;idering how much the &s;trength thereof con&s;i&s;teth in the power of Shipping, and v&s;e of Nauigation: We haue thought it now both iu&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary (in re&s;pect that wee are now by Gods fauour lineally and lawfully po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, a&s;well of the I&s;land of Great Britaine, as of Ireland, and the re&s;t of the I&s;les adiacent) to bethinke our &s;elues of good lawfull meanes to preuent tho&s;e inconueniences, and many o|thers depending vpon the &s;ame. In the con&s;ideration whereof, as we are de&s;irous that the world may take notice, that we haue no intention to deny our neighbors and Allies, tho&s;e fruits and benefits of Peace and friend&s;hip, which may be iu&s;tly ex&s;pected at our hands in honour and rea&s;on, or are affoorded by other Prin|ces mutually in the point of Commerce, and exchange of tho&s;e things which may not prooue preiudiciall to them: So becau&s;e &s;ome &s;uch conuenient order may be taken in this matter, as may &s;ufficiently prouide for all the&s;e important con&s;iderations which doe depend thereupon; Wee haue re&s;olued fir&s;t to giue notice to all the world, That our expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure is, that from the begin|ning of the Moneth of Augu&s;t next comming, no per&s;on of what Nation or qualitie &s;oeuer, being not our naturall borne Subiect, be permitted to fi&s;h vpon any of our Coa&s;ts and Seas of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the re&s;t of the I&s;les adiacent, where mo&s;t v&s;ually heretofore any Fi&s;hing hath bene, vntill they haue order|ly demanded and obtained Licen&s;es from vs, or &s;uch our Com|mi&s;&s;ioners, as we haue authorized in that behalfe, <HI>Viz.</HI> at <HI>London</HI> for our Realmes of England and Ireland, and at <HI>Edenborough</HI> for our Realme of Scotland; Which Licen&s;es, our intention is, &s;hall be yeerely demanded, for &s;o many Ve&s;&s;els and &s;hips, and the Tonnage thereof, as &s;hall intend to Fi&s;h for that whole yeere, or a|ny part thereof, vpon any of our Coa&s;tes and Seas as afore&s;aid, vpon paine of &s;uch cha&s;ti&s;ement, as &s;halbe fit to bee inflicted vpon &s;uch wilfull offendors.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 6. <HI>day of May, in the</HI> 7. <HI>yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, &amp;c. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="articles">
<PB N="202" REF="108">
<HEAD>&para; Articles to be performed by ver|tue of our Commi&s;sion of Sale annex|ed, touching Forre&s;ts, Parkes, and Cha&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><HI>INprimis,</HI> that you haue a &s;peciall regard, that in the Sale no tree be taken in Forre&s;t, Cha&s;e or Parke, which carieth not &s;ome apparant marke of decay, nor any tree which you finde marked by our Officers of our Nauie.</P>
<P><HI>Item</HI> that of decaying trees, there bee not &s;old in any Forre&s;t, Parke or Cha&s;e, aboue two of the hundreth re&s;pecting the whole number of trees &s;urueyed, or to be &s;urueyed, nor any tree to be cut, other then in places a&s;&s;ented vnto, by &s;uch as we haue appointed to take care for the beautie of the Forre&s;t, Parke or Cha&s;e, and food for our Deere, nor any tree to be cut or caried in fence time, to the di&s;turbing of our Game, and that you may &s;ell &s;uch two of the hundreth in places &s;o a&s;&s;ented to.</P>
<P><HI>Item</HI> for meere Dottards, and trees &s;o decayed, that they beare no vert, &s;eruiceable for brow&s;e for our Deere, to &s;ell of them what the Countrey will vent, and at valuable rates, and the &s;malle&s;t of them to leaue for the Keepers fewell, as &s;hall bee hereafter a&s;|&s;igned for him to haue by future warrant, And you mu&s;t al&s;o pro|uide and fore&s;ee, that all &s;orts of trees which &s;hall be cut this &s;ea|&s;on in any of our Forre&s;ts, Parkes, and Cha&s;es, be cut and caried thence before <HI>All Saints-tide</HI> next, or el&s;e the Buyer to loo&s;e the &s;aid trees then left vncaried.</P>
<P><HI>Item</HI> whereas by our Commi&s;&s;ion hereunto annexed we haue appointed the chiefe Officer of our Forre&s;ts, Parkes and Cha&s;es to be of the <HI>Quorum,</HI> with you <HI>A.B.</HI> whom we haue e&s;pecially au|thorized for this &s;eruice: You &s;hall hereby vnder&s;tand that we doe not determine to tye him or them per&s;onally to attend the execu|tion of all things incident to this &s;ale, but onely to a&s;&s;igne what number of trees &s;hall be taken, and in what places they may bee &s;pared without any blemi&s;h to the beautie of our afore&s;ayd parks, forre&s;ts, and cha&s;es, wherein wee doe command you <HI>A.B.</HI> to con|forme your &s;elfe, becau&s;e in that particular we doe repo&s;e princi|pall confidence in his iudgement and di&s;cretion.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="article">
<HEAD>&para; In&s;tructions to be ob&s;erued for Sales in our Mannours, Granges, Farmes and Tenements.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ITem</HI> as we haue pre&s;cribed you to &s;ell in our Forre&s;ts, Parkes, and Cha&s;es, of trees that beare vert, onely &s;uch as are decaying,
<PB N="203" REF="109"> and that not aboue two in the hundred: &s;o although wee meane not to limit you &s;o particular a proportion for &s;ales in our Man|nors, Granges, Farmes and Tenements; yet wee would haue you know that it is our plea&s;ure, where&s;oeuer you &s;ell any trees thereupon, that you haue a principall care, to forbeare the felling of any trees, or faire tufts &s;o neere the Scite or man&s;ion hou&s;e (if there be any of any note) as may di&s;grace the habitation, and like|wi&s;e to giue warning to our particular Woodwards there, that notwith&s;tanding any warrants which may come vnto them, or haue come, for falling, or &s;elling wood hereafter, that they al&s;o haue the &s;ame re&s;pect, And further, that you be very carefull to leaue in other places vpon the premi&s;&s;es &s;ufficient timber &amp; wood growing, for the continuall maintenance and reparations of the premi&s;&s;es, and v&s;e of his Maie&s;ties Tenants from time to time. All which directions fir&s;t carefully ob&s;erued, you may then &s;ell &s;uch and &s;o many trees, timber and other vpon our &s;aid Man|nors, Granges, Farmes and Tenements, as &s;hall be thought fit by you <HI>A.B</HI> our particular Surueyour, one of the next Iu&s;tices of the Peace, the Surueyour of the Countie of our landes where &s;uch &s;ales &s;hall be made, or any two of you, whereof you <HI>A.B.</HI> to be alwayes one.</P>
<P><HI>Item</HI> for timber and other wood, growing vpon Copiholds of Inheritance, that you make no &s;ale thereof, except the Copihol|ders them&s;elues doe &s;eeke it at your hand, whereby they may be more &s;ure to haue the &s;ame vpon all nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ions at their owne voluntary di&s;po&s;ition.</P>
<P><HI>Item</HI> whereas you <HI>A.B.</HI> are now particularly cho&s;en and tru&s;ted in this imployment, for performance whereof we haue appointed you &s;ufficient reward out of our owne Trea&s;ure; we doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command you, to forbeare to exact any fees from our Subiects, or to put them to any other payment, then &s;uch as &s;hall appeare to be &s;olely due to vs for the woods whereof you make &s;ale, And that before you make any &s;ale, you faile not publikely to proclaime your &s;ale in the next market towne, that men may know there is &s;uch a purpo&s;e in hand.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> that before you doe make any generall &s;ale in gro&s;&s;e, of a|ny great quantitie of trees to any particular per&s;on, you doe fir&s;t make offer of &s;uch quantity to our Tenants dwelling vpo~ the pre|mi&s;&s;es, and next to &s;uch other our louing Subiects thereabouts, as may be nece&s;&s;ary for them, in ca&s;e they &s;hall without delay re|&s;ort vnto you, and bee willing to pay according to the rate you might &s;ell otherwi&s;e. And their nece&s;&s;ities &s;erued, or they refu&s;ing to buy at the &s;ayd rates without delay, then you may &s;ell to other
<PB N="204" REF="109"> in gro&s;&s;e &s;uch quantities as you &s;hall finde may mo&s;t conueniently be &s;pared, and for &s;uch prices as &s;hall bee for our be&s;t profit. And herein we tru&s;t you will cary your &s;elfe &s;o, as may be mo&s;t for our good, and the generall reliefe of our Subiects that lacke timber, and not for your owne particular intere&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="article">
<HEAD>&para; For increa&s;e of timber and fire wood in Forre&s;ts, Parkes, Cha&s;es, Mannors, and Tenancies to future ages.</HEAD>
<P>TO renew our ancient copices in places fit.</P>
<P>To replant new Copices, where the &s;oyle will naturally breed wood, where it may be conueniently done without impedi|ment to our Game, or di&s;grace of our Forre&s;ts, Parkes or Chaces.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="article">
<HEAD>&para; For wa&s;tes and &s;poiles in what place or places &s;oeuer.</HEAD>
<P>WHere wa&s;tes haue bene committed, to informe your &s;elues thereof by all wayes and meanes, to learne when, and by whom, tho&s;e wa&s;tes haue beene committed, as al&s;o to whom any timber trees, or any other trees, or fire wood, haue bene &s;old, gi|uen, taken, or deliuered, by whome, when, where, and by what warrant, and what was an&s;wered for the &s;ame, and what was the value thereof, to the onely end, the &s;eller of the &s;ame may an|&s;were the value thereof.</P>
<P>The commi&s;&s;ions for &s;ale in al the articles of the&s;e in&s;tructions to be directed to the particuler Surueyour, the Surueyour of the Countie for Mannors, the Surueyour general of the woods, the next Iu&s;tice of the peace, who, nor none of his Ance&s;tors, nor any who&s;e e&s;tate he hath, hath had any of the Kings woods there, in lea&s;e, or any office concerning the Kings woods &s;ince <HI>primo E|lizabethae,</HI> or any two of them, whereof <HI>A.B.</HI> to be alwayes one.</P>
<P>The like Articles al&s;o in all points, and to all intents to be per|formed by the now Commi&s;&s;ioners for &s;ales of wood, in our For|re&s;ts, Parkes, Cha&s;es, Mannors, Granges, Farmes, and Te|nements, within our Dutchie of Lanca&s;ter, and thereunto in a|ny place belonging.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation forbidding any per&s;on to cary Pacquets or Letters to or from any City or towne, by foot or on hor&s;ebacke, except &s;uch as are allowed by Authoritie.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas heretofore &s;undry wayes haue bene deui&s;ed to redre&s;&s;e the di&s;orders among the Po&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">es of our Realme in generall, and particularly to preuent the
<PB N="205" REF="110"> inconueniences both to our owne &s;eruice, and the lawfull trade of the hone&s;t Merchants, by prohibiting that no per&s;ons what|&s;oeuer, &s;hould take vpon them publiquely or priuately to procure, gather vp, receiue, bring in or cary out any Pacquets, or Letters to or from any Port, City or Towne, by foote or on hor&s;ebacke within the Realme, and to or from the Countreyes beyond the Seas, except &s;uch our ordinary Foot-po&s;tes, Po&s;ts and Me&s;&s;en|gers for tho&s;e v&s;es, as either by our Ma&s;ter of the Po&s;tes, or the Ma&s;ters of the Po&s;tes generall of tho&s;e Countreys reciproquely, &s;hould be found nominated for that kinde of &s;eruice, or otherwi&s;e be able to &s;hew &s;ufficient warrant for their Voyages &amp; di&s;patches, vnder the hands of our principal Secretaries, any Amba&s;&s;adors, or others &s;ufficiently authorized; Which notwith&s;tanding, di|uers di&s;auowed per&s;ons haue v&s;ed to intrude them&s;elues, contra|ry to all good order: In con&s;ideration of which inconueniences pa&s;t, We doe hereby &s;traitly prohibite and forbid all per&s;ons what|&s;oeuer, directly or indirectly, to gather vp, receiue, bring in or cary out of this Realme, any Letters or Pacquets, without the allow|ance or ordinary addre&s;&s;e and di&s;patch of the &s;aid Ma&s;ters and Comptrollers of the Po&s;tes reciproquely, or their Deputies, or &s;halbe &s;ufficiently authorized as is afore&s;aid. And therefore our will and plea&s;ure is, That you the Lord Trea&s;ourer of England, and Lord Warden of our <HI>Cinque-ports,</HI> together with our Ma&s;ter and Comptroller generall of all our Po&s;ts, cau&s;e publique know|ledge to bee giuen thereof vnto all Merchants, both Strangers and others of our City of <HI>London,</HI> and all others whom it may or ought to concerne, that neither they nor any for them, doe hereaf|ter take vpon them openly nor vnderhand, to employ any di&s;a|uowed per&s;on in the carying of their Letters, but to v&s;e &s;uch one|ly as &s;halbe found lawfully appointed for that &s;eruice. To which effect al&s;o we doe expre&s;ly will and command by the&s;e pre&s;ents all Maiors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Bailiffes, and all &s;peciall Commi&s;&s;ioners, And more &s;pecially all Searchers of our Ports, and all other our Officers, and Mini&s;ters where&s;oeuer in their &s;euerall Iuri&s;dictions and Offices, to make diligent &s;earch of all Males, Bougets, and other carriages, of all &s;uch di&s;auowed Cur|riers, me&s;&s;engers or &s;u&s;pected per&s;ons, comming in, or going out the Realme with Pacquets or Letters, and all &s;uch &s;o di&s;couered, to apprehend and &s;tay, keeping them in &s;afe cu&s;tody, vntill by the view of their writings &s;ent vp to our Priuie Coun&s;ell, it be &s;eene and adui&s;ed what &s;halbe further done with them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannor of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 15. <HI>day of May, in the</HI> 7. <HI>yere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. An. Do.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="orders">
<PB N="206" REF="110">
<HEAD>&para; Orders decreed vpon for the furthe|rance of our &s;eruice, a&s;well in writing, as riding in Po&s;t; &s;pecially &s;et downe, and commanded to be ob|&s;erued, where our Po&s;ts are e&s;tabli&s;hed within our Countie of Kent.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as among&s;t the &s;undry con&s;ultations and proui|dent cares taken for the maintenance of the quiet peace of the State, it hath not bene the lea&s;t that our Predece&s;&s;ors heretofore, and the Coun&s;ell of this Realme haue had to meete with the dangerous &amp; &s;ecret intelligences of ill affected per&s;ons both at home and abroad, by the ouer-great liberty taken both in writing and riding in Po&s;te, &s;pecially in and through our Coun|tie of Kent, for the v&s;uall and frequent pa&s;&s;age that way, falling out to and from all forraine parts beyond the Seas, the ground whereof &s;till ri&s;ing from di&s;orders offered by certaine per&s;ons cal|led Hackney-men, Tap&s;ters, Ho&s;tlers and others in hiring out their hor&s;es, to the hinderance of publique &s;eruice, danger to our State, and wrong to our &s;tanding and &s;etled Po&s;tes in their &s;eue|rall Stages: We haue now thought it meete, with the adui&s;e of our right tru&s;tie and welbeloued Co&s;ins and Coun&s;ellers <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of Sali&s;bury, our high Trea&s;ourer of England, <HI>Henry</HI> Earle of Northampton our Lord Priuie Seale, and Lord War|den of our <HI>Cinque Ports,</HI> and of our tru&s;tie and right welbeloued Coun&s;eller, <HI>Iohn</HI> Lord <HI>Stanhope</HI> of Harrington, our Vice-Cham|berlaine, and Ma&s;ter of our Po&s;ts, to &s;et downe and e&s;tabli&s;h cer|taine Orders a&s;well for the Packet as Thorough-Po&s;tes, the due execution whereof we likewi&s;e command and recommend to all Maiors, Portreeues, Bailiffes and other Head-officers in the Ci|ties, Townes and Ports of our &s;aid County of Kent, where the Stages of our &s;tanding Po&s;ts are now e&s;tabli&s;hed and appointed, and to the Iu&s;tices of our Peace next re&s;iding, as they or any of them doe tender our &s;eruice, the &s;afety of our State, and will an|&s;were the neglect or contempt hereof at their perils.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="orders">
<HEAD>&para; Orders for the Pacquet.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, that no Pacquets or letters &s;halbe &s;ent by Po&s;te, or binde any Po&s;te to ride therewith in po&s;t, but &s;uch as &s;halbe directed fir&s;t for our &s;peciall Affaires, and &s;ub&s;cribed by the writers name or &s;ender thereof: neither &s;hall it be holden for our Affaires, but as the &s;ame &s;halbe directed and &s;ub&s;cribed by our High Trea&s;ou|rer,
<PB N="207" REF="111"> Lord Warden of the <HI>Cinque-ports,</HI> Lord Admirall, Principall Secretarie of State, Lord Lieutenant of the &s;aid Countie, or Ma&s;ter of our Po&s;ts writing from the Court, or otherwi&s;e to the Court, &s;ub&s;cribed by any Admirall, or Vice-admirall from the narrow Seas, Lieutenant of Douer-Ca&s;tle, or Maior or his de|putie of any Port-Towne, Amba&s;&s;adors or Agents beyond the Seas for the time being, or Deputie Lieutenant of our &s;aide Countie, writing to any of the&s;e per&s;onages aforenamed, or to the bodie of our Priuie Coun&s;ell.</P>
<P N="2">2 All Pacquets or Letters &s;o directed &s;hall bee caried by the Po&s;tes in po&s;te from Stage to Stage onely, and not otherwi&s;e nor further, being dated fir&s;t on the out&s;ide by the &s;ender or wri|ter, and afterwards by the Po&s;tes them&s;elues, as they come to their hands, with the houre and place of their deliuery, who &s;hall runne therewith in Summer, <HI>Viz.</HI> from the fir&s;t of April, to the la&s;t of September, after &s;euen miles the houre, and fiue miles the houre in Winter, which is the re&s;t of the yeere, as the wayes and weather afford.</P>
<P N="3">3 And that it may appeare from time to time (as oft as &s;hall be needfull) with what expedition the &s;eruice is by our Po&s;ts per|formed, euery Po&s;te &s;hall keepe a faire paper Booke to enter the Pacquets in, being &s;o brought vnto him, with the day, moneth and houre they came to his hands, two leather bagges lined with cotten or Bayes, to cary the Pacquet in, and hornes to &s;ound, as oft as he meets and &s;ees company comming, or foure times in e|uery mile.</P>
<P N="4">4 And to the end our Po&s;tes attending thus our &s;peciall &s;er|uice, may performe their &s;eueral dueties in that behalfe, our plea|&s;ure is, that they and euery of them &s;hall brooke and enioy the be|nefit of all former fauours and immunities by our Predece&s;&s;or al|lowed them: Namely that they and their &s;eruants be holden free and exempted from all Summons, Pre&s;ts, and per&s;onall atten|dances at A&s;&s;i&s;es, Se&s;&s;ions, Inque&s;ts, and Mu&s;ters.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="orders">
<HEAD>&para; Orders for the Thorough-Po&s;tes.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, as the &s;eruice of the Pacquet, &s;o the hor&s;ing of al <HI>Through-Po&s;ts,</HI> and per&s;ons riding in po&s;te, with horne or guide by Com|mi&s;&s;ion or otherwi&s;e, &s;halbe performed by our &s;tanding Po&s;tes in their &s;euerall Stages, who to that end &s;hall keepe, and haue in a readine&s;&s;e vnder their directions a &s;ufficient number of Po&s;te-hor&s;es, with &s;addles, bridles and furniture conuenient: and if it &s;hall fall out, that by the repaire of Amba&s;&s;adors, or other acci|dents of &s;eruice, men riding in po&s;te, that is to &s;ay, with horne or
<PB N="208" REF="111"> guide, come &s;o thicke, or in &s;uch numbers, that their ordinary pro|ui&s;ion will not &s;uffice, then the Con&s;tables of the places where they dwell, with the aide and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the chiefe Magi&s;trates there, and the Countreys adioyning, (being required in our name) &s;hall take vp, bring in, and &s;upply the Po&s;tes with hor&s;es and with cariages, where they may be had or hired.</P>
<P N="2">2 And that it be not any way a let or impeachment to the li|bertie of any man riding on his owne or ordinary affaires, within the Realme at his or their plea&s;ure: it is hereby meant that all Strangers, &s;pecially riding with horne or guide by them&s;elues, or in company of our ordinary me&s;&s;engers or Po&s;tes for the Low Countreys, or France, all Amba&s;&s;adours, riding or &s;ending in their Princes affaires, and all other what&s;oeuer, riding with horne or guide, &s;hall take and change their hor&s;es onely of the Po&s;tes of that place, or with his con&s;ent and appoyntment, they taking for each hor&s;e after the rate of iii.d. the mile be&s;ide the guide groat.</P>
<P N="3">3 And to preuent all aduantages of vncon&s;cionable dealing, by &s;uch as keepe hor&s;es to hire, in the hor&s;ing of &s;trangers beyond the ordinary Stages, to the wronging of our Po&s;tes, and iniury of the bea&s;t or the ryder: It is found expedient, and our will and plea&s;ure is, that all &s;trangers borne, a&s;well going foorth of the Realme, as comming into the &s;ame, through our &s;hire of Kent, al|though it be about their owne &amp; priuate affaires, without horne or guide, &s;hall likewi&s;e be hor&s;ed by our ordinary po&s;ts from &s;tage to &s;tage, or with the Po&s;ts knowledge and con&s;ent, not taking for each hor&s;e aboue ii.d. ob. the mile.</P>
<P N="4">4 It &s;hall not be lawfull for any &s;o riding in po&s;te, to take and ride away the hor&s;e or hor&s;es of any man, not hauing fir&s;t and a|forehand fully payd and &s;ati&s;fied the hire, nor ride them further then the next &s;tage, without the knowledge and con&s;ent of the Po&s;te of that &s;tage, nor charge any hor&s;e taken, to ride po&s;te with any male or burden (be&s;ides the rider) that exceeds the weight of 30. pound. And if it &s;hall happen, any to di&s;obey the&s;e our com|mandements, and orders, to the manife&s;t wrong of any our po&s;ts, iniurie of any owner, or hurt of his bea&s;t: the Officers or magi|&s;trates of the place, vpon complaint thereof made, &s;hall &s;tay the partie offending till &s;ati&s;faction be made, or &s;ufficient &s;ecurity gi|uen to repay the damage. But if it &s;o fall out, that the ob&s;tinacie of any herein offending, require further puni&s;hment then the or|dinary power of the Magi&s;trate of the place can or may conueni|ently inflict: Then we require our &s;aid Ma&s;ter and Comptroller of the Po&s;ts, vpon notice thereof giuen him, to &s;end for the partie
<PB N="209" REF="112"> or parties to an&s;were their contempt before our priuie Coun&s;ell.</P>
<P N="5">5 This being in generall our will and command, for the &s;pee|die, &s;afe, and orderly expedition of our publique di&s;patches and oc|currents, a&s;well in writing for our affaires, as riding in po&s;te, what&s;oeuer be&s;ides &s;hall fall out more particularly to the behoofe of our &s;ayd Po&s;tes, or ea&s;e of their hor&s;es, that in the&s;e kinde of &s;eruices are mo&s;t &s;ubiect to abu&s;es, our like care is to bee &s;pecially re&s;pected: and to that end wee doe hereby eft&s;oones recommend both the one and the other to the wi&s;edome and protection of our &s;ayd Ma&s;ter of the Po&s;tes, and the aide of all Magi&s;trates and o|thers that loue the furtherance of our &s;eruice, or regard our &s;afe|tie or plea&s;ure.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannor of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 15. <HI>day of May, in the &s;euenth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prohibition">
<HEAD>&para; A Prohibition for Allome.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IAMES</HI> by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. To all to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, Greeting. Whereas we haue alwayes held it one of the mo&s;t iu&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary cares and con&s;i|derations incident to the State and Office of Kings and Soue|raigne Princes, &s;o to di&s;po&s;e of their people and gouernment, as the knowledge and v&s;e of good and profitable Arts and inuenti|ons may become common and frequent among&s;t their people, the &s;ame being one of the greate&s;t meanes to increa&s;e and pre&s;erue the wealth and &s;trength of State and people, Con&s;idering how contrary effects labour and idlene&s;&s;e doe produce, the one making Kingdomes great and flouri&s;hing, the other alwayes bearing the markes of beggery and contempt: For&s;omuch as &s;ome of our good and louing Subiects of our Realme of England, haue of late to their great charge, and no le&s;&s;e commendation, found out and made proofe of &s;undry <HI>Mines</HI> in our Countie of Yorke, for the making of <HI>Allome,</HI> a Merchandize of great nece&s;&s;ity and v&s;e &s;un|dry wayes for all our Dominions, and haue &s;o well and commen|dably proceeded therein, that they are at this time able to make &s;ufficient &s;tore of <HI>Allome,</HI> not onely to &s;erue for the v&s;e and expen&s;e of all our &s;ayd Kingdomes, but al&s;o within &s;hort &s;pace to affoord and &s;pare great quantities thereof, to be euery yeere tran&s;ported for the v&s;e and &s;eruice of other our neighbour Kingdoms and Na|tions: And whereas the &s;ayd per&s;ons, who by their &s;kill and in|du&s;trie
<PB N="210" REF="112"> haue effected &s;o good and great a worke, (&s;o often failing vpon other attempts) haue willingly and freely offered and yeel|ded vp the &s;ayd <HI>Allome Mines</HI> into our hands, vpon &s;uch Conditi|ons as haue giuen them full contentment and &s;ati&s;faction, all men being able to iudge that a matter of that con&s;equence, and wherein &s;o many of our people &s;hould bee intere&s;&s;ed, was more fit for vs to take into our owne hands, then to leaue the &s;ame in the power of priuate men: We haue now thought fit for the &s;ayd con&s;iderations, and many other, to giue order to our Trea&s;ourer of England, and our Chancellour of our Exchequer, to take the whole worke into our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and for that purpo&s;e haue made choi&s;e of two of the &s;ame per&s;ons, that managed the &s;ame workes before (being both of tru&s;t, &s;kill and experience) to deale for vs, as our generall and &s;peciall Factors and Agents, for the whole orde|ring of the &s;aid works in time to come. And albeit that by meanes of the <HI>Allome</HI> made and to be made within our &s;ayd Realme, wee &s;hall receiue great hinderance by being depriued of &s;uch Cu&s;tomes and other dueties, as formerly haue beene v&s;ually payd vnto vs and our Predece&s;&s;ours Kings and Princes of this our Realme, for and vpon that Commoditie imported: Yet to the intent our Subiects &s;hall not bee any way wronged, but in all points care|fully re&s;pected and duely prouided for in that Commoditie, Wee haue (out of our Royall and tender care of our Subiects good) giuen expre&s;&s;e order and commandement, that our &s;ayd Agents &s;hall prouide and cau&s;e to be prouided, and at all times, and from time to time hereafter haue in their cu&s;todie, in &s;ome fit and con|uenient Store-hou&s;es, both within the Citie of London, and within euery other Citie and port Towne of the &s;ame our Realm of England, as &s;halbe thought fit and appointed, &s;ufficient quan|tities of <HI>Allome,</HI> and that from the &s;ayd Store-hou&s;es, all and e|uery our people and Subiects &s;hall and may from time to time, buy and haue thereof by le&s;&s;er or greater quantities at their plea|&s;ures, &s;o much good and &s;eruiceable <HI>Allome,</HI> as they or any of them &s;hall at any time require, and at &s;uch rate and price to be in|differently appoynted to bee payd for and vpon euery hundred weight of <HI>Allome</HI> &s;o to be &s;old and deliuered as afore&s;ayd, as &s;hall not giue any iu&s;t cau&s;e of di&s;content to any of our louing Sub|iects.</P>
<P>The&s;e are therefore to require and command, all and &s;inguler per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer a&s;well our naturall borne Sub|iects, as Denizens or Strangers, That none of them, nor any other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, Doe at any time or times hereafter attempt or pre&s;ume to bring or cau&s;e to be brought into
<PB N="211" REF="113"> the&s;e our Realmes of England, Scotland or Ireland, or any o|ther our Dominions, or any the Ports, Hauens, Creeks, or pla|ces of any of them, any <HI>Allome</HI> in greater or le&s;&s;er quantities, made or to be made in any forreine part or place what&s;oeuer, vp|on paine of forfeiture of all and euery quantitie and quantities of <HI>Allome</HI> &s;o brought or cau&s;ed to be brought into our &s;ayd Domi|nions, contrary to this our pre&s;ent commaundement: The one moytie thereof to be to vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, and the o|ther moytie to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall make &s;eizure of the &s;ame: and al&s;o vpon paine of our high indignation and di&s;plea|&s;ure, and of &s;uch further paines, penalties and puni&s;hments, as for the contempt of our commandement Royall in this behalfe may any way be inflicted vpon them, or any of them &s;o offending. And we doe al&s;o further require and commaund all and &s;inguler the Officers of our Cu&s;tomes within all and euery the Ports of the &s;ame our Dominions, and the creekes and members of the &s;ame Ports, that they and euery of them doe from and after the date hereof at all times, forbeare to take any entrie or entries, and to take and make any compo&s;ition for any Cu&s;tome, Sub&s;idy or other duetie, for or vpon any <HI>Allome</HI> brought or to bee brought into any our Dominions from any forreine parts, and al&s;o that they and euery of them (whom it doth or &s;hall concerne) doe &s;tay and &s;eize as forfeited and confi&s;cated to the v&s;e and v&s;es afore&s;aid, all and &s;inguler &s;uch forreine <HI>Allome,</HI> as from and after the date hereof &s;hall be by any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, brought into any Port or Creeke of the &s;ame our Dominions, vpon paine of forfeiture of their Offices, and of vndergoing our high indignati|on and di&s;plea&s;ure, with &s;uch further paines and puni&s;hments, as for the &s;ame their contempts or defaults many any way be inflic|ted vpon them and euery of them in this behalfe offending.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Mannour of Greenwich</HI> <DATE><HI>the nineteenth day of Iune, in the &s;euenth yere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ire|land. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t Hunters, &s;tealers and killers of Deare within any the Kings Maie&s;ties Fore&s;ts, Cha&s;es or Parks.</HEAD>
<P>WE had hoped, &s;eeing it is notorious to all our Sub|iects, how greatly we delight in the exerci&s;e of Hun|ting, a&s;well for our recreation, as for the nece&s;&s;ary pre&s;eruation of our health, that no man in whom was either re|uerence
<PB N="212" REF="113"> to our per&s;on, or feare of our Lawes, would haue offered vs offence in tho&s;e our &s;ports, con&s;idering e&s;pecially, that the na|ture of all people is not onely in things of this qualitie, but in matters of greater moment &s;o farre to conforme them&s;elues to the affections and di&s;po&s;ition of their Soueraigne, as to affect that which they know to be liking to them and to re&s;pect it, and to auoyd the contrary: And wee mu&s;t acknowledge that we haue found, that Gentlemen and per&s;ons of the better &s;ort (who know be&s;t what becommeth their duetie) haue re&s;trained their owne humors, and framed them&s;elues therein to giue vs contentment: yet falleth it out notwith&s;tanding, that neither the example of them, nor re&s;pect of the Lawes, nor duety to vs, hath had power to reforme the corrupt natures and in&s;olent di&s;po&s;itions of &s;ome of the ba&s;er &s;ort, and &s;ome other of a di&s;ordered life; By diuers of which condition (&s;ince our offence manife&s;ted again&s;t tho&s;e that tre&s;pa&s;&s;e in that kinde) and &s;ince our la&s;t comming forth into this Progre&s;&s;e, in places where wee lately tooke our plea&s;ure in our owne grounds, and neere our owne hou&s;es of abode, there haue bene more frequent offences offered in that kinde, then at any time heretofore, or in the late Queenes dayes were attempted: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, how&s;oeuer in her later dayes (being a Lady who&s;e &s;exe and yeeres were not &s;o apt to that kinde of recreation, hauing no po&s;teritie, and therefore le&s;&s;e carefull of con&s;eruation of that kinde of Royaltie, which her progenitors Kings of this Realme had mainteined) people might perhaps for tho&s;e re&s;pects pre&s;ume of more libertie then became them, or the Lawes of the Realme doe permit; Yet in our time, being a Prince that haue manife|&s;ted our afftction and delight in that exerci&s;e, and hauing po&s;teri|tie like to continue in the &s;ame di&s;po&s;ition, when either their re|creation or their exerci&s;e &s;hall require it; It &s;eemeth &s;trange that men will now attempt to offend with more licentiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, then at any time heretofore, and offer to vs in our grounds, that which they will not endure each at others hands in their owne. Wee are not ignorant, that there are &s;ome pa&s;&s;ions in mens mindes &s;o &s;trong, as hard it is but they will breake foorth at times beyond the bounds of rea&s;on, where commoditie, plea&s;ure or reuenge prouoketh: But this offence being a tre&s;pa&s;&s;ing again&s;t rea&s;on which hath no end in it, whereof can redound to the offender ei|ther profit or plea&s;ure, honour or other recompen&s;e; We cannot interprete that the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions that are done therein doe pro|ceed, but either out of a barbarous and vnciuill di&s;po&s;ition, not fit to bee &s;uffered in an ordered E&s;tate, or out of an in&s;olent humor and vnre&s;pectiue to our per&s;on, no wayes to be endured. And &s;ee|ing
<PB N="213" REF="114"> that we haue manife&s;ted our Princely di&s;po&s;ition to the main|tenance of Iu&s;tice, and giuen as free and liberall &s;cope to the exe|cution of the Lawes of this Realme, as euer did any of our Pro|genitors, We cannot but wonder that men &s;hould conceiue that in the&s;e kinds of tre&s;pa&s;&s;es being &s;o offen&s;iue to vs, we would not be iu&s;t to our &s;elfe and right the wrongs and in&s;olencies offered to vs, in &s;o &s;peciall a branch of our Prerogatiue, where the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme, both Ancient and Moderne, doe af|foord vs &s;o full and &s;trong remedies, as appeares by the Charter of our Forre&s;t, as ancient and authenticall, as the great Charter of the Lawes of the Realme, and by other Lawes and Statutes, &s;ome inforcing the Offendors (be&s;ides other grieuous puni&s;h|ments of Fine and impri&s;onment) to abiure the Realme, &s;ome puni&s;hing them with death, as iudging them vnworthy to liue, at lea&s;t in this well ordered Kingdome, that cannot bridle &s;o inor|dinate an humor, which reigning with &s;o great violence in one exce&s;&s;e, will pa&s;&s;e on (if it be not checked) to all other extremities. Being therefore thus deepely prouoked, and minding to v&s;e as &s;trait and as &s;euere meanes for the pre&s;eruation of our right, and puni&s;hing of offendors in the&s;e ca&s;es, as the Lawes of our Realme will affoord; Wee haue bene plea&s;ed notwith&s;tanding out of our gracious di&s;po&s;ition, to forewarne men of our purpo&s;e, by propo|&s;ing to them the &s;eueritie we intend to v&s;e hereafter, for redre&s;&s;e of &s;uch enormities, knowing that &s;uch warning wil either re&s;traine them from giuing vs offence, or (if their vnduetifull humor can be reformed by no admonition) make them the more inexcu&s;able to vs and our Lawes for their puni&s;hment. And therefore we doe hereby &s;ignifie to all men, that after the publi&s;hing of this Pro|clamation, our meaning is to proceed in this maner again&s;t all Hunters, Stealers, and killers of Deere, either Red or Fallow, within any our Forre&s;ts, Cha&s;es, or Parkes.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to extend again&s;t them all penalties what&s;oeuer, which by the Lawes of the Forre&s;ts, or by any other Lawes or &s;tatutes of the Realme are to be inflicted vpon them. To giue a good re|ward to all &s;uch as &s;hall informe vs, or our Iu&s;tices of our For|re&s;ts, or any Lieutenant, or any other hauing charge of any our Forre&s;ts, Parks, or Chaces, of any offendors in hunting, &s;tealing or killing of our Deere by any vnlawfull wayes. And if the fault be found in any of our Seruants, or any towards our Court, or per&s;on of quality, he &s;halbe a&s;&s;ured not onely to loo&s;e our fauour, but to be debarred of our pre&s;ence, or re&s;ort to our Court. And if it appeare that none of tho&s;e penalties &s;hall haue power to re|&s;traine in&s;olent mindes from committing outrages &s;o wilful and
<PB N="214" REF="114"> vnrea&s;onable: We will make no doubt but that our Parliament finding the Lawes now in force too weake to roote out &s;uch an euil, will a&s;&s;i&s;t vs with their adui&s;e, to prouide &s;ome further and more &s;ufficient remedies for that purpo&s;e, wherein they are in|tere&s;&s;ed a&s;well as we: for they that dare pre&s;ume vpon vs wil not &s;pare them. But our hope is, that our Subiects, knowing now againe the offence we take at the&s;e in&s;olencies, and being warned of our intent, will not giue vs cau&s;e to exerci&s;e the lea&s;t of the&s;e penalties, which we &s;hall be glad to finde, a&s;well to &s;ee the confor|mitie of our peoples minds to our di&s;po&s;ition, as for the clemen|cie of our Nature, vnwilling to haue any cau&s;e of puni&s;hment again&s;t the lea&s;t of them, e&s;pecially in matter concerning our &s;elfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 9. <HI>day of September, in the</HI> 7. <HI>yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the ad|iournement of part of Mi|chaelmas Terme.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, finding that the infec|tion of the plague is at this pre&s;ent in &s;undry places of the Citie of London, and neere adioyning to the &s;ame, though not (God be thanked) with the mortalitie of great numbers; yet &s;o di&s;per&s;ed in diuers of the be&s;t and mo&s;t open &s;treets of the &s;ayd Citie, as doe giue iu&s;t cau&s;e to doubt, that the contagion thereof, by great re&s;ort of people, might be further &s;pread, a&s;well in the Citie, as into other parts of the Realme, whereby danger might en&s;ue both to his Royall Per&s;on, the Queene his deare&s;t wife, and his Royall i&s;&s;ue, and to his mo&s;t louing Subiects repairing thither for their Suites and cau&s;es: His Maie&s;tie, for the&s;e nece&s;&s;ary con&s;iderations, and hoping that the infection will, by the goodne&s;&s;e of Almightie God, with the coldne&s;&s;e of the yeere, and &s;uch whole&s;ome Orders as are taken in his &s;ayde Ci|tie, the rather cea&s;e by the adiournement of part of this next Terme of S. Michael now at hand, from the <HI>Vtas</HI> of the &s;ame, vntil the fourth Returne of the &s;aid Terme called <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI> next comming. His Maie&s;tie therefore, of his &s;peciall fauour and clemencie, is plea&s;ed and contented, to adiourne the &s;ayd Terme of S. Michael, that is to &s;ay, in and from the <HI>Vtas</HI> thereof, vnto the &s;aid fourth Returne of the &s;ayd Terme, called <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI>
<PB N="215" REF="115"> next comming; Which his Maie&s;ty &s;ignifieth to all and &s;ingular his louing Subiects of this his Realme, to the intent that they and euery of them, which haue cau&s;e or commandement to ap|peare in any of his Highne&s;&s;e Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter, in or at any day or time from and after the &s;aid <HI>Vtas</HI> of S. Michael, may tarie at their dwellings, or where their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e otherwi&s;e &s;hall lye, without re&s;orting to any of the &s;ayd Courts for that cau&s;e, before the &s;ayd <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI> next comming, &amp; that without incurring danger of forfeiture, penaltie, or contempt towards his High|ne&s;&s;e in that behalfe. And neuerthele&s;&s;e his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, That two of his Iu&s;tices, that is to &s;ay, of either Bench one, &s;hall the fir&s;t day of Michaelmas Terme, called <HI>Octabis Micha&euml;|lis,</HI> according to the ancient order of the Lawes, keepe the E&s;|&s;oignes of the &s;ayd <HI>Octabis Micha&euml;lis.</HI> At which <HI>Vtas</HI> of S. Mi|chael, Writs of adiournement &s;hall be directed to the &s;ayd Iu&s;ti|ces, giuing them authoritie to adiourne the &s;ayd Terme of Saint Michael, that is to &s;ay, From the <HI>Vtas</HI> thereof, vntill the fourth Returne, as before is &s;ayd. And the &s;ayd adiournement &s;hall bee made in the fir&s;t day of the &s;ayd <HI>Vtas,</HI> commonly called, the day of E&s;&s;oignes. And further his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, That all matters, cau&s;es and Suits, depending in any of his other Courts betweene partie and partie, as in his Highne&s;&s;e Courts of Chancery, Starchamber, and Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Liueries, Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, and Court of Reque&s;ts, &s;hall haue continuance, and the parties &s;hall haue day from the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents, vntill the &s;aide fourth Returne, as before is &s;ayd.</P>
<P>Prouided alway, and his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and commande|ment is, That all Collectors, Receiuers, Sheriffes, and other Accomptants, and all other per&s;ons, that &s;hould or ought to Ac|compt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money in any of his Ma|ie&s;ties Courts of Exchequer, Court of Wards and Liueries, and of his Duchie of Lanca&s;ter, or in any of them, or to enter into a|ny Accompt in any of the &s;ayd Courts, &s;hall repaire vnto the ac|cu&s;tomed places at We&s;tmin&s;ter, where his Highne&s;&s;e hath ap|pointed &s;uch Officers and mini&s;ters, as for that purpo&s;e his Ma|ie&s;tie hath thought expedient, and there to pay and doe in euery behalfe, as though no &s;uch Proclamation of adiournement had bene had or made. And his Highne&s;&s;e further plea&s;ure and com|mandement is, That all Sheriffes &s;hall returne their Writs and Proces again&s;t all &s;uch Accomptants and Debtors, at the dayes therein appointed. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, who ought to accompt or pay any &s;umme or &s;ummes of money to his Maie&s;tie
<PB N="216" REF="115"> in any of the Courts and places afore&s;aid, doe make default there|in, That then his Highne&s;&s;e Writs and Proces &s;hall be awarded and &s;ent foorth again&s;t euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, and the &s;ame to be duely &amp; orderly &s;erued, and returned by the Sheriffes and Officers thereunto appoynted, in &s;uch like maner and forme, as the &s;ame &s;hould haue beene, if this pre&s;ent Proclamation had not bene made. And if any Sheriffe or other Officer &s;hall make default, or be negligent in &s;eruing, executing, or returning of a|ny the Writs and Proces afore&s;ayd, That then euery &s;uch She|riffe and other Officer, &s;hall incurre &s;uch paines and penalties, as by the &s;ayd Courts, or any of them &s;hall be taxed and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed; Willing and commanding all and euery his Maie&s;ties Sheriffes, Officers, Mini&s;ters and Subiects, to whome it doth or &s;hall ap|pertaine, to ob&s;erue and keepe their a&s;&s;emblies and apparances with all their Returnes and Certificates, in his Highne&s;&s;e &s;ayd Courts at We&s;tmin&s;ter, in <HI>Men&s;e Micha&euml;lis</HI> next comming, then and there to be holden and kept, and there to doe their Offices and dueties in euery behalfe, in like maner and forme, as they &s;hould or ought to haue done, if this pre&s;ent Proclamation had not bene had or made, as they will an&s;were to the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court,</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 22. <HI>day of September, in the &s;euenth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the pro|roguing of the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas we did lately prorogue our Parliament till the ninth day of Nouember now next comming: For a&s;much as the &s;ickenes hath of late &s;omewhat increa|&s;ed in and about our Citie of London, by rea&s;on whereof we haue already by our Proclamation publi&s;hed the adiournement of part of Michaelmas Terme now at hand, The &s;ame cau&s;e doth much more require the proroguing of the parliament, le&s;t &s;o great a con|cour&s;e of people as the Terme and Parliament (holding at one time) mu&s;t draw together, &s;hould giue occa&s;ion to continue or &s;pread the Infection, both in the citie it &s;elfe, and other parts of the Realme, which our care is to preuent.</P>
<P>Wee haue therefore thought fit, to prorogue our &s;ayde Parlia|ment againe vntill the ninth day of February now next en&s;uing, At which day our purpo&s;e is (God willing) to hold the &s;ame, And doe therefore hereby giue notice to all whom it may concerne, that
<PB N="217" REF="116"> they may frame their affaires accordingly, and attend at the &s;ame ninth day of February to that &s;eruice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Honour of Hampton Court</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 26. <HI>day of September, in the &s;euenth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation giuing a further time for the amendment of de|fectiue Titles.</HEAD>
<P>THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie, continuing &s;till his Royall intention, to extend his grace to &s;uch of his louing Subiects as &s;hall &s;eeke the &s;ame, for confirmation of &s;uch Grants, as haue bene pa&s;&s;ed to any of them, or their Ance&s;tours from the Crowne, by which his Princely fauour, they and their po&s;terity may be &s;ecured from the manifold dangers in which they &s;tand, if by varietie of time his Maie&s;ties Title to their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions &s;hould be &s;et on foot, and pre&s;&s;ed to their ouerthrow in &s;ucceeding ages: And hauing for that purpo&s;e lately publi&s;hed his Procla|mation touching defectiue Titles, with a limitation of a day pre|fixed, which is now vpon the point to be expired, Doeth well per|ceiue by report of great numbers that doe craue the benefit there|of (which cannot conueniently be di&s;patched) that it was not any generall neglect of his Maie&s;ties grace and fauour, that cau&s;ed this late comming, but meerly the accident of time in mo&s;t men, whereof the greate&s;t part pa&s;&s;ed on in the long Vacation, during which &s;pace, the Commi&s;&s;ioners did not &s;it, nor the Coun&s;ell lear|ned remained in Towne, and the chiefe&s;t time, whereupon mo&s;t men did re&s;t their expectation (which was after Michaelmas) was likewi&s;e by the doubtfulne&s;&s;e and &s;hortne&s;&s;e of the Terme much di&s;appointed: His Maie&s;tie is therefore plea&s;ed, for the&s;e and &s;uch like con&s;iderations, (by the adui&s;e of his Priuy Coun&s;el) to giue once more, a prolongation of the &s;ame vntill the &s;ixt of Fe|bruary next en&s;uing, to the intent that all &s;uch as haue any de&s;ire to receiue this grace, may enioy the benefit of Confirmation of his Maie&s;ties grants of that nature by this Parliament, which is &s;o immediatly to follow, as that oportunitie would not bee neglec|ted, which happeneth not but vpon other extraordinary and vr|gent occa&s;ions.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Newmarket</HI> <DATE><HI>the la&s;t day of Nouember, in the &s;euenth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<PB N="218" REF="116">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation inhibiting the Im|portation of Pepper from forraine parts, by any other per&s;ons then tho&s;e of the Ea&s;t Indian Company.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as it is not vnknowen, That in former times when all or the greate&s;t part of Pepper, and other Spices of the grouth of the <HI>Ea&s;t Indies,</HI> was brought into this our Realme of England and Principalitie of Wales by &s;trangers onely the &s;ame was then &s;old at very high Rates, vntil &s;uch time as &s;ome of our owne Merchants did them&s;elues trade into tho&s;e parts, and bringing in good quantities of tho&s;e Commodities, did &s;ell the &s;ame at much lower prices, to the great reliefe and benefit of all our Subiects in generall: And fora&s;much as wee doe finde, That the e&s;tabli&s;hment and continuance of this Trade, hath and will bee more and more an occa&s;ion to imploy and encrea&s;e the great Shipping of this Kingdome, which hath heretofore bene out of v&s;e, as being not &s;o nece&s;&s;ary for Trade in Countreys that are not &s;o farre remote: For the&s;e, and &s;ome other rea&s;ons which haue bene deliuered vnto vs, being de&s;irous to encourage this Company, and to maintaine that Trade by all good and lawfull meanes; And experience teaching vs, That if there &s;hould be, till the Trade were better &s;etled, a free and generall libertie for all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer to bring in tho&s;e Commodities, it would be an occa&s;ion to ouerlay the Trade, and &s;trangers would of pur|po&s;e vent their Spices at &s;mal rates, thereby to enforce our owne Subiects to de&s;i&s;t from trading into tho&s;e Countreys: We with the adui&s;e of our Priuie Councell, haue thought fit, for &s;ome time to re&s;traine the Importation of Pepper from forraine parts, by any others then by the merchants ioyntly of the <HI>Ea&s;t Indian</HI> Com|pany. And therefore we doe hereby will and command all per|&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, either our natural borne Subiects, Denizens, or Strangers (not being the Company afore&s;aid) to forbeare to bring into the&s;e our Dominions of England and Wales, any Pepper, directly or indirectly, vpon paine of forfeiture of the goods, and what other puni&s;hment they may incurre by a|ny contempt and default herein. And to the end, this our plea|&s;ure may be more duely ob&s;erued, Wee doe likewi&s;e charge and command all Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers, Waiters, Farmours of our Cu&s;tomes and their Deputies, and all other our Officers of the Ports, within our Territories afore&s;aid, That
<PB N="219" REF="117"> they doe not giue any Bills of Entrie for Pepper that is brought in from forraine Countreyes, by any other then tho&s;e who &s;halbe knowen to be of the Company afore&s;aid: Neither &s;hall they &s;uffer it to be landed, or being &s;o, &s;hall &s;eize the &s;ame to our v&s;e as iu&s;tly forfaited. And moreouer, they and euery of them, &s;hall v&s;e their be&s;t meanes and endeuours to hinder and preuent all &s;ecret and fraudulent practizes of &s;uch as &s;hall &s;eeke to bring in that Com|moditie, Notwith&s;tanding this our plea&s;ure publi&s;hed to the contrary.</P>
<P>ANd becau&s;e we are carefull to preuent all inconueniences to the generalitie of our Subiects, in ca&s;e they &s;hould be hard|ly dealt with vnder this re&s;traint, by tho&s;e that haue the whole ma&s;&s;e of Pepper in their owne handes; Although wee hold the Company to be compounded of many good &amp; hone&s;t Merchants and others, yet becau&s;e there is no Societie wherein all are of one temper, And out of the care we haue alwayes had for the com|mon good of all our people more then of any particuler Society; we thought it not &s;afe to repo&s;e &s;o much confidence in a part of our people, as to leaue the whole body &s;ubiect to their wills, in matter of this nature. And therefore hauing well examined what might bee an indifferent price to yeeld to the Merchants competent gaine for the maintenance of &s;o great &amp; long a Trade, and &s;o needfull for the &s;upport of Nauigation, and yet not be ouer|chargeable to the re&s;t of our people, who haue on the other &s;ide dayly v&s;e of that kinde of Spice; Wee haue conditioned with them, and limitted, That they &s;hall vtter Pepper at the rate of two &s;hillings &s;ixe pence the pound, and not exceeed, to any that &s;hall come or &s;end for it, vpon paine of our high di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Which proui&s;ion, and limitation being made by vs in fauour of the communitie of our Subiects, we haue thought good to pub|li&s;h and make knowen to all men, To the ende that if it fall out, that &s;uch as by way of Retaile doe vtter to our people dwelling in places remote from our Citie of <HI>London,</HI> and other parts where Shipping doeth ariue, that kinde of Spice, there bee exacted any prices exce&s;&s;iue, it may appeare that the &s;ame is not for want of due proui&s;ion made to preuent it, but by the ouergreedine&s;&s;e of tho&s;e which &s;hall &s;ell it. In which con&s;ideration, although we know, that there are many rea&s;ons, why tho&s;e that &s;ell by Re|taile, &s;hould demaund a further price then they pay for it here, as well in re&s;pect of the di&s;tance of place, forbearing of their money, as many other things incident to that kinde of Trade: Yet the better to containe them within the bounds of rea&s;onable gaine, we haue thought good to make knowen thus much, thereby to ex|pre&s;&s;e
<PB N="220" REF="117"> our owne care of our louing Subiects, and to &s;hew them the meanes whereby they may auoyde &s;uch further burden, as may be ca&s;t vpon them by any that &s;hall goe about by any vndue practi&s;e, to rai&s;e immoderate gaine, vnder colour or pretext of that cour&s;e which we haue taken for the rea&s;ons afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Newmarket</HI> <DATE><HI>the la&s;t day of Nouember, in the</HI> 7. <HI>yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation forbidding the making of Starch.</HEAD>
<P>FOr&s;omuch as in the time of the late dearth and &s;carcitie of Corne and Graine within this our Realme of England and Dominion of Wales, We hauing receiued Certificats from &s;undry parts and places of this Realme, that great quantities of Wheate and other &s;tuffe, fit and whole&s;ome for the food and &s;u|&s;tenance of our louing Subiects, being daily in great abundance &s;pent and con&s;umed in making of Starch, were a great meane to continue the &s;ayd dearth and &s;carcitie; And that the making thereof into Starch in places vnfit for that purpo&s;e, was al&s;o ve|ry noy&s;ome vnto the Inhabitants neere adioyning; Whereupon, out of that tender care which we haue alwayes had of our Sub|iects welfare, for remedy of the &s;ame, and of all inconueniences thereby incident, We were then plea&s;ed, to cau&s;e our Proclama|tion to be publi&s;hed, and by the &s;ame did will and command, That the making of Starch of any kinde of &s;tuffe what&s;oeuer, &s;hould be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed in all parts of our &s;aid Realme and Dominion; Onely giuing thereby &s;ome &s;mall tolleration, that &s;ome few &s;elected per|&s;ons, dwelling neere our Cities of London &amp; We&s;tmin&s;ter, &s;hould be &s;uffered to &s;pend and worke out into Starch, certaine &s;mall quantities of Wheate, which hauing taken wet at Sea, were be|come mu&s;ty, vn&s;auoury, and vnwhole&s;ome, and altogether vn|fit for our &s;ayd Subiects food, and were affirmed to bee at that time lying vn&s;old, and decaying, on the hands of &s;uch merchants, as had formerly brought in the &s;ame from forreine Countreys, As by our &s;ayd Proclamation may more at large appeare.</P>
<P>And whereas wee are now againe enformed by the credible Certificats of &s;euerall Iu&s;tices of Peace of &s;undry of our Coun|ties, and chiefe Magi&s;trates and Officers of Cities and Townes Corporate, That out of the &s;ame our &s;mall tolleration (tending
<PB N="221" REF="118"> rather to the benefite of the &s;ayd Merchants, then to the increa&s;e or encouragement of Starchmaking) a farre greater number of per&s;ons, euen in all parts and places of the &s;ame our Realme and Dominion, euer &s;ince that time haue, and daily more and more do &s;et vp and begin Starch-making in &s;undry places noy&s;ome and inconuenient, and that in the &s;ame they do co~&s;ume greater quan|tities of Wheat, rubbles of wheat, Pollard, and other &s;tuffe fit for our Subiects food, then at any time before the publi&s;hing of our &s;aid Proclamation, And that the &s;ayd Starch is altogether made directly of Wheat, and other &s;tuffe fit for mans food, And that the making thereof cannot be continued within this Realme, but that the &s;ame wil be a great meanes to helpe and further the con|tinuance of dearth and &s;carcitie within the &s;ame, to the great and intollerable dammage of the Common wealth; And that likewi&s;e the making thereof in places procuring &s;uch noy&s;omne&s;&s;e, may be one great cau&s;e to continue that dangerous Infection of the Plague, which hath (to our great griefe) bene generally di&s;per&s;ed among&s;t our people of late yeeres, by meanes of the &s;ame; And that it is no way beneficiall to the Common wealth, but a thing of late time inuented, and may more properly be termed matter of vanitie, and pride, as it is v&s;ed by inferiour per&s;ons, then of any nece&s;&s;itie: And therefore, to the ende it &s;hall appeare, as well in this, as it hath done in all other our Actions &s;ince our comming vnto this Kingdome, what care wee alwayes haue of the health, welfare and profit of our louing Subiects; And how much wee preferre any cau&s;e importing their good, before any gaine or ad|uantage to our &s;elfe, And that we rather de&s;ire, that all &s;uch be|nefit, as by the voluntary contributions of the makers of Starch within our Realmes, did formerly, and would &s;till haue accrued, and become due and payable vnto vs, our heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, by meanes of the &s;ame Toleration giuen vnto them, as afore|&s;ayd, &s;hould bee forborne and vtterly lo&s;t, then that our people &s;hould alwayes be &s;ubiect to &s;uch, and &s;o many euils and incon|ueniences, occa&s;ioned as afore&s;ayd, or our Priuie Coun&s;ell trou|bled with &s;o many and often complaints again&s;t a thing offen&s;iue &s;o many wayes, be&s;ides that which is of greate&s;t con&s;equence, which is, the con&s;uming of that which ought to bee re&s;pected for the food of man.</P>
<P>And therefore, hauing with the aduice of our Coun&s;ell concei|ued, and &s;eriou&s;ly re&s;olued, that it is very requi&s;ite, for the cau&s;es afore mentioned, ab&s;olutely to &s;uppre&s;&s;e, and vtterly to aboli&s;h the making of Starch in all places of our &s;ayd Realme and Domi|nion;
<PB N="222" REF="118"> We haue thought good to &s;ignifie our plea&s;ure touching the &s;ame, to all our louing Subiects by our Proclamation, Willing, and &s;traitly charging and commanding all and all maner of per|&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, who at this time doe v&s;e, heretofore haue v&s;ed, and who doe and &s;hall intend at any time hereafter to v&s;e and exerci&s;e the making of Starch within any place or pla|ces of the &s;ame our Realme and Dominion what&s;ouer, as fol|loweth: <HI>Viz.</HI> That all, and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oe|uer, who haue pre&s;umed, and now do pre&s;ume, in contempt of our former Proclamations in this behalfe, wilfully to make Starch within our &s;aid Realme, not being allowed, &s;hall, and doe imme|diatly after the publication hereof, &s;urcea&s;e, and for euer forbeare, as well to make Starch, as to prepare or &s;teepe any maner of Wheat, Bran, Pollard, or other &s;tuffe what&s;oeuer for that pur|po&s;e, And that all, and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons heretofore al|lowed to make Starch, do from and after the x. day of February next en&s;uing after the date hereof, ab&s;olutely giue ouer, and for|beare to prouide, prepare, &s;teepe, and put in water, and to cau&s;e to be prouided, prepared, &s;teeped, and put in water, any Wheate, Rubbles of Wheat, Pollard, Branne, or any other &s;tuffe or &s;tuffes what&s;oeuer, with intent and purpo&s;e to make the &s;ame into Starch, and &s;o to vent and &s;ell the &s;ame. And al&s;o that they and euery of them doe, and &s;hall from and after the tenth day of the moneth of March next after the date hereof; ab&s;olutely &s;urcea&s;e, and for euer vtterly forbeare and giue ouer to make or cau&s;e to be made, dre&s;&s;ed, dryed, and prepared any Starch at all of any kinde of &s;tuffe or &s;tuffes, by what name or title, names or titles &s;oeuer the &s;ame or any of them are, or may be called, in any place or pla|ces what&s;oeuer within our &s;ayd Realme and Dominion. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall pre&s;ume or attempt to doe contrary to our expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure and commandement before declared, We doe let them know by the&s;e pre&s;ents, That he or they &s;o offending, &s;hall not onely forfeit and loo&s;e all the Starch by them &s;o made, and all and &s;inguler their Tubs, Ve&s;&s;els and in&s;truments where|with they or any of them doe and &s;hall &s;o make, or cau&s;e the &s;ame Starch to be made contrary to our will and plea&s;ure &s;ignified as afore&s;ayd, The one halfe of all which forfeitures &s;hall bee, and Wee doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents giue and graunt vnto the partie fin|ding out and &s;eizing the &s;ame, and the other halfe thereof to Vs, our heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, but that wee intend and are fully re|&s;olued to proceede again&s;t all &s;uch Offenders with all &s;eueritie to the due puni&s;hment of the &s;ame their contempts of our Prero|gatiue
<PB N="223" REF="119"> Royall, in a matter tending &s;o much to the good and bene|fit of our people, and to inflict vpon them &s;uch further paines, pe|nalties and puni&s;hments, as are v&s;uall in ca&s;es of &s;uch con&s;e|quence.</P>
<P>Wherefore wee doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;traitly charge and com|mand all and &s;inguler Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and other our Subiects what&s;oeuer, that (albeit they haue much neglected our other Proclamations in this behalfe) they doe now carefully and dili|gently &s;ee and take order, that our Plea&s;ure declared in the&s;e pre|&s;ents bee from hencefoorth in euery point fully ob&s;erued and du|tifully obeyed, and that neither they nor any of them doe, or &s;hall &s;uffer any per&s;on or per&s;ons within their &s;euerall precincts to of|fend, or doe any thing in this behalfe contrary to the Tenour of this our Proclamation, vpon paine of incurring &s;uch penalties and puni&s;hments to bee at our will and plea&s;ure inflicted vpon them or any of them, being found negligent as afore&s;ayd, as &s;hall be thought requi&s;ite and due for their de&s;erts.</P>
<P>And furthermore, for that it &s;hall appeare that our purpo&s;e herein is not that the better &s;ort of our &s;aide Subiects &s;hould bee altogether depriued of the nece&s;&s;ary v&s;e of Starch, and to the end the price and value of Starch may not by this meanes in any &s;ort be rai&s;ed or augmented, But that the &s;ame may at all times hereafter bee &s;olde and vented at as cheape and rea&s;onable rates, as at any time heretofore whiles the &s;ame was permitted to bee made within our &s;aide Realme and Dominions; Wee haue al&s;o thought good to &s;ignifie and declare by the&s;e Pre&s;ents; That from and after the publication hereof, it &s;hall and may bee law|full to and for all manner of per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to tran&s;port and bring, and cau&s;e to bee brought from any forreine parts or places what&s;oeuer (being with vs in league and amitie) into any the Ports and places of the &s;ame our Realme and Do|minion, &s;uch quantitie and quantities of Starch as to them or any of them &s;hall &s;eeme mo&s;t meete, And (hauing payed and an|&s;wered vnto our Collectours and other Officers of our Cu|&s;tomes, all and &s;inguler &s;uch &s;umme and &s;ummes of Money, and other dueties as at the time of publication of this our Proclama|tion and from thencefoorth are and &s;hall bee due vnto vs, our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, for and vpon the &s;ame) to vent and make &s;ale of the &s;ame Starch in any place or places of the &s;ame our Dominion, to their be&s;t benefite and aduantage, as heretofore hath bene accu&s;tomed. Any thing in the&s;e pre&s;ents before &s;pe|cified,
<PB N="224" REF="119"> or in any other our former Proclamations or otherwi&s;e in this behalfe, to the contrary thereof in any wi&s;e notwith|&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> <DATE><HI>the tenth day of Ianuary, in the &s;euenth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. Anno Dom.</HI> 1609.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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