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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>&para; By the King.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for re&s;traint of the unlawfull &s;ale and tran&s;portation of Engli&s;h Horns.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas complaint was made to the Parliament a&s;&s;embled in the &s;eventh yeer of the Reign of Our late dear and royall Father, King <HI>JAMES</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory, that by the repealing of an Act made in the fourth yeer of the Reign of King <HI>Edward</HI> the fourth of this King|dome, Strangers and Aliens had and did daily buy up, and procure unto them&s;elves the great and chief &s;tuffe of Engli&s;h Horns un|wrought, of Tanners and Butchers, and otherwi&s;e, and did daily convey and carry them beyond the Seas, and there made them into divers works, whereby many hou&s;holders of this Realm (that li|ved and maintained their families, paid Sub&s;idies, and other du|ties, by the benefit of their labours in working the &s;aid Horns) be|came poore and decayed, and the Wardens of the Horners of the City of <HI>London</HI> di&s;abled to &s;earch the Wares belonging to their Trade, and did likewi&s;e lo&s;e their government in their Company, as by the &s;aid Act of Parliament more at large appeareth. Now We being informed by the humble Petition of Our loving Subjects, the Ma&s;ter, Wardens, and A&s;&s;i&s;tants of the My&s;tery of Horners of Our &s;aid City of <HI>London,</HI> that the exce&s;&s;ive and abu&s;ive tran&s;portation of Horns unwrought is &s;till continued, doe therefore hereby &s;traitly charge and command all Our Subjects, as well Tanners as Butchers, and all others whom the &s;ame &s;hall or may concern, that from henceforth they nor any of them &s;hall &s;ell, or put to &s;ale, any Engli&s;h Horns un|wrought, to any Aliens or Strangers, or &s;end any of them unwrought over the Sea, or other|wi&s;e, contrary to the &s;aid Acts of Parliament, upon pain of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and of &s;uch penalties and puni&s;hments as by the Laws and Statutes of this Our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> or by Our Prerogative Royall, &s;hall or may be inflicted upon the Offenders for breach of Our &s;aid Laws, and contempt of Our Royall will and plea&s;ure herein declared. For the better ac|compli&s;hment whereof, We do hereby &s;traitly charge and command all and &s;ingular Mayors, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, &amp; all other Our Officers, Mi|ni&s;ters, and loving Subjects, to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, from time to time to be aiding, helping, furthering, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Ma&s;ter, Wardens, and A&s;&s;i&s;tants, and unto all and every the members of the &s;ame Incorporation, and in no wi&s;e to hinder or mole&s;t them, or any of them, in the due execution of the powers, authorities, and priviledges by the Acts of Par|liament afore&s;aid, or otherwi&s;e by any Our Letters Patents to them given and granted, as they and every of them will an&s;wer unto the contrary at their uttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at Whitehall, <DATE>this twentieth day of April, in the Fourteenth yeer of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&para; God &s;ave the King.</TRAILER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1638.</P>
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