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<FIGDESC>woodcut of England's coat of arms, 1609</FIGDESC>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation declaring His Maie&s;ties grace to His Subiectes for their reliefe again&s;t publique Grieuances.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THE Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie, calling to His remembrance the</HI> many complaints in the late conuention of Parliament, a&s;well by &s;undry of the Hou&s;e of Commons, as by others His &s;ubiects of &s;euerall parts of this Realme, not only again&s;t Monopolies and other like Patents, but al&s;o concerning many other grieuances, &s;ome touching the admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice, and exce&s;&s;iue fees taken in His Maie&s;ties Courts, others con|cerning trade and commerce, and many others of &s;euerall natures and qualities; And His Maie&s;tie (de&s;iring aboue all things, to yeeld ea&s;e and comfort to His people) by memorable examples of Iu&s;tice, and al&s;o by &s;undry Proclamations, Com|mi&s;&s;ions, and other Actes, and Orders made by him&s;elfe, and His Priuie Councell, not only &s;itting the Parliament, and in the times of the adiournement thereof, but al&s;o &s;ince the di&s;&s;oluing and breaking vp of the &s;ame, Hath fully declared His earne&s;t affection and con&s;tant re&s;olution to prouide fitting re|medies for all tho&s;e euils, which may tend to the hurt of His people. And more e&s;pecially calling to minde, That by His Royall Proclamation, dated the tenth day of Iuly, in the nineteenth yeere of His Reigne, He did publi&s;h and declare, That both His owne, and the eares of His Priuie Councell &s;hould be open to the mode&s;t and iu&s;t complaints of His people, a&s;well concerning Monopolies, and other Patents of euill nature and con&s;equence, as concerning other grieuances again&s;t the publique; His Maie&s;tie continuing the &s;ame His Gracious and Princely di&s;po&s;ition, which is not confined vnto Times and Meetings in Parliament, but at all &s;ea&s;ons, and vpon all occa&s;ions watcheth ouer the publique weale of His Kingdomes, hath (for the remoouing of all ambiguities and doubtes, which might di&s;courage and deterre His people from taking holde of that His Princely offer, as though in His Maie&s;ties intention it were limited or re&s;trayned to any certain times, or to particular grieuances) thought fit heereby againe to inuite His &s;ubiects to imbrace His gracious and Princely fauour, for the releeuing of them in what&s;oeuer their iu&s;t grieuances, and that in a more ea&s;ie and ready way then hath beene propounded at any time heeretofore; not doubting but His louing &s;ubiects (well weighing His abundant goodne&s;&s;e and care towards them) will applie them&s;elues vnto His Maie&s;tie for their
<PB REF="2">reliefe, in &s;uch a mode&s;t and temperate cour&s;e, as may tend to the glory of His gouernment, their own weale and tranquility, and the vtter aboli&s;hing of all tho&s;e priuate whi&s;perings and cau&s;ele&s;&s;e ru|mors, proceeding from particular humor, which, without giuing to his Maie&s;tie any opportunitie of reformation by particular knowledge of any fault, &s;erue to no other purpo&s;e but to occa&s;ion and blow abroad di&s;contentment. And therefore His Maie&s;tie doth heereby publi&s;h and declare, That He hath appointed <HI>George,</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> Lord High Admirall of <HI>England, Thomas,</HI> Earle of <HI>Arundell</HI> and <HI>Surrey,</HI> Earle Mar&s;hall of <HI>England, William,</HI> Earle of <HI>Pembroke,</HI> Lord Chamberlaine of His Maie&s;ties hou&s;hold, <HI>Lancelot,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>William,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>S. Dauid,</HI> &s;elect and prin|cipall per&s;ons, authori&s;ing and requiring them, or any two or more of them, to &s;it once a weeke, at lea&s;t, at His Maie&s;ties Palace of <HI>Whitehall,</HI> to receiue the petitions and complaints of His louing &s;ubiects concerning their iu&s;t grieuances, and to certifie the &s;ame to him&s;elfe, or His Priuie Coun&s;ell, as &s;halbe fitte&s;t for due redre&s;&s;e: Wherein His Maie&s;tie doeth declare, That as it is not His intent, that mat|ters of ordinary nature or con&s;equence &s;hould be drawen thither, but left to the proper Courts of Iu|&s;tice, which haue conu&s;ance thereof: So His Maie&s;tie doeth not re&s;traine their complaints to any particular &s;ort of grieuances, but is well plea&s;ed that His &s;ubiects may freely re&s;ort thither, for any notable oppre&s;&s;ion, exaction, bribery, or other grieuance, where the quality of the offence, or eminency of the per&s;on, or office of the offendour may require an extraordinary proceeding. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, his Maie&s;tie doeth admoni&s;h, that vnder colour thereof, no man pre&s;ume to pre&s;ent there any cau&s;e|le&s;&s;e clamours, which if they &s;hall doe, they mu&s;t expect to be puni&s;hed with the &s;ame &s;euerity, which their complaints aymed and endeauoured vniu&s;tly to draw on others.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at the Court at Theobaldes,<DATE> the foureteenth day of February, in the twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXII</P>
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