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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for reformation of the many abu&s;es committed again&s;t the Corporation of Gardners.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas Our late Royall Father King <HI>IAMES,</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory, in the third yeere of His Reigne, did by His Letters Patents Incorpo|rate the Gardners of <HI>London,</HI> and &s;uch of that Art, Trade, or My&s;terie, as inhabited within <HI>London</HI> and &s;ixe miles compa&s;&s;e thereof, into a Body Politique, with diuers Liberties and Priuiledges in the &s;ame Charter contained; and in further enlargement thereof in the foure|teenth yeere of His Reigne, did by a &s;econd Grant &s;traightly prohibite any per&s;on to v&s;e the &s;ame Art or Science, vnle&s;&s;e he had &s;erued as an Apprentice thereunto by the &s;pace of &s;euen yeeres, and beene admitted into the &s;aid Company; thereby commanding the &s;aid Company to make due Searches for preuenting the &s;ale of dead, vnwhole&s;ome, and corrupt Plants, Stocks, Trees, Setts, Slipps, Flowers, Rootes, Herbes, and Seedes, and all other things belonging to the &s;aid Trade, and to make away, burne, cut, and de&s;troy the &s;ame, as they &s;hould finde any &s;uch offered to &s;ale, in Market or otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>And further commanding all Mayors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, and other Officers with|in the &s;aid compa&s;&s;e, to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto them, by vertue whereof, for their more order|ly gouernment, &s;undry Lawes and Ordinances haue beene conceiued among&s;t them, fit and nece&s;|&s;ary to be executed and ob&s;erued: And the &s;ame were approoued of by the then Lord Chancellor of <HI>England,</HI> Lord Trea&s;urer, and Lord Chiefe Iu&s;tice, which Trade is found to bee very bene|ficiall to the Common-wealth, both for the goodne&s;&s;e of the Commodities which indu&s;trious Arti&s;ts in that My&s;terie daily rai&s;e, for the imployment of very many of the poorer &s;ort, and for the trayning vp of diuers young men therein. Howbeit of late diuers per&s;ons, whereof many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">uer &s;erued as Apprenti&s;es in the &s;aid Trade, nor haue beene admitted into the &s;aid Societie, doe <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;e the &s;ame, to the vndoing of &s;uch of Our louing Subiects as haue duely &s;erued therein as Ap|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">enti&s;es, and to the great di&s;couragement and ruine of many Freemen of the &s;aid Societie.</P>
<P>And moreouer &s;ome of the &s;aid Company are become contemptuous, refu&s;ing to ob&s;erue tho&s;e things that conduce to their publike welfare. And others, as Wee are informed, haue Commen|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">, and threatned to Commence diuers Suites, again&s;t the &s;aid Company, and the Gouernours <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Officers thereof, for executing their &s;aid Ordinances, and &s;earching for, taking away, cutting, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">cuing, and de&s;troying, of dead, corrupt, vnwhole&s;ome, and bad Plants, Stocks, Trees, Setts, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">lipps, Flowers, Rootes, Herbes, and Seedes, offered to be &s;old as afore&s;aid, and puni&s;hment of the Offenders, Sellers, and Venders thereof, to the great expences, and di&s;couragement of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">d Company, in the execution of the &s;euerall Powers and Authorities in the &s;aid Charter ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;&s;ed; by meanes whereof, many vnwhole&s;ome and corrupt Plants, Stocks, Trees, Setts, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">lipps, Flowers, Rootes, Herbes, and Seedes, are daily put to &s;ale and vented, to the great de|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">it and abu&s;e of Our people. And likewi&s;e the ingro&s;&s;ing of the Commodities belonging to the Art of Gardning, and buying of whole Croppes vpon the ground is growne frequent, whereby the Prizes of the &s;aid Commodities are greatly enhan&s;ed, and the labour of the Arti&s;t is thereby <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">derualued, to the great preiudice of Our louing Subiects in generall.</P>
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<P>We therefore, at the humble petition of the Ma&s;ter, Wardens, and company of that Societie, taking the &s;ame grieuances into Our Royall con&s;ideration; doe hereby &s;traitly charge and com|mand, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, whether Denizon or Stranger, not hauing &s;erued as Apprenti&s;e or Apprenti&s;es, to a Freeman of the &s;aid Company, by the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares, and not hauing beene by them admitted into their Societie, do henceforth pre&s;ume to take vpon him or them, the Art or Science of Gardening, or doe v&s;e or exerci&s;e, directly or indirectly, any thing to the &s;ame belonging or appertaining, within the limits and compa&s;&s;e afore&s;aid, before he haue &s;o &s;erued, and beene by them admitted, further then for the nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion of his or their owne families: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons henceforth pre&s;ume to offer any di&s;couragement, or op|po&s;ition to the &s;aid Company, for &s;earch by them duely made, or for taking away, cutting, bur|ning, or de&s;troying of any dead, corrupt, vnwhole&s;ome and bad Plants, Stocks, Trees, Setts, Slipps, Flowers, Roots, Herbs, and Seeds of what &s;ort &s;oeuer they be; according to the tenour of the &s;aid Letters Patents: nor that any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, hereafter ingro&s;&s;e the &s;aid Commodities, by buying Cropps vpon the ground, or otherwi&s;e pre&s;ume to &s;ell or put to &s;ale any &s;uch bad and vnwhole&s;ome Plants, Trees, Stocks, or other things afore&s;aid, deceitfully to any of Our louing Subiects, vpon paine of Our indignation, and of &s;uch further puni&s;hments as by the Lawes of Our Realme, or Prerogatiue Royall, can or may be inflicted vpon the offenders.</P>
<P>And We doe hereby further enioyne all and euery Freeman of the &s;aid Societie, re&s;pectiuely and diligently to performe and ob&s;erue, all and euery the Grants, and provi&s;ions in the &s;aid &s;eue|rall Letters Patents conteined: And all other &s;uch lawfull Con&s;titutions and Ordinances, as haue or &s;hall be made by the Ma&s;ter, Wardens, and others of the &s;aid Company, for the better go|uernment and regulating thereof.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e We do hereby require and command the Ma&s;ter and Wardens of the &s;ame Com|pany for the time being, that &s;uch of their Apprenti&s;es as haue duely &s;erued out their &s;euen yeares Apprenti&s;hip, and will be gouerned by their Lawes and Ordinances, that they, for their better encouragement, be made free of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And to the end that the &s;aid Societie may the better vend the Commodities appertaining to their profe&s;&s;ion, whil&s;t they are liuing, fre&s;h, good, and whole&s;ome, and in their prime, to their be&s;t aduantage, and Our Subiects good: Our will and plea&s;ure is, that they &s;hall, and may from time to time, &s;ell the &s;ame in any of Our Markets, without the di&s;turbance or mole&s;tation of any of Our Subiects whom&s;oeuer, as the &s;ea&s;ons for the &s;aid Commodities &s;hall require.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, We doe hereby &s;traitly require and command, the Lord Maior of Our Citie of <HI>London</HI> for the time being, Our Iu&s;tices of peace, and chiefe Officers of the &s;ame Citie, and like|wi&s;e Our Iu&s;tices of Our peace of Our Counties of <HI>Middle&s;ex, Surrey, Kent</HI> and <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and all other Our louing Subiects within the compa&s;&s;e afore&s;aid, to be aiding, helping, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Ma&s;ter, Wardens, and Company in all things, according to the tenour of the &s;aid Letters Pa|tents, and of Our will and plea&s;ure herein declared, as they tender Our di&s;plea&s;ure, and will auoid the penalty of their contempts.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall, </HI> <DATE><HI>this third day of December, in the tenth yeere of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of Iohn Bill. 1634.</P>
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