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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 declaring His Maje&s;ties gratious plea&s;ure touching &s;undry Grants, Licences, and Com|mi&s;sions, obtained upon untrue &s;urmi&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas divers Grants, Licences, Priviledges, and Commi&s;sions,</HI> have been procured from His Maje&s;ty, &s;ome under His great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> &amp; &s;ome others under His privy Seal, Signet, or Signe-Manual, upon pretences that the &s;ame would tend to the common good and profit of His Subjects, which &s;ince upon experience have been found prejudiciall and inconvenient to His people, contrary to His Maje&s;ties gratious intention in granting the &s;ame: And whereas al&s;o upon like &s;ugge&s;tions, there hath been obtained from His Maje&s;ty, and the Lords, and others of His Privy Councell, divers Warrants, and Let|ters of A&s;&s;i&s;tance for the execution of tho&s;e Grants, Licences, Priviledges, and Commi&s;&s;ions, according to His Maje&s;ties good intention and meaning therein: For as much as His mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;tie (who&s;e Royall care and providence is ever intentive on the publike good of His people) doth now di&s;cern that the particular Grants, Licences, and Commi&s;&s;ions hereafter expre&s;&s;ed, have been found in con&s;equence far from tho&s;e grounds and rea&s;ons whereupon they were founded, and in their execution have been notoriou&s;ly abu&s;ed, He is now plea&s;ed of His meer grace and favour to all His loving Subjects (with the advice of His Privy Councell) by His Regall power to publi&s;h and declare the &s;everall Commi&s;&s;ions and Licences hereafter following, whether the &s;ame have pa&s;&s;ed His great Seal, Privy Seal, Signet, and Signe-Manuall, or any of them, to be from hence utterly void, revoked, and hereby determined; that is to &s;ay,</P>
<P>A Commi&s;&s;ion touching Cottages and Inmates. A Commi&s;&s;ion touching Scriveners and Brokers. A Commi&s;&s;ion for compounding with offendors touching Tobacco. A Com|mi&s;&s;ion for compounding with offendors for tran&s;porting of Butter. A Commi&s;&s;ion for compounding with offendors in the importing or u&s;ing of Logwood. A Commi&s;&s;ion to com|pound with Sheriffs, and &s;uch as have been Sheriffs, for &s;elling their under-Sheriffs places. A Commi&s;&s;ion for compounding for de&s;truction of Woods in Iron-works. A Com|mi&s;&s;ion for Concealments and Incroachments within twenty miles of <HI>London.</HI> A Licence to tran&s;port Sheep-&s;kins and Lamb-&s;kins. A Commi&s;&s;ion to take men bound to dre&s;&s;e no Veni&s;on, Phe&s;ants, or Partridges in Innes, Alehou&s;es, Ordinaries, and Taverns. A Commi&s;&s;ion touching the licen&s;ing of the u&s;e of Wine-ca&s;k. A Commi&s;&s;ion for licen&s;ing of Brewers. A Licence for the &s;ole tran&s;porting of Lamperns. And that all Proclamations, Warrants, or Letters of a&s;&s;i&s;tance for putting in execution any of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions or Licences, be from henceforth declared to be void, determined, and hereby revoked to all in|tents and purpo&s;es.</P>
<P>And His Maje&s;ty, in like favour and ea&s;e of His Subjects, is further plea&s;ed to declare His Royall will and plea&s;ure to be, That the particular Grants hereafter mentioned (upon fained &s;ugge&s;tions obtained from Him to publike damage) whether the &s;ame have pa&s;&s;ed His Maje&s;ties great Seal, Privy Seal, Signet, or Signe-Manuall, or any of them, &s;hall not hereafter be put in execution, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>A Grant for weighing Hay and Straw in <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and three miles compa&s;&s;e. An Office of Regi&s;ter to the Commi&s;&s;ion for Bankerupts in divers Counties of the Realm. An Office or Grant for gageing of red Herrings. An Office or Grant for the marking of Iron made within the Realm. An Office or Grant for &s;ealing of Bonelace. A Grant for marking and gageing of Butter-ca&s;k. A Grant of Priviledge touching Kelp and Sea-weed. A grant for &s;ealing of Linnen-cloth. A Grant for the gathering of Rags. An Office or Grant of Factory for Scotti&s;h Merchants. An Office or Grant for &s;earching and &s;ealing of forraign Hops. An Office and Grant for the &s;ealing of Buttons. All Grants of Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures before Iudgement, granted, or mentioned to be granted, by Let|ters Patents, Privy Seals, Signet, Signe-Manuall, or otherwi&s;e. All Patents for new inventions, not put in practice within three yeers next after the date of the &s;aid Grants. And the &s;everall Grants of Incorporation made unto Hatband-makers, Gut&s;tring-makers, Spectacle-makers, Comb-makers, Tobaccopipe-makers, Butchers and Horners. And His Maje&s;tie doth further require and command, that there &s;hall be a proceeding again&s;t the &s;aid Patentees by <HI>Quo warranto,</HI> or <HI>Scire facias,</HI> to recall the &s;aid Grants and Patents, unle&s;&s;e they will voluntarily &s;urrender and yeeld up the &s;ame: And al&s;o all Proclamations, War|rants, or Letters of A&s;&s;i&s;tance obtained from His Maje&s;ty, or the Lords, and others of His Privy Councell for execution thereof, from henceforth utterly to cea&s;e and be determined, and are hereby ab&s;olutely revoked and recalled.</P>
<P>And His Maje&s;ty doth further expre&s;ly charge and command, all and &s;ingular the Paten|tees, Grantees, or others any wayes intere&s;&s;ed, or claiming under the aforenamed Grants, Licences, or Commi&s;&s;ions, or any of them, and their Deputies, that they or any of them do not at any time hereafter pre&s;ume to put in Vre or Execution any of the &s;aid Grants, Commi&s;&s;ions, or Licences, or any thing therein contained, or any Proclamations, Warrants, or Letters of A&s;&s;i&s;tance obtained in that behalf, upon pain of His Maje&s;ties indignation, and to be proceeded again&s;t as contemners of His Maje&s;ties Royall commands, whereof He will require a &s;trict account.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Mannor at Yorke, </HI> <DATE><HI>the ninth day of April, in the fifteenth yeer of Our Reign. 1639.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>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. 1639.</P>
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