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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<P>_ALthough we haue made it knowen by publike Edict, That at our en|trance into the&s;e our Kingdomes of England and Ireland, we &s;tood, as &s;till wee doe, in good amitie and friend&s;hip with all the Princes of Chri&s;tendome, and therefore are carefully to prouide, as much as in vs lyeth, that none of them or their Subiects &s;hould by any ho&s;tile ac|tion be endamaged in their Per&s;ons, Territories, or Goods by any of our Subiects either by Land or Sea: Yet we are not ignorant, that our late deare &s;i&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;ions to di|uers of her, and our now Subiects, to &s;et out and furni&s;h to Sea, at their charges, diuers &s;hips warlikly 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 Licences 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;poyle of the publike enemy of this State at that time, and in maintenance &amp; 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 Ships warlikly appointed, to their exceeding charge, vpon confidence to enioy what goods &s;oeuer they &s;hould take during the &s;aid Voyage, belonging to the King of Spaine, or to any of his Subiects, according to the tenour of their &s;euerall Commi&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P>And whereas diuers of them, &s;ithens 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;aide Commi&s;&s;ions, diuers Ships and goods belonging to the Subiects of the King of Spaine, not knowing of any alteration or di&s;continuance of the former Warre betweene Spaine and Eng|land, and thereby are like to bee extreamely hindred, or rather many of them vndone (being a great number of our good and &s;eruiceable Subiects) if they may not bee &s;uffered to enioy &s;uch Goods as they haue &s;o taken, before any notice giuen vnto them of the di&s;continuance of the &s;aid late warre: Wee in our Princely condition, hauing (aboue all things) tender care of the good e&s;tate of our louing and dutifull Subiects, and willing to giue encouragement to all others hereafter, in time of our Warres, to &s;hewe like forwardne&s;&s;e in venturing their liues and goods for the weakning of the publique enemy, 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, any Shippes 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
<PB REF="2">and twentieth day of Aprill la&s;t (which time wee limit vnto all men of warre at Sea as a &s;uffi|cient &s;pace, within which they might haue taken knowledge of the di&s;continuance of the &s;aid Warre) thereby taken any Ships, or Goods belonging to any the Subiects of the King of Spaine, and are already returned into any of our Dominions, &s;hall quietly enioy the &s;ayde Shippes and goods taken as afore&s;ayd.</P>
<P>And further our will and plea&s;ure is, That what&s;oeuer &s;hippes or goods belonging to any Subiect of the &s;aid king of Spaine, hath beene or &s;hall bee taken at Sea, or land by any of our Subiects by colour of any Commi&s;&s;ion what&s;oeuer, after the &s;aid foure and twentieth day of A|prill la&s;t: The &s;ame &s;hall be foorth with &s;eque&s;tred from the Takers, to the v&s;e of the true Pro|prietaries, and re&s;tored vnto them vpon the fir&s;t claimes and proofes of their propertie, without any long or chargeable &s;uite of Law.</P>
<P>And we further will and command, That all &s;uch our men of warre, as be now at Sea, ha|uing no &s;ufficient Commi&s;&s;ion as afore&s;aid, and haue taken, or &s;hal go to Sea hereafter, and &s;hal take any the &s;hips, or goods of any &s;ubiect of any Princes in league, or amitie with vs, &s;hall bee reputed and taken as Pirates, and both they and all their acce&s;&s;aries, maintainers, comfor|ters, abbettors, and partakers &s;hall &s;uffer death as Pirates, and acce&s;&s;aries to piracie, with confi&s;cation of all their landes, and goodes, according to the ancient lawes of this Realme. Commaunding all our officers of the Admiralty to &s;ee our commaundement &s;euerely executed, and commanding al 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 Admiralty, for the better execution of our &s;ayde commaundement, 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 June, in the first yeere of our Reigne of England, France, and Jreland, And in the &s;ixe and thirtieth of Scotland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie. Anno Dom. 1603.</P>
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