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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Zeale and great affection, which we haue found in all &s;orts of people</HI> of this our Kingdome towards our Per&s;on, and that Right which we had to the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of this Crowne, hath &s;o many wayes bene expre&s;&s;ed, as we cannot chu&s;e but make it mani|fe&s;t to them all by &s;ome publique declaration, how great a de&s;ire it hath wrought in our heart to &s;hew our gracious acceptation of their deuotion towards vs, when&s;oeuer there &s;hall be offered either occa&s;ion or &s;ubiect, that may concerne their vniuer&s;all good. For though it be true, that our Right was &s;o a&s;&s;ured, that what&s;oeuer te&s;timonie could thereof be vttered, was but the duetie of Subiects, acknowledging that faith and loyalty where|unto by the Lawes of God and Nature they were bound: yet do we confe&s;&s;e, that there is in the true rules of Iu&s;tice from the Soueraigne to the Subiect, a reciprocall office and re&s;pect, which they are bound in honour and con&s;cience to ob&s;erue. The con&s;ideration whereof, hath moued vs to thinke of &s;uch wayes, as for the pre&s;ent did occurre vnto vs, wherein wee might make manife&s;t to our people, how willing we are now, &amp; will be ready hereafter, to be as forward in requiting their loue, as they haue bin in expre&s;&s;ing it. In which con&s;ideration while we were bu&s;ied, we were informed that the Queene our Si&s;ter decea&s;ed, finding &s;ome few yeeres before her death, that &s;ome things had pa&s;&s;ed her hand at the importunitie of her &s;eruants, who~ &s;he was willing to reward with litle burden to her e&s;tate (otherwi&s;e by nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ions exhau&s;ted,) which though they had and might haue foundation in Princely prerogatiue, yet either by too large extending thereof, or for the mo&s;t part in re&s;pect that they were of &s;uch nature, as could hardly be put in v&s;e without hinderance to multitudes of people, or el&s;e committed to inferiour per&s;ons, who in the execution therof did &s;o exceedingly abu&s;e the &s;ame, as they be|came intollerable: Had purpo&s;ed to reuoke all Grants of that nature, and did beginne with &s;ome, which were held mo&s;t vniu&s;t, putting the re&s;t to the examination of her Lawes to &s;tand or fal, as in the con&s;truction of Law they might con&s;i&s;t, or not. We, who though we had neuer had &s;uch an example, were euer oppo&s;ite in our owne nature to any thing that had colour of oppre&s;&s;ion, holde it our part not onely carefully to perfect all her good intentions, but to &s;tudy further by all good meanes, &amp; with all expedition to put in practi&s;e all other cour&s;es whereby a people &s;o louing, &s;o dutifull, and &s;o deare vnto vs, may know and feele that we are as de&s;irous to make them happy by our Iu&s;tice and grace towards them in all rea&s;onable things, as they haue bene ready to increa&s;e our comfort and contentment in yeelding their loyalty and obe|dience towards our e&s;tabli&s;hment in tho&s;e Rights, which vnder God wee doe enioy. Therefore we doe expre&s;ly charge and command all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, That from hencefoorth they vtterly de&s;i&s;t and forbeare to v&s;e or execute any ma|ner of Charter or Graunt made by our late Si&s;ter the Queene decea&s;ed, of any kind of Monopolies, or of any power or Licence to di&s;pence with, or di&s;charge any maner of penall Lawes (except &s;uch Grants onely, as haue bene made to any Corporation or Company of any Art or My&s;terie, or for the maintenance or enlargement of any trade of merchandize) vn|till &s;uch time as the &s;ame Charter or Grant &s;hall be examined &amp; allowed of by vs, with the adui&s;e of our Coun&s;ell, to bee fit to be put in execution, without any preiudice to our louing Subiects. And where heretofore many haue bene greatly preiudiced and delayed in &s;uing for their debts and other dueties by &s;undry kind of Protections, &amp; by pretence of other Pri|uiledges and exemptions: We charge and command, and our expre&s;&s;e wil and plea&s;ure is, That no Protection, Priuiledge or exemption to delay any per&s;ons Suite or Action, &s;hall from hencefoorth be receiued or allowed in any our Courts or els where, which are or &s;hall be contrary or repugnant to the Lawes of this Realme.</P>
<P>And furthermore, we will and command, that no a&s;&s;ignements of Debts or Actions be made vnto vs by any that is, or pretendeth to bee indebted vnto vs, who is otherwi&s;e able and &s;ufficient by him&s;elfe, or by his Sureties, readily to pay the &s;ame Debt, nor any a&s;&s;ignement taken to our v&s;e of any Debt, other the~ &s;uch, as &s;hal then appeare to be a iu&s;t &amp; true Debt. And for that wee are certainely informed of many great di&s;orders and abu&s;es, to the great griefe of our louing Subiects
<PB REF="2"> as well by Salt-petermen and &s;uch as haue or pretend to haue Commi&s;&s;ion and Authoritie to make Salt-peter, as al&s;o by &s;undrie Purueyors and Takers of Carts and other proui&s;ions for our v&s;e and &s;eruice: Therefore wee doe expre&s;ly charge and command, that the &s;aid Salt-petermen, Purueyors &amp; Takers, haue e&s;peciall care to execute their Offices and Autho|rities without any maner of oppre&s;&s;ion, grieuance or wrong to be done to any our louing Subiects. And if they that haue the Commi&s;&s;ions, &s;hall abu&s;e the execution of them contrarie to this our declaration, We are plea&s;ed that &s;uch, as &s;hall be grieued therewith, &s;hall re&s;ort to vs or our Councell with their complaints. And we doe al&s;o giue expre&s;&s;e charge and commandement to all Lawyers, Atturneyes, Officers and Clarkes, of and in any our Courts of Iu&s;tice what&s;oeuer, Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Temporall, that they nor any of them extort or take any vndue or exce&s;&s;iue Fees, but &s;uch onely as are al|lowed to be had or taken in the &s;ame Courts. And to the ende that our plea&s;ure and commaundement may bee duely and effectually performed, and ob&s;erued in the premi&s;&s;es: Wee doe hereby notifie and declare, that who&s;oeuer &s;hall pre|&s;ume to breake or violate in any thing afore&s;ayd our Royall commaundements, they &s;hall thereby incurre our indignati|on and di&s;plea&s;ure, And that vpon complaint and proofe thereof made, we will not faile to proceede to &s;uch &s;euere puni&s;h|ment again&s;t &s;uch offenders according to their demerits, as &s;hall bee fit for &s;o high and contemptuous an offence. The&s;e graces aboue &s;pecified, as we doe pre&s;ently extend to our people, and doe intend others hereafter when we &s;hall vnder&s;tand more particularly wherein wee may yeelde them comfort: So becau&s;e things wel-meant may in the maner of the exe|cution of them be abu&s;ed; and Complaints grounded vpon iu&s;t cau&s;es, may in the crauing of remedy be accompanied with offen&s;iue proceedings, We haue thought good to admoni&s;h our Subiects, that wee doe expect at their hands, that if in the things aboue &s;pecified, or in any other wherwith they &s;hal find them&s;elues grieued (which haue not yet come to our know|ledge) they &s;hall haue cau&s;e to &s;eeke any thing at our hands, they &s;hall forbeare all a&s;&s;embling and flocking together in multitudes, but &s;hall in lawfull and decent maner without numbers, without clamor, or any other kind of di&s;order, re&s;ort to vs or our Councell by way of humble Petition; from whom they &s;hall receiue &s;uch an&s;were, as &s;hall make manife&s;t the zeale we haue to the ob&s;eruation of Iu&s;tice, and maintenance of their welfare, if their Complaints be iu&s;t. And on the o|ther &s;ide, if we &s;hal perceiue that their petitions &s;hal &s;auour of humor, and tend only to &s;launder and calumniation, and in|deed haue no other foundation but &s;uch as often happeneth in bulgar people, vnder pretence of &s;eeking publike redre&s;&s;es to vtter priuate malice: We would haue them vnder&s;tand hereby, that they &s;hall not onely di&s;plea&s;e vs therin, but finde that we hold it no le&s;&s;e the Office of a Prince to Protect their Magi&s;trates and Officers, and all publique per&s;ons in their iu&s;t cau&s;es, then to giue redre&s;&s;e to the vulgar &s;ort, when they haue indeede cau&s;e to complaine, again&s;t all per&s;ons how great &s;oeuer they be in rule or dignitie vnder vs: Re&s;eruing to our &s;elfe the Right iu&s;tly appertaining to our Prerogatiue, for that we would not haue it conceiued, that in doing the&s;e things out of our Grace, we doe intend to renounce tho&s;e an|cient dueties and Priuiledges, which haue de&s;cended vpon vs with the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of our Kingdomes. And for that we are informed, that there hath bene heretofore great neglect in this Kingdome of keeping the Sabbath day: For bet|ter ob&s;eruing of the &s;ame, and auoyding of all impious prophanation of it, wee do &s;traightly charge and commaund, that no Beare-bayting, Bul-bayting, Enterludes, common Playes, or other like di&s;ordered or vnlawful Exerci&s;es or Pa&s;times be frequented, kept or v&s;ed, at any time here after vpon any Sabbath day.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at our Court at Theobalds</HI> <DATE><HI>the 7. day of May, in the fir&s;t 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. Anno 1603.</P>
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