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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<BYLINE>By the King.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For the more &s;peedy bringing in of Seamen and Mariners.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_FOr the better Supply of His Maje&s;ties Fleet with &s;uch a Number of Seamen and Mari|ners as &s;hall be found nece&s;&s;ary to its full complement, and for prevention of &s;uch unlaw|ful practices as are daily u&s;ed for Concealing of Per&s;ons of that Calling and Condition from the Pre&s;s that is gone out for His Maje&s;ties Service; His Maje&s;ty by advice of His Privy Council hath thought fit to Declare His Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, That all Pro|tections what&s;oever heretofore granted, whereby the Seamen or Mariners &s;erving in any Merchants Ship, or in the Ship of any Privateer, are exempted, or may pretend to be ex|empted from being Pre&s;t and taken into the Service of His Maje&s;ties Fleet, &s;hall cea&s;e, and are hereby ab|&s;olutely determined and recalled. Neverthele&s;s, it &s;hall and may be lawful to, and for any Merchants Ship, or Ships belonging to any Privateer, to be Navigated by &s;uch Forreign Seamen and Mariners as they can procure, without having any &s;uch Forreign Seamen or Mariner taken from them by His Maje&s;ties Offi|cers, upon any pretence what&s;oever; But all Seamen and Mariners who are His Maje&s;ties Natu|ral born Subjects, and &s;hall be found in any &s;uch Ships, &s;hall and may be taken from thence by His Ma|je&s;ties Officers, and di&s;po&s;ed of in His Maje&s;ties Fleet, any former Protection, Priviledge, or Exemption to the contrary notwith&s;tanding. And all Merchants Ships and Privateers not Navigated with Forreigners, as afore&s;aid, are hereby re&s;trained from going to Sea. And becau&s;e divers Seamen and Mariners pretend to render them&s;elves to His Maje&s;ties Service, by going on board &s;everal of His Maje&s;ties Ships, and there procure a Pa&s;s or Ticket from the Chief Officers of &s;uch Ships, licen&s;ing them to go and continue on &s;hoar for a few days upon their private occa&s;ions, and when by pretence of &s;uch Pa&s;&s;es or Tickets they have e&s;ca|ped the Pre&s;s, withdraw them&s;elves, and do not return to His Maje&s;ties Ships at the time appointed; Therefore His Maje&s;ty doth Declare, that no &s;uch Pa&s;s or Ticket &s;hall be allowed or admitted, to excu&s;e any Seaman or Mariner from being Pre&s;&s;ed into the Service of His Maje&s;ties Fleet, unle&s;s &s;uch Seaman or Mariner producing &s;uch Pa&s;s or Ticket, &s;hall be found in the Company of, and be owned by &s;ome Offi|cer of the Ship, to which the &s;aid Pa&s;s or Ticket expre&s;&s;es him to belong, who will be re&s;pon&s;able for his forth-coming. And to the end that no Inn-keeper, Alehou&s;e-keeper, Victualler, or Owners of private Hou&s;es, may pre&s;ume to Harbour or Conceal any Seamen or Mariners, in a time when their Service is of &s;o much importance to His Maje&s;ty, and all His Dominions; His Maje&s;ty doth expre&s;ly Charge and Command all manner of Per&s;ons, having any Lodgers in their Hou&s;e of that Calling or Condition, That they forthwith di&s;cover them to &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Officers, that they may be &s;eized and &s;ecured for His Maje&s;ties &s;er|vice. And if any &s;uch Inn-keeper; Victualler; or other per&s;on, receiving of Lodgers, &s;hall be found to have wilfully harboured or concealed any Seaman or Mariner, Then the Per&s;on &s;o concealing, &s;hall either &s;uffer the utmo&s;t penalties of Law, for &s;uch his contempt; or, if it &s;hall be found more expedient for His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, &s;hall him&s;elf be Pre&s;&s;ed to &s;erve in His Maje&s;ties Fleet, in &s;tead of the Per&s;on &s;o by him Concealed: And moreover, the Seaman or Mariner &s;o withdrawing and Concealing him&s;elf, &s;hall, when di&s;covered, be grievou&s;ly puni&s;hed, and &s;uffer the utmo&s;t &s;everity of the Law.</P>
<P>And that His Maje&s;ties Service in the&s;e and all other occa&s;ions relating to His Maje&s;ties Fleet, may be the better carried on; His Maje&s;ty doth hereby Require the Ma&s;ters, and all other Officers and Bre|thren of the <HI>Trinity Hou&s;e,</HI> That they be from time to time Aiding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Navy, and Obedient to &s;uch Directions as they &s;hall receive from them. And moreover, His Maje&s;ty doth Require all Lord-Lieutenants, Deputy-Lieutenants, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, and all other His loving Subjects what&s;oever, That they be Aiding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting to all and every the Pre&s;s-Ma&s;ters to be Employed on this Service, and that they take care in their &s;everal Places and Cal|lings, That His Maje&s;ties Service be effectually performed in the Impre&s;ting of all Seamen, Mariners, Shipwrights, and Caulkers upon this occa&s;ion, and &s;uch onely, and that the &s;ame be of Strong and Able Bodies, fit for His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ent Service: And for their better Incouragement, and the better per|formance hereof, His Maje&s;ty hath Commanded, and doth hereby Authorize and Command the Principal Officers and Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Navy, That they do from time to time defray all &s;uch Co&s;ts and Char|ges, as &s;hall by them be thought requi&s;ite to be laid out by them&s;elves or others in Impre&s;ting, or Con|ducting to the Fleet, the &s;aid Seamen, Mariners, Shipwrights, and Caulkers, and &s;uch onely, for His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ent Service, or in the Carrying and Conducting of the men &s;o Pre&s;t, unto the &s;aid Principal Officers and Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Navy, and that immediately upon the pre&s;enting of them un|to the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Navy, and without further delay. And His Maje&s;ty Commands all His Subjects whom it doth or may concern, That they &s;ee His Maje&s;ties Plea&s;ure herein before Declared, to be exactly obeyed, and in all things to be performed and fulfilled, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their ut|mo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the 10^t^h day of <HI>April</HI> 1672. In the 24^t^h year of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>In the <HI>SAVOY,</HI> Printed by the A&s;&s;igns of <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1672.</P>
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