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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>&leaf; By the King.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation again&s;t frauds and de|ceits v&s;ed in Draperie, and for di&s;couerie and preuenting of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>_NOtwith&s;tanding the many good and whole&s;ome Lawes, and Statutes, made and prouided for the true making of Cloth, of late times many and great abu&s;es haue crept into that Manufacture: for remedie whereof, His Maie&s;tie did by his Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> bearing date the fourteenth day of <HI>De|cember,</HI> in the &s;ixth yeere of His Reigne, directed vnto Commi&s;&s;io|ners therein named, appoint them to call vpon the Iu&s;tices of Peace, and other head Officers within the Counties of <HI>Wilts', Glou|ce&s;ter, Somer&s;et,</HI> and <HI>Oxon',</HI> and to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in the performance of the &s;euerall tru&s;ts in them by the Statutes concerning Draperie repo&s;ed, which Commi&s;&s;ion hath beene in executing by the &s;pace of two yeeres pa&s;t. And it appeareth by the account thereof giuen to His Highne&s;&s;e, and His Priuy Councell, that by rea&s;on of &s;ome doubts made concerning &s;ome points, &amp; clau|&s;es of the &s;aid Statutes, (as they are by &s;ome interpreted) the &s;ame &s;eeme to be deficient for the effectuall reformation of Clothing. His Maie&s;tie intending, that the Cloth of this kingdome may regaine its ancient reputation beyond the Seas, whereby it may be the more readily re|ceiued and vented in tho&s;e parts, which cannot bee &s;o well done, as by the true working and making thereof; Hath by the aduice of His Priuie Councell, re&s;olued to renew His &s;aid Com|mi&s;&s;ion, with &s;upply of &s;uch defects as are found therein, and by iu&s;t and equall ordinances and con&s;titutions, to &s;upply &s;ome defects and omi&s;&s;ions in the &s;aid Statutes, to preuent frauds and deceits v&s;ed in Drapery; which in time, if preuention be not made, may bring di&s;e&s;teeme
<PB N="2" REF="2">vpon the Clothes of this Realme, and decay of Draperie, by which a great number of His Maie|&s;ties people haue their liuelihood, which by His Regall power He commandeth to be duly ob&s;er|ued vntill the end of the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of the next Parliament: And then vpon triall of their effects to be made into a Statute law, as hath heretofore in the like ca&s;e beene v&s;ed and done, or other|wi&s;e altered, as &s;hall be then found conuenient.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t therefore His Highne&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is, that no Woolls be boyled with Galles, vn|le&s;&s;e they be fir&s;t made blue with woad or Indico, according as the &s;adne&s;&s;e of the colour intended to be made will beare in blue. And that &s;uch as after the fir&s;t day of Augu&s;t next &s;hall &s;pinne any yearne to &s;el in the market, or for the Cloth-maker in any of the Counties of <HI>Oxon' Wilts' Glouce&s;t'</HI> &amp; the county of the Citie of <HI>Glouce&s;t'</HI> or the Ea&s;terne limits of the County of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> &s;hall make the &s;ame in &s;keynes vpon reeles that &s;hall be all of a&s;&s;ize, &s;o as euery reele &s;hall be of two yardes, or one yard, and of no other a&s;&s;ize, and &s;hall be of equall widenes in all the parts thereof where the yearne &s;hall bee reeled. And that euery Weauer &s;hall to euery Cloth that hee &s;hall weaue, &s;et the fir&s;t two letters of his name of Bapti&s;me and Surname, or at the lea&s;t the fir&s;t letter of his Sur|name, and no other marke, And that the Weauer &s;hal redeliuer vnto the Clothier, the thrummes, knots and ends, &amp; all yearne not wouen into the Cloth, and the Clothier &s;hall take in the &s;ame thrummes ends and knots, at &s;uch price as others will giue for the &s;ame, becau&s;e vnder colour of buying thrummes and &s;uch like of the Weauer, the Clothier is robbed of much yearne. And whereas Tuckers and Clothiers doe now v&s;e &s;tone weights for weighing of their Cloth, which being of no certaine contents, becau&s;e they cannot bee &s;ealed, cau&s;e much deceit, His Highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure is, and Hee doth hereby command all Tuckers and Clothiers what&s;oeuer, where any Cloth is to bee &s;ealed, That they and euery of them before the foure and twentieth day of Iune next, prouide leaden weights, or bra&s;&s;e weights of <HI>Auers du poys</HI> lawfully &s;ealed, and that the Clothiers, Searchers and Ouer&s;eers v&s;e tho&s;e and no other in weighing any Cloth.</P>
<P>And Whereas in diuers places where coloured clothes are milled and dre&s;&s;ed, there bee &s;undry Rackes or Tenters v&s;ed with the lower Barre, which is lawfull to bee v&s;ed for coloured and dre&s;&s;ed Clothes, vnder colour whereof the white Clothes are al&s;o often &s;trained with the lower barre, contrary to the Statute made in this behalfe in the three and fourtieth yeere of the raigne of the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> For the auoyding of this abu&s;e, His Highne&s;&s;e Commandeth that there &s;hall bee no White Cloth hanged vpon any Racke or Tenter that hath two Barres, al|though it hang but by one Li&s;t onely, but that all White Clothes &s;hall bee hanged vpon &s;uch Tenters as haue but one Barre, to wit, aboue, and no lower Barre.</P>
<P>And whereas by the Statute made in the fift and &s;ixt yeeres of the Reigne of the late King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the &s;ixth, the v&s;e of Gigmills is forbidden vnder a great penaltie, and yet of late time the &s;ame Milles are v&s;ed vnder the name of Mo&s;ingmills, wherein the Cloth being &s;tretched, is wrought with the Teazell in the Mill, vpon colour and pretence that they being well v&s;ed may be commodious for Clothing: It is His Highne&s;&s;e Plea&s;ure and expre&s;&s;e Commandement, That fora&s;much as the danger of the abu&s;e is farre greater then the benefit of &s;uch toleration can bee; All Mo&s;ingmills and Mills by which Clothes may be wrought with the Teazell, of what name &s;oeuer, &s;hall bee taken downe before Mid&s;ommer next, and none other erected or v&s;ed after that
<PB N="3" REF="3">time. And whereas there is great abu&s;e found to bee practi&s;ed in the Markes of the Clothiers, &s;ome that make wor&s;e Cloth v&s;ing the Markes of others that make be&s;t, or making of &s;o &s;light a difference from it, as the buyer cannot ea&s;ily di&s;cerne it: His Highne&s;&s;e willeth and comman|deth, that euery Clothier &s;hall haue one &s;euerall marke for his Cloth, and &s;hall v&s;e that one marke onelie for all the time of his Clothing, without altering or changing the &s;ame, and no man &s;hall giue the &s;ame marke which another v&s;eth, though with addition or difference or change of the colour: And where at pre&s;ent &s;euerall men v&s;e the &s;ame marke, &s;uch of them as haue longe&s;t v&s;ed the &s;ame &s;hall continue the v&s;e thereof, and the others &s;hall betake them&s;elues to the v&s;e of new markes not v&s;ed by others: And whereas diuers Statutes made before the fourth yeere of the Reigne of the late King <HI>Iames</HI> His Maie&s;ties father of ble&s;&s;ed memory, touching the length breadth and weight of Clothes, are repealed by a Statute made in the &s;aid fourth yeere, and therein is declared what length, breadth and weight the Clothes of &s;euerall Counties &s;hall con|teine, His Maie&s;tie commandeth that euery Searcher to each Cloth that he &s;hal &s;earch &s;hall affixe at either end of the Cloth a &s;eale of lead, wherein &s;hall bee truely and plainely expre&s;&s;ed the length and breadth of the &s;ame Cloth mea&s;ured wett out of the water after the full milling thereof, together with the iu&s;t weight thereof being fully and home dried, and the name of Bapti&s;me and Sirname of the Searcher at large and legibly &s;tamped, and after &s;uch &s;eale &s;o affixed, the &s;ame Cloth &s;hall not bee eft&s;oones put into the mill, or thickned, and that before &s;uch time as the Sear|cher puts on his &s;eale the Clothier that makes the Cloth &s;hall &s;et on his &s;eale, expre&s;&s;ing a&s;well the breadth, as the length and weight in manner afore&s;aid, and put on the word <HI>Faultie,</HI> if there be cau&s;e: And that the Searcher &s;hall put on but two &s;eales vpon a Cloth, whereof one to be at each end of the Cloth, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And His Highne&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is, and he doth hereby command, that the &s;earching and &s;ealing of Clothes for their length, breadth and weight and &s;ealing the word <HI>Faultie,</HI> where there is cau&s;e, &s;hall bee now wholly done by the Clothier, Searcher and ouer&s;eer of the Cloth, which was by the Statutes anciently done by the Clothier and Aulnager: And whereas the Lawes then made, did require vpon great penalties, that no Cloth &s;hould be folded or tacked by the workeman, nor bee offered to Sale, nor be Tran&s;ported by the Merchant, before the Aulnage &s;eale was thereunto affixed.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;ties expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is, that from henceforth no workeman &s;hall pre&s;ume to fold or tacke together any Cloth, That no Cloth be by any offered to Sale, nor be Tran&s;ported by any Merchant or other per&s;on what&s;oeuer, before the &s;eale of the Ouer&s;eers or Searchers be thereunto affixed, And that all White Clothes which &s;hall not bee &s;o &s;ealed, where&s;oeuer the &s;ame &s;hall bee found, His Highne&s;&s;e willeth that His Commi&s;&s;ioners appointed in that behalfe, &s;hall Arre&s;t, and Seize, and bring the &s;ame to Triall, but no Fee &s;hall bee taken for doing therof: And for that the Searcher and Ouer&s;eer are at great labour and charge, And by the ancient Statutes there was two pence vpon a Cloth allowed by the Clothier to the Searcher, for Clothes &s;earched, in any Citie, Borough or Towne Corporate, which allowance yet continu|eth in the Citie of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> It is now thought fit by His Maie&s;tie, that in regard of the farre grea|ter labour and charge impo&s;ed on the Searcher and Ouer&s;eer, then anciently hath beene,</P>
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<P>And His Highne&s;&s;e willeth and commandeth, that the &s;ame allowance of two pence vpon the Cloth &s;earched and Regi&s;tred &s;hall bee made by the Clothier vnto the Searcher, or Ouer&s;eer, where&s;oeuer the Cloth &s;hall bee &s;earched, as well within the Corporations as without: And if any Clothier dwelling out of a Citie, Borough, or Towne Corporate &s;hall refu&s;e to make this allowance, then his Cloth &s;hall not bee &s;earched nor &s;ealed by the Searcher or Ouer&s;eer of that place, till it bee brought to &s;ome Citie, Borough, or Towne Corporate. And His Maie&s;tie al&s;o willeth and ordaineth that euery Searcher &s;hall keepe a Booke, and therein cau&s;e to be written a remembrance of euery Cloth &s;earched by him, with the name of the owner of the cloth, the con|tents and weight thereof, and the time of &s;earching, to the end the Aulnager may be truely an|&s;wered the duty of Aulnage and Sub&s;idie vpon euery Cloth he al&s;o &s;hall put on his &s;eale to euery Cloth made within the Counties afore&s;aid, or any of them, But the Cloth &s;hall not bee &s;ealed by the Aulnager before the Clothier and Searcher, or Ouer&s;eer, &s;hall fir&s;t haue &s;et on their &s;eales in forme afore&s;aid; neither &s;hall the Aulnager re&s;earch the Cloth &s;ealed as afore&s;aid, it being prohi|bited by the Law. And whereas it is by the Statutes now in force ordained, that the word <HI>Faulty</HI> &s;hall be &s;tamped vpon the &s;eale of the Clothier, Searcher, and Ouer&s;eer, to &s;ignifie that the Cloth is wa&s;ted in the Mill or Squally, Bandy, Rowye, Holely, and the like; but the Searchers and Ouer&s;eers v&s;e to &s;tampe this word <HI>Faulty</HI> to the mo&s;t Clothes: yea, euen to &s;uch as haue none of tho&s;e faults, whereby they hope to bee out of danger if they erre wittingly or neg|ligently in the &s;tamping of the length, weight, or breadth: And when tho&s;e clothes are offered to &s;ale in the parts beyond the Sea, and al&s;o within the Realme, they are often refu&s;ed, which hath cau&s;ed &s;undry Merchants of Cloth to take the Seales from the Clothes to which they were affixed.</P>
<P>Therefore it is His Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure and commandement, that from hencefoorth the &s;ayd word <HI>Faultie,</HI> &s;hall not be &s;tamped neither by the Clothier, nor by the Searcher or Ouer&s;eer, for that the Cloth holds not his due content in length, breadth, or weight, but onely when it is fal&s;e made, wa&s;ted in the Mill, Squally, Bandy, Rowy, Holely, or the like. And none of His Ma|ie&s;ties Subiects that &s;hall bee po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of any &s;uch Clothes &s;ealed, (that &s;hall &s;ell the &s;ame againe on this &s;ide or beyond the Sea) &s;hall take any Seale from the Cloth.</P>
<P>And His Maie&s;tie doth al&s;o hereby will and ordaine, that all &s;uch white <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> Clothes and others of the like making, as &s;hall be milled in <HI>Glouce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> &s;hall not bee &s;tamped, nor reputed narrow, if they be found to be &s;ixe Quarters and halfe a Quarter of a Yard in breadth, cleane Cloth within the Li&s;ts, as is now allowed at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and well accepted by the Forreigne Merchants that buy vp this kinde of Cloth, but that &s;uch Clothes may be freely put to Sale, Any Statute heretofore made to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>And for the better execution of this His Highne&s;&s;e Proclamation, His Highne&s;&s;e doeth hereby require and command the Iu&s;tices of Peace within the &s;aid &s;euerall Counties, that they doe their be&s;t endeauours, to &s;ee that as well the&s;e Ordinances, as the Lawes and Statutes (the Premi&s;&s;es concerning not contrary to the &s;ame) bee duely ob&s;erued and kept: Of all which His Maie&s;tie intendeth to require a particular account, And therefore commandeth the &s;ame to be duely executed and &s;trictly ob&s;erued by all per&s;ons, whom by their Offices or places it &s;hall
<PB REF="5">conterne, vpon &s;uch paines and penalties, as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme, or by his Maie&s;ties Prerogatiue Royall, and &s;uch puni&s;hments in His high Court of Starre-cham|ber, or el&s;ewhere, as can or may bee inflicted vpon contemners and violaters of His Royall plea|&s;ure and commands, Requiring and commanding all His Maie&s;ties Iu&s;tices, Iudges, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bailiffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, and other head Officers, that they diligently attend the execution of His Highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure before declared, and be aiding, helping and a&s;|&s;i&s;ting to His Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners a&s;&s;igned, and to bee a&s;&s;igned, to take care of the execution of this Proclamation, or the Lawes and Statutes concerning Clothing, and their deputies, and to the Searchers and Ouer&s;eers in their &s;euerall places, as need &s;hall require; Comman|ding al&s;o the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners that they certifie Our Attourney generall for the time being, of the Offenders, and of the qualities and natures of their Offences, whereby Our &s;aid At|tourney may proceed again&s;t them according to their demerits, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their vtmo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter: <DATE>The &s;ixteenth day of April, in the ninth yeere of the Reigne of our Souereigne Lord CHARLES by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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