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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>royal arms of England, circa 1669</FIGDESC>
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<P>DIEV &middot; ET &middot; MON &middot; DROIT &middot;</P>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Needles.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty having been Informed by the Ma&s;ter, Wardens and Com|munalty of the Art or My&s;tery of <HI>Needle-makers</HI> of the City of <HI>London,</HI> That great quantities of Foreign Needles are daily Imported into this Kingdom from beyond the Seas, a great part thereof being deceitfully made of Iron-Wire altogether unfit for &s;ervice, and here new marked, papered and packt up, as if they were made in <HI>England,</HI> and Vended and &s;old in <HI>London</HI> and other parts of his Maje&s;ties Dominions; Not onely to the great abu&s;e of the &s;aid Art, and the deceit of his Maje&s;ties Subjects, but al&s;o to the prejudice and impoveri&s;hment of the &s;aid Company; they being by their Charter obliged to make their Needles of Steel, which co&s;ts them more without the Workman&s;hip, then the Imported Needles are &s;old for. His Maje&s;ty therefore, for the encouragement of the &s;aid Society, and pre&s;ervation of &s;o u&s;efull an Art and Native Manufacture, is gra|ciou&s;ly plea&s;ed by this his Royal Proclamation (with the advice of His Privy-Council) &s;traitly to Charge, Pro|hibit and Ordain, That from henceforth no per&s;on or per&s;ons, Natives, Aliens or others, do or &s;hall Import, bring or convey, or cau&s;e to be Imported, brought or conveyed into the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> or Port or Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> from or out of any part or place beyond the Seas, any Needles of what &s;ort or kind &s;oever, by way of Merchandi&s;e, or to be Sold, Bartered or Exchanged: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons that now u&s;eth, or that hereafter &s;hall u&s;e the Trade or occupation of retailing, &s;elling or uttering of Needles, &s;hall at any time hereafter directly or indirectly buy, bargain or contract for, or concerning the Importation of any Needles of what &s;ort or kind &s;oever, made or to be made in any Place beyond the Seas, or utter or &s;ell the &s;ame, upon pain of forfeiting all that by Law is forfeitable, and &s;uch other puni&s;hment as by the Law, or His Maje&s;ties Preroga|tiue Royal may be inflicted upon the contemners of His Royal Authority: And His Maje&s;ty doth further Charge and Command as well the Farmers of His Cu&s;tomes, Controllers, Searchers, Waiters and other Officers of His Ports, as al&s;o the &s;aid Ma&s;ter, Wardens and Communalty by them&s;elves or their Deputies, and all other Officers, and Per&s;ons what&s;oever, to &s;eize and de&s;troy all &s;uch Needles that &s;hall be Imported or Bartered, Sold or Exchan|ged contrary to His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure herein declared, in who&s;e hands &s;oever they &s;hall be found, and to be in all o|ther re&s;pects diligent and careful in and about the preventing the Importation of Foreign Needles, and di&s;covery of the &s;ame; And to cau&s;e the Offenders to be duly puni&s;hed as to Iu&s;tice &s;hall appertain. And al&s;o all Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables and other Officers what&s;oever, to be from time to time ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting in all things requi&s;ite for and touching the ob&s;ervation and execution of this His Maje&s;ties Royal Proclamation, at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the Fifth day of <HI>April,</HI> in the One and Twentieth year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>In the <HI>SAVOY,</HI> Printed by the A&s;signs of <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1669.</P>
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