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<FIGDESC>royal arms of England, circa 1674</FIGDESC>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL &middot; Y &middot; PENSE</P>
<P>&middot; DIEV &middot; ET MON &middot; DROIT</P>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION To Prevent the Exacting of Exce&s;&s;ive Prices of Victuals, and other Nece&s;&s;aries with|in the Verge of His Maje&s;ties Hou&s;hold.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas in Our intended pa&s;&s;ages through, and re&s;idence in divers parts of Our Realm great numbers of Our Subjects mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity frequent tho&s;e places where in Our Royal Per&s;on We &s;hall from time to time be or abide, And it is re|qui&s;ite that competent provi&s;ion be made, that they be not expo&s;ed to the intolerable avarice of Bakers, Brewers, Innholders, Butchers, and Sellers of Victuals, who not contented with rea&s;onable profit in Vttering and Selling of Victuals with|in Our Dominions, and &s;pecially within the Verge of Our Hou&s;hold, will (as We have cau&s;e to doubt if not timely forewarned) unlawfully exact and demand unrea|&s;onable and extreme prices for Victuals, Hor&s;e-meat and other nece&s;&s;aries, above the prices they were &s;old at before Our coming into tho&s;e parts; And for the better colouring thereof pretend &s;carcity, and hide or withdraw from the Markets their Stores of Victuals on purpo&s;e to encrea&s;e the prices: There|fore to prevent &s;uch Exactions by the afore&s;aid Sellers of Victuals towards Our Servants, Train and Suiters attending Our Court, and all Our loving Subjects in or near tho&s;e parts where We &s;hall pa&s;s, or wherein We &s;hall make Our abode, Our will and plea&s;ure is, And by the advice of Our Privy Council We do hereby &s;treightly charge and command, That no manner of per&s;on or per&s;ons now u&s;ing, or which accu&s;tomably have u&s;ed, or &s;hall u&s;e, or of right ought to u&s;e to &s;erve any City, Borough, Town or other place where Our Royal repo&s;e or Re&s;idence &s;hall be, or el&s;ewhere within the Verge of Our Hou&s;hold, either within Liberties or without, with any kind of Corn, Victuals or other nece&s;&s;a|ries, either upon the Market-day or at any other time, &s;hall be any thing the more remi&s;s or &s;lack in bring|ing or &s;elling their provi&s;ion, then they or any of them heretofore have been, nor &s;hall u&s;e any colour or craft either in hiding or laying a&s;ide their Corn, Victuals, Hor&s;e-meat, or any other &s;uch nece&s;&s;aries, whereby the provi&s;ion of the Market may be dimini&s;hed, or We or Our Servants and other Subjects &s;hould not be as well &s;erved, and as plenteou&s;ly furni&s;hed in every behalf as tho&s;e parts may afford. And We do further &s;treightly charge and command all the afore&s;aid Sellers of any manner of Victual, that they &s;ell the &s;ame for a rea&s;onable price, having re&s;pect to the price that &s;uch Victuals are &s;old at in the places adjoyning, &s;o that they take but moderate gains rea&s;onably to be required, according to the di&s;tance of the place from whence the &s;aid Victuals are carried; And al&s;o that they u&s;e no fal&s;e or deceit|ful Weights or Mea&s;ures, but in all things &s;trictly keep the A&s;&s;ize appointed by Law. And if any per|&s;on or per&s;ons, of what E&s;tate or degree &s;oever he or they be, &s;hall offend in any of the premi&s;&s;es, upon Complaint thereof to Vs made, We will not onely cau&s;e the Offenders to be &s;everely puni&s;hed by a &s;pe&eacute;|dy pro&s;ecution in Our Courts of Law belonging to Our Hou&s;hold; But for a further redre&s;s will cau&s;e rea&s;onable prices of all Victuals to be &s;old in tho&s;e parts, to be &s;et and taxed according to the Statute made in the Five and twentieth year of King <HI>Henry</HI> the <HI>8^t^h,</HI> under &s;uch penalties as &s;hall deter all per&s;ons from tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing for the future. And la&s;tly, We do by this Our Royal Proclamation &s;treightly charge and command all Our Officers of Our <HI>Greencloth,</HI> Our Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Our Clerk of the Market, his Deputy or Deputies, Mayors, Bayliffs, Sheriffs, Con&s;tables, and all other Our Offi|cers of Cities, Boroughs, Hundreds, Towns or places within the Verge of Our Hou&s;hold where|&s;oever the &s;ame &s;hall be, as well within Liberties as without, and every of them from time to time when and as often as need &s;hall require, to make diligent inquiry of Corn, Grain, and other Victual that &s;hall be hidden or withdrawn from the Markets with purpo&s;e to encrea&s;e the prices, and of all Ex|tortions, Exactions and unrea&s;onable Enhancing of prices by Sellers of Victuals, and of all unlawful or deceitful Weights and Mea&s;ures; and to u&s;e all lawful ways and means effectually to redre&s;s the &s;ame: And upon complaint by any Party ju&s;tly made, every of them within their re&s;pective Authori|ties &s;hall endeavour Reformation of the &s;aid Abu&s;es, by inflicting &s;evere puni&s;hment upon &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall offend herein, according to Law.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the Nineteenth day of <HI>May,</HI> 1674. in the Six and twentieth year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</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. 1674.</P>
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