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<FIGDESC>seal or coat of arms showing the cross of St George on one side and a harp on the other</FIGDESC>
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</FIGURE>&leaf; By the Protector. A PROCLAMATION Of His HIGHNESS (by and with the A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">vice of His Council) for putting in Execution the Laws again&s;t Tran&s;portation of Woolls, Wool-fels, Fullers-Earth, and other things.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas &s;everal Complaints have be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> made unto His Highne&s;s, That great quantities of Woolls, Wool-fels, and Fullers-Ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">h, are daily tran&s;ported out of the Dominions of this Commonwealth into the Parts beyo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Seas, notwith&s;tanding the many good and whole|&s;ome Laws and Statutes heretofor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> made and provided (and yet in force) again&s;t the &s;ame, to the great inhauncing of the Rates <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Prices of tho&s;e Commodities, and the apparent hurt, detriment and prejudice of the State And His Highne&s;s having taken the &s;ame into due con|&s;ideration, and (with the advice of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s Council) weighing the evil con&s;equences thereof, both to the Manufactures of this Nation And al&s;o con&s;idering the prejudice that may happen to the Commonwealth in general, if &s;ome timely cour&s;e be not t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en for preventing the &s;ame: And whereas by &s;everal Acts, Statutes and Ordinances heretofore made, the tran&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ing the &s;ame is prohibited under &s;undry great and &s;evere penalties; and to the intent none may pretend ignorance <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the &s;ame, as al&s;o to quicken His Highne&s;s Officers and Mini&s;ters, and others, to whom the execution of tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">aws, &s;o advantagious and nece&s;&s;ary to the Publique, is intru&s;ted, to do their duties therein, His Highne&s;s (by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d with the advice of His Council) hath thought fit to publi&s;h this His Proclamation, letting all the People <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> this Commonwealth know, That His Highne&s;s &s;hall expect and require a due and exact obedience to the Law<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n that behalf made: And His Highne&s;s likewi&s;e &s;igni|fies His plea&s;ure, That he intends a full and effectual <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;ecution again&s;t all offenders and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors again&s;t the &s;aid Laws, and that the utmo&s;t rigour and extrem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> thereof &s;hall be required, without any hope of mitiga|tion or moderation: And if any extremity &s;hall happen to any one therein, his Highne&s;s &s;hall account it Iu&s;tice,
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<PB REF="2"> having di&s;charged His duty in giving notice. And yet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> a further manife&s;tation of His care, hath thought fit to publi&s;h the effect of the la&s;t Law made for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ame; <HI>(viz.)</HI> That by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, publi&s;hed the Nine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">nth day of <HI>January,</HI> in the year our Lord, One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty &s;even, It is Ordained, That it &s;hall n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e lawfull for any per&s;on or per&s;ons, to lade, &s;hip, or carry in any Ship, Barge, Boat, or other Ve&s;&s;el, or otherwi&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ny Wooll of the growth of <HI>England</HI> or <HI>Ireland,</HI> or the Do|minion of <HI>Wales,</HI> or any Woollen Yarn, Woollen Flox, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ool-fell, Fullers Earth, Clay, Tobacco-pipe-Clay, or any other Earth or Clay which may be u&s;ed in the Art o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Fulling, of intent to tran&s;port or carry the &s;ame into any place or places of the parts beyond the Seas, or into <HI>Sco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">nd,</HI> by Land or by Sea, or to carry the &s;ame to any Ship or other Ve&s;&s;el what&s;oever to be tran&s;ported, upon the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">in of the forfeiture of the &s;aid Woolls, Woollen-yarn, Woollen Flox, Wool-fell, and Earth or Clay &s;o laden, &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, carried or tran&s;ported, and three &s;hillings for every pound of &s;uch Wooll, Yarn, Flox, and Earth or Clay; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d for every pound weight of the &s;aid Earth or Clay three &s;hillings, to be forfeited by the owner or owners thereof; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd al&s;o the owner of the &s;aid &s;hips or ve&s;&s;els, knowing of &s;uch offence, to forfeit all their intere&s;t in the &s;aid &s;hips or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;els, with all their apparel and furniture to them and every of them belonging; and the Ma&s;ter and Mariner<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> knowing of &s;uch offence, to forfeit all their Goods and Chattels, and to have Impri&s;onment by the &s;pace of o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> whole year without Bayl or Mainprize. And it is by the &s;aid Ordinance further Ordained, That if any Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">hant, or any other per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hould tran&s;port, or cau&s;e to be tran&s;ported any of the &s;aid Earth or Clay, Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, Woollen-yarn, or Woollen Flox, or Wool-fells, contrary to the intent of the &s;aid Ordinance, That then he &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e di&s;abled for requiring any Debt or Accompt of any Fa|ctor or others, for or concerning any Debt or E&s;tate, prop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">y belonging to &s;uch Merchant and Offender, to his own u&s;e. And that if any owner of the land where &s;uch Clay <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Earth &s;hould be digged or gotten &s;hould be privy unto, or know of &s;uch Tran&s;portation by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;hould not di&s;cover the &s;ame to &s;ome Iu&s;tice or Iu&s;ti|ces of the Peace, within three moneths of &s;uch his kno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">edge, he &s;hould for every &s;uch offence forfeit Five hun|dred pounds of lawful Money of <HI>England:</HI> And that i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uch Iu&s;tice of Peace to whom &s;uch di&s;covery &s;hould be made, &s;hould not certifie the &s;ame under his Hand and S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">l to the Barons of the Exchequer, or one of them, with|in three Moneths following, he &s;hould for every &s;uch o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">nce forfeit One hundred pounds of like lawful Money. Now to the intent tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors may not be encouraged <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the negligence of Officers and Courts of Iu&s;tice, His Highne&s;s (by and with the advice of his Council) doth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">point, Authorize and Command, as well the Barons of the Exchequer, as the Attorney and Sollicitor-Genera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> That they and every of them do &s;peedily and effectually put in execution the afore&s;aid Ordinance of Parliament and all and every other the Laws and Statutes made again&s;t tran&s;porting Woolls, Wool-fels, and Fullers-E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">th; and that they and every of them do likewi&s;e in their &s;everal places effectually pro&s;ecute all and every &s;uch pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">on and per&s;ons, who&s;e Names have been already brought, or which &s;hall hereafter be brought to them, or any of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">em, and who have offended, or that &s;hall hereafter offend again&s;t the Law, in tran&s;porting Woolls, Wool-fels, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d Fullers-Earth (in Our Courts of Iu&s;tice) and every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o offending, to puni&s;h accordin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> to their and every of their demerits, and according to the true intent and meaning of the &s;everal Statutes, Law<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Ordinances in that ca&s;e made and provided, and of his Highne&s;s Plea&s;ure herein declared. And his High<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;s doth further (by and with the advice of his Council) Will and Require, and &s;traightly Charge and Comman<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Commi&s;&s;ioners, and other Off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cers of the Cu&s;toms in the &s;everal Ports of <HI>England,</HI> and in the Town and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rt of <HI>Barwick,</HI> That they and every of them re&s;pectively in their &s;everal places, do take very good and &s;ufficient <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ecurity, That all Goods carried into <HI>Scotland,</HI> be accord|ingly delivered and landed at &s;ome Port there; and that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uthentique Cert ficates be thereof returned to the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners and other Officers of the Cu&s;toms, within <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll and every the Ports in <HI>England,</HI> out of which the &s;aid
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<PB REF="3"> Goods were exported, before any Bonds be cancelled or delivered up by the Officers of the Cu&s;toms within any of the &s;aid Ports. And further, His Highne&s;s (by and with the advice of his Council) doth Will and Declare, That if &s;uch Certificate and Certificates &s;o to be returned in manner afore&s;aid, be not returned within &s;ix Moneths next en&s;uing the time to be limited in every &s;uch Bond, for the return thereof to the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners and other Officers of the Cu&s;toms in the &s;everal Ports in <HI>England,</HI> out of which the &s;aid Goods were exported as afore&s;aid; That then, and in all &s;uch ca&s;es, the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and other Officers of the Cu&s;toms within the &s;everal Ports of <HI>England,</HI> in who&s;e hands and cu&s;todies &s;uch Bonds &s;hall be, at the expiration of the &s;aid &s;ix Moneths, &s;hall return, or cau&s;e to be returned the &s;aid Bonds, and every of them, into the Court of Exchequer at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> there to be proceeded upon accordingly. And His Highne&s;s doth further (by and with the advice of his Council) &s;traightly Charge and Command the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and other Officers of the Cu&s;toms in the &s;everal Ports of <HI>England,</HI> and in the Town and Port of <HI>Barwick,</HI> That they, and every of them, by them&s;elves, their Servants, or Agents, do hereafter u&s;e their utmo&s;t care and diligence, to hinder and prevent the exportation of Woolls, Wool-fels, and Fullers-Earth, under any colour, pretence or means what&s;oever; And that the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and other Of|ficers of the Cu&s;toms within the &s;everal Ports of <HI>England,</HI> and in the Town and Port of <HI>Barwick,</HI> by them&s;elves, their Agents or Servants, do enter into all and every Ship, Barque, Hoy, and other Ve&s;&s;el, wherein &s;u&s;picion &s;hall be of any Wooll, Wool-fels, or Fullers-Earth, and therein to make &s;earch for all &s;uch Wooll, Wool-fels, or Fullers-Earth there concealed, and the &s;ame being found, to take and &s;eize for his Highne&s;s u&s;e, as forfeited, and &s;hall return the Names of all and every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons from time to time &s;o offending, unto the Barons of the Exchequer, or the Attorney or Sollicitor-General, to the end they may be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed according to their demerits, and the true intent and meaning of the Laws and Statutes in that behalf made, and of his Highne&s;s Will and Plea&s;ure herein declared, And his Highne&s;s doth further &s;traightly Charge and Com|mand all Mayors, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and other Officers and Mini&s;ters within the &s;everal Ports, Cities and Towns Corporate, and other places within <HI>England,</HI> and al&s;o within the Town and Port of <HI>Barwick,</HI> That they and every of them in their re&s;pective places, be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the Commi&s;&s;io|ners, and other Officers of the Cu&s;toms within the &s;everal Ports of <HI>England,</HI> and in the Town and Port of <HI>Bar|wick,</HI> in the &s;earching out and &s;eizing of all &s;uch Wooll, Wool-fels, and Fullers-earth &s;o concealed as afore&s;aid, and in the due execution of all and every the premi&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at VVhitehall</HI>
<DATE><HI>the Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty &s;ix.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to His Highne&s;s, 1656.</P>
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