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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22150	The Kings Maiesties letters pattents to Sir William Erskin and Iohn Meldrum, for the lighthouse at Winterton	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 8559; ESTC S3832	5,902	3

¶ By the Lords of His Maiesties Priuie Councell WHereas in diuers Ports of this Kingdome the Officers of the said Ports doe exact a certaine pettie duety commonly called Head-money vpon euery Passenger aswell at their going forth as at their entrance into the Kingdome which is now absolutely taken away and abolished by a Treatie some few yeeres since made and concluded betwixt His Maiestie and the most Christian French King that now is both in these His Maiesties Kingdomes as also in the Realme of France and all other Dominions belonging to that Crowne as concerning those of the English and French Nation These shall bee to let you knowe that His Maiestie intending as alwaies hee hath done really to obserue the said Treaty in that and all other Articles therein contained hath giuen strait charge and commandement that no Officer nor other person whomsoeuer shall presume hereafter to exact or demand the said Head-money vpon any Subiects of His good Brother the most Christian French King that shall haue occasion to passe at that Port or any the members thereof either at his going forth or landing but that it may bee free for all such persons of what condition or degree soeuer against whome there shall bee no other particular cause of restraint to passe as aforesaid without the exaction of this or any duetie of the like nature whatsoeuer To which His Maiesties Royall pleasure and expresse commandement Wee doe in his Highnesse name straitly charge and command you and euery of you whome it may concerne to conforme your selues that you doe not henceforth demaund or suffer to be demaunded the said pretended duetie commonly called Head-money nor any thing in the nature or Lieu thereof as you will answere the contrary at your perill and as you will auoid His Maiesties high displeasure Giuen at the Court at Whitehall the fifteenth of March in the fifteenth yeere of His Maiesties Reigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the one and fifty 1617. To all Maiors Portreeues Customers Comptrollers Searchers of Ports and all other His Maiesties Officers whom it may concerne and to euery of them G. Cant. Pembroke Th. Edmonds Fr. Bacon Canc. T. Arundell Tho. Lake T. Suffolke Iames Hay Iul. Caesar Lenox F. Cary. ❧ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Deputies and Assignes of Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie AN. DOM. M.DC.XVII receiue and take the moietie or one halfe thereof according to the true meaning of this our graunt of and from the Marchants and owners of the goods in the Shippes Hoyes Barkes and vessells from time to time according to the quantitie of the goods and Marchandizes wherewith the said Shippes Hoyes Barkes or vessells shall be fraught or laden And that the said persons hereafter named their or either of their Executors Administrators or Assignes substitute or substitutes one or more of them shall or may likewise lawfully demaund receiue and take of euery Shippe Hoye Barke Fisherman or vessell being the Shippe Hoye Barke or vessell of any Aliene Denizen or stranger not being our naturall borne Subiects that shall happen to sayle or passe from Port to Port by or alongst the said North Coast the like dutie of one pennie upon the Tunne in the voyage outward and inward as aforesaid which we will and ordaine for vs our Heyres and Successors shall be collected and taken by the persons hereafter named their Exequetors Administrators Debutis or Assignes at or in the Port Harbour Creeke or Roade within any part of our Dominions where the said Shippes Hoyes Barkes or vessells of any such stranger shall harbor or put in although the same Shippe or vessell shall not there be vnladed or discharged of any the goods or Merchandizes wherewith it shall be fraught or laden And that the same dutie of one pennie vpon the Tunne as aforesaid being once paide and the receipt thereof being testified by those who shall be appoynted to receiue the same the said Masters and owners of Shippes and other vessells as well our naturall borne Subiects as strangers shall be then freed and discharged of and from the payment of the said dutie in euery or any Port or Ports in which the said Shippes or vessells shall or may happen or come in euery or any such voyage as aforesaid KNOVV YEE therefore that wee as well in consideration of the premises as for diuers other good causes and considerations vs hereunto mouing of our speciall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion haue giuen and graunted and by these presents for vs our Heires Successors wee doe giue graunt vnto our trustie welbeloued seruants Sir VViliam Erskin Knight and Iohn Meldrum Esquire their Executors Administrators and Assignes as well in regard of the true faithfull and acceptable seruice by the said Sir William Erskine Iohn Meldrum to vs heeretofore done and as being the first suters vnto vs for the erecting and setting vp of Light-houses at or neer Winterton aforesaide as also for other good causes and considerations vs thereunto mouing free libertie licence power and authoritie that they or any of them shall and may lawfully make builde erect set vp remoue and maintaine or cause to be made builded erected set vp remoued and maintained in all such place and places of the said North Coast within the compasse of two miles of the Towne of Winterton in our County of Norfolke as to them shall seeme most fit needfull and requisite such and so many conuenient Light-howses with continuall Lights to be burning in them during all the night time whereby the said Seafaring men may take notice and be warned of the dangers thereabouts and so be the more able to auoide and escape them and the said ships and vessells may the better ariue come into their Ports and Harbors without perill as to them the said Sir William Erskine and Iohn Meldrum their Executors Administrators and Assignes or any of them shall be thought fit requisite and needfull And for the great continuall charges to be from time to time susteyned borne in about the erecting and maintaining of the said Lights and Light-howses we doe for vs our Heires and Successors will ordaine giue and graunt to the said Sir VVilliam Erskine and Iohn Meldrum their Executors Administrators Deputies and Assignes full power and authoritie that they and euery of them shall and may lawfully demaunde receiue haue and take of and from the Masters and Owners of Shippes Hoyes Barkes Fishermen and other Vessells passing or sayling by or alongst the said North Coast one pennie vppon the Tunne according to the burthen of the same Ships or vessels for euery whole voyage inward outward as aforesaid to be from time to time answered and payd either in such Port or places where the same Ship or Vessell shall be fraught or laden or else in such Port or place where the same Ship or Vessell shall be discharged and vnladen as aforesaid