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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22461	By the King a proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish-dayes, appointed by the law, to be hereafter strictly obserued by all sorts of people.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1628 (1628)	STC 8879; ESTC S122729	4,876	3

any manner of Flesh in the time of Lent or on other dayes now vsually obserued as Fish dayes without a special Licence first obtained from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury in such manner and forme as by the Act of Parliament made in the Fiue and twentieth yeere of King Henry the eight is ordained or from the Bishop of the Diocesse or such other as by the Law made in the Fift yeere of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth is set downe and declared and for such causes as are there expressed haue power to giue Licences in that behalfe and according to Our Lawes in that case prouided which We will and command shall be sparingly granted and in cases of necessity onely And that such Licences and Dispensations bee not suffered to passe the Seale of the Archbishop or Bishop vntill the Rate or Taxe by the sayd Statute payable to Vs be duely answered to our Clerke of the Faculties or to such person or persons as We vnder Our Priuie Seale shall appoynt vpon paine of Our high displeasure and to be proceeded against either according to Our Ecclesiasticall or Temporall Lawes or by Our Atturney Generall in Our Court of Starre-chamber as contemners of Our Royall Commandement and wilfull neglectors of the common vtility of the Kingdome And vpon such further penalties as by the Lawes and Statutes of Our Realme may bee inflicted on those that shall wilfully offend in this kinde And as these Orders are to be executed in Our Citie of London and places neere to the same so it is Our expresse pleasure Commandement That Our Iustices of Peace in all Shires within their Rule and all Maiors Bailifes and chiefe Officers in Townes Corporate or in any Liberties within their precincts shall cause the same to be obserued performed in like maner and that no maner of Toleration Fauour or Conniuencie be vsed by any Iustice of Peace or other Officer contrary to the true meaning of this our Proclamation as both they that shall presume wittingly so to tolerate the offence as also the party himselfe offending will answere the same at their vttermost perils Our Commandement being That Our Lawes in this case shall bee hereafter seuerely executed vpon all Offenders whatsoeuer Further charging and Commaunding the Lord Maior of Our City of London the Iustices of Affise in their seuerall Circuits the Maiors and chiefe Officers of all other Cities Townes Corporate Iustices of Peace Lords of Liberties and all other Officers and Ministers within the seuerall Circuits and places of this Our Realme that they and euery of them in their owne persons for example to others fully obey this Our pleasure and cause and compell the same to be obeyed and executed by others as they will answere the contrary at their vttermost perils And for the due execution of the premisses in all other the Counties Cities and Towns corporate of this Our Realme aswell as in Our Cities of London and Westminster We do hereby straitly charge and command and declare Our will and pleasure to be that all Our Iustices of Peace within the same Counties Cities and Townes corporate aswell within Liberties as without or such or so many of them as Wee shall thereunto specially appoint if for Our better seruice now or hereafter Wee shall see cause to appoint any doe yeerely and euery yeere before Lent cause to come and appeare before them all Inholders Cookes Tauerners Alehouse-keepers Butchers and other Victuallers whatsoeuer and to require and take of them to Our vse seuerall Recognizances with Sureties for obseruation of the premisses viz. The Principals in tenne pounds and their two Sureties in fiue pounds a piece And if they shall refuse or neglect to enter into such Recognizances then the Iustices of Peace of that Countie Citie Towne corporate or Liberty shall suppresse such persons so refusing from victualling any more and shall also cause them foorthwith to become bound by Recognizances with Sureties to Our vse viz. The Principals in twenty pounds and their two Sureties in tenne pounds a piece not to victuall or sell Beere or Ale from thenceforth which if they shall refuse to doe then the said Iustices to commit to prison all such persons so refusing to enter into such Recognizances vntil they shal submit themselues and become bound as aforesaid And further that all such Inholders Cookes Tauerners Alehouse keepers Butchers and other Victuallers as shall not appeare before the said Iustices as aforesaid That they may immediatly send foorth their Warrants to grant Processe against them and euery of them so making default to appeare and answere their contempt at the next generall Sessions of the Peace And further for the more due punishment of Inholders keepers of Ordinary tables Cookes Butchers Victuallers Alehouse-keepers Tauerners and such like who shall forfeit their Recognizances by killing or dressing of Flesh or suffering it to bee eaten in their houses in the Lent time and other Fish-dayes And to the end that the same may be as well taken in due forme of Law as duely certified into Our Exchequer We do will and require the Lord Maior of London and all Iustices of Peace aswell within Liberties as without respectiuely or such of them as We shall thereunto specially appoint as aforesaid That at such times as they shall meete within their seuerall Precincts or Diuisions for the taking of such Recognizances they giue notice to the Clerkes of the Peace or their Deputies or such other Clerkes or their deputies as Wee shall thereunto specially appoint if Wee shall appoint any to attend them for that purpose Of whom Wee will require a strict accompt for the legall taking and returning of the same Recognizances into Our said Exchequer The said Clerkes of the Peace and their Deputies or other Clerkes and their Deputies so to be imployed by Our appointment as aforesayd taking for the making and certifying of the same Recognizances of all Inkeepers Tauerners Cookes and Butchers the Fee of two shillings sixe pence and of all Alehouse-keepers the Fee of twelue pence as hath been heretofore limited to be taken by the Clerkes of the Peace of the seuerall Counties in like cases for euery such Recognizance and no more And lastly for that the Fishmougers vpon the obseruation of the aforesaid Orders may perhaps take occasion thereby to inhance the prices aswell of Fresh as of Sea Fish We doe therefore hereby further charge and command all Fishmongers whatsoeuer That they sell and vtter their Fish at moderate and vsuall rates and prices And that all Iustices of Peace Maiors Bailiffes and other Our Officers aswell within Liberties as without to whom it shall appertaine shall from time to time take such order with the said Fishmongers that Our Subiects bee not grieued by any such inhancement or increase of prices vpon paine of Our high displeasure and such further punishment as may be inflicted vpon them by Our Lawes Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall the fourth day of February in the third yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XXVII