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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22396	By the King a proclamation to declare that all ships carying corne or other victuals or any munition of warre to or for the King of Spaine or any of his subiects shall be and ought to be esteemed as lawfull prize.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1625 (1625)	STC 8813; ESTC S122687	2,510	2

HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT C R ❧ By the King ¶ A Proclamation to declare that all Ships carying Corne or other Victuals or any Munition of Warre to or for the King of Spaine or any of his Subiects shall be and ought to be esteemed as lawfull Prize FOrasmuch as the many iniuries and indignities obtruded vpon the Kings most excellent Maiestie and his most deare and onely sister and her children and His royall father of euer blessed memory deceased by the King of Spaine vnder colour of treaties and alliances the many violences offered by him to diuers of His Maiesties Subiects in taking slaying and ransoming diuers of them in a hostile manner whilest they intended onely their Marchandise at Sea The king of Spaines restlesse ambition to aspire to an vniuersall Monarchie discouered to the whole world to the disquieting of that peace which other Princes and States his neighbours would gladly rest in and inioy Haue out of an vnauoidable necessitie drawne His most excellent Maiestie to take vp Armes against the said King for the defence of Himselfe His Dominions and Subiects and of other Princes and States His Confederates and Allies there being none other safe meanes for the obtaining of an assured Peace to Himselfe and His Subiects and to His Confederates and Allies which His Highnesse shall be euer most ready to imbrace when with safety and honour it may be had His maiestie in His Princely wisedome and prouidence foreseeing that whilest the said King of Spaine continueth in these termes and courses of Hostilitie it is neither agreeable with the rules of policie or Law of nations to permit the said King or his subiects to be furnished and supplied with Corne Victuals Armes or prouision for his Shipping Nauie or Armes if the same can be preuented For although these violent hostilities of the said King of Spaine to the trouble of a great part of the Christian Dominions are mightily maintained by the abundance of his treasure from the Indies wherein he trusteth and with the opinion whereof he is puffed vp Yet it is manifest that to maintaine his Armes and renew his Shipping his moneys in their proper nature would not suffice if he were not continually supplied with Corne other Victuals and furnished with Munition and materials for Armes and Shipping from forreigne countreis whereof neither his Indies nor Spaine nor any other part of his owne Dominions are able to serue but the same are knowen to bee brought into Spaine Portugall Burgundie and other his countreys from other forreigne parts not in his owne subiection and that especially from the Hans-townes and Merchants of the North East Countreys who for the desire of gaine are contented to furnish the said King though to their owne extreame hazzard and preiudice of their neighbours with all things requisite to maintaine his vniust Warres For this cause His Maiesty being amongst other Princes and States herein principally interessed for the defence of Himselfe His Countreys and Subiects against the said King of Spaines great preparations of his Nauies and Armies by Sea and by Land and His Maiesty being perswaded that if such his prouisions for hostility to be brought vnto him by Sea from forreigne parts might be stayed or interrupted vntill the said King might bee disposed to liue in peace His Maiestie might the sooner forbeare to continue His charge in maintaining His forces both by Sea and Land which Hee is now constrained yeerely to renew onely for the iust defence of himselfe and His Dominions and of His Confederats and Allyes Doth by these presents by the aduice of His Priuie Counsel notifie to all maner of persons of all conditions that shal send or cary into Spaine Portugal Burgundy or any other the said King of Spaines Countreys or Dominions any maner of Graine or other Victuals or any manner of Prouisions to serue to build furnish or Arme any Ships of Warre or any kind of Munition for the Warre or Materials for the same being not of the nature of meere Merchandize that as it is lawfull for His Maiestie being a Monarch and Prince Souereigne and as other Kings in like cases haue alwayes vsed to doe Hee will not onely authorize His owne Admirals and Captaines of His owne Ships of Warre seruing on the Seas but will also allow and approoue all other His Subiects to Arme their Ships at their will and with them to impeach and arrest all Ships that shall Saile either out of the East parts or out of the Low-Countreys or from any other Parts with intention to passe to Spaine Portugal Burgundy or any other the King of Spaines Countreys or Dominions or to any the said King of Spaines Ships being on the Seas hauing on Board any such Graine Victuall or prouisions of Warre or Furniture for shipping or Materials for the same and the same to bring into the next good Port there to bee ordered as Goods duely forfeited for the benefit of His Maiestie where His Maiesties Shippes shall arrest the same and to the benefit of such others as being not in his Maiesties Wages shall by their trauaile and aduenture haue stayed and arrested such Ships and Goods prohibited Prouided that all others besides the Captaines of His Maiesties owne Ships that shall be disposed to Arme their Ships for this purpose shall first notifie their intent to the Lord high Admirall of England making declaration of their condition of their maner of shipping of the Furniture thereof of the number of men requisite to serue therein with their quantities of Victuall and Munition and of all other things requisite to bee certified to the Lord Admirall which being by him allowed thereupon the Owners of the said Ships and the Captaines and Conductors thereof to bee bound to His Maiesties vse in good summes of money for themselues and as cause shall require to the Lord Admirall with sufficient Sureties that they doe their best endeuour without fraud for gaine or composition to arrest such Ships hauing as is abouesayd Graine Victuall Armes Munition or Furniture for shipping or any Materials for the same intended to bee caried to any of the sayd King of Spaines Dominions or Countreys as aforesaid and likewise to bee bound as is aforesayd that with the sayd Ships no harme shall bee wittingly done to any person on the Seas being in friendship with his Maiestie and that shall not bee priuie to the cariage of any such Graine Victuall Prouision Furniture or Materials into any the sayd King of Spaines Dominions or towards any of his Countreys or to any the King of Spaines Ships being on the Seas And in case any shall be found to haue committed any such offence whereby their Bonds shall bee forfeited the parties damnified shall be fully recompenced for all their Losses and Dammages with the summes of money forfeited and otherwise as there shall bee cause and the offendors also seuerely punished according to their offences by due course of Law Giuen at Our Honour of Hampton Court the 31. of December in the first yeere of Our Reigne God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XXV