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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22247	Iames by the grace of God king of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all and singuler archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deanes and their officials ... greeting : whereas wee are credibly giuen to understand ... that our poore distressed subiect Thomas Peeke of the towne of Lodden ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1621 (1621)	STC 8658; ESTC S3809	2,043	1

I R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE IAMES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all and singuler Archbishops Bishops Archbeacons Deanes and their Officials Parsons Vicars Curats and to all spirituall persons And also to all Iustices of Peace Maiors Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables Churchwardens and Head boroughes And to all Officers of Citties Boroughes and Townes corporate And to all other our Officers Ministers and Subiects whatsoeuer they be aswell within liberties as without to whom these presents shall some gréeting WHEREAS wee are very credibly giuen to vnderstand by a Certificate vnder the hands of our trusty and welbe loued Subiects Sir Iohn Tasburgh and Sir Anthony Drury Knights Anthony Hobart Owen Shepheard Iohn Smith and Ieffery Warde Esquires Iustices of the Peace within our County of Norfolke That our poore distressed Subject Thomas Peeke of the Towne of Lodden in our fore said County Husbandman hath heretofore boene a man of good estate and account and one that all his life time liued in good sort and reputation amongst his neighbours but so it is that he is now fallen into great want and pouerty by reason of a sodaine and fearefull Fire happing on the Eight and twentieth day of March last past in the night time through the negligence of a lewde and idle Seruant which consumed and burnt downe to the ground his dwelling House and other houses of office houshold stuffe Corne of diuers kindes prouision of houshold and other Commodities and some Writings of great moment amounting in all the whole losse to the value of Three hundred pounds to the vtter vndoing of our said poore Subiect who was heretofore a Farmer of about a hundred pound a yeare and able to maintaine his charge of Wife Children and family in good credit and fashion and to giue reliefe vnto others but so miserable is his estate now that he is not able to helpe himselfe but being lyable to rebuild his said House againe is likely to continue the rest of his dayes in great misery vnlesse some charitable course be forthwith taken for his reliefe herein whose miserable and poore estate wée much pitty and haue thought good vpon the humble request of all our foresaid Iustices made vnto Vs in his behalfe to commend the same vnto the charitable consideration of all our louing and weldisposed Subiects within certaine Counties hereafter mentioned not doubting but that all good Christians well weighing the premises will be ready and willing as féeling members one of anothers miserie to extend their charitable contributions towards his reliefe and Comfort of their poore distressed Brother in this his great necessity KNOW yee therefore of Our especiall Grace and Princely compassion We haue giuen and granted and by these our Letters Patents doe giue and graunt vnto our said poore Subiect Thomas Peeke and to his Deputy and Deputies the bearer or bearers hereof full power licence and Authority to aske gather receiue and take the Almes and charitable beneuolence of all our louing Subiects whatsoeuer In habiting within our Counties of Norfolke Suffolke Essex Hertford Kent Middles●x Cambridge and Surrey with our Citty of Norwich and in our Citties of Canterbury Rochester and the Cinque Portes with our Citty of Westminster and Borough of Southwarke with our Vniuersity of Cambridge and Isle of Ely And in all other Cities Townes Corporate Priuiledged places Parishes Villages and in all other places whatsoeuer within our said Counties and not else where for and towards the recouery of his said losse and the reliefe and maintenance of himselfe and his poore Wife and Chidren WHEREFORE wée will and Commaund you and euery of you that at such time and times as the said Thomas Peeke or his Deputy or Deputies the bearer or bearers hereof shall come repaire vnto any your Churches Chappels or other places to aske and receiue the gratuities and charitable beneuolence of our said Subiects quietly to permit and suffer them so to doe without any manner your lets or contradictions And you the said Parsons Vicars and Curats for the better stirring vp of a charitable deuotion deliberately to publish and declare the Tenor of these our Letters Patents vnto our said Subiects vpon some Sabaoth day when as the same shall be tendered vnto you Exhorting and perswading them to extend their liberall coutributions in so good and charitable a deed And you the Churchwardens of euery Parish where such Collection is to be made as aforesaid to Collect and gather the Almes and charitable beneuolence of all our louing Subiects aswell Strangers as others and what shall be by you so gathered to deliuer it to the bearer or bearers of these our Letters Patents and to no other person when as thereunto you shal be required And lastly whereas we are informed of the great abuse which is now crept in amongst these poore people who sell their Lycences vnto some other other person whereby mens charity goeth not the right may but vnto such as deserue it least That from henceforth our will and pleasure is that if it may appeare vnto you or any of you that the said Thomas Peeke haue contracted any bargaine or made or shall make sale of these our Letters Patents whereby the benefit should passe from him to any other person That thereupon these our Letters Patents shall be voide and of none effect Any Statute Law Ordinance or Prouision heretofore made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding IN witnesse whereof Wée haue caused these our Letters to be made Patents for the space of One whole yeare next after the date hereof to endure Witnes our selfe at Westminster the Thirteenth day of February in the Eighteenth yeare of our Raigne of England France and Ireland And of Scotland the Foure and Fiftieth 1610. ❀ Steward ❀ God save the King Printed By Roger Wood and Thomas Symcocke Aprill 20. Anno Dom. 1621. Cum Priuilegio