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A22719	A true transcript and publication of His Maiesties letters pattent. For an office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce Whereunto is annexed an ouerture and explanation of the nature and purport of the said office, for their better vnderstanding and direction that shall haue occasion to vse it, by Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625. aut; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Cartwright, fl. 1611.; Publique Register for Generall Commerce (England and Wales)	1611 (1611)	STC 9226; ESTC S105549	8,509	46

The Publique Register for generall Commerce A TRVE TRANSCRIPT AND PVBLICATION OF HIS MAIESTIES LETTERS PATTENT FOR AN OFFICE TO BE ERECTED AND CALLED THE Publicke Register for generall Commerce Whereunto is annexed an Ouerture and explanation of the nature and purport of the said Office for their better vnderstanding and direction that shall haue occasion to vse it By Sir Arthur Gorges Knight Printed at Britaine Bursse for Iohn Budge and are there to bee sold at his Shop 1611. IAMES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Jreland defendor of the Faith c. To all to whom th●se Presents shall come Greeting Whereas all Trade and Commerce whatsoeuer amongst our w●lbeloued subiects doth chiefl● consi●t eyther in Buying and Selling or ●orrowing and Lending And for that a great defect is daily f●und in the policie of our State for want of some good trusty and ready meanes of intelligence and intercourse betweene our said Subiects in that behalfe By meanes wherof many men oftentimes vpon occasion of necessity and sudden accidents are inforced to put away and sell landes leases or other goods and chattels to great losse and disaduantage for want of good and ready meanes to giue generall notice and publique intelligence of such their intentions to many that would if they knew thereof as willingly buy as the others would gladly sell ●or redresse and remedy whereof our trusty and welbeloued seruants Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope Knights Gentlemen of our priuie Chamber haue out of their carefull endeauours found out and deuised a most safe easie and speedy way to the great aduancement and helpe vnto generall Commerce and Trade amongst our welbeloued Subiects whereby to serue the turnes and occasions aswell of Borrowers as Lenders and of Buyers as of Sellers by plaine and direct course of reciprocall intelligence and interchangeable correspondency for the ready notice and vnderstanding of one anothers minds We in our Princely care and prouidence for the generall good of our people which we much desire and tender haue thought it fit and iust that the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope should receiue from vs some fauourable approbation and lawfull authoritie to establish further and aduance this their industrious care and faithfull endeauours for the publique good whereby much ease comfort and benefit would vndoubtedly ensue to our Subiects of this our Realme of England and the Dominions of the same in the knowledge and vse thereof Know ye therfore that we reposing great trust and confidence in the prouidence integrity and fidelity of the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope for their honest iust and r●spectiue dealing herein of our especial grace certaine knowledge and meere motion haue giuen and granted and by these presents for Vs our Heyres and Successors doe giue and graunt absolute ful and free license power and authority vnto the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope th●ir Executors Administrators and Assignes and to their Deputy and Deputies during the terme of one and twenty yeares next and immediatly ensuing the date of these Presents to erect set vp keepe and maintaine in any places Cities or Townes within our Realme of England and the Dominions of the same where the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope their Executors administrators or a assigns shal thinke most fit and conuenient a publique Office roome or place of resort or repaire of people for the notice of Borrowing and Lending of moneyes and for the better knowledge of buying selling or exchanging of lands tenements or hereditaments leases or any other goods or chattels whatsoeuer which they or their Deputies shal thinke fit and worthy to beentred and registred and to keepe one or more Kalender or Kalenders Register or Registers for the registring of all and singular such lands tenements hereditaments leases wares commodities moneyes or any other things or chattels that shall by the meere motion or good liking of the owners themselues or their Factors for them be brought to such Office and Offices there to be entred and registred to be bought sold morgaged pawned borrowed or lent which Office in euery Citie Towne or place where it shall be kept shall be called by the name of The Publique Register for generall Commerce And also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope their Executors administrators or assignes and their deputie and deputies of and in the said Office from time to time during the said terme of one and twenty yeares to keepe entries to make searches and to continue Registers in places conuenient of all such landes tenements hereditaments leases goods chattels profits commodities or merchandizes whatsoeuer which they the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope their Executors administrators or assignes or their deputy or deputies or any of them shall thinke worthy to be entred or registred in the said Office and that in all things according to the true intent and meaning of these presents without let hinderance or interruption of any our louing Subiects whatsoeuer Yeelding and paying therfore during the terme aforesaid to Vs our Heires and Successors from the feast of Saint Michaell the Archangell next ensuing the date hereof the yearely rent of forty pounds of lawfull money of England payable at the two vsuall feasts of our Lady and Saint Michaell by equall portions And we do therefore by these presents for Vs our Heyres and Successors prohibite forbid and straightly charge and command all and euery our Subiects whatsoeuer that none of them during the said terme of one twenty years by these presents granted doe attempt vndertake or presume to imitate erect or exercise any like publique Office or Register of intelligence or entercourse for Trade and Commerce vpon paine of our indignation and high displeasure Alway prouided that no man bee compelled to make Entrie or Search in the said Office at all nor when such Entry or Search shall be voluntarily made shall pay any more for such Search or Entrie then shall please himselfe And also that euery man bee left to his owne election and free choyce to vse any Scriuener Broker friend seruant or Factor or any other for any the causes aforesaid in as free liberall and ample manner as they haue heretofore vsed and accustomed And that euery man who for secrecy or other causes knowne to himselfe shall be vnwilling to vse his owne name in the proceedings hereof may vse the name of his seruant friend Factor or any other at his own will and pleasure Prouided also and our will and pleasure is that the said Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Cope or either of them their or either of their Executors administrators or assignes shall at or before the feast of Saint Michaell the Archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand sixe hundred and twelue finde by experience that they shall not be able by

those places or persons that would Lend or Sell to serue their ●urns mutually And by this course all men may rest secure of the integritie and faire dealings that shall bee vsed concerning other mens monies and goods which the Patentees se ek not to haue the custody or exposing of for their priuate profit but will rather auoide the accidents and dangers of such hazards and losses as might happen in so great a charge by mis-reckoning robbing or many other waies which we see so often happens vnto men in their owne priuate houses And such a misfortune might be both a disparagement to our credits by wrong constructions and also a taxe and preiudice to the proceeding and reputation of this Office which consisting meerely of the good opinion of the world for the iust dealing to be vsed therein if it be found contrarie or corrupt it cannot subsist but will die in it selfe as vnprofitable Moreouer wheras manymen dwelling far from London are now inforced to repaire thither to their great trauaile charge to serue their turn many waiesin these forenamed kinds by the benefite and vse of this Office they shall be much eased For it is intended by the fauour of God that in seuerall places of this Realme this publique Register shal be kept in some such chiefe Cities or Townes as shall bee found most conuenient to serue the Countries next about them in these affaires and to holde correspondency with the Citie of London Againe it is very certaine that diuers landes leases houses woods and chattels which haue beene solde priuately at very low rates to the no little losse of the owners would haue bin purchased at more indifferent prices if they had bin more publiquely knowen for it often falleth out that those who would gladly buy such do seldome or neuer get knowledge of the Sellers intent till the things desired be past recouery ●o the preiudice of both parties which defect this publique Register will be a great meanes to supplie Furthermore there are a world of extraordinarie things which are but few mens monies and the owners themselues would gladly vent if they knew how but lie concealed or in effect lost in the sale because that diuers others which would as willingly buy such at valuable prices know not how or where to recouer them But herein it is to be vnderstood that no commodities of base qualitie or inferiour values shall be entred into this Register but such as the Officers shall thinke fit to be dealt in without disparagement of the place Besides it often falleth out that men vpon extremity are driuen to pawne things of good value for smal summes to serue their turnes with monies vntill they can sell them outright wherin they vse the means of Scriueners or Brokers in whose hands they leaue the said pawnes setting very reasonable prices on them allowing also a reward and yet notwithstanding it is often s●ene and spoken of that many Scriueners or Brokers to whom such things haue beene committed in trust would neuer vent them at the owners prices except they might make a greater surplusage to themselues then the rate limited And by that meanes many haue beene kept in want of such reliefe as their owne goods would affoord them whereby at last their pawnes haue eaten themselues out in vsury or at least ●aue beene solde to great losse the owners wanting means to redeeme them to which grieuance this publique Register may yeelde a comfortable remedy Moreouer whereas many conscionable men would willingly expose their monies for eight or nine in the hundred but cannot make it knowne and therefore doe put their stockes into the hands of Brokers or Scriueners to imploy for them so it is that those Brokers doe for the most part take ten in the hundred for those monies which the owners doe affoord at a cheaper hand thereby wronging both the lender and borrower which inconuenience this publique Register would easily remedy by giuing all men safe and ready meanes to expose their own monies besides the assurance neuer to be deceiued in their trust which now many times happens when Brokers or Scriueners do chance to fall banckrout Furthermore whereas there is daily occasion of returning and paying of monies from one part of the Kingdome to another by meanes of Trade and Commerce and therein is found a great defect for want of some safe and speedy meanes of direction for interchangeable correspondency in that behalfe because that men are now inforced eyther to conuey those monies that they are to pay or receiue by Carriers Clothiers or ●eruants who are many times robbed or else men are driuen to be at extraordinary cost for the returnes of monies by letters of exchange by the vse of this publique Register men may if they please greatly ease and remedy both these inconueniences And to expresse the manner of doing it by example which is the plainest way of instruction Suppose that if any Gentleman Merchant or Tradesman of the North vpon occasion of busines being come to London giues notice there vnto this Register that he can make present payment of monies in Yorke at a certaine day to serue the turnes of any Londoners or others in that place if they will deliuer the like summes in London and so accordingly may any Londoners or others search the Register to that or the like intent whereby to giue himselfe knowledge of any interchangeable correspondency for payments or receits at Yorke And in this sort may men mutually vnderstand one anothers mindes for Trade and Commerce and with no lesse facility and security serue their turnes one of another in matters of this kinde throughout all those Cities of this Kingdome where this publique Register shall be erected and kept which will be free for all men to repaire vnto at their pleasures But herein it is to be vnderstood that this publique Register shall not be made so vulgar as to bee kept in euery chiefe Citie or Shieretowne within the Realme but in those necessary and commodious places that shall be found most fit for the publicke good and to performe those beneficiall Offices that are promised and may be expected by the vse of this publique Register for the aduancement of generall Commerce Againe to giue those men that would borrow full satisfaction how they shall be assured when they come to this Register for direction in that behalfe and haue giuen the Officer such gratuity as in reason and out of his owne free will he hath thought fit in regard of the note or direction deliuered to serue his turne for the summes that vpon good security he would take vp and not be disappointed nor lose his reward giuen Jf it so fall out for such accidents may happen that either the party that should lend this money be from home or else how otherwise so disposed of his stocke since the intelligence giuen to this Register that he cannot instantly serue the turne of him that would borrow let that