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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22246	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 by a certificate ... of ... the mayor, aldermen & sheriffes, of our towne of Kingston vpon Hull ... that our poore distressed subiect William Chapman ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1621 (1621)	STC 8654; ESTC S3816	2,144	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 Archdeacons 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 Headboroughes 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 come gréeting WHEREAS wée are credibly giuen to vnderstand by a Certificate vnder the handes and Seales of our trusty welbeloued Subiects the Mayor Aldermen Sheriffes of our Towne of Kingston vpon Hull within our County of Yorke That our poore distressed Subiect William Chapman of the same Towne Master and Marryner hath heretofore bin a man of good worth and ability and a very skilfull and sufficient person in his vocation hauing had heretofore frequent trading and Commerce in diuers places beyond the Seas vntill such time as it pleased God to visite him with sundry great losses from time to time as namely by the King of Poland in Danske vnder whom he was forced to serue in a Ship called the Angeleuer in which Ship he was the same voyage taken by the King of Sweueland who despoyled him of all he had in the said ship And afterwards he making in the said Ship a Fishing voyage to the Wardhouse for the good of the Country it so fortuned that the said Ship goods to the value of Eleuen hundreth pounds was taken by certaine Denmarkes to his great hinderance and almost vtter vndoing Also he made another voyage for Amsterdam in the good Ship called the Content in which voyage be lost Seauenty péeces of Carsey to the value of One hundred and Fourescore pounds more by reason of all which losses and hinde rantes together with some ill Debtors Amounting in the whole losse to the value of Fiftéene hundred pounds our said poore Subiect is now quite vndone who before these vntimely losses liued in good credit and vsed the trade of Marchandize relieued the poore and set many men at worke and yet he is not now able to helpe himselfe nor to sustaine his poore Wife and Children who liue in great want and are like to continue the rest of their dayes in great misery vnlesse some charitable course be forthwith taken for the reliefe and comfort of our said poore Subiect whose poore and vnhappy estate wée much pitty and haue thought good vpon the humble request of all our foresaid trusty and welbeloued Subiects the Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffes made vnto Vs on his behalfe to commend the same vnto the charitable consideration of all our louing weldisposed Subiects within certaine places hereafter mentioned not doubting but that all good Christians well weighing the premises will be ready and willing as féeling members one of anothers misery to extend their liberall contributions towards the reliefe and comfort of their poore distressed Brother in this his great necessity KNOW yée therefore That of Our especiall Grace and Princely Compassion Wee haue giuen and granted and by these our Letters Patents doe giue and graunt vnto our said poore Subiect William Chapman and to his Deputy and Deputies the bearer or bearers hereof full power licence and Authority to aske gather receiue and take to Almes and charitable beneuolence of all our louing Subiects whatsoeuer Inhabiting within our Counties of Norfolke Suffolke Essex Kent with our Citties of Canterbury Rochester and the Cinque Portes with our Citty of Norwich And in all other Citties 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 losses and the reliefe and maintenance of himselfe and his poore Wife and Children WHEREFORE wée will and Commaund you and euery of you that at such time and times as the said William Chapman or his Deputy or Deputies the bearer or bearers hereof shall come and repaire to 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 declare the Tenor of these our Letters Patents or the Coppy of Briefe thereof vnto our said Subiects vpon some Sabaoth day when as the same shall be tendered vnto you Exhorting perswading them to extend their liberall contributions in so good and charitable a déed 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 person whereby mens charity goeth not the right way 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 William Chapman hath contracted any bargains 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 of none effect Any Statute Law Ordinance or Pronision 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 Fiue and Twentith day of Ianuary in the Eighteenth yeare of our Raigne of England France Ireland And of Scotland the Foure and Fiftieth 1620. ❀ Steward ❀ God saue the King Printed by Roger Wood and Thomas Symcocke Cum Priuilegio