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A54663 A proclamation of his Majesty the King of Spaine For the Conservation of the contrabando. Revocation of the permissions. Prohibition of the use of the merchandises, and fruits of the realms of France, England, and Portugal; and reformation of vestures, and apparel, and other things. Published in Madrid, the 11th. of September, anno 1657. Translated out of Spanish.; Proclamations. 1657-09-11. English. Spain. Sovereign (1621-1665 : Philip IV) 1657 (1657) Wing P1986A; ESTC R214121 8,236 16

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day of the publication of this Law and Proclamation there shall not nor may not and Apparel nor Vesture be made but in the manner and with the stuffs and Trimmings therein declared And those that contrary hereunto shall be new made and the Tailor that shall cut them workmen that shall sow them and Embroderer that shall embroder them shall in cut the penalties imposed 18 And because from henceforth the consumption of the Goods and Merchandises of the said Three Enemies Countries that shall be found in these Territories is prohibited We do permit them to be sent to the Indies so as they be Registred in this Court within six dayes before one of our Council that the President thereof shall nominate and in all the other Cities Towns and places of our Realms before the ordinary Justices within other six dayes next after the publication hereof and all those which shall not be Registred are to be lost And when they shall take and carry them From the places where the Registers shall be made to send them to Cadiz or to other Ports of Andalu-Zia to be loaden in Fleets or Galleons They are to take dispatches and guides of the Justices from whence they shall go and remain bound to bring Testimonies that the said Merchandises were laden in Fleets or Galleons for that it shall not be lawful to sell them for more or less for that from henceforth the commerce and sale of the said Merchandises that shall be found in being is prohibited and that which shall be otherwise carried away are to incur the penalties established against those that make use of the Goods prohibited by this Proclamation But it shall not be necessary to Register the Merchandises which shall be of the Realms of our Dominions and of the Provinces in Amity with which commerce is held for although many of them are are prohibited for apparel coaches and sedans they may be permitted for other uses and designed for the Indies paying the Duties without need of a new authority for the same 19 And to prevent the molestation vexation and inconveniences that would happen by the Justices and Officers frowardness to enter into mens houses to seek and enquire do other diligencies to discover whether prohibited apparel be worn We do command that they shall not enter into any house to do these diligencies for they shall onely make informations against the persons that should transgress and go with such apparel in the streets and in other publick places 20 And we do also command that from henceforth in obedience to that which a Chapter of the Law 2 Title 12 Book 7. of the New Recollection doth ordain There shall not be any Sedans made with hands of Tisshew nor of cloath of Gold or Silver nor of any Silk that hath any therein nor shall their linings be imbrodered with any thing for they shall not exeeed Velvet Damask or some other silk and they may have fringe and lace Buttons thereof but not of Gold nor Silver and the pillars of the said Sedans may be trimmed with silk Lace and little studs or nails 21 And we do likewise command according to another Chapter of the same Law 2. and the said Title 12. Book 7. that no Coach nor Litter shall be embrodered with Gold Silver or Silk or lined with Thisshew cloath of Gold nor of Silver nor with any silk that hath any therein nor with fringe nor tufts nor any other trimming of gold or silver Lace And that they shall be onely made of Velvet or Damask or of any other plain silks of those made in our Realms and other Dominions and in the Provinces in amity with which commerce is held with silk fringe and galoon and they may have the nailing gilt but the iron work of the Coaches shall have no guilding 22 And we do also command That the coverings of the said Coaches Sedans and Litter shall not be of any silk nor the Trimming of Horses Coach Mules and Littermen and that the said coaches and litters shall not be stitched notwithstanding they are of Leather or Cordovan much less shall they have on them any Trimming of Embrodered Leather 23 And for the use of those already made against that ordained in this Proclamation we do grant two years time which being expired the Owners are not to make use of them for any purpose And to the end those that are may be known they are to be Registred in this Court before one of our Council that the President thereof shall nominate within three dayes and in the other Cities Towns and places before the ordinary Justices thereof within the same time which is to begin from the day of the publication in this Court and in the Cities where it shall be made and of those that shall not be Registred there shall not be any use made and the day that they shall be made use of without registring they are to be lost and their value applyed by three parts viz. to the Chamber Judg and Informer 24 And the Masters that make new Coaches Litters and Sedans and the Workmen that shall frame embroder or stitch them contrary to that ordained in this Proclamation shall incur for the first time loss of the said Coaches Littars and Sedans which they shall have so made or shall make and fifty thousand Maravediz to be applyed in the same manner and for the second time the pecuniary penalty shall be doubled and four years banishment five leagues from this Court and from the Cities Towns and places where they shall transgress 25 And we do command all Justices of our Realms so to keep accomplish and execute it under penalty of deprivation of their Offices which he shall incur that shall be therein remiss or negligent or shall in any manner dissemble and those of our Council and Chanceries to take particular care to punish the said Judges in their Residences as they shall see cause and determine having been remiss in the execution of this our Law and imposing upon them such other penalties which according to the quality of the fault they shall see convenient 26 And whereas the observance of this Proclamation touching Vestures and Apparel will respect the good and publick Government of these our Realms which would be troubled with multiplicity of Jurisdictions and so the punishments and execution of the penalties not passing soly through the hands of our ordinary Justices We do hereby give them privative Jurisdiction to take cognizance of the cases that shall respect the punishment and execution of the penalties of the Transgression the use of the Vestures and Apparel Silks and Goods which are to be made and other things contained in this Reformation and we do command them inviolably to execute them against the Transgressors and the same to be done in the ordinary visiting of the Prisons without power to moderate the same 27 And no Gentleman of Military Orders Captains or actual Soldiers or priviledged persons of any Militia's notwithstanding they are of our Guards Titular Officers or Familiars of the Inquisition nor any other priviledged by Law or custome although they are not here expressed and may be of equator greater exemption shall enjoy any benefit by the priviledges or exemptions they shall have by Law or Custome for that it hath never been our pleasure to grant them for these cases nor that they shall be extended to these matters of Government And we do inhibit all Counsels Tribunals and Judges that may take cognizance of their cruses by reason of their priviledges or places And we declare them incompetent and do command it shall not be admitted any to benefit himself by this recourse to hinder the progress of taking cognizance of like informations and the punishment of his transgressions and exclude him from the same 28 All which our pleasure is shall be inviolably kept accomplished and executed and we do command you to cause it to be kept accomplished and executed according and as in these our Letters is contained and declared and against the form and tenour thereof and that which therein is contained not to go nor pass nor consent to be gone nor passed in any manner And all Justices of these our Realms each in his jurisdiction shall cause it to be kept as a Law and Proclamation established by Royal Authority which from henceforth is to be binding from the Publication in this Court and in all other Cities Towns and places from the time that it shall be published in the heads of their Jurisdictions Given in Madrid the 11 th of September Anno 1657. I the King I Martin de Villela Secretary to the King our Lord did draw it by his command The Licentiate D. Anthony de Contreras The Licentiate D. Christoper de Moscoso y Cordova The Licentiate D. Martin Iniguez de Arnedo The Licentiate D. Anthony de Valdes The Licentiate D. Laurence Ramirez de Prado Registred D Peter de Castaneda Peter de Castaneda High Chancellor Publication IN the Town of Madrid the 11 th of the month of September anno 1657. before the Gates of the Royal Palace and Gate of Guadalaxara where is the Trade and Commerce of the Merchants and others is the Licentiates Don Francis de Quinones Don Vincent Banuelos Don Francis Medrano Don Iohn Ramires de Arellano Don Iohn Buens de Roxas Alcaldes of his Majesties House and Court being present this Law and Proclamation was published with Trumpets and Drums by publick Cryers in lowd and intelligible voices at which were present Bartholomew Bracco Francio de Moscoso Iohn Baptist Belarde Alguaziles of the House and Court of the King our Lord and many other persons And to the end it may appear I do give these presents the said day moneth and year D. JAMES de CANIZARES y ARTEAGA THe Register of the Coaches and other things is to be made before Don Ieronimo de Camargo one of his Majesties Council FINIS
6 And that a remedy may be provided for the evils aforesaid and the door shut against the introducing of the Fruits and Merchandizes of the said Relms holding the prohibition of the use of these Merchandizes the most efficatious remedy for their being not any that may spend them the occasion and interest to bring them will cease We do Command that no person of what estate or preheminence soever he maybe neither Man nor Woman shall cloath him or her self nor for no cause make use of any Merchandise of Enemies Realms of what quality soever it may be under the penalties imposed on the said Receivers and Introducers thereof expressed in the said Mandats and Proclamations And the Tailors and Trades-men that shall cut sow or make apparel or any other thing that shall respect or tend to the use and consumption of the said Merchandise of the said Enemies Realms shall for the first time incur the penalty of twenty thousand Maravedis and two years banishments out of the Kingdom and for the second time forty thousand Maravedis * that is whipt on an Asses back and publick sham 7 And because amongst other things that have occasioned the evils experimented in these Realms by the non-observance of the said prohibitions hath been the excessive and unprofitable expences in our Subjects and vassals apparel spending and consuming their estates in these superfluities which is that we desire and will now to remedy and that every one in his estate may confine himself to the moderation he ought to observe according to his degree from whence two things will result First such disorders and profuce expences will cease and secondly their estates will be increased by this moderation and due frugality for so it is necessary for the maintenance of the State publick We do ordain and command That no person Man nor Woman of what degree and quality soever he or she may be put on nor wear in no kind of Apparel Tisshew Cloath of Gold nor Silver nor Silk that hath ground or mixture of Gold or Silver nor embrodered nor Lace nor Edgeing nor Galoon nor Twist nor Stiching nor Buttons nor Ribbins of drawn Gold or Silver nor any other thing wherein there is spun Gold or Silver or true or false Plate or Pendents of Gold or Silver nor other kind of Trimming of the same Steel or Glass Pearls or seed of Pearl nor other Stones true nor falce But we only permit Buttons of massy Gold or Silver to be used Which Prohibition nor any other contained in this Proclamation shall be understood of what shall be made for Divine Worship for that for the same may be made whatsoever shall be needfull 8 And we do permit for the honour of the Cavalry Garments to be worn by the Soldiers that shall be actually in Arms in the Wars or in other acts concerning the same notwithstanding they be such as by this Proclamation are prohibited and the like at the publick Feasts of the Gentry on Horse-back 9 And we do also prohibit wearing of any kind of Bone or Woven Lace of Silk of Thred or putting it on Men and Womens Apparel on Gloves Hatbands and Garters or any other thing Vestures and Apparel And we do only permit plain in Men and Womens Bands and black only in their Mantles being made in these Realms of Spain and in the other places permitted by this Proclamation 10 For Men and Womens Apparel they are to wear them of plain and wrought black and coloured Velvet Plush Damask Sattins plain and stiched Taffaties and all other sorts of Silk so as they be made in our Realms of Spain and in those of our Dominion and in the other Provinces in amity with which Commerce is held provided all the Merchandises of this kind that shall be imported be of the weight measure mark and lay that those wrought and made in these Realms ought to hold in conformity to that ordained by the 21 22 and 23. Laws of the Twelfth Title of the Fifth Book of the Recollection which we command shall be kept And they may be trimmed with Welts Lace or Embrodery of Silk so as none of these Trimmings exceeds the bredth of six fingers and no otherwise shall they be worn nor made use of by any person of what estate or quality soever he or she may be under the penalties expressed in this Proclamation which shall be applyed in the form therein contained 11 And we do permit with black or coloured Apparel embrodered and embossed Sleeves and Belts to be worn so as they have not in the ground nor in the said Embroderies and Embossements any thing of Gold nor of Silver for both the one and the other is to be of silk 12 And that which is prohibited and commanded touching Apparel is also to be understood of Stage-players Musicioners of both Sexes and other persons that be in Commedies to sing and play unto whom there is onely to be permitted plain Apparel of black and coloured Silk provided it be made in these Realms and in those of our Dominions or in the Provinces in Amity 13 We do permit the Liveries that shall be given to Pages to be Cassocks Breeches and sleeves of plain silk made in these Realms and in those of our Dominions and there shall not be any Cloaks given nor worn of silk but of Cloath Rash Bayes or some other thing but not of silk nor lined therewith but silk stockings they may wear 14 In Liveries of Lackies Coach men and Sedan-men We do Command that there shall not be any thing but Cloath worn without any Trimming Lace Galoon Welt Stiching but they shall be plaine with Buttons before their Cassocks only And we do permit the capes of their cloaks breasts and sleeves to be of plain or wrought coloured Velvet provided they be made in Spain and in the Realms of our Dominions or other Provinces in friendship with us and coloured worsted Stockings but not silk 15 And all Liveries that shall be otherwise made and worn are to be declared as we do declare them forfeited and lost and to be applied in manner aforesaid and the Tailors that shall make them to incur the penalties imposed and the Servants and Lackies that shall wear them six thousand Maravedis and two years banishment five Leagues from this Court And the same is to be observed in all the other Cities Towns and places of our Realms under the same penalty 16 And for the wearing of all the Apparel already made contrary to that ordained in this Proclamation We doe grant two moneths which shall begin from the day of the publication hereof with denial of longer time which being expired although they be not worn out there shall not be any use thereof made and the day that any person shall be therewith apprehended such his apparel is to be lost and applyed by three parts viz. to the Chamber Judge and Informer 17 And we do declare and command That from the