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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46584	A proclamation prohibiting His Majesties subjects to trade within the limits assigned to the Governour and Company of Adventurers of England, Trading into Hudson's Bay, except those of the company James R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1688 (1688)	Wing J366; ESTC R21439	2,279	1

By the King A PROCLAMATION Prohibiting His Majesties Subjects to Trade within the Limits Assigned to the Governour and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay except those of the Company JAMES R. VVHereas Our Dearest Brother King Charles the Second of blessed Memory did by His Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing Date the Second day of May in the Two and twentieth Year of His Reign Incorporate a Governour and Company for carrying on a Trade in the North-west parts of America within the Streights and Bay commonly called Hudson's Streights and did Grant unto them and their Successors the Sole Trade and Commerce of all those Seas Streights Bayes Rivers Lakes Creeks and Sounds in whatsoever Latitude they should be lying within the Entrance of the Streights commonly called Hudson's Streights together with all the Lands Countreys and Territories upon the Coasts and Confines of the Seas Bayes Lakes Rivers Creeks and Sounds aforesaid which were not then Possessed by or Granted to any of the Subjects of Our said Royal Brother or Possessed by the Subjects of any other Christian Prince or State Thereby Creating and Constituting the said Governour and Company for the time being and their Successors the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of the same Territories Limits and Places aforesaid and of all other the Premisses with express Prohibition to all other the Subjects of Our said Royal Brother to Trade to the Parts aforesaid And whereas VVe are satisfied that the said Company hath for many years with great Industry and at a very great Charge and Expence Settled divers Factories Erected several Fortifications and maintained the Trade in the Parts aforesaid to the great Honour and Profit of this Our Kingdom until of late several ill-disposed Persons not being Members of the said Company nor Licensed by them preferring their private profit before the publick good have contrary to the said Royal Grant in a clandestine and disorderly manner Traded into those parts to the apparent prejudice if not destruction of the Trade aforesaid and in manifest Contempt of Our Prerogative Royal and the better to colour their evil practices do frame Designs to Hire or do Hire themselves out in the Service of or in conjunction with Foreigners to Sa●l to the Parts aforesaid to undermine and destroy the said Companies Trade VVe taking the Premisses into Our Princely Consideration do not only give Leave and Direct That the Persons who have so contemptuously violated the said Companies Charter be Prosecuted in Our Name at Law in order to their condign Punishment according to their demerits But for prevention of the like evil practices for the future VVe have thought fit with the Advice of Our Privy Council to Publish and Declare Our Royal VVill and Pleasure to be and VVe do hereby strictly Prohibit and Forbid that none of Our Subjects whatsoever except the said Governour and Company and their Successors and such as shall be duly Licensed by them at any time or times hereafter do presume to send or Navigate any Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels or exercise any Trade whatsoever directly or indirectly on their own accounts or in the Service of or in conjunction with any Foreigner or Foreigners whatsoever to in or from the said Streights and Bay called Hudson's Streights or to in or from any Bayes Rivers Creeks or Places whatsoever by what names or denominations soever they or any of them have been heretofore or shall hereafter be called or distinguished that now are or lie within the Entrance of Hudson's Streights aforesaid in what Latitude or Longitude soever the same or any of them do doth or shall lie remain or be within the Liberties Territories or Priviledges of the said Company upon pain of Our high Displeasure and the forfeiture and loss of the Goods Merchandizes Ships and Vessels which shall be taken or found Trading in any the Place or Places aforesaid or within the Limits aforesaid And VVe do hereby strictly Charge and Command all and every Our Subjects of what degreé or quality soever now Trading or Traffiquing or designing to Trade or Traffique to or from the Parts aforesaid or any of them contrary to the true meaning of the said Companies Charter That they forthwith do cease and forbear such their Trade and Traffique and withdraw themselves from the parts aforesaid And VVe do further hereby streightly Require and Command all and singular Our Governours Lieutenant-Governours Admirals Vice-Admirals Generals Iudges of all Our Courts of Admiralty Commanders of Our Forts and Castles Captains of Our Royal Ships Iustices of the Peace Provost-Marshals Marshals Comptrollers Collectors of Our Customs VVayters Searchers and all other Our Officers and Ministers Civil and Military by Sea or Land in all and every of Our Dominions or Plantations and all other Our Subjects whatsoever and wheresoever to take effectual care that no person or persons whatsoever except the said Company and their Successors and such as shall be duly Licensed do send or Navigate any Ships or Vessels or exercise any Trade directly or indirectly from any of Our Kingdoms Dominions or Plantations whatsoever contrary to the said Charter granted to the said Company as aforesaid to any the Places or Limits aforesaid or from thence to any of Our said Kingdoms Dominions Plantations or other Places And if any person or persons shall presume to act or do in any wise contrary to this Our Royal Proclamation VVe do VVill Require and streightly Command all and singular Our said Governours Lieutenant-Governours Admirals Vice-Admirals Generals Iudges of Our Courts of Admiralty Commanders of Our Forts and Castles Captains of Our Royal Ships Iustices of the Peace Provost-Marshals Marshals Sheriffs Comptrollers Collectors of Our Customs VVayters Searchers and all other Our Officers and Ministers Civil and Military by Sea or Land in every of Our said Dominions and Plantations and all other Our Officers Ministers and Subjects whatsoever and wheresoever that as often as need shall require they and every of them respectively be Aiding and Assisting to the said Company their Factors Deputies or Assigns to Attach Arrest Take and Seize all such Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels Goods VVares and Merchandizes of such person or persons as shall be Vsed Employed or Traded in contrary to the Charter Granted to the said Company wheresoever they shall be found for Our Vse upon pain of Our high Displeasure and as they will answer the contrary at their Perils Given at Our Court at VVhitehall the One and thirtieth day of March 1688. In the Fourth Year of Our Reign GOD SAVE THE KING London Printed by Charles Bill Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1688.