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A22634 By the King a proclamation concerning tobacco. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1639 (1639) STC 9138; ESTC S3596 2,799 3

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DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI ❀ SOIT ❀ QVI ❀ MAL ❀ Y ❀ PENSE ❧ By the King ❧ A Proclamation concerning Tobacco HAving been heretofore informed that thorow the immoderate taking of Tobacco provoking the takers thereof to excessive Drinking and other inconveniences the health of many of Our Subjects had been much impaired which had the rather been occasioned for that no restraint had been made of the number nor regard had of the quality of those that sold Tobacco by Retail but persons of the meanest condition had promiscuously used to Retail the same keeping no order or assize therein Whereupon We out of Our Princely care to represse all such excesses and to prevent such future inconveniences as might occur thereby did by the advice of the Lords and others of Our Privy Councell resolve to regulate the ungoverned Selling and Retailing of Tobacco and to reduce the same into some good order and that none but men of sufficiency and such as should bring certificate of their meetnesse should from thenceforth be permitted to sell or utter Tobacco by Retail and those onely in certain fit places and to a certain number in every such place which places and number We did by the like advice of the Lords and others of Our Privie Councell appoint accordingly And afterwards by Our Proclamation dated the thirteenth day of March in the ninth yeer of Our Reign for the reasons therein expressed We did straitly charge and command that none should from thenceforth presume to sell or utter Tobacco by Retail untill they should have obtained Our Licence in that behalf In conformity whereunto divers of Our loving Subjects have since taken severall and respective Licences under Our great Seal of England to sell and utter forrain Tobacco by Retail in such respective Cities Towns and places as in the same Licences are expressed rendring to Us Our Heirs and Successors such Rents as in and by Our said Licences are respectively reserved in that behalf By which means not onely the afore mentioned excesses have in some good measure been repressed and many inconveniences prevented but also some small addition and improvement hath been made to Our Revenue But notwithstanding the Premisses divers ill affected persons endeavouring for some small advantage to themselves to bring the Retailing of Tobacco to that confused and ungoverned liberty it had before have in contempt of Our said Proclamation presumed without Our Licence to vent and utter Tobacco by Retail as well in London and the parts adjacent as in divers other Cities Towns and places of this Our Realm thereby discouraging and in some sort disabling Our said Subjects who have taken Our Licences as aforesaid to pay their Rents thereon reserved and likewise dis heartning others that is to say some from suing forth the Licences for which they have respectively contracted others from contracting with Our Agents appointed in that behalf and the better to colour their practises have spread abroad especially within Our City of London and the parts adjacent false reports and rumours as if We intended to desist from Our aforesaid course of reformation which their practises and bold attempts We have just cause to take in ill part and not to suffer the same to passe unpunished Yet because some of Our Subjects through the false reports and rumours so spread abroad as aforesaid may make some doubt of Our Royall intention in the Premisses therefore We have thought meet hereby to declare and publish to all Our people that We will not leave unfinished so great a work begun with such advice and care and so much tending to their health and welfare neither will We suffer Our Revenue in any part thereof by the wilfull opposition of some few refractory persons to be impaired And therefore We do hereby straitly charge and command all Our loving Subjectts that none of them do from henceforth presume directly or indirectly to sell utter or deliver any Tobacco by Retail in any place or places within Our said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Barwick or any of them without Our speciall Licence under Our great Seal of England to be obtained in that behalf And We do likewise will and command all Pedlers who wander up and down not making their constant abode in any one place and all and every other Interloper or Interlopers whatsoever that none of them do from henceforth directly or indirectly sell utter or deliver any Tobacco by Retail or under colour or pretext of giving Tobacco do by themselves or any other take or receive any recompence for the same And whereas divers of Our Subjects who are licensed to retail Tobacco in their own houses onely do notwithstanding retail Tobacco in Fairs and Markets abroad to the prejudice of such persons as are licensed to sell Tobacco in those places Our will and pleasure is and We do hereby straitly charge and command that from henceforth they and every of them do forbear to sell utter or deliver Tobacco by Retail in any other places then according to the purport and true meaning of their respective Licences under Our great Seal And whereas We are informed that much English Tobacco which through the coldnesse of the climate and unaptnesse of the soil not coming to perfect maturity is altogether unwholsome to be taken and other Tobacco adulterate and mixed with rotten fruits and other corrupt ingredients is dayly sold and uttered to Our people We do hereby charge and straitly command that no person whatsoever within Our said Kingdom of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales and Town of Barwick or any of them do from henceforth presume to buy sell or utter directly or indirectly any Tobacco of the growth of Our Kingdoms of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales and Town of Barwick Islands of Jersey Garnsey and Man or any of them or any mixed or adulterate Tobacco whatsoever And the better to prevent the great abuse offered and done to Our loving Subjects in the sale of English Tobacco We do also straitly charge and command that no person whatsoever do at any time hereafter plant or cause to be planted any Tobacco within Our Kingdoms of England and Ireland or either of them or within Our Dominion of Wales or Town of Barwick or within Our Islands of Jersey Garnsey and Man or any of them and that all Tobacco already planted and now growing there be presently displanted and utterly destroyed And to the end the doing hereof be not in any wise omitted or neglected We do charge and command all Constables Tithingmen Headboroughs and other Officers within their severall limits and jurisdictions carefully to see the same executed accordingly And further We do will and command all Iustices of Peace Maiors Sheriffs and other principall Officers in their severall places within the compasse of their severall jurisdictions and authorities upon complaint to them made to cause the same to be duly performed without partiality as they and every of them will answer their contempts at their perils And We do further will and command that no Tobacco whatsoever be from henceforth imported landed or unladed to in or at any other Port Haven Creek or place within Our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Port and Town of Barwick or any of them then to in or at Our Port of London without speciall warrant to be obtained from Our Lord high Treasurer of England for the time being in that behalf And that all Merchants Masters and Owners of any Ship or Ships and other persons whatsoever within or under Our obedience do take notice of Our Royall command and pleasure herein and do carefully and duly observe the same accordingly And We do hereby straitly charge and command all Our Subjects to yeeld their due obedience in all and singular the Premisses as they tender Our pleasure and will answer the contrary at their perill Given at Our Court at VVhitehall the five and twentieth day of March in the fourteenth yeer of Our Reign ❧ God save the King Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1638.