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A22026 By the King a proclamation touching passengers. England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1606 (1606) STC 8395; ESTC S123058 1,053 1

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❧ By the King ❧ A Proclamation touching Passengers WHereas in the first Session of our Parliament holden at Westminster the nineteenth day of March in the yeere of our raigne of England France and Ireland the first and of Scotland the seuen and thirtieth It was amongst other things Enacted That no woman nor any childe vnder the age of one and twenty yeeres Except Saylers or Shipboyes or Apprentice or Factor of some Merchant in trade of Merchandize should bee permitted to passe ouer the Seas except the same should be by licence of vs our Heires or Successors or some fixe or more of our priuy Councell thereunto first had vnder their handes vpon paine that the Officers of the Port that should willingly or negligently suffer any such to passe or should not enter the names of such Passengers licenced should forfeit his Office and all his goods and Chattels And vpon paine tha the owner of any Ship or Vessell that should wittingly or willingly cary and such ouer the Seas without licence as is aforesaid should forfeit his Ship or Vessell and all the Tackle And euery Master or Mariner of or in any such Ship or Vessell offending as is aforesaid should forfeit all their goods and suffer imprisonment by the space of twelue moneths without Baile or Maineprise As by the saide Acte of Parliament amongst other things may more at large appeare And whereas many such our Subiects That is to say women and persons vnder the age of twenty and one yeeres haue from time to time iust and necessary causes and occasions to goe and passe ouer the Seas In which cases for euery such women and persons vnder the age of twenty and one yeeres to obteine such licence either from our selues or from sixe of our said Priuy Counsel according to the said Law is very inconuenient and almost impossible Wee haue therefore thought conuenient for the case aswell of our selfe and our said Counsell as of such of our Subiects as are of the condition mentioned in the saide Acte of Parliament to graunt our Commission to persons of trust in certaine Ports of our Realme lying most apt and conuenient for passage That is to say London the Cinque Ports Harwich Yarmouth Hull and Waymouth to licence such women and persons vnder the age of twenty and one yeeres as shall haue iust cause to passe out of our Realme vpon due examination had of them to passe without perill to themselues or the Officers of our said Ports Notwithstanding the said Statute or any thing therein conteined And we haue thought it fit to giue publique knowledge hereof to alour Subiects and to all our Officers whom it may concerne to the ende they may know what shall bee lawfull for them to doe in those cases Giuen at the Castle of Farneham the xxiij day of August in the fourth yeere of of our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie 1606.