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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	baron_n	court_n	exchequer_n	3,329	5	10.9683	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80993	By the Protector. A proclamation of His Highness (by and with the advice of His Council) for putting in execution the laws against transportation of woolls, wool-fels, fullers-earth, and other things; Proclamations. 1656-11-18	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. aut	1656 (1656)	Wing C7156C; Thomason 669.f.20[36]; ESTC R211848	3,321	3

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P. ❧ By the Protector A PROCLAMATION Of His HIGHNESS by and with the Advice of His Council for putting in Execution the Laws against Transportation of Woolls Wool-fels Fullers-Earth and other things WHereas several Complaints have been made unto His Highness That great quantities of Woolls Wool-fels and Fullers-Earth are daily transported out of the Dominions of this Commonwealth into the Parts beyond the Seas notwithstanding the many good and wholesome Laws and Statutes heretofore made and provided and yet it force against the same to the great inhauncing of the Rates and Prices of those Commodities and the apparent hurt detriment and prejudice of the State And His Highness having taken the same into due consideration and with the advice of His Council weighing the evil consequences thereof both to the Manufactures of this Nation And also considering the prejudice that may happen to the Commonwealth in general if some timely course be not taken for preventing the same And whereas by several Acts Statutes and Ordinances heretofore made the transporting the same is prohibited under sundry great and severe penalties and to the intent none may pretend ignorance of the same as also to quicken His Highness Officers and Ministers and others to whom the excution of those Laws so advantagious and necessary to the Publique is intrusted to do their duties therein His Highness by and with the advice of His Council hath thought fit to publish this His Proclamation letting all the People of this Commonwealth know That His Highness shall expect and require a due and exact obedience to the Laws in that behalf made And His Highness likewise signifies His pleasure That he intends a full and effectual prosecution against all offenders and transgressors against the said Laws and that the utmost rigour and extremity thereof shall be required without any hope of mitigation or moderation And if any extremity shall happen to any one therein his Highness shall account it Iustice having discharged His duty in giving notice And yet for a further manifestation of His care hath thought fit to publish the effect of the last Law made for suppressing the same viz. That by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament published the Nineteenth day of January in the year our Lord One thousand six hundred forty seven It is Ordained That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to lade ship or carry in any Ship Barge Boat or other Vessel or otherwise any Wooll of the growth of England or Ireland or the Dominion of Wales or any Woollen Yarn Woollen Flox Wool-fell Fullers Earth Clay Tobacco-pipe-Clay or any other Earth or Clay which may be used in the Art of Fulling of intent to transport or carry the same into any place or places of the parts beyond the Seas or into Scotland by Land or by Sea or to carry the same to any Ship or other Vessel whatsoever to be transported upon the pain of the forfeiture of the said Woolls Woollen-yarn Woollen Flox Wool-fell and Earth or Clay so laden shipped carried or transported and three shillings for every pound of such Wooll Yarn Flox and Earth or Clay And for every pound-weight of the said Earth or Clay three shillings to be forfeited by the owner or owners thereof and also the owner of the said ships or vessels knowing of such offence to forfeit all their interest in the said ships or vessels with all their apparel and furniture to them and every of them belonging and the Master and Mariners knowing of such offence to forfeit all their Goods and Chattels and to have Imprisonment by the space of one whole year without Bayl or Mainprize And it is by the said Ordinance further Ordained That if any Merchant or any other person or persons should transport or cause to be transported any of the said Earth or Clay Wooll Woollen-yarn or Woollen Flox or Wool-fells contrary to the intent of the said Ordinance That then he should be disabled for requiring any Debt or Accompt of any Factor or others for or concerning any Debt of Estate properly belonging to such Merchant and Offender to his own use And that if any owner of the land where such Clay or Earth should be digged or gotten should be privy unto or know of such Transportation by any person or persons and should not discover the same to some Iustice or Iustices of the Peace within three moneths of such his knowledge he should for every such offence forfeit Five hundred pounds of lawful Money of England And that if such Iustice of Peace to whom such discovery should be made should not certifie the same under his Hand and Seal to the Barons of the Exchequer or one of them within three Moneths following he should for every such offence forfeit One hundred pounds of like lawful Money Now to the intent transgressors may not be encouraged by the negligence of Officers and Courts of Iustice His Highness by and with the advice of his Council doth Appoint Authorize and Command as well the Barons of the Exchequer as the Attorney and Sollicitor-General That they and every of them do speedily and effectually put in execution the aforesaid Ordinance of Parliament and all and every other the Laws and Statutes made against transporting Woolls Wool-fels and Fullers-Earth and that they and every of them do likewise in their several places effectually prosecute all and every such person and persons whose Names have been already brought or which shall hereafter be brought to them or any of them and who have offended or that shall hereafter offend against the Law in transporting Woolls Wool-fels and Fullers-Earth in Our Courts of Iustice and every such person and persons so offending to punish according to their and every of their demerits and according to the true intent and meaning of the several Statutes Laws and Ordinances in that case made and provided and of his Highness Pleasure herein declared And his Highness doth further by and with the advice of his Council Will and Require and straightly Charge and Command the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs in the several Ports of England and in the Town and Port of Barwick That they and every of them respectively in their several places do take very good and sufficient Security That all Goods carried into Scotland be accordingly delivered and landed at some Port there and that authentique Certificates be thereof returned to the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs within all and every the Ports in England out of which the said Goods were exported before any Bonds be cancelled or delivered up by the Officers of the Customs within any of the said Ports And further His Highness by and with the advice of his Council doth Will and Declare That if such Certificate and Certificates so to be returned in manner aforesaid be not returned within six Moneths next ensuing the time to be limited in every such Bond for the return thereof to the said Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs in the several Ports in England out of which the said Goods were exported as aforesaid That then and in all such cases the said Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs within the several Ports of England in whose hands and custodies such Bonds shall be at the expiration of the said six Moneths shall return or cause to be returned the said Bonds and every of them into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster there to be proceeded upon accordingly And His Highness doth further by and with the advice of his Council straightly Charge and Command the said Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs in the several Ports of England and in the Town and Port of Barwick That they and every of them by themselves their Servants or Agents do hereafter use their utmost care and diligence to hinder and prevent the exportation of Woolls Wool-fels and Fullers-Earth under any colour pretence or means whatsoever And that the said Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs within the several Ports of England and in the Town and Port of Barwick by themselves their Agents or Servants do enter into all and every Ship Barque Hoy and other Vessel wherein suspicion shall be of any Wooll Wool-fels or Fullers-Earth and therein to make search for all such Wooll Wool-fels or Fullers-Earth there concealed and the same being found to take and seize for his Highness use as forfeited and shall return the Names of all and every such person and persons from time to time so offending unto the Barons of the Exchequer or the Attorney or Sollicitor-General to the end they may be proceeded against and punished according to their demerits and the true intent and meaning of the Laws and Statutes in that behalf made and of his Highness Will and Pleasure herein declared And his Highness doth further straightly Charge and Command all Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and other Officers and Ministers within the several Ports Cities and Towns Corporate and other places within England and also within the Town and Port of Barwick That they and every of them in their respective places be ayding and assisting to the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs within the several Ports of England and in the Town and Port of Barwick in the searching out and seizing of all such Wooll Wool-fels and Fullers-earth so concealed as aforesaid and in the due execution of all and every the premises Given at VVhitehall the Eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty six London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness 1656.