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A32560
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By the King. A proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures, until the twenty fifth day of December next; Proclamations. 1667-03-29.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)
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1667
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Wing C3485; ESTC R214849
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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION For the free Exportation of Woollen Manufactures until the Twenty fifth day of December next CHARLES R. WHereas the Kings most Excellent Majesty by His Proclamation of the 15 th of April last upon the considerations therein expressed did give freé liberty and licence to all and every person and persons whatsoever from the day of the date thereof until the Twenty fifth day of December then next to Transport and carry out of this Kingdom all Woollen Manufactures whatsoever to any Port or Place beyond the Seas lying within the limits and bounds of the Merchant-Adventurers Patent Except the Mart-Towns of Dort and Hamburgh And whereas several Merchants and Clothiers in the Western and other parts of this Kingdom have humbly besought His Majesty That by reason of the great decay in the Trade of Cloth and other Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom His Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant them Twelve moneths longer for a free Exportation of the said Manufactures His Majesty therefore doth by the Advice of His Privy Council hereby give freé Liberty and Licence to all and every person and persons whatsoever as well Natives and Denizens as Strangers and Forreigners until the Five and twentieth day of December next to Transport and carry out of this Kingdom all Woollen Manufactures whatsoever to any Port or Place beyond the Seas lying within the limits and bounds of the said Merchant-Adventurers Patent Except the Mart-Towns of Dort and Hamburgh Yet His Majesty would not hereby be thought to have a light esteém of the Services of that Company to Himself and the Crown in former times nor of their usefulness towards the advance and increase of the Trade of this Kingdom Nor doth His Majesty by this temporary dispensation intend to lessen the Authority of their Charter as to the Government of that Society either at home or abroad And His Majesty doth hereby Require and Command That during the time of this Licence and Dispensation due payment be made of all Duties for Licensing the Exportation of White Clothes according to former use and practise Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 29 th day of March In the Nineteenth year of Our Reign 1667. God save the King In the SAVOY Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker His Majesties Printers 1667.