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A32076
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A proclamation prohibiting the payment and receipt of customes, and other maritime duties upon the late pretended ordinance of both Houses of Parliament
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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1642
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Wing C2692; ESTC R40801
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C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE BY THE KING ⧠A Proclamation prohibiting the payment and receipt of Customes and other Maritime Duties upon the late pretended ORDINANCE of both Houses of Parliament WEE have made so many Declarations of Our Royall Intentions concerning the preserving of the Religion and Lawes of this Land That Wee think it not fit often to repeat Though by Gods grace We seriously intend never to decline or depart from the same But this seems most strange unto Us that whil'st especially at and about London Our just and legall Commands are not obeyed other Orders and Ordinances for which there is no legall foundation which not only discountenance but overthrow the Lawes of the Land that settle Religion and were the fences of the Subjects property are submitted unto and obeyed by many of Our weaker Subjects And amongst these a blind obedience hath been yeelded unto the pretended Ordinance for setling Customes without an Act of Parliament when an Act this Parliament received from Us and so understood by Us as one of the greatest graces the Crowne ever conferred on the Subject declares no Custome is due without an Act and all such Persons as receive the same incurr the forfeiture of a Premunire This We thought would not have found obedience from the Merchant who understood what his owne benefit was thereby and could not be ignorant how penall it was in him to breake this Law especially when he found he paid his Custome for support of an unnaturall Warr against his Prince and to foment an intestine and Civill dissention which hath already and may in the future produce so many Evills upon this poore People But upon the menances and usage some received that denyed it We find since a more generall Obedience in such as Trade then We expected though We understand by it the Trade of the Kingdom is much lessened Neverthelesse We thought not fit until this present by any of Our Proclamations to prohibite the same because We hoped before this time We having so often and by so many means endeavoured the same some happy understanding might have been between Us and both Our Houses of Parliament But at present finding that the monyes arising from these Duties are a great part of the fewell that maintaines this fire and supports this unnaturall Rebellion against Us and heightens the Spirits of such as have no Spirit to Peace unlesse they may destroy Us Our Posterity and the setled Government both of Church and State We doe hereby Declare and Proclaime to all Our People of what sort soever That whosoever henceforward shall by vertue of the pretended Ordinance of Parliament pay any Monyes for Custome or other Dutyes therein mentioned other then to Our proper Ministers what is due to Us by the known Lawes of the Kingdome That We will proceed against him or them in due time as an ill-affected person or persons to the Peace of this Kingdome and as such as endeavour as much as in them lyes to hinder a true Intelligence betwixt Us and Our People And for such person or persons as shall continue to require or receive the same contrary to the Statute made this Parliament We shall likewise proceed against them according to the penalty in the said Act And because though the Law ought to have been every mans prohibition We did not until this time forbid the same We doe hereby grant Our free Pardon to all such as formerly having either paid or received these Customes shall henceforth refuse the same And to no other Given under Our Signe Manuall at Our Court at Oxford the sixteenth day of December in the Eighteenth yeare of our Reigne God save the King