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A32492
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By the King, a proclamation for recalling and prohibiting seamen from the service of forreign princes and states
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
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1672
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Wing C3406; ESTC R35870
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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION For Recalling and Prohibiting Seamen from the Service of Forreign Princes and States CHARLES R. WHereas the Kings most Excellent Majesty hath been advertised That divers Mariners and other Seafaring men His Majesties Natural born Subjects have betaken themselves to the Service of Forreign Princes and States to the great disservice of His Majesty and their native Countreys and whereby His said Majesty and His Realms are unfurnished of Men of their Sort and Calling if there shall be cause to use them Therefore for redress thereof for the present and preventing the like for the future The Kings most Excellent Majesty by this His Royal Proclamation with the Advice of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council doth Will and Straitly Charge and Command all and singular Masters of Ships Pilots Mariners Seamen Shipwrights and other Seafaring men whatsoever and wheresoever being His Majesties Natural born Subjects who are in the Service of any Forreign Prince or State or do Serve in any Forreign Ships or Vessels That forthwith they do withdraw themselves and depart from such Forreign Services and return home to their Native Countreys and Lawful Vocations And further His Majesty doth hereby Prohibit and Forbid all and singular Masters of Ships Pilots Mariners Seamen Shipwrights and other Seafaring men whatsoever being His Majesties Natural born Subjects from Entring themselves And doth hereby Straitly Charge and Command them and every of them from henceforth to forbear to Enter themselves into Pay or otherwise betake themselves to the Service of any Forreign Princes or States or to Serve in any Forreign Ship or Vessel without License had and obtained in that behalf To all which His Majesty doth and will expect due Obedience and Conformity And doth hereby Publish and Declare That the Offenders to the contrary shall not onely incur His Majesties just Displeasure but be proceeded against for their Contempt according to the utmost severities of Law by Seizure of their Goods Persons and Estates wheresoever they shall be found and otherwise And further His Majesty doth hereby Authorize and Command all and every the Captains Masters and other Officers Serving and Employed in any of His Majesties Ships or Vessels at Sea to stop and make stay of all and every such person and persons as shall endeavour to Transport or Enter themselves into the Service of any Forreign Prince or State contrary to the true intent and meaning of this His Majesties Royal Proclamation and also to Seize upon take and bring away all such Mariners Seamen and other persons aforesaid as shall be found to be Employed or Serving in any Ships or Vessels of or belonging to any Forreign Prince or State or to any Merchant or other person or persons other than to His Majesty or His Subjects Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Tenth day of January 1671 2. In the Twenty third year of Our Reign God save the King In the SAVOY Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1671 2