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A32580 By the King a proclamation for the prizes of victuals within the verge of His Majesties household. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1662 (1662) Wing C3505; ESTC R221877 1,492 1

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By the King A PROCLAMATION For the Prizes of Victuals within the Verge of His Majesties Houshold CHARLES R. WHereas in Our Passages through divers parts of Our Realm Necessity requireth that a great number of Our Subjects not onely Noblemen and others attending Our Service but others for their necessary occasions shall frequent those places where in Our Royal Person We shall resort and it is requisit that competent Provision be made that they be not exposed to the intolerable avarice of Bakers Brewers Inholders Butchers and Sellers of Victual who not contented with reasonable Profit in Uttering and Selling of Victual within Our Dominions and specially within the Verge of Our Houshold will as We have cause to doubt unlawfully Exact and Demand unreasonable and extream Prizes for Victuals Horsmeat Lodging and other Necessaries above the Prizes they were sold at before Our coming to those parts Therefore to prevent the extream Exaction by the foresaid Victuallers and others towards Our Servants Train and Suiters attending Our Court wheresoever We make Our above nothing respecting Our Prerogative nor the Laws of Our Realm Our Will and Pleasure is and by the Advice of the Lords and others of Our Privy Council We do hereby straitly Charge and Command That all persons do obey and keep all such Prizes as is and shall be Prized Assessed and Rated by the Clerk of the Market of Our Houshold or his lawful Deputy upon the Presentment of Jurors by vertue of his Office sworn and charged from time to time as well within Liberties as without within the Verge of Our Houshold Which Rates and Prizes We will not onely shall be certified by Our said Clerk of the Market or his Deputy into Our Compting-house but also sized and set upon the Gates of Our Court and other places within the Verge as well within Liberties as without and that no manner of person or persons of what Estate or Degree soever he or they be do in any wise ask demand take receive or pay more for Corn Victuals Horsmeat Lodging or any other such thing then after the rate and form aforesaid upon pain of imprisonment fine and such further punishment that shall thereof follow And moreover We do straitly charge and command that no manner of person or persons now using or which accustomably have used or shall use or of right ought to use to serve any City Borough Town or other place where Our Repose or Residence shall be or elsewhere within the Verge of Our Houshold either within Liberties or without with any kind of Corn or Victuals or other Necessaries either upon the Market day or at any other time shall be any thing the more remiss or flack in bringing or selling their Provision then they or any of them heretofore have been nor shall use any colour of Craft either in hiding or laying aside their Corn Victuals Horsmeat Lodgings or any other such necessaries whereby the Provision of the Market may be diminished or We and Our Servants and other Subjects should not be as well served and as plenteously furnished in every behalf as it was before or of right ought to have been in defraud of this Our Ordinance And furthermore We straitly charge and command all Our Officers of Our Green-cloth Our Iustices of Peace Our Clerk of the Market his Deputy or Deputies Mayors Bailiffs Sheriffs Constables and all other Our Officers of Cities Boroughs Towns Hundreds and other places within the Verge of Our Houshold wheresoever the same shall be as well within Liberties as without and every of them from time to time when and as often as need shall require to make diligent inquiry of Corn Grain and other Victual that shall be hidden or withdrawn from the Markets with purpose to increase the Prizes and to cause the same to be put to sale by the Owners thereof and upon complaint by any party justly made every of them within their Authorities forthwith shall endeavour themselves to see just punishment and due reformation of the Premisses against such person or persons as shall offend herein according to Iustice Given at Our Court at Whitehal the Twenty sixth day of April 1662. In the Fourteenth year of Our Reign God save the King London Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty 1662.