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A79032 By the King. A proclamation prohibiting the buying or disposing of any the lading of the ship called the Sancta Clara, lately brought into South-Hampton. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1643 (1643) Wing C2691A; Thomason 669.f.5[122] 1,028 1

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C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE BY THE KING A Proclamation prohibiting the buying or disposing of any the lading of the Ship called the SANCTA CLARA lately brought into South-Hampton COMPLAINT having been made unto His Majesty by Don Alonco de Cardenas Ambassador from the King of Spaine that a Ship called the Sancta Clara belonging to the said King and His Subjects hath been lately treacherously brought to South-Hampton by one Captain Bennet Strafford and others from Sancto Domingo the said Ship being laden with Silver Cocheneale and other Wares and Merchandizes to a very great value And that the said Ship and Goods being by the said Ambassador arrested and the said Bennet Strafford apprehended whil'st a suite for the said Ship and Goods is depending in the Court of Admiralty the Silver part of the lading of the said Ship to a very great value hath been disposed of contrary to Law without any other security given for the same then the empty Name of publicke Faith which without His Majesty cannot as is well knowne to all the world be engaged or if engaged without His Majesty is not valid or to be relyed on for satisfaction And it is further complained by the said Ambassador That the Cocheneale and other Merchandizes formerly sequestred at London and South-Hampton albeit they are not perishable but have rather encreased in their Price and Value are likely to be sold against the Will of those who pretend to be the Owners Parties to the suite depending in the said Court of Admiralty which is alleadged to be apparently against the Rules of Law and practices of that Court in such Cases His Majesty well weighing what may be the ill Consequences of such injurious Proceedings manifestly contrary to the Law and the Articles of Treaty between the two Crownes and plainly foreseeing how heavily it may light upon such of His good Subjects who have Estates in Spaine and how destructive it may prove to the Trade and Commerce of his Subjects and Kingdomes doth hereby not only expresly Charge and Command the Judge of his Admiralty and all others whom it may concerne to proceed in a Businesse of such Value and consequence with Care Expedition and according to Justice But doth also expresly prohibite all persons of what condition soever upon pretence of any Order or Warrant from one or both Houses of Parliament or any Authority derived from thence to buy meddle with or dispose of any part of the said Cocheneale or other Goods or Merchandizes belonging to the said Ship untill the propriety thereof shall be judicially decided and determined Upon paine of His Majesties high Displeasure and of being responsible and lyable to payment and satisfacton for whatsoever damage shall happen to any of His Majesties Subjects whose Goods or Estates shall for that Cause be embargued or seized in Spaine Given at the Court at Oxford the second day of January in the Eighteenth yeare of His Majesties Reigne God save the King