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A22581 By the King a proclamation for better ordering the transportation of clothes and other woollen manufactures into Germany, and the low-countreys. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1634 (1634) STC 9026; ESTC S3484 1,329 2

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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV · ET · MON · DROIT ❧ By the King ❧ A Proclamation for the better ordering the Transportation of Clothes and other Woollen Manufactures into Germany and the Low-Countreys WHereas We haue taken into Our Princely consideration the manifold benefits that redound to this Kingdome by the Manufacture of Woollen Clothes and the Transportation and Venting thereof in Forraine parts And finding how much good gouernment and managing the said Trade in an orderly way will conduce to the increase and aduancement of the same Wee for the better setling of order therein for the time to come haue thought fit with the aduice of Our Priuie Councell to declare Our Royall pleasure herein And doe therefore hereby strictly will and command that no person or persons Subiect or Subiects of this Our Realme of England shall at any time from and after the Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary now next comming Shipp Transport Carry or Conuey or cause to bee Shipped Transported Carried or Conueied either from Our City and Port of London or from any other City Towne Port Hauen or Creeke of this Our Realme of England by way of Merchandise any white Clothes coloured Clothes Clothes dressed and died out of the Whites Clothes called Spanish Clothes Bayes Kerseys Perpetuanoes Stockings or any other English Woollen commodities vnto any the Cities Townes or places in Germany or the seuenteene Prouinces of the Netherlands saue onely and except to the Mart and Staple-Townes of the Fellowship of Merchant-aduentures in those parts for the time being or to one of them And further to the end that the said Trade may be hereafter reduced and continued in an orderly and well gouerned course We doe hereby declare Our Royall pleasure to be That the Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers shall admit into the freedome of their said Trade all such Our Subiects dwelling in Our City of London and exercised in the profession of Merchandise and not Shop-keepers except they giue ouer their Shops as shall desire the same for the Fines of fifty pounds apeece if they shall take their Freedome before the Feast of Saint Iohn the Baptist now next comming And that the said Fellowship shall likewise receiue and admit into their Freedome such Our Subiects of the Out-ports of this Our Kingdome as being exercised in the Trade of Merchandise shall desire the same paying them fiue and twenty pounds apeece for their Fine or In-come if they shall take their said Freedome before Michaelmas next And that the sonnes and seruants of such as shall be so admitted as aforesaid shall pay to the said Fellowship at their seuerall admissions thereinto the summe of twenty nobles apeece And that all such persons as shall not accept and come into the said Freedome before the dayes herein prefixed shall pay the double of the Fines before limited respectiuely in case they shall afterwards desire to be admitted into the said Fellowship And Our further will and pleasure is and We do hereby command and inhibit all and euery Our Subiects not being free of the said Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers that they or any of them shall not presume to Trade in any of the forenamed Commodities into any of the parts or places of Germany or the Low-countreys from or after the said Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary next ensuing vpon paine of Our high displeasure and of such punishments as Our Court of Star-chamber whom We especially charge with the execution of Our Royall pleasure herein shall thinke fit to inflict for such contempts Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall the seuenth day of December in the tenth yeere of Our Reigne of England Scotland France and Ireland God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie And by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1634.