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A22150	The Kings Maiesties letters pattents to Sir William Erskin and Iohn Meldrum, for the lighthouse at Winterton	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 8559; ESTC S3832	5,902	3

Neuerthelesse our will and pleasure is that for the erection reparation renewing remouing and continuall mayntenance of all or any such Light-house or Light-houses heretofore erected set vp or which hereafter shall or may be erected renued altered remoued and mayntained at or neer Winterton or within two miles compasse of the same as aforesaid no other or further dutie or payment to be demaunded or taken of our subiects or others then the aforesaid dutie or payment of one penny in the Voyage vpon the Tunne outward and inward as aforesaid AND WE doe further of our speciall grace certaine knowledge meere motion for vs our Heires and successors giue grant vnto the said Sir William Erskine and Iohn Meldrum their executors administrators and assignes full power and authoritie that they and euerie of them at their wills and pleasures shall or may lawfully erect set vp alter change renue and remoue by or at their proper costs and charges and by and with the aduise and direction of expert and skillfull Seafaring men dwelling or trading vpon the aforesaid Coast such and so many Lights and Light-houses at or neere Winterton aforesaid or within the compsse of two miles thereof as aforesaid as shall be thougt fit and as iust occasion or necessitie shall require To haue hold exercise and enioy the said liberties licences powers authorities the said dutie or payment of one pennie vpon the Tunne as aforesaid before by these presents giuen and granted and euerie of them vnto the said Sir William Erskine and Iohn Meldrum their Executors Administrators Assignes for during the full end and tear me of fiftie yeares from the date of these presents fully to be compleate ended AND for asmuch as any other order or course cannot well be taken for the due leauiyng of the said dutie or payment of one penny vpon the Tunne in the Voyage outward and inward as aforesaid for and towards the effecting and continuance of this so good and necessarie a worke then by appoynting the payment and collection of the same to be had made within the Ports Harbors Roades and Creekes vnto the which the said Ships Barkes and Vessells shall or doe come and arriue we doe by these presents for vs our Heires and Successors will ordaine and appoynt and also straightly charge command and authorise all and euery the Customers Collectors Controulers Receiuers of entries of ships Water-baylifes al other the officers whatsoeuer of and concerning the Customes to vs our Heires Successors and all other the Wardens or keepers of any our Hauens and Ports now being and which from the time hereafter shall be as well in our seuerall Ports of London New-castle as in all and euery other the Ports Harbors Creekes Roades and places within our Realme of England to whome it shall or may appertaine that they or some of them being first lawfully deputed and appoynted by the said persons herein before named their Executors Administrators or Assignes or some of them for the leuying and receiuing the said dutie of one pennie vpon the Tunne as aforesaid from time to time at al tunes hereafter during the said terme of fiftie yeares before such time as they or any of them shall or may giue any Cocket or other discharge whatsoeuer or before they shall receiue or take any entry respectiuely of or for any Ship Barke or Vessell which hereafter shall passe or repasse by or alongst the North Coast aforesaid shall demaund collect and receiue the said dutie and allowance of one pennie vpon the Tunne in the voiage outward and inward herein before specified respectiuely of and for all and euery such Ship Hoye Barke or Vessell belonging to any Merchant Fisherman or other person or persons our naturall borne Subiects Denizens and Strangers as shall sayle and teade from Port to Port by or along the Coast aforesaide except the Maister or Owner of the same Ship Barke or Vessell shall produce shew forth a receipt or acquittance of and for the payment of the said dutie vnder the hand and seale of such officer or officers as shall be deputed and appoynted by the said persons herein before named their Executors Administrators or Assignes in euery or any such Custome-house or place from whence the said Shipe or Vessell shall come testifiing the payment and receipt thereof to be there duly had and made And that all and euery such Customer collector or other officer in our said Custome-houses to be appoynted and deputed as aforesaid shall yeeld and make iust and true accompts and payments of all and every such collections sum summes of money as by him them or any of them shall be collected or receiued from time to time vnto the said Sir William Erskine Knight and Iohn Meldrum their Executors Administrators or Assignes to be by them either or any of them receiued and reteyned to their owne proper vse and behoofe for in respect of their great and continuall charges to be susteined and borne in erecting renewing altering remouing and continuall maintaining of the said Light-houses and Lights in the night season as aforesaid without any accompt or other thing therefore or for any part thereof by them to be made or giuen for the same other then the yearely rent hereby to vs our Heyres and Successors receiued yeelding and paying therefore vnto vs our Heires and Successors the yearely rent or summe of six pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence of lawfull money of England at the receipt of our Exchequer at Westminster or to our Receiuer or Receiuers of our Countie of Norffolke for the time being at the feast of the Annunciation of the blessed virgine Mary and at S. Michaell the Arch-Angell by even and equall proportion during the said terme or within thirty dayes next after eyther of the said feastes And to the end that the said S VVilliam Erskine and Iohn Mledrum their Executors Administrators and Assignes shall and may the better haue enioye the full force benifit and effect of this our present graunt and to the intent and purpose that the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinitie House of Debtford Strond aforesaid and all others whosoeuer may be restrayned during the terme of Fiftie yeares aforesaid from continuing reparing renuing remouing and maynteyning any Light-house or Light-houses already erected and set vp since March last within the space of two Miles of the Towne of Winterton aforesaid and from erecting and setting vp during the said terme any other new Light-house or Light-houses at or neere the said Towne or within two miles thereof and of and from the receiuing hauing or taking by any wayes meanes or pretences whatsoeuer any collection contribution sume or sumes of money whatsoeuer for the same during the said Terme of Fiftie yeares before specified notwithstanding any former course taken or had by or for the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinitie house of Debtford Srond aforesaid for the Light-houses since March last by them ecected at or neere VVinterton aforesaid Wee doe by these presents for vs our Heires and Successors authorize the Lords of our Priuie Councell for the time being and wee doe also straightly charge require and command all Mayors Sheriffes Iustices of peace Captaines of our Castles and Forts Bayliffes and other Officers and Ministers whatsoeuer of vs our Heyres and Successors to whom it doth and shall appertaine that they and euery of them bee from time to time hereafter ayding and assisting vnto the said William Erskin Knight Iohn Meldrum their and either of their Executors Administrators and Assignes substitutes factors and seruants and euery of them in concerning the premises vpon euery complaint to be made touching or concerning the same according as in Iustice shall be by them or any of them desired and requested in that behalfe and these presents or the intolement thereof shall be vnto them and euery of them a sufficient warrant and discharge for the doing performing and executing the same AND lastly we doe hereby signifie and declare our expresse will and pleasure to be and we doe for vs our Heires and Successors straightly charge and command the said Maister Wardens and Assistants of the Trinitie house of Debtford-Strond and their successors that they and euerie of them their factors and seruants appoynted by them shall and doe immediately from henceforth surcease and desist as well of and from erecting or setting vp of any Light-house or Light-houses at VVinterton aforesaid or within two miles compasse thereof as aforesaid as of and from the continuing or maintaining of any Light or Lights burning in any Light-house or Light-houses since March last by them there erected or set vp that they and euery of them shall for beare from henceforth to demande receiue or take any dutie payment allowance or benifit of or from any our subiects or others trading or passing by or alongst the said Coast for or in respect of the same Light-house or Light-houses by or vnder any colour pretence or pretext whatsoeuer any Act Statute Ordinance Prouision Charter and Graunt heretofore had made enacted or prouided or any other cause consideration matter or thing to the contrarie thereof in any wise notwithstanding that vpon the paine and perill of incurring our high and heauie displeasure for their contempt or neglect of this our royall will and commandement herein so expresly declared in this behalfe although expresse mention of the true yearely value or certainty of the premises or of any of them or of any other gift or graunt by vs or any of our Progenitors or Predecessors to the aforesaid Sir William Erskine and Iohn Meldrum or either of them before these times made in these presents is not made or any Statute Act Ordinance Prouision Proclamation or Restraint heretofore had made set forth ordained or prouided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoeuer to the contrarie in any wise notwithstanding In witnesse whereof we haue caused these our Letters to be made Patents witnes our selfe at Westminster the 18 day of Feb. in our 15 yeare of our Raigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the 51. God saue the King

¶ By the Lords of His Maiesties Priuie Councell WHereas in diuers Ports of this Kingdome the Officers of the said Ports doe exact a certaine pettie duety commonly called Head-money vpon euery Passenger aswell at their going forth as at their entrance into the Kingdome which is now absolutely taken away and abolished by a Treatie some few yeeres since made and concluded betwixt His Maiestie and the most Christian French King that now is both in these His Maiesties Kingdomes as also in the Realme of France and all other Dominions belonging to that Crowne as concerning those of the English and French Nation These shall bee to let you knowe that His Maiestie intending as alwaies hee hath done really to obserue the said Treaty in that and all other Articles therein contained hath giuen strait charge and commandement that no Officer nor other person whomsoeuer shall presume hereafter to exact or demand the said Head-money vpon any Subiects of His good Brother the most Christian French King that shall haue occasion to passe at that Port or any the members thereof either at his going forth or landing but that it may bee free for all such persons of what condition or degree soeuer against whome there shall bee no other particular cause of restraint to passe as aforesaid without the exaction of this or any duetie of the like nature whatsoeuer To which His Maiesties Royall pleasure and expresse commandement Wee doe in his Highnesse name straitly charge and command you and euery of you whome it may concerne to conforme your selues that you doe not henceforth demaund or suffer to be demaunded the said pretended duetie commonly called Head-money nor any thing in the nature or Lieu thereof as you will answere the contrary at your perill and as you will auoid His Maiesties high displeasure Giuen at the Court at Whitehall the fifteenth of March in the fifteenth yeere of His Maiesties Reigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the one and fifty 1617. To all Maiors Portreeues Customers Comptrollers Searchers of Ports and all other His Maiesties Officers whom it may concerne and to euery of them G. Cant. Pembroke Th. Edmonds Fr. Bacon Canc. T. Arundell Tho. Lake T. Suffolke Iames Hay Iul. Caesar Lenox F. Cary. ❧ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Deputies and Assignes of Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie AN. DOM. M.DC.XVII receiue and take the moietie or one halfe thereof according to the true meaning of this our graunt of and from the Marchants and owners of the goods in the Shippes Hoyes Barkes and vessells from time to time according to the quantitie of the goods and Marchandizes wherewith the said Shippes Hoyes Barkes or vessells shall be fraught or laden And that the said persons hereafter named their or either of their Executors Administrators or Assignes substitute or substitutes one or more of them shall or may likewise lawfully demaund receiue and take of euery Shippe Hoye Barke Fisherman or vessell being the Shippe Hoye Barke or vessell of any Aliene Denizen or stranger not being our naturall borne Subiects that shall happen to sayle or passe from Port to Port by or alongst the said North Coast the like dutie of one pennie upon the Tunne in the voyage outward and inward as aforesaid which we will and ordaine for vs our Heyres and Successors shall be collected and taken by the persons hereafter named their Exequetors Administrators Debutis or Assignes at or in the Port Harbour Creeke or Roade within any part of our Dominions where the said Shippes Hoyes Barkes or vessells of any such stranger shall harbor or put in although the same Shippe or vessell shall not there be vnladed or discharged of any the goods or Merchandizes wherewith it shall be fraught or laden And that the same dutie of one pennie vpon the Tunne as aforesaid being once paide and the receipt thereof being testified by those who shall be appoynted to receiue the same the said Masters and owners of Shippes and other vessells as well our naturall borne Subiects as strangers shall be then freed and discharged of and from the payment of the said dutie in euery or any Port or Ports in which the said Shippes or vessells shall or may happen or come in euery or any such voyage as aforesaid KNOVV YEE therefore that wee as well in consideration of the premises as for diuers other good causes and considerations vs hereunto mouing of our speciall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion haue giuen and graunted and by these presents for vs our Heires Successors wee doe giue graunt vnto our trustie welbeloued seruants Sir VViliam Erskin Knight and Iohn Meldrum Esquire their Executors Administrators and Assignes as well in regard of the true faithfull and acceptable seruice by the said Sir William Erskine Iohn Meldrum to vs heeretofore done and as being the first suters vnto vs for the erecting and setting vp of Light-houses at or neer Winterton aforesaide as also for other good causes and considerations vs thereunto mouing free libertie licence power and authoritie that they or any of them shall and may lawfully make builde erect set vp remoue and maintaine or cause to be made builded erected set vp remoued and maintained in all such place and places of the said North Coast within the compasse of two miles of the Towne of Winterton in our County of Norfolke as to them shall seeme most fit needfull and requisite such and so many conuenient Light-howses with continuall Lights to be burning in them during all the night time whereby the said Seafaring men may take notice and be warned of the dangers thereabouts and so be the more able to auoide and escape them and the said ships and vessells may the better ariue come into their Ports and Harbors without perill as to them the said Sir William Erskine and Iohn Meldrum their Executors Administrators and Assignes or any of them shall be thought fit requisite and needfull And for the great continuall charges to be from time to time susteyned borne in about the erecting and maintaining of the said Lights and Light-howses we doe for vs our Heires and Successors will ordaine giue and graunt to the said Sir VVilliam Erskine and Iohn Meldrum their Executors Administrators Deputies and Assignes full power and authoritie that they and euery of them shall and may lawfully demaunde receiue haue and take of and from the Masters and Owners of Shippes Hoyes Barkes Fishermen and other Vessells passing or sayling by or alongst the said North Coast one pennie vppon the Tunne according to the burthen of the same Ships or vessels for euery whole voyage inward outward as aforesaid to be from time to time answered and payd either in such Port or places where the same Ship or Vessell shall be fraught or laden or else in such Port or place where the same Ship or Vessell shall be discharged and vnladen as aforesaid