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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73967	By the King. As the princely care and continuall vvatch, vvhich wee haue ouer the good of our louing subiects, may in part appeare, by the course which wee haue taken, for a reuiew and consideration of many of our statute lawes: ... some such new lawes may be made ...; Proclamations. 1610-09-24	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1610 (1610)	STC 8451; ESTC S124135	2,485	3

¶ By the King AS the Princely care and continuall watch which Wee haue ouer the good of Our louing Subiects may in part appeare by the course which Wee haue taken for a reuiew and consideration of many of our Statute Lawes wherein Wee were desirous that in stead of the multiplicitie of the same and doubtfulnes that may arise in the interpretation of them whereof some are worne out with time some vnfit for execution by the change of times and of others some branches onely standing in force and the rest repealed some such new Lawes may be made as shall be most necessary for the good of Vs and our people and the same more cleare and plaine to their vnderuanding whom it may concerne then they haue bene or are in some cases For the better preparation wherof being a worke of so great labour We haue already caused our Priuie Councel to make choice of some discreet persons learned in the Law not onely to make collections of them as they stand now in force but to digest them into some such orderly Method imparting the same also to our learned Councell as Our Iudges may peruse their labours before they bee presented to the Parliament where Our meaning is to leaue them to such consideration and resolution as may produce the best effects for the publique good which is the only scope of Our intention So although Wee know that by the constitution of the frame policie of this kingdome Royall Proclamations and Ordinances are not of equal force nor in the like degrees with our Lawes Yet hauing made some obseruation That the number of Proclamations is great both of former times and of Our owne and that in diuers of them conteyning many politique and necessary Commaundements and Admonitions published at seuerall times according to the varietie of accidents and tending onely to the good of Our people there are some remayning wherein Our directions were intended to bee but Temporary some others set foorth so neerely one vpon another though to one and the same ende some others that are not so cleerely penned to the capacitie of the vulgar sort but doe either carry some shewe of Ambiguitie or contradiction or may at least serue for a colour to the ill disposed to neglect the same and may giue occasion to some others well affected to omit the performance onely by misvnderstanding of Our royall pleasure therein And where Wee haue also helde it an office appertayning to Vs and as a power vnseparably annexed to our Crowne and Royall Authoritie and such as our Progenitors in the happiest times haue vsed and exercised to apply speedie proper and conuenient remedies out of our Royall power in all cases of sodaine and extraordinary accidents and in matters so variable and irregular in their nature as are not prouided for by Law nor can fitly fall vnder the certaine rule of a Law and yet may greatly import either the preseruation and good of Vs and our people or the publique honour and ornament of Our Kingdome Forasmuch as Wee haue also bene giuen to vnderstand that there is obseruation made of some more generall neglect in obeying Our Proclamations then is fit to be tolerated We haue likewise held it fit not only to giue order for a reuiew of such Proclamations as are passed formerly but by the deliberate aduice of Our Priuie Councell and for the reasons that are before mentioned to determine such of them as are not now thought necessary and conuenient for the publicke weale and to alter and reforme others where Wee found cause Hereby requiring and commanding all our louing Subiects more duely and readily hereafter to apply their obedience to the rest which Wee doe leaue now in force or shall hereafter set foorth according to the most necessary and important occasions of this Estate And therefore whereas in the first yeere of our Raigne a Proclamation was set foorth touching the prices of Victuals within the Verge And the like Proclamation was set foorth the tenth of Iuly in the second yere of our Raigne And that we are giuen to vnderstand that such abuses may be for the most part reformed and the Offenders punished by the Law Wee doe declare both the said Proclamations to be determined And whereas a Proclamation was set foorth bearing date the eleueuth day of Ianuarie in the first yeere of Our Reigne concerning the choise of Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament wherein were contained diuers politique and necessary directions and admonitions for caution and respect to be vsed in the said Elections Forasmuch as it did referre properly to the summons of the Parliament now past long since Wee doe by these presents declare the said Proclamation to be determined And wheras a Proclamation was set forth by Vs bearing date the eighteenth day of Iune in the second yeere of our Reigne for the true winding and folding of woolles Forasmuch as the abuses therein mentioned are partly holpen by the Law as it now standeth and if any thing be defectiue it is more fit for a remedie by Acte of Parliament We doe by these presents determine the same And whereas there hath bin set forth by vs taking light from the example of our deare Sister Elizabeth foure seuerall Proclamations touching buildings and Inmates in and about the Citie of London greatly importing not onely the health good estate safetie and beautie of the said Citie but likewise by an infallible consequence the vniuersall weale and preseruation of our Person Court and Kingdome Wee haue thought fit for the better execution of the good therby intended to draw all the said Proclamations into one briefe and cleare forme which our Princely Resolution is to haue hereafter straitly obserued although Wee could wish that some things in that behalfe might be further considered by our Parliament seeing the matter hath beene so often moued and neuer effected And whereas We haue also set foorth diuers Proclamations forbidding the making of Starch wherein there may seeme to be some ambiguitie We haue thought fit to determine all the saide Proclamations in that behalfe minding to publish one other for the repressing of so great an enormitie We haue also taken into our Princely consideration the necessity of taking some politique order against excesse of Apparel for the inlarging the vent of Cloth for furnishing of the Realme with seruiceable Armour for stay of transporting of Our Treasure into forraine parts against selling of Ships and for restraint and preuention of Depredations at Sea Some of which points are not at this time prouided for neither by Law nor Proclamation and some other are not so sufficiently and seuerely prouided for as the greatnesse of the mischiefe requireth But because we are willing to make triall whether the remedies for these great enormities may not be reduced vnder some regular forme of Law Wee haue forborne for the present to giue order in them by way of Proclamation Giuen at Our Honour of Hampton Court the 24. day of September in the eight yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ❧ Jmprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1610.