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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22587	By the King a proclamation for preseruation of grounds for making of saltpeter, and to restore such grounds as are now destroyed, and to command assistance to be giuen to His Maiesties saltpeter- makers.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1635 (1635)	STC 9033; ESTC S123781	3,029	3

❧ By the King ❧ A Proclamation for preseruation of Grounds for making of Saltpeter and to restore such grounds as are now destroyed and to command Assistance to be giuen to His Maiesties Saltpeter-Makers ALthough by Our former Proclamations Wee haue declared the most necessarie and important vse of Gunpouder as well for supply of Our owne Nauy Royall and the shipping of Our louing Subiects as otherwise for the defence strength and safetie of Our people and Kingdoms and how great a blessing it is of Almighty God to this Realme that it naturally yeeldeth sufficient Mines of Saltpeter for making of Gunpowder without any necessity to depend vpon the dangerous chargeable and casuall supplies from Forreigne parts Yet notwithstanding Wee are informed that diuers of our Subiects of this Realme haue beene so farre from the apprehension of the care We haue take of the Kingdoms safety That they haue of late times sundry Wayes much more impaired and destroyed the growth and Mines of Saltpeter then formerly But howeuer as We in Our Princely care will not omit any prouidence against what inconueniences may ensue so must We not endure the contempts of such as be disobedient Subiects but by reuiuing aswell that Proclamation of the sixe and twentieth day of December one thousand sixe hundred twenty foure published by Our late deare father concerning Saltpeter as that which sithence was published in the first yeere of Our Reigne Let all sorts of Delinquents know that Wee intend strictly to proceed against them according to the seuerall branches thereof for all offences contrarie to the Tenor of the same since the promulgation thereof without respect of any person sauing that Wee thinke fit to declare that Wee will not haue any sacred ground be Stirred Digged or Opened by authority of any Commission granted or to be granted for this seruice And the better to meet with all offendours in this behalfe We haue lately Granted Our Speciall Commission to diuers of the Lords and others of Our Priuie Councill to whom we haue committed the trust and care of that important seruice Giuing them full power and authority aswell to assist Our Saltpeter-Makers and their Deputies in their lawfull proceedings in that imployment for such Our especiall seruice as also vpon complaint made vnto them or some of them and due proofe thereof made to giue speedy reformation to all impediments and mischiefes concerning the same And to take away all pretence of ignorance of Our Royall pleasure in this behalfe We by the aduice of the Lords and others of Our Priuie Council doe againe publish and declare and hereby strictly charge and command all Our Subiects of whatsoeuer estate degree or condition That no person or persons whatsoeuer within this Our Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales doe from hencefoorth paue with stone or bricke or Floore with board any Doue-house or Doue-coate or any such ware-house or out-houses as are allowed by Our Commission to be wrought for Salt-peter or any Cellar or Vault excepting onely in that part of the Cellar or Vault where the Beere lyeth and excepting such Cellars and Vaults onely wherein Noblemen and Gentlemen of reuenue and qualitie doe lay or draw their wine beere or cyder or other drinke for the prouision of their houshold or doe lay the same with lime sand grauell or other thing whereby the growth and encrease of the Mine of Saltpeter may be hindred or impaired but shall suffer the floore or ground of the places aforesaid to lie open with good and mellow earth apt to breed increase of the said Mine and Saltpeter and so continue the same And that no Inkeepers or others that keepe Stables for trauailers and passengers doe vse any deceitfull meanes or deuices whereby to destroy or hinder the growth of Salt-peter in those stables and that no stables at all other then the stables of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and of Gentlemen of qualitie bee found pitched paued or grauelled where the horse feet vse to stand but plancked onely nor be paued pitched or grauelled before the planckes next the maungers but that both places be kept and maintained with good and mellow earth fit and apt to breed and encrease the Mine of Saltpeter and be layed with nothing which may hinder or hurt the same And likewise that all euery such person and persons as hauing heretofore since the last Proclamation had any Doue-house Doue-coat Stable Cellar Vault Ware-house or other Out-houses which were then good Nurceries for the breed of the Mine of Salt-peter haue sithence carried out the good mould from thence and filled the place againe with lyme grauell sand rubbish or other like stuffe or paued boarded or plancked the same whereby the Grouth of the Mine of Saltpeter there hath beene decayed or destroyed shall and do within two monethes next comming take vp the said pauements boards or plankes againe and carry out the said grauell lyme and other stuffe from thence and fill the place againe with good and mellow earth fit for the encrease of Saltpeter three foot deepe at the least and so continue and keepe the same for the breed of Saltpeter Mine And for as much as Wee are further aduertised that it is growne of late to a frequent practice to erect Douehouses or to floore them three or foure foot from the ground whereby the quantity of the Mine of Saltpeter which was vsually wont to grow in the Floore of Douehouses is almost wholly decayed to the great preiudice of Our said seruice and which in time will bee a meanes to ouerthrow this worke Our Will and pleasure is and We doe hereby straitly charge and command that such Douehouses be forthwith by the present Owners or Occupiers thereof altered and amended by demolishing and pulling vp those Floores and false bottomes and by laying those Douehouses open and free to the bare earth or ground whereby the Myne of Saltpeter may grow and encrease according as anciently hath been vsed accustomed and that from henceforth no other or more Douehouses be erected or suffered to be built after that way or vpon any vpper lofts or Floores so much tending to the preiudice of that which should be seruiceable to the Common wealth And to the end that our Royall will and pleasure may from time to time hereafter be more duely obserued in the premisses We do hereby require and command all euery Our Iustices of Peace and all other Our Officers whatsoeuer That they euery of them vpon request to them made by Our Saltpeter-Makers or their Deputies authorised in that behalfe or any of them doe resort and enter into and make search in all Douehouses Cellars Vaultes out-houses and Stables other then as aforesaid there to view and see whether they be so Paued Grauelled or otherwise so built Floored or bottomed from the ground as aforesaid Or any other way or meanes practised in deceit or euasion or contrary to any the Proclamations of Vs or Our late Fathers published in that behalfe And thereupon to take order and see that a full and due reformation be thereof speedilie had and made according to Our Command herein and in Our former Proclamations declared and published in that behalfe Lastly for that notwithstanding all Our care and prouidence Wee may iustly suspect that there will still be discouered some refractorie persons in this behalfe Therefore We doe hereby require authorize all Our Iudges of Assise in their seuerall Circuits Iustices of Peace in euery seuerall County of this Kingdom Maiors Sherifes Bailifes Constables all other Our Officers Ministers from time to time as occasion shall require to be furthering helping aiding and assisting to Our Saltpeter-Makers and their deputies vpon request in that behalfe made according to the Tenour of Our said Commission and the effect of this and the former mentioned Proclamations of Our Father and of Our selfe And Wee doe hereby straitly charge and command all maner of persons whatsoeuer carefully and diligently to obserue and performe the said Proclamations before mentioned and Our Royall pleasure therein expressed as they and euerie of them will auoide Our heauy displeasure and the censure of being holden contemners of Our Royall Commandement in a matter of so high consequence for the publike seruice and safety of Our State and Kingdome and vpon such further penalties and punishments as for example to others their contempts and want of duty shall demerit and in Our High Court of Starchamber or otherwise shall be found fit to bee imposed vpon them Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall the foureteenth day of March 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.