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A22078 By the King a proclamation against the vse of pocket-dags. England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1613 (1613) STC 8481; ESTC S122803 975 1

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❧ By the King A Proclamation against the vse of Pocket-Dags WHereas the bearing of Weapons couertly and specially of short Dagges and Pistols truely termed of their vse pocket Dagges that are apparantly made to be caried close and secret hath euer beene and yet is by the Lawes and policie of this Realme straitly forbidden as carying with it ineuitable danger in the hands of desperate persons We are neuerthelesse giuen to vnderstand that the vse of them is suddenly growen very common So as for the gaine comming thereof both many are daily made and wrought within the Kingdome and as many brought in from forraine parts And some persons being questioned for bearing of such about them haue made their excuse That being decayed in their estates and indebted and therefore fearing continually to be Arrested they weare the same for their defence against such Arrests A case so farre from iust excuse as it is of it selfe a grienous offence for any man to arme himselfe against Justice and therefore deserues without more sharpe and seuere punishment But besides this euill consequence which alone is not to be neglected We have iust cause to prouide also against those deuilish spirits that maligning the quiet and happines of this Estate may vse the same to more execrable endes And therefore by this Our Proclamation We doe straitly charge and commaund all Our subiects and other persons whatsoever that they neither make nor bring into this Realme any Dagges Pistols or other like short Gunnes by what name soeuer they be or may bee called or knowen which are not or shall not bee of the full lenght of twelue inches in the Barrell at the least And that no person or persons shall beare or carry about him or them any such And further We doe will and commaund all and euery Our subiects and others whomsoeuer that haue or possesse any such in their owne hands or in the hands of any other to their vse That they do before the Feast of the purification of the blessed Virgin MARY next ensuing the date hereof either breake the same in pieces so as they may not bee vsed in any wise to shoot withall Or else that they deliuer and yeeld vp the same to some Justice of the Peace Mayor Baliffes or their principall Officer of or neere the Countie Citie Towne or place of his or their abode respectiuely there to remaine in safe custodie vpon paine of Our heauie displeasure and of such imprisonment penalties and other punishments as are due to the contemners of Our Royall Commandements Giuen at Newmarket the sixteenth day of Ianuary in the tenth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at Lodon by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO DOM. 1612.