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A22541 By the King a proclamation for preuenting of deceipt vsed in the importation of madder. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1631 (1631) STC 8976; ESTC S3579 3,965 3

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the Stamps for the best sort of Madder shall bee engrauen with this word Crop for the second sort with this word Ghemeene and for the third and worst sort with this word Mull. And if vpon tryall any of the said Madder bee found to bee mixt or burthened with aboue two pounds of Earth or Sand in the hundred weight Then shal the said Officer enter in a Booke to be kept for that purpose the weight of the Sand or Earth so mixt therewith vpon the Seale shal be added this word Mixt with a figure shewing that the same Madder is mixt and imperfect and shewing also in what proportion in the hundred pound weight that mixture is made vpon which side of the Seale also shall be exprest the name of the Port or place whereinto the said Madder was first brought with certaine Figures and Letters of Direction vnto Our said Officers Books of Register whereof Wee will all Our louing Subiects to take speciall notice to the end that after they haue bargained for any parcell of the said Madder they may by carrying or sending a Copie of that side of the Seale vnto Our Officer in that Custome-house at Custome house time haue Certificate vnder his hand of the proportion of the mixture thereof if the Seale should be altered According whereunto Wee doe straitly charge and command all persons selling Madder to make allowance and abatement vnto the Dyers or other Buyers of such Madder containing such vndue mixture That all Clothiers Dyers and all other persons occupying Madder within this Kingdome shall according to the proportion of the mixture of the said Madder with Earth or Sand adde a like quantitie or proportion of good Madder in the Dye Fat to the end the colours therewithall dyed may be made full good and without blemish or imperfection That the said George Bedford Our present Officer hauing already taken his corporal oath for the faithfull performance of Our trust and his duety in this behalfe Our will and pleasure is that such Oath shall be likewise administred vnto his seuerall Deputies and so many of them as shall be sufficient for the performing of this seruice in the seuerall Ports of this Kingdome And Wee doe hereby straitly charge and command all and singular Maiors Sheriffes Iustices of the Peace Bailiffes Constables Headboroughs Tithingmen Customers Collectors Comptrollers Searchers Waiters Messengers Farmors Deputies and all other Our Officers Ministers and louing Subiects whatsoeuer That they and euery of them from time to time and at all times when Our said Officer or his Deputies in Our name shall require them thereunto bee aiding and assisting vnto the said George Bedford Our Officer his Deputies and Assignes for the time being in all things in or about the accomplishment of Our Royall will and pleasure in Our said recited Letters Patents or in the Warrants of Our high Treasurer of England as is hereby expressed And that they or any of them doe not any way hinder molest interrupt let deteine or keepe Our said Officer his Deputies or Assignes or any or either of them from or in the execution of this Our Seruice or any thing touching the Premisses as they tender Our displeasure and will auoid the same at their perill Lastly that if any person of what estate degree or condition soeuer shall hereafter offend in any part of the Premisses or shall falsifie deface alter or take off any of the said Seales from the Bale Fat or other thing in which the said Madder was first brought into this Kingdome before the same be all vsed and spent Our will and pleasure is That immediate notice bee giuen thereof vnto Our Attourney Generall for the time being whom Wee will and require in Our behalfe to prosecute and proceede against the Offendors in Our Court of Starchamber or Exchequer-Chamber or any other Our Courts as the cause shall require to the end they may receiue such seuere Censure and coudigne Punishment as by the Lawes and Customes of this Kingdome or Our Prerogatiue Royal may be inflicted on them for such their Contempt Disobedience and wilfull breach of Our Royall will and Commandement and for their frauds and abuses Giuen at Our Court at East-Greenwich The fifteenth day of Iune in the seuenth yeere of Our Reigne God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAIESTIE and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill M.DC.XXXI