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A69350 By the King, orders for thorow-posts, and curriers, riding in post in our affaires England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1621 (1621) STC 8675.2; ESTC S386 2,548 1

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❧ By the King ¶ Orders for thorow-Posts and Curriers riding in Post in Our Affaires THe lords of the Priuie Councell endeauoring heretofore the like furtherance of the Seruice of the State aswell in horsing such as ride on their Princes Affaires as the speedie dispatch of Packets in all places where Postes were erected and ordeined considering that for the seruice of the one a daily Fee is allowed and for the other no certaine wages at all but the hire of the Horses let out and that often ill payed whereby they stand not so bound to the one as to attend the other And that the Townes and Countreys besides became many wayes vexed and perplexed by the ouer great liberty of riders in Poste especially by such as pretend publike Seruice by speciall Commission contrary to the Kings meaning or their Lordships Orders Who minding nothing more then the particular good of his Seruants and subjects for the benefite of the one reliefe of the other and more regard to the good vsage of all Owners of Horses and the beastes themselues did thinke it expedient to digest and set downe sundry necessary Orders indifferent for all parties to obserue and follow Which Orders being by vs reuiewed and considered are now according to the necessity of the times thought meete to bee estsoones allowed and published The execution whereof we seriously recommending to the Master and Comptroller of all Our Postes for the better warranting and directing of Postes so farre as this Seruice may concerne them Wee doe hereby straitly charge and command all and euery Lieutenants of Shires deputy Lieutenants Iustices of al Assises and Peace Sheriffes Mayors Bailiffes Constables Headboroughs and all other his Officers Ministers louing subjects to be aiding and assisting to the same with their vtmost helpe authority and countenance where need shall require as they tender the furtherance of the seruice of the State and our displeasure 1. FIrst it is ordered That in all places where Postes are laid for the Packet they also as persons most fit shall haue the benefit and preheminence of letting furnishing appointing of Horses to all riding in Poste that is to say with Horne and guide by Commission or other wise And to that end shall keepe and entertaine of their owne or haue in a readinesse vnder their direction such and so many able and sufficient Post-horses with conuenient furniture as their owne abilities will beare or that the contributorie prouision of the Townes and Countreys shall enable them vnto or afford And if it fall out that Curriers or Thorow-Posts riding in our Affaires by speciall Commission come so thicke or in such numbers that their ordinary prouision will not suffice then the Constables of the places where they dwell with the assistance of the chiefe Magistrates there and of the countreys adioyning being required in our name shal take vy bring in and supply the Postes with horses where they may be had or hired 2 ANd like as in the Orders for the carying of the Packets the furtherance of our seruice and the State is only aymed at so in this it is intended that none be holden to ride on publike affaires but with speciall Commission the same signed either by one of our principall Secretaries of State or sixe at the least of our Priuy Councell or the Master and Comptroller generall of the Postes for all iourneys outwards and from the Court onely And to the Court the Lords of the Priuy Councell of Scotland any Lieutenant Deputy of Gouernors in Ireland the Presidents of Councels or Vicepresidents established in the North or in the Marches of Walles the Gouernor of Barwiche Any Ambassadour Gouernours of Townes or Agents beyond the Seas The Warden of the Cinque Ports or his Lieutenant of Douer specially sending to the Court to the body of the Councell or Secretaries of State or any Pachet so directed that it may appeare the party dispatched there with rideth in our special Affaires the Ambassadors of forreine Princes within this our Realme and the ordinary Posts for France and Flanders allowed and by their badges sufficiently commissionated excepted and of all such so riding in publique Affaires it shall be lawfull for the Postes or the owners of the Horses to demand for the hire of each Horse after the rate of two pence halfepeny the mile besides the Guides groats But of all others riding Poste with Horne and Guide about their priuate businesses the hire and prices are lest to the parties discretions to agree and compound within themselues 3. IT shall not be lawful for any person whatsoeuer riding in Post by Commission or other wise to take and ride away the Horse or Horses of any man Poste or other not hauing first or aforehand fully payd and satisfied for the price and hire vnto the Owners or the Post for them nor ride them further then the next immediate Stage without changing without the knowledge and consent of the Poste of the Stage by whom he rideth in Poste nor charge any Horse so taken to ride in Post with any Male or burden besides his Rider that exceedeth the weight of thirty pounds Neither shall any man so riding in Post offer to ride any mans Horse aboue seuen miles the houre in Summer viz. From the first of Aprill till the last of September nor aboue sixe in Winter which shall be accounted the rest of the yeere And if any shall wilfully disobey herein or in any point hereof to the manifest hurt or hinderance of the Horse his Owner The Officers and Magistrates of the place vpon complaint made shall stay the parties offending vntill they haue giuen present satisfaction or sufficient securitie to repay the damage FInally as it is onely intended that our seruice in this kind be at all hands furthered and the Posts to that end in all their wants and wrongs to right themselues by the help and authority of the Magistrates Townes Countreys as abouesaid So if the seruice shall seeme vnto any Post a burden ouergreat for his priuate state to beare and vndertake and the Townes and Countreys notwithstanding the ease and quiet they reape thereby no way willing to countenance encourage or enable him thereto or otherwise in regard of yeres or indisposition shal not see reason to vnderlie the charge and trouble of the seruice as being a hinderance to his speciall duety in the seruice of the Packet The Poste in such case attending his peculiar charge the Constables and Magistrates of the places shall take order from time to time that Horses be prouided for all riding in Poste by Commission or specially sent in our Affaires as beforesaid in such fort as they were subject to do before there were any Posts there and as in places where are yet no standing Posts at all Vnto whom also our pleasure is that these Orders shall be in force and auaileable being deliuered them from the Master and Comptroller of the Posts so farre as they and any branch of them may concerne the furtherance of publike seruice or their owne reliefe Signed by his Maiestie and subscribed by Charles Stanhop Knight of the Bath Lord Stanhop of Harington Master and Comptroller generall of his Highnesse Postes God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1621.