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A22340 By the King a proclamation for the vtter prohibiting the importation and vse of all tobacco, which is not the proper growth of the colonies of Virginia and the Summer Islands, or one of them. England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1625 (1625) STC 8751; ESTC S122820 6,661 4

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buyers sellers spenders receiuers and concealers thereof may receiue such condigne punishment by fine or otherwise for their offences as by Our Court of Star-chamber or Court of Exchequer shall be thought fit And in case such Tobacco shall not or cannot be taken or found to bee seized that then euery such offender shall forfeit and pay to the hands of Our Agent or Agents in this behalfe for Our vse the full value of such Tobacco as the said offenders heretofore haue or hereafter shall haue imported bought sold vented or receiued as aforesaid beside such further punishment as shall be fit to be inflicted vpon them for their contempt And Our further will and pleasure is and We doe hereby declare That whatsoeuer Our said Agent or Agents their Assignee or Assignees vnder the hands and seales of the greater number of them haue already done or shall doe hereafter against any offender or offenders in requiring and taking the forfeiture of any Tobacco or the value thereof so imported or vttered as aforesaid or in the mitigating or taking any lesse summe then the value of the same of any such offender in the premisses or otherwise according to the good discretion of Our said Agent or Agents Wee doe and will from time to time approue and allow of by these presents And this signification of Our pleasure shall be as well vnto Our said Agent or Agents for the time being as vnto all and euery such Commissioner and Commissioners which haue beene or shall be imployed in or about this Our seruice a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalfe without any account to be by them or any of them respectiuely yeelded to Us Our Heires or Successors and without incurring any penalty in the doing or executing of this Our Seruice and Royall Command And forasmuch as heretofore diuers great quantities of Tobacco haue beene imported into this Realme vnder the name or names of sundry poore Mariners and other which are not able to pay the value thereof nor giue satisfaction for the same Our will and pleasure is the better to auoyd such frauds and deceipts in time to come That in whatsoeuer Ship or other Uessel any such Tobacco in greater or lesser quantities shall be found or discouered to haue beene or to be so imported and to be shifted away that seizure thereof cannot or shal not be made That then such Mariners or others who shall so import or couler the said Tobaccoes shall not onely be punished as aforesaid but that euery Master of such Ship or Uessell wherein such Tobacco shall be so imported or shifted away as aforesaid shall forfeit to Us the value of the said Tobacco and that such Ship or Ships shall be arrested and stayed by the Officers of euery Port or any of Our Agents their D●puties or Assignees respectiuely vntill the said forfeiture be duly answered and paid to the hands of Our said Agent or Agents to Our vse or su●h others as they sh●ll appoint in that behalfe And for the better execu●●on of the 〈◊〉 Wee doe straitly charge and commaund all Iustices of Peace Mayors Sheriffes Bailiffes Constables Hea● boroughs Tythi●gmen Our Warden and Constable of Our Cinque Ports and all other Our Officers and Ministers as well of Our Admiralties as otherwise and all other Our louing Subiects to whom it shall or may appertaine that they and euery of them at all time times hereafter and from time to time vpon sight of Our Letters Patents granted to Our said Agents or of a Deputation vnder the hands seales of Our Agents or any three of them be ayding and assisting to Our said Agent and Agents and their Deputie and Deputies and to such Our Commissioners as shall be from time to time appointed for or about this Our seruice And also to be from time to time ayding and assisting to all Our Searchers Wauers and to all such other person and persons as shall be authorized by Our said Agent or Agents or by Our Customers or Farmers of Our Customes for the searching seizing taking and carying away of all such Tobacco imported or hereafter to be imported or vttered or intended to be put to sale contrary to this Our Royall prohibition and commaund And if any person or persons shall bee found priuily or secretly to oppose or animate any others to contradict or withstand them in the due execution of this Our seruice and Royall commaund or to neglect the due execution thereof That then We do by these presents straitly charge and command all and euery Our sayd Officers respectiuely that euery such person and persons shall be apprehended and brought before Our Treasurer Chancellour of Our Exchequer or before any the Lords or others of Our Priuy Councell or before Our chiefe Baron or some other of the Barons of Our Exchequer for the time being to receiue such order for condigne punishment to be inflicted vpon them according to their demerits as shall be fit Giuen at Our Court at Theobalds the second day of March in the two and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XXIIII