By the Kings Maiesties surueyor of coales to be shipped at Newcastle vpon Tyne, Sunderland, and Blythe, and other places adjacent, to be brought to the city of London, or otherwise to be spent within the realme of England This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A22131 of text S3127 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 8537). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A22131 STC 8537 ESTC S3127 33142989 ocm 33142989 28186 2240925511

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A22131) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28186) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1875:80) By the Kings Maiesties surueyor of coales to be shipped at Newcastle vpon Tyne, Sunderland, and Blythe, and other places adjacent, to be brought to the city of London, or otherwise to be spent within the realme of England 1 sheet ([1] p.). Eliot's Court Press, [London : 1616] Imprint from STC (2nd ed.). Line 1 of text ends "then." Names only the Newcastle office. Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries. eng Coal trade -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Boyde, Andrew. Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo By the Kings Maiesties surueyor of coales to be shipped at Newcastle vpon Tyne, Sunderland, and Blythe, and other places adjacent, to be brought to th [no entry] 1616 1 548 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2010-03 Sampled and proofread 2010-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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1615

By the Kings Maiesties Surueyor of coales to be shipped at Newcastle vpon Tyne , Sunderland , and Blythe , and other places adiacent , to bee brought to the City of London , or otherwise to be spent within the Realme of ENGLAND .

THe Kings most Excellent Maiestie , affecting nothing more then the good of his losting Subiects in generall , and hauing beene very credibly enformed of the great abuses & wrongs daily committed in mingling amongst coales , commonly called Newcastle coales , much blacke Earth , Dirt , Slate , and other bad stuffe not fit to burne or serue for firing , and so doe bring and vtter the same into this Realme , and thereby for the most part doe make good coales vnmerchantable , to the great hurt and preiudice of the buyers therof , which are very many : whom for the preseruation of woods , many Noble-men , Knights and Gentry of this Realme ( besides others of his Maiesties Subiects ) doe burne of the same coales .

Hath beene graciously pleased by his Highnesse Letters Patents , vnder his Maiesties great Seale of England , bearing date the sixe and twentie day of February , in the thirteenth yeere of his Maiesties raigne of England , France and Ireland , and of Scotland the nine and fortieth , to prohibite and suppresse such wrongs and abuses , as aforesayd : And to appoynt a Surueyor of the said coales , who , or his Deputie or Deputies are to bee attending and attendant in and about the searching , viewing , seeing and surueying of the said coales ; And are appointed to enforme and complaine against such as shall offend in such mingling as aforesaid ; And to haue a Seale of office vnder which to certifie what coales , and of what sort of goodnesse of coales , any Master , Owner or Shipper , doe or shall take in , fraight or lade into their ships or boates at the places abouesayd , to bee brought to the City of London , or otherwise to be spent within this Realme of England , To the end that the buyers of the said coales may the better know or bee enformed of the goodnesse or badnesse of them .

And also , if any person or persons , shall at any time or times heereafter haue any cause or causes of complaint against any Master , Owner , Shipper , or others , for selling vnto them such vnmerchantable coales , as aforesaid : Let him or them repaire vnto Andrew Boyde Esquier , his Maiesties Surueyor in that behalfe appointed , or vnto his Deputie or Deputies , & there in writing leaue his or their cause or causes of complaint touching the premises , & speedy Information , according to the prouision of the said Letters Patents , shall be made and giuen against such as doe or shall offend against the same Letters Patents : As his Maiesties most gracious pleasure is therein signified .

The Office is kept at the Towne of Newcastle vpon Tyne .

God saue the King .