By the lords of His Maiesties priuie councell whereas in diuers ports of this kingdome, the officers of the said ports doe exact a certaine pettie duety, commonly called head money ... England and Wales. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A22151 of text S3727 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 8562). 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 A22151 STC 8562 ESTC S3727 33150858 ocm 33150858 28786 2240917124

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A22151) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28786) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1875:91) By the lords of His Maiesties priuie councell whereas in diuers ports of this kingdome, the officers of the said ports doe exact a certaine pettie duety, commonly called head money ... England and Wales. Privy Council. James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1 sheet ([1] p.). By Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, Deputies and Assignes of Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Imprinted at London : An. Dom. M.DC.XVII [1617, i.e. 1618] "Head money" no longer to be collected from French subjects. "Giuen at the Court at Whitehall the fifteeneth of March, in the fifteenth yeere of His Maiesties Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the one and fifty, 1617." Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries. eng International travel regulations -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France. Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo By the lords of His Maiesties priuie councell whereas in diuers ports of this kingdome, the officers of the said ports doe exact a certaine pettie due England and Wales. Privy Council 1618 1 485 1 0 0 0 0 0 20.62 C The rate of 20.62 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 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
By the Lords of His Maiesties Priuie Councell .

WHereas in diuers Ports of this Kingdome , the Officers of the said Ports doe exact a certaine pettie duety , commonly called Head-money , vpon euery Passenger , aswell at their going forth , as at their entrance into the Kingdome , which is now absolutely taken away and ablished , by a Treatie some few yeeres since made and concluded betwixt His Maiestie and the most Christian French King , that now is , both in these His Maiesties Kingdomes , as also in the Realme of France , and all other Dominions belonging to that Crowne , as concerning those of the English and French Nation : These shall bee to let you knowe , that His Maiestie intending ( as alwaies hee hath done ) really to obserue the said Treaty in that and all other Articles therein contained , hath giuen strait charge and commandement , that no Officer , nor other person whomsoeuer , shall presume hereafter to exact or demand the said Head-money , vpon any Subiects of His good Brother the most Christian French King , that shall haue occasion to passe at that Port , or any the members thereof , either at his going forth or landing , but that it may bee free for all such persons , of what condition or degree soeuer , against whome there shall bee no other particular cause of restraint to passe , as aforesaid , without the exaction of this or any duetie of the like nature whatsoeuer . To which His Maiesties Royall pleasure and expresse commandement ; Wee doe in his Highnesse name straitly charge and command you and euery of you , whome it may concerne , to conforme your selues , that you doe not henceforth demaund , or suffer to be demaunded the said pretended duetie , commonly called Head-money , nor any thing in the nature or Lieu thereof , as you will answere the contrary at your perill , and as you will auoid His Maiesties high displeasure .

Giuen at the Court at Whit●hall the fifteenth of March , in the fifteenth yeere of His Maiesties Reigne of England , France , and Ireland , and of Scotland the one and fifty , 1617. To all Maiors , Portreeues , Customers , Comptrollers , Searchers of Ports , and all other His Maiesties Officers whom it may concerne , and to euery of them . G. Cant. Pembroke . Th. Edmonds . Fr. Bacon , Canc. T. Arundell . Tho. Lake . T. Suffolke . Iames Hay . Iul. Caesar . Lenox . F. Cary.

❧ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton , and Iohn Bill , Deputies and Assignes of Robert Barker , Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie . AN. DOM. M.DC.XVII .