Whereas there is and hath been yeerely, and euery yeere, on festiual dayes, and others, great store of the siluer and guilt plate belonging to the Kings Maiestie, the Prince, and nobles of this realme lost ... Proclamations. 1624-02-14 England and Wales. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A22316 of text S100909 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 8722). 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. 2 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 A22316 STC 8722 ESTC S100909 99836736 99836736 1022 2240937751

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A22316) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 1022) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1601:51) Whereas there is and hath been yeerely, and euery yeere, on festiual dayes, and others, great store of the siluer and guilt plate belonging to the Kings Maiestie, the Prince, and nobles of this realme lost ... Proclamations. 1624-02-14 England and Wales. Privy Council. James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1 sheet ([1] p.) By Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, Imprinted at London : M.DC.XXIII. [1623, i.e. 1624] Seeking the return of plate stolen from the Chapel Royal. Signed at end: Whitehall this fourteenth of February, 1623. Richmond, Lenox. Pembroke. T. Edmonds. The year date is given according to Lady Day dating. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Church plate -- England -- London. Archaeological thefts. eebo Whereas there is and hath been yeerely, and euery yeere, on festiual dayes, and others, great store of the siluer and guilt plate belonging to the Kin England and Wales. Privy Council 1624 1 384 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 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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DIEV ET MON DROIT

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

royal blazon or coat of arms

WHereas there is and hath been yeerely , and euery yeere , on Festiual dyes , and others , great store of the Siluer and guilt Plate belonging to the Kings MAIESTIE , the PRINCE , and Nobles of this Realme lost , the Armes defaced by euill disposed persons , broken in pieces , moulten into Lumpes , and cast into Ingots , and sold to diuers Goldsmiths , and others , to the great Damage and Detriment of His MAIESTIE , and the persons aforesaid : And whereas also there is now very lately taken off , and lost from the Communion Table , in His MAIESTIES Chappell at Whitehall , two Siluer Basons double Guilt , Chased , hauing the Armes of Queene MARY , and M. R. engrauen and enameled on the Bosse in the Bottomes of them :

THese are therefore in His MAIESTIES Name straitly to charge and command all Maiors , Sheriffes , Iustices of Peace , Wardens of the Cinque-Ports , Goldsmiths , and Finers , of what nature or kinde soeuer , Constables , Bayliffes , Headboroughs , and other His MAIESTIES , Officers and Subiects , to whose hands any such Siluer Plate , with the Armes defaced , either broken in pieces , moulten into Lumpes , cast into Ingots , or any other wayes disfigured , and suspected , or found to be in any wise belonging to His MAIESTIE , or the Persons aforesaid , either by Examination , Circumstance , or Confession shall happen to come ; That you , and euery of you , doe make returne of all and euery such Siluer and Plate , as aforesaid , into His MAIESTIES Office of His Iewell-House , and the Examinations and Confessions of the Parties apprehended therfore , into the Office of His MAIESTIES Green-cloth : And hereof faile not , as you will answere the contrary at your perils .

From Whitehall this Fourteenth of February , 1623. Richmond , Lenox . Pembroke . T. Edmonds . God saue the King .

Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton , and Iohn Bill , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie . M.DC.XXIII .