❧
By
the
King
.
❧
A
Proclamation
for
reuocation
of
Mariners
from
forreine
Seruices
.
WHereas
within
this
short
time
since
the
Peace
concluded
betweene
vs
and
the
King
of
Spaine
and
the
Archdukes
our
good
Brothers
,
it
hath
appeared
vnto
vs
that
many
Mariners
and
Seafaring
men
of
this
Realme
,
hauing
gotten
a
custome
and
habite
in
the
time
of
the
Warre
to
make
profite
by
Spoile
,
doe
leaue
their
ordinary
and
honest
vocation
and
Trading
in
Merchantly
Voyages
,
whereby
they
might
both
reape
conuenient
maintenance
,
and
be
seruiceable
to
their
Countrey
,
And
doe
betake
themselues
to
the
Seruice
of
diuers
forreine
States
,
vnder
the
Title
of
men
of
Warre
,
to
haue
thereby
occasion
to
continue
their
vnlawfull
and
vngodly
course
of
liuing
by
Spoile
,
vsing
the
seruice
of
those
Princes
but
for
colour
and
pretext
,
but
in
effect
making
themselues
commonly
no
better
then
Pirats
to
robbe
both
our
owne
Subiects
their
Countreymen
,
and
the
Subiects
of
other
Princes
our
neighbours
,
going
in
their
honest
Trade
of
Merchandize
:
By
which
courses
they
doe
impeach
the
quiet
Traffique
of
Nations
one
with
other
,
leaue
our
Realme
vnfurnished
of
men
of
their
sort
,
if
we
should
haue
cause
to
vse
them
,
and
inure
themselues
to
an
impious
disposition
of
liuing
by
rapine
and
euill
meanes
,
although
by
reason
of
the
Vniuersall
Peace
wherein
we
are
at
this
present
with
all
Christian
Princes
and
States
,
they
may
haue
a
more
plentifull
employment
in
an
orderly
and
lawfull
Nauigation
,
then
at
any
time
of
late
yeeres
they
could
haue
had
:
We
haue
thought
it
necessarie
in
time
to
preuent
the
spreading
of
such
a
corruption
amongst
our
Subiects
of
that
sort
and
calling
,
whereby
our
Nation
will
bee
so
much
slandered
,
and
our
Realme
so
greatly
disaduantaged
.
Wherefore
wee
doe
will
and
command
all
Masters
of
Ships
,
Pilots
,
Mariners
,
and
all
other
sort
of
Seafaring
men
,
who
now
are
in
the
Martiall
seruice
of
any
forreine
States
,
that
they
doe
presently
returne
home
into
their
owne
Countrey
,
and
leaue
all
such
forreine
Seruices
,
and
betake
themselues
to
their
Vocation
in
the
lawfull
course
of
Merchandize
,
and
other
orderly
Nauigation
,
vpon
such
paines
and
punishments
as
by
the
Lawes
of
our
Realme
may
be
inflicted
vpon
them
,
if
after
this
declaration
of
our
Pleasure
,
they
shall
not
obey
.
And
we
doe
also
vpon
the
same
paines
straightly
charge
and
command
all
our
Subiects
of
that
profession
,
that
none
of
them
shal
from
henceforth
take
Letters
of
Marke
or
Reprisall
,
nor
serue
vnder
any
that
hath
such
letters
of
Marke
or
Reprisall
from
any
forreine
Prince
or
State
whatsoeuer
,
Nor
otherwise
employ
themselues
in
any
warlike
Seruices
of
any
forraine
State
vpon
the
Sea
,
without
speciall
License
obtained
from
our Selfe
,
or
from
our
high
Admirall
,
as
they
will
answere
the
contrarie
at
their
perils
.
And
forasmuch
as
although
wee
are
in
Peace
with
all
Christian
Princes
and
States
,
yet
during
the
continuance
of
the
Warre
betweene
the
King
of
Spaine
,
and
the
Archdukes
on
the
one
side
,
and
the
vnited
Prouinces
of
the
Low
Countreys
on
the
other
side
,
many
chances
may
happen
,
as
some
alreadie
haue
happened
,
of
difficult
interpretation
to
our
Officers
and
Subiects
how
to
behaue
themselues
in
such
cases
,
vnlesse
they
bee
explaned
vnto
them
:
Wee
haue
thought
it
conuenient
to
make
an
open
declaration
how
our
said
Officers
and
Subiects
shall
demeane
themselues
towards
the
Subiects
aswell
of
the
King
of
Spaine
and
Archdukes
,
as
also
of
the
States
vnited
in
the
cases
following
.
First
our
Pleasure
is
,
That
within
our
Ports
,
Hauens
,
Rodes
,
Creekes
,
or
other
places
of
our
Dominion
,
or
so
neere
to
any
of
our
sayd
Ports
or
Hauens
,
as
may
be
reasonably
construed
to
be
within
that
Title
,
Limit
,
or
Precinct
,
there
shal
be
no
force
,
violence
,
surprise
,
or
offence
suffered
to
be
done
either
from
Man
of
warre
to
Man
of
warre
,
or
Man
of
warre
to
Merchant
,
or
Merchant
to
Merchant
of
either
partie
,
but
that
all
of
what
Nation
soeuer
,
so
long
as
they
shall
be
within
those
our
Ports
and
places
of
our
Iurisdiction
,
or
where
our
Officers
may
prohibite
violence
,
shall
be
vnderstood
to
be
vnder
our
protection
to
be
ordered
by
course
of
Iustice
,
and
be
at
Peace
each
with
other
.
And
whereas
some
of
the
men
of
warre
of
ech
side
haue
vsed
of
late
,
&
it
is
like
wil
vse
in
time
to
come
,
though
not
to
come
within
our
Ports
,
because
there
they
know
we
can
restraine
violence
,
yet
to
houer
and
hang
about
the
skirts
of
our
Ports
,
some
what
to
Seaboard
,
but
yet
so
neare
our
coasts
and
the
entrie
of
our
Harbours
,
as
in
reason
is
to
be
construed
to
be
within
the
extent
of
the
same
,
&
there
to
await
the
Merchant
of
the
aduerse
part
,
&
do
seaze
and
take
them
at
their
going
out
of
our
Ports
,
which
is
all
one
in
a
maner
,
as
if
they
tooke
them
within
our
Port
,
and
wil
be
no
lesse
hindrance
to
the
trade
of
Merchants
:
Our
pleasure
therefore
and
commandement
is
to
all
our
officers
and
Subiects
by
Sea
and
Land
,
That
they
shall
prohibit
,
as
much
as
in
them
lyeth
,
all
such
houering
of
men
of
warre
of
either
side
,
so
neere
the
entrie
of
any
of
our
Hauens
or
our
Coasts
,
And
that
they
shall
rescue
and
succour
all
Merchants
,
and
others
that
shall
fall
within
the
danger
of
any
such
as
shall
awaite
our
Coasts
in
so
neere
places
,
to
the
hindrance
of
trade
and
traffique
outward
and
homeward
from
and
to
our
kingdoms
.
And
for
the
better
instructions
of
our
Officers
in
the
execution
of
these
two
Articles
,
We
haue
caused
to
be
sent
to
them
plats
of
those
Limits
,
within
which
we
are
resolued
that
these
Orders
shall
be
obserued
.
And
where
it
hath
happened
,
and
is
like
to
do
often
,
that
a
ship
of
warre
of
the
one
side
may
come
into
some
of
our
Ports
,
where
there
shall
be
a
Merchant
of
the
other
side
:
In
such
case
,
for
the
benefit
and
preseruation
of
the
lawfull
trade
of
Merchants
,
Our
pleasure
is
,
That
all
Merchants
ships
,
if
they
will
require
it
,
shall
be
suffered
to
depart
out
of
the
said
Port
,
two
or
three
Tydes
before
the
man
of
warre
,
to
the
intent
that
the
Merchant
may
be
free
from
the
pursuite
of
his
aduersarie
.
And
if
it
so
happen
,
that
any
ship
or
ships
of
warre
of
the
one
side
,
do
finde
any
ship
or
ships
of
warre
of
the
other
side
in
any
our
Ports
or
Roads
aforesaid
;
Like
as
our
Pleasure
is
that
during
their
abode
there
,
all
violence
be
forborne
:
So
doe
we
likewise
command
our
said
Officers
and
Subiects
both
on
Sea
and
Land
,
That
the
ship
of
warre
which
came
in
first
,
be
suffered
to
depart
a
Tyde
or
two
before
the
other
which
came
in
last
,
And
that
for
so
long
time
they
shall
stay
and
detaine
any
ship
of
warre
;
that
would
offer
to
pursue
another
out
of
any
our
Ports
immediatly
.
And
where
we
are
infourmed
,
that
notwithstanding
the
seueritie
of
our
Lawes
against
receiuers
of
Pirats
goods
,
many
of
our
officers
of
our
Ports
,
and
other
inhabitants
within
and
neere
vnto
them
,
do
receiue
dayly
goods
brought
in
from
Sea
by
such
as
are
indeed
Pirats
,
if
they
,
and
the
getting
of
their
goods
,
were
wel
examined
:
We
do
hereby
admonish
them
all
,
to
auoyd
the
receiuing
or
buying
of
any
goods
from
Sea
,
comming
not
into
the
Realme
by
lawfull
course
of
merchandise
,
for
that
they
shall
finde
,
we
are
resolued
so
to
preuent
all
occasion
and
encouragement
of
Pirats
to
be
vsed
by
any
our
Subiects
,
as
we
will
cause
our
Lawes
to
be
fully
executed
according
to
their
true
meaning
,
both
against
the
Pirats
,
and
all
receiuers
and
abetters
of
them
,
and
their
goods
.
Giuen
at
Thetford
the
first
day
of
March
,
in
the
second
yeere
of
our
raigne
of
Great
Britaine
,
&c.
God
saue
the
King
.