WHEREAS We by Our Proclamations have upon just Grounds restrained and forbidden all Trade and Commerce to and from Our City of London , and all other Cities Townes , Ports and Places within this Our Kingdom of England , which are not in Our actuall Possession and under Our obedience , but are possessed and held by the Rebels now in Armes against Us , or are Adhering , or Assisting to this Rebellion , untill they shall return or be reduced to their due obedience , thereby to prevent the Rebells of the meanes , which Trade and Commerce would afford them for the supporting and maintaining of this unnaturall Warre against Us their Soveraigne , and against Our good Subjects . And whereas by Our Proclamation dated the one and Twentieth day of November last past , for the better venting of the Cloath and Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom , We did publish and Declare Our pleasure to be , That it should be lawfull for any of Our Loyall Subjects , to carry all kind of Cloath and other Woollen Manufactures whatsoever , to any Port or Ports , which then were , or after should be in Our obedience and possession , and from thence ( paying the Customes and other payments to Us , and 〈…〉 such other payments as have been 〈…〉 place in Amity with Us. Which Licence or Freedom , We did likewise thereby give to all Merchants , Strangers , and their Factors , they only paying to Us Strangers-Customes and payments , and such other payments as have been usually answered and paid for Licences of White Cloaths , as by Our said Proclamation may appeare . Now for the furtherance and quickening of the Vent of Cloath and Wollen Manufactures for the releife and benefit of those Our Subjects ( being very many ) whose Imployments and Livelyhood consists in clothing and Manufactures of Wooll , and whose Condition , We have taken into Our Princely Consideration ; And having heard the opinions of divers Merchants expert in Trade We have upon mature deliberation and debate with Our privy Councell , and with their advice thought fit for the present to abate of Our own profit & Interest in the Customes , Duties , and payments of Merchants-Strangers for those Manufactures and to make them equall with those of Our own Subjects , for their better encouragement in the taking off and exportation of the same ; And therefore We do by this Our Proclamation Ordain , Publish , and Declare , That from and after the date of this Our Proclamation , and untill We shall otherwise provide and Ordain and signifie Our Pleasure to the contrary , it shall and may be lawfull to and for any Our Loyall Subjects , and likewise for any Strangers in amity with Us , to carry any kind of Cloath , or other Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom whatsoever to any Port or Ports , which either now are , or shall be in Our obedience and possession , and from thence ( paying only such Customes and other payments to Us , and such other payments for Licences of White Cloaths as have been usually answered and payd by Our own Subjects ) to Ship and Transport the same to any Forraigne place in Amity with Us. And to this purpose We Command all Our Admiralls , Vice-Admiralls , Captains of Ships , Captains of Forts , Customers , Comptrollers , Searchers , and all other Officers Ministers , and Loving Subjects , to give way to the exportation of the same ; And that they give the Merchants or their Factors , Strangers , or others neither in their Shipping , nor when they are at Sea , any interuption therein , they producing their Cocquets that they Shipped forth their Landing from a Port under Our obedience , and in Our possession . And likewise We command all Generalls , Colonells , Captaines of Horse and Foot , and other Our Officers of Our Army , that in their Conveying the said Commodities from any inward part of the Country to any Port as aforesaid , they give no interruption to any of Our Loyall Subjects or Forraigners , Trading as aforesaid .