By the King whereas the Kings Maiestie hath alwayes bene ready to imbrace and cherish such a perfect amitie betweene him and the king of Spaine ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) 1605 Approx. 8 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A22013 STC 8373 ESTC S123958 33150765 ocm 33150765 28746 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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WHereas the Kings Maiestie hath alwayes bene ready to imbrace and cherish such a perfect amitie and friendship betweene him and the King of Spaine , and the Archdukes his good brethren , as might stand with his owne Honour , and the common good of his people ( For the better and more particuler obseruation whereof , there hath bene lately passed a Treatie , wherein his Maiesties royall will and pleasure is made so notorious to the world in all things , as whosoeuer doeth , or shall crosse the sinceritie of his Maiesties intention by any action of theirs , cannot auoyd the censure of high & wilfull contempt against his person and State , ) Although his Maiestie is not ignorant , that these offences for the most part , are dayly committed by such , as ( partly out of their owne originall corruption , and partly by habite of spoile and rapine ) are become so insensible or desperate of the perill they draw vpon themselues , and the imputation they cast vpon the honour of their Soueraigne ( so precious to him ) as his Maiesty is driuen for repaire thereof , to make open profession of his sinceritie in this kinde , more often then otherwise he would : Neuerthelesse , his Maiestie hauing lately found by many circumstances , that most of these great faults do grow and multiply , by negligence of inferiour Officers , ( especially such as are resident in the Ports , and dwell in the Maritime Counties , ) from whom his Maiestie expecteth so continuall care and vigilancie ( not onely out of feare of his Maiesties displeasure , but euen for conscience sake , ) as they should bee rather industrious watches ouer those that runne such wicked courses , then ( in any degree ) Receitors or Abettors of the same , considering that those are as well accomptable to God , that hinder not the euill of others ( being in their power , and incident to their peculiar places and dueties ) as those that are the personall Actors , or contriuers of the same : His Maiestie hath thought it necessary once againe to publish to all persons of what place or condition soeuer within his Maiesties Dominions , these Rules and Ordinances following , as things whereunto hee commandeth all persons ( whatsoeuer ) to yeeld their duetifull obedience , vpon perill of his heauie indignation , and the grieuous paines belonging to the same . FIrst , his Maiestie commandeth that no Seaman or Mariner whatsoeuer , shal be suffered to put himselfe into any Warlike seruice at Sea of any forreine Prince or State , straightly charging all that are in any such Seruice already , to leaue the same presently and without delay , and to record their apparance in their natiue Countrey , to some of his Maiesties Officers , vpon paine to be held and punished as Pirats . Item , If any person offending , doe at any time hereafter come into any port , or place of his Maiesties Dominions , vpon what pretext soeuer : his Maiestie expresly chargeth all his Officers foorthwith to apprehend the same , and to commit them to prison without Baile or Mainprise , and the Certificat thereof to be presently returned into the Admiraltie Court , to the ende that they may bee proceeded withall , according to the Lawes of the Realme , and the contents of his Maiesties former Proclamations . Item , His Maiestie commandeth all his Subiects , ( as they will auoyd his heauie indignation ) to forbeare to be aiding or receiuing of any Pirats , or such persons as shall continue in any such Warlike seruice , as aforesaid , or any person not being a knowen Merchant , by contracting , buying , selling , or by victualling of them , or any of their Company , vpon paine for so doing , to be punished presently , as the principall Offendors and Pirats ought to be . Item , That no shipping , or men of warre , of what estate or condition soeuer , going forth with commission of reprisall , or in any other warlike maner to serue at Seas , shall be permitted in any of his Maiesties ports , or in the members thereof to victual or relieue themselues with any warlike prouisions , thereby to enable themselues the better , to any acts of hostilitie at Sea against any of his Maiesties friends : but onely in their returne homewards , if they happen to come into any of his Maiesties ports , that then it shall be lawfull for them to relieue themselues with victuall , or other necessaries to serue them onely for the space of twentie dayes and no more , which is a proportion reasonable to vse in trade of merchandize . Item , That all vice admirals , Customers , or other officers of the Ports shall not suffer any Ship of his Maiesties subiects to goe to the Seas , before such time as they ( respectiuely in their seuerall ports ) haue duely searched and visited the same , to the intent to stay such persons as apparantly shall be furnished for the warres , and not for merchandise or fishing . And if there shall be any maner of suspition , that the said person ( though he shall pretend to trade for merchandise or fishing ) hath or may haue any other intent by his prouisions or furniture , then to vse the trade of merchandise or fishing , that in such case of suspition , the officers of the Ports shall stay , and no wayes suffer the same to passe to the Seas , without good bands with sufficient sureties first had , to vse nothing , but the lawfull trade of merchandise or fishing . And if the said officers shall suffer any persons otherwise to repaire to the Seas , then aboue is mentioned , they shall not onely answere for any Pyracies , which any such person shall chance hereafter to commit vpon the Seas , but shall suffer imprisonment vntill the offenders may be apprehended , if they shall be liuing . And further , as his Maiestie declareth and denounceth generally all such Pyrates and Rouers vpon the Seas to be out of his protection , and therefore to be lawfully pursued and punished to the vttermost extremitie : so because his Maiestie presumeth , that all other States and persons in peace and friendship with him , will thinke it iust and honourable to proceede towardes him , with the same sinceritie , which hee obserueth towards them : His Maiestie doeth also hereby notifie to the world , that where it falleth out that diuers of his Subiects are or may bee enterteyned to serue at Sea vnder Captaines and Commaunders belonging to some forreine Prince or State , ( which are now or may be in termes of Hostility with any of his Maiesties friends ) thereby imagining , when they shal ( vpon occasion ) enter with their Shippes into any of his Maiesties Harboroughs , that they shall be free from any interruption , according to the libertie of Common Amity and correspondency which is vsually obserued betweene Princes in such cases , onely because the Commaunder or Captaine with some few persons besides are straungers , and the rest onely discouered to be his Maiesties Subiects : For as much as his Maiestie ( hauing made his iust and equall intentions thus apparant to all men by his publike Proclamations ) would be loath to frustrate the expectation of any his friends whome it doth or may concerne : He doth hereby declare to all the world , that if hee shall hereafter finde any such fraudulent course taken , in hope colourably to auoid the true construction of his so iust and necessarie ordinances , the breach wherof giues cause of further trouble and iealousies to arise betweene his Maiestie and other Princes in the mutuall exercise of their Subiects free trade and entercourse : he will make absolute stay of any such shippes and persons , which shal be so brought into his Portes or Harboroughs , as persons and thinges wholly exempted from that protection and fauour , which hee entendeth to maintaine and affoord to all others which shall not in such kinde goe about to abuse his Maiesties integritie , whose desire is to receiue no better measure in any thing , then he is willing to yeeld to others vpon the like occasions . Giuen at our Castle of Windsor the viij . of Iuly 1605. in the third yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine , France and Ireland . God saue the King. ❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker , Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie . ANNO DOM. 1605.