❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation prohibiting interloping and disorderly trading to New England in America.  
AS it hath ever been held a principal Office of Christian Kings, to seek by all pious means the advaucement of Christian Religion; so the consideration thereof, hath been a special motive unto Us, from time to time, as often as cause hath required, to further, by Our Royal authority, the good disposition of any of Our well affected Subjects, that have a will to attempt the discovering and planting in any parts of the World, as yet savage and unpossessed by the Subjects of any Christian Prince or State. And now for that, by God's sacred favour, there is likely to ensure great advancement of his glory, Our Crown, and State, by reason of Our grant heretofore made to the Counsel for the managing of the affairs of New England in America, being in breadth from forty degrees of Northerly latitude from the Equinoctial line, to forty eight degrees of the said Northerly latitude, and in length by all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main land from Sea to Sea; We cannot but continue Our speticall respect and favour unto them in their endeavours, and exercise Our Royal authority against the hinderers thereof. Wherefore, having receined certain information of many and intolerable abused offered by sundry interlopers, irregular and disobedient persons, that seeking principally their present and private profits, have not only impeached some of the Planters there, of their lawful possessions, but also taken from them their Limber without giving any satisfaction, as in justice they ought to have done: and not there with contented, have rined whole woods to the utter ruin of the same for ever after; as also, by casting of their ballast in the harbours of some of their Lands, have almost made them unserviceable: And yet not so contented, by their promiscuous trading, aswell Mariners as Masters with the Savages, have overthrown the trade and commerce that before was had, to the great profit of the Planters, and which were in deed their principal hopes for the advancement of that plantation, next unto the commodities that coast affords of Fishing: Neither herewith satisfied, but as if they resolved to omit nothing that might be impious and intolerable, they did not forbear to barter a way to the Savages, Swords, Pikes, Our kets, Fowling pieces, Match, Powder, Shot, and other warlike weapons, and teach them the use thereof, not only to their own present punishment (diverse of them being shortly after slain by the same Savages, whom they had so taught, and with the same weapons which they had furnished them withal) but also to the hazard of the lives of Our good subjects already planted there, and (as much as in them lay) to the making of the whole attempt itself (how pious and hopeful soever) frustrate, or so much the more difficult. We, for reformation and prevention of these or the like evils hereafter, and for the more clear declaration of Our Kingly resolution and just intents, both to maintain Our Royal grant already made, and to uphold and encourage by all ways and means the worthy dispositions of the undertakers of those designs, have thought fit, and do hereby straight charge and command, That none of Our Subjects whatsoever, (not Adventurers, Inhabitors or Planters in New England) presume from henceforth to frequent those Coasts, to trade or traffic with those people, or to intermeddle in the woods or freehold of any the Planters or Inhabitants (otherwise then by the licence of the said Counsel, or according to the orders established by Our Privy Counsel for the relief or ease of the transportation of the Colony in Virginia) upon pain of Our high indignation, and the confiscation, penalties and for feitures in Our said Royal grant expressed: Leaving it nevertheless, in the mean time, to the discretion of the said Counsel for New England, to proceed against the foresaid offenders according to the same, especially, seeing We find the arms of the said Counsel to be open to receive into that plantation any of Our loving Subjects, who are willing to join with them in the charge, and participate in the profits thereof.  
Given at Our Court at Theobald, the sixth day of November, in the year of Our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, the twentieth, and of Scotland the six and fiftieth. 
 God save the King.   

Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. M.DC.XXII.