By the King. 
A PROCLAMATION For the effectual prosecution of His Majesty's Commission for the Providing and Making of Salt-peter and Gunpowder.  
CHARLES R.  
WE having more than ordinary occasion to provide good and sufficient Saltpetre and Powder to furnish Our Stores, for the Defence and Safety of Our Realms and Dominions, have by Commission lately issued under Our Great Seal of England, committed the Management thereof unto Our Right Trusty and wellbeloved John Lord Berkeley, Baron of Stratton, and Our Trusty and wellbeloved Sir John Duncombe Knight, Thomas Chicheley Esquire, Commissioners for the Execution of the Office of Our Ordnance, William Legg Lieutenant of Our Ordnance, John Evelyn Esquire, Edward Sherborn Esquire, Clerk of Our Ordnance, and Ionas Moor Esquire; of whose care and fidelities We are well assured: Giving them Power by their Deputies and Workmen, to work all Saltpetre and Gunpowder to be made of Salt-peter digged within Our Realms and Dominions, and between the hours of Sunrising and Sunsetting, to search for and dig Saltpetre in all convenient places, as well in Our own as Subject's Lands; but not in any part of Dwelling-houses inhabited, or to break down Walls, or hazard Foundations, or dig in any Threshing or Maulting-Floors without consent of the Owners, nor in Dove-houses, Stables, or other Outhouses, but at convenient times of the day: with power by Warrant from the justice of Peace to take up such Carts and Carriages as shall be useful and necessary to carry on the said Work, paying Eight pence per mile for every Lunn they shall carry, according to the late Act of Parliament concerning Carriages, and to provide convenient Houses, Stables. Rooms, Yards, void places, Water, and other necessaries, and to Erect and set up Furnaces and Vessels fit for the making of Saltpetre, agreeing with the Owners; and if they be unreasonable in their demands, the next justice of the Peace to settle the same: And the said Deputies or Workmen, or any Beasts or Carriages employed in the said Works, are not to be Pressed for any other Service: And they are to repair and make good the places digged, or any way defaced: And if any difference arise, to be composed by the two next justices of the Peace to the place, if it be not in a City or Town-Corporate; and if there, by the Mayor, aldermans, or thief Officer: And if they cannot determine the same, to certify to the Lords of the Privy Council the names of the Offenders, with their Offences, that such further course may be therein taken, as shall be thought fit, as by Our said Commission (amongst other things) may appear. Now to the end so necessary a Work may not be obstructed, and to the intent Our said Commission may be duly observed, We have thought fit to publish the same by this Our Royal Proclamation. And We do hereby Will, and straight Charge and Command all and singular Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, and all other Our Officers, Ministers and Subjects whatsoever, to be Aiding and Assisting, and give due Obedience and Conformity in all things, in or concerning the Execution of the said Commission, as they tender Our high Displeasure, and will answer the contrary at their perils.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 16th day of July, 1666. In the Eighteenth year of Our Reign.  
God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1666.