I R  dieu ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and Tudor rose on one side and the Scottish unicorn and thistle on the other  
¶ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation declaring His majesties grace to his Subiects, touching matters complained of, as public grievances.  
THe Kings most Excellent majesty, taking into His Princely consideration, the many and great affairs treated of in His high Court of Parliament, which neither were, nor could be brought to perfection in any short time, as well for the weight and multitude thereof, as in respect of other Parliamentary proceedings, acted by His majesties assent and gracious allowance, which haue produced such memorable& rare effects of exemplary Iustice, as many ages past cannot show: And that although His majesty prolonged the Session to an unusual length; Yet could not the great and weighty businesses thereof bee concluded within any moderate time, which might stand with other His majesties most important occasions: And therefore, though His Highnesse was most willing to haue allowed them a longer time to sit, then at first he had resolved vpon, to the end he might haue given His royal assent to some profitable and necessary laws; yet it was found, and by the house of Commons thought more convenient for the present, to continue the same Session in course of adjournment which His majesty accordingly did, with purpose and full resolution( which He still continueth) to reassemble the same, for the final concluding of those and other causes, importing the public: And his Highnesse observing that diuers of them( though fit to receive a full period, and determination in Parliament) are very meet and necessary, for the good of His people, to be settled and ordered in the mean time by His own regal authority and direction; and some others are of that quality and condition, as His majesty needs no assistance of Parliament for reforming the same, and would haue reformed them before the Parliament, if the true state of His Subiects grievances had been then made known unto him.  
Therefore His majesty in this short time of cessation of Parliamentary proceedings, not allowing to himself any cessation or relaxation, from his continual care and watch over the public, vpon mature deliberation with His privy council, hath advised and resolved of sundry particulars, tending to the present ease of His people, and to the furtherance and aduancement of the flourishing estate of this kingdom; And is pleased hereby to publish the same to all His loving Subiects, for the comfort and encouragement of them, of whose sincere and good affectious, as at many other times, so in this His Parliament above others, he hath received abundant testimony: And therefore His majesty taking knowledge by the complaint of His Commons, of the great damage and disquiet of His honest and good Subiects, proceeding from the troublesone and restless spirits, and dispositions of Informers, and such as haue vexed them by Informations, and Supplicauits, in his majesties courts at Westminster; And that no small delay, and hindrance of the iustice, and peace of the country hath been occasioned, by the too frequent use, of Writs of Cerciorari,& of Writs of Supersedeas for the Peace, out of the same Courts,& that the common Iustice of the realm hath been much scandalised, and blemished by Orders vnduely obtained in Chambers, and out of Court: His majesty hath given to the Iudges of those Courts such provident and good Directions, accompanied with his strictest Charge and Commandement, for due observance of the same; as also, for abatement of exorbitant Fees in all their courts, as he doubteth not will produce an effectual reformation of those errors, being resolved to require a severe account, where he shall find remissness or default.  
And where the Masters of his high Court of chancery, haue of late taken diuers undue Fees and allowances, vpon References to them made out of the same Court, by colour of a privy seal in that behalf surreptitiously gotten; His majesty hath repealed, and revoked the said privy seal: And doth hereby straightly charge and command, that the same be not at any time hereafter put in execution, nor any the said Fees or allowances hereafter challenged or demanded. And whereas his majesty hath received information of sundry grievances lighting vpon many of his people, and chiefly the poorer sort, by reason of diuers privileges Licences, and other Letters Patents procured from His majesty, vpon suggestions made to his Highnesse, that the same should tend to the Common good and profit of his Subiects; Howbeit, vpon examination it doth appear, that many of the said grants were not onely obtained vpon false and untrue surmises, but haue been also notoriously abused: His majesty having heretofore published in Print his dislike of such suits, together with his hatred and detestation of all importunities to obtain or procure the same, is willing to manifest; That these abuses and surreptions against his precise Charge and Direction, haue confirmed Him in an utter distaste of suits of that nature, and is resolved, by making those Patents already obtained from Him to be fruitless to the Procurers, to discourage all others hereafter to press or importune him in the like. And therefore his majesty discerning, that these particular Patents ensuing: Namely, of, and concerning the making of Gold and silver foliat, The licencing of peddlers and petty Chapmen, The sole dressing of common arms, The exportation of Lists, Shreds, and other like things, The sole making of Tobacco pipes, The hot press, The manufacture of playing cards, and brogging of wool, haue been found of evil consequence, and some of them haue been much abused, contrary to His majesties gracious intention; and the same being made appear to the parties interressed in those Grants, they haue voluntarily submitted; which his Highnesse accepting, hath taken order for the present surrender of the same Patents; and doth hereby absolutely forbid all further execution of them, or any of them, or of any thing in them, or any of them contained, or of any Proclamation heretofore published, for, or in any sort to the furthering or strengthening of them, or any of them.  
And whereas at the importunity of some Suitors,& for their private benefit, sundry Commissions, and general Warrants under the great seal, or privy seal, haue been procured, concerning the pardoning or dispensing with Trades-men, for not serving a Prentice-hood, for pardoning or dispensing with the conversion of arable Land into Pasture, for licensing of Wine-caske, for making of Denizens, for granting of leets, for passing of parks, and Free-warrens, for granting of fairs and Markets, for granting of Tols, Stallages, and other like dueties, for Leasing of Tithes, for Passing or Leasing of concealments, Intrusions, Introachments, Lands out of Charge, and other Lands of like nature; the execution of which Commissions and Warrants hath not been answerable to his majesties Gracious intention, nor to the suggestions and specious pretences, whereupon He was moved and induced to grant the same: Therefore, and because the same Commissions and Warrants, being executory, are by Law reuokeable; His majesty doth hereby fully and absolutely revoke the same Commissions and Warrants, procured for the private benefit of any Suitor, and all Proclamations for the strengthening of them, or any of them: And doth utterly forbid all further and future Execution of them, or any of them, or of any thing in them, or any of them contained.  
And whereas diuers other privileges, Licences, and other like Patents, haue passed from his majesty; As namely, touching the Gilding and printing of Leather, Printing vpon Cloth, the making of paving tiles, Dishes, Pots, Garden posts, and vessels of earth; The making of ston pots, ston Iugs, and the like; the importing of Pikes, Carpes, eels, and Scallops, The making of Racket hoops, Rackets, and cloth balls, The making and selling of oil, invented for keeping armor, The importation of Sturgeon, The making of Garments of beaver, The making of hard wax, The making of Chamlets, The making of back Screenes, The making of fortage and lineage for Paper, The measuring of corn, coal, and Salt, The printing of Briefs, and other things vpon one side of paper, The weighing of Hay and Straw, The discovery of annoyances in the Thames, and Ballasting ships: His majesty doth hereby publish and declare his gracious Will and Pleasure, That all and every persons that at any time hereafter shall find themselves grieved, injuried, or wronged by reason of any of the said grants, or any Clause, Article or thing therein contained, may take their remedy therefore by the Common laws of the realm, or other ordinary course of Iustice, any matter or thing in the said grants to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And further, His majesty for the furtherance and increase of the Trade and Manufactures of this realm, and at the humble instance& petition of the Lords and Commons of his high Court of Parliament, having taken into his Princely care the Trade of the Outports of this realm in new Draperies; Hath, by and with the aduise of his privy counsel, and with the consent of the Merchant adventurers of the city of London resolved, and doth hereby publish and declare, That the Inhabitants of the Outports may from henceforth participate with the Merchant adventurers freely and indifferently in the foreign Trade of new Draperies, as well in the Mart towns, as in any other place where the Merchant adventurers shall give liberty to any of their own Company to vent those commodities: And that in the said Mart towns, and in all other places within the precincts of the Merchant adventurers, the Inhabitants of the Outports in the Trade of New Draperies, shall enjoy the privileges of the Merchant adventurers in aslarge and ample manner, as the Merchant adventurers do now enjoy and exercise the same; as also in all other Commodities whatsoever, wherein the said Outports haue freely& lawfully Traded in the time of the late queen Elizabeth; and with this further favour, That where the Merchant adventurers haue charged themselves with three pence vpon every Perpetuana, and other payments vpon other new Draperies, the Outports shall be free and exempt from those burdens.  
And where his majesty, by his Proclamation, dated the xxvi. of September, in the twelfth year of his reign, for the better preserving of the Manufacture of Cloth within this kingdom, and for the other considerations therein expressed, did prohibit the exportation of Sheepe-Woolls, Woolfells, and Fullers-earth; thereby charging and commanding all his loving Subiects of any his kingdoms or Dominions of England, Wales, and Ireland, and of the Isles of Wight, Garnesey, and jersey, as well Merchants of the Staple, as others; and likewise all Merchant Strangers whatsoever, That from thenceforth there should bee no manner of wools or Woolfells by them, or any of them transported out of any the said kingdoms, Isles, or Dominions, either into foreign parts, or out of any one of the said kingdoms, Isles, or Dominions, into any other of the same, or into the realm of Scotland, vpon pain of Confiscation of the same wools, and Woolfels, and all other pains and Penalties, which by the laws and Statutes of his majesties kingdoms, or by his prerogative royal, in respect of the contempt and breach of his Commandement, might be inflicted vpon them.  
And his majesty did likewise charge and command all Customers, controllers, Collectors, Searchers, and all other Officers, at the Ports, and all and every the farmers of the customs, and their Deputies, Ministers, and Waiters, not to permit any wools, or Woolfels, to pass out of any the said kingdoms or Dominions, or out of any the said Isles, neither under colour of carriage from Port to Port, nor otherwise openly nor privily, vpon pain of loss of their places, and such other punishment, as should be just and meet.  
And his majesty did further command and authorize all and every Iustices of Peace, and all Maiors and principal Officers of Cities& towns, that where they should be informed of any great and extraordinary quantity of wools and Woolfels, to bee gathered or bestowed in any barns, Storehouses, or other places of receipt near the Sea-coast, and out of the survey and view of the Officers of the Ports, That in every such case they should arrest such wools, and Woolfels, and take order by Bond or otherwise, for their stay and safe keeping, until they had certified his majesties privy council, and received order from them for the same.  
And his majesty did further charge and command all and every his loving Subiects, and all Merchant Strangers, and others, that there should bee no Fullers-earth exported out of any the said kingdoms or Dominions, vpon pain of Confiscation of the same, and any such other punishment, as by the Law, or by his prerogative royal, should be meet to be inflicted vpon the offenders therein: His majesty vpon the humble svit& Petition of his said Lords and Commons, is pleased to quicken the said former Proclamation; And therefore doth by these Presents, straightly charge and command all and singular persons, whom it shall or may concern, that the said Proclamation, as well in the branches and Clauses before recited, as in all and every other Branch, Article, and Clause therein, be from henceforth put in full and exact execution, it being his majesties full resolution to use all severity of Iustice against such as shall be found delinquents therein.  
And for a further advancement of Trade, his majesty is well pleased, and doth hereby publish and declare, That whereas by reason of some Orders of restraint, heretofore obtained by the Drapers of the town of Shrewsbury, the Trade of buying and selling of Welsh Clothes, Cottons, Freeses, linings, and plains, hath been restrained to some particular Markets, and places; the same Welsh Clothes, Cottons, Freeses, Linings, and plains, shall and may from henceforth bee freely bought and sold in all places, and to all persons, where and to whom the same by the laws of the realm, may bee sold, any Orders or restraints to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And further, that according to the svit and desire of the Inhabitants of the Dominion of Wales, expressed by a Bill in Parliament, which hath passed the House of Commons, all and every subject of this realm of England, and the Dominion of Wales, when the common and ordinary prices of Butter within the said Dominion of Wales, and county of Monmouth, shall not exceed the rates or prices of three pence the pound, from the last day of April, yearly unto the first day of november; and four pence the pound, from the last day of October yearly, unto the first day of April, until some act of Parliament shall pass, concerning the same, shall and may without incurring any penalty, or forfeiture therefore to his majesty( it being his good pleasure to remit the same) buy or cause to be bought any quantity of Butter, made or to bee made in the said Dominion of Wales, or county of Monmouth, and to transport any quantity of such Butter in any English or Welsh bottoms, into the parts beyond the Seas, paying therefore to his majesty all customs, Subsidies, and other Dueties due and payable for the same.  
And whereas the said Lords and Commons, became instant Suitors to his majesty, for the restraint of exportation of Iron Ordinance, although his majesty had before the sitting down of the Parliament settled a strict& safe course for that effect; yet inclining to their motion, as to a matter of high consequence, for the honour and safety of this realm, hath given strict charge therein to his privy council, who after long and deliberate aduise thereupon, by his Highnes Command, and after diligent examination, and perusal of all former Orders in that behalf established, haue added thereto such further Cautions,& prescribed such exact courses for the due execution of the same, as in the iudgement of all men will sufficiently secure his majesty, and all his loving Subiects of that peril and fear, which might be in any wise conceived in that behalf. And his majesty doth by these presents signify and declare His Gracious and Princely pleasure, that albeit He hath in good measure, as the shortness of the time would permit, devised and resolved vpon the several remedies above rehearsed, for the ease of His Subiects: Yet it is not His majesties purpose, that His grace& goodness to his people in matters of like nature, should bear no further fruit, but as time and opportunity will permit, He will enlarge and extend the same unto such other particulars, wherein he shall haue cause to conceive His Subiects may be justly grieved; and that until the sitting again of Parliament, both His own, and the ears of His privy council shall be open to the modest and just complaints of His people; as well concerning Monopolies and other Patents of evil nature and consequence, as concerning other grievances against the public: Admonishing nevertheless, that under colour thereof, no man presume to trouble his majesty or his council with causeless clamours, proceeding of humour or private respects.  
given at Our Court at Whitehall, the tenth day of july, in the nineteenth year of Our reign of Great britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON, and John BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent majesty. M.DC.XXI.