royal blazon or coat of arms C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT ❧ By the King. ¶ A Proclamation for the revocation and repeal of certain letters Patents, and of part of a Proclamation lately published for the keeping of a constant reel in Cloathmaking, and for the increase of the poores wages labouring therein. WHereas, according to several Certificates of sundry our Iudges and Iustices of Peace of diuers Counties of this Our kingdom, We did by Our letters Patents, bearing date the two and twentieth day of january last past, ordain and appoint that there should be a constant reel provided and kept by all Clothiers, and others, workers and makers of yarn and Cloath within Our realm of England and Dominion of Wales: And by Our Proclamation dated the ninth day of july then following, Wee did declare the tenor of the same letters Patents to all Our loving Subiects; Yet notwithstanding, the same not taking such good effect as by us was expected, and complaint being made thereof to the Lords and others of Our privy council; a letter was lately directed from them to the Iustices of Peace of Our county of Essex concerning the reformation of abuses in the manufacture of wollen Cloath;( which Wee intended by the said letters Patents and Proclamation) whereupon a Certificate being returned under the hands of Our trusty and well-beloved the Lord Maynard, the chief Iustice of Our Bench, and many other Iustices of Peace of Our said county of Essex, and the same being red before us( Wee sitting in council in Our royal person;) For the reasons in that Certificate expressed, it was ordered that the said letters Patents( being granted to John Etherington one of the Yeomen of Our Chamber, and to Henry Stracy) should be declared void, according to a proviso in them contained. And therefore Wee do by this Our royal Proclamation revoke, recall, and repeal the same letters Patents, and that part of the said Proclamation published for keeping of the constant reel, and increase of the poores wages; and do hereby declare the same to be void and of none effect to all intents and purposes whatsoever. given at Our Honour of Hampton-Court the eleventh day of December, in the twelfth year of Our reign. God save the King. ❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of John BILL. 1636.