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W3 R M2  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MONDROIT PROPOSALS BY THE GOVERNOR and ASSISTANTS OF THE King and Queen's Corporation, For Encouraging and Carrying on The Linen Manufacture in England.  
WHEREAS for the Encouraging, and more Effectual Establishing the Linen Manufacture in England, Their Present Majesties, at the Humble Petition of several Persons well Skilled in every Branch of the said Manufacture (as hath been lately certified by Mr. Attorney General in his Report to His Majesty in Council, wherewith His Majesty was fully satisfied) were Graciously pleased to Grant Their Letters Patents of Incorporation to them and their Successors for Ever, bearing Date the Seven and Twentieth Day of May last, together with divers Privileges and Immunities; And thereby were likewise pleased to Honour them with the Name of Governor and Assistants of the King and Queen's Corporation for the Linen Manufacture in England, As by the said Letters Patents may appear. Pursuant to which Grant the Patentees, with the Assistance of divers Worthy Persons since Joined with them, have raised a considerable Stock, and Set up the said Manufacture, and already made as Fine Linen as comes from Foreign Parts.  
NOW in Order to the Establishing the same in all parts of the Kingdom, both for Advancing of Land, and Setting the Poor at Work, They at a Court of Assistants held this Five and Twentieth Day of October, One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety, have, and do Agree upon these Proposals.  
I. That WHEREAS the General Joint Stock of the Company consists at present of Three Hundred and Forty Shares, They have agreed to lay open their Books at their Warehouse, being Salisbury Exchange in the Strand, until the Four and Twentieth Day of January next, for all Persons that are desirous to come in.  
II. That every Person that will be Interested in one Share in the said Joint Stock, He being thereby made a Freeman, and Entitled to all the Privileges of the said Corporation, shall pay Fifty Pounds for his said Share, and so for every Share to Robert Hooks Esquire, the present Treasurer of the said Corporation, who for the purpose aforesaid will attend at the said Salisbury Exchange, on Wednesday from Three in the Afternoon till Six, and on Saturday from Nine in the Forenoon till Twelve in every Week, being the certain Court Days of the said Company, or to the said Treasurer at his House in Basing-hall-street, London, any other Day of the Week. And every such Person or Persons at the same Court shall be Entered so many Shares in the Companies Books, as he or they shall have so paid for.  
III. That upon the Six and Twentieth Day of January next, a General Court of all Persons Interested shall be held at their Warehouse at Salisbury Exchange aforesaid, to consult of the necessary Affairs of the Company.  
The Proposals are to be had at Mr. Nicholas Dwpin Esquire at the said Salisbury Exchange, Gratis.  
GOD Save King William and Queen Mary.