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A22537	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	By the King a proclamation concerning tobacco.	nan		.xml	application/xml	2050	66	56	And it is now come to passe , That those Our Forreigne Plantations , that might become vsefull to this Kingdome , lingering onely vpon Tobacco , are in apparant danger to be vtterly ruined , vnlesse Wee speedily prouide for their subsistence ; The bodies and manners of Our people are also in danger to bee corrupted , and the wealth of this Kingdome exhausted by so vselesse a Weede as Tobacco is ; which beeing represented vnto Us by the humble Petition of Our louing Subiects the Planters and Aduenturers in Virginia , and also by the like humble Petition of the Retailers and Sellers of Tobacco in and about Our Cities of London and Westminster , Wee haue thought it worthy of Our Princely care , as a matter not only fit for Our profit , & the profit of Our people , but much concerning Us in Our honour and gouernment so to regulate the same , and compell due obedience thereto , that Our Forreigne Plantations and Colonies may bee supported and encouraged , and they made vsefull to this Kingdome , by applying themselues to more solide commodities , that the healths of Our Subiects may be preserued , the wealth of this Kingdome enlarged , and the manners of Our people so ordered and gouerned , that the world may not iustly taxe Us , that these are at once endangered only by the licentious vse of Tobacco . And therfore hauing seriously aduised hereof , Wee , by the aduice of Our Priuie Councell , haue now resolued vpon , and published these Our Commands following concerning Tobacco , which Our Royall will and pleasure is , shall be in all things obserued vpon paine of Our highest displeasure , and of such paines , penalties and punishments , as by Our Court of Exchequer , and Court of Starre-Chamber , and by any other Courts and ministers of Iustice , or by Our Prerogatiue Royall can be inflicted vpon the offendors .	cache/A22537.xml	txt/A22537.txt
