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A22153	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	By the King, a proclamation for reforming the abuses in making of gold and siluer threed within this realme and for the inhibiting the importation thereof, from the parts beyond the seas.	1617.0		.xml	application/xml	3108	74	49	Wee therefore for the better execution of Our said will and pleasure , and preseruation of Our Bullion within this Our Kingdome , do further straitly charge & command , that no Goldsmith or Goldsmithes , Finer or Finers , Parter or Parters of Gold and Siluer within Our said Dominions , shall for their vse or benefit , vses or benefittes , fine , part , or cause to bee fined or parted any Gold or Siluer , or prouide or cause to bee prouided any Gold or Siluer , and the same vtter and sell or otherwise dispose to any person or persons whatsoeuer , whereby to make or cause to be made the said Gold and Siluer threed , except to such person and persons , as We shall license to make the same to Our vse ; And that the said Goldsmith or Goldsmithes , Finer or Finers , Parter or Parters or any of them , or any for them or to their vse or vses , shall not prouide , vtter , sell , or deliuer any Gold or Siluer at all to any person or persons whatsoeuer , without taking speciall notice of the names and habitations of such person and persons , as shall buy , receaue , or haue any such Gold or Siluer of them , to the end it may appeare to Us , to what vse and vses the same Gold and Siluer shall bee imployed , vpon paine of forfeiture of all such Gold and Siluer , and of vndergoing Our high indignation and displeasure , with such further paines and punishments , as for the same their defaults , may any wayes bee inflicted vpon them and euery of them , in this behalfe offending . And We doe further straitly charge and Command all and singuler person and persons whatsoeuer , within Our said Realmes and Dominions , that they nor any of them do , or shal at any time or times hereafter make , erect , set vp , mend , or vse any Frame , Engine , Instrument , Mill or Toole whatsoeuer , for the Drawing , flatting , milling and spinning of Gold and Siluer threed , or of Copper Gold and Siluer threed , or for the Drawing or Flatting , of wyer to the ende to make the same , without the lycence of Us , or such as We in that behalfe shal specially appoint , vpon the paines & penalties before expressed : nor that any person or persons whatsoeuer shall prouid or sell , or cause to bee prouided , or sould any Silke to be throwen or made fitting for the making or spinning of Gold or Siluer Threed , or of Copper Gold and Siluer Threed , except to such person and persons as We shal license to make the same to Our vse , vpon the like pains and penalties before mentioned .	cache/A22153.xml	txt/A22153.txt
