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DIEV ET MON DROIT
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
Present, • The Kings most Excellent Majesty, , • Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury , • Lord Keeper , • Lord President , • Lord Privy Seat , • Duke of
Ormond , • Duke of
Albemarle , • Earl of
Huntingdon , • Earl of
Sunderland , • Earl of
Clarendon , • Earl of
Bathe , • Earl of
Craven , • Earl of
Rochester , • Lord Bishop of
London , • Lord
Dartmouth , • Mr. Secretary
Jenkins , • Mr. Chancellor of the
Exchequer , • Mr. Chancellor of the
Dutchy , • Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas. ,
and • Master
Godolphin.
WHereas the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee for Trade and Foreign Plantations, did this day Report to the Board, That in obedience to an Order of the Eleventh of April last, They have examined the Petition of the Merchants Adventurers of England, setting forth, That divers Aliens and other Foreigners have Traded, and continued to Trade, contrary to the Charter granted by His Majesty, and His Royal Predecessors, to the said Fellowship of Merchants, whereby their Priviledges are invaded, and the great Advantages enjoyed by His Majesties Subjects at Hamburgh, and elsewhere, brought into danger of being lost; to the discouragement of the Trade of Woollen Manufactures, and Navigation of this Kingdom: And further, That their Lordships have likewise been attended as well by the chief Merchants of the said Company, as by some of the Persons complained of, as Interlopers; and although it was Proposed, That for the satisfaction of all Parties, and the better Management of this ancient and beneficial Trade, the said Persons might become Members of the Company, and enjoy the same Priviledges and Advantages as are granted to His Majesties Subjects by the said Charter, and the Concordats agreed on by the City of Hamburgh; Yet finding that the said Interlopers have not onely refused to enter into the said Company, but seem resolved to persist in their former Practices; The said Lords Committees did humbly offer it as their Opinion, That Directions be given for Prosecuting in His Majesties Name, all such as shall violate the Priviledges of the said Company: And further, That no Letters of Denization be hereafter granted to any Person by His Majesty, without a Clause whereby the same shall become void, in case such Person shall presume to Trade contrary to His Majesties Royal Charters. Which His Majesty having taken into Consideration, and approving of their Lordships Advice herein, did accordingly Order, That Sir Robert Sawyer Knight, His Majesties Attourney-General, do from time to time, as Application shall be made unto him by the said Company of Merchant Adventurers, effectually Prosecute in His Majesties Name, all such Persons as the said Company shall Inform him, and be able to prove that they have violated their Priviledges, by Trading contrary to their said Charters.
And it was further Ordered by His Majesty in Council, That in all Patents of Denization hereafter to be granted, there be Inserted a Clause for Vacating the same, in case it shall be made appear that the Person Endenized do Trade contrary to the Royal Charters granted to the said Fellowship, or any other Company. Whereof the Right Honourable His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State, His Attourney-General, and Sollicitor-General are to take notice, and to cause this His Majesties Pleasure to be carefully observed.