Whereupon His Majestie by like advice of his Counsell hath caused other Letters to be directed to the Justices and Conservators of the Peace in severall Counties; thereby declaring in what Townes and places Tobacco shall be permitted to be sold or uttered by Retayle, and hath Commanded the said Justices and Conservators of the Peace, to cause the names of those Townes and places specified in those Letters, to be written and affixed in publique places where the Assises and Sessions of the peace shall be kept, in those Counties, to the end that all His people may take notice that other places are not admitted or allowed for selling or uttering of Tobacco by Retaile. And by Letters directed to the said Maiors, Bayliffes, and other head Officers of Cities and Townes, His Majestie hath given notice unto them of the names of those that are permitted there to sell or deliver Tobacco in that manner, and hath Commanded them to give publique notice in the said Cities and Townes, of the names of those persons that are so admitted to sell or deliver it.
Now our said Sovereigne Lord the King doth straightly prohibite all His people, that after the feast of Candlemas next[1] comming after the date of these presents, none of them out of the said Cities or Townes so appointed as aforesaid, or within the said Cities, or Townes, no others but those named as aforesaid, and such as from time to time shall bee permitted in like manner, doe sell or deliver any Tobacco by Retayle, and that none of them that are permitted or allowed in this behalfe, keepe any Taverne, Alehouse, or Victualling, or otherwise sell any distilled or hot Waters, Wine, Ale, Beere, or Cyder in their houses, so long as they shall bee permitted to sell Tobacco by Retayle: And for that the necessities of these times require it, His Majestie doth charge and command all His Subjects to obey these His Ordinances, under the paines to bee inflicted upon contemners of the same, and of His Royall will and pleasure, being for the good of His people: All which His pleasure is shall bee observed untill Hee shall by His Proclamation, or Letters of His Privie Counsell make other publique signification of His pleasure herein. And Hee doth charge and command all Justices of Peace, and all Maiors, Bayliffes, and head Officers of all His Cities and Townes within His said Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales, and all those who are permitted to sell Tobacco by Retaile, that they make diligent enquirie of all those that shall presume to doe against this Command, and from time to time to make certificate of their names, and places of their residence, with the particular of their contempts, to the Lords of His Majesties Privie Councell.
Given at the Court at Whitehall the thirteenth day of October,[2] in the ninth yeere of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
God save the King.
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the Assignes of John Bill. M.DC.XXXIII.
2 pp. folio. There are two issues, varying only in the cut of the royal arms. Copies in Antiq., Bodl., B. M., Camb., Crawf., Dalk., P. C., P. R. O., and Q. C. Printed in Rymer's "Fœdera," xix, 474.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] February 2, 1634.
[2] This proclamation is entered in the Privy Council Register under date of August 14 (Acts of Privy Council, i, 191), probably the date of the original draft by the attorney general. Rushworth, in his Historical Collections, ii, 191, lists it under the date of August 13. Rymer's Fœdera assigns to it the date of October 13, as given in the printed proclamation.