same) to fish for Whales, or trade or fish in all or any other parts or places, of the said Seas or Coasts of Greenland and Chery-Island, Except the Harbours and places of Bell Sound and Horn Sound aforesaid, or where the said Company shall set out Ships to fish, And We do hereby command, That all persons whatsoever (other then the said Fellowship and Company) do forbear to enter into the said Bell Sound or Horn Sound, or to fish or trade within Three Leagues of either of them, but clearly and absolutely leave the said Bell Sound and Horn Sound, and all the sole and whole fishing and trading thereof, unto the said Fellowship and Company, and their Ships and Agents, and such as shall be set forth, hired or imployed by them, without making any disturbance or interruption, or giving the said Company or their Ships or Vessels, any impediment or hinderance therein, under pain of Our high displeasure, and such other pains and penalties as by the Laws of this Land may be inflicted upon them for their disobedience and contempt therein, Leaving all other the People and Subjects of this Commonwealth free notwithstanding, to take Licenses from the said Company to trade or fish for Whales or otherwise, in and upon all other of the said Seas, Coasts and places, Except the said Bell Sound and Horn Sound, and such other places of Green-land, as the said Fellowship or their Agents shall fish in, as aforesaid. And We do hereby further will and command, aswel Our Generals at Sea, Admirals of Our Fleet, Vice-Admirals, Commanders of Squadrons, and other Commanders, Captains and Officers whatsoever, of any Our Ships, as also Our Judges of the High Court of Admiralty of England, and all other Our Officers and Ministers, in their several places to be aiding and assisting, unto the said Fellowship and Company, and all such as they shall set out and imploy in their said sole Trade and fishing, and in hindring all others hereby forbidden to use the said Trade and fishing, otherwise then as is before mentioned. And likewise to be aiding and assisting unto the said Fellowship and Company and their said Agents, in doing and executing of all and singular the premises. And lastly, We do hereby charge and Command the said Fellowship and Company, That in all Ships and Vessels which shall from time to time be sent out by them, or imployed under them, into or in the Seas and parts aforesaid, they do imploy for Harpineers, Steersmen and Mariners, the People and Subjects of this Commonwealth, and no other.

Given at Our Palace of Westminster the 9th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, 1657.

London, Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness, 1657.

3 pp. folio, pasted together to form one long sheet. Copy in B. M.

1660, September 22.

[For Apprehension of Whalley and Goffe.]

BY THE KING.

A PROCLAMATION

FOR APPREHENSION OF EDWARD WHALLEY
AND WILLIAM GOFFE.

CHARLES R.

Forasmuch as Edward Whalley, commonly known by the name of Colonel Whalley, and William Goffe, commonly called Colonel Goffe, are, amongst others, by an Act of this present Parliament, Entituled, An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indempnity and Oblivion,1 wholly excepted from Pardon, and left to be proceeded against as Traytors, for their execrable Treasons in sentencing to death, signing the Instrument for the horrid Murder, or being instrumental in taking away the precious Life of Our late dear Father of Blessed Memory.

And forasmuch as they the said Edward Whalley and William Goffe,2 having absented and withdrawn themselves, as We have been informed, to the parts beyond the Seas, are now, as We certainly understand, lately returned into Our Kingdom of England, and do privately lurk and obscure themselves in places unknown; We therefore have thought fit, by,

1 Statutes of the Realm, vol. 5, p. 226, 12 Chas. II, ch. 11.

2 Several documents concerning the attempt to apprehend Whalley and Goffe are calendared in the Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1661-1668. See also Dictionary of National Biography under Edward Whalley and William Goffe, and "Memoranda respecting Edward Whalley and William Goffe," by F. B. Dexter, in New Haven Colony Historical Society Papers, ii, 117.

and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to publish the same to all Our loving Subjects, not doubting of their Care and forwardness in their apprehension; And We do hereby Require and Command, as well all and singular Our Judges, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Constables and Headboroughs, as also the Officers and Ministers of our Ports, and other Our Subjects whatsoever, within Our Realms of England, Scotland, Ireland, or Dominion of Wales, and all Our Dominions and Territories, to be diligent in Inquiring, Searching for, Seizing and Apprehending them, the said Edward Whalley, and William Goffe, in all places whatsoever, as wel within Liberties as without, whom if they shall happen to Take and Apprehend Our further Will and pleasure is, That they cause them and either of them so Apprehended, to be safely carried to the next Justice of the Peace, to the place where they or either of them shall be Arrested, whom We straitly Command to Commit them and either of them to Prison, and presently Inform Us or Our Privy Council of their or either of their Apprehensions.

And We do hereby further Declare and Publish, That if any Person or Persons after this Our Proclamation published, shall Directly or Indirectly Conceal, Harbor, Keep, Retain, or Maintain the said Edward Whalley and William Goffe, or either of them, or shall Contrive or Connive at any means whereby they or either of them shall or may Escape from being Taken or Arrested, or shall not use their best Endeavor for their and either of their Apprehensions, as well by giving the Advertisement thereof to Our Officers, as by all other good means; We will (as there is Just Cause) proceed against them that shall so neglect this Our Commandment with all severity. And lastly We do hereby Declare, That whosoever shall discover the said Edward Whalley or William Goffe, either within Our Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Ireland, or Dominions of Wales, or in any other our Dominions and Territories, or elsewhere, and shall cause them, or either of them, to be Apprehended, and brought in alive or dead, if they or either of them, attempting Resistance, happen to be slain, shall have a Reward of One hundred pounds in money for each of them so brought in, dead or alive, as aforesaid, to be forthwith paid unto him in recompence of such his Service.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Two and twentieth day of September, in the Twelfth year of Our Reign.

London, Printed by Christopher Barker and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1660.

I p. folio. Copies in Adv., Antiq., Bodl., B. M., Camb., Ch., Crawf., Dalk., Dubl., Guild., Hodg., P. R. O., Q. C., and T. C. D.; also in N. Y. Public Library. Entered on Patent Rolls. Abstract printed in "Parliamentary Intelligencer," Sept. 24, 1660, and in "Mercurius Publicus," Sept. 27. 1660.

1661, March 29.

[Prohibiting Planting of Tobacco in England.]

BY THE KING.

A PROCLAMATION

PROHIBITING THE PLANTING, SETTING AND SOWING OF ToBACCO IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND, ACCORDING TO AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT HEREIN SPECIFIED.

CHARLES R.

Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in Our late Parliament begun and held at Westminster in the County of Middlesex, the Five and Twentieth day of April in the Twelfth year of Our Reign, for and upon the reasons and grounds therein expressed, it was Enacted by the Authority of the same Parliament, That no person or persons whatsoever should, or do from and after the First day of January, in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty, Set, plant, improve to grow, make or cure any Tobacco either in Seed, plant or otherwise, in or upon any ground, earth, field, or place within Our Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or in Our Kingdome of Ireland, under the penalty of the forfeiture of all such Tobacco, or the value thereof, or of the Sum of Forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground so planted, set or sowen as aforesaid, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of ground, One moyety thereof to Us Our Heirs and Successors, and the other moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Bill, Plaint or Information in any Court of Record, wherein no Essoign, protection or wager in Law

shall be allowed: And it was thereby further enacted, That all Sheriffs, Justices of the peace, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, and every of them, upon information or complaint made unto them or any of them, by any the Officers of the Customes, or by any other person or persons whatsoever, that there was any Tobacco set, sown, planted, or growing within their jurisdictions or precincts contrary to the same Act should within ten dayes after such information or complaint cause to be burnt, plucked up, consumed, or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so set, sowen, planted, or growing. And it was thereby further enacted, That in case any person or persons should resist or make forcible opposition against any person or persons in the due and through execution of the same Act, That every such person or persons for every such offence should forfeit the sum of Five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid; And in case any person or persons should not pay the summs of money by them to be paid, by vertue of the same Act, that in every such case distress should be made and sale thereof, returning the overplus to the owners; And in case no distress shall be found, that then every such party should be committed to the common Gaol in the County where such offence should be committed, there to remain for the space of two moneths without Bail or Mainprise. Provided always, and it was thereby enacted, That the same Act nor any thing contained therein should extend to the hindering of the planting of Tobacco in any Physick-garden of either University, or in any other private garden for Physick or Chirurgery, only so as the quantity so planted exceed not one half of one pole in any one place or garden, as in et by the same Act it doth and may more fully appear. Now to the end that all Our loving Subjects in all parts of Our said Kingdoms of England and Ireland, and Dominion of Wales, and in the said Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and in our said Town of Berwick upon Twede, may the better take notice of and more duely observe the said Act, and not ignorantly offend against the same for the future, We have thought good to publish et declare the same to all Our loving Subjects by this Our Royal

1 This act, entitled "An Act for Prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobaccho in England and Ireland," passed the House of Commons on December 17, 1660 (Commons Journals, viii, 212), the House of Lords on December 20 (Lords Journals, xi, 218), was read in Council on December 21 (Acts of Privy Council, i, 303), and is printed in Statutes of the Realm, 12 Chas. II, ch. 34, vol. 5, p. 297.