A proclamation to restrain the excessive carriages in wagons and four-wheeled carts to the destruction of high-ways England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1661 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A32646 Wing C3580 ESTC R221481 12097679 ocm 12097679 54008 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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A PROCLAMATION To Restrain the Excessive Carriages in Wagons and four-Wheeled Carts , to the destruction of High-ways . CHARLES R. WHereas it appertaineth to Us to have special Care , that the common High-ways , and Bridges , leading from place to place within this Realm , might be kept in due repair for the ease and good of Our Loving Subjects ; And observing notwithstanding the good provision of Our Laws in that behalf made , and the conformity and forwardness of Our Subjects in so Publique and Necessary a Work , That Our High-ways and Bridges are at this present grown into great decay , and very dangerous for Passage , We have upon due examination found , that the said Decays are occasioned by the common Carriers of this Realm , who for their singular and private profit , do now usually Travail with Carts and Wagons with four Whéels , drawn with eight , nine , or ten Horses or more , and do commonly therein carry sixty and seventy hundred weight at one burthen at one time , which burden and weight is so great and excessive , as that the very Foundations of Bridges are in many places thereby shaken , and the High-ways and Cawseys Furrowed and Ploughed up by the Whéels of the said Carts and Wagons so overladen , and made so déep , and full of dangerous Slows and Holes , as neither can Passengers Travail thereby in Safety , nor the Inhabitants or Persons by Law bound to repair them , be able to undergo so great a charge : Where heretofore all common Carriers usually went with Carts of two Whéels onely , wherewith they could not well carry above twenty hundred weight at once , or there abouts , which the Bridges , Cawseys , and ordinary High-ways , did and might well bear without any great damage to the same : We therefore intending the Reformation of the Premisses , and it having béen resolved by the Advice of the Iudges formerly taken herein , That by the Law of this Our Realm , the said excessive and extraordinary kind of Carriages , whereby Our High-ways are thus destroyed , are common Nusances and Annoyances against the Weal-publique , and an offence against Our Crown ; Do hereby streightly charge , require and command , that no common Carrier , or other person or persons whatsoever , shall hereafter use , go , or travail with any Cart or Wagon made with four Wheels , to be drawn with above five Horses at once along their Iourney , unless they go all two abrest , in which case they are limited to no number , that the High-ways and Bridges may hereafter receive the less damage thereby , upon pain of incurring Our high Displeasure , and to receive condign punishment , as contemners of Our Royal Will and Commandment , and to be further prosecuted and punished for the said Nusances and Annoyances , by Fine and such other ways , as the Laws of this Our Realm have provided against Offenders in that kind : To which end , We do hereby expresly charge , as well Our Iudges , as Our Atturney-General , to exact and require the extremity of Our Laws in that behalf ; And that every Offender contrary to this Our Proclamation shall for his contempt be prosecuted in Our Court of Kings Bench , and other Courts whereunto the Cognisance thereof shall belong , by Information or Indictment , and thereupon be Fined and procéeded against according to their demerit ; Nevertheless , Our Intent , Will , and Commandment is , And we do hereby streightly charge , command , and prohibite , that no common Carrier whatsoever shall by colour hereof take occasion to Inhance or raise the prices of Carriage from any part or place within Our said Realm , under pain of Our Displeasure , and upon complaint thereof to Us , or Our Privy Councel made , to be further punished ; as shall be thought fit and just according to Law. And lastly , We do hereby Will and Require all Majors , Sheriffs , Iustices of Peace , and other Our Officers and Ministers in all Counties and Priviledged Places whatsoever within this Our Realm , that they , and every of them in their several Offices and Places , do from time to time provide and see to the due execution of this Our Pleasure and Royal Commandment ; and that they discover and make known all offenders herein , that they may be severely punished for their contempts , as also that they neglect not , but continue the repaire and maintenance of High-ways , Bridges and Cawseys within this Our Realm , according to the Laws , Statutes and Ordinances now in force , as they tender Our Pleasure , and will answer the contrary at their utmost perils . Given at Our Court at Whitehall , the Sixteenth day of August , 1661. in the Thirteenth year of Our Raign . God save the KING . LONDON , Printed by Iohn Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty , 1661. At the KING'S Printing-House in Black-Fryars .