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A PROCLAMATION For the effectual prosecution of His Majesties Commission for the Providing and Making of Salt-peter and Gun-powder . CHARLES R. WE having more then ordinary occasion to provide good and sufficient Salt-peter and Powder to furnish Our Stores , for the Defence and Safety of Our Realms and Dominions , have by Commission lately issued under Our Great Seal of England , committed the Management thereof unto Our Right Trusty and well-beloved John Lord Berkeley , Baron of Stratton , and Our Trusty and well-beloved Sir John Duncombe Knight , Thomas Chicheley Esquire , Commissioners for the Execution of the Office of Our Ordnance , William Legg Lieutenant of Our Ordnance , John Evelyn Esquire , Edward Sherborn Esquire , Clerk of Our Ordnance , and Jonas Moor Esquire ; of whose care and fidelities We are well assured : Giving them Power by their Deputies and Workmen , to work all Salt-peter and Gun-powder to be made of Salt-peter digged within Our Realms and Dominions , and between the hours of Sun-rising and Sun-setting , to search for and dig Salt-peter in all convenient places , as well in Our own as Subjects Lands ; but not in any part of Dwelling-houses inhabited , or to break down Walls , or hazard Foundations , or dig in any Threshing or Maulting-Floors without consent of the Owners , nor in Dove-houses , Stables , or other Out-houses , but at convenient times of the day : with power by Warrant from the Iustice of Peace to take up such Carts and Carriages as shall be useful and necessary to carry on the said Work , paying Eight pence per mile for every Lunn they shall carry , according to the late Act of Parliament concerning Carriages , and to provide convenient Houses , Stables . Rooms , Yards , void places , Water , and other necessaries , and to Erect and set up Furnaces and Vessels fit for the making of Salt-peter , agreeing with the Owners ; and if they be unreasonable in their demands , the next Iustice of the Peace to settle the same : And the said Deputies or Workmen , or any Beasts or Carriages employed in the said Works , are not to be Pressed for any other Service : And they are to repair and make good the places digged , or any way defaced : And if any difference arise , to be composed by the two next Iustices of the Peace to the place , if it be not in a City or Town-Corporate ; and if there , by the Mayor , Aldermen , or thief Officer : And if they cannot determine the same , to certifie to the Lords of the Privy Council the names of the Offenders , with their Offences , that such further course may be therein taken , as shall be thought fit , as by Our said Commission ( amongst other things ) may appear . Now to the end so necessary a Work may not be obstructed , and to the intent Our said Commission may be duely observed , We have thought fit to publish the same by this Our Royal Proclamation . And We do hereby Will , and streightly Charge and Command all and singular Mayors , Bayliffs , Constables , and all other Our Officers , Ministers and Subjects whatsoever , to be Aiding and Assisting , and give due Obedience and Conformity in all things , in or concerning the Execution of the said Commission , as they tender Our high Displeasure , and will answer the contrary at their perils . Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 16 th day of July , 1666. In the Eighteenth year of Our Reign . God save the King. LONDON , Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty , 1666.