By the King. A proclamation inhibiting all persons after the four and twentieth day of June next to use the trade of a pedlar or petty chapman : unless they be licensed according to a course lately taken by us in that behalf.

By the King. A proclamation inhibiting all persons after the four and twentieth day of June next to use the trade of a pedlar or petty chapman : unless they be licensed according to a course lately taken by us in that behalf.

Proclamations. 1686-05-07

London : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1686.

2 sheets (versos blank) ; obl. (full-sheet).

"Recites 39 Eliz. confirmed 7 James I. The King has resolved to license pedlars or petty chapmen to prevent the dispersion of scandalous books and libels by rogues and idle persons pretending to be pedlars. An office erected for the purpose by letters patent 29 April 1686. All wishing a licence to bring certificates from the minister and churchwardens, and be bound under £40 to lodge only in inns or alehouses and not to travel on Sundays. To come in force 24 June next." -- Steele.

At end of text: Given at our court at Whitehall the seventh day of May 1686. In the second year of our reign.

Steele notation: Reign Our 2) the will; Arms 102.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), J361
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714, I, 3832
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R21461

Great Britain -- England -- London.

137- 172b

Sheets pasted together. Provenance: Huntington Library duplicate copy