Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714 > England and Wales

Nos 414-24
1552-3: 6-7 Edward VI & 1 Mary
5 SEPTEMBER.—BY THE KING. A Proclama¬
tion for the price of butcher’s meat in London.
[Westminster: 5 September 1552.]
Not found.
Best beef, mutton, and veal l^d. per lb., necks and legs
d, per lb, best lamb 8d. the quarter. In default to lose
reedom of the city.
Machyn 24 ; Strype II. i. 588. N0 414.
Where in the Parliament begunne... Westminster
1 March 7 Edw. VI. .. last dale of the same moneth
of March . . .
Westminster : 28 June [1553].
P.R.O. Original signed, P.S.B. 968. Antiq. 67.
Ruding i. 825. N° 421.
MARY
5 OCTOBER.—BY THE KING. A Proclamation
admonishing all persons bound to keep great horses
to have them in readiness at all times for the
musters.
Not found.
Machyn 26; Strype II. i. 592 ; see Acts P.C. iv. 137. If0 415.
8 OCTOBER.—BY THE KING. A Proclamation
that no man that had great horses, fit for service,
should sell them.
Not found.
Strype II. i. 588. N° 416.
Before 27 OCTOBER—BY THE KING. [Begins]
Although no ordre can be so perfectlye . ..
[As to kneeling at the Communion.]
[Westminster: October 1552.]
From Prayer Book.
No adoration intended by kneeling. There is not ‘any
reall and essentiall presence there being of Christes naturall
fleshe and bloode’.
Rot. Cl. p. 8, No. 40.
‘ Black ’ rubric Communion Service, 1552 (inserted sheet). In altered
form 1662.
See Acts P.C. iv. 154 ; S.P.D. 15. 15 (Oct. 7, letter of Cranmer) ;
Blunt, Annotated Book of Common Prayer, 22. N° 417.
NOVEMBER.—BY THE KING. For the execu¬
tion of the statute for tillage.
[Westminster] : November [1552].
(From Strype.)
5 & 6 Ed. 6. c. 5.
Strype II. ii. 214, II. ii. 15. N° 418.
1552-3
14 FEBRUARY—BY THE KING. A Proclama¬
tion set furth by the kynges Maiestie, for the absti¬
nence from fleshe in the time of Lent, and other
daies prohibited, the .xiiii. dale of Februarie, in the
seuenthyere of his Maiesties most prosperous Reigne.
[Begins] Whereas in Parliament holden at West¬
minster . . .
[Westminster] : 14 February [1552-3],
[London] Richard Grafton 1552[-3],
2 ff. Gothic letter.
the more 2) thoffen- Maiestie
Antiq. 66.
Strype II. ii. 214 ; Herbert 535 ; see Acts P.C. iv. 217. N° 419.
FEBRUARY.—BY THE KING. For the prizing
of Wines.
[Westminster] : February 1552-3.
Not found.
Gascoin wine to be sold 8d. per gallon.
Strype II. ii. 214. N° 420.
1553
28 JUNE—BY THE KING. A Proclamation
licencing Marchants and others passing with Licence
beyond the seas, to carrie Fower poundes in Coyne
with them to defraye their expences. [Begins]
44
10 JULY.—BY LADY JANE GREY. [Begins]
Jane by the grace of God, Quene of England,...
[Claiming the throne.]
Tower of London : 10 July [1553].
London: R. Grafton: 1553.
3 ff. Gothic letter.
Fraunce and 2) realm 3) cosin yeere flor. init.
Recites letters patent 21 June 7 Ed. VI which altered the
succession limited by 25 Henry VIII to Mary and Elizabeth
on the ground of illegitimacy, and that being of the half-
blood, they could not succeed Edward VI if they were
legitimate (as they are not, by 28 Henry VIII), and that if
they married foreigners they would alter the laws and
customs of the realm. These letters appointed Jane and her
sisters Katherine and Mary, daughters of Henry, Duke of
Suffolk and Fraunces his wife, and Margaret daughter of
Eleanor, sister of Fraunces, as his heirs and successors.
Since then, on Thursday 6 of July, Edward VI died without
heirs of his body, and as Fraunces our mother has no heirs
male, Jane has succeeded. She promises to preserve the
Word of God, the laws and liberties of the kingdom, and
commands all men to be obedient.
Antiq. 69. B.M. Facs. Queen’s 79 A. 1 (1). MS. copy, Lansd.
198. (5).
Printed Harl. Misc. i. 405; Burnet v. 357; Chronicle of Q. Jane
(Camden Soc.), &c. N° 422.
18 JULY.—BY THE QUEEN. A Proclamatyon
of defyance of the Duke [Northumberland] with
grawnte of a thousande pownde lande to any noble
man that apprehendeth the sayde Duke and bryngeth
hym to the Queene, and to everye knyght that doth
the sayme vc 11 lande, to everye gentleman v hundrede
marks lande, and to anye yeoman a hundrede
pownde lande.
[London] : 18 July 1553.
Not found.
See Acts P.C. iv. 296. N° 423.
19 JULY—BY THE QUEEN. [Begins] Marie by
the Grace of God, Quene of Eng....
[Proclaiming her accession.]
London: 19 July [1553].
London : R. Grafton : 1553.
1 f. Gothic letter.
Eng- ther in script init1
As Edward VI is dead, the Queen takes on herself her
lawful rights. All subjects are to obey and will find her
a benign and gracious Sovereign Lady.
Antiq. 70. B M. Facs.
Strype III. i. 20 ; see Wriothesley ii. 88. U-0 424.
28 JULY.—BY THE QUENE. [Begins] Foras-
muche as diuerse light, and sedicious. . .
[Against spreading seditious rumours &c.]
[London: 28 July 1553.]
London: J. Cawode: 1553.
1 f. Gothic letter.
in die con- script init1
Rumours and ‘ brutes ’ touching on affairs of state and the
Queen’s person are being put about. All persons are to for¬
bear spreading them and to inform the next Justice of