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Show A PRUSSIAN EDICT, . D. T .] qflizmiflg C/zzz'm: mm- Britain. [A: Nor {hall any hat-maker, in { every olfenee. ‘ than two any of the {aid counties, employ more ‘ ds fierling apprentices, on penalty of five poun that fuch per monthngVe intending hereby G in the prohatmakers, being to reftrained, both may find y, odit comm duction and fale of their ‘ K ‘ efs.-- no advantage in continuing their bufin ‘ erineonBut, left the faid iflanders fhould fuff l er veniency by the want of hats, we are farth C G l ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ their gracioufly pleafed to permit them to fend it perm alfo We and ia; Prufl to beaver furs ia Prufl hats made thereof to be exported from pay to red favou thus to Britain; the people interelt, all coils and charges of manufacturing, anee and infur s, hant merc Our to n iflio comm cafe of freight going and returning; as in the «nuaanqs 320 321 mg copied from their flatutes of IO and W111. III. c. Io.-5 Geo. II. c. 22.-23 Geo ilI c. 29.--4 Geo. I. c. 11. and from other e .ui; table laws made by their parliaments - or fcrlot iiiftrttétioris given by their princes ,or frorii :piolutiogiis of both houfes, entered into for Irv/{51d 1e 00mid/gAmg overnme ' m ' yjm,n t of (then'- own ca/ome: ‘ And .all perfons in the {aid ifland‘ are here- by cautioned not to oppofe in any wife the execution of this Our edict, or any part thereof, fuch oppofition being high -treafon; of wh ' h . all who are fufpeéted {hall be. tranfportedlcin fetters from Britain to Pruflia, there to be tried and executed according to the Pruflian law. Such is Our pleafure. ‘ iron. ‘ And laftly, being willing farther to favour al‘ our faid colonies in Britain, We do hereby t/JfKWEI, ‘ fo ordain and command, that all the ers, ‘ highway and {treet robbers, houfebreak villains ‘ forgerers, murderers, f-d-tes, and forfeited ‘ of every denomination, who have ‘ Given at Potfdam, this twent -fifth d ‘ of the month of Auguf‘t, On}; thoufafid ‘ {even .hundred and feventy-three, and in ‘ the thirty-third year of Our reign. but whom ‘ their lives to the law in l'ruflia; not think fit ‘ We, in Our great clemency, do of Our ‘ here to hang; ‘ By the King, in his council. {hall be emptied out for ‘ gaols into the faidifland of Great Britain, ‘ the better peopling of that country. ‘ We flatter ourfelves that thcle Our l'OVn‘l ht ‘ regulations and commands will he thoug ouwl -tnv much Our by zZJ/c ‘ jzyf and rezybm .ttions be- ‘ colonifls in England; the fnid 1‘egul c ' m 11.0 ‘ RschMzsssm, Sec.' ‘ |