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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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<OPENER><SIGNED>C. R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
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<P>His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Proclamation forbidding all His loving Subjects of the Counties of <HI>Kent, Sur|rey, Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Hamp&s;hire,</HI> to rai&s;e any Forces without His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Con&s;ent, or to enter into any A&s;&s;ociation or Protestation for the a&s;&s;istance of the Rebellion again&s;t His <HI>Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
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<P>WHEREAS We have been informed of certain Propo&s;itions agreed upon by &s;ome &s;editious Per&s;ons of Our &s;everall Counties of <HI>Kent, Surry, Su&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Hamp&s;hire,</HI> for an A&s;&s;ociation betwixt the &s;aid Counties, to rai&s;e an Army of 3000 Foot, and 300 Hor&s;e, and great &s;ummes of Money for the maintenance thereof, and an Invitation to Our good Subjects of that County, to enter into a Prote&s;tation to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in this odious and unnaturall Rebellion; We doe hereby Declare for the &s;atisfaction of all our loving Subjects of tho&s;e Counties, and that they may not be &s;educed from their Obedience by the cunning and &s;ubtilty of tho&s;e men, That the en|tring into &s;uch an A&s;&s;ociation and Prote&s;tation, and rai&s;ing of men or contributing Money upon the &s;ame, is an Act of high Trea&s;on, and an endeavour to take away Our Life from Vs: And We do therefore &s;traitly Charge and Command all Our lov|ing Subjects what&s;oever upon their Allegiance not to enter into any &s;uch A&s;&s;ociation or Prote&s;tation, and &s;uch, as by colour of &s;uch Authority have a&s;&s;embled together, that they immediately di<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">band and repaire to their Hou&s;es. And We doe once more renew Our offer of a free and gratious Pardon to all Our Subjects of Our &s;aid foure &s;everall Countie&s;, excepting those whom We before excepted in Our &s;everall Proclamations concerning tho&s;e Our Counties, again&s;t all which We &s;hall proceed ac|cording to the Rules of the Law, as again&s;t Per&s;ons guilty of high Trea&s;on; And whom We doe hereby require all Our Of|ficers and Mini&s;ters of Ju&s;tice, and all Our loving Subjects what&s;oever, to apprehend and cau&s;e to be kept in &s;afe cu&s;tody. And Our Expre&s;&s;e Plea&s;ure is, and We doe hereby Will and Command all the &s;everall Tenants of the Per&s;ons excepted in Our Proclamation for tho&s;e foure Counties of <HI>Kent, Surrey, Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Hamp&s;hire,</HI> and all other Per&s;ons who are any waye in|debted unto them, and all the Tenants to any other Per&s;on of any of the &s;aid Counties, who is now in Actuall and open Rebel|lion again&s;t Us, or who after the publishing of this Our Proclamation &s;hall contribute to the maintenance of the Armies now in Rebellion again&s;t Us, under the conduct of <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> or of any other Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, or that &s;hall joyne in any &s;uch traiterous A&s;&s;ociation or Prote&s;tation, That they forbeare to pay any Rents or Debts due to the &s;aid &s;everall Per&s;ons, but detaine the &s;ame in their hands towards the maintenance of the Peace of the Counties, and the reparation of &s;uch Men who have &s;uffered by the violence of the others. And if any Souldier or Souldiers now under Command again&s;t Us in either of Our &s;aid foure Counties, &s;hall within &s;ix dayes after the publishing of this Our Proclamation, apprehend and bring before Us, or any Officers
of Our Army, or any other Our Mini&s;ter of Ju&s;tice, &s;o that the Per&s;on apprehended be kept in &s;afe Cu&s;to|dy, the bodies of any of the Per&s;ons &s;o excepted by Us, or of any of the Commanders or Officers now in Rebellion again&s;t Us in any of the &s;aid foure Counties, &s;uch Souldier or Souldiers, be&s;ides their Pardons, &s;hall receive &s;uch liberall Rewards by Pen|&s;ions, or otherwi&s;e, as their &s;everall &s;ervices in re&s;pect of the qualities of the Per&s;ons &s;o apprehended &s;hall de&s;erve. And if any Commander or Officer (except the Per&s;ons before excepted) now in Rebellion again&s;t Us, in any of the &s;aid foure Counties, &s;hall within five dayes after this Our Proclamation publi&s;hed, being convinced in his Con&s;cience of his damnable Offence a|gain&s;t God and Us, in a&s;&s;i&s;ting this odious Rebellion, returne to his Alleagiance and repaire to Our Army, and commit no ho|&s;tile Act in the meane while again&s;t Us, We &s;hall not onely Pardon him, but &s;o far imploy him as his quality and deme<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nour &s;hall de&s;erve. And We doe hereby require all Our loving Subjects of what degree or quality &s;oever, within Our &s;aid foure &s;everall Counties, upon their Allegiance, and as they tender the cau&s;e of God, the Prote&s;tant Religion, being invaded and threatned to be rooted up by <HI>Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Athei&s;ts,</HI> of Us, and Our Po&s;terity (Our Life being &s;ought after by this Rebellion, and of them&s;elves, the Law and Liberty of the Subject being in apparent hazard to be &s;ubjected to an Arbitra|ry Lawle&s;&s;e power, of a few Schi&s;maticall, factious, and ambitious Per&s;ons) to a&s;&s;i&s;t Us in Per&s;on, or with the Loane of Mo|ney, Plate, and Hor&s;es, in this Our great nece&s;&s;ity. And having &s;aid thus much out of Our tender Regard of Our Subjects of tho&s;e our Counties; If they &s;hall henceforward be guilty of the premi&s;es: And &s;hall either by Loane or contribution a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;aid Army of Rebels, a&s;&s;emble and mu&s;ter them&s;elves in Armes withour Authority derived from Us under Our Hand, or &s;hall enter into any Oath of A&s;&s;ociation for oppo&s;ing Us and Our Army, and &s;o compell Us to &s;end part of Our Forces thi|ther to reduce them to their Obedience; they mu&s;t An&s;wer the mi&s;eries that mu&s;t follow, to God, and their Country. And Our Plea&s;ure is, That this Our Proclamation be Read in all the Pari&s;h Churches and Chappels in the &s;aid foure &s;everall Counttes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at</HI> Oxford, <DATE><HI>this &s;ixteenth day of</HI> February, <HI>in the Eighteenth yeere of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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