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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>&para; BY THE KING.</HEAD>
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<P>His Maie&s;ties Proclamation forbidding the Tendring or Taking of the late Vow or Cove|nant, devi&s;ed by &s;ome Members of both Hou&s;es to engage His Maie&s;ties good Subiects in the maintenance of this odious Rebellion.</P>
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<P>_VVHereas We have lately &s;een a Vow or Covenant pretended to be taken by &s;ome Members of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, whereby after the taking notice of a Popi&s;h and Traiterous Plot for the &s;ub|ver&s;ion of the true Reformed Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Liberty of the Subject, and to &s;urprize the Cities of London and We&s;tmin&s;ter, They doe promi&s;e and covenant, according to their utmo&s;t power, to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Forces pretended to be rai&s;ed and continued by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, again&s;t the Forces rai&s;ed by Us, and to a&s;&s;i&s;t all other Per&s;ons that &s;hall take the &s;aid Oath, in what they &s;hall doe in pur&s;uance thereof; Which Oath as the &s;ame hath been taken without the lea&s;t colour or ground, the contrivers thereof well knowing that there is no Popi&s;h Army within this Kingdom, that We are &s;o far from giving countenance to that Religion, that We have alwayes gi|ven, and always offered Our con&s;ent to any Act for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of Popery and the growth thereof; and that the Army rai&s;ed by Us is in truth for the nece&s;&s;ary defence of the true Reformed Prote&s;tant Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law, the Li|berty and Property of the Subject, and Our own ju&s;t Rights according to Law, all which being &s;etled and &s;ubmitted to, or &s;uch a free and peaceable convention in Parliament being provided for, that the &s;ame might be &s;etled, We have offered and are &s;till ready to disband Our Armies; and as the &s;aid Oath was devi&s;ed only to prevent Peace, and to preengage the Votes of the Members of both Hou&s;es (directly contrary to the Freedom and Liberty of Parliament) &amp; to engage them and Our good Subjects in the maintenance of this horrid and odious Rebellion; &s;o it is directly contrary, as well to their naturall Duty as to the Oaths of Allegiance &amp; Supremacie e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law, which obliges them to bear to Vs Truth and Faith of Life, Members and Earthly Honour, and to defend Us to the utmo&s;t of their powers again&s;t all con&s;piracies and attempts what&s;oever, which &s;hall be made again&s;t Our Per&s;on, Our Crown and Dignity, and to do their be&s;t endea|vours to di&s;clo&s;e and make known to Us all Trea&s;ons and Traiterous Con&s;piracies which &s;hall be again&s;t Us, and to their power to a&s;&s;i&s;t and defend all Juri&s;dictions, Priviledges, Preheminences, and Authority belonging to Us, or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme. And whereas We are informed that &s;ome de&s;perate &s;editious Per&s;ons doe endeavour to per&s;wade and &s;educe others of Our Subjects to take the &s;aid Oath, thereby to engage them &amp; this Kingdom into a continuance of the&s;e mi&s;erable and bloody di&s;tempers, We doe therefore out of Grace and Com|pa&s;&s;ion to Our people, and that they may not by any craft or violence &s;uffer them&s;elves to be &s;educed again&s;t their Duty and Con&s;cience, warne them of their naturall Allegiance, and their Obligations by Oathes lawfully admini&s;tred to them, and with them to remember the great ble&s;&s;ings of God in peace and plenty which the whole Kingdome hath re|ceived, whil&s;t that Duty and the&s;e Oathes were carefully ob&s;erved, and the un&s;peakable mi&s;eries and calamities they have &s;uffered in the breaking and violation thereof. And We doe &s;traitly Charge and Command Our loving Subjects of what degree and quality &s;oever, upon their Allegiance, that they pre&s;ume not to take the &s;aid &s;editious and traiterous Vow or Covenant, which endeavours to withdraw them from their naturall Allegiance which they owe unto Us, and to which they are or ought to be &s;worn, and are bound by the known Laws of the Land, albeit they are not &s;worn, and engages them in Acts of High Trea&s;on by the expre&s;&s;e letter of the Statute of the 25. year of King <HI>Edward</HI> the third. And We doe likewi&s;e hereby forbid and inhibit all our Subjects to impo&s;e, admini&s;ter, or tender the &s;aid Oath or Covenant: And if not with&s;tanding this Our gracious Proclamation any per&s;on s;hall pre&s;ume to impo&s;e, tender, or take the &s;aid Vow or Covenant, We &s;hall proceed again&s;t him or them with all &s;everit, according to the known Laws of the Land.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at our Court at Oxford the one and <DATE>Twentieth day of Iune, in the nineteenth year of our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at Oxford by <HI>Leonard Lichfield,</HI> Printer to the Univer&s;ity. 1643.</P>
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