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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<P>&para; A Proclamation for the &s;ecurity and Protection of the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of Delinquents Lands, in the County of <HI>Wilts,</HI> who have, or &s;hall become his <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Tenants.</P>
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<P>_WHEREAS diver&s;e Seditious and Rebelliou&s;ly affected per&s;ons of Our County of <HI>Wilts,</HI> being con&s;cious to have ju&s;tly de&s;erved our high di&s;plea&s;ure and the puni&s;hment of the Lawes, have withdrawn them&s;elves from their e&s;tates and dwellings in that County, unto other parts, and places of this Kingdome, in the power and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Rebells; where they remaine and (either per&s;onally, or by &s;upplies of Money, and other Provi&s;ions,) are in Rebellion again&s;t us. And whereas by vertue of our Commi&s;&s;ion, lately i&s;&s;ued under our Great Seal of England, the Lands of many &s;uch Delinquents have been &s;eized, and by Our Commi&s;sioners di&s;po&s;ed and Let at rea&s;onable and moderate rates, to &s;everall Tenants, who have agreed to pay their Rents to Us, and for Our u&s;e, untill the &s;aid Rebellious Per&s;ons &s;hall &s;ubmit them&s;elves to Legall Tryalls; For the better inabling therefore, and incouragement of &s;uch Tenants to performe their undertakings for Our &s;ervice, and that henceforth they may be freed from that violence which the Souldiers of Our Armies too frequently, without command, have exerci&s;ed upon po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of Delinquents Lands; We doe hereby Declare, That all per&s;ons what&s;oever, as well &s;uch as formerly held Lands of &s;uch Delinquents, and now are, or hereafter by agreements, as afore&s;aid, or otherwi&s;e, &s;hall be|come Our Tenants; as others, who have, or &s;hall take &s;uch e&s;tates of Our Commi&s;sioners in that County, &s;hall be held, reputed, and e&s;teemed, to be in our immediat Protection and Regard; Wherefore We Will, Require, and Command, all Officers and Souldiers of Our Armies, that they at any time pre&s;ume not to doe wrong or dammage to their Per&s;ons, Hou&s;es, Cattell, Lands, or Goods; And that as much as may be po&s;sible, and the &s;ervice will permit, they forbeare at a|ny time to Billet or Quarter them&s;elves or Hor&s;es on them; but that in all things &s;uch re&s;pect be had of them, and their welldoing, as is ju&s;tly due to per&s;ons in Our &s;peciall Service and Protection. And We doe hereby farther Order and De|clare, That if any &s;uch Officers or Souldiers, &s;hall (after notice that they are Our Tenants) in contempt of this Our Pro|clamation, doe any Act whereby &s;uch Per&s;ons or any of them &s;hall be damnified or oppre&s;&s;ed, upon due information thereof given, they &s;hall receive &s;uch &s;evere and exemplary puni&s;hment as their Offences &s;hall de&s;erve.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at</HI> Oxford, <DATE><HI>the fifth of</HI> March, <HI>in the Ninteenth yeare of our Reigne,</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Printed at <HI>Oxford,</HI> by <HI>Leonard Lichfield,</HI> Printer to the &V;niver&s;ity, <HI>1643.</HI></P>
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