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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071113.tech.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<HEAD>By the Council of State appointed by authority
OF
PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_Whereas for the encouragement of Sea-men, a con&s;iderable
augmentation hath been made of their Wages, and &s;ea&s;on|able
provi&s;ion for &s;uch of them as have been &s;ick, or Woun|ded,
and due con&s;ideration had of the Wives, children,
and impotent Parents of all Officers and Sea-men that
have been &s;lain in the pre&s;ent &s;ervice, as al&s;o their Months
gratuity, and Wages fully paid them upon comming in
of the re&s;pective Ships in which they have &s;erved, not|with&s;tanding
all which, and the extraordinary care that
hath been taken by the State from time to time for their
encouragement, divers Sea-men, and others, did on the 26. and 27. daies of this in|&s;tant
<HI>October,</HI> in a mutinous and &s;editious manner, a&s;&s;emble together in numerous
Companies, with Pi&s;tols, Swords, and other Weapons, on the <HI>Tower-Hill,</HI> at <HI>Charing
Cro&s;s,</HI> and other places in and about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> to the di&s;|turbance
of the Publick Peace; Now to the end that &s;uch practi&s;es for the future
may be prevented, which we have too much cau&s;e to believe have been animated
and fomented by di&s;contented and ill affected per&s;ons, and that others in time to come
may not be &s;educed to their own ruin, We do hereby declare, that exemplary ju&s;tice &s;hall
be inflicted upon the chief Authors or King-leaders in this Mutiny and Sedition, &s;ome
of which are now under cu&s;tody; And do &s;traitly charge and command, That no
Mariners, Sea-men, or other per&s;ons what&s;oever, upon pain of death, do pre&s;ume to
a&s;&s;emble together in a mutinous or &s;editious manner, or any waies countenance or a|bet
&s;uch mutiny or &s;edition. And we do further declare, That a &s;peedy cour&s;e &s;hall be
taken for the adju&s;ting and payment of the money due to the Sea-men for their &s;hares
of Prizes, and that all due encouragement (which &s;hall hereafter be particularly ex|pre&s;&s;ed)
&s;hall be given to &s;uch as &s;hall voluntarily engage them&s;elves in this pre&s;ent
Service.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> <DATE>this 27. day of <HI>October</HI> 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
Signed by command of the
Council of State,
<SIGNED>JOHN THURLOE Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> by Printed <HI>Henry Hills</HI> for him, <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Brew&s;ter,</HI> Printers to the Council
of State, MDCLIII.</P>
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