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<HEAD>&para; <HI>A Proclamation to prevent Plundering:</HI></HEAD>
<BYLINE><HI>BY ROBERT</HI> Earl of ESSEX, &amp;c. Captain Generall of the Army rai&s;ed and imployed for the defence of the Prote&s;tant Religion, King, Par|liament and Kingdom.</BYLINE>
<P>_WHereas I am informed, That &s;everall In&s;olencies and Outrages have been of late committed by &s;ome Troopers, and other Souldiers belonging to this Army, without the approbation or allowance of my &s;elf, or the Officers of the Army, to the great prejudice of many the Inhabitants of this County of <HI>Berks,</HI> and Counties adjacent; I do hereby publi&s;h and declare, That if any Officer or Souldier, hor&s;e or foot belonging to this Army, &s;hall (after Pro|clamation hereof made by the Provo&s;t Mar&s;hall Generall of the Army) up|on any pretence what&s;oever, &s;eize, take, imbezell or purloin any the Hor&s;es, Mares, Oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, or any other the Goods of any the Inha|bitants of this County, or other the adjacent Counties, either Papi&s;t or Ma|lignant, or other ill-affected per&s;on what&s;oever, without &s;peciall and parti|cular Warrant from my &s;elf; That every &s;uch per&s;on &s;o offending, &s;hall undergo and &s;uffer &s;uch puni&s;h|ment by death or otherwi&s;e, as the nature of the offence &s;hall require: But in ca&s;e any the Officers or Souldiers &s;hall &s;eize or take any the Hor&s;es or Goods of any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, coming or &s;end|ing &s;upply of nece&s;&s;aries for the Army, that &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o offending, &s;hall &s;uffer death without mercie. And if any Officer or Souldier of this Army &s;hall by vertue of any Warrant, &s;eize or take away the Hor&s;es or Goods of any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, and &s;hall not within Two dayes next after the &s;eizing of them repair unto my Quarter, to certifie unto me in writing who&s;e Hor&s;es and Goods have been &s;o &s;eized, and by who&s;e Warrant, that they may be brought hither to be di&s;po&s;ed of by me, &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o offending, &s;hall be deemed and accounted guilty of the breach of this Proclamation, and &s;halbe proceeded again&s;t accordingly. And I do hereby further Declare, that if any the hor&s;es or goods of any per&s;on or per&s;ons inhabiting within this County, or any other adjacent Counties have bin un|ju&s;tly &s;eized or taken from them or any of them, upon his or their ju&s;t complaint made unto me, I &s;hall give pre&s;ent Order for the re&s;titution of them according to ju&s;tice. And la&s;tly, I do will and re|quire all and every the high Con&s;tables of the &s;everall Divi&s;ions within the counties of Berks, Southam|pton, and Oxon, that they do forthwith upon, and after Proclamation hereof made, make out &s;everall Warrants to the petty Con&s;tables, for the a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing and taxing of the &s;everall Parri&s;hes with &s;uch Quan|tities of provi&s;ion of all &s;orts as they are &s;tored with, and to make, and returne a Certificate within three dayes of &s;uch a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements, what &s;everall quantities are a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed upon the &s;aid Parri&s;hes, with the Names of &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall refu&s;e to provide and &s;end provi&s;ions to the Army as afore&s;aid, which Certificate is to be delivered into the hands of two or more of the Commi&s;&s;ioners appointed to receive the &s;ame, that &s;uch further order may be taken with the per&s;ons &s;o refu&s;ing as &s;hall be thought fit. And I do hereby Declare, that I expect that the &s;everall Inhabitants of the &s;aid &s;everall Counties &s;hould readily contribute their a&s;si&s;tance herein, which I doubt not but they will do with the more cheerfulne&s;&s;e, it being for the &s;upply of this Army which is ray&s;ed for the defence of the King, Parliament, and Kingdom, the pre&s;erva|tion of Gods true Religion, and the ju&s;t Rights and Liberties of the Subjects from violence and oppre&s;si|on. And I do hereby will and require all the Officers and &s;ouldiers of this Army, and all others whom it may concern to be obedient hereunto, as they and every of them will an&s;wer the contrary at their utter|mo&s;t perill:</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my Hand and Seale at Armes, <DATE>this twenty fourth day of <HI>April.</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>ESSEX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>It is his Excellencies plea&s;ure that this Proclamation be forthwith printed.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Rob: Chambers, <HI>Secr.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London, <HI>Printed for</HI> Edw: Husbands. 1643.</P>
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