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<HEAD>The French King's NEW DECLARATION, In Favour of the Troopers, Dragoons and Soldiers, that having De&s;erted His Maje&s;ties Forces before the Fir&s;t of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, &s;hall come and Li&s;t them|&s;elves again, and &s;erve for Six years Succe&s;&s;ively.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>The</HI> French <HI>King being extreamly alarm'd at the great and continual De&s;ertion of his Troops; and tho' the extream Poverty of his Country does force many to be Soldiers, yet fearing want of Men, &s;ince like Rats they abandon the falling Hou&s;e, he has publi&s;h'd the following Declaration, for the inviting them to return.</HI></P>
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<P>HIS Maje&s;ty being well inform'd that the Amne&s;ty which he had granted by his <HI>Ordonnances</HI> of the Twenty eighth of <HI>January,</HI> and of the Ninth of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, to the Troopers, Dragoons and Soldiers, which having De&s;erted his Troops before the Fir&s;t day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>January,</HI> &s;hould return and Li&s;t them&s;elves therein again, has occa|&s;ion'd a va&s;t Number to return into his Service; and promi&s;ing him&s;elf, that by Proroguing &s;till the Time, which he had granted for the receiving the Benefit of enjoying the &s;aid Amne&s;ty or Pardon, &s;uch as are in far di&s;tant Countries, and that have not been able to repair into the Kingdom within the time Pre&s;cribed, might avail them&s;elves thereof and return into his Service. His Maje&s;ty has Pro|rogued, and does Prorogue, until the end of the pre&s;ent Year, the Term he had granted by His <HI>Ordon|nance</HI> of the Ninth of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, to the Troopers, Dragoons, and Soldiers that De&s;erted his Troops before the Fir&s;t day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, for the Li&s;ting them&s;elves thereunder again. For which purpo&s;e it is His Maje&s;ties Will and Plea&s;ure, that &s;uch of the &s;aid Troopers, Dra|goons, and Soldiers, who having De&s;erted his Troops, as well <HI>French</HI> as Forreigners, before the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of the Month of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, &s;hall come and Li&s;t them&s;elves again before the Fir&s;t of <HI>January</HI> next, in the manner Pre&s;cribed by the &s;aid <HI>Ordonnance</HI> of the &s;aid Twenty eighth day of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, and &s;hall then &s;erve for Six years &s;ucce&s;&s;ively, &s;hall enjoy the Pardon and Amne&s;ty granted in the &s;aid <HI>Ordonnances;</HI> and as fully and to all Intents as if they had return'd into his Troops by the Terms mention'd by the &s;ame. His Maje&s;ty Willing and Requiring, That in all other Re&s;pects, the &s;aid <HI>Ordonnances</HI> of the Twenty eighth of <HI>January</HI> and Ninth of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, be executed according to their Form and Tenour. His Maje&s;ty Wills and Commands the Governours, and his Lieutenant Generals in his Provinces and Armies, Intendants and Commi&s;&s;aries appointed in the &s;ame; Particular Governours of His Cities and Places; Bayliffs, Sene&s;chals, Provo&s;ts, Judges, and their Lieutenants; as al&s;o to the Colonel of His Light Cavalry, Colonel-General of His Dra|goons, Colonels <HI>Maitres de Camp</HI> of His Troops, as well of Cavalry and Dragoons, as of <HI>French</HI> Infantry and Foreigners, and to the Commi&s;&s;aries of War, appointed for the Conduct and Policy of His Troops, and at the Re&s;idence of his Places, to be a&s;&s;i&s;ting each within his Di&s;trict to the Ob&s;ervation of the pre&s;ent <HI>Ordonnance,</HI> which His Maje&s;ty will have Publi&s;hed at the Head of the Bodies and Companies of the &s;aid Troops, and affix'd upon the Frontiers, and in all &s;uch Places as occa&s;ion &s;hall require, that &s;o none may pretend Cau&s;e of Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at</HI> Ver&s;ailles <DATE><HI>the 3d Day of</HI> Augu&s;t, 1689.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Sign'd</HI> LOWIS <HI>and</HI> Lower, LE TELLIER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LICENSED, <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 27. 1689. <HI>J. F.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Baldwin</HI> near the <HI>Black Bull</HI> in the <HI>Old-Baily.</HI> 1689.</P>
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