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<HEAD>&leaf;By the King.</HEAD>
<P>&leaf;His MAJESTIES Gracious Proclamation to the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>_WHereas among&s;t other Arts u&s;ed by the Promoters of this horrid and de&s;perate Rebellion again&s;t Vs, great Indu&s;try and Subtilty hath been applied to corrupt Our Subjects of Our Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> Fir&s;t by engaging them in Factions and Tumults, to aw the Members of both Our Hou&s;es of Parliament who would not con&s;ent to their &s;editious De&s;ignes; Then by per&s;wading them to Loans and Contributions for the maintenance of the Army now in Rebellion again&s;t Vs, upon pretence that the &s;ame was rai&s;ed for the defence of Our Per&s;on, The Prote&s;tant Religion, The Laws of the Land, and Priviledge of Parliament (Whereas in truth it is for the de&s;truction of them all) by their yeelding obedience to, and execu|ting the pretended Ordinance of the <HI>Militia:</HI> And la&s;tly, by infu&s;ing into them a de&s;perate &s;en&s;e of their own Condi|tion, and that We are &s;o much incen&s;ed again&s;t them for the Premi&s;&s;es, that We intend to plunder, and give up the Wealth of tho&s;e Our Cities as a prey to Our Souldiers; We do hereby declare, That We are yet far from being &s;o much incen&s;ed again&s;t tho&s;e Our Cities as the&s;e men de&s;ire to be beleeved, and in truth have endeavoured to make Vs; but We beleeve that tho&s;e Tumults were contrived by the Per&s;ons whom We have formerly accu&s;ed of that practice, and rai&s;ed out of the meane&s;t and poore&s;t People of tho&s;e Our Cities and Suburbs, without the privity and con&s;ent of the be&s;t and &s;ub&s;tantiall Citizens and Inhabitants, and that the Loans and Contributions which have been &s;ince rai&s;ed, (though they have pa&s;&s;ed more generally then We expected from the duty and &s;obriety of men of Fortunes and under&s;tanding) have been wre&s;ted and extorted from them by Threats and Menaces, and fear of plundering and violence. And therefore We do hereby offer Our free and gracious Pardon to all the Citizens and Inhabitants of Our &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> for all offences concerning the Premi&s;&s;es committed against Vs before the publi&s;hing of this Our Proclamation, (except all tho&s;e Per&s;ons whom We have excepted in Our Declaration of the twelfth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and except Alderman <HI>Fulke,</HI> and Captain <HI>Manwaring,</HI> again&s;t all which We &s;hall proceed according to the rules of Law, as again&s;t Traitors and &s;tirrers of Sedition again&s;t Vs) and We do a&s;&s;ure them in the word of a King, that no violence &s;hall be offered by Our Army, or any part of it to any of them, not doubting but their demeanour will henceforward be &s;uch, that We &s;hall not compelled to bring Our Army again&s;t them.</P>
<P>Provided that this Our Grace &s;hall not extend to any Per&s;on, who after the publi&s;hing this Our Proclamation &s;hall pre&s;ume by Loan or Contribution to a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;aid Army of Rebels, to a&s;&s;emble and mu&s;ter them&s;elves in Arms without Authority derived from Vs under Our hand, or to enter into any Oath of A&s;&s;ociation for the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> how &s;peciou&s;ly &s;oever the &s;ame be pretended for Our &s;afety: for &s;ince the encounter on Sunday the 23^t^h^. of this Moneth, where they u&s;ed all po&s;&s;ible means and malice to have de&s;troyed Vs, and where it plea&s;ed God to give Vs &s;o great a victroy over them (though with the lo&s;&s;e of many worthy men) no man can be un&s;ati&s;fied in the mi&s;|chief and malice of their Rebelli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n And therefore We mu&s;t, and do declare, That who&s;oever &s;hall henceforward by Mo|ney, Plate, or otherwi&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;aid Rebellion, &s;hall take Arms by vertue of any pretended Ordinance, or &s;hall enter into any Oath of A&s;&s;ociation again&s;t Vs, or without Our Con&s;ent, &s;hall be e&s;teemed by Vs as an enemy to the publick Peace, a per&s;on di&s;affected to Vs, the Religion and Law of the Kingdom, and &s;hall accordingly receive condigne puni&s;hment; of which We give them timely notice, that they may proceed accordingly at their perils. And to the end that they may receive all po&s;&s;ible and particular a&s;&s;urance from Vs of Our gracious Intentions to|wards them, We &s;hall be willing that &s;uch a number of grave and &s;ubstantiall Citizens be imployed from Our &s;aid City to Vs, as &s;hall by them be thought fit, who may propo&s;e &s;uch things to Vs on their behalf as &s;hall be de&s;ired, to which we &s;hall give a gratious and ju&s;t An&s;wer. And we do a&s;&s;ure them and all the world, that as the Scandalls and Imputations upon Vs concerning Our favouring of Papi&s;ts have been groundle&s;&s;e, and malitiou&s;ly contrived by the Authours of this Rebellion to beget a mi&s;under&s;tanding between Vs and Our Subjects, &s;o all the profe&s;&s;ions We have made in Our &s;everall Declarations for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of Popery, and the maintenance of the true reformed Prote&s;tant Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church of England, and for the defence of the Lawes of the Land, and the ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament, &s;hall be as inviolably ob&s;erved by Vs, as We expect ble&s;&s;ing from the Almighty God, and obedience from our Subjects.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>&para;<HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Ayno</HI> <DATE>this 27. of <HI>October</HI> in the eighteenth yeer of Our Raigne.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf;Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTIE: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1642.</P>
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