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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
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<P>&para; A Proclamation of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Grace, Favour, and Pardon, to the Inhabitants of His County of <HI>Gloce&s;ter.</HI></P>
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<P>_WHEREAS We have taken notice that by the malice, Indu&s;try and Importunity of &s;everall ill affected and &s;editious per&s;ons in Our County of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> very many of Our weake and &s;educed Subjects of that Our County have not only been drawne to exerci&s;e the <HI>Militia,</HI> under colour of a Pretended Ordinance, without and again&s;t Our Con&s;ent (a Crime of a very high nature, if We would &s;trictly enquire thereinto) but have made Contributions of Plate, Money and Hor&s;es, towards the maintenance of the Army now in Rebellion again&s;t Vs; We doe hereby publi&s;h and declare, That We are graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to attribute the Crimes and Offences of Our &s;aid Subjects of that County to the power and Faction of their &s;educers, Who, We beleeve by Threates, Menaces, and fal&s;e Informations compelled and led them into the&s;e actions of undutifullne&s;&s; and di&s;loyalty towards Vs; And We doe therefore hereby offer Our free and gracious Pardon to all the Inhabitants of Our &s;aid County of <HI>Glocester,</HI> for all Offences concerning the premi&s;es committed again&s;t Vs before the publi&s;hing of this Our Proclamation (except Sir <HI>Robert Cooke, William Cooke</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Nathaniell Stephens</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Thomas Pury, Thomas Hodges,</HI> and <HI>Ieremy Buck,</HI>) again&s;t all which We &s;hall proceed according to the Rules of the Law, as again&s;t Traitours and Stirrers of &s;edition again&s;t Vs, And whom We doe heereby require all Our Officers and Mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice, and all Our loving Subjects what&s;oever, to apprehend and cau&s;e to be kept in &s;afe Cu&s;tody till Our Plea&s;ure be further knowne. 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 Loane or Contribution to a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;aid Army of Rebells, to a&s;&s;emble and Mu&s;ter them&s;elves in Armes without Authority derived from Vs under Our Hand, to enter into any Oath of A&s;&s;ociation for op|po&s;ing Vs and Our Army, or to &s;uccour or entertaine any of the Per&s;ons excepted in this Our Proclamation, or in Our Declaration of the 12 of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> But We mu&s;t and doe declare, That who&s;oever &s;hall hence forward be guilty of the premi&s;es, or of either of them, &s;hall be e&s;teemed by Us as an Enemy to the publick Peace, a Per&s;on di&s;affected to Vs, and to the Religion and Law of the Kingdome, and &s;hall accordingly receive condigne puni&s;hment, of which We give them timely notice, that they may proceed accordingly at their perills.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>&para; <HI>Given at Our Court at</HI> Oxford, <DATE><HI>the third day of</HI> November, <HI>in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE><LB>
<HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></CLOSER>
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