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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<BYLINE>BY THE KING.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the Incouragement of Sea-men and Mariners to returne to their Obedience to the Kings Maje&s;ty, and to continue in His Service.</HEAD>
<P>_HIS MAJESTY under&s;tanding, that many Sea-men and Mariners employed by Mer|chants being in Rebellion again&s;t Him, or apparently adhering to the Rebels, have an Inclination to return to their due Obedience, as Duty and Loyalty doth oblige them; But that the nece&s;&s;ity of their Condition is &s;uch, as that unle&s;&s;e they may be a&s;&s;ured of &s;atisfaction for their Wages and Entertainment upon their comming to Land, or into the Ports in Obedience to His Maje&s;ty, they may be expo&s;ed to mi&s;ery, and &s;o di&s;abled not onely to maintaine them&s;elves and their Families, but al&s;o to doe the King that Service which they de&s;ire. His Maje&s;ty therefore taking the &s;ame into His Princely Con|&s;ideration, and the good Services which the&s;e Sea-men and Mariners may performe unto Him; And being willing to give them all fit Encouragement, doth hereby Declare, and Promi&s;e in the Word of a King, That what Sea-men and Mariners &s;oever, &s;hall bring any Ship or Ships, or other Ve&s;&s;ell what&s;oever into any Port or Harbour within. His Maje&s;ties Obedience, they &s;hall not onely have their free Pardons for what is pa&s;t; But &s;hall al&s;o be rewarded with two Third parts of the whole Value of every &s;uch Ship and Ve&s;&s;ell, and the Loading thereof, to be immediately divided among&s;t the Captaines, Ma&s;ters, Officers, and Mariners of the &s;aid Ships and Ve&s;&s;ells; And that they, or as many of them as &s;hall de&s;ire it, &s;hall immediately be againe employed, entertained, and &s;et to Sea for His Maje&s;ties Service, either in the &s;aid Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell, that they &s;hall &s;o bring in, or in &s;ome other which &s;hall be fitted for that purpo&s;e, and have &s;uch Entertainment and Wages as hath at any time been allowed unto them heretofore.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI>Court at <HI>OXFORD,</HI> <DATE>this <HI>22^t^h</HI>day of <HI>February,</HI> in the Twentieth yeare of His Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>GOD SAVE THE KING.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Oxford,</HI> by <HI>Leonard Lichfield,</HI> Printer to the &V;niver&s;ity.</P>
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