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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 offering His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Gratious Pardon to all Officers, Gunners, Armourers, Gun&s;miths, Carpenters, Wheele-wrights, and other Artificers belonging to the Office of the Ordinance, and requiring their attendance at <HI>Oxford,</HI> before the Eighteenth day of this in&s;tant <HI>March.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS diver&s;e Officers, Gunners, Armourers, Gun&s;miths, Carpenter, Wheele-wrights and other Arti<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">icers <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> in Our &s;ervice, and entertained in &s;everall con|ditions and imployments in Our Office of the Ordinance, and for the u&s;e of Our Train of Artillery, have contrary to their duties, not only ab&s;ented them&s;elves from Our &s;ervice, and their &s;everall imployments therein, but many of them contrary to their Allegiance have put them&s;elves under and Entertained them&s;elves with tho&s;e now in actuall Rebellion again&s;t Us, and thereby have fallen into the hainous Crime of high Trea&s;on again&s;t Us, Our Crowne and Dignity, Notwith&s;tanding which; out of Our tender Compa&s;sion, We de&s;iring by all faire and mercifull waies and meanes to reduce Our Subjects to their duty and obedience, are gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed, and doe hereby offer Our free and gratious pardon, to all Officers, Gunners, Armourers, Wheele-wrights, Carpenters, and all other Artificers and Mini&s;ters of, and belonging to Our Office of the Ordinance, who &s;hall within tenne daies af|ter the publication hereof, leave the &s;ervice of the Rebells, and returne to their allegiance to Us, and repaire to their &s;ervice in Our Army, in the &s;aid Office of the Ordinance; And We doe hereby farther publi&s;h and declare, That if any officer or officers above mentioned, either in &s;ervice again&s;t Us, or &s;uch who ab&s;ents them&s;elves, and thereby neglect their duties, &s;hall continue therein, and not give their Per&s;onall attendance upon Us at Our City of Oxford, in the &s;aid office, before the Eighteenth day of this in&s;tant <HI>March,</HI> they &s;hall not only loo&s;e all Wages, Fees, and other Allowances due unto them by their offices and places, but be put &s;orth, and excluded Our &s;ervice, and other per&s;ons &s;etled in the &s;ame, and &s;uch farther puni&s;hments be infli|cted on them, &s;o refu&s;ing Our Grace, or di&s;obeying Our Commands, as the greatne&s;&s;e of their Crimes &s;hall de&s;erve, of which We intend to take a &s;peedy, and &s;treight accompt.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>OXFORD,</HI><DATE>this <HI>&s;eaventh of March,</HI> in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the Univer&s;ity. 1642.</P>
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