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<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; A Proclamation for the levying and payment of the Ship-Moneys in Arreare.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas His Maje&s;tie, out of His Princely care of the defence of this Realm, and &s;afety of His Subjects: Vnder&s;tanding of the great pre|partations of Shipping beyond the Seas, as well this pre&s;ent yeer, as in divers yeers preceding, and the imminent perils thereby appearing on every &s;ide in the&s;e dangerous and Warlike times: For the &s;peedie defence of His Kingdom and people, guarding of the Seas, and &s;ecure conduct of Shipping and Merchandize, (wherein all His Subjects were concerned) Did as well for divers yeers pa&s;t, as in November la&s;t, direct His &s;everall Writs to &s;everall Sheriffis, Majors, Bayliffs, and other His Officers and Subjects, of the &s;everall Counties of <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> Thereby commanding the providing and getting in readine&s;&s;e certain Ships furni&s;hed with Ordnance and Arms, and manned and victualled at the charges of the &s;aid Counties, in &s;uch &s;ort as by the &s;ame Writs were appointed. But His Ma|je&s;tie finding, that the &s;aid Ships were not provided according to the Tenour of the &s;aid Writs, nor the moneys Levyed (according to E&s;timates yeerly given by the Lords, and others of His Maje&s;ties Privie Councell) for &s;etting forth tho&s;e Ships; His maje&s;tie, for the common defence and &s;afety of His Kingdom and people, was con&s;trained at His own great charges, yeerly to make out, and maintain that Shipping which he expected from His Subjects.</P>
<P>And therefore His Maje&s;tie, as He cannot but cen&s;ure the mo&s;t of His Sheriffs and other His Mini&s;ters, of great neglects in the execution of that Service, according to their Oaths, and the duty of their places: So He will now expect from them an undelayed and faithfull performance of the &s;ame, without favour or connivence. And to that end, His Maje&s;tie doth hereby &s;traitly charge and command, all His pre&s;ent Sheriffs, Majors, Bayliffs, and other His Officers and Mini&s;ters to whom it appertaineth, forthwith not onely to rai&s;e and levie the &s;aid Moneys ap|pointed to be collected and rai&s;ed for the providing and furni&s;hing the &s;aid Ships for this pre&s;ent yeer, But al&s;o to give forth their Warrants to the preceding Sheriffs, Majors, and other Of|ficers re&s;pectively, for the rai&s;ing and levying of tho&s;e Arrears which hapned in their times: And that as well the Sheriffs, Majors, and other Officers for this pre&s;ent yeer, as tho&s;e for the yeere pa&s;t, who are in Arrear to His Maje&s;tie, &s;hall make their payments re&s;pectively, to the Trea&s;urers of His Maje&s;ties Navie, at or before the fir&s;t day of October next, without further re&s;pite or delay; upon pain of High contempt again&s;t His Maje&s;tie, and to be further proceeded with, and puni&s;hed according to the quality of their offences, in that which &s;o much importeth the publike good and &s;afety of the Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at Whitehall <DATE>the twentieth day of Augu&s;t, in the &s;ixteenth yeer of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
&leaf; 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 Maje&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1640.</P>
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