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<P>_WHeras the Queenes Maie&s;tie doth vnder&s;tand, that notwith&s;tan|ding her late Proclamation concerning &s;uch per&s;ons as wander abroad in the habite of Souldiers, there are diuers per&s;ons pre|tending to haue &s;erued in the late warres and &s;eruice as Soul|diers, that remaine within and about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> whereof &s;ome are maymed, others haue receiued hurtes and woundes, or haue other infirmitie whereof they are not as yet perfectly cured: And &s;ome among&s;t the&s;e haue neither bene maymed nor hurt, nor yet &s;erued at all in the warres, but take that cloake and colour, to bee the more pitied, and doe liue a|bout the Citie by begging and the di&s;orderly manner: For which con&s;ideration the Lordes of her Maie&s;ties Councill haue appoynted certaine of the Iu&s;tices of the Peace, as well in the Citie of <HI>London</HI> as in the Countie of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> with the Trea&s;ou|rer of the Warres for the <HI>Lowe Countreyes,</HI> and <HI>Fraunce,</HI> and other di&s;creete per&s;ons be|fore whome all the&s;e kinde of people &s;halbe brought at the Se&s;&s;ions hall in the <HI>Olde Ba|lie,</HI> and by them to bee examined and viewed in what &s;ort they are hurt, or di&s;ea&s;ed and maymed, that &s;ome good order may be taken for the reliefe of &s;uch of them as &s;hall bee founde to haue receiued any mayme or hurt in Seruice, and for the puni&s;hment of others that being common Beggers, Roges and able per&s;ons, do counterfaite the name of Souldiers, or though they haue &s;erued, do remaine without any iu&s;t cau&s;e about this towne, &amp; therefore they haue commanded that the Sheriffes of the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> &amp; in the countie of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> &s;hall make proclamation that al &s;uch &s;ouldiers as haue &s;erued in the&s;e late warres in the <HI>low Countreys</HI> or <HI>Fraunce</HI> which remaine about this Citie, &s;hal repaire vnto the Se&s;&s;ions hall in the <HI>olde Balie</HI> on <HI>Saterday</HI> next, at one of the clocke in the afternoone to be ther: by the Commi&s;&s;ioners examined, viewed and tryed whether they haue &s;erued, and to &s;hew their Pa&s;portes: and that &s;uch as &s;hal not appeare before the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and &s;hall not be allowed to haue &s;erued as Souldiers by the Billets of the &s;ayde Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;igned with their hands to bee by the Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Con&s;tables, Headborowes and all others her Maie&s;ties officers as well within the Citie, as in the exempt places for the Countie of Middle&s;ex, and the &s;euerall liberties, committed to Pri&s;on to be Indyted and puni&s;hed as Rogues and Vagarant per&s;ons.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Court at White-hall, <DATE>the la&s;t of Februarie. 1591.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<ITEM>W. Burghley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>C. Howard.</ITEM>
<ITEM>H. Hun&s;don.</ITEM>
<ITEM>T. Buckhur&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>I. Wolley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>J. Forte&s;cue.</ITEM>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by the Deputies of CHRISTOPHER BARKER, Printer to the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie.</P>
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