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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation for regi&s;tring of Knights.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas We haue taken knowledge of many &amp; great inconueniences,</HI> daily ari&s;ing for want of an exact Roll kept in the Office of Armes, of &s;uch as haue receiued from Vs the Order of Knighthood, whereby &s;ome haue pre&s;umed to challenge that dignitie, vpon whom the &s;ame was neuer con|fered, and among&s;t them that were indeede knighted, often que&s;tions a|ri&s;e for precedencie, which cannot be decided for whant of a Record kept ther|of: For redre&s;&s;e whereof We directed Our Letters, dated the fifteenth day of Day la&s;t, to Our right tru&s;tie and right welbeloued Cou&s;in and Coun|&s;eller, <HI>Thomas</HI> Earle of Arundel and Surrey, Our Earle Mar&s;hal of Eng|land, That, according as appertaineth to that his Office, hee &s;hould take ordertherein. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, by rea&s;on of the &s;lackne&s;&s;e and negli|gence of &s;uch as haue beene by Vs aduanced vnto that degree, in not giuing notice thereof to the &s;aid Earle Mar&s;hall or his Deputie, Our &s;aid Letters haue not taken effect according to Our intent.</P>
<P>Wee doe therefore hereby publi&s;h and declare Our Royall plea&s;ure, and doe &s;traitly charge and command, That all &s;uch per&s;ons, as &s;ithence the &s;aid fifteenth day of May la&s;t pa&s;t haue receiued that dignity, &s;hall within three moneths after the publi&s;hing of this Our Proclamation, and all others that &s;hall hereafter receiue the like dignitie from Vs, or any Our Lieutenants, &s;hall within one mo|neth after they haue receiued the &s;ame, within this Our Realme of England, or within one moneth next after their comming into this Realme, if they receiue the &s;ame out of the Realme, bring, or cau&s;e to be brought, a &s;ufficient Certificate thereof, and of the time thereof, to Our Earle Mar&s;hall of Eng|land for the time being, or to &s;uch other per&s;on or per&s;ons as hee &s;hall appoint, to the ende the &s;ame may bee regi&s;ted in a Roll, to bee therefore kept in the Office of Armes, vpon paine that euery per|&s;on neglecting to bring &s;uch Certificate, &s;hall lo&s;e the benefit of his due Precedencie, and in all Com|mi&s;&s;ions, imployments, and places, &s;hall be ranked after &s;uch as, vpon like Certificate brought, &s;hall be regi&s;tred before them. And Wee doe like wi&s;e &s;ignifie and declare Our plea&s;ure to be, That all &s;uch as, at any time before the &s;ayd fifteenth day of May la&s;t pa&s;t, did receiue the &s;aid Order of knighthood at Our hands, &s;hall at any time hereafter bring &s;uch Certificate, as afore&s;aid, and &s;hall haue the &s;ame regi&s;tred, as afore&s;aid, for clearing all controuer&s;ies and que&s;tions that may ari&s;e touching their Precedencie.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at Wind&s;or <DATE>the fiue and twentieth day of April, in the one and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXIII.</P>
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