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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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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 commanding the repair of all Noblemen, Knights, Gentlemen, and others, unto their Hou&s;es and Lands in the Northern parts, by the fir&s;t day of March next, and there to abide for the &s;ervice and &s;afegard of their Countrey.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;tie under&s;tanding that divers of the</HI> Nobility, Gentry, and others of the Northern parts, who have hou&s;es and lands there, are now abiding in and about <HI>London,</HI> and in other South|ern parts of this Kingdom; And holding it nece&s;&s;ary, that (according to the Laws &amp; Cu&s;toms of the Realm, and con&s;tant practi&s;e of all former ages in times of danger) they &s;hould at this pre&s;ent be required to repair to, and re&s;ide upon their Lands in tho&s;e parts; Is plea&s;ed (out of His Princely care to provide for the &s;afety of His Kingdom and people) to declare His Royall plea&s;ure herein: And therefore His Maje&s;tie (with the advice of His Privy Councell) doth hereby &s;traitly charge and command, That all Lords, Spirituall and Temporall, Knights, Gentlemen, and others what&s;oeuer, who have Hou&s;es and Lands in the Counties of <HI>Yorke, Lanca&s;ter, Che&s;ter, Stafford, Leice&s;ter, Darby, Rutland, Lincoln, Nottingham, Nor|thumberland, Cumberland, We&s;tmerland,</HI> and Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Dure&s;me,</HI> or in the Counties and Towns of <HI>King&s;ton upon Hull,</HI> and <HI>New-Ca&s;tle upon Tyne,</HI> or any of them (except &s;uch of the Nobility as &s;hall attend His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on in obedience to His Letters, and &s;uch Officers, and others, who are likewi&s;e to attend His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on and other &s;peciall &s;ervices) Do forthwith and with|out delay, with their Families and Retinue, repair to their &s;everall Hou&s;es and Lands there, &s;o as they fail not to be there re&s;ident and abiding in their per&s;ons, with their &s;aid Families and Retinue, well arrayed and furni&s;hed with good and &s;ufficient Arms, according to their &s;everall degrees and qualities, for the defence and &s;afegard of tho&s;e parts, by or before the fir&s;t day of March now next coming at the furthe&s;t, and there during His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure &s;o to continue, to attend the &s;ervice and defence of their Countrey, upon pain of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t heavy indi|gnation and di&s;plea&s;ure, and of &s;uch further cen&s;ure and puni&s;hment as may be by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm inflicted upon them for their di&s;obedience and contempt or neglect of this His Royall Commandment, wherein the publike is concerned: Whereof as His Maje|&s;tie intendeth to take a &s;trict and &s;evere accompt, &s;o he doth hereby require and command as well the Lords and others of His Privie Councell, as all other His Officers and Mini&s;ters whom it &s;hall any way concern, to take order that all &s;uch as &s;hall offend, may receive condigne puni&s;h|ment without toleration or connivence.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at VVhitehall <DATE>the nine and twentieth day of January, in the fourteenth yeer of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
&para; 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. 1638.</P>
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