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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B100510.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Proclamation for the commanding of all Souldiers, lately imployed in the Fleete, vpon their arriuall, not to depart from their Colours.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas diuers of the Ships, which were lately &s;et to</HI> Sea in Our Fleete in October la&s;t, are expected &s;hortly to arriue in &s;ome of Our Ports, in the We&s;terne parts of this Our Realme, and many of the Land Souldiers, imployed by Vs in that Seruice, are al&s;o expected to returne home in tho&s;e Ships: Fora&s;much as Wee &s;hall haue pre&s;ent v&s;e of the Seruice of tho&s;e Souldiers, who, if they &s;hould retire them&s;elues and be di&s;-banded, could not bee &s;o ea&s;ily gathered to|gether againe, as the nece&s;&s;ity of their Seruice doth require; Our expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure therefore is, and Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command, That no Souldier, which was imployed in any of tho&s;e Ships, vpon their arriuall in any Port of this Our Realme, or in any part of Our Dominions, &s;hall depart from his Colours, or be di&s;charged from his Seruice, vntill Wee &s;hall &s;ignifie Our Royall plea&s;ure, when, and how we will v&s;e their further Seruice: And this to bee &s;trictly ob&s;erued and obeyed by all, whome it may concerne, vpon paine of the &s;euere&s;t Puni&s;h|ments, Penalties, and Forfeitures, which by the Lawes and Statutes of this Our Realme, or by Our Prerogatiue Royall can be inflicted vpon the Offenders.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at Wind&s;or, <DATE>the fifteenth day of December, in the fir&s;t yeere of Our Reigne</DATE> of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</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.XXV.</P>
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