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<OPENER><SIGNED>&leaf; By the King.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation commanding all Deputie-Lieutenants, and Ju&s;tices of Peace, to attend tho&s;e places in their proper Counties: And that tho&s;e that have hou&s;es and lands in the Northern parts, &s;hall re&s;ort thither, and re&s;ide there with their Families.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie, taking notice that there are now in &amp; about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> divers Deputy-Lieu|tenants, and Iu&s;tices of Peace, whereby the Services of His Maje|&s;tie, and the government of the Countrey is much neglected; Doth therefore (with the advice of His Privie Councell) &s;traitly charge and command all Deputy-Lieutenants, and Iu&s;tices of Peace what&s;o|ever, now being or re&s;iding in or about the &s;aid Cities, forthwith to make their repair to their &s;everall and re&s;pective habitations and dwellings, in the Counties of their abode, and to re&s;ide and attend there the Services of His Maje&s;tie, and the government and the affairs of their Countrey, according to the duty of their places, upon pain of His Maje&s;ties di&s;plea&s;ure, and as they will an&s;wer it at their utmo&s;t perils. And His Maje&s;tie doth further declare His Royall plea|&s;ure to be, and doth hereby likewi&s;e &s;traitly charge and command, That all per&s;ons what|&s;oever, who have hou&s;es and lands in the Counties of <HI>Lanca&s;ter, Northumberland, Cumberland, We&s;tmerland,</HI> and Bi&s;hopprick of <HI>Dure&s;me,</HI> or any of them, or in the County and Town of <HI>Newca&s;tle upon Tyne</HI> (except &s;uch Officers, and others, who are to attend His Maje&s;ties per|&s;on, and other &s;peciall Services of His Maje&s;tie) do forthwith &amp; without delay, with their Families and Retinue, re&s;ort 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 arayed and furni&s;hed with good and &s;ufficient Arms, according to their &s;everall degrees and qualities, for the defence and &s;afeguard of tho&s;e parts, by or before the fir&s;t day of Iune 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 Service and Defence of their Countrey, upon pain of His Maje&s;ties heavy in|dignation, and of &s;uch further cen&s;ure and puni&s;hment as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, or otherwi&s;e, may be inflicted upon them for their di&s;obedience, and contempt or neglect of the&s;e His Maje&s;ties Royall commands, wherein the publike is concerned: Where|of, as His Maje&s;tie will take a &s;trict accompt, &s;o he doth hereby require 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 connivence.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at Whitehall <DATE>the fourteenth day of May, in the &s;ixteenth yeer of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&para; God &s;ave the King.</TRAILER>
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<P>Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1640.</P>
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