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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation commanding all the Trained Bands and others on this &s;ide Trent, to be in readine&s;&s;e with Hor&s;e and Arms, to &s;erve His MAJESTIE for defence of the KINGDOME.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas His Maje&s;&s;ie (now in per&s;on with His Armio in the</HI> North, again&s;t tho&s;e Rebels of <HI>Scotland,</HI> who have entred this Kingdom with Ho&s;tility and Arms) hath in His ab&s;ence, for the &s;afeguard of the Queen, Prince, and the re&s;t of His Royall Children, and of all His Subjects in the&s;e Southern parts of the Realm, by Commi&s;&s;ion under the great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> ap|pointed His right tru&s;tie and right welbeloved Cou&s;in and Coun|cellour, <HI>Thomas</HI> Earl of <HI>Arundel</HI> and <HI>Surrey,</HI> Earl Mar&s;hall of <HI>England,</HI> to be His Captain Generall of all His Forces to be rai&s;ed on this &s;ide <HI>Trent,</HI> and in His Dominion of <HI>Wales;</HI> to be commanded and di&s;po&s;ed of by the &s;aid Earl, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require.</P>
<P>And whereas His Maje&s;tie by His Letters under His Signet, directed to His Lieute|nants of His &s;everall Counties on this &s;ide <HI>Trent,</HI> and in <HI>Wales,</HI> hath required and authorized them to have in readine&s;&s;e the Trained Bands, with &s;uch further Forces of Hor&s;e and Foot as can be rai&s;ed in tho&s;e Counties, and in their own per&s;ons to bring them, with meet Offi|cers to order and command them, to &s;uch Rendebous as &s;hall be a&s;&s;igned to the &s;aid Lieu|tenants:</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie therefore, doth declare His Royall will and plea&s;ure, and doth hereby re|quire and command all his Lieutenants, and Deputy Lieutenants of his &s;everall Counties
<PB REF="2">on this &s;ide <HI>Trent,</HI> and in His Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> That forthwith they have in readine&s;&s;e, not onely all the Trained Bands, both Hor&s;e and Foot, of their &s;everall Lieutenan|cies; but likewi&s;e all other per&s;ons, that are able, either in body or e&s;tate, to do &s;ervice, to put them&s;elves into the be&s;t order they can for Arms, both for Hor&s;e and Foot; and be ready either to defend the Counties in which they dwell, or to come under the conduct of the &s;aid Lieutenants, or their Deputy Lieutenants, or &s;ome of them, to &s;uch Rendevous el&s;ewhere, and at &s;uch times, for the defence of the publike, and them&s;elves, as the &s;aid Cap|tain Generall, or (in his ab&s;ence) his Lieutenant &s;hall appoint: And all to be in &s;uch readi|ne&s;&s;e, that they be able to march at four and twenty hours warning at the furthe&s;t after command to be received from him or his Lieutenant in that behalf: Wherein His Maie&s;tie doth expect that forwardne&s;&s;e in all His loyall and well affected Subjects, as that in this common danger, they will be willing with their per&s;ons and e&s;tates, to contribute all a&s;&s;i|&s;tance to His Maje&s;tie, for the publike pre&s;ervation of the Kingdom, and their own &s;afety and peace.</P>
<P>And His Maje&s;tie doth further charge and command, as well as his Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants of his &s;aid &s;everall Counties, as all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, She|riffs, Bailiffs, and all others, whom it doth or may concern, to be obedient, aiding and a&s;|&s;i&s;ting unto the directions and commands of the &s;aid Captain Generall, or his Lieutenant from time to time in the execution of this His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice. Neverthele&s;&s;e, his Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure is, That for &s;uch Forces as are or &s;hall be levied by His Maje&s;ties Captain Gene|rall of His Army, or His Lieutenant for his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice in the North, that they &s;hall be &s;pared to &s;erve in His Maje&s;ties Army on this &s;ide <HI>Trent.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at York </HI> <DATE><HI>the la&s;t day of Augu&s;t in the &s;ixteenth yeer of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&para; 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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