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<P>HIS MAIESTIES LAST GENERALL PARDON, GRANTED To all His loving SUBJECTS: As it was truely taken out of the Rolls, wherein the &s;aid Generall Pardon is inrolled.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Wat&s;on, Febr.</HI> 7. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES <HI>by the Grace of God, King of</HI> England, Scotland, France <HI>and</HI> Ireland <HI>Defender of Faith, &amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>_TO all Our loving Subjects, not onely of Our Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> but al&s;o of Our native Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and Realme of <HI>Ireland,</HI> greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas by the providence of Almighty God Wee have &s;ucceded Our royall father of
<PB N="4" REF="3">ble&s;&s;ed memory (as was Our hereditary right) in all his Dominons and Signearies, We thought it fit to divulge Our thankful|ne&s;&s;e to God, by extending Our royall Grace to Our people, which are by him committed to Our charge. And becau&s;e no one Act can &s;o well be&s;eeme the naturall magnificence of a Chri&s;tian King, as the expre&s;sion of that divine attribute mercy, Wee by the te&s;timony of that, and free grant of Our Grace to all Our Subjects, &s;hall endevour to gratifie all Our loving Subjects.</P>
<P>Wee doe therefore hereby, out of Our royall Grace and Benignity, by the&s;e pre|&s;ents, give and grant a free and generall pardon to all Our Subjects in Our &s;aid Kingdomes, of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> and Our Principality of <HI>Wales;</HI> for all and all manner of crimes and offences, which to this pre&s;ent day have by them, or any of them, either by neglect or mi&s;-un|der&s;tanding of Our Lawes, been commit|ted again&s;t Vs. And this Act of Our royall Grace and Mercy, &s;hall not be extended
<PB N="5" REF="3">onely to all Our Subjects within Our three Kingdomes afore&s;aid, but likewi&s;e to &s;uch of Oun Subjects as are ab&s;ent in forraigne parts, provided alwayes, that this Our cle|mencie extend not to &s;uch malefactors, as have beene bani&s;hed Our &s;aid Kingdomes for any Trea&s;on or Trea&s;ons again&s;t Our royall father of ble&s;&s;ed memory, or his ex|cellent predece&s;&s;or, Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> nor to any per&s;on or per&s;ons that have of their owne accord, and to &s;ave them&s;elves from the ju&s;tice of Our Lawes relinqui&s;hed and abandoned any of Our &s;aid Kingdomes: for any of the&s;e capitall and heynous crimes of high Trea&s;on to Our owne Per&s;on, of Sodomie, wilfull murther, or rape: and We do likewi&s;e hereby declare, that this Our &s;aid Act of Grace and generall pardon, is not exten&s;ive to any of Our Subjects now re&s;ident within any of Our &s;aid Kingdomes or Signearies, that are by due order of Law convicted and found guiltie of all or any of the crimes afore&s;aid of high Trea&s;on to Our Per&s;on, Sodomie, wilfull murther, or rape,
<PB N="6" REF="4">nay, al&s;o of Burglary. For, as We would wil|lingly afford a te&s;timony of Our mercy, &s;o We would thereby no way injure the Dig|nity of Our Iu&s;tice, or harme any of Our good Subjects by retracting and extenuating the &s;everity of Our Lawes again&s;t &s;uch ca|pitall malefactors.</P>
<P>And that there may be no mi&s;-under&s;tan|ding of this Our Act of Grace and generall pardon in any of Our good Subjects, Wee doe declare and expre&s;&s;e to whom and what offenders Our &s;aid pardon reaches; We doe therefore by the&s;e pre&s;ents, acquit and a&s;|&s;oile all, and all manner of per&s;ons that by neglect, or any other accident, have runne them&s;elves into a <HI>Premunirie,</HI> which extends to the forfeiture of their E&s;tates, and impri|&s;onment of their per&s;ons: all, and all man|ner of per&s;ons that are guilty of the breach of Our peace; and therefore bound to an|&s;wer at Our A&s;si&s;es: all offenders what&s;oe|ver that have run them&s;elves into the danger of puni&s;hment by Our Lawes; for &s;imple felonies, petty larcenaries; chance-medleys,
<PB N="7" REF="4">or man-flaughters: We doe by this Act of Our Grace, fully and freely acquit and a&s;|&s;oyle of all &s;uch penalties and mulcts, as by the Con&s;titutions and Ordinances of this Kingdome are provided for &s;uch offences and offenders.</P>
<P>And We doe moreover &s;ignifie to all Our loving Subjects, that it &s;hall be lawfull for them or any of them that have &s;o offended, and are thereby liable to the danger of Our Lawes, within the &s;pace of three moneths after the publi&s;hing this Our Act of Grace and generall pardon, to &s;ue forth his or their pardon, either at Ourt Cour of Kings-bench, or before any of our Iudges at the A&s;si&s;es for the Countie wherein the offender liveth in their circuits; And if any of Our good Sub|jects be by any impediment hindred from appearing in per&s;on to &s;ue out the &s;aid par|don, it &s;hall be lawfull for him to &s;ue out the &s;ame by his Atturney, and his &s;aid par|don &s;o &s;ued out, to be of as much validitie as if it had been &s;ued out by him&s;elfe in per|&s;on: this Our &s;aid pardon &s;hall relea&s;e and acquit any of Our &s;aid Subjects from any
<PB N="8" REF="5">puni&s;hment of their bodies, or forfeitures of their E&s;tates, which by the Lawes may be required, either in Our raigne, or in the raignes of Our &s;ucce&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P>But if Our &s;aid Subject &s;o pardoned &s;hall with the like hope of impunity, by rea&s;on of Our royall Grace and Favour, pre&s;ume to commit againe any of the &s;aid offences for which hee before was pardoned upon his being lawfully convict; therefore this Our pardon &s;hall be void and of none effect, and his former crime require and be liable to the &s;ame penalty or puni&s;hment from the Laws that it was before this Our Act of mercy.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at</HI> Greenwich, <DATE>APRIL <HI>the</HI> 7^t^h^.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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