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<P>A DECLARATION OF HIS MAIESTIES ROYALL PLEASVRE, Expre&s;&s;ed in certaine Ordinances by Him commanded to be put in practice, concerning the &s;ecurity of divers parts of this Kingdome, E&s;pecially the City and County of <HI>Oxford,</HI> with the adjacent parts, from the violence of His Souldiers.</P>
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<FIGDESC>arms of Charles I</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<P>Fir&s;t printed at <HI>Oxford</HI> by <HI>Leonard Lichfield,</HI> and now re|printed at <HI>London</HI> for JOHN RIVERS.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of His MAjESTIES <HI>Royall Plea&s;ure.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WEe have with great grief of mind, and angui&s;h, beheld the late troubles and tu|multuous di&s;tempers which have &s;welled up above the bancks of peace and allege|ance, and drowned the whole Kingdome in an Ocean of blood, rapines and oppre&s;|&s;ions; how much Wee have in all the time of Our raigne &s;ought and pur&s;ued the peace and &s;afety of Our Subjects? tho&s;e good Lawes by Us enacted for their pre&s;ervation and benefit, doe to the world give a lu|culent and true te&s;timony. But in this lamentable time of civill warre, which rages in the bowells of Our King|dome, and no Law, though of never &s;o much Ju&s;tice and Con&s;equence to the publike commodity is ob&s;erved; no Statute in force, no In&s;titution, though never &s;o &s;acred, re|guarded; every man making his lu&s;t a law, his revenge a Law: and as it was with the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> in the time they had no King, every man does what he plea&s;eth, which u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">limited and confu&s;ed licenciou&s;ne&s;&s;e, if it be not (and &s;uddenly) re&s;trained and reduced within its channell, it will like a vi|olent
<PB N="4" REF="3"> &s;treame, when it hath overflowed its bounds, that ter|minate it within its current, threaten the whole Nation its peace and facility with a deluge. Into &s;uch a labyri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th of mi&s;chiefes are the affairs of this lately flouri&s;hing Kingdome betrayed, that Our be&s;t clue of rea&s;on and di&s;cour&s;e can &s;carce conduct Us out of i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<P>But in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reate&s;t dangers are mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the greatne&s;&s;e of fortitude and wi&s;edome, which are as much expre&s;&s;ed in preventing perills that are imminent, as in re&s;i&s;ting and &s;uf|fering th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> vali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tly, when they are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> upon Us. And in this kinde of prudence and courage for delivering Our Subjects from oppre&s;&s;ions of the &s;ouldiers, Wee have neither beene wanting to Our peoples &s;afety, nor tho&s;e whom Wee have intru&s;ted, with the performance of Our Commands neglected their duties: But 'tis, and hath beene in all wars, ancient and moderne, a certaine military licence u&s;urped by the &s;ouldier, which Wee have no edict, though never &s;o &s;trict, can deter or re&s;traine him from. And there|fore Wee cannot expect but &s;ome mi&s;demeanors mu&s;t be committed by ours, though it be publikely knowne by Our late Declaration to that purpo&s;e, how aver&s;e &s;uch pro|ceedings are to Our nature, and with what earne&s;tne&s;&s;e and &s;everity Wee have prohibited &s;uch kinde of in&s;olencies to be offered to any of Our Subjects, who, though &s;ome of them mi&s;led from their duties, have not performed the parts of Subjects towards Us; yet Wee &s;hall never for|get We are their King, and therefore their Protector from all outrages: but more e&s;pecially Wee are ingaged to have a particular and indulgent eye upon the good of this City of <HI>Oxford,</HI> where Wee have f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ed. Our royal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;idence for the time being, and to &s;ecure the peace of this and the ad|joyning Counties, as well from the violence and incur|&s;ions of the Parliaments forces, which are neere their borders, as al&s;o from any injury or rapine of Our owne &s;ouldiers, as they are vulgarly termed Cavaliers.</P>
<P>Our Royall Plea&s;ure therefore is, That the Sheriffes of
<PB N="5" REF="3"> Our Counties of <HI>Oxford, B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rks</HI> and <HI>Buckingham,</HI> and the other Counties, Our Ju&s;tices of peace in the &s;aid Coun|ties, as al&s;o Our adjoyning Majors, Bailiffes, and other Officers of Townes Corporate, upon any notice of the ap|proach of any of the adver&s;e forces, to draw up in Armes for their &s;ecurity again&s;t any &s;uch inva&s;ions, all the power of the &s;aid Counties or Townes Corporate; and to make &s;tout re&s;i&s;tance again&s;t any that &s;hall di&s;turb the &s;aid Coun|ties or Townes Corporate, or &s;eeke to rob or pillage them or any of them, either of moveables, Money, Plate, or Cattell or any of their goods what&s;oever, that it &s;hall in &s;uch ca&s;es be lawfull for any of Our good Subjects to kill, (or take pri&s;oners, and then deliver them up to the ju&s;tice of the Law) any &s;uch rebe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lious per&s;ons or felons that &s;hall again&s;t Our Lawes in that ca&s;e provided, pre&s;ume to offer the&s;e and the like violences to any of Our good Subjects, per&s;ons or e&s;tates in the &s;aid Counties: and We doe here|by command all Our Officers of warre, in garri&s;ons or bil|litted in the &s;aid Counties, upon all occa&s;ions, to be ready to a&s;&s;i&s;t and relieve the &s;aid Counties and Townes Corpo|rate, or any part of them, if any danger from the adver&s;e for|ces &s;hall approach them, under paine of Our Royall di&s;|plea&s;ure, and having &s;uch puni&s;hments inflicted upon them as Our Councell of warre in &s;uch ca&s;es &s;hall thinke meet, according to the de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ent &s;odained by any of the &s;aid Counties through the negligence, cowardi&s;e, or default of any of Our Commanders or Souldiers. And for the bet|ter &s;ecurity and guard of the &s;aid Counties, their Inhabi|tants and goods, We &s;hall in Our Royall care, and by the advice of Our Councell of warre, provide that &s;uch a con|venient number of Our &s;ouldiers &s;hall be billetted in mo&s;t places of the &s;aid Counties, during Our abode in the&s;e parts, as &s;hall neither be oppre&s;&s;ive to the &s;aid Shires by rea|&s;on of their multitude, nor yet &s;hall &s;uffer them to be op|pre&s;&s;ed by the oppo&s;ite forces, which in civill wars, as in all others, will &s;till be ready to watch all opportunities and
<PB N="6" REF="4"> advantages, whereby to infe&s;t or inclo&s;e Us: and becau&s;e Our &s;trength con&s;i&s;ts more in hor&s;e then in foot, Wee will allot and proportion a competent number of troopes to be di&s;po&s;ed in all the&s;e Counties, which joyned with the <HI>Po&s;&s;e Comitatus,</HI> may divert and repell all dangers and detriments from Our good Subjects, which might fall on them from the Parliaments forces.</P>
<P>And We doe further &s;ignifie Our Royall plea&s;ure to all Our Commanders and Souldiers that &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed of as &s;afeguards to the &s;aid Counties, that if at any time, or upon any occa&s;ion, be it want of pay, or what&s;oever other pre|tence they bee to induce them thereunto, that none of them pre&s;ume, either directly or indirectly to take any thing of any value from any of Our good Subjects, nor them any way, or by any meanes mole&s;t, but to demeane them|&s;elves like hone&s;t and civill Subjects, and &s;uch as are con|&s;tituted the pre&s;ervers of the peace and quietne&s;&s;e of the &s;aid places where they are billetted, and not as infringers there|of: Who&s;oever &s;hall pre&s;ume to breake this Our Royall command, &s;hall incurre &s;uch penalty as the haynou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the fact doth de&s;erve, both for the breach of Our Lawes, and the violation of the rights of ho&s;pitality. And this Our command &s;tretcheth not onely to &s;uch places and per|&s;ons, where, or with whom Our &s;aid forces are billet|ted, but to all other places within Our &s;aid Counties, and to all the per&s;ons of Our &s;aid Subjects, e&s;pe|cially women and travellers, as Carriers, and the like, whom what &s;ouldier &s;oever &s;hal rob or plunder of any thing, or offer any violence to, which may be <HI>in terrorem vitae,</HI> &s;hall &s;urely upon proofe of that fact &s;uffer death for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And whereas We have for the pre&s;ent made Our good City of <HI>Oxford</HI> Our place of re&s;idence, Wee e&s;teeme Our &s;elves ingaged as well to &s;ecure the peace and affaires of the Univer&s;ity and City again&s;t the violences and mi&s;demeanors of Our owne &s;ouldiers, as again&s;t the attempts and inva|&s;ions
<PB N="7" REF="4"> of the adver&s;e partie. And for as much as dive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of our Souldiers (notwith&s;tanding all the Declarations of Our Plea&s;ure to the contrarie) have, as Wee have been credibly enformed, committed divers abominable ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rages in the townes of Abington, Alisburie, and other places in the &s;aid Counties: nay that &s;ome unruley Schollers, under pre|tence of his being a Malignant to Us, plundered the hou&s;e of one Alderman <HI>Nick&s;on</HI> in our Citie of Ox<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ord, contrarie to Our Lawes in that ca&s;e provide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; Wee do hereby &s;igni|fie to all Our Soldiers, and others within our Univer&s;itie and Citie of Oxford, that it is Our Royall Plea&s;ure, that no Soldier or other &s;hall dare to plunder the hou&s;e, or hou&s;es of any Inhabitant in this Our Citie, for any pretence what&s;o|ever, under the penaltie of &s;uffering all the extremities of puni&s;hment, which the &s;everitie and Ju&s;tice of Our Lawes hath provided for Felons and Burglarers. And Wee doe hereby charge and command all Our Colonels, Lievtenant-Colonels, Sergeant Majors, Captaines and other Officers of Our Armie now re&s;ident in and about this Univer&s;itie and Citie, to ob&s;erve this Our charge with all &s;trictne&s;&s;e, and to intimate the &s;ame to all the Souldiers of their &s;everall Troops and Foot-Companies, that none of them hereafter (&s;o offending) may plead ignorance for their excu&s;e.</P>
<P>Wee further certifie to all Our &s;aid Officers, that Our Royall Plea&s;ure is, that by their owne examples of &s;obrietie and temperance, and by their authorities, if any need re|quire, that they re&s;traine and endevour to avert all manner of quarrels betwtxt the Souldiers in this Our Citie of Ox|ford, it being now to be accounted as Our Royall Court, and they meerly as a Guard for Our Per&s;on, Our owne Pre|&s;idiarie Legions: And that the &s;aid Commanders doe (as much as in them lies) for the re&s;traint of their Souldiers, from all manner of cavill and contention, with any Inhabi|tant of this Our Citie, or Student of the Univer&s;itie; inti|mating hereby, that Our Royall Plea&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e is, that any Stu|dent or Inhabitant, who &s;hall be fouly treated, or beaten, or
<PB N="8" REF="5"> revil'd by any of Our Souldiers, &s;hall upon complain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e to the Captaine, of Colonell of the &s;aid Souldier &s;o offen|ding, have right done him for the &s;aid in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">urie, by the pu|ni&s;hment of the Souldier, according to the merit of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> We al&s;o will and require all our Captaines, and all other &s;u|periour and inferiour Commanders, to ab&s;taine them&s;elves from all manner of di&s;orders, in or about our &s;aid Citie, e|&s;pecially from the be&s;tiall and unmanly vice of inordinate drinking, which by cu&s;tome is growne to be too much u&s;ed in our Nation, e&s;pecially among&s;t tho&s;e of the Militarie Profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Further, charging the &s;aid Commanders, to kind or a&s;much as in them lies, the &s;aid intemperate exce&s;&s;e in the &s;ouldiers. And We doe hereby give all Our loving Subjects to under|&s;tand, as well within Our &s;aid City and Counties adjoyning, as in the re&s;t of Our Dominions, That We have alwayes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d, and &s;o will ever have, as much true and tender &s;urfe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> theirs as of Our owne &s;ufferings, and &s;hall evermore &s;tudy to keepe them &s;ecure from all dangers, pre&s;erving, as Wee have often firmely declared and prote&s;ted, their lives e&s;tates, and ancient libertie, from all oppre&s;&s;ion and inva&s;ions what|&s;oever, both during the time of the&s;e lamentable inte&s;tifie wars, and after, when it &s;hall plea&s;e heaven in its mercy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o con&s;titute and effect a faire reconcilement of all the&s;e &s;ad and wofull di&s;tractions betweene Our &s;elfe and Our high Court of Parliament; which We hope will be &s;peedily, that this Nation &s;o long time ble&s;&s;ed (both in Our owne prece|dent raign, and that of Our deare fathers of famous memory) with the fruits of peace, may againe flouri&s;h in unity&punc; peace and concord, which We hope the prayers of all Our good &s;ubjects doe implore with Us may &s;uddenly come to pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">; in which no care of Ours &s;hall at any (time, or upon any oc|ca&s;ion be wanting.</P>
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