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<P>A COPIE OF THE Commi&s;&s;ion &s;ent from His MAJESTIE TO The Con&s;pirators of the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> for the ray&s;ing an Army of Hor&s;e and Foot, and levying of Money, Plate, Ammunition, &amp;c.</P>
<P>WHEREBY Al&s;o power is given to the&s;e Commi&s;&s;ioners, or any foure of them to execute Martiall law, to kill and &s;lay all tho&s;e that &s;hall oppo&s;e them or all &s;uch as are under the Command of his Excellencie the Earle of <HI>E&s;sex.</HI></P>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>Richard Be&s;t,</HI> 1643.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>CHARLES REX,</HI>
_CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of <HI>England, Seotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To our tru&s;ty and well-beloved Sir <HI>Nicholas Cri&s;pe,</HI> Sir <HI>George Stroude,</HI> Sir <HI>Tho. Gardener, Knight;</HI> Recorder of <HI>London,</HI> Sir <HI>George Binion,</HI> Knight; <GAP DESC="blank"> E&s;quire, <HI>Marmaduke Royden,</HI> E|&s;quire; <HI>Tho. Broome,</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Peter Paggin, Charles Ginnings, Robert Abbot, Will. White, Steven Boulton, Robert Alden, Edward Fo&s;ter, Tho. Blinkhorne,</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> Gentlemen; and to all &s;uch other per&s;on or per&s;ons, as according to the true intent and pur|port of the&s;e pre&s;ents, &s;hall bee nominated, and appointed to be Generalls, Collonels Lievtenant Collonels, Serjeant Majors, or other Officers, or of Our Councell of-Warre greeting; </SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas in the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> and Su|burbs thereof, our Borough of Southwarke and County of Middle&s;ex there are rai&s;ed and continued great number of Militarie forces both
<PB N="2" REF="3">Hor&s;e and Foot, who under the command of <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> as their Generall, and under the conduct of divers others, pretending to de|rive their Authoritie from the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, have trecherou&s;ly levied Warre, and rebelled again&s;t their Liege-Lord, and many of our Subjects have beene &s;educed by fal&s;e infor|mation, by the practice of a few, who have been the contrivers of tho&s;e mi&s;chievous plots, and have joyned with them, either in per&s;on, or by ayding of them with men, money, hor&s;es, or o|ther things, and many of our good loyall &s;ub|jects, over-awed by the power of the Rebels, have been forced to contribute to them for the main|tenance of this unnaturall War, and others refu|&s;ing have been Plundered, and robbed of their e&s;tates, and &s;ome committed to &s;everall Pri&s;ons, and others barbarou&s;ly u&s;ed contrary the liberty of free-borne men, contrary to the Law of the Land, and all humanity, of which injury and calamity falling upon our good Subjects, wee are very &s;en&s;ible, and are de&s;irous to give reliefe to Our good Subjects by all the be&s;t meanes Wee can, and to re&s;i&s;t the violence and in&s;olencie of tho&s;e Rebels, and their adherents, We having no
<PB N="3" REF="3">other end, but to pre&s;erve the true Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, the integrity and puritie thereof, to main|taine the Lawes of the Land, the liberty of per|&s;ons, and the propriety of the e&s;tates of our Sub|jects, and ju&s;t priviledges of Parliament. Wee have thought fit for our better &s;ervice, to &s;ettle a Councell of warre in and about our City of <HI>London,</HI> who may take tho&s;e things into their &s;ad con&s;ideration which may conduce be&s;t to this end, and have &s;uch Commanders and Offi|cers &s;etled in the places afore&s;aid, which may both rai&s;e, governe, and lead &s;uch forces as may be rai&s;ed: We therefore impo&s;ing &s;peciall tru&s;t and confidence in your fidelitie, indu&s;try, and good di&s;po&s;ition, have made choyce to nomi|nate and appoint you to be our Councell of war of the &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and Suburbs thereof, and of our &s;aid County of <HI>Mid|dle&s;ex</HI> and the Borough of <HI>Southwarke</HI> and here|by give authoritie to you, or any foure of you to make choyce of any other, to nominate un|der the hands and Seale of any foure of you which with your &s;elves &s;hall make up in all the number of 21 and no more, and wee doe give and grant to you, or any foure of you power
<PB N="4" REF="4">and authority at &s;uch a time, and in &s;uch place as you &s;hall thinke convenient, to a&s;&s;emble and meete together, and there to con&s;ult, advi&s;e, and re&s;olve, of all &s;uch things, and &s;uch wayes and meanes, as you or any foure of you &s;hall think fitte&s;t for rai&s;ing of forces, both of hor&s;e &amp; foot, either of the inhabitants of the &s;aid Cities, County, or borough, or any of the adiacent coun|ties &amp; places, who wil voluntarily a&s;&s;ociate them|&s;elves to that purpo&s;e, tho&s;e forces to arm, mu&s;ter, conduct, order, lead, and governe in the place to that purpo&s;e appoynted, according to the&s;e pre|&s;ents, or any of the Counties adjacent in &s;uch manner as you your &s;elves or &s;uch other able and fitt per&s;ons, as you or any foure of you, &s;hall to that purpo&s;e appoynt according to the&s;e pre&s;ents thinke fitt, and the better to effect this our Ser|vice we give and grant to you or any foure of you power and authority under your hands and &s;eale, to make choyce of and appoint of &s;uch fitt per|&s;ons, as you &s;hall thinke meete to be Captaines Generalls of tho&s;e forces thus to be rai&s;ed, and &s;uch other per&s;ons as you or any foure of you &s;hall in like manner make choy&s;e of or appoynt to be Collonels Lievtenant Collonells, Sergant Ma|jors,
<PB N="5" REF="4">over tho&s;e forces in &s;uch manner and &s;uch places as you &s;hall &s;o apoynt, who by vertue thereof and by verue of the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall have power and authority to doe execution and per|forme all &s;uch things, which to the&s;e &s;everall offi|ces of Imployments, according to the law marti|all doe belong, and wee doe hereby promi&s;e and grant, that withall covenient &s;peed after we &s;hall have notice from you or any 4 of you, under your hands and &s;eale of your nomination doe hereby promi&s;e and grant to rai&s;e mony for the clothing arming, furni&s;hing and paying of all &s;uch Soul|diers as &s;hall be thus Rai&s;ed, &amp; for the providing of all ammunition and other nece&s;&s;aries for the war, all which mony upon iu&s;t account wee doe for us, Our Heirs, and &s;uce&s;&s;ors, promi&s;e grant and agree, well and truly to pay as &s;oone as wee &s;hall be inabled thereunto, and in the meane time to &s;e|cure the &s;ame to tho&s;e who for our Service, and by your mediation and indu&s;try &s;hall lend and disbur&s;e the &s;ame, and wee further by the&s;e pre|&s;ents doe grant that &s;uch Generalls, Collonels, Leivetenant Collonells and other officers &s;o by you nominated as afore&s;aid, &s;hall have full power and authority by vertue of the&s;e pre&s;ents to
<PB N="6" REF="5">lead &amp; govern the &s;ouldiers under their charge, and with them to fight again&s;t our enemies and Rebels, and them to &s;lay and de&s;troy, or them to &s;ave according to the law Martiall, or cour&s;e of war; For the doing of all which this &s;hall bee to you, them, and all of them, a &s;ufficient warrant, willing and commanding all other officers and &s;ouldiers, which by vertue hereof you &s;hal retain, to obey, readily to receive and accompli&s;h your direction &amp; command, and &s;ummons in all things hereunto appertaining or nece&s;&s;ary to be done; as al&s;o all Majors, Sheriffs, iu&s;tices of peace, Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Array, and all other officers Our lo|ving &s;ubjects, to to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to you and all other per&s;ons, that you &s;hall appoint un|der any foure of your hands and &s;eale for the ad|vancing of our &s;peciall &s;ervice, for which this &s;hall be to you, and to every one of you a &s;uffici|ent warrant. In witne&s;&s;e whereof We have cau&s;ed the&s;e our Letters to be made Patents.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated at <HI>Oxford</HI> <DATE> the 16 of <HI>March,</HI> in the eighteenth yeare of Our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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