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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140229.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="G">506.h.12[27]</STC>
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<HEAD><FIGURE>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation appointing the Flags, a&s;well for Our Nauie Royall, as for the Ships of Our Subiects of South and North Britaine.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WEe taking into Our Royall con&s;ideration that it is meete for the</HI> honour of Our owne Ships in Our Nauie Royall, and of &s;uch other Ships as are, or &s;hall be imployed in Our immediate Seruice, that the &s;ame bee by their Flags di&s;tingui&s;hed from the Ships of any other of Our Subiects, doe hereby &s;traitly prohibite, and forbid that none of Our Subiects, of any of Our Nations and Kingdomes, &s;hall from hencefoorth pre&s;ume to carry the Vnion Flagge in the Maine toppe, or other part of any of their Ships (that is) S. <HI>Georges</HI> Cro&s;&s;e, and S. <HI>Andrewes</HI> Cro&s;&s;e ioyned together, vpon paine of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, but that the &s;ame Vnion Flagge bee &s;till re&s;erued as an Ornament proper for Our owne Ships, and Ships in Our im|mediate Seruice and Pay, and none other.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e Our further Will and plea&s;ure is, that all the other Ships of Our Subiects of <HI>England,</HI> or South <HI>Britaine</HI> bearing Flags, &s;hall from hencefoorth carry the Red-Cro&s;&s;e, com|monly called S. <HI>George</HI> his Cro&s;&s;e, as of olde time hath beene v&s;ed; And al&s;o that all the other Ships of Our Subiects of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or North <HI>Britaine</HI> &s;hall from hencefoorth carry the White Cro&s;&s;e, commonly called, S. <HI>Andrewes</HI> Cro&s;&s;e, whereby the &s;euerall Shipping may thereby bee di&s;tingui&s;hed, and We thereby the better di&s;cerne the number and goodne&s;&s;e of the &s;ame; Where|fore Wee will and &s;traitly command all Our Subiects foorthwith to bee conformable and obedi|ent to this Our Order, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their perills.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Greenewich, </HI> <DATE><HI>this fifth day of May, in the tenth yeere of Our Reigne of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAIESTIE: And by the A&s;signes of IOHN BILL. 1634.</P>
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