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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<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 for the v&s;e of the Bowe and the Pike together in Militarie Di&s;cipline.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas in former times Bowes and Arrowes haue beene found</HI> &s;eruiceable weapons for the warre, whereby great victories and conque&s;ts haue beene gotten, and by &s;undry Statutes the v&s;e thereof hath beene enioyned, which Statutes are &s;till in force, and Wee expect that our Subiects &s;hould conforme them&s;elues thereunto, knowing the exerci&s;e of &s;hooting to bee a meanes to pre&s;erue health, &s;trength, and agilitie of body, and to auoide idlene&s;&s;e, vnlawfull di&s;ports, drunkenne&s;&s;e, and &s;uch like enormi|ties and di&s;orders, which are too frequent among Our people.</P>
<P>And whereas Our louing &s;ubiect <HI>William Neade</HI> an ancient Archer, hath pre&s;ented vnto Vs a warlike inuention of the v&s;e of the Bowe with the Pike together, whereby euery Pikeman may al&s;o bee a Bowe-man, which warlike &s;eruice Wee together with Our Councell of State, and Councell at Warre haue &s;eene exerci&s;ed in Military Di&s;cipline, and Wee doe ap|prooue the &s;ame to bee &s;eruiceable and v&s;efull in time of Warre, And haue by Our Commi&s;|&s;ion vnder Our great Seale of <HI>England</HI> authorized the &s;aid <HI>William Neade,</HI> and <HI>William Neade</HI> his &s;onne, whom hee hath in&s;tructed, to teach and exerci&s;e Our louing Subiects therein:</P>
<P>And to that end and purpo&s;e Wee doe by this Our Proclamation &s;ignifie and declare Our Will and plea&s;ure, that the v&s;e and exerci&s;e of the Bowe and Pike together &s;hall bee put in practi&s;e within this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> that all Our louing Subiects who are fit to exerci&s;e Armes, and e&s;pecially the chiefe Officers and all others of Our Trayned-Bands may bee in&s;tructed therein, by &s;uch wayes, and in &s;uch manner as
<PB REF="2">&s;hall bee pre&s;cribed, and directed by the &s;aid <HI>William Neade,</HI> and <HI>William Neade,</HI> or either of them, and tho&s;e whom either of them &s;hall haue &s;ufficiently in&s;tructed, and deputed in that behalfe, at &s;uch conuenient times and places as &s;hall bee appointed by the Deputie Lieutenants, or Iu&s;tices of Peace in euery Countie, Maiors, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables or other head Officers in euery Citie and Towne Corporate re&s;pectiuely, &s;o that the &s;ame may bee done without preiudice or hinderance to generall Mu&s;ters, Trayning, or other publike affaires;</P>
<P>Willing and requiring them, and euery of them re&s;pectiuely, vpon notice giuen by the &s;aid <HI>William Neade,</HI> and <HI>William Neade,</HI> or either of them, or by &s;uch others as by either of them &s;hall bee thereunto appointed, That they or &s;ome of them doe from time to time pre&s;cribe and ap|point conuenient times and places for the exerci&s;e of this Warlike &s;eruice, and by Warrant or &s;uch other Wayes and meanes, as &s;hall &s;eeme mo&s;t meet vnto them, to cau&s;e &s;uch of Our louing Subiects as afore&s;aid, to bee pre&s;ent at &s;uch time and place, there to bee exerci&s;ed and made perfect in the v&s;e of the Bowe and the Pike together in Military Di&s;cipline.</P>
<P>And that this Our Proclamation may take the better effect, Wee doe hereby require and command all and &s;ingular Deputy Lieutenants, and Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bailiffes, Cou&s;tables and all other Our Officers, Mini&s;ters, and Subiects whom it may concerne re&s;pectiuely, That they and euery of them be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto the &s;aid <HI>William Neade,</HI> and <HI>William Neade,</HI> and per&s;ons deputed as afore&s;aid, in the exerci&s;e and performance of the premi&s;&s;es, according to Our Will and Plea&s;ure herein declared, as they tender Our Plea&s;ure and will auoid the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Oatlands: </HI> <DATE><HI>This twelfth day of Augu&s;t, in the ninth 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>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAIESTIE: And by the A&s;signes of Iohn Bill. M.DC.XXXIII.</P>
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