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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; <HI>A Proclamation</HI> for the better Government of <HI>His Maje&s;ties</HI> Army, and for the preventing the Plundring, Spoyling, and Robbing of <HI>His Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects, un|der any Pretence what&s;oever, upon paine of the Puni&s;hments herein Declared.</HEAD>
<P>_WEE, Having taken into Our Princely and &s;erious con&s;ideration the great mi&s;ery and ruine falling, and likely to fall upon Our good Subjects (if not timely prevented) by the Plundring, Robbing, and &s;poyling of their Hou&s;es, and taking from them their Money, Plate, Hou&s;hold&s;tuffe, Cattle and other goods, under pretence of their being di&s;-affected to Us and Our Service; And the&s;e unju&s;t and unlawfull Actions done by diver&s;e Souldiers of Our Army, and others &s;heltring them&s;elves in the &s;ame, under that Title; Have, of Our tender commi&s;eration of &s;uch their &s;ufferings, as dete&s;ting all &s;uch Horrid and Barbarous proceedings, and for their future defence and pre&s;ervation, thought fit to publi&s;h and declare Our Royall plea&s;ure to be; That from hence-forth no Officer, Souldier of Hor&s;e or foot, or Party &s;ent from Our Army, pre&s;ume to &s;earch for, or &s;eize upon a|ny Money, Plate, Goods or Hou&s;hold&s;tuffe belonging to any of Our Subjects, of what condition &s;oever, without Our expre&s;&s;e Warrant for the &s;ame, under Our Signe Manuall, declaring the cau&s;e of &s;uch &s;eizure: And if any, either Officer or Souldier of Our Army of Hor&s;e or Foot, pre&s;ume from hence-forth, to Plunder, Spoyle or Robbe any of Our People, or take from them any their Money, Plate, Hou&s;hold&s;tuffe or any Oxen, Sheep or other Cattle, or any Victualls, Corne, Hay or other Commodities or Provi&s;ions going to, or from any Our Markets or otherwi&s;e, being in the Grounds Hou&s;es or Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of any of Our Subjects without giving full &s;atisfaction for the &s;ame, upon complaint made thereof Wee will and com|mand the Officer in chief of the Quarter, within which &s;uch Fact &s;hall be committed, to proceed again&s;t &s;uch Offendor or Offendors by the Law Martiall, without Favour or Connivence, and to cau&s;e him or them to be executed accordingly without Mercy. And if any Officer in chiefe of &s;uch Quarter &s;hall either neg|lect or refu&s;e to doe Iu&s;tice upon any per&s;on what&s;oever offending again&s;t any particular herein mentioned, Our will is, and We doe require the Party grieved to repaire unto Us where&s;oever We &s;hall remaine, and appeale to Our Iu&s;tice, which We &s;hall be ever mo&s;t ready to afford any of Our Subjects for redre&s;&s;e of their &s;ufferings in any the lea&s;t kind what&s;oever. Likewi&s;e for the better Order in Our Army, and for the pre&s;er|vation
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<PB REF="3">of the due government thereof, We do farther &s;trictly charge and Command all Officers and Soul|diers both of Hor&s;e and Foot of the &s;ame, as al&s;o all Parties &s;ent out; That they no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> any of them pre&s;ume to depart or be ab&s;ent from their Quarter, without a Pa&s;&s;e or Licence under the hand of the Officer com|manding in chiefe in &s;uch Quarter of Our Army, upon pain of Death, nor that any other, but &s;uch Our Of|ficer in chiefe, pre&s;ume to give any pa&s;&s;e or other Licence to any Officer or Souldier to be ab&s;ent upon pain of Ca&s;hiering. And that Our plea&s;ure herein declared may be fully ob&s;erved, and produce the effects We intend for the good and &s;ecurity of Our Subjects, We do hereby further require all the Officers commanding in chiefe, in any the Quarters of Our Army, to cau&s;e this Our Proclamation to be publi&s;hed and made known to all the Officers and Souldiers under their Command, and to &s;ee that &s;evere and due puni&s;hment be inflicted upon &s;uch as &s;hall henceforth offend again&s;t any the lea&s;t particulars herein before mentioned, As they and every of them expect to avoid Our high di&s;plea&s;ure for the neglect thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>&para; Given at Our Court at <HI>Reading,</HI> <DATE>the 25 day of <HI>November,</HI> in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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