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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation declaring His Maie&s;ties Royall grace, and plea&s;ure, to confirme to His Subiects their defectiue Titles, E&s;tates, and Po&s;&s;e&s;sions, (a&s;well by colour of former Grants, as without any Grant from the Crowne) by His Commi&s;sion granted to that purpo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie taking notice of the Act of</HI> Parliament made in the one and twentieth yeere of the Reigne of His deare and Royall Father, King <HI>Iames</HI> (of ble&s;&s;ed memorie, lately decea|&s;ed) Intituled, An Act for the generall quiet of the Subiects again&s;t all pretences of Concealments; By which Act the Subiects were, and are &s;ettled in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of, and in tho&s;e Mannours, and Lands, which they and their Ance&s;tors had enioyed by the &s;pace of three&s;core yeeres next before the &s;aid Acte, other then &s;uch Lands, Liberties, and other Hereditaments in the &s;ayd Act excepted, as by the &s;ayd Act appeareth; The which was a grace and fauour, that none of his Predece&s;&s;ours yeelded vnto in former times: In re|&s;pect whereof, His Maie&s;tie might now in Iu&s;tice, and rea&s;on, reduce to the Crowne all &s;uch o|ther Mannours and Lands whereunto His Highne&s;&s;e hath Right and Title, and which were not &s;etled by the &s;ayd Act, to the increa&s;e of His Reuenew; And the rather for that both His Maie|&s;ties &s;aid deare Father, and him&s;elfe, haue extended their grace to all &s;uch whom it might con|cerne, vpon ea&s;ie compo&s;itions, to preuent their owne dangers, and yet the &s;ame hath beene neg|lected. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, His Maie&s;tie hauing nothing more in His Princely de&s;ire, then the generall good of His Subiects, preferring their peace and quiet before His owne benefit, is now graci|ou&s;ly plea&s;ed once more to renew His &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ion to &s;undry of the Lords, and others of His Priuie Coun&s;ell, and others of His Iudges and Coun&s;ell learned, authori&s;ing them there|by to treate and compound on His Maie&s;ties behalfe, for the &s;elling, graunting, and confirming to &s;uch of His Subiects (whom it may concerne) as well their defectiue Titles, E&s;tates and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, in &s;uch Mannours and Lands, which they now pretend to hold, vnder colour of
<PB REF="2">any defectiue, voyd, or in&s;ufficient Graunts, or by Letters Patents of Concealements. As for tho&s;e Mannours and Lands which they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, and enioy meerely by Intru&s;ion, and V&s;ur|pation, without any colour of Right, and Title, they hauing had no Graunts thereof at all, either from his Maie&s;tie, or any of his Predece&s;&s;ours, and yet not &s;etled by the afore&s;ayd Acte: His Maie&s;tie expecting, that they will not now neglect this His grace offered, which if they &s;hall doe, they mu&s;t neither looke for further fauour from him, nor blame any but their owne negli|gences. And, that no man may pretend ignorance, how farre this grace extendeth, His Ma|ie&s;tie hath hereunto annexed an ab&s;tract of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, whereby each one (whom it concerneth) may take knowledge for what, and how hee may bee relieued, if in time, and by a due cour&s;e he &s;hall &s;eeke the &s;ame. And his Maie&s;tie doeth further declare his Royall plea&s;ure to bee, that all per&s;ons (whom it may concerne) by this publique declaration of this His graci|ous plea&s;ure, either voluntarily of them&s;elues, or vpon Letters to bee to them directed from His Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners, with a draught of the particular ca&s;es, faile not at their perils to attend the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, for &s;uch moderate and rea&s;onable Compo&s;itions, as &s;hall bee found fit, and equall for them.</P>
<P>And His Maie&s;tie, the better to bee informed who imbraceth this His Royall grace, and who neglecteth the &s;ame, Hath appointed and commanded <HI>Robert Typper,</HI> of Grayes Inne, His Ma|ie&s;ties &s;eruant, to attend his Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners, as in former times hee hath done, who is to acquaint his Maie&s;ties &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners with the State of the &s;euerall Ca&s;es, of tho&s;e that &s;hall &s;eeke a Compo&s;ition, as afore&s;aid; And who doe accept this his Maie&s;ties grace, and who not, whereupon &s;uch further proceedings may be had for the maintaining of his Maie&s;ties Right, and Title, and increa&s;ing of his Reuenew, as &s;hall bee iu&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at White-Hall </HI> <DATE><HI>this &s;ixth day of December, in the fourth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Prin|ters to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXVIII.</P>
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