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<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Proclamation on the behalfe of Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> and his proceedings in the Counties of <HI>Cornewall</HI> and <HI>Devon,</HI> by virtue of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Commi&s;sion.</HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS We have been lately informed of an Order pretended to be made in the Hou&s;e of Commons, wherein the Loyall and dutifull carriage of Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> to Vs, and in obedience to Our ju&s;t commands, in Our Counties of <HI>Cornewall</HI> and <HI>Devon,</HI> is much inveighed again&s;t, and &s;tiled to be Ho&s;tile and Rebellious, and upon the complaint of one <HI>William Strode</HI> (a Per&s;on whom We have accu&s;ed, and is notoriou&s;ly known to be guilty of High Trea&s;on, and endeavouring to take away Our Life from Vs) the E&s;tate of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> is by that Order, without the lea&s;t colour of Iu&s;tice or pretence of Legall power, &s;eque&s;tred into the hands of the &s;aid <HI>Strode;</HI> We have thought Our &s;elfe obliged in Honour and Iu&s;tice to Our &s;elfe, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton,</HI> and &s;uch other Loyall and dutifull Per&s;ons who joyne with him in Our Service to declare, that the Hou&s;e of Commons, hath not the lea&s;t power to &s;eque&s;ter or di&s;po&s;e of the E&s;tates of any of Our Subjects, or can u&s;urpe the &s;ame, without de&s;troying the intere&s;t and Property they were borne to; And to publi&s;h to all Our good Subjects, that the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> with other Per&s;ons of Ho|nour and Quality being long &s;ince imployed in a Peaceable manner, and according to the known Lawes of the Land, to pre&s;erve the Peace of Our County of <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> then endangered by the Faction and Sedition of &s;ome turbulent Per&s;ons there, where the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> and his Ance&s;tors had long lived with great Reputation; and to oppo&s;e that illegall and grievous impo&s;ition of the <HI>Militia</HI> upon Our good Subjects of that County, that the Lord Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hartford,</HI> and all the con&s;iderable Gentry of that Our County being there together in their own Country, where there E&s;tates lay, and where they had alwaies lived, were by force and violence of a Rebellious Army a&s;&s;aulted and driven from their own Hou&s;es, in&s;omuch as We were compelled to &s;end Our Commi&s;&s;ion to the &s;aid Lord Marque&s;&s;e under Our Great &s;eale of England, to be Our Generall, and to rai&s;e Forces to re&s;i&s;t and &s;ubdue that de&s;perate Rebellion, which neverthele&s;&s;e got &s;o great a head, by the Malice and Indu&s;try of ill In&s;truments, infu&s;eing into the mindes of Our weak Subjects, wicked and groundle&s;&s;e Lyes of Our intention to take a|way their E&s;tates from them by Our Commi&s;&s;ion of Array, that the &s;aid Lord Marque&s;&s;e, and all &s;uch of Our good and dutifull Subjects, who had expre&s;&s;ed a &s;en&s;e of their duty and Affection to Vs, being mo&s;t of the eminent Gentry, and per&s;ons of greate&s;t quality and fortune, were compelled to leave that Country, &s;ince which time, the &s;aid Lord Marque&s;&s;e having brought the Forces rai&s;ed by him to Vs, We have &s;ent Our Commi&s;&s;ion under Our Great Seale of England, to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton,</HI> that he with the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of tho&s;e Per&s;ons of Honour and Quality, who have &s;ince joyned with him, and who&s;e particular &s;ervices We &s;hall alwaies remember, and hope to reward, might rai&s;e &s;uch Forces as might &s;ubdue the Rebellion in tho&s;e parts, and defend Our good Subjects there from the Force and Violence of their fellow Subjects. And We doe therefore declare to all Our loving Subjects, That what Forces &s;oever the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> hath rai&s;ed, or what Acts &s;oever he hath done in pur&s;uance of Our &s;aid Commands, and by vertue of Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, the &s;ame have been done by Our Royall Authority, and that he is &s;o farre from being guilty of Di&s;loyalty or Rebellion again&s;t Vs, that he and &s;uch of Our good Subjects as have a&s;&s;i&s;ted him have re&s;i&s;ted and oppo|&s;ed only Rebells, who without any Colour of Law or Right have, and doe u&s;e their utmo&s;t power to de&s;troy Vs, to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the true reformed Prote&s;tant Religion on the behalfe of Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, and other Sectaries, to take away the Liberty and Property of Our good Subjects, and to alter the whole frame of Government &s;o long &s;etled, and &s;o happily enjoyed in this Kingdome. And We doe &s;traitly forbid and inhibite all manner of Per&s;ons to pre&s;ume to yeeld any obedience to the &s;aid Order, or any way to meddle with the E&s;tate of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> to his prejudice, or to interrupt his Tenants or Officers in their quiet and peaceable enjoying the &s;ame: which if any &s;hall pre&s;ume to doe, We &s;hall look upon them as Per&s;ons disaffected to Vs, and countenancers and fomenters of tho&s;e di&s;&s;entions which &s;o neerely threaten the ruine of this Kingdom. And We farther Will and Command all Our good Subjects of Our Counties of <HI>Cornewall, Devon,</HI> and <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> that they be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton,</HI> and u&s;e their utmo&s;t power for the &s;ubduing the Rebells now in Armes again&s;t Us in tho&s;e parts, under the Command of the Earle of <HI>Stamford,</HI> and for the apprehending the &s;aid Earle, and &s;uch other per&s;ons whom We have particularly excepted out of Our Proclamation of Pardon for the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, that We may proceed again&s;t them as Traitors by the known Rules and Lawes of the Land. And We doe hereby declare, That as We &s;hall alwaies remember the &s;ingular courage of Our County of <HI>Cornewall,</HI> and &s;uch of Our good Subjects of <HI>Devon</HI> and <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> who have a&s;&s;i&s;ted them in their notable Zeale and Affection to Vs, the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Liberty of the Subject, &s;o who&s;oever &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> with Hor&s;e, Armes, Plate, or Mony, &s;hall doe a mo&s;t acceptable &s;ervice unto Vs, &amp; We &s;hall carefully pay all &s;uch &s;ummes of Mony as &s;hall be &s;o lent to him, And who&s;oever &s;hall have the hard fortune to loo&s;e his Life in that Ser|vice, We &s;hall grant the Ward&s;hip of his Heyre to his own u&s;e without Rent or Fine, when on the contrary, the Heires of &s;uch who &s;hall fall in the Rebellion again&s;t Us, mu&s;t expect no favour from Vs. La&s;tly Our plea&s;ure is, That this Our Proclamation be read in all the Churches and Chap|pels within Our &s;aid Counties of <HI>Somer&s;et, Devon,</HI> and <HI>Cornewall,</HI> that all Our Subjects may take notice of Our Will and Plea&s;ure herein.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>OXFORD</HI> <DATE>this Thirteenth day of March, in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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