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<FIGDESC>crowned blazon or coat of arms of the British royal family</FIGDESC>
<HEAD><Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q></HEAD>
<P>C. R.</P>
</FIGURE> BY THE KING. &para; <HI>A Proclamation forbidding any of His</HI> Maje&s;ties <HI>Subjects to a&s;si&s;t the Rebells with Men, Mony, Armes, Victualls, or Intelligence, to &s;top any His</HI> Maje&s;ties <HI>Me&s;&s;engers, or Pacquets, or to offer violence to any His</HI> Maje&s;ties <HI>Souldiers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS We have by Our frequent and &s;everall Declarations and Proclamations, to the end that none of Our good Subjects might be mi&s;led from their duty and Allegiance unto Us by any &s;petious pretences what&s;oever, warned and forbid Our good Subjects to a&s;&s;i&s;t this odious Rebelli|on rai&s;ed again&s;t Us, to take our life from Us, to alter the Religion and Lawes e&s;tabli&s;hed, and to &s;ubvert the whole frame of Government: Notwith&s;tanding all which gratious proceedings of Ours, in which we have &s;o often remembred Our People of their naturall duty, and their Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy, &s;o evidently violated by all tho&s;e who take up Armes again&s;t Us, or A&s;si&s;t tho&s;e who doe; the power and Malice of tho&s;e in Rebellion again&s;t Us (with the a&s;si&s;tance of Factious and &s;editious Preachers, who have been and are Principall fomenters of this Rebellion) have &s;o farre pre|vailed upon the hearts of many of Our Subjects that in&s;tead of a&s;si&s;ting Us with their Per&s;ons and E&s;tates (which in this ca&s;e of extremity and Rebellion by the Lawes of the Land they ought to doe) they joyne with, and a&s;si&s;t the Rebells with their Per&s;onall &s;ervices, or by furni&s;hing them with Hor&s;es, Armes, Plate, Mony, and intelligence; And diver&s;e per&s;ons have &s;o farre expre&s;&s;ed their Malice to Us, and affection to them, that when Our Armies have marched neere them, they have u&s;ed their utmo&s;t endeavours to keep any &s;upplies of Victuall and Provi&s;ion for Hor&s;e, and Man, from Our &s;aid Armies, and have murthered many of Our Souldiers as they have pa&s;&s;ed in &s;mall numbers; And on the other &s;ide have with great Indu&s;try and Affection furni&s;hed the Rebells with all things nece&s;&s;ary; And &s;ome Majors, Con&s;ta|bles and Tything men, being Officers more immediatly &s;worn to Our &s;ervice, have malitiou&s;ly pre&s;umed to &s;top Our Packquets, apprehend and impri&s;on Our Me&s;&s;engers, and all other Per&s;ons comming to, or going in Our &s;ervice, to &s;eize all goods and Provi&s;ions to be brought to Us, or belonging to any Per&s;on imployed, tru&s;ted or affected by Us; And to countenance, a&s;si&s;t, and relieve all tho&s;e who Rebell again&s;t Us, by which their &s;editious, and Rebellious demeanour, Our Commanders, and Souldiers are &s;ometimes compelled to pro&s;ecute &s;uch Per&s;ons and Places with unu&s;uall &s;everity, We doe hereby publi&s;h and declare to all Our Subjects, That if they &s;hall henceforward be guilty of &s;uch high di&s;loyalty again&s;t Us, and &s;hall furni&s;h, and a&s;si&s;t the Rebells with Provi&s;ion, or malitiou&s;ly refu&s;e to &s;upply Our Armyes in their March; If they &s;hall &s;top any of Our Packquets, or apprehend, or di&s;turbe any of Our Me&s;&s;engers, or Servants travelling in Our &s;ervice; If they &s;hall offer any violence to any of Our Souldiers, as they Peaceably pa&s;&s;e by them; Or if any Con|&s;tables, Tything-men, or any other &s;hall pre&s;ume to publi&s;h or to execute any pretended Warrants, or Precepts to be made or &s;et forth by any Per&s;ons what&s;oever in favour or a&s;si&s;tance of the &s;aid Rebellion, Wee &s;hall proceed again&s;t all &s;uch Per&s;ons who &s;hall be guilty of the Premi&s;es with Fire and Sword, as the mo&s;t de&s;perate and malitious fomenters of this Horrid, Odious, and Bloody Rebellion. And that all Our Subjects may know the danger they incurre by di&s;obey|ing Us herein, and &s;o avoyd the mi&s;ery will el&s;e fall upon them, Our Will and Plea&s;ure is, That this Our Proclamation be read in all Churches, and Chappells within this Kingdom. <HI>Given at Our Court at</HI> Oxford <HI>this Eighteenth day of Iuly, in the Ninteenth yeare of Our Raigne.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>God Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the Univer&s;ity. 1643.</P>
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