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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<BYLINE>BY THE KING.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Commanding all Sea-men and Mariners to return to their Service in His Maje&s;ties Navy, by the 20^t^h Day of <HI>February</HI> next.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES REX,</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty taking notice, That &s;ince the return of His Fleet into Harbor, many Sea-men have, as well without, as with leave from their Officers, departed from the &s;everal Ships to which they belonged, which was the rather connived at by the &s;aid Officers, in regard the Winter coming on, there could be but little Action; and that &s;uch might in that time enjoy the &s;ociety of their Families, and have care off and pur&s;ue their own Affairs. But now the time and &s;ea&s;on for Service approaching, His Maje&s;ty hath thought fit, and doth by this His Proclamation (by and with the Advice of His Privy Councel) &s;trictly charge and command, That all and every Sea-man and Mariner, who either by or without leave have gone from their Service, in any the Ships &s;erving in His Maje&s;ties Navy in the la&s;t Summers Imployment (except &s;uch as have been di&s;charged for infirmity of Body, as incapable of doing His Maje&s;ty Service) do return unto the &s;aid Ships, in ca&s;e they are in the Harbor or in the Channel; or otherwi&s;e to enter and li&s;t them&s;elves in &s;ome other of His Maje&s;ties Ships that are in Harbor, by or before the Twentieth Day of <HI>February</HI> next. And for the better Encouragement of &s;uch as &s;hall return accordingly, His Maje&s;ty is gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed, and doth hereby Declare His Plea&s;ure to be, That e|very Sea-man and Mariner that &s;hall return or be li&s;ted as afore&s;aid, &s;hall have his Wages duly paid him for the time he &s;erved aboard, notwith&s;tanding he departed without leave: But if any Sea-man or Mariner who &s;erved in the late Expedition (except before excepted) &s;hall not return or be li&s;ted ac|cording to the tenor of this Proclamation, they and every of them, &s;hall not onely loo&s;e all the Wa|ges that are due unto them, but &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t by a Court Martial, according to the Articles &amp; Orders publi&s;hed for the regulating and better Government of His Maje&s;ties Navies &amp; Ships of War. And to that end, His Maje&s;ty doth hereby &s;trictly charge and command, All Ju&s;tices of the Peace, Majors, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, and other His Maje&s;ties Officers whom it may any way concern, to cau&s;e and take care, That all &s;uch Mariners and Sea-men who &s;erved in any of His Maje&s;ties Ships of War the la&s;t Summer (except &s;uch as have been di&s;charged as incapable of doing &s;ervice) and &s;hall not return to the Ships wherein they then &s;erved, or be li&s;ted into &s;ome other, by or before the &s;aid Twentieth Day of <HI>February</HI> next, be Apprehended and Impri&s;oned, and then &s;ignifie the &s;ame to His Maje&s;ty, that &s;o they may be proceeded again&s;t by a Court Martial as afore&s;aid. His Maje&s;ty hereby al&s;o willing and requiring, All Ma&s;ters and Owners of Ships and Ve&s;&s;els, to forbear to entertain or take into their Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, any Mariners or Sea-men who have in the la&s;t Summers &s;ervice been employed in any of His Maje&s;ties &s;hips of War, upon pain of His high di&s;plea&s;ure, &amp; &s;uch further puni&s;hment as their Offences may de&s;erve.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at Oxford <DATE>the 8<HI>th</HI> Day of <HI>January,</HI> 1665. in the Seventeenth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING:</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>OXFORD:</HI> Printed by <HI>Leonard Lichfeild</HI> Printer to the Univer&s;ity, For <HI>John Bill,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to His Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1665.</P>
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