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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>BY THE KING:</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>JAMES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>WHEREAS the continuance and encrea&s;e of Tillage and Husbandry will in a great mea&s;ure contribute to the well-being of Our people in general, and more e&s;pecially to the &s;upport of Our Army, which We mu&s;t of nece&s;sity imploy, as well for the maintenance of Our own Royal Rights, as for the pre&s;ervation of the Lives, Liberties, and E&s;tates of Our Loving Subjects, again&s;t the Forces of Our Enemies and Rebels; We have there|fore thought fit, by the advice of Our Privy-Council (for the encouragement of all &s;uch per&s;ons, who do or &s;hall apply them&s;elves to Tillage and Husban|dry) to publi&s;h and declare, that Our Will and Plea&s;ure is, that no Corn of any kind what&s;oever now growing, or which &s;hall hereafter be &s;owed, nor any Hay which &s;hall hereafter be made upon any Lands what&s;oever &s;hall be &s;ei|zed upon, or di&s;trained for any Rent or Arrears of Rent due, or hereafter to grow due to Vs out of &s;uch Lands, or otherwi&s;e, or for any Rent, or Arrears of Rent, or other Duties payable to any of Our Subjects; the &s;owers of &s;uch Corn paying only to Vs, or to other the Owners of the ground where|on the &s;ame grows, &s;uch &s;heaf as by the Cu&s;tom of the Countrey is due and payable: And further, that no Plow-hor&s;es or Plow-Oxen &s;hall be taken away, or &s;eized, upon any pretence what&s;oever, or di&s;trained for any Rent or other Duty, unle&s;s it be where no other manner of Di&s;tre&s;s is to be found: And Our further Will and Plea&s;ure is, and We do hereby &s;trictly Charge and Command all manner of per&s;ons who are now in po&s;&s;e&s;sion of any Meadow-grounds, that they do fence in, and pre&s;erve the &s;ame in due &s;ea&s;on:
<PB REF="2"> And We do hereby &s;trictly charge and command all the Officers and private men of Our Troopes of Hor&s;e and Dragoones, and others of Our Army, that they or any of them do not at any time hereafter pre&s;ume to graze any of their Hor&s;es in any Meddows or grounds pre&s;erved for Meddows upon pain of being Ca&s;hiered as to any Officer, who &s;hall be found Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing herein, and as to any privat Trooper or Soldier to &s;uffer &s;uch puni&s;hment as &s;hall be in|flicted upon them by a Court-martial; And further that if any per&s;on be a|grieved in this particular, he &s;hall make Oath thereof and of the value of the damage &s;u&s;tained before the Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenant of the Coun|ty, where the Land lies, and tran&s;mit the &s;ame to Our Secretary at War to be pre&s;ented to Vs, whereupon We will give immediate Order a&s;well for the &s;evere puni&s;hment of the Offenders, as al&s;o for a &s;pe&eacute;dy &s;ati&s;faction to be made out of their Pay or Sub&s;i&s;tence for the full damage to the party agrie|ved. And We do further Declare, that We will give directions to the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Our Revenue, or other per&s;ons concerned, to &s;et all &s;uch Lands as are now in Our di&s;po&s;al, to &s;uch as will offer faire&s;t for the promoting of Tillage and encrea&s;e of Corn and Hay; And that We will hereafter receive Hay and all &s;orts of grain at good competent Rates in &s;atisfaction of any Rent or other Duty that &s;hall be due or Payable to Vs, And we hereby &s;trictly charge and command all Our Officers Civil and Military, and all o|ther Our loving Subjects what&s;oever, that they and every of them in their re&s;pective &s;tations do carefully ob&s;erve Our Commands hereby Declared, and that they do on all occa&s;ions contribute their utmo&s;t endevours for to pre|&s;erve and encourage all &s;uch per&s;ons as will be imployed in and about Hu&s;|bandry and Tillage, as they and every of them &s;hall an&s;wer the contrary at their Perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at Our Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin</HI> <DATE>the 21th day of <HI>January.</HI> 1689. And in the fifth Year of Our Raign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> Printed by <HI>Andrew Crook</HI> the A&s;&s;ignee of <HI>Benjamin Tooke,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Majesty, And are to be &s;old at his Maje&s;ties Printing-Hou&s;e on <HI>Ormond-Key.</HI> 1689.</P>
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