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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>
<OPENER><SIGNED>JAMES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS an Addre&s;s hath been made to Us by &s;e|veral good and pious per&s;ons, for Our Licen&s;e to make a collection for the better a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;uch of the Souldiers of Our Army as now are, or &s;hall be &s;ick and wounded in Our Service, We could not but very well approve of &s;o Charitable and Chri&s;tian-like a propo&s;al; and have therefore thought fit hereby not only to Licen&s;e, but al&s;o earne&s;tly to Recommend the &s;ame to all the Nobility, Gentry, and others through|out this Kingdom, to contribute towards &s;o good a Work, in &s;uch proportion as they &s;hall think fit. And for the further promoting and effecting thereof, We do hereby likewi&s;e recommend it to the &s;everal Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> well Roman Catholicks as Prote&s;tants, to appoint in their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es and Pari&s;hes, &s;ome fit per&s;ons to demand and receive the Benevolence and Cha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">y of all good Chri&s;tians, for the u&s;e of the &s;aid &s;ick and wounded Souldiers; and that they do al&s;o take care that the Names of the per&s;ons who &s;hall &s;o con|tribute, together with what Money &s;hall be &s;o collected upon that occa&s;ion, be returned, and paid into the hands of <HI>Luke Hore</HI> of <HI>Dublin</HI> Merchant, who is here|by authorized to receive the &s;ame. And We &s;hall take care that the &s;ame (over and above Our allowance to &s;uch &s;ick and wounded Souldiers) be applied, and i&s;&s;ued from time to time, for the u&s;e and purpo&s;e afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at our Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin</HI> <DATE>the 5<HI>th</HI> day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and in the Fifth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ties Command. WILL. TALBOT.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> Printed by <HI>Andrew Crook</HI> and <HI>Samuel Hel&s;ham,</HI> A&s;&s;igns of <HI>Benjamin Tooke</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; and are to be Sold at His Ma|je&s;ties Printing-Hou&s;e on <HI>Ormonde-Key,</HI> and the <HI>Colledge-Arms</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;tle-&s;treet.</HI> 1689.</P>
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