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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="declaration">
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<FIGDESC>English coat of arms, circa 1688</FIGDESC>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
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<HEAD>BY THE Lord Deputy General, AND General Governour of IRELAND.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A DECLARATION</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>TYRCONNEL,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS We have lately received divers and &s;un|dry Complaints from &s;everal parts of this Kingdom of daily Robberies and Depredations committed by loo&s;e and idle people, which are by &s;ome imputed to the new Levies lately made and a making, to the great di&s;honour of the Army, reflection on the Go|vernment, and hindrance to His Maje&s;ties Service, which We being de&s;irous by all means po&s;&s;ible to prevent, do hereby Will and Require you to give it &s;trictly in charge to the &s;everal Officers of your Re|giment to keep the men under their re&s;pective Com|mands in good Order, and under &s;trict Di&s;cipline, and that no Officer or Souldier do upon any pretence what&s;oever, commit, or &s;uffer to be committed any wa&s;t, &s;poyl, or violence, or exact any provi&s;ions, victuals, or money from any of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, without paying duly for the &s;ame, that they do not pre&s;ume to outrage, in&s;ult, or offer affront either by word or deed to any, but behave them&s;elves mode&s;tly and civily, and that they be not only careful to avoid committing the like Di&s;orders them&s;elves, and hindering tho&s;e under their Command from doing the like, but that they do, on notice of any Robbery or Violence, and chiefly when thereto called upon by any of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, pre&s;ently go and &s;end in pur&s;uit of the Robbers, and endea|vour by all po&s;sible ways and means to Seize, and bring to Ju&s;tice the Offenders;
<PB REF="2">(and in ca&s;e of Re&s;i&s;tance to reduce them by force) and to recover and re&s;tore to the right Owners the <HI>Hor&s;es, Cattle,</HI> or other Goods &s;tolen or carried away; As al|&s;o to be Aiding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting upon demand, to all Officers imployed in Collecting His Maje&s;ties Duties and not by any means to abett or as&s;i&s;t any who &s;hall at|tempt the defrauding his Majesty of the &s;ame; in all which we expect your and their ready obedience and compliance, Hereby declaring that We &s;hall not only pre&s;ently Ca&s;hier &s;uch Officer or Officers as &s;hall be found Fayling herein, but &s;hall al&s;o cau&s;e them to be proceeded again&s;t with the utmo&s;t rigour and &s;everity that the nature of the Crime &s;hall de&s;erve.</P>
<P>La&s;tly Our will and plea&s;ure is that this our Declaration be affixt up in the mo&s;t publick Places in all <HI>Cities, Burroughs, Market Towns, Gari&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Quar|ters,</HI> and al&s;o to be Read at the head of Each Regiment Bataillon, Troop, or Company, in and throughout this Kingdome.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at his Maje&s;ties Ca&s;tle of</HI> Dublin, <DATE><HI>this</HI> 2d <HI>day of</HI> February 1688/9.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By his Excellencies Command VV. ELLIS</SIGNED>
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<P>To the Collonel or Commandant of the &s;everal Regiments of his Maje&s;ties Army and the Commanders of any Troop or Company of the &s;ame.</P>
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<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>DUBLIN, 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 Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; and are to be Sold by <HI>Andrew Crook</HI> at His Maje&s;ties Printing-hou&s;e on <HI>Ormonde-Key,</HI> and by <HI>Samuel Hel&s;ham</HI> at the <HI>Colledge-Arms</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;tle-&s;treet.</HI> 1688.</P>
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