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"Six matters worthy of note." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60319.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2024.
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CHARLES REX.
RIght trusty and wel beloved We greet you well. Whereas We understand, That you have begun to assemble▪ Train and Muster the Trained Bands of our Cou••∣ty of Lincoln, under pretence of an ordinance of Parliament, whereto We have not given Our consent; Which is not only contrary to Law, but to Our Command and Pleasure signified by Our Proclamation sent to the high Sheriff of that Our County: Wherefore That you may not hereafter plead Ignorance of such our prohibition; We do▪ by these Our Letters, Command, and charge you, upon your Allegiance, to desist and forbear to Raise, Muster, Train, Exercise, or Assemble together any part of the Trained Bands of that Our County, either by your selfe. or by any others imployed under you▪ or by Warrant from you. And because you may, for what you have alrea∣dy done, concerning the Militia of that Our County, plead, that you had not s•• particu∣lar a Command, We shall passe by what you have already done therein, So as pres••nt∣ly
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upon your rec••ipt hereof, you shall desist and give over ••••••dling any further with a∣ny thing belonging to the Militia of that Our County; But if you shall not presently desist, and further medling therewith, We are resolved to call you to a strict Accompt for your Disobedience therein, after so many particular and legall Commands giv•••• you, upon your Allegiance to the contrary, and shall esteem and proceed against you •••• a disturber of the peace of Our Kingdom.
Given at our Count at York, the fourth of Iune. 1642.
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