By the King, a proclamation for the better government of the county of Worcester, and for the security of His Majesties good subjects there

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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

BY THE KING.

¶ A Proclamation for the better government of the County of Worcester, and for the Security of His Majesties good Subjects there.

WHEREAS for the ordering and disposing the Affaires and Businesse of Our Coun∣ty of Worcester, which may concerne the maintenance and support of Our Garrison there, and the preservation of the Peace of that whole County, as farre as in Us lies, by equally distributing and orderly collecting such Summes of mony, as shall be thought necessary to be raised there. We have thought fit to grant a Commission un∣der Our Great Seale of England to diverse Persons of Honour, quality and integrity of that County, to intend and mannage that Service, who (assisted with such of Our Commanders as We have joyned with them in the said Commission) We presume will be as carefull of the good and welfare of Our Subjects there, as of the advance∣ment of Our Service. We doe hereby declare, That from henceforward no Souldier or Officer of Our Gar∣risons in that County shall presume (otherwise then as by vertue of Our said Commission, if he be thereby authorised so to doe) to send any Warrant for Contribution, or any mony whatsoever, but We expect that Our said Commissioners shall first be informed what proportion is necessary for the weekly payment and support of Our severall Garrisons, And thereupon having equally distributed the same upon the severall divi∣sions and Hundreds of Our said County, shall take such care that the same be orderly collected and paid to the Governors and Officers of Our said Garrisons, at the places and time agreed upon, that the Souldiers, for want of their due supply, may not be compelled to break Our Commands. And if any extraordinary Acci∣dent shall fall out, either by the refractarinesse of any Persons, or by reason of the Rebells being possessed of any places in that County, that the mony, appoynted by Our said Commissioners to he collected and paid, be not brought in accordingly, then Our pleasure is, That according to the direction and Warrant of Our said Commissioners, Our Governors of Our said Garrisons shall assist the said Collection in such manner as shall bethought fit and necessary. And We doe straitly command and require all the Officers and Souldiers of Our Army that they precisely observe Our Commands expressed in this Our Proclamation, and that they pre∣sume not upon any reasons or pretences whatsoever, to offer any violence to any of Our loving Subjects within that Our County, or to take away their Horses, or to doe them any other dammage or injury, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perills.

Given at Our Court at OXFORD, the Seventeenth day of March, in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Raigne. 1642.

God Save the KING.