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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

BY THE KING.
¶His Majesties Proclamation concerning the bringing in of Armes to His Magazine in the City of Worcester.

WHEREAS We are informed, that severall Persons in Our County of Worcester, who by Law ought not to have Armes, have underhand provided themselves of great Quantities, and that both they, and other Persons have in their hands great store of Armes sold, lost and left in that County, by Our Army, and by the Army of the Rebells, under the Command of the Earle of Essex, which Armes it highly concernes Our Safety and the Peace of that County, in a time of so great Danger and Distractions, that especiall Care be taken, least they remaine in unknowne hands, and so be in danger to be imployed against Us, and Our good Subjects; There­fore Our Will and Pleasure is, and We doe hereby charge and Command all such of Our Subjects in Our County of Worcester, who by Law ought not to have Armes, and all such who have in their Custody any Armes either for Horse or Foot belonging to any of the Souldiers of Our Army, or to the Army under the Command of the Earle of Essex, or were sold or lost by them, That they faile not to bring them in, within fowre dayes after this Publication of Our Pleasure, to Our to Colonell Sandys; or to such Magazine at Worce­ster, and deliver them to Colonell Sandys; or to such Persons as he shall appoint And hereof We require them not to faile, as they desire not to give Us any Testimony of their ill Affection to Us, and as they will answer the contrary at their uttermost perills. And this Our Proclamation We require the high Sheriffe of that Our County to cause to be read in all Churches and Chappells within the same; That notice of this Our Pleasure may be taken by Our Subjects, and speedy Obedience given thereunto. And We require that Our high Sheriffe to search the Houses of all such of Our Subjects, as he shall have cause to suspect to conceale such Armes as aforesaid, and to seize the Armes and Persons of all such, who upon search and ex­amination, shall appeare to have beene disobedient to this Our Command.

¶ Given at Our Court at Oxford, this fourteenth day of December, in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne.

God save the King.

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