WHEREAS out of Our tender Care to Our City of London, and in hope to reduce them to their due obedience to Us, We by Our Proclamation, hearing date at Our Court at Oxford the eight day of December now laſt paſt, did Declare Our Royall Pleaſure to be, That there ſhould be no ſtop or interruption to any of Our loving Subjects, as they ſhould travell to Our City of London with any Cloaths, Wares, or Marchandize, but that they ſhould freely and peaceably paſſe without any let, trouble or moleſtation whatſoever; Which Grace and Favour unto them, have in theſe many Moneths wrought this contrary effect, That above all other paths of this Our Kingdom A prevalent faction of that City (which over-rules the whole) hath ſo far joyned with, and in that horrid Rebellion, that it hath denounced war againſt the whole Kingdom, by violent oppoſing all the poſſible wayes to Peace; and ſo that City formerly famous for their Loyalty, and Love to their Sovereigns, is now become the head of that Traiterous faction, and the receptacle of all ſuch as are diſaffected to Our Goverment, and the Lawes of the Kingdome: and not only willingly conſents and ſubmits to all burthens and impoſitions laid upon them, for the ſupport and maintenance of the Rebellious Armies raiſed againſt Us, but malitiouſly proſecutes and purſues all ſuch who are but ſuſpected to wiſh well to Our Service. And when We pitying the deſperate and deplorable condition of Our People, were gratiouſly pleaſed to deſire a Treaty for an Accommodation, and propounded that whileſt that Treaty ſhould continue, there might be a ceſſation of Armes, and a free Commerce for all Our loving Subjects in all parts of Our Kingdome, that ſo the benefits of Trade and Commerce being injoyed, Our good People might bee the more in love with Peace, yet this motion thus proceeding from Us was nevertheleſſe by ſpeciall incitation from the City of London (which by the Grace of Our ſaid Proclamation enjoyed the ſaid advantage of the whole Kingdome) ſcornfully neglected by the enemies of Peace, and all entercourſe interdicted to Our City of Oxford, the preſent place of Reſidence for Our Court and Army, and that reſtraint is continued upon all thoſe who are thought to be ſerviceable, or but well affected to Us: We therefore being thereunto enforced out of this neceſſity, and finding that the Trade and Commerce of the Kingdome, which ought to be maintained for the publicke benefit of all Our good People, is by this meanes inverted only for the advantage of thoſe Places, and Perſons which cheriſh this Rebellion, the Goods and Merchandiſe of ſuch who are thought well affected to Us being ſeiſed when they are brought, to London, have thought it fit and reaſonable to revoke and recall that Our former Act of Grace and Favour. And by this Our Proclamation, We doe publiſh and Declare to all Our Subjects, That whoſoever of them, either in their perſons ſhall from henceforth travell unto Our City of London, without Licenſe from Our Selfe, or one of Our Principall Secretaries of State, the Generalls, or Lieutenant-Generalls of Our Armies, or the Governours of any of Our Townes, Caſtles, or Forts, or with their Goods, Catle, Victuall or Merchandize of any ſort whatſoever, ſhall from henceforth travell unto, or for Our ſaid City of London or Suburbs thereof, without Our expreſſe Licence for the ſame under Our Signe Manuall, ſhall adventure the ſame at their own Perills, We being reſolved by all poſſible means to ſeize the ſame; And that all thoſe who from any parts of this Our Kingdome ſhall furniſh or ſerve Our ſaid City of London or Suburbs thereof, either by Sea or Land, with any Victualls, or other Proviſions, or with any Merchandize to maintaine them or their Trade, as long as they ſhall obſtinately ſtand out in Rebellion aagainſt Us, We ſhall eſteem as perſons diſaffected to Us, and to Our Government, and as Ayders & Aſſiſters to the Rebells, and ſhall accordingly deale with them, and proceed againſt them: And that this reſtraint ſhall continue upon them untill ſuch times as the inhabitants of the ſaid City, finding their errors, ſhall returne to their due obedience unto us, ſtraitly commandaig all the Officers of Our Armies, and all other Our Officers, Miniſters, and loving Subjects in all places through which any Perſon, Goods, Cattle, Victuall, or Merchandiſe ſhall paſſe or be conveſed towards the ſaid City of London, to apprehend the perſons, and ſeiſe and detaine the Goods, untill upon ſpeedy notice to us they ſhall receive Our further directions: We hereby aſſuring them they ſhall receive part of ſuch Goods ſo ſeiſed in ſatiſfaction and for their reward. But for the continuing of the generall Trade and Commerce of the Kingdome, and the Manufactures thereof (which We deſire to uphold and advance) We leave all Our Subjects to trade freely in, and unto all other parts, and if and unto all other Ports, or Havens of this Our Kingdome, not being in actuall Rebellion againſt Us; and from thoſe Ports to Trade with their Merchandiſe freely into any other Parts wherſoever beyond the Seas, being in amity with Us, without any reſtraint whatſoever.