WHEREAS divers Orders or pretended Ordinances have been contrived in the name of one or both Houses of Parliament for taxing Our Subjects and leavying Monyes to support the Rebellion; All which and all other waies of imposing upon Our People to whatsoever intent or purpose, without Our Royall assent are cleerly unlawfull, and unwarrantable, and so by severall Proclamations and otherwise have beene declared by Vs, And We do hereby declare the same unto all Our good Subiects; and in particular by Our Proclamation of the eight of March last, We did forbid (amongst other things) the Assessing. Collecting, and paying the weekly Taxe imposed upon Our good Subiects, and their Estates by one of the said pretended Orders or Ordinances (which in three Months exceedeth the Svmme of the great Subsidie of 400000 l.) And neverthelesse We are given to understand the same is forceably levyed, and by Colour thereof diverse of Our good Subiects imprisoned, and destrained, and great Violence, Spoyle, Rapine And Plundering committed upon them, and their Estates in diverse Counties and places of this Our Kingdome; And that by another pretended Ordinance, the whole Estates reall & personall of diverse of Our Subiects most of them not named, but described, and distinguished by marks of Loyalty, are ordained to be Seized & Sequestred for maintaining a Warr against Vs, and their Tenants discharged of their Rents, and protected against forfeitures penal­ties, and dammage with other clauses importing power to dissolve Contracts, and make and marre Lawes at Pleasure, which We are inform­ed is also endeavoured to be executed; And all which (whatsoever is pretended) do tend apparantly to the Destruction of Vs and Our Posteri­ty, (whose lives have been attempted to be taken away) the subversion of the Established Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land and the Liberties and Propertyes of Our Subjects, and the utter Ruine of Our whole Kingdoms. We do therefore strictly charge and Command all Our loving Subiects whatsoever not to submit to the said pretended Orders & Ordinances, or any of them, or to the weekly Taxes imposed as afore­said, or to any such seisures or Sequestratious as aforesaid nor to presume to be assistant thereunto, by Assessing, Taxing, Levying by distresse, or o­therwise or Collecting any such weekly Taxes or making any such Seisures or Sequestrations, or by information or procureing books of Ac­compt, or Rentalls or by any other wayes or meanes giving any intelligence of any such Estates reall or personall, or values thereof, But to their utmost power to resist all such Acts of iniustice & Violence. And We do hereby command the Tenants & Debtors of all Our Subjects , whose Estates are intended to be seised & sequestred to pay their Rents and Debts to their Landlords & Creditors, notwithstanding such seisure or se­questration. And We do farther prohibit all person, as well Aliens as Denizens that they presume not to intermedle in the buying, receaving disposing the Goods or Cattell of any of Our Subjects, that shall be seised, sequestred, distrained, or taken from them by pretence of the said Or­ders, or Ordinances for such weekly Taxes, or such seisures or sequestrations as aforesaid, or otherwise plundered. All which doth tend to the aid, and assistance of a Warre against Vs, which by the known Lawes of the Land are Acts of high Treason; And We do declare, and publish▪ That to adhere to Our enemies giving them aid and Comfort, is high Treason nominally declared by the Statute of the 25. of Edward the 3d [...] and that We intend to give Order for seizing the Estates of such as shall Rebelliously disobey Vs herein, to the intent they may remaine in safe Custody, untill the Offenders can be brought to Legall tryall, which shall speedily proceed as they shall be apprehended, and delivered into the hands of Justice; And We do hereby will and Command, the Tenants and Debtors of those, who shall execute, or be a assisting unto, or shall voluntarily submit unto the said Orders or Ordinances for the said weekly Taxes, or such seizures, or sequestrations as aforesaid, that they not only forbear to pay their Rents, or Debts, but detain the same towards the maintenance of the Peace of the Counties, and Reparation of such as have suffered by the violence of the Army in Rebellion against Vs: Such course being already taken against such as have according to their Allegiance assisted Vs; and as We have declared, That whosoever should loose his life in this Our defence, the Wardship of his Heire should be granted by Vs, without Rent or Fine so on the other side, we doe publish and declare, That whosoever shall excecute or be assisting to, or vo­luntarily shall submit unto the said orders, or Ordinances shall receive no benefit by Our Instructions of Grace, But We will be fully answe­red to the utmost which shall be due to Vs by Law, and dispose of such Wardships as shall seeme best to Vs, Willing and commanding all Sheriffes, Majors, Bailiffes, Iustices of Peace Constables, and other Our Officers, and loveing Subjects whatsoever, upon their Allegiance, and the severest pa [...]nes that by the Law may be inflicted upon them, not only to obey and observe carefully these Our Commands, but to be aiding and assisting to the utmost of their power, to all such persons as shall require their Assistance or protection in this behalfe and to resist and repell by force of A [...]mes, all such as shall oppose this Our Legall Command. And Our Will and Command is, That this Our Proclamation be read in all Church [...] and Chappells in this Our Kingdom.

Given at Our Court at OXFORD, the seventh day of Aprill, in the nineteenth Yeare of Our Raigne.

God Save the KING.