By the King and Queen, A DECLARATION, Requiring all Officers and Soldiers to Observe strict Discipline, and for Payment of Quarters.
TO the end Our Forces may be kept in good Order anb Discipline, and Our Subjects not suffer by any Disorders or Misbehaviour of any Officers and Soldiers within Our Pay and Entertainment, We have thought fit hereby to Declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure, That in what Place soever any of Our Forces shall Pass or Remain, they shall duly Pay their Quarters according to the Instructions We have given them for that purpose; which said Instructions We have Commanded the Colonel or Officer in Chief with any Regiment, Troop or Company, to Communicate and Publish to the Chief Magistrate of the City, Town or Village where he is or shall be Quartered, and also to all others who shall be concerned, as soon as he Marches into the same, beyond which no Officer or Private Soldier is to be Trusted on any Account or Pretence whatsoever, in their said Quarters. And whereas We have already Charged and Required the Officers of Our Army to make or cause Satisfaction to be made for all Injuries already done by themselves, or Soldiers under their Command, upon Pain of Our heavy Displeasure; So We do for the future strictly Forbid all Our said Officers and Soldiers to Vse any Violence or Threatning Words to any Person whatsoever, or give any Offence or just cause of Complaint.
And in case any of Our said Officers or Soldiers shall presume to Commit any Spoil or Disorder, or use any Violence or Threatning Words, or otherwise Misbehave themselves, We do hereby further Declare, That besides the ordinary Course of Iustice for Redress, if the Persons agrieved shall make known the same to the Superiour Officers, the said Officers shall, and are hereby Required to cause Satisfaction immediately to be made, and that if such Officers to whom Complaint is made, shall Forbear or Delay the causing due Satisfaction to be given, as aforesaid, the Persons to whom Wrong is done, are to make their further Complaint to any two Iustices of the Peace of the Country, City, or Place where the Offence is Committed, which said Iustices We do Require to represent the same forthwith to Vs, that We may order speedy Iustice to be done by Reparation of the Injury, and causing the Officers and Soldiers so offending, to be Punished as the Nature and Quality of their Offences shall deserve. And We do further Declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That no Officer or Soldier in their March or Quarters shall be Lodged in any Private House whatsoever, without the Free and Voluntary Consent of the Owner, and that in case any Officers or Soldiers shall for any Reward or Consideration, Leave or Change the Quarters appointed them, or shall Demand or Exact Money for Quarters, or to Exempt any Person from the same, they shall be Punished by Cashiering and loss of their Pay. And We do likewise strictly Prohibit and Forbid all Officers and Soldiers to Destroy or Disturb the Game in any manner whatsoever, whthout Leave from Vs, the Lords of the respective Manors, or others to whom it may belong to grant the same, it being Our Royal Intention and Command, That all Officers and Soldiers in Our Service behave themselves Orderly in all things, according to Law and Military Discipline, as becomes them, upon Pain of the severest Consequences of Our High Displeasure.
Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the Twenty third Day of June, 1692. In the Fourth Year of Our Reign.
God save King William and Queen Mary.
London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd; Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties. 1692.