HIS Majesty having by His Royall Proclamation, setled the Court of Wards and Liveries to be ke [...] and held in His City of Oxford, untill He shall otherwise ordaine the same; to which place and [...] the Maister and Councell of that Court, there all His Subjects who have affaires in that Court m [...] and ought during that time make their resort. But His Majesty finding a great neglect in those w [...] should finde and returne offices after the death of the Kings Tenants, and thereupon make their co [...]positions for Wardships, and pay their monyes compounded for, pay the Rents reserved and in [...] time prosecute their Liveries in that Court, wheron a great part of His Majestyes just Revenue [...]pends; And His Majesty being very willing and resolved to hold Himselfe to such regular cou [...] as for many yeares past he hath prescribed to Himselfe, for the good and safety of His good Subjects, and of their estate [...] [...] the case of granting of Wardships; Yet least any of them should be misled and apply themselves to any other place o [...] [...]ny other persons, and so by their negligence or error should incurre that danger or prejudice which they would o [...]wise willingly have avoided, or else His Majestie to suffer in His just Revenue through their default; His Majestie h [...] therefore thought fit to give notice, & doth by this His Proclamation give notice to all those whom it may any waies c [...]cerne, That as He on His part is, and will be constant to His rules of grace in the granting of Wardships and preserving [...] protecting their estates, if those to whom the same is so gratiously offered do not wilfully neglect it; So His Majesty d [...] hereby declare, that if those who do pretend, or might regularly pretend to become suitors for any Wardship, or to h [...] compounded for the same, or to sue out Liverye of any Lands, shall neglect within convenient time after the death of [...] Auncestor to finde an office and to returne the same into the Petty Bagge in Chauncery, and to transcript the same into [...] said Court of Wards and Liveries at Oxford, according as shall be ordered by that Court, or shall neglect within conve [...]ent time to make their composition with His Majesty, or with the Councell of the said Court now residing at Oxf [...] on His Majesties behalfe, or shall neglect to pay the monyes compounded and agreed for to His Majessties Recei [...] there, or shall neglect to pay the Rents due and payable for the Wards Lands, or the meane Rates paya [...] where meane rates shall be due, or shall neglect to sue out their Liveries, when and where by law and by the cou [...] of that Court they ought, that in all those cases upon such neglect His Majesty must be, and will be at His own Liberty [...] make His best advantage by granting such Wardships to such others who will compound-for the same and pay the [...]neys compounded for and not payd, and shall and will take His best remedy and advantage which by the s;trictness [...] [...] Law in Justice He can for the recovery of the Rents and other dutyes due and payable to His Majesty in those cases. [...] that he will severely punish all those Escheators, Feodaries and other Ministers of the said Court, who shall in their [...]spective place neglect their dutyes, to His Majesties disservice.

Given at Our Court at Oxford, the Eleventh day of [...]vember, in the Nineteenth year of Our Raigne. 1643.

GOD SAVE THE KING.