The French king's new declaration, in favour of the troopers, dragoons and soldiers, that having deserted his majesties forces before the first of January last, shall come and list themselves again, and serve for six years successively. Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. 1688 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B04191 Wing L3131A ESTC R180085 53299192 ocm 53299192 179934

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04191) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179934) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2808:39) The French king's new declaration, in favour of the troopers, dragoons and soldiers, that having deserted his majesties forces before the first of January last, shall come and list themselves again, and serve for six years successively. Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV). 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for T.P., London, : 1688. Caption title. Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.

Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.

eng James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701 -- Early works to 1800. France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The French King's NEW DECLARATION, In Favour of the Troopers, Dragoons and Soldiers, that having Deſerted His Majeſties Forces before the Firſt of January laſt, ſhall come and Liſt themſelves again, and ſerve for Six years Succeſſively.

The French King being extreamly alarm'd at the great and continual Deſertion of his Troops; and tho' the extream Poverty of his Country does force many to be Soldiers, yet fearing want of Men, ſince like Rats they abandon the falling Houſe, he has publiſh'd the following Declaration, for the inviting them to return.

HIS Majeſty being well inform'd that the Amneſty which he had granted by his Ordonnances of the Twenty eighth of January, and of the Ninth of April laſt, to the Troopers, Dragoons and Soldiers, which having Deſerted his Troops before the Firſt day of the ſaid Month of January, ſhould return and Liſt themſelves therein again, has occaſion'd a vaſt Number to return into his Service; and promiſing himſelf, that by Proroguing ſtill the Time, which he had granted for the receiving the Benefit of enjoying the ſaid Amneſty or Pardon, ſuch as are in far diſtant Countries, and that have not been able to repair into the Kingdom within the time Preſcribed, might avail themſelves thereof and return into his Service. His Majeſty has Prorogued, and does Prorogue, until the end of the preſent Year, the Term he had granted by His Ordonnance of the Ninth of April laſt, to the Troopers, Dragoons, and Soldiers that Deſerted his Troops before the Firſt day of the ſaid Month of January laſt, for the Liſting themſelves thereunder again. For which purpoſe it is His Majeſties Will and Pleaſure, that ſuch of the ſaid Troopers, Dragoons, and Soldiers, who having Deſerted his Troops, as well French as Forreigners, before the ſaid Firſt day of the Month of January laſt, ſhall come and Liſt themſelves again before the Firſt of January next, in the manner Preſcribed by the ſaid Ordonnance of the ſaid Twenty eighth day of January laſt, and ſhall then ſerve for Six years ſucceſſively, ſhall enjoy the Pardon and Amneſty granted in the ſaid Ordonnances; and as fully and to all Intents as if they had return'd into his Troops by the Terms mention'd by the ſame. His Majeſty Willing and Requiring, That in all other Reſpects, the ſaid Ordonnances of the Twenty eighth of January and Ninth of April laſt, be executed according to their Form and Tenour. His Majeſty Wills and Commands the Governours, and his Lieutenant Generals in his Provinces and Armies, Intendants and Commiſſaries appointed in the ſame; Particular Governours of His Cities and Places; Bayliffs, Seneſchals, Provoſts, Judges, and their Lieutenants; as alſo to the Colonel of His Light Cavalry, Colonel-General of His Dragoons, Colonels Maitres de Camp of His Troops, as well of Cavalry and Dragoons, as of French Infantry and Foreigners, and to the Commiſſaries of War, appointed for the Conduct and Policy of His Troops, and at the Reſidence of his Places, to be aſſiſting each within his Diſtrict to the Obſervation of the preſent Ordonnance, which His Majeſty will have Publiſhed at the Head of the Bodies and Companies of the ſaid Troops, and affix'd upon the Frontiers, and in all ſuch Places as occaſion ſhall require, that ſo none may pretend Cauſe of Ignorance.

Given at Verſailles the 3d Day of Auguſt, 1689. Sign'd LOWIS and Lower, LE TELLIER.

LICENSED, Auguſt 27. 1689. J. F.

LONDON, Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Black Bull in the Old-Baily. 1689.