By the King. A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of His counties of Stafford and Derby. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79027 of text R211769 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[149]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A79027 Wing C2677 Thomason 669.f.5[149] ESTC R211769 99870469 99870469 160860 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. A79027) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160860) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[149]) By the King. A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of His counties of Stafford and Derby. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by Robert Barker, [London : 1643] At foot of title: Given at our Court at Oxford, this five and twentieth day of March, in the eighteenth yeer of our reigne. God save the King. Imprint from Wing. A London reprint of the Oxford original. With engraving of royal seal at head of document. Annotation on Thomason copy: "1642". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Staffordshire (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Derbyshire (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. A79027 R211769 (Thomason 669.f.5[149]). civilwar no By the King. A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of His counties of Stafford and Derby. England and Wales. Sovereign 1643 652 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 C The rate of 15 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms By the King . A Proclamation of His MAJESTIES Grace , Favour , and Pardon to the Inhabitants of His Counties of Stafford and Derby . WHereas we have taken notice , That by the Malice , Industry , and Importunity of severall ill affected and seditious Persons Our Countries of Stafford and Derby very many of Our Weak and seduced Subjects of those our our counties have not onely been drawn to exercise the Militia , under colour of a pretended Ordinance without and against Our consent , ( a crime of a very high nature , if Wee would strictly enquire thereinto ) but have made contributi-ons of Plate , Money , and Horses , towards the maintenance of the Army now in Rebellion against Us , and have at last actually themselves taken Arms against Us ; we do hereby publish and declare , That we are graciously pleased to attesbute the Crimes and Offences of Our said Subjects of those Our Counties to the power and faction of the their Seducers , who , we beleeve , by Threats , Menaces , and false informations , compelled and led them into those Actions of Undutifulnesse and Disloyalty towards Us ; And we do therefore hereby offer Our free and gracious Pardon to all the Inhabitants of Our said Counties of Stafford and Derby , for all offences concerning the premisses committed against US , before the publishing of this Our Proclamation , except Sir John Gell , and Sir William Brereton Knights , against whom We shall proceed according to the Rules of the Law , as against Traytors and Stirrers of Sedition against Us , And whom we do hereby require all Our Officers and Ministers of Juctice , and all Our lobing Subjects Whatsoever , to apprehend and cause to be kept in safe Custody , till our pleasure be further known . Provided that this Our grace shall not extend to any person , who after the publishing this Our Proclamation , shall presume by Loan , or Contibution to assist the said Army of Rebells , to assemble and Mustrer themselves in Arms without Authority derived from Us under Our hand , to enter into any Oath of Association for apposing Us and Our Army or to succour or entertain any of the persons excepted in this Our Proclamation , or in Our Declaration of the twelfth of August , But we must and do declare , That whosoever shall henceforward be guilty of the premisses , or of either of them , shall be esteemed by Us , as an Enemy to the publike Peace , a Person disaffected to Us , and to the Religion and Laws of the Kingdom , and guilty of high-Treason , and shall accordingly recieve their condigne punishment , of which We give them timely notice , that they may proceed accordingly at their perills . And we do hereby require Our high-Sheriffs , Commissioners of Array , Justices of the Peace , and all other Our Officers and loving Subjects to resist , oppose , and apprehend all such persons as shall presume to make any Levies in those Our Counties , under what pretence soever , Without Authority derived from Us under Our hand . And we likewise will and Require them and every of them to be Assistant to all such as shall either Command the Train-bands of those Our Counties , or make any Levies in the same by virtue of Commission under Our great Seale or Signe Mannuall . And Our Pleasure is , That this Our Counties of Stafford and Derby . Given at Our Court at Oxford , this five and twentieth day of March , in the Eighteenth yeer of Our Reign . 1642. God save the Kin●