By the King. A proclamation offering his Majesties gracious pardon to all officers, gunners, armourers, gunsmiths, carpenters, wheele-wrights, and other artificers belonging to the Office of the Ordinance, and requiring their attendance at Oxford, before the eighteenth day of this instant March. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02024 of text R175731 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2682A). 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'). 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A proclamation offering his Majesties gracious pardon to all officers, gunners, armourers, gunsmiths, carpenters, wheele-wrights, and other artificers belonging to the Office of the Ordinance, and requiring their attendance at Oxford, before the eighteenth day of this instant March. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, Printed at Oxford : 1642 [i.e., 1643] With royal coat of arms at head of text. Dated at end: Given at Our Court at Oxford this seaventh of March, in the eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain. -- Board of Ordnance -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 19th century. B02024 R175731 (Wing C2682A). civilwar no By the King. A proclamation offering His Majesties gratious pardon to all officers, gunners, armourers, gunsmiths, carpenter, wheele-wrights England and Wales. Sovereign 1643 471 2 0 0 0 0 0 42 D The rate of 42 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms BY THE KING . ¶ A Proclamation offering His Majesties Gratious Pardon to all Officers , Gunners , Armourers , Gunsmiths , Carpenters , Wheele-wrights , and other Artificers belonging to the Office of the Ordinance , and requiring their attendance at Oxford , before the Eighteenth day of this instant March . WHEREAS diverse Officers , Gunners , Armourers , Gunsmiths , Carpenter , Wheele-wrights and other Arti●icers 〈…〉 in Our service , and entertained in severall conditions and imployments in Our Office of the Ordinance , and for the use of Our Train of Artillery , have contrary to their duties , not only absented themselves from Our service , and their severall imployments therein , but many of them contrary to their Allegiance have put themselves under and Entertained themselves with those now in actuall Rebellion against Us , and thereby have fallen into the hainous Crime of high Treason against Us , Our Crowne and Dignity , Notwithstanding which ; out of Our tender Compassion , We desiring by all faire and mercifull waies and meanes to reduce Our Subjects to their duty and obedience , are gratiously pleased , and doe hereby offer Our free and gratious pardon , to all Officers , Gunners , Armourers , Wheele-wrights , Carpenters , and all other Artificers and Ministers of , and belonging to Our Office of the Ordinance , who shall within tenne daies after the publication hereof , leave the service of the Rebells , and returne to their allegiance to Us , and repaire to their service in Our Army , in the said Office of the Ordinance ; And We doe hereby farther publish and declare , That if any officer or officers above mentioned , either in service against Us , or such who absents themselves , and thereby neglect their duties , shall continue therein , and not give their Personall attendance upon Us at Our City of Oxford , in the said office , before the Eighteenth day of this instant March , they shall not only loose all Wages , Fees , and other Allowances due unto them by their offices and places , but be put sorth , and excluded Our service , and other persons setled in the same , and such farther punishments be inflicted on them , so refusing Our Grace , or disobeying Our Commands , as the greatnesse of their Crimes shall deserve , of which We intend to take a speedy , and streight accompt . Given at Our Court at OXFORD , this seaventh of March , in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Raigne . God Save the KING . Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD , Printer to the University . 1642.