By the King, His Majesties gratious offer of pardon to the rebells now in armes against him, under the command of Robert Earle of Essex England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A31928 of text R39011 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2340). 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 A31928 Wing C2340 ESTC R39011 18206192 ocm 18206192 107078 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. A31928) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107078) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1629:33) By the King, His Majesties gratious offer of pardon to the rebells now in armes against him, under the command of Robert Earle of Essex England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 broadside. By Leonard Lichfield ..., Printed at Oxford : 1643. "Given at our court at Oxford, this eighteenth day of Aprill in the nineteenth yeare of our reigne. God save the King." Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. A31928 R39011 (Wing C2340). civilwar no By the King, His Majesties gratious offer of pardon to the rebells now in armes against him, under the command of Robert Earle of Essex England and Wales. Sovereign 1643 686 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-08 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion BY THE KING . ❧ His Majesties gratious offer of Pardon to the Rebells now in Armes against Him ; under the Command of Robert Earle of Essex . WHEREAS an Actuall and open Rebellion is raised , and severall Armies marching against Us , under the command and conduct of Robert Earle of Essex , and other Persons under his Commissions and authority , who falsly pretend that what they doe is by virtue of Our authority , and for Our service and so seduce many of Our weak Subjects from their duty and Allegiance into this horrid and odious Rebellion against Us . We doe therefore once more declare the said Robert Earle of Essex , and all such who by any Commission under him have levied or doe command any Souldiers , to be guilty of high Treason , and that this Rebellion is raised to take away Our Life from Us , to destroy Our Posterity , to change the blessed Protestant Religion established by the Lawes of the Land , to suppresse the Law of the Kingdom , to take away the Liberty of the Subject , and to subject both to an unlimited arbitrary power . And We doe therefore Will and Command all Our loving Subjects , upon their Allegiance , and their Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy , that they apprehend the said Earle of Essex , and all such who , by virtue of any Commission under him , have levied or doe now command any Souldiers in any places of this Kingdome , as guilty of high Treason . And Whereas We understand that , at this time , the said Robert Earle of Essex , and some other Commanders who have equall or independent authority from him , doe traiterously lay seige to , and intend to assault Our Towne of Reading , We , considering that the most part of those Commanders and Souldiers are seduced by specious pretexts above said , have , out of Our Princely Grace and Clemency , thought fit , and doe hereby declare , That We are pleased to grant Our free and generall Pardon as well to all Captaines and inferior Officers ( not formerly excepted in any of our Declarations or proclamations ) as to all common Souldiers now before Our Towne of Reading , or elsewhere , as to Persons seduced by the cunning and falshood of the authors of the present Rebellion : If such Captains , inferior Officers and Souldiers shall disband within Six Daies after the publishing of this Our Proclamation , so as they commit no hostile Act in the mean while . And We doe farther declare , That such Officers as aforesaid , as shall returne to their due obedience to Us , and render themselves to the Lieutenant-Generall , or other Principall Officer of Our Army , or to the Governor of that Our Towne of Reading , and be willing to serve Us , shall be entertained in Our Army , or , if they be not willing to serve , shall have Our Pardon and free Passe , provided they take an Oath never to take up Armes against Us . And that such common Souldiers as shall lay downe their Armes , according to this Our Proclamation , shall also receive Our like gratious Pardon , and be entertained in Our Service , if they shall be willing ; or otherwise , taking the aforesaid Oath , have five shillings in mony given them , and a Passe to carry them to their dwellings . But in case that Our gratious mercy to them produce not those good effects We hope for , such extremity of Punishment they are to expect , as the highnesse of so Treasonable an Act in its own nature deserves . Given at Our Court at OXFORD , the eighteenth day of Aprill in the ninteenth yeare of Our Reigne . God Save the KING . Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD , Printer to the University . 1643.