A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of his county of Lancaster England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32067 of text R40799 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2672). 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 A32067 Wing C2672 ESTC R40799 19320204 ocm 19320204 108610 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. A32067) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108610) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1683:21) A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of his county of Lancaster England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 broadside. By L. Lichfield ..., [Oxford : 1642] At head of title: By the King. "Given at our court at Oxford, the ninth day December, in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne." Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Proclamations -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. A32067 R40799 (Wing C2672). civilwar no A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of his county of Lancaster England and Wales. Sovereign 1642 617 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 2008-06 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 C R 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 County of Lancaster . WHEREAS We have taken notice , that by the Malice , Industry , and Importunity of severall ill-affected and seditious Persons in Our County of Lancaster , very many of Our weake and seduced Subjects of that Our County have not only beene drawne to exercise the Militia , under colour of a pretended Ordinance , without and against Our Consent , ( a Crime of a very high nature , if We would strictly enquire thereinto ) but have made Contributions of Plate , Money , and Horses , towards the Maintenance of the Army now in Rebellion against Vs ; We doe hereby publish and declare , That We are gratiously pleased to attribute the Crimes and Offences of Our said Subjects of that County , to the Power and Faction of their Seducers ; Who , We beleeve , by Threates , Menaces , and false Informations compelled and led them into these Actions of undutifullnesse and disloyalty towards Vs ; And We doe therefore hereby offer Our free and gracious Pardon to all the Inhabitants of Our said County of Lancaster , for all offences concerning the Premisses committed against Vs , before the publishing of this Our Proclamation , except George Booth , and Richard Holland Esquires , against whom Wee shall proceed according to the Rules of the Law as against Traytours and Stirrers of Sedition against Vs , And whom Wee doe hereby require all Our Officers and Ministers of Iustice , and all Our loving Subjects whatsoever , to apprehend , and cause to be kept in safe Custody till Our Pleasure be further knowne . Provided , that this Our Grace shall not extend to any Person , who after the publishing this Our Proclamation shall presume by Loane or Contribution , to assist the said Army of Rebells , to assemble and muster themselves in Armes without Authority derived from Vs under Our Hand , to enter into any Oath of Association for opposing Vs and Our Army , or to succour , or entertaine any of the Persons excepted in this Our Proclamation or in Our Declaration of the 12th of August . But We must and doe declare , That whosoever shall henceforward be guilty of the Premisses , or of either of them , shall be esteemed by Vs , as an Enemy to the publike Peace , a Person disaffected to Vs , and to the Religion and Lawes of the Kingdome , and shall accordingly receive condigne punishment , of which We give them timely notice , that they may proceed accordingly at their perills . And Wee doe hereby will and require Our high Sheriffe , Commissioners of Array , Iustices 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 Leavies in that Our County , upon what pretence soever , without Authority derived from Vs 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 Traine Bands of that Our County , or make any Leavies in the same , by vertue of Commission under Our Great Seale , or Signe Manuall . ¶ Given at Our Court at Oxford , the ninth day of December , in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne . God save the King .