By the King. A proclamation concerning His Majesties gracious pardon, in pursuance of His Majesties former declaration England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79294 of text R212437 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.25[47]). 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. 6 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 A79294 Wing C3254 Thomason 669.f.25[47] ESTC R212437 99871060 99871060 163852 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. A79294) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163852) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f25[47]) By the King. A proclamation concerning His Majesties gracious pardon, in pursuance of His Majesties former declaration England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, London : 1660. Dated: Given at Our Court at Whitehal, the Fifteenth day of June, in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign, 1660. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 20". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Pardon -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. A79294 R212437 (Thomason 669.f.25[47]). civilwar no By the King. A proclamation concerning His Majesties gracious pardon, in pursuance of His Majesties former declaration. England and Wales. Sovereign 1660 1130 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 2008-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-06 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion By the King . A PROCLAMATION Concerning His Majesties gracious PARDON , In pursuance of His Majesties former DECLARATION . CHARLES R. CHARLES by the Grace of God , King of England , Scotland , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith &c. Whereas by Our Declaration , Dated at Breda the 4 / 14 day of April last past , We did Declare , That We did grant a Full and General Pardon , which We were ready to pass under Our Great Seal of England , to all Our Subjects , of what Degree or Quality soever , who within Forty days after the Publication there of , should lay hold upon that Our Grace and Favor , and should , by any the publick Act , Declare their doing so , and that they returned to the Loyalty and Obedience of good Subjects , excepting only such persons as should be excepted by Parliament . And We did further Declare , That ( those only excepted ) all Our subjects , how faulty soever , should rely upon the Word of a King , solemnly given by that Our Declaration , That no Crime whatsoever , committed against Vs , or Our Royal Father , before the publication thereof , should ever rise in Iudgment , or be brought in question , against any of them , to the least Indammagement , either of their Lives , Liberties , or Estates ; Or ( as far forth as lay in Our Power ) so much as to the prejudice of their Reputation , by any reproach , or term of distinction , from the rest of Our best Subjects . We desiring , and ordaining , That thenceforward all Notes of Discord , Separation , and difference of Parties , might be utterly abolished amongst all Our Subjects , whom we invited , and Conjured to a perfect Vnion amongst themselves , under Our Protection , for the resettlement of Our just Rights , and theirs in a Free Parlament ; Which Our said Declaration We sent Inclosed in Our Letters , to both Houses of Parliament , and the same was by them received the first Day of May last ; And afterwards according to Our Intention and Will was Printed and Published for the satisfaction of Our Subjects . And whereas , afterwards , ( that is to say ) the seaventh day of June instant , Our Commons assembled in Parliament , did Resolve and Declare , That they did by that their publique Act , for , and in behalf of themselves , and every of them , and of all the Commons of England , of what Quality or Degree soever they were , Lay hold upon Our Free and Generall Pardon , according as in Our said Letters and Declaration it was Granted , Tendred , or Expressed . And that Our House , with their Speaker , did attend , and present to Vs their Humble desire ; That it may be as effectuall to all Our Subjects in particular , ( Except , as before Excepted ) as if every of them , had at any time since the first of May last , personally layd hold upon Our Grace and Pardon , and by publique Act declared their doing so ; And that Wee Would be pleased to Declare Our acceptance thereof accordingly , and by Our Royall Proclamation to assure the hearts of Our Subjects of the same . We being very willing and desirous to administer all just satisfaction and ease to the mindes of our people , and to remove all Feares and and Iealousies which may concern their security ; And to manifest to them , and the World , that Our heart is possessed With the same Clemency and tenderness towards them , that Wee expressed in that Our Declaration ; Which if it were not , We should not think Our self worthy of those signal Belssings Which God Almighty hath powred upon Vs , and the Nation since ; And by the publication of that Our Declaration , in the Cheerfull obedience of Our Subjects , Do hereby publish and declare ; That We do Graciously accept the said Address of Our said House of Commons , to the full Intent and End thereof , and on the behalf of All the Commons of England , and that We will very willingly and cheerfully give Our Royall Assent to the said Act of Free and General pardon , when it shall be presented to Vs by Our two Houses of Parlament , and which We do with some Impatience expect , as the most reasonable and solid Foundation of that peace , happiness and security , We hope , and pray for , to Our self , and all Our Dominions ; And for the better manifestation of Our gracious intentions and desire herein ; and in regard that the great Deliverations of Our Houses of Parliament , upon all the weighty Affairs of the Kingdom , cannot admit that expedition , in the dispatch of this Bill , which the general fears and apprehensions of Our people may long for ; and , that the consideration of excepting Notorious Delinquents , may not stop the current of Our Mercy and Grace towards the generality of Our Subjects We leave it to themselves to take and sue out , Our particular Pardons , in such manner as they think fit ; And to that purpose We have appointed Our Secretaries of State to present Warrants to Vs for Our Signature , directing Our Atturney General to prepare Bills , for the passing Pardons to such , who shall desire the same ; in the issuing whereof , We will take it upon Our Self , and it shall be Our Care , and the Care of those Our Ministers , through whose hands the same are to pass , That no Pardon shall pass to any of those Notorious Offenders , who are in danger , or like to be be Excepted by the Parliament : And We have given order to Our Attorney-General , and Council at Law for preparing as full a Pardon of all Treasons , Felonies , and other Misdemeanors , for all other persons , which have happened or been occasioned by reason of the late Troubles , as they can wish . Given at Our Court at Whitehall , the Fifteenth day of June , in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign , 1660. London , Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the KINGS most Excellent Majesty . 1660.