OVr Souereigne Lord the King being informed, That diuers Com­manders, Captaines, Lieutenants, and other Officers of the Armies, Garrisons, and Forces now in His Maiesties pay aswell in Ireland, as in the Low-Countreys, haue too frequently resorted, and are at this pre­sent within this Realme, and doe absent themselues from their seuerall Charges and Commands, and considering that thereupon not onely much dissolutenesse, and neglect of warlike discipline in their Troopes and Companies must necessarily ensue, but also great danger to the seruice and imploy­ment wherein they are placed, is manifestly threatned therby. His Maiesty willing to re­forme an abuse of so perillous consequence by the aduice of His Priuy Councell doth sig­nifie and declare His Royall pleasure, and doth straitly charge & command, that all the said Commanders, Captaines, Lieutenants, and other Officers (except onely those that are already designed, & appointed to serue in the Fleete, or Army now at, or neere Plymmouth, for the time that they shall attend that seruice) do foorthwith returne and repaire to their seuerall charges, and there attend and performe the dueties and seruices incident to their places. And that they, nor any of them doe hereafter absent themselues from their seue­rall Commands, but onely vpon iust leaue obtained for some pressing and vrgent occasi­on, vpon paine to lose their said Offices and places, and to be further punished according to their demerites.

Giuen at the Court at Tichfeld the fourth day of September, in the first yeere of his Maiesties Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.

God saue the King.