BY THE KING.
¶ A Proclamation requiring all His
Majesties Tenants within the Counties of
Oxford and
Berks to pay their severall Rents, and other yearely payments, at the Citty of
Oxford.
WHereas there are severall Rents, Tenths, and Arreirages of Rents, now due and payable to the King and Queenes Majesties, by diverse and sundry Tenants, Collectors, and others, within Our foresaid Counties, which should have been paid by the said Tenants, Collectors, and others at the Audit held at Maydenhead for the said Counties in October last, but by Our Command, and for Our service were deferred. And We now considering that, by reason of the present distractions of this Kingdom, the said Rents, Tenths, and arreirages of Rents, cannot be more conveniently paid for Our use then at our Citty of Oxford, where We now are; Our Royall will and pleasure therefore is, and We doe hereby charge and command, That all such Tenths, Rents, & Arrerages, of Rents, which are now due unto Vs, and ought to be paid to Our Receiver of Our foresaid Counties of Oxford and Berks, for Our use, be duly paid unto Michaell Hollman Esq Our Receiver-Generall for the said Counties, or to his Deputy, at M r Richard Pulleys chamber in Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford, within tenne daies next after the date of this Our Proclamation: And they are to bring with them their last Acquittances for their Rents, and Tenths formerly paid by them. Willing and commanding the due performance of this Our Proclamation by all Person or Persons whom it may concerne, as they will answer the contrary at their Perills.
¶ Given at Our Court at Oxford, the Eleventh day of Ianuary, in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne.
God save the King.