WHereas We have been informed, that diverse of Our loving Subjects, who have been travelling from Our Westerne Counties, and other parts of Our Kingdome to Our City of London with Clothes, Goods, and other Merchandize, have been of late stopped and interrupted in their Iournies, and other Clothes, Wares, and Merchandize have been taken or detained from them, whereby the season and benefit of their Markets have been lost to them, and considering, that if the same Licence and Course shall be still taken and held, that the damage and mischief thereof will not on­ly fall upon Places and Persons disaffected to Vs, but upon very many of Our good and loving Subjects of all parts, and that thereby the generall Trade and Commerce of the Kingdom (which We have alwayes, and do desire to advance to the utmost of Our Power) will in a short time decay, and the poore People, wan­ting work, be brought to Penury and Famine. Wee are gratiously pleased to declare, and doe hereby will and require all the Officers and Souldiers of Our Army, and all other Our Officers and Ministers whatsoever, that from henceforth they giue no stop or interruption to any of Our loving Subjects as they travell to Our City of London with any Clothes, Wares, or other Merchandize, but that they suffer them, and such their Clothes, Wares, and Merchandize freely and peaceably to passe without any let, trouble, or molestation whatsoever. And We doe hereby promise and assure all Our loving Subjects, that if they shall henceforth suffer by any Souldiers of Our Army in this Case, and shall not upon Complaint to the chief Officers of Our Army where such damage is suffered, receive Iustice and Reparation for the damage they sustaine, upon complaint made to Vs We will take speedy care for the severe and exemplary punish­ment of the Offendors, and for the full satisfaction of the Parties grieved and injured.

Given at Our Court at Oxford, the eight day of December, in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne.

God save the King.