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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
¶ A Proclamation of His Majeſties Grace, Favour, and Pardon to the Inhabitants of His County of Kent.
Kent, very many of Our weake and ſeduced Subjects of that Our County have not only been drawne to exerciſe the Militia, undercolour 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 graciouſly 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 Kent, for all Offences concerning the premiſes committed againſt Vs before the publiſhing of this Our Proclamation (except Sir Michaell Lively Baronet, and Thomas Blount Eſquire,) againſt whom Wee ſhall proceed according to the Rules of the Law, as againſt Traitours 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 opAuguſt. But We muſt and doe declare, That whoſoever ſhall hence forward be guilty of the premiſes, or of either of them, ſhall be eſteemed by Us as an Enemy to the publick Peace, a Perſon diſaffected to Vs, and to the Religion and Law 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 We 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 under 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 virtue of Commiſſion under Our great Seale or ſigne Manuall.