WHEREAS diverse Officers, Gunners, Armourers, Gunsmiths, Carpenter, Wheele-wrights and other Arti [...]icers [...] in Our service, and entertained in severall con­ditions and imployments in Our Office of the Ordinance, and for the use of Our Train of Artillery, have contrary to their duties, not only absented themselves from Our service, and their severall imployments therein, but many of them contrary to their Allegiance have put themselves under and Entertained themselves with those now in actuall Rebellion against Us, and thereby have fallen into the hainous Crime of high Treason against Us, Our Crowne and Dignity, Notwithstanding which; out of Our tender Compassion, We desiring by all faire and mercifull waies and meanes to reduce Our Subjects to their duty and obedience, are gratiously pleased, and doe hereby offer Our free and gratious pardon, to all Officers, Gunners, Armourers, Wheele-wrights, Carpenters, and all other Artificers and Ministers of, and belonging to Our Office of the Ordinance, who shall within tenne daies af­ter the publication hereof, leave the service of the Rebells, and returne to their allegiance to Us, and repaire to their service in Our Army, in the said Office of the Ordinance; And We doe hereby farther publish and declare, That if any officer or officers above mentioned, either in service against Us, or such who absents themselves, and thereby neglect their duties, shall continue therein, and not give their Personall attendance upon Us at Our City of Oxford, in the said office, before the Eighteenth day of this instant March, they shall not only loose all Wages, Fees, and other Allowances due unto them by their offices and places, but be put sorth, and excluded Our service, and other persons setled in the same, and such farther punishments be infli­cted on them, so refusing Our Grace, or disobeying Our Commands, as the greatnesse of their Crimes shall deserve, of which We intend to take a speedy, and streight accompt.

Given at Our Court at OXFORD, this seaventh of March, in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Raigne.

God Save the KING.