WHEREAS very many of Our poor and loving Subjects, who out of their Loyalty and Affection have served Us in Our present expedition against the Rebells, are and have been sore wounded and maymed in fight, so that they are not for the present, and many of them not like to be able to relieve themselves by their work, or longer to continue the duty of Souldiers in Our Army, and yet We hold Our selfe engaged in Honour, Iustice and Charity to provide for their reasonable subsistance; We doe hereby declare that Our Princely Resolution is, That every Officer and Souldier of Our Army, who is or shall be in this Our service so wounded or maymed, shall receive some reward and Livelihood by Pension or otherwise, in such manner as may make the remainder of his life lesse grievous to him; And that such of Our Common-Souldiers and inferior Officers shall be received and admitted into such of Our Hospi­talls or Almes-houses as We have the disposing of, as fast as any places shall become voyd in the said Hospitalls or Almes­houses; And to that purpose Our pleasure is, that Our Secretaries of State, and Masters of Requests, preferre no Bills to Us to be signed for any place in any of Our said Hospitalls or Almes houses, but on the behalfe of some Souldier who hath been wounded or maymed in Our service against the Rebells, untill such time as all such Souldiers are provided for; and that all Reversions granted by Us of any such places be suspended, and none to be admitted by virtue of any Grant in Re­version till such time as these poor People shall be provided for; for the better expediting whereof, We doe hereby require all the Colonells of Our Army to present a List to one of Our Secretaries, of all the Souldiers names within their severall Regiments, who have been so wounded or maymed in this Our service as that they are unserviceable, with the Countries from whence they came, that provision may be made for them accordingly. And We doe hereby farther declare Our Will and pleasure to be, That all Iustices of Peace, Majors, Bayliffes, Treasurers, Constables, Church-wardens, and other whom it shall concerne, shall with all diligence put in execution the Statute made in the 43. yeare of the Raigne of the late Queen Elizabeth touching the reliefe of maymed Souldiers, and to make weekly taxations, and collect and leavy the Summes so taxed, towards the reliefe of sick, hurt, and maymed Souldiers, who have lost their Limbs, or disabled their bodies in Our service; And to grant and assigne Annuities, Pensions, and other relief unto them, according to the tenor of the said Act, which the number of maymed and hurt Souldiers being the greater in respect of Our present just defensive Warres, We re­quire them upon the penalties limited by the said Statute, and in pain of Our high displeasure, to doe and execute in such manner as the said Souldiers may reap the fruit of their good deservings and others be encouraged to the like endeavours. And we straitly forbid and inhibit all Iustices of Peace, Majors, and other Officers, to grant or assigne any such Annuities, Pensions, or other Reliefe by virtue of the said Statute, to any Persons who have taken up Rebellious Armes against Us, and been hurt or maymed in that Service. And of all this We shall require an especiall account, as of a businesse We are much concerned in Our Honour to have a singular care. Given at Our Court at OXFORD, this second day of May, in the ninteenth yeare of Our Reigne.

God Save the KING.