By the Queene. The Queenes most excellent Maiestie hauing ordred that a certaine number of souldiers shall bee foorthwith leuyed and pressed to repaire into the lowe Countreyes ... Proclamations. 1588-10-04 England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A21849 of text S115398 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A21849 STC 8175 ESTC S115398 99850617 99850617 15830

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 eng Great Britain. -- Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Impressment -- Early works to 1800. Recruitment and enlistment -- Early works to 1800. England -- Proclamations -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the Queene. The Queenes most excellent Maiestie hauing ordred that a certaine number of souldiers shall bee foorthwith leuyed and pressed to repair England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) 1588 1 405 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-06 Sampled and proofread 2009-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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❧ By the Queene .

THe Queenes most excellent Maiestie hauing ordred that acertaine number of Souldiers shall bee foorthwith leuyed and prested to repaire into the lowe Countreyes , there to be imployed in her Highnesse seruice and pay : The charge of leuying , presting , mustring , arming and transporting of which Souldiers , her Maiestie hath by her speciall Commission , committed to Syr Iohn Norris Knight , and to such Officers , and other persons whom he shall by writing vnder his hand depute in this behalfe : Doth straightly charge and commaund , that all such persons , who haue already , or shall receiue any prest money of the sayde Syr Iohn Norris , or of such his abouesayd Officers , for this seruice now committed vnto him , and wherein they are to be vsed , shall duely obserue and keepe such order as shall be giuen and limitted vnto them , for the day and time of their repaire to any place , whereunto they shall be by the sayde Syr Iohn Norris , or his abouesayd Officers appointed for their meeting , shipping , and transportation . And if any such person or persons shall to the contrary offend , or directly or indirectly withdrawe themselues after the prest money by them receiued : Her Maiestie doth hereby notifie , that euery such person so offending , and the offence duely prooued , shall be punished with death by Marshall Lawe . For which purpose , and for the better execution hereof , to the furderance of this her Maiesties seruice , Her Highnesse hath bene pleased to appoint peter Crisp gentleman , to be the Prouost Marshall : vnto whom , in this seruice , her Maiestie doth will and commaund all Iustices , Maiors , Sheriffes , Bailiffes , Constables , Hedboroughes , and all other her Officers , Ministers and Subjectes , to be ayding , assisting , and furdering , as they and euery of them will answere for the contrary at their vttermost perils .

Giuen at her Maiesties Mannor of S. Iames , the fourth day of October . 1588 In the xxx . yeere of her Maiesties Raigne . God saue the Queene .

❧ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker , Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie