OVr Souereigne Lord the King being informed , That diuers Commanders , Captaines , Lieutenants , and other Officers of the Armies , Garrisons , and Forces now in His Maiesties pay aswell in Ireland , as in the Low-Countreys , haue too frequently resorted , and are at this present within this Realme , and doe absent themselues from their seuerall Charges and Commands , and considering that thereupon not onely much dissolutenesse , and neglect of warlike discipline in their Troopes and Companies must necessarily ensue , but also great danger to the seruice and imployment wherein they are placed , is manifestly threatned therby . His Maiesty willing to reforme an abuse of so perillous consequence by the aduice of His Priuy Councell doth signifie and declare His Royall pleasure , and doth straitly charge & command , that all the said Commanders , Captaines , Lieutenants , and other Officers ( except onely those that are already designed , & appointed to serue in the Fleete , or Army now at , or neere Plymmouth , for the time that they shall attend that seruice ) do foorthwith returne and repaire to their seuerall charges , and there attend and performe the dueties and seruices incident to their places . And that they , nor any of them doe hereafter absent themselues from their seuerall Commands , but onely vpon iust leaue obtained for some pressing and vrgent occasion , vpon paine to lose their said Offices and places , and to be further punished according to their demerites .