By the King, His Majesties proclamation concerning the bringing in of armes to his magazine in the citty of Worcester England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32031 of text R39034 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2565). 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 2017 A32031 Wing C2565 ESTC R39034 18206843 ocm 18206843 107101 2240892333

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32031) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107101) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1629:49) By the King, His Majesties proclamation concerning the bringing in of armes to his magazine in the citty of Worcester England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 broadside. By Leonard Lichfield, [Oxford : 1642] Imprint suggested by Wing. "Given at our court at Oxford, this fourteenth day of December, in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne." Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. A32031 R39034 (Wing C2565). civilwar no By the King, His Majesties proclamation concerning the bringing in of armes to his magazine in the citty of Worcester England and Wales. Sovereign 1642 1 458 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. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-05 Sampled and proofread 2008-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

BY THE KING . His Majesties Proclamation concerning the bringing in of Armes to His Magazine in the City of Worcester .

WHEREAS We are informed , that severall Persons in Our County of Worcester , who by Law ought not to have Armes , have underhand provided themselves of great Quantities , and that both they , and other Persons have in their hands great store of Armes sold , lost and left in that County , by Our Army , and by the Army of the Rebells , under the Command of the Earle of Essex , which Armes it highly concernes Our Safety and the Peace of that County , in a time of so great Danger and Distractions , that especiall Care be taken , least they remaine in unknowne hands , and so be in danger to be imployed against Us , and Our good Subjects ; Therefore Our Will and Pleasure is , and We doe hereby charge and Command all such of Our Subjects in Our County of Worcester , who by Law ought not to have Armes , and all such who have in their Custody any Armes either for Horse or Foot belonging to any of the Souldiers of Our Army , or to the Army under the Command of the Earle of Essex , or were sold or lost by them , That they faile not to bring them in , within fowre dayes after this Publication of Our Pleasure , to Our to Colonell Sandys ; or to such Magazine at Worcester , and deliver them to Colonell Sandys ; or to such Persons as he shall appoint And hereof We require them not to faile , as they desire not to give Us any Testimony of their ill Affection to Us , and as they will answer the contrary at their uttermost perills . And this Our Proclamation We require the high Sheriffe of that Our County to cause to be read in all Churches and Chappells within the same ; That notice of this Our Pleasure may be taken by Our Subjects , and speedy Obedience given thereunto . And We require that Our high Sheriffe to search the Houses of all such of Our Subjects , as he shall have cause to suspect to conceale such Armes as aforesaid , and to seize the Armes and Persons of all such , who upon search and examination , shall appeare to have beene disobedient to this Our Command .

Given at Our Court at Oxford , this fourteenth day of December , in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne . God save the King .