A proclamation commanding the immediate return of all His Majesties subjects who have gone into the service of the French King as souldiers, since the late treaty of peace with the States General of the United Provinces, and prohibiting all His Majesties subjects to enter into the said service for the time to come

A proclamation commanding the immediate return of all His Majesties subjects who have gone into the service of the French King as souldiers, since the late treaty of peace with the States General of the United Provinces, and prohibiting all His Majesties subjects to enter into the said service for the time to come England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32374 of text R11902 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3247). 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. 2 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 A32374 Wing C3247 ESTC R11902 12277503 ocm 12277503 58518 2240965957

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32374) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58518) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 863:38) A proclamation commanding the immediate return of all His Majesties subjects who have gone into the service of the French King as souldiers, since the late treaty of peace with the States General of the United Provinces, and prohibiting all His Majesties subjects to enter into the said service for the time to come England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., London : 1675. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. At end of text: Given at our court at Whitehall the nineteenth day of May, 1675. In the seven and twentieth year of our reign. Broadside. eng Mercenary troops -- Early works to 1800. Foreign enlistment -- France -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides eebo By the King. A proclamation, commanding the immediate return of all His Majesties subjects who have gone into the service of the French King as souldi England and Wales. Sovereign 1675 1 363 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 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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royal blazon or coat of arms A PROCLAMATION , Commanding the immediate Return of all His Majesties Subjects who have gone into the Service of the French King as Souldiers , since the late Treaty of Peace with the States General of the Vnited Provinces ; and Prohibiting all His Majesties Subjects to enter into the said Service for the time to come . CHARLES R.

WHereas His Majesty hath been Informed , That divers of His Subjects have since the late Peace Concluded between His Majesty and the States General of the United Provinces , and contrary to His late Royal Proclamation , taken Arms under , and now are in the Service of the French King as Souldiers : His Majesty therefore for Redress thereof , and to prevent the like for the future , Doth by this His Royal Proclamation ( with the Advice of His Privy Council ) Require and Command all and every His Subjects , who have since the said late Peace gone beyond Sea to Serve as Souldiers under the said French King , forthwith to quit the said Service , and to return to their respective Homes : And both hereby also strictly Prohibit and Forbid them , and all other His Subjects whatsoever , for the time to come , from going beyond the Seas to Serve as Souldiers under the said King , or in His Wars . To all which His Majesty doth Enjoyn , and shall expect all due Obedience and Conformity ; And doth hereby also further Publish and Declare , That the Offenders to the contrary , shall not onely incur His Majesties High Displeasure , but be proceeded against ( for their Contempt ) according to the utmost Severities of Law .

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Nineteenth day of May , 1675. In the Seven and twentieth year of Our Reign . God save the King .

LONDON , Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty . 1675.