WHereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons in Parliament Assembled , having received Information , that divers Officers and Soldiers are now in Actual Rebellion , and levying War against Vs within this Kingdom , and that divers other Soldiers and Trayterously Affected Persons are Corresponding with and Adhering to them , Have by their humble Address besought Vs to Issue Our Royal Proclamation , to Declare the said Officers and Soldiers and their Adherents , to be Rebels and Traytors , and to Require all Our good Subjects to Apprehend , Subdue , and Prosecute them as such ; To the End none may pretend Ignorance of their Duty by Law in such Case , We have therefore thought sit by this Our Royal Proclamation , to Publish and Declare all and every the said Officers and Soldiers , and all their Alders , Abettors and Adherents , to be Rebels and Traytors to Vs and Our Government : And We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all and singular Lords Lieutenants , Deputy Lieutenants , Mayors , Sheriffs , Iustices of the Peace , Bayliffs , Headboroughs , Constables , and all others Our Officers Civil and Military , and all Our Subjects of what Estate , Quality or Degree soever they be , to use their best and utmost Endeavours , as well to Resist , Repel , and Suppress , as also to Seize and Prosecute according to the utmost Rigour of the Law the said Rebels and Traytors , and all their Accomplices , Correspondents , and Abettors , We Resolving to make the said Criminals severe Examples of Our Iust Indignation , To the Intent that all Persons hereafter may be left without Excuse , if they should be found Offending in such manner .