By
the
King
and
Queen
,
A
PROCLAMATION
,
By
and
with
the
Advice
of
Their
Majesties
Privy
Council
,
For
preventing
of
False
Musters
and
Injuries
which
may
be
done
,
either
to
the
Soldiery
or
Subjects
.
William
R.
WHereas
We
have
received
Information
,
That
notwithstanding
the
great
Care
that
hath
been
taken
by
Vs
from
time
to
time
since
Our
Accession
to
the
Crown
,
to
furnish
Money
constantly
for
the
Subsistance
of
Our
Forces
,
(
and
so
far
as
the
Necessity
of
Our
Affairs
would
admit
)
for
the
Clearing
of
their
Pay
;
yet
some
of
the
Officers
of
Our
Army
,
respecting
more
their
own
Profit
then
Our
Service
,
or
the
Ease
or
Safety
of
Our
Subjects
,
have
presumed
by
False
Musters
to
Defraud
Vs
,
and
by
detaining
part
of
the
Moneys
which
should
have
been
paid
unto
the
Soldiery
,
have
given
Occasion
of
Disorders
amongst
them
,
and
to
Abuses
and
Injuries
which
have
been
put
upon
Our
Subjects
where
the
Soldiers
have
been
Quartered
;
We
having
Resolved
to
use
Effectual
Means
to
have
all
Our
Troops
and
Companies
compleat
,
and
that
the
Soldiers
who
Serve
Vs
shall
be
justly
and
duty
Paid
from
time
to
time
without
any
Injury
to
be
done
them
by
their
Officers
,
and
to
prevent
all
Oppressions
in
the
Counties
which
might
be
committed
by
the
Soldiery
,
by
Non-payment
of
their
Quarters
,
or
otherwise
,
have
thought
fit
,
by
the
Advice
of
Our
Privy
Council
,
to
Give
Commission
under
Our
Great
Seal
to
several
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
and
thereby
Authorizing
and
Empowering
them
,
or
any
three
of
them
,
to
make
diligent
Examination
and
Enquiry
in
all
Places
where
any
of
Our
Troops
or
Companies
have
been
,
are
,
or
shall
be
Quartered
,
whether
the
same
Troops
or
Companies
respectively
,
have
been
,
or
shall
be
compleat
in
their
Numbers
,
and
what
Deficiencies
are
,
or
may
be
in
them
,
or
any
of
them
,
and
whether
the
Subsistance
Money
and
Clearings
have
been
,
or
shall
be
duly
paid
as
they
ought
,
and
what
Injuries
or
Abuses
have
been
,
or
shall
be
Committed
in
the
Countreys
in
the
Soldiers
Quarters
,
or
otherwise
,
and
to
Redress
the
same
,
and
from
time
to
time
to
make
such
Representations
unto
Vs
,
as
Our
Service
,
and
the
Good
of
Our
Subjects
shall
Require
in
these
Cases
,
or
any
of
them
;
And
therefore
We
have
thought
fit
to
make
Publick
these
Presents
,
to
the
end
any
of
Our
Subjects
or
Soldiers
who
shall
receive
any
Wrong
or
Injury
in
the
Premisses
,
may
know
where
and
how
to
seek
Redress
.
Given
at
Our
Court
at
Hampton-Court
the
Thirteenth
day
of
May
,
1689.
In
the
First
Year
of
Our
Reign
.
God
Save
King
WILLIAM
and
Queen
MARY
.