By the King, a proclamation for the better meanes of making provision for the Kings army England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B19105 of text R40332 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB 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 B19105 Wing C2608 ocm 18852142

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. eebo By the King, a proclamation for the better meanes of making provision for the Kings army England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1643 1 368 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. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-03 Sampled and proofread 2014-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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BY THE KING . A Proclamation for the better meanes of making Provision for the Kings Army .

WHEREAS the presence of His Majesty in His Royall Person , and of His Court and Army in , and about the Citty of Oxford , do of necessity draw thither , and unto the adjacent parts , a great confluence of People , and in the time of Lent it will not be possible that Provision can be made for so great a multitude , unlesse His Majesty be pleased to dispence with those penalties which His loving Subjects , by the Statutes made in that behalfe , may be subject unto , for not observing those politicke constitutions , which at other times are fit to be observed ; forbidding the killing , selling , dressing and eating of flesh in the time of Lent , and on other daies , appointed to be observed as fasting daies , or fish daies . His Majesty taking into His Princely consideration , the present necessity of the time and place , doth hereby not only Declare His Pleasure to be , That all Butchers may freely kill and furnish the Markets at Oxford , and other places where His Army is quartered , or any part thereof , and sell the same to such as will buy the same of them ; but His Majestie doth further Will and Command , That all Butchers doe so in this time of Lent , now approaching . And His Majesty doth further Declare His Royall Pleasure to be , That it shall be lawfull for any of His loving Subjects , residing in , or resorting unto the said Citty and places aforesaid , or any of them , to dresse , sell , and eate any flesh-meate during this time of Lent , without incurring for the same any danger of any pecuniary mulcts or forfeitures , or other punishments for those causes .

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