WHEREAS We have taken notice , that by the Malice , Industry , and Importunity of severall ill-affected and seditious Persons in Our County of Buckingham , very many of Our weake & seduced Subjects in that Our County have not only beene drawne to exercise the Militia , under colour of a pretended Ordinance , without and against Our Consent , ( a Crime of a very high nature , if We would strictly enquire thereinto ) but have made Contributions of Plate , Money , Horses , &c. towards the Maintenance of the Army now in Rebellion against vs ; We doe hereby publish and declare , That We are gratiously pleased to attribute the Crimes and Offences of Our said Subjects of that County , to the Power and Faction of their Seducers ; Who , We beleeve , by Threates , Menaces , and false Informations compelled and led them into these Actions of undutifullnesse and disloyalty towards vs ; And We doe therefore hereby offer Our free and gracious Pardon to all the Inhabitants of Our said County of Buckingham , for all offences concerning the Premisses committed against vs , before the publishing of this Our Proclamation , except Master Iohn Hampden , and Arthur Goodwin Esquires , against both which We shall proceed according to the Rules of the Law , as against Traytours and Stirrers of Sedition against vs , And whom We doe hereby require all Our Officers and Ministers of Iustice , and all Our loving Subjects whatsoever , to apprehend , and cause to be kept in safe Custody till Our Pleasure be further knowne . Provided , that this Our Grace shall not extend to any Person , who after the publishing this Our Proclamation shall presume by Loane or Contribution , to assist the said Army of Rebells , to assemble or muster themselves in Armes without Authority derived from vs under Our Hand , to enter into any Oath of Association for opposing vs and Our Army , or to succour , or entertaine any of the Persons excepted in this Our Proclamation , or in Our Declaration of the 12th of August . But We must and doe declare , That whosoever shall henceforward be guilty of the Premisses , or of either of them , or shall give any obedience to any Warrants concerning any Musters , Leavies , or Contributions for Leavies whatsoever , under any pretence of Authority whatsoever , either from the said Master Iohn Hampden , and Master Arthur Goodwin , or from any other Persons whatsoever , without Our expresse Consent Declared under Our Great Seale or Signe Manuall , shall be esteemed by vs as an Enemy to the publike Peace , a Person disaffected to vs , and to the Religion and Lawes of the Kingdome , and shall accordingly receive condigne punishment , of which We give them timely notice , that they may proceed accordingly at their perills . And Wee doe hereby will and require Our high Sheriffe , Iustices of the Peace , and all other Our Officers , and loving Subjects to resist , oppose , and apprehend all such Persons as shall presume to make any Leavies in that Our County , under what pretence soever , without Authority derived from vs under Our Hand . And We likewise will and require them , and every of them to be assistant to all such as shall either Command the Traine-Bands of that Our County , or make any Leavies in the same , by vertue of Commission under Our Great Seale , or Signe Manuall .