WHEREAS very many of Our poor and loving Subjects , who out of their Loyalty and Affection have served Us in Our present expedition against the Rebells , are and have been sore wounded and maymed in fight , so that they are not for the present , and many of them not like to be able to relieve themselves by their work , or longer to continue the duty of Souldiers in Our Army , and yet We hold Our selfe engaged in Honour , Iustice and Charity to provide for their reasonable subsistance ; We doe hereby declare that Our Princely Resolution is , That every Officer and Souldier of Our Army , who is or shall be in this Our service so wounded or maymed , shall receive some reward and Livelihood by Pension or otherwise , in such manner as may make the remainder of his life lesse grievous to him ; And that such of Our Common-Souldiers and inferior Officers shall be received and admitted into such of Our Hospitalls or Almes-houses as We have the disposing of , as fast as any places shall become voyd in the said Hospitalls or Almeshouses ; And to that purpose Our pleasure is , that Our Secretaries of State , and Masters of Requests , preferre no Bills to Us to be signed for any place in any of Our said Hospitalls or Almes houses , but on the behalfe of some Souldier who hath been wounded or maymed in Our service against the Rebells , untill such time as all such Souldiers are provided for ; and that all Reversions granted by Us of any such places be suspended , and none to be admitted by virtue of any Grant in Reversion till such time as these poor People shall be provided for ; for the better expediting whereof , We doe hereby require all the Colonells of Our Army to present a List to one of Our Secretaries , of all the Souldiers names within their severall Regiments , who have been so wounded or maymed in this Our service as that they are unserviceable , with the Countries from whence they came , that provision may be made for them accordingly . And We doe hereby farther declare Our Will and pleasure to be , That all Iustices of Peace , Majors , Bayliffes , Treasurers , Constables , Church-wardens , and other whom it shall concerne , shall with all diligence put in execution the Statute made in the 43. yeare of the Raigne of the late Queen Elizabeth touching the reliefe of maymed Souldiers , and to make weekly taxations , and collect and leavy the Summes so taxed , towards the reliefe of sick , hurt , and maymed Souldiers , who have lost their Limbs , or disabled their bodies in Our service ; And to grant and assigne Annuities , Pensions , and other relief unto them , according to the tenor of the said Act , which the number of maymed and hurt Souldiers being the greater in respect of Our present just defensive Warres , We require them upon the penalties limited by the said Statute , and in pain of Our high displeasure , to doe and execute in such manner as the said Souldiers may reap the fruit of their good deservings and others be encouraged to the like endeavours . And we straitly forbid and inhibit all Iustices of Peace , Majors , and other Officers , to grant or assigne any such Annuities , Pensions , or other Reliefe by virtue of the said Statute , to any Persons who have taken up Rebellious Armes against Us , and been hurt or maymed in that Service . And of all this We shall require an especiall account , as of a businesse We are much concerned in Our Honour to have a singular care . Given at Our Court at OXFORD , this second day of May , in the ninteenth yeare of Our Reigne .