By the King. A proclamation prohibiting free-quarter, or taking any provisions in the counties of Oxford, Berks, and Wilts, without paying upon paine of death. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B19160 of text R225509 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. 3KB 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 B19160 Wing C2686 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 21.h.1[83] ESTC R225509 ocm99886140

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the King. A proclamation prohibiting free-quarter, or taking any provisions in the counties of Oxford, Berks, and Wilts, without paying upon paine England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1643 1 465 1 0 0 0 0 0 21.51 C The rate of 21.51 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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BY THE KING . A Proclamation prohibiting Free-Quarter , or taking any Provisions in the Counties of Oxford , Berks , and Wilts , without paying upon paine of death .

WHEREAS the Gentlemen , and other the inhabitants of Our Counties of Oxford , Berks , and Wilts , have out of their affection to Our Service , and for the benefit and advantage of all the Inhabitants therein , entred into an Agreement to pay Us by way of Loane , or Contribution , the summe of Twelve Hundred pounds weekly , out of Oxford-shire , One Thousand Pounds weekly , out of Berk●shire ; and Twelve Hundred Pounds weekly , out of Wiltshire , to be issued towards the payment of the Horse of Our Army ; and for the same to be freed from all Free-Quarter , or any violence whatsoever . And seeing the Counties of Berks , and Oxford , have with all cheerefullnesse , made good the said Agreement , and paid in their monyes , and We expect the same from Wilt-shire , We are Gratiously pleased to give them all the ease , and satisfaction they can desire . And do therefore straitly charge and command , all the respective Officers , and Souldiers , of any Regements of Our Army Quartered in the said Counties , that from henceforth they , nor any of them , presume to aske , demand , or take any Free-Quarter , or Billet , from , or upon any the Inhabitants of the said Counties , ( as soone as they shall have paid the said Contribution ) nor any manner of Victualls , or Provisions , for man or Horse , from any of them , with out making due and reasonable payment for the same upon paine of death . And if hereafter any prejudice be done to any of Our good Subjects by any of Our Forces , and the same really appearing , defalcation shall be made , and allowed to every of them the week following out of the said Contributions , and upon certificate of the names of such offenders , they shall be speedily apprehended and punished without favour or connivance to the terror of others , and prevention of future disorders . This Our Grace and Favour Our will is , shall immediatly be published in all the Hundreds and parishes of the said Counties , that so it may be observed accordingly . Given under Our Signe Manuall at Our Court at Oxford , this first day of December . 1643.

GOD SAVE THE KING .

Printed at Oxford , by LEONARD LICHFIELD , Printer to the University .