WHereas We issued a Proclamation , bearing Date the 27th of February last , thereby requiring the several Tenants to any of Their Majesties Lands , and desiring all other persons , Proprietors or Tenants , having Meadows , or Grounds fit to be laid up for Meadows , to lay it up , Fence and preserve it , the best they could , which We are informed , has in many places been accordingly done . And being also informed , that the Farmers , Inn-Keepers , and such as Quartered Their Majesties Troops the last Year , apprehending that if they make and lay in Hay , it may be a means to have them burthened with Quartering the Army next Winter ; And that by having none , they may avoid it , do neglect to make the Hay of the Lands laid up as aforesaid . Therefore to prevent the evil consequence it would be to their Majesties service , and the Kingdom in general , if Hay should not be made ; And to encourage all persons concerned , to make up the Hay of the Lands laid up as aforesaid : We do hereby assure them , they shall have the disposal of the Hay made by them , to make the best advantage thereof they can , or they shall receive satisfaction at the Market Rate for such part thereof as shall be taken by any of the Army , or used in Their Majesties Service . And where any Commons or other Lands have been laid up , and the Tenants or Proprietors do neglect to mow , save and bring in the Hay thereof in due season , We do hereby direct the Collectors imployed by the Commissioners of Their Majesties Revenue , in their respective Districts , to return the Names of such Tenants or Proprietors , who shall so neglect to mow and save the same : And We shall look upon them as disaffected to Their Majesties Government . and the said Collector shall agree with such persons as shall undertake to make up the Hay of the said Commons or other Lands neglected as aforesaid , and shall allow or pay for the mowing , making thereof , and delivering one third part of the Hay so made , or money for the same . at the Market Rate then currant , at the Election of the persons making the same ; and the said Collectors are to give their said Majesties Commissioners account of their proceedings therein from time to time . And whereas by reason of the present War , there are not so many hands for bringing in the Harvest as at other times , of which many Labourers and other Persons in several parts of this Kingdom , do take advantage and obstinately refuse to work , unless they can have double wages , or much greater than usually hath heretofore been paid . We hereby require Their Majesties Iustices of the Peace to meet and settle the Rates and Wages of Labourers , according to the Statutes in that case made and provided , and carefully to see the said Statutes duly observed , in punishing all Idle persons that shall refuse to work , or that shall exact more Wages than are or shall be setled by the Iustices of the Peace in the respective Counties . And being likewise informed , there are several loose Idle persons , going up and down the Country , on pretence of begging , who are able to get their Living by Labour : We do hereby strictly charge and require all Sheriffs , Iustices of the Peace , High and Petty Constables , in their several Baronies and Parishes , that they cause all such persons as begg , and are able as aforesaid to make Hay , or do any other Harvest work , to be employed therein , at such wages as are usual , and if any of them refuse , they shall be deemed as Spyes and Vagabonds , and as such shall be punished with the utmost rigour of the Laws in that case made and provided , whereof all persons concerned are to take due notice .