A proclamation by His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex, &c. Captaine Generall of the army imployed for the defence of the Protestant religion, King, Parliament, and kingdome. Together with a letter from a gentleman of quality residing in the army, concerning the advancement of the army towards Oxford. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84112 of text R1862 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E49_30). 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'). 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A84112) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 112559) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 9:E49[30]) A proclamation by His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex, &c. Captaine Generall of the army imployed for the defence of the Protestant religion, King, Parliament, and kingdome. Together with a letter from a gentleman of quality residing in the army, concerning the advancement of the army towards Oxford. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. Gentleman of quality residing in the Army. [2], 5, [1] p. Printed for T. G., London : 1644. This proclamation to prevent plundering is dated 26 May, 1644. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Annotation on Thomason copy: "may 28". eng England and Wales. -- Army -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A84112 R1862 (Thomason E49_30). civilwar no A proclamation by His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex, &c. Captaine Generall of the army imployed for the defence of the Protestant religio Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of 1644 458 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. 2007-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A PROCLAMATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY ROBERT Earle of ESSEX , &c. Captaine Generall of the Army imployed for the defence of the Protestant Religion , King , Parliament , and Kingdome . Together with A Letter from a Gentleman of quality residing in the Army , concerning the advancement of the Army towards Oxford . LONDON , Printed for T. G. 1644. ROBERT Earle of Essex , &c. Captaine Generall of the Army imployed for the defence of the Protestant Religion , King , Parliament , and Kingdome . WHereas these Countries have beene very much afflicted and oppressed by the enemy , and we are now come to relieve them of their hard bondage . It is therefore my expresse will and pleasure , and I doe hereby straightly charge and command all Officers and Souldiers of Horse , Foot , and Dragoons , belonging to the Army under my command , that they and every of them doe forthwith after Proclamation hereof made , forbeare ( notwithstanding any pretence whatsoever ) to plunder or spoile any of the goods of the inhabitants of these Countries , or offer any violence or other prejudice unto them , upon paine of death without mercie . Given under my hand and seale this 26 of May , 1644. ESSEX . A Letter from a Gentleman of quality residing in the Army , to his friend in LONDON . SIR , THe Armies are this day on their march . Yesterday the Lord Roberts Marshall Generall of the field marched with a party of Horse and Foot ( by his Excellencies order ) and possest themselves of Abington , which the enemy the day before quitted , and retreated to Oxford ; truely ( blessed be God ) the enemy flies before us and durst not oppose . The Countrey where we now are , are in a very poore condition , and truly the enemy dealt so inhumanely with them , that they have almost stript them of all they had in this Towne ; as I am informed , some of them ript up Sows bellies great with Pigges , and did other incredible acts of worse nature , besides ravishing three mayds ; and when they had done this , they said they would do what other mischiefe they could , because they had but a short time to raigne . Herein is his Excellencies Proclamation to save all that is left by the enemy , which is very little . I rest , Your assured friend . Blewbery , May 26. 1644. in the morning . Sir William Waller was this day at Sutton , which is between Oxford and Abington . FINIS .