By the King. His Majesties offer of pardon to the rebells now in arms against Him. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78952 of text R211125 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[88]). 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. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A78952 Wing C2529 Thomason 669.f.5[88] ESTC R211125 99869858 99869858 160801 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A78952) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160801) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[88]) By the King. His Majesties offer of pardon to the rebells now in arms against Him. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill, Imprinted at London : MDCXLII. [1642] "Given at Our court at Edge-Hill, this 24. day of October, in the eighteenth yeer of Our reign.". With engraving of royal seal at head of document. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Pardon -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A78952 R211125 (Thomason 669.f.5[88]). civilwar no By the King. His Majesties offer of pardon to the rebells now in arms against Him. England and Wales. Sovereign 1642 877 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms ❧ By the King . ¶ His Majesties offer of Pardon to the Rebells now in Arms against Him . WHereas an Actuall and Open Rebellion is raised , and severall Armies marching against Vs , under the Command and Conduct of Robert Earl of Essex , and other persons under his Commissions and Authority , who falsely pretend that what they do , it by vertue of Our Authority , and for Our Service , and so seduce many of Our weak Subjects from their duty and Allegiance , into this horrid and odious Rebellion against Vs ; We do therefore declare the said Robert Earl of Essex , and all such who by any Commission under him have leavied , or do command any Souldiers , to be guilty of High Treason , and that this Rebellion is raised to take away Our life from Vs , To destroy Our Posterity , To change the blessed Protestant Religion established by the Laws of the Land , To suppresse the Law of the Kingdom , and to take away the Liberty of the Subject , and to subject both to an unlimited Arbitrary Power . And We do therefore will and command all Our loving Subjects upon their Allegiance , and their Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacie , that they apprehend the said Earl of Essex , and all such who by vertue of any Commission under him have leavied , or do now Command any Souldiers in any places of this Kingdom as guilty of High Treason . And to any common Souldiers so raised , We do grant Our free and generall Pardon , as to Per●ons seduced by the cunning and falshood of the Authors of this Rebellion , if such Souldiers shall disband within six dayes after the publishing of this Our Proclamation , so they commit no Hostile Act in the mean while against Vs . And if such Souldier or Souldiers shall within that time apprehend and bring before Vs , or any Officers of Our Army , the bodies of any of the Commanders or Officers now in Rebellion against Vs , he and they besides their Pardons , shall receive such liberall rewards by Pensions or otherwise as their severall services in respect of the qualities of the Persons so apprehended shall deserve . And if any Commander or Officer of any of the Armies now in Rebellion against Vs , shall within four dayes after this Our Proclamation published , being convinced in his Conscience of his damnable offence against God and Vs in assisting this odious Rebellion , return to his Allegiance , and repair to Our Army , and commit to Hostile Act in the mean while against Vs , We shall not onely pardon him , but so far imploy him as his quality and demeanour shall deserve ; Except all such persons whom We have before excepted in Our Declaration of the twelfth of the last August . And We do hereby require all Our loving Subjects of what Degree or Quality soever , upon their Allegiance , and as they tender the cause of God , ( the Protestant Religion being invaded , and threatned to the rooted up by Anabaptists , Brownists , and Atheists ) of Vs and Our Posterity , ( Our life being sought after by this Rebellion ) and of themselves ( the Law and Liberty of the Subject being in apparent hazard to be subjected to an Arbitrary Lawlesse Power of a few Schismaticall , Factious and Ambitious persons ) to assist Vs in person , or with the Loan of Money , Plate and Horses in this Our great necessity . And We do further declare to all Our loving Subjects , That as We have and shall take all possible care to prevent the sufferings of Our good people by the Souldiers of Our Armie , so what-ever pressures shall unavoidably fall upon them , by reason of the violence offered unto Vs , in seising and detaining Our own Money and Revenue from Vs , We do promise in the word of a King , to satisfie them for the same as soon as God shall enable Vs . And the better to encourage Our good Subjects to aid and assist Vs in this Our necessary defence , to which their duty to God and Vs obliges them , We do declare , That whosoever shall lose his life in this Service , the Wardship of his Heir shall be granted by Vs without Rent or Fine to his own use , And We shall hold Our Self obliged to take all possible care for the Support , Relief , and Protection of all their Wives and Children , who shall have the hard fortune to die in this Service . Given at Our Court at Edge-Hill , this 24 day of October , in the eighteenth yeer of Our Reign . God save the King . ¶ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER , Printer to the Kings most excellent MAJESTIE : And the Assignes of JOHN BILL . MDCXLII .