by the king. his majesties proclamation forbidding all his loving subjects of the counties of kent, surrey, sussex, and hampshire, to raise any forces without his majesties consent or to enter into any association or protestation for the assistance of the rebellion against his majesty. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles i) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) by the king. his majesties proclamation forbidding all his loving subjects of the counties of kent, surrey, sussex, and hampshire, to raise any forces without his majesties consent or to enter into any association or protestation for the assistance of the rebellion against his majesty. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles i) charles i, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] at head of title: "c.r." without royal arms. "given at our court at oxford, this sixteenth day of february, in the eighteenth yeere of our reigne. god save the king." imprint from wing. annotation on thomason copy: "march ". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng kent (england) -- history -- early works to . sussex (england) -- history -- early works to . surrey (england) -- history -- early works to . hampshire (england) -- history -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no by the king. his majesties proclamation forbidding all his loving subjects of the counties of kent, surrey, sussex, and hampshire, to raise england and wales. sovereign c the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the c category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c. r. by the king . his majesties proclamation forbidding all his loving subjects of the counties of kent , surrey , sussex , and hampshire , to raise any forces without his majesties consent , or to enter into any association or protestation for the assistance of the rebellion against his majesty . whereas we have been informed of certain propositions agreed upon by some seditious persons of our severall counties of kent , surry , sussex and hampshire , for an association betwixt the said counties , to raise an army of foot , and horse , and great summes of money for the maintenance thereof , and an invitation to our good subjects of that county , to enter into a protestation to assist them in this odious and unnaturall rebellion ; we doe hereby declare for the satisfaction of all our loving subjects of those counties , and that they may not be seduced from their obedience by the cunning and subtilty of those men , that the entring into such an association and protestation , and raising of men or contributing money upon the same , is an act of high treason , and an endeavour to take away our life from vs : and we do therefore straitly charge and command all our loving subjects whatsoever upon their allegiance not to enter into any such association or protestation , and such , as by colour of such authority have assembled together , that they immediately di●band and repaire to their houses . and we doe once more renew our offer of a free and gratious pardon to all our subjects of our said foure severall counties , excepting those whom we before excepted in our severall proclamations concerning those our counties , against all which we shall proceed according to the rules of the law , as against persons guilty of high treason ; and whom we doe hereby require all our officers and ministers of justice , and all our loving subjects whatsoever , to apprehend and cause to be kept in safe custody . and our expresse pleasure is , and we doe hereby will and command all the severall tenants of the persons excepted in our proclamation for those foure counties of kent , surrey , sussex , and hampshire , and all other persons who are any waye indebted unto them , and all the tenants to any other person of any of the said counties , who is now in actuall and open rebellion against us , or who after the publishing of this our proclamation shall contribute to the maintenance of the armies now in rebellion against us , under the conduct of robert earle of essex , or of any other person or persons , or that shall joyne in any such traiterous association or protestation , that they forbeare to pay any rents or debts due to the said severall persons , but detaine the same in their hands towards the maintenance of the peace of the counties , and the reparation of such men who have suffered by the violence of the others . and if any souldier or souldiers now under command against us in either of our said foure counties , shall within six dayes after the publishing of this our proclamation , apprehend and bring before us , or any officers of our army , or any other our minister of justice , so that the person apprehended be kept in safe custody , the bodies of any of the persons so excepted by us , or of any of the commanders or officers now in rebellion against us in any of the said foure counties , such souldier or souldiers , 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 ( except the persons before excepted ) now in rebellion against us , in any of the said foure counties , shall within five dayes after this our proclamation published , being convinced in his conscience of his damnable offence against god and us , in assisting this odious rebellion , returne to his alleagiance and repaire to our army , and commit no hostile act in the meane while against us , we shall not onely pardon him , but so far imploy him as his quality and deme●nour shall deserve . and we doe hereby require all our loving subjects of what degree or quality soever , within our said foure severall counties , upon their allegiance , and as they tender the cause of god , the protestant religion , being invaded and threatned to be rooted up by anabaptists , brownists , and atheists , of us , 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 us in person , or with the loane of money , plate , and horses , in this our great necessity . and having said thus much out of our tender regard of our subjects of those our counties ; if they shall henceforward be guilty of the premises : and shall either by loane or contribution assist the said army of rebels , assemble and muster themselves in armes withour authority derived from us under our hand , or shall enter into any oath of association for opposing us and our army , and so compell us to send part of our forces thither to reduce them to their obedience ; they must answer the miseries that must follow , to god , and their country . and our pleasure is , that this our proclamation be read in all the parish churches and chappels in the said foure severall counties . given at our court at oxford , this sixteenth day of february , in the eighteenth yeere of our reigne . god save the king . . october, . a declaration and ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament for the sequestring the estates both real and personal of delinquents, to be imployed for and towards the raising and maintaining of a troop of horse, for the service of the parliament within the county of surrey. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). 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. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) . october, . a declaration and ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament for the sequestring the estates both real and personal of delinquents, to be imployed for and towards the raising and maintaining of a troop of horse, for the service of the parliament within the county of surrey. england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london : . the estates of all persons in arms lately under the earl of holland and others in surrey and all who aided them, or the late rebellion in kent, essex, or sussex, are put in the hands of the committee for sequestration. sir will. brereton, bart., john lloyd, etc. are added to the committee of sequestrations. the committee have power to raise a foot company as well as the company of horse out of the sequestrations -- cf. steele. order to print signed: h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. annotation on thomason copy: " ber [i.e. october] ye th". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng england and wales. -- parliament -- early works to . attatchment and garnishment -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . surrey (england) -- history -- th century -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no . october, . a declaration and ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament, for the sequestring the estates both real a england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion . october , . a declaration and ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament , for the sequestering the estates both real and personal of delinquents , to be imployed for and towards the raising and maintaining of a troop of horse , for the service of the parliament within the county of surrey . forasmuch as divers ill-affected persons have endeavored to raise a new war in this kingdom , tending to the ruine of this present parliament , and the destruction of all the wel-affected persons that have adhered thereunto , contrary to the laws of the kingdom , and to the declarations and orders of parliament made therein , whereby all such persons as have or shall raise force against the power and authority of parliament , and against the forces raised by authority of parliament , for the defence of parliament and kingdom , are and have been from time to time declared traytors : be it therefore ordained and declared by the said lords and commons , that the estates as well real as personal , of all such person or persons as have been in arms in the late rebellion raised by the earl of holland , and others in the county of surrey , or any other their adherents , and also all and every other person or persons that have sent in unto their aid and assistance , either money , men , horse , arms or ammunition , or have indeavored either by providing themselves , or perswading others to send in any aid or assistance to the said forces ; and by reason of the said earls departure out of the said county , came short of such their intended aid and assistance ; as also the estates of all such persons lying and being within the said county of surrey , as did aid and assist the like late rebellion in the county of kent , essex , or sussex , or that have taken any horse , or plundered any person of his goods , for or towards the maintenance of any forces against the parliament , and shall prove to be comprized within the terms and directions of such ordinances of parliament , as have been formerly made and published concerning sequestration of delinquents estates , shall be forthwith seized and sequestred into the hands of the sequestrators and committees of the said county formerly named for the sequestration of delinquents estates , who are to pursue all powers and directions in the execution thereof , as in and by the said former ordinances of sequestration is declared : and it is hereby ordained and declared , that all the profits arising out of all or any the said delinquents estates , lying and being in the said county , shal be imployed towards the raising and maintaining of a troop of horse for the service of the parliament within the said county , for the preservation of the peace and safety of the same ; and the said committee , or any seven of them , have hereby power and authority given them to set fines , and makes compositions with all and every the said delinquents , ( as were not at that time actually sequestred for former delinquencies ) according to the rules prescribed & set down for goldsmiths hall for such estates only as lye within the said county , certifying the committee sitting for compositions at goldsmiths-hall , the names of the persons , and the sums so set , and to imploy the moneys so raised for the uses aforesaid : and it is further ordered , that sir will . brereton bar. iohn lloyd esq charls lord car , iohn thyn , arthur squib , george duncomb of shalsord , william ellyot esq ; sir robert needham knight , thomas scot , richard salway , and william owfield esquires , be added unto the committee of sequestrations in the said county of surrey ; and the committee formerly made for the raising of moneys for the army under the command of the now lord eairfax , with the committee for sequestrations , or any three or more of them , have hereby authority to raise upon the county such further sum or sums of money by way of assessment , for and towards the raising and maintaining of the said troop of horse for the said county , so as the sum exceed not four hundred pounds per mensem , which said moneys are to belevied according to the rules and directions appointed by the ordinance , for the raising and levying the moneys for the army under the command of thomas lord fairfax , with the several and respective powers therein given and granted ; and that such moneys already laid towards the raising and paying of the said troop , are hereby allowed of and to be levied accordingly : provided , that hereafter neither the foresaid past nor future assessments are to be extended or continued further then the aforementioned provision by the profits of sequestrations and compositions , shall fall short of those ends for which they are given by this ordinance ; and if it shall be thought fit by the said committee to raise a foot company for the safety of the county , they are authorized hereby to pay the said company out of the sequestration and assessment aforesaid . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this ordinance and declaration be forthwith printed and published . h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , .