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 . a letter from horsum in sussex relating to the present estate of that county to his friend in london. r. t. 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 t thomason .f. [ ] estc r 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) a letter from horsum in sussex relating to the present estate of that county to his friend in london. r. t. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] signed at end: r.t. imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng sussex (england) -- history -- th century -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no a letter from horsum in sussex, relating the present estate of that county to his friend in london. r. t 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 - aptara 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 a letter from horsum in sussex , relating the present estate of that county to his friend in london . sir , i received yours of the of june , and thanke you for your intelligence : you tell mee that upon the request of colonell morley , it was granted him of the house of commons to raise our county of sussex . such are the suddaine commotions of the times , that it is done already ; so that that noble colonell may now spare his pains , unlesse hee make extreme haste into this divided county . the countrey is generally risen about horsum , and protest they will fight for the king and the countrey . at pulborough they are in the same condition , for the people there are much exasperated to heare some of their neighbours are imprisoned by a warrant from colonell stapley and others , for daring to petition the high and honourable court of parliament . with us at horsum here are now lusty men in armes , the occasion was this . upon friday june the sixteenth , the magazine which was laid up at this towne was commanded away by the committee to arundell , but our countrey-men are generally so ill affected , that they rose , with one consent , and two or three hundred appeared in an instant , leaving their mattocks and plowes to rescue the swords and musquets : to the market-house they come immediatly , and cause george david ( who thanks god hee is well mended in these times ) and the rest of the pious zelots , who had loaded the carts with countrey-armes , to carry them back into the market-loft : since that , these stout rusticks have endured watching every night , and by turnes have attended the armes some nights sixtie at a time . on tuesday night last at a full assembly in the market-place it was voted unseasonable , unreasonable ( as master chatfell said of the petition ) to watch them any longer , and resolved upon the question , that the day following , being wednesday , at the sound of drum and ringing of the bells , those men both in towne and countrey who are resolved to fight for the king and the liberties of the county , against the encroachments of one freeman , and his followers , should come in and take what armes they pleased . about eleven of the clock yesterday , there was a great appearance , two or three hundred at least , every one chose his musquet and other armes ▪ and then marched out to trayne in the common . on this day , june , there came in as many more countrey-men , expecting armes likewise ; so that now there are five or six hundred well armed , and many of them very good horse . this wee doubt will bee but the beginning of sorrow to our distressed county , for all the well-affected begin to leave us , and then what can wee expect but mischiefe ? as soone as the drum beate captaine shepheard felt himselfe not well his belly-ak't , as if hee feared the egyptians would make a drum of it , and hee thought best to goe to lewis for some phisick . lievetenant hunniwood that knocking agitator left his forge and went to london for some forces mistris chatfield advised her husband to withdraw for feare they should doe him more mischiefe then with songs . the souldiers say had they known of their going they would have held their styrrops . their words and demands are very high ; as yet they hurt noe man , but threaten to dis-arme three or foure which is the totall number of us that are well-affected . but that was allwaies the subtletie of our desperate malignants to pretend they would doe no body any hurt ; that they may gaine the more love , but wee have learnt they are egiptians and therefore may and must bee plundered : but good sir how shall wee doe it ? our minister is gone and dares not stand to tell us ; the well-affected are all fled : master dod and penfold are trussing up their packets for arundell again , and those who are accounted the godly ; so that wee feare the wicked will inherit the earth again . to conclude , our feares are great , the county is risen both heere and at pulborough and they pretend the bottome of the businesse to bee , because their petition was not answered : bold varlets ; had they beene answered as their neighbours the surry men were , perhaps they would have beene as quiet as they . but the better wee use them the worse they appeare ; their number is so great and likely to increase so much that unlesse a thousand bee sent downe presently they are like to bee as high heere as in essex . for your comming down i know not what to advise you , if you come your person will bee in danger , if you come not , your armes . farewell . your loving friend , r. t. by the king. a proclamation of his majesties grace, favour, and pardon, to the inhabitants of his county of sussex. 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. [ ]). 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 c thomason .f. [ ] estc r 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) by the king. a proclamation of his majesties grace, favour, and pardon, to the inhabitants of his county of sussex. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles i) charles i, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) by l. lichfield, [oxford : ] "given at our court at reading, this seaventh day of november, in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne." with engraving of royal seal at head of document. place and date of imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng pardons -- great britain -- early works to . sussex (england) -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no by the king. a proclamation of his majesties grace, favour, and pardon, to the inhabitants of his county of sussex. england and wales. sovereign a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - 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 honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king . ¶ a proclamation of his majesties grace , favour , and pardon , to the inhabitants of his county of sussex . whereas we have taken notice that by the malice , industry and importunity of severall ill affected and seditious persons in our county of sussex , very many of our weake and seduced subjects of that our county have not only been drawne to exercise the militia , under colour of a pretended ordinance , without and against our consent ( a crime of a very high nature , if we would strictly enquire thereinto ) but have made contributions of plate , money and horses , towards the maintenance of the army now in rebellion against vs ; we doe hereby publish and declare , that we are graciously pleased to attribute the crimes and offences of our said subjects of that country to the power and faction of their seducers , who , we beleeve by threates , menaces , and false informations compelled and led them into these actions of undutifullnesse and disloyalty towards vs ; and we doe therefore hereby offer our free and gracious pardon to all the inhabitants of our said county of sussex , for all offences concerning the premises committed against vs before the publishing of this our proclamation ( except herbert morley esquire , and henry chisttey cittizen of chichester , ) against whom wee shall proceed according to the rules of the law , as against traitours and stirrers of sedition against vs , and whom wee doe hereby require all our officers and ministers of iustice , and all our loving subjects whatsoever , to apprehend and cause to be kept in safe custody till our pleasure be further knowne . provided that this our grace shall not extend to any person , who after the publishing this our proclamation shall presume by loane or contribution to assist the said army of rebells , to assemble and muster themselves in armes without authority derived from vs under our hand , to enter into any oath of association for opposing vs and our army , or to succour or entertaine any of the persons excepted in this our proclamation , or in our declaration of the of august . but we must and doe declare , that whosoever shall hence forward be guilty of the premises , or of either of them , shall be esteemed by us as an enemy to the publick peace , a person disaffected to vs , and to the religion and law of the kingdome , and shall accordingly receive condigne punishment , of which we give them timely notice , that they may proceed accordingly at their perills . and we doe hereby will and require our high sheriffe , commissioners of array , iustices of the peace , and all other our officers , and loving subjects to resist , oppose and apprehend all such persons as shall presume to make any leavies in that our county under what pretence soever without authority derived from vs under our hand ; and we likewise will and require them and every of them to be assistant to all such as shall either command the traine bands of that our county , or make any leavies in the same by virtue of commission under our great seale or signe manuall . ¶ given at our court at reading , this seaventh day of november , in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne . god save the king .