C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
¶ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation for the repressing of disorders of Mariners.  
WHereas the Mariners lately employed in our service, might not be dismissed, until due satisfaction made of their wages, and We have, and still do take care with all the speed We may, to discharge, and make payment of their entertainments, and in the mean time see to provide for them, that they may not want that which is necessary for their lodging and diet, fitting for their quality: And as it is fit, that whilst they remain in Our pay, they should be restrained from those outrages, and tumultuous assemblies, which they daily run into, under pretence of their wants. And whereas, by the advice of Our Privy Counsel, We have already given order to the deputy Lieutenants, and justices of Peace of Our County of Middlesex, for the billetring of the said Mariners, in, and about the Towns, of Wapping, Ratcliff, Limehouse, Blackwall, and Stepney, in Our said County, to the end the same may be orderly performed: These are to will and command, that the Purser of every Ship, with two, or three only of the Officers of the Ship, bringing with them a true list of the number, & names of the Mariners of the several Ships respectively, shall repair to the Commissioners of Our Navy, and shall from them receive Tickets, directing each Mariner contained in the said List, to the place & house where he is to be Billeted; upon receipt of which Ticket, by each Mariner from the Purser, he is to repair to the place directed by such Ticket, where he shall be provided of meat, drink, and lodging, according to the rate of three shillings and six pence the week, which we will justly and duly satisfy.  
And We do further will and command, that no Mariner do presume to make their address to Our said Commissioners, or any others, under pretence of want of their wages, or provision for them, in greater numbers, or otherwise, then as aforesaid; And if they, or any of them or any others under that pretext, shall from henceforth presume to assemble together in multitudes, or commit any outrages, or disorders, as formerly they have done, We do further will and command, That the Lord Maior, and Aldermen of Our City of London, within the said City and Liberties thereof, and the Lords Lieutenants, and Deputy Lieutenants of Our said County of Middlesex, and Counties adjacent, do raise and arm their Trained Bands respectively, and do therewith repel their insolences, and assail them in hostile manner, as rebels to the State, and enemies to the common Peace, and Government of the same, Of which Our Royal command, in, and concerning the premises, We do hereby will and require all and every person and persons, to take knowledge, and thereunto to yield due obedience, at their uttermost perils.  
Given at Our Court at White-Hall, the seventeenth day of February in the third year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON, and JOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY. M.DC.XXVII.