royal blazon or coat of arms C R HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE BY THE KING. ΒΆ A Proclamation commanding all His majesty's Subjects and Servants that have any Office, Place, or Fee, of His gift or Grant, forthwith to give their attendance upon His Person. WHEREAS by a Statute made in the eleventh year of Our royal Progenitor King Henry the seventh, all Our Subjects (other than those that are excepted in that Act) having any Offices, Fees, or Annuities of Our gift or grant (besides their common bond of Allegiance) are bound under the penalty of losing and forfeiting their Offices, Fees and Annuities, to give their Attendance upon Us, when We shall fortune to go in the wars in Our own Person, for the defence of the realm, or against rebels for the subduing and suppressing of them: And whereas diverse of Our Subjects that have Offices, Fees or annuities of Our gift or grant, and diverse of Our menial Servants, who by their Places and Offices ought at all times to give their attendance upon Our Person, have neglected their attendance in the time of this Rebellion, when We have been engaged in the war in Our own Person; some upon pretence of leave, or dispensation from Us, and some upon other pretences, which We shall no longer permit, as well in regard of Our Honour, as Our safety, being resolved to go in Person, for the subduing and repressing of the rebels in arms against Us: We have therefore thought fit to publish this Our Proclamation, and do hereby Command and Require, all Our Subjects and Servants whatsoever, that have any Offices, places, Fees, or Annuities from Us or of Our gift or Grant (other than such as are in present Service or employment in Our Armies, or are otherwise employed in Our special service by our immediate Command) forthwith to repair to Our Court at, Oxford, and give their Attendance upon Our Person there with all convenient speed, and at the farthest, before the twentieth day of April next coming, any leave or dispensation, or pretence of Licence from Us, of any other pretence or excuse whatssoever notwithstanding letting them hereby know, that in case they shall fail in their attendance at the day before prefixed, contrary to Our Cormmand published in this Our Proclamation, or shall notafterwards continue their Service and Attendance upon Us according to their duties, they shall incur Our just displeasure, and We shall hold their Fees and Annuities as void and determined, and dispose of their Places and Offices to others, as lost and forfeited by their absence. And We do hereby revoke and recall all licences, leave or dispensations for absence formerly granted or obtained. Given at Our Court at Oxford, the twenty second day of March, in the Nineteenth year of Our reign. 1643 GOD SAVE THE KING. Printed at Oxford, by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University. 1643.