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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE  BY THE KING.  
¶ A Proclamation Commanding the due Execution and Observance of certain Orders lately Published concerning Contributions.  
WHEREAS certain Contributions or Weekly Rates and Payments have been agreed to be answered to Us by the Inhabitants of divers Counties in this Our kingdom of England, for and towards the support of Our Armies, raised for the just and necessary defence of Us and Our good Subjects in the Time of this Rebellion: in the Assessing of which Contributions and payments, as also in the demeanour of Our soldiers towards those who pay the same, divers abuses and injuries have been discovered to the great disheartening of Our good Subjects in their undertakings for Us, and the manifest prejudice of Our affairs. For the removing and remedy whereof, certain ORDERS have been framed and composed by the Advice of the Lords and Commons of Parliament Assembled at Oxford, and presented to Us, which We do well approve, and have caused the said ORDERS to be published in Print, in a Book entitled, ORDERS Presented to His MAJESTY by the Advice of the Lords and Commons Assembled at OXFORD, for the more Indifferent Rating and Levying of Moneys to be raised by way of Contribution, and to prevent the disorders of the soldiers of His majesty's Armies and oppression of other His good Subjects. We do therefore by this Our Proclamation Declare and Publish Our Will and Pleasure to be, That the said ORDERS shall be strictly observed by all Persons whatsoever, and be duly put in execution. And We do hereby Charge and Require all Our Commissioners entrusted or authorized by Us touching the said Contributions and payments within the several and respective limits of their Commissions; And all Majors, sheriffs, bailiffs, Constables, and other Our Officers, and all other Our Subjects whatsoever, whom it may concern, that they conform themselves thereunto. And We do hereby likewise straightly Charge and Command all Officers and soldiers of Our Armies, That they submit and yield obedience to the said ORDERS, and that they presume not in any sort to act or do any thing contrary to the same, as they will answer their contempt therein at their perils.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, the Eight day of May, in the Twentieth years of Our reign. 1644.  
GOD SAVE THE KING.   

¶ Printed at Oxford, by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the university, 1644.