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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE  BY THE KING.  
¶ His majesty's Proclamation concerning the bringing in of arms to His Magazine in the City of Worcester.  
WHEREAS We are informed, that several Persons in Our County of Worcester, who by Law ought not to have arms, have underhand provided themselves of great Quantities, and that both they, and other Persons have in their hands great store of arms sold, lost and left in that County, by Our Army, and by the Army of the rebels, under the Command of the Earl of Essex, which arms it highly concerns Our Safety and the Peace of that County, in a time of so great Danger and Distractions, that especial Care be taken, lest they remain in unknown hands, and so be in danger to be employed against Us, and Our good Subjects; Therefore Our Will and Pleasure is, and We do hereby charge and Command all such of Our Subjects in Our County of Worcester, who by Law ought not to have arms, and all such who have in their Custody any arms either for Horse or Foot belonging to any of the soldiers of Our Army, or to the Army under the Command of the Earl of Essex, or were sold or lost by them, That they fail not to bring them in, within four days after this Publication of Our Pleasure, to Our to colonel Sandys; or to such Magazine at Worcester, and deliver them to colonel Sandys; or to such Persons as he shall appoint And hereof We require them not to fail, as they desire not to give Us any Testimony of their ill Affection to Us, and as they will answer the contrary at their uttermost perils. And this Our Proclamation We require the high sheriff of that Our County to cause to be read in all Churches and chapels within the same; That notice of this Our Pleasure may be taken by Our Subjects, and speedy Obedience given thereunto. And We require that Our high sheriff to search the Houses of all such of Our Subjects, as he shall have cause to suspect to conceal such arms as aforesaid, and to seize the arms and Persons of all such, who upon search and examination, shall appear to have been disobedient to this Our Command.  
¶ Given at Our Court at Oxford, this fourteenth day of December, in the Eighteenth year of Our reign.  
God save the King.