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❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the speedy payment of the moneys assessed by Parliament for Disbanding the Armies.  
WHereas for the present raising of great sums of money for the speedy disbanding of both the Armies (a matter of high Concernment in the happy settling of Peace between His majesty's two Kingdoms of England and Scotland) an Act hath been lately made and published by Authority of this present Parliament, entitled, An Act for the speedy provision of moneys for Disbanding the Armies, and settling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland: Whereby it is enacted, That all and every person and persons of the several Ranks and Degrees mentioned in the same Act, shall for the purpose aforesaid, contribute and pay the several sums of Money set down and appointed by the said Act: And howsoever His majesty (out of the experience of the forward Affections of His loving Subjects towards him, and the public good of both Kingdoms) can no way doubt of their alacrity and readiness herein: Yet for a more speedy and general publishing of the said Act to all His people, whereby the said Money may be levied and paid within the respective times limited by the said Act, He hath thought fit (by advice of His Parliament) to make this public Declaration therein, That all manner of persons of what degree, condition, or quality soever, according to the tenor and intent of the said Act, do without delay make payment of the several sums appointed and assessed by the said Act, at such days and times, and to such persons, and at such places as are limited by the said Act, under the pains and penalties therein provided and expressed, and to be further punished according to the Law, and the merit of their offences in a business of such consequence to the public.  
Given at His majesty's Palace at Westminster the sixt day of July, in the seventeenth year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. 
 ❧ God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL 1641.