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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  BY THE KING. 
¶ A Proclamation prohibiting the assessing collecting or paying any Weekly Taxes▪ and Seizing or sequestering the Rents or Estates of Our good subjects, by colour of any Orders or pretended Ordinances of one or both Houses of Parliament.  
WHEREAS divers Orders or pretended Ordinances have been contrived in the name of one or both Houses of Parliament for taxing Our Subjects and levying moneys to support the Rebellion; All which and all other ways of imposing upon Our People to whatsoever intent or purpose, without Our royal assent are clearly unlawful, and unwarrantable, and so by several Proclamations and otherwise have been declared by us, And We do hereby declare the same unto all Our good subjects; and in particular by Our Proclamation of the eight of March last, We did forbid (amongst other things) the Assessing. Collecting, and paying the weekly tax imposed upon Our good subjects, and their Estates by one of the said pretended Orders or Ordinances (which in three Months exceedeth the sum of the great subsidy of 400000 l.) And nevertheless We are given to understand the same is forceably levied, and by Colour thereof diverse of Our good subjects imprisoned, and destrained, and great Violence, spoil, Rapine And Plundering committed upon them, and their Estates in diverse Counties and places of this Our kingdom; And that by another pretended Ordinance, the whole Estates real & personal of diverse of Our subjects most of them not named, but described, and distinguished by marks of Loyalty, are ordained to be Seized & sequestered for maintaining a war against us, and their Tenants discharged of their Rents, and protected against forfeitures penalties, and damage with other clauses importing power to dissolve Contracts, and make and mar laws at Pleasure, which We are informed is also endeavoured to be executed; And all which (whatsoever is pretended) do tend apparently to the Destruction of us and Our Posterity, (whose lives have been attempted to be taken away) the subversion of the Established Protestant Religion the laws of the Land and the Liberties and Propertyes of Our Subjects, and the utter ruin of Our whole Kingdoms. We do therefore strictly charge and Command all Our loving subjects whatsoever not to submit to the said pretended Orders & Ordinances, or any of them, or to the weekly Taxes imposed as aforesaid, or to any such seizures or Sequestratious as aforesaid nor to presume to be assistant thereunto, by Assessing, Taxing, Levying by distress, or otherwise or Collecting any such weekly Taxes or making any such seizures or Sequestrations, or by information or procureing books of account, or rentals or by any other ways or means giving any intelligence of any such Estates real or personal, or values thereof, But to their utmost power to resist all such Acts of injustice & Violence. And We do hereby command the Tenants & Debtors of all Our Subjects, whose Estates are intended to be seized & sequestered to pay their Rents and Debts to their Landlords & Creditors, notwithstanding such seizure or sequestration. And We do farther prohibit all person, as well Aliens as Denizens that they presume not to intermeddle in the buying, receiving disposing the Goods or cattle of any of Our Subjects, that shall be seized, sequestered, distrained, or taken from them by pretence of the said Orders, or Ordinances for such weekly Taxes, or such seizures or sequestrations as aforesaid, or otherwise plundered. All which doth tend to the aid, and assistance of a war against us, which by the known laws of the Land are Acts of high Treason; And We do declare, and publish▪ That to adhere to Our enemies giving them aid and Comfort, is high Treason nominally declared by the Statute of the 25. of Edward the 3d● and that We intend to give Order for seizing the Estates of such as shall Rebelliously disobey us herein, to the intent they may remain in safe Custody, until the Offenders can be brought to legal trial, which shall speedily proceed as they shall be apprehended, and delivered into the hands of Justice; And We do hereby will and Command, the Tenants and Debtors of those, who shall execute, or be a assisting unto, or shall voluntarily submit unto the said Orders or Ordinances for the said weekly Taxes, or such seizures, or sequestrations as aforesaid, that they not only forbear to pay their Rents, or Debts, but detain the same towards the maintenance of the Peace of the Counties, and Reparation of such as have suffered by the violence of the Army in Rebellion against us: Such course being already taken against such as have according to their Allegiance assisted us; and as We have declared, That whosoever should lose his life in this Our defence, the Wardship of his heir should be granted by us, without Rent or Fine so on the other side, we do publish and declare, That whosoever shall excecute or be assisting to, or voluntarily shall submit unto the said orders, or Ordinances shall receive no benefit by Our Instructions of Grace, But We will be fully answered to the utmost which shall be due to us by Law, and dispose of such Wardships as shall seem best to us, Willing and commanding all sheriffs, Majors, bailiffs, justices of Peace Constables, and other Our Officers, and loving Subjects whatsoever, upon their Allegiance, and the severest pa●nes that by the Law may be inflicted upon them, not only to obey and observe carefully these Our Commands, but to be aiding and assisting to the utmost of their power, to all such persons as shall require their Assistance or protection in this behalf and to resist and repel by force of A●mes, all such as shall oppose this Our legal Command. And Our Will and Command is, That this Our Proclamation be read in all Church●● and chapels in this Our Kingdom.  
Given at Our Court at OXFORD, the seventh day of April, in the nineteenth year of Our reign. 
 God Save the KING.   

Printed at O●ford by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University. 1643.