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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  BY THE KING. 
¶ A Proclamation to Declare, that the Procez of Green wax may be sealed at Oxford as well as at London, for the Courts of Kings-Bench, Common-Pleas and Exchequer, during these times of this unhappy distraction.  
HIs MAjESTY having received information from several persons, and from several parts of this His kingdom, that the legal proceedings in the great Courts of Justice at Westminster, the Court of Kings-Bench, the Court of Common-Pleas, and Exchequer, are much hindered because the seals for those Courts commonly called the Green wax Seales, are kept and continued in London only, whether many of His majesty's Subjects dwelling in the Western and Northern parts, and other parts of this kingdom, dare not resort for their Procez to be sealed in these times of general distraction; But if His Majesty should ordain that seals should be kept at the City of Oxford, as well as at London, for the sealing of the Procez, of those Courts whether all Suitors, and their attorneys, Clerks, and solicitors, might have a free and safe access for the suing out and sealing of their necessary Procez returnable in those Courts, and those be made returnable at, and in, the said Courts respectively at Westminster, where it is determined that a part of the next 〈…〉  
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 God save the King.   

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