C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the King.  
A PROCLAMATION Requiring the immediate Tenants of His Majesty's Fee-farm Rents, to take care to proceed in their Purchases, and to perfect their Contracts within the time limited by the late Act, for Sale of the Fee-farm Rents, or otherwise the same to be sold to such as will Contract for the same.  
CHARLES R.  
WHereas in and by a late Act of Parliament, Entitled, An Act for Advancing the Sale of Fee-farm Rents, and the Instructions therein mentioned, It is amongst other things Enacted, That the immediate Tenant liable to the payment of any Rent, shall be preferred in the Purchase of it before any other; So as such immediate Tenant tender himself to the Lord Treasurer, or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, to Contract within Six months after the passing of any Patent to trusties for Sale thereof, and Notice thereof published by His Majesty's Proclamation, and perfect his Contract, and Pay or Secure his Money within Six months after, at such rate as shall be agreed, not exceeding Twenty years Purchase: His Majesty therefore having by His Letters Patents under His Great Seal of England, bearing date the Thirteenth day of this instant June, granted unto Francis Lord Hawley, Sir Charles Harboured Knight, Sir William Haward Knight, Sir John Talbot Knight, Robert Stewart Esquire, and William Harboured Esquire, their Heirs and Assigns, divers Fee-farm Rents, and other Rents and Annual Payments therein mentioned, as trusties for the Sale thereof, according to the said Act (A particular whereof is also by His Majesties Command Printed and several Copies thereof will be sent to the Sheriff of each County to be published) Doth by this His Royal Proclamation give notice to all His loving Subjects whom it doth or may concern, That the Rents in the said Patent mentioned, shall forthwith be sold: And doth hereby Require all and every person and persons, Bodies-politic and corporate, who by the said Act are Entitled as immediate Tenants to any preference in the Purchase of any such Rents, That they take care to proceed in their Purchases, and perfect their Contracts within the time limited by the said Act: Or in default thereof, the same shall be sold to such others as shall desire to Deal and Contract for them.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall this Fourteenth of June, in the Two and twentieth year of Our Reign. 1670. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

In the SAVOY, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1670.