DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
BY THE Lord Lieutenant General AND General Governor of Ireland.  
ORMONDE:  
WE judging it requisite for the better government of His Majesty's Army, and the preservation of the peace of this Kingdom, That all Officers and Soldiers under their Command, should be, and Continue in their respective Garrisons, that they may be in readiness on all occasions to execute such directions as We shall from time to time think fit to give, for the carrying on of His Majesty's Service; do hereby will and require all and singular the Officers of His Majesty's Army, (Excepting such of them as are of His Majesty's Privy Council) and Soldiers under their Commands as are now absent from their Quarters. whether it be by Licence from Us or otherwise, not being out of this His Majesty's Kingdom, to repair within fourteen days after Publication hereof, to their said Respective Garrisons; and all Officers and private Soldiers now in their Quarters, are to remain there in like manner, and not to absent themselves on any pretence whatever, without particular and express Licence from Us to be obtained after the date hereof; and the said Officers are to keep their respective Troops and Companies under their command entirely together, and to take care that good Guards be constantly kept, as they will answer the contrary at their Peril.  
Given at his Majesty's Castle of Dublin the 14th. day of October, 1678. W: ELLIS.   

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