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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  By the Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL. 
OR MONDE, WHEREAS upon the French Kings Declaring War against His Majesty and his Subjects, His Majesty hath issued His Declaration against the French, which followeth in these words:  

CHARLES R.  
WHEREAS the French King pretending the Execution of a Defensive Treaty with the State's General of the United Provinces, And thereby determining us to be the Aggressors and Invadors of them, (the contrary of which is most notoriously known to all the world) did on the 16th or 26th of January last declare Warr against our Subjects, making himself thus the Aggressor, and rendering the Peace, We have always desired with the said States, more difficult, towards which the French Kings Ambassadors never Offered either satisfaction for past injuries done to our Subjects, or a fair Regulation of the commerce for the future; We relying upon the help of God Almighty in the justice of our cause, and being assured of the valour and affections of our Subjects in the defence thereof have thought fit to declare, and by these presents do declare, That we will oppose the French King, and vigorously prosecute this War, which he hath so unjustly begun, with the utmost of our Force by Sea and Land, in the maintenance and defence of our Subjects, Enjoining hereby our most Dear and entirely beloved Brother our High Admiral, and our Right Trusty Right entirely beloved Cousin and Councillor George Duke of Albemarle General of our Forces by land, our Lieutenants of the several counties, and all other Officers and Soldiers under them both by Sea and land to oppose all attempts of the French King or his subjects, and to do and execute all Acts of Hostility in the prosecution of this War against the