DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  BY THE Lord Deputy General OF IRELAND. 
OSSORY,  
WHEREAS we are informed that to the disadvantage of His Majesty's Service, divers Officers of His Majesty's Army in this Kingdom do absent themselves from their several Quarters without our Licence, and whereas upon the account of the last Harvest, which did require the personal oversight of several of the said Officers having Estates and Tillage remote from their Quarters, as also considering that divers of them may have necessary occasions to attend in Dublin this Term, we have been pleased to dispense with their attendance upon their duty in those times, whilst other competent Officers were with their Troops and Companies; Now we think fit and do hereby require and command, that all and every the said Officers which at the present are absent from their Quarters shall return thereunto respectively, before the Four and Twentieth day of February next, notwithstanding any Licences of absence formerly granted, and not depart from their several Quarters without Licence to be obtained from us, to such purpose; And we do declare that if any of the said Officers shall in any sort contemn or transgress what we have hereby commanded, such Officer or Officers shall be dismissed from Employments in His Majesty's Army, whereof we require all persons whom it may any way concern to take due notice.  
Given at His Majesty's Castle of Dublin the 29th day of January, 1668.