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By the King, A PROCLAMATION, For quieting the Postmaster General his Deputies and Assigns in the Execution of his Office.  
JAMES R.  
WHereas Our dearly beloved Brother the late King was pleased by His Proclamations to Signify His Pleasure for exempting from bearing Offices and Quartering of Soldiers His Postmaster General and all Inn keepers, Victuallers and other persons, who were actually Post-masters, Masters of the Letter Office or Packet Boats, and employed by the Postmaster General or his Deputy in the Grand Letter Office in London; We purposing to continue the said Privileges and Exemptions, which We conceive to be for Our Service, are graciously pleased, and do accordingly hereby Declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That no Soldier, Horse, Foot, or Dragoons be Quartered in the House of any Inn-keéper, Victualler, or other person, who is or shall be actually a Postmaster, Master of the Letter Office or Packet Boats, and employed by Our Postmaster General for the time being, or his Deputy, or some other Person or Persons Commissionated by Us for the Management of the Office or Place of Postmaster General, by Virtue of some Deputation or Commission from Our Postmaster General or his Deputy, or such other Person, who shall be therein Employed by Us, And that if any such Soldiers be already Quartered upon any such Person as aforesaid, they be forthwith Removed from his House to some other place. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That Our Postmaster General for the time being, his Deputies, Servants, and Assigns shall be from henceforth Freed and Exempted and Discharged off and from Serving upon all juries, Inquests, Musters or any other public Employments or Attendances, that may any way Impede, Retard, or Prejudice the Execution of his or their Duty and Service in the said Office, and from all Pains and Penalties, which he, they, or any of them might or may Incur for or by reason of his or their Omission or Refusal to perform the said Employments or any of them. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That all Our Officers both Civil and Military do take Notice hereof and Conform thereunto accordingly.  
Given at Our Court at Windsor the Seventh day of September, 1685. In the First Year of Our Reign. 
 God Save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Deceased: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1685.