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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation against the Spoiling and losing of Arms by the Soldiers of His MAJESTY'S Army, for the keeping of them fixed, and bringing all Arms hereafter into His MAJESTY'S Magazines.  
WHereas We have not received that satisfaction We expected (notwithstanding Our many Proclamations and Orders made for the Government of Our Army, and particularly against the losing, seiling away, and spoiling of Our Arms by the Common-Souldiers, and for the keeping them fixed) But on the contrary, finding those abuses and neglects still to continued & increase; We are therefore once more enforced, & do hereby straight Require and Command all Colonels, Lieutenant-colonels, Sergeant-majors, Captians, and other Officers of Our Army, whom it may concern, forthwith, or within four days after the publication hereof, to return to Us, Our Council of War, or to the sergeant-major-general of Our Army, a true account of the number and quantity of Arms in each Company and Regiment of Our Army, attested by the Colonel, Lieutenant-colonel, Sergeant-major, or Captain of each Company; and if any Arms shall henceforward be found unfixt by the negligence of the Soldier, the Reparation thereof shall be made good out of his or their Entertainments; and this course We will constantly to be continued and put in practice, the care and oversight whereof to be committed to the respective Quartermaster of each Regiment (or some other fit person appointed by the Colonel) whom We command, once in fourteen days, to take a view of all the Arms of the Regiment, and to see Our Commands therein fully obeyed: And for the more speedy execution thereof, Our will is, That each Colonel make choice of two able Gunsmiths to be employed therein, on whom We intent to settle an Allowance fitting for the same. And to the end the loss of Arms may not be so frequent (to the prejudice of Our Service) as formerly, Our further pleasure is, That each Captain, upon the return of the Certificate of the number and quantity of the Arms of his Company, stand charged to Us by Indenture (in the Office of Our Ordinace) for such numbers certified; which Arms are to be made good out of His Entertainment, if hereafter they shall be wilfully or negligently made away by His Soldiers. Lastly, Our Will and Command is, That all Arms bought, or provided by Us, or by any Person for Our Service, as likewise all Arms borrowed in any Counties hereafter, or taken from the Rebels, or People disaffected to Our Service, be first brought into Our Magazines, and from thence, as we shall direct, be distributed, and given out for Our Service. To Our Pleasure herein declared, We require full and speedy Obedience to be given by all Officers and Soldiers of Our Army: And that it may be the more fully put in execution, Our further Pleasure and Command is, That this be read within four days after the publication, at the head of every Regiment and Company, that so all Our Officers and Soldiers, whom it may concern, may take notice of it, and observe the same, as they and every of them will avoid Our high Displeasure for their neglect of any the lest particular herein mentioned.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, this Tenth day of March, in the Eighteenth year of Our Reign. 1642. 
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