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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE  BY THE KING.  
¶ A Proclamation concerning the due and orderly proceedings in the Court of Wards and Liveries.  
HIS Majesty having by His royal Proclamation, settled the Court of Wards and Liveries to be ke●● and held in His City of Oxford, until He shall otherwise ordain the same; to which place and 〈◊〉 the Master and council of that Court, there all His Subjects who have affairs in that Court m●●● and aught during that time make their resort. But His Majesty finding a great neglect in those w●● should find and return offices after the death of the King's Tenants, and thereupon make their co●●positions for Wardships, and pay their moneys compounded for, pay the Rents reserved and in 〈◊〉 time prosecute their Liveries in that Court, whereon a great part of His majesty's just Revenue ●●●pends; And His Majesty being very willing and resolved to hold himself to such regular cou●●● as for many years past he hath prescribed to himself, for the good and safety of His good Subjects, and of their estate● 〈◊〉 the case of granting of Wardships; Yet lest any of them should be misled and apply themselves to any other place o●●●ny other persons, and so by their negligence or error should incur that danger or prejudice which they would o●●●●●wise willingly have avoided, or else His majesty to suffer in His just Revenue through their default; His majesty h●● therefore thought fit to give notice, & doth by this His Proclamation give notice to all those whom it may any ways c●●●cerne, That as He on His part is, and will be constant to His rules of grace in the granting of Wardships and preserving 〈◊〉 protecting their estates, if those to whom the same is so graciously offered do not wilfully neglect it; So His Majesty d●●● hereby declare, that if those who do pretend, or might regularly pretend to become suitors for any Wardship, or to h●●●● compounded for the same, or to sue out Liverye of any Lands, shall neglect within convenient time after the death of 〈◊〉 ancestor to find an office and to return the same into the Petty bag in chancery, and to transcript the same into 〈◊〉 said Court of Wards and Liveries at Oxford, according as shall be ordered by that Court, or shall neglect within conve●●●ent time to make their composition with His Majesty, or with the council of the said Court now residing at Oxf●●● on His majesty's behalf, or shall neglect to pay the moneys compounded and agreed for to His majessties' Recei●●● there, or shall neglect to pay the Rents due and payable for the Wards Lands, or the mean Rates paya●●● where mean rates shall be due, or shall neglect to sue out their Liveries, when and where by law and by the cou●● of that Court they ought, that in all those cases upon such neglect His Majesty must be, and will be at His own Liberty 〈◊〉 make His best advantage by granting such Wardships to such others who will compound-for the same and pay the ●●●neys compounded for and not paid, and shall and will take His best remedy and advantage which by the s; trictness● 〈◊〉 Law in Justice He can for the recovery of the Rents and other duties due and payable to His Majesty in those cases. 〈◊〉 that he will severely punish all those Escheators, Feodaries and other Ministers of the said Court, who shall in their ●●●spective place neglect their duties, to His majesty's disservice.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, the Eleventh day of ●●●vember, in the Nineteenth year of Our reign. 1643.  
GOD SAVE THE KING.   

Printed at Oxford, by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University.