C. R.  
BY THE KING.  
His majesty's Proclamation forbidding all His loving Subjects of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, to raise any Forces without His majesty's Consent, or to enter into any Association or Protestation for the assistance of the Rebellion against His Majesty.  
WHEREAS We have been informed of certain Propositions agreed upon by some seditious Persons of Our several Counties of Kent, Surry, Sussex and Hampshire, for an Association betwixt the said Counties, to raise an Army of 3000 Foot, and 300 Horse, and great sums of Money for the maintenance thereof, and an Invitation to Our good Subjects of that County, to enter into a Protestation to assist them in this odious and unnatural Rebellion; We do hereby Declare for the satisfaction of all our loving Subjects of those Counties, and that they may not be seduced from their Obedience by the cunning and subtlety of those men, That the entering into such an Association and Protestation, and raising of men or contributing Money upon the same, is an Act of high Treason, and an endeavour to take away Our Life from us: And We do therefore straightly Charge and Command all Our loving Subjects whatsoever upon their Allegiance not to enter into any such Association or Protestation, and such, as by colour of such Authority have assembled together, that they immediately di●band and repair to their Houses. And We do once more renew Our offer of a free and gracious Pardon to all Our Subjects of Our said four several Counties, excepting those whom We before excepted in Our several Proclamations concerning those Our Counties, against all which We shall proceed according to the Rules of the Law, as against Persons guilty of high Treason; And whom We do hereby require all Our Officers and Ministers of Justice, and all Our loving Subjects whatsoever, to apprehend and cause to be kept in safe custody. And Our express Pleasure is, and We do hereby Will and Command all the several Tenants of the Persons excepted in Our Proclamation for those four Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, and all other Persons who are any way indebted unto them, and all the Tenants to any other Person of any of the said Counties, who is now in actual and open Rebellion against Us, or who after the publishing of this Our Proclamation shall contribute to the maintenance of the Armies now in Rebellion against Us, under the conduct of Robert Earl of Essex, or of any other Person or Persons, or that shall join in any such traitorous Association or Protestation, That they forbear to pay any Rents or Debts due to the said several Persons, but detain the same in their hands towards the maintenance of the Peace of the Counties, and the reparation of such Men who have suffered by the violence of the others. And if any soldier or soldiers now under Command against Us in either of Our said four Counties, shall within six days after the publishing of this Our Proclamation, apprehend and bring before Us, or any Officers of Our Army, or any other Our Minister of Justice, so that the Person apprehended be kept in safe Custody, the bodies of any of the Persons so excepted by Us, or of any of the Commanders or Officers now in Rebellion against Us in any of the said four Counties, such soldier or soldiers, besides their Pardons, shall receive such liberal Rewards by Pensions, or otherwise, as their several services in respect of the qualities of the Persons so apprehended shall deserve. And if any Commander or Officer (except the Persons before excepted) now in Rebellion against Us, in any of the said four Counties, shall within five days after this Our Proclamation published, being convinced in his Conscience of his damnable Offence against God and Us, in assisting this odious Rebellion, return to his allegiance and repair to Our Army, and commit no hostile Act in the mean while against Us, We shall not only Pardon him, but so far employ him as his quality and deme●nour shall deserve. And We do hereby require all Our loving Subjects of what degree or quality soever, within Our said four several Counties, upon their Allegiance, and as they tender the cause of God, the Protestant Religion, being invaded and threatened to be rooted up by Anabaptists, Brownists, and Atheists, of Us, and Our Posterity (Our Life being sought after by this Rebellion, and of themselves, the Law and Liberty of the Subject being in apparent hazard to be subjected to an Arbitrary lawless power, of a few schismatical, factious, and ambitious Persons) to assist Us in Person, or with the Loane of Money, Plate, and Horses, in this Our great necessity. And having said thus much out of Our tender Regard of Our Subjects of those our Counties; If they shall henceforward be guilty of the premises: And shall either by Loane or contribution assist the said Army of Rebels, assemble and muster themselves in arms without Authority derived from Us under Our Hand, or shall enter into any Oath of Association for opposing Us and Our Army, and so compel Us to send part of Our Forces thither to reduce them to their Obedience; they must Answer the miseries that must follow, to God, and their Country. And Our Pleasure is, That this Our Proclamation be Read in all the Parish Churches and chapels in the said four several Counties.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, this sixteenth day of February, in the Eighteenth year of Our reign. 
 God save the KING.