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❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation forbidding all His majesty's Subjects belonging to the Trained Bands or Militia of this Kingdom, to Rise, March, Muster, or Eye cise by virtue of any Order or Ordinance of one, or both Houses of Parliament, without Consent or Warrant from His Majesty, upon pain of punishment according to the Laws.  
WHereas by the Statute made in the seventh Year of King Edward the first, the Prelates. Earls, Barons, and Commonalty of the Realm affirmed in Parliament, That to the King it belongeth, and His part it is by his royal Séigniority, straightly to defend wearing of Armour, and all other Force against the Peace, at all times when it shall please Him, and to punish them which shall do contrary, according to the Laws and usages of the Realm; and hereunto all subjects are bound to aid the King, as their sovereign Lord, at all seasons, when need shall be. And whereas we understand, That expressly contrary to the said Statute, and other good Laws of this Our Kingdom, under colour and pretence of an Ordinance of Parliament, without Our Consent, or any Commission or Warrant from Us, The Trained Bands, and Militia of this Kingdom have been lately, and are intended to be put in Arms, and drawn into Companies in a warlike manner, whereby the Peace and Quiet of Our Subjects is, or may be disturbed: We being desirous by all gracious and fair Admonitions to prevent, That some malignant Persons in this Our Kingdom, do not by degrees seduce Our good Subjects from their due Obedience to Us, and the Laws of this Our Kingdom, subtly endeavouring, by a general Combustion or Confusion, to hide their mischievous designs and Intentions against the Peace of this Our Kingdom, and under a specious pretence of putting Our Trained Bands into a Posture, draw and engage Our good Subjects in a warlike Opposition against Us, as Our Town of Hull is already, by the Treason of Sir John Hotham, who at first pretended to put a Garrison into the same, only for Our Security and Service.  
We do therefore by this Our Proclamation expressly Charge and Command all Our Sheriffs, and all colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, sergeant Majors, Captains, Officers, and soldiers belonging to the Trained Bands of this Our Kingdom, and likewise all High and Petty-Constables, and other Our Officers and Subjects what soever, upon their Allegiance, and as they tender the Peace of this Our Kingdom, Not to Muster, levy, Raise, or March, or to Summon, or Warn upon any Warrant, Order, or Ordinance from one, or both Our Houses of Parliament (whereto We have not, or shall not give Our express Consent) any of Our Trained Bands, or other Forces, to Rise, Muster, March, or Exercise, without express Warrant under our Hand, or Warrant from Our Sheriff of the County, grounded upon a particular Writ to that purpose under Our great Seal. And in case any of our Trained Bands shall Rise, or gather together, contrary to this Our Command, We shall then call them in due time to a strict Account, and proceed Legally against them as violators of the Laws, and Disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdom.  
Given at Our Court at York the seven and twentieth day of May, 1642.   

❧ By the King.  
OUr Will and Pleasure is, That the Ministers, freeholders, Farmers, and substantial Copy-holders of this Our County of York, do assemble and meet together at Heworth Moor, near Our City of York, upon Friday in Whitsun week (according to former Summons) by nine of the Clock in the Morning. For that we are informed there are divers fairs to be kept in this Our County the day following, at which time many of them may have necessary occasion to be absent: And therefore, out of Our tenderness and care of Our good Subjects, we have thought fit to give this early Notice, to the end the said Inhabitants may be put to as little Prejudice as may be. And this Our Pleasure we require to be forthwith Printed, and Copies thereof to be speedily published and dispersed by the Sheriff of this County: For which this shall be sufficient warrant.  
Given at Our Court at York, the seven and twentieth day of May, 1642.   

Imprinted first at York, and now reprinted at London for Edward Husbands, May 31. 1642.