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CHARLES R.  
We are so highly sensible of the extraordinary merit of Our County of Cornwall, of their zeal for the Defence of Our Person, and the just Rights of Our crown, (in a time when We could contribute so little to Our own defence or to their Assistance; in a time when not only no Reward appeared, but great and probable dangers were threatened to obedience and Loyalty;) of their great and eminent Courage and Patience in their indefatigable Prosecution of their great Work against so potent an enemy, backed with so strong, Rich, and Populous cities, and so plentifully furnished and supplied with Men, arms, money, Ammunition and Provision of all kinds; And of the wonderful success with which it hath pleased Almighty God (though with the loss of some most eminent Persons, who shall never be forgotten by us) to reward their Loyalty and Patience by many strange Victories over their and Our enemies, in despite of all human Probability, and all imaginable disadvantages; That as We cannot be forgetful of so great deserts, so We cannot but desire to publish to all the World, and perpetuate to all Time the Memory of these their merits, and of Our acceptance of the same. And to that end, We do hereby render Our royal thanks to that Our County, in the most public and most Lasting manner We can devise, commanding Copies hereof to be Printed and published, and one of them to be read in every Church and chapel therein, and to be kept for ever as a Record in the same, That as long as the History of these Times, and of this Nation shall continue, the memory of how much that County hath merited from us and our crown, may be derived with it to Posterity.  
Given at Our camp at SUDELEY Castle the Tenth of September. 1643.   

Printed at Oxford, by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the university. 1643.