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HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  BY THE KING. 
¶ A Proclamation for the discovery of rebels invading the County of Gloucester, and for the apprehending of Spies and Intelligencers.  
WHEREAS the rebels in Our City of Gloucester, Warwick-Castle, and diverse other places, do frequently make Incursions into our County of Gloucester, (notwithstanding We have sent diverse of Our Forces into that Our County for the security thereof) We do therefore hereby Charge and Command all and every Person inhabiting in any town or Village in that County, as soon as they or any of them shall have notice of the coming in of such rebels, to give notice thereof to one or more of Our Commissioners for that County dwelling nearest the said town or Village, or to the governor or principal Officer of Our next Garrison or Quarter; which if he or they shall neglect or fail to do; We shall esteem him or them Persons ill-affected to Us, and the peace of the Country, and shall cause their Persons, Goods and Estates to be seized for such misdemeanours. And We do farther Charge and Command all and every Person whatsoever, not to converse with receive, entertain, or harbour any of the rebels, Scouts, Spies, or Intelligencers, but to apprehend them, or discover to some one or more of Our Commissioners, or the principal Officer of the next Garrison or Quarter upon the pain aforesaid. And We do straightly Command every Minister, Parson, Incumbent, or Curate of every Parish-Church within Our County of Gloucester to read and publish the same on the next Sunday after the receipt hereof, in the time of Divine Service.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford this fourteenth of January, in the Nineteenth year of Our reign. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

Printed at Oxford, by LEONARD LICHFIELD. Printer to the University, 1643.