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❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for apprehending and punishing of Souldiers pressed for His Majesties Service, who shall depart from their Commanders, or shall be Mutinous, or otherwise disorderly in their passage to the North.  
THe Kings majesty being informed that the Souldiers under the Regiment of colonel Lunsford, were fallen into such Mutiny against their Officers, and disorder otherways, in the county of Warwick, in their passage thorough that County, as that a great part of them are run away, and the rest persisting in so much disobedience, as that they are ready all to disband; And that there is such a general remissness and backwardness in the Deputy Lieutenants, and others to whom it appertains, to countenance and assist the Commanders and Officers in punishing and reducing them to conformity and obedience,( as they seem rather to animate and encourage them therein, then seriously endeavour their reformation) and especially in the raising and following of Hue and cry, for the apprehending of those that run away; And for that also information hath been given to His Majesties privy counsel from other Counties, of the like Mutinies and disorders, and of the like remissness and backwardness( though not in so high a degree) in those that should assist the Commanders and Officers for punishing and suppressing the same, whereby a great number of the Souldiers are disbanded and run away, to the great disservice of His majesty and the public, and the high contempts& scandal of all Authority and Government: His majesty therefore to prebent and repress all such disorders; Doth( with the ad 'vice of His privy counsel) hereby straitly charge and command, all deputy Lieutenants, Iustices of Peace, Majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, Headboroughs, and other His Officers and Ministers whatsoever, to whom it shall appertain, that from time to time they use all diligence and endeavour, for the apprehending and due punishing, according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm, all those Souldiers pressed for His Majesties service, that in this expedition into the North shall be found to have run away, or departed from their Commanders and Officers; And that they likewise assist and endeavonr all that possibly they may, in punishing and suppressing all Mutinies of the Souldiers against their Officers, or any other insolenties and disorders committed, or to be committed by them. And herein His majesty will require a strict account of all such His deputy Lieutenants, Iustices of Peace, and other His Ministers, as shall be remiss in countenancing and assisting the said Commanders and Officers, and in punishing of Mutinous and disorderly Souldiers, or in raising and following Hue and cry after such as shall run away, or depart from their Captains, o● otherwise shall not take care to prevent or repress all such disorders.  
Given at the Court at Whitehall the first day of July, in the sixteenth year of His Majesties Reign.  
God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1640.