royal blazon or coat of arms HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation declaring His Majesties gracious Pardon to such of the late mutineers at Farringdon, as shall render themselves by the dayes herein limited: And for the apprehension, and due punishment of the principal Actors therein.  
WHereas the Souldiers lately Presled in the County of Dorset, for His Majesties Service, in this Expedition into the Northern parts, Did in their passage thorough the county of Berks, and in or near the Town of Farringdon,( being in number six hundred men, or thereabouts) fall into an insolent and desperate Mutiny; I● which( amongst other outrages by them committed) they d●… most cruelly murder Lieutenant Mohun, one of their Officers, and in a most barbarous and inhuman manner dragged him thorough the Streets, and after hanged up his dead body: His majesty out of His Princely care that an offence of this nature, and of such evil consequence, should not escape unpunished, hath caused John Ludlow, Humphrey Edwards, and Robert Thrillcott, three of the principal Actors, to be apprehended and committed to prison; And His majesty doth hereby straitly charge and command all His loyal and loving Subjects to use their utmost diligence and endeavour, for the discovery and apprehension of John Lock, John Gates, Jeffery Stacy, William Garlant, Richard Tyce, Christopher Frampton, John Parsons, Robert Dibbin, William Bunn, and Christopher Drodge, wh●… were likewise principal Moovers and Actors in the same Mutiny and Murder, and to br●… them before His Majesties Iustices of Peace, or other Magistrates, whereby they may 〈◇〉 delivered into the hands of Iustice, and receive due punishment according to the merit● 〈◇〉 their offences so barbarous and bloody.  
And howsoever all the rest or those persons that were present at the murder of the said Lieutenant Mohun, and assented thereunto, by the laws of this Realm are adjudged Principals, and have thereby incurred the same penalty of the Law; Yet His majesty, out of His abundant clementie, being rather inclined to a course of mercy towards them( as most agreeable to His Princely nature) then the taking of so much blood as would be  shed if he should leave them all to the just Censure of the Law; Is pleased hereby to declare and publish His royal tender of Grace and Pardon to all such of those six hundred Souldier●( other then the persons before name) who were guilty of the said late mutiny and Mu●der committed at Farringdon in the said county of Berks, as either before the thirteenth day 〈◇〉 july now next coming, shall repair to Blandford in the said county of Dorset, and th●… tender themselves to His Majesties deputy Lieutenants of the said county, or before th●… five and twentieth day of july next shall render themselves to Sir Jacob Ashley, sergeant mayor general of His Majesties army, at the Quarters at or near Selby in Yorkshire, to be again received and employed for His Majesties Service.  
And His majesty doth hereby further will and require all Iustices of Peace, Majors, Sheriffs, bailiffs, Constables, Headboroughs, and other His Officers and Ministers, to apprehended and commit to prison all such of the said persons as shall not by the several dayes before limited render themselves, and lay hold of this His Majesties gracious Pardon.  
nevertheless His Majesties pleasure is, that the said John Ludlow, Robert Thrillcott, John Lock, John Gates, Jeffery Stacy, William Garlant, Richard Tyce, Humphrey Edwards, Christoph●● Frampton, John Parsons, Robert Dibbin, William Bunn, and Christopher Drodge,( the said prin●… pall Moovers and Actors in that foul Mutiny and murder) shall have no part in th●… His Majesties royal tender of mercy and Pardon.  
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.