C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown  
BY THE KING.  
¶ A Proclamation for the Free and safe Passage of all Persons, who shall desire to repair to His majesty, and of all Packets, and Letters sent by His Majesties Ministers.  
WHEREAS several Persons in several parts of Our kingdom have presumed by virtue and under Colour of an Order of One or both Our Houses of Parliament, to intercept and imprison such Persons who were repairing to Us, or going from Us in Our service, And to seize and by violence to take Letters and Packets sent by Our Secretaries concerning Our important affairs, and have carried the same to some Persons who have opened and red the same, to the unspeakable prejudice of Our service, and unheard of scorn of Our Authority. We do hereby publish and declare, That whosoever shall henceforward presume to stop or hinder any Person coming to Us, or going in Our service, or shall seize or take any Packet or Letters sent by either of Our Secretaries into any part of Our Dominions, whereby the Commerce and Correspondence of the kingdom may be disturbed, and Our own immediate service suffer, every such person and persons so offending shall be taken as an Enemy to Our Person and the public Peace, and We shall with all speed and severity proceed against him and them for his malice and disaffection. And hereof We require all Majors, Sheriffes, Justices of the Peace, bailiffs, Constables, Postmasters, and all other whom it may concern to take notice at their uttermost perils.  
¶ Given at Our Court at Oxford, this first day of November, in the eighteen year of Our reign. 
 God save the King.