crowned blazon or coat of arms of the British royal family HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE C. R. BY THE KING.ΒΆ A Proclamation forbidding any of His Majesties Subjects to assist the Rebells with Men, money, arms, victuals, or Intelligence, to stop any His Majesties Messengers, or packets, or to offer violence to any His Majesties Souldiers. WHEREAS We have by Our frequent and several Declarations and Proclamations, to the end that none of Our good Subjects might be misled from their duty and Allegiance unto Us by any spetious pretences whatsoever, warned and forbid Our good Subjects to assist this odious Rebellion raised against Us, to take our life from Us, to alter the Religion and laws established, and to subvert the whole frame of Government: Notwithstanding all which gracious proceedings of Ours, in which we have so often remembered Our People of their natural duty, and their oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, so evidently violated by all those who take up arms against Us, or Assist those who do; the power and Malice of those in Rebellion against Us( with the assistance of Factious and seditious Preachers, who have been and are principal fomenters of this Rebellion) have so far prevailed upon the hearts of many of Our Subjects that instead of assisting Us with their Persons and Estates( which in this case of extremity and Rebellion by the laws of the Land they ought to do) they join with, and assist the Rebells with their personal services, or by furnishing them with Horses, arms, Plate, money, and intelligence; And divers persons have so far expressed their Malice to Us, and affection to them, that when Our Armies have marched near them, they have used their utmost endeavours to keep any supplies of victual and Provision for Horse, and Man, from Our said Armies, and have murdered many of Our Souldiers as they have passed in small numbers; And on the other side have with great Industry and Affection furnished the Rebells with all things necessary; And some Majors, Constables and tithing men, being Officers more immediately sworn to Our service, have maliciously presumed to stop Our Packquets, apprehended and imprison Our Messengers, and all other Persons coming to, or going in Our service, to seize all goods and Provisions to be brought to Us, or belonging to any Person employed, trusted or affencted by Us; And to countenance, assist, and relieve all those who rebel against Us, by which their seditious, and Rebellious demeanour, Our Commanders, and Souldiers are sometimes compelled to prosecute such Persons and Places with unusual severity, We do hereby publish and declare to all Our Subjects, That if they shall henceforward be guilty of such high disloyalty against Us, and shall furnish, and assist the Rebells with Provision, or maliciously refuse to supply Our armies in their March; If they shall stop any of Our Packquets, or apprehended, or disturb any of Our Messengers, or Servants traveling in Our service; If they shall offer any violence to any of Our Souldiers, as they Peaceably pass by them; Or if any Constables, Tything-men, or any other shall presume to publish or to execute any pretended Warrants, or Precepts to be made or set forth by any Persons whatsoever in favour or assistance of the said Rebellion, Wee shall proceed against all such Persons who shall be guilty of the Premises with Fire and Sword, as the most desperate and malicious fomenters of this Horrid, Odious, and Bloody Rebellion. And that all Our Subjects may know the danger they incur by disobeying Us herein, and so avoid the misery will else fall upon them, Our Will and Pleasure is, That this Our Proclamation be red in all Churches, and chapels within this Kingdom. Given at Our Court at Oxford this eighteen day of july, in the nineteenth year of Our reign. God Save the KING. Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University. 1643.