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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
C. R.  BY THE KING.¶ A Proclamation of His Majesties gracious Resolution for the relief of all such Souldiers as are or shall be maimed in His Majesties Service.  
WHEREAS very many of Our poor and loving Subjects, who out of their Loyalty and Affection have served Us in Our present expedition against the Rebells, are and have been sore wounded and maimed in fight, so that they are not for the present, and many of them not like to be able to relieve themselves by their work, or longer to continue the duty of Souldiers in Our Army, and yet We hold ourself engaged in Honour, Iustice and Charity to provide for their reasonable subsistence; We do hereby declare that Our Princely Resolution is, That every Officer and soldier of Our Army, who is or shall be in this Our service so wounded or maimed, shall receive some reward and Livelihood by Pension or otherwise, in such manner as may make the remainder of his life less grievous to him; And that such of Our Common-Souldiers and inferior Officers shall be received and admitted into such of Our hospitals or alms-houses as We have the disposing of, as fast as any places shall become void in the said hospitals or almshouses; And to that purpose Our pleasure is, that Our Secretaries of State, and Masters of Requests, prefer no Bills to Us to be signed for any place in any of Our said hospitals or alms houses, but on the behalf of some soldier who hath been wounded or maimed in Our service against the Rebells, until such time as all such Souldiers are provided for; and that all Reversions granted by Us of any such places be suspended, and none to be admitted by virtue of any Grant in Reversion till such time as these poor People shall be provided for; for the better expediting whereof, We do hereby require all the colonels of Our Army to present a List to one of Our Secretaries, of all the Souldiers names within their several Regiments, who have been so wounded or maimed in this Our service as that they are unserviceable, with the Countries from whence they came, that provision may be made for them accordingly. And We do hereby farther declare Our Will and pleasure to be, That all Iustices of Peace, Majors, bailiffs, Treasurers, Constables, Church-wardens, and other whom it shall concern, shall with all diligence put in execution the Statute made in the 43. year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth touching the relief of maimed Souldiers, and to make weekly taxations, and collect and levy the sums so taxed, towards the relief of sick, hurt, and maimed Souldiers, who have lost their Limbs, or disabled their bodies in Our service; And to grant and assign Annuities, Pensions, and other relief unto them, according to the tenor of the said Act, which the number of maimed and hurt Souldiers being the greater in respect of Our present just defensive Warres, We require them upon the penalties limited by the said Statute, and in pain of Our high displeasure, to do and execute in such manner as the said Souldiers may reap the fruit of their good deservings and others be encouraged to the like endeavours. And we straitly forbid and inhibit all Iustices of Peace, Majors, and other Officers, to grant or assign any such Annuities, Pensions, or other relief by virtue of the said Statute, to any Persons who have taken up Rebellious arms against Us, and been hurt or maimed in that Service. And of all this We shall require an especial account, as of a business We are much concerned in Our Honour to have a singular care. Given at Our Court at OXFORD, this second day of May, in the nineteenth year of Our reign.  
God Save the KING.   

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