royal blazon or coat of arms HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
BY THE KING:  
A PROCLAMATION. For the better Government of the ARMY.  
JAMES R.  
WHEREAS We think it may very much Conduce to Our Service, and the good Government of Our Army, that not only every individual Soldier may know what he is to receive by Our Allowance, and how the same is to be disposed off, to the end he may be satisfied, he is duly accounted with for the same, but also that all other Our Loving Subjects of this Our Kingdom may see the Provision We thereby make for their being duly paid and satisfied for such Meat, Drink, forage and other Necessaries, as they shall Regularly Furnish or Supply Our Army with, and may by such other Regulations and Directions as are hereafter set down and expressed; Observe the care We take of them, by preventing such Irregularities and Abuses as are commonly Committed by Soldiers when Order and good Discipline are wanting.  
We do therefore in the first place think fit to make known what Allowance We are pleased to give Weekly to private Men according to their several Capacities in Our Army which we shall see duly satisfied according as the same is hereafter mentioned to be disposed of.  

HORSE    l. s. d. To Each Trooper a week for his Subsistence, Washing Shoeing forage and linen, &c. 00 08 00 For Clothing, Accoutrements, and all other Incidents weekly to be left with the Paymaster General. 00 02 00 For Hospital and Poundage weekly. 00 00 06 To Each Corporal, Trumpet and Kettle-drum per week for Subsistence, Washing and shoeing, forage linen, &c. 00 14 00 For Cothing Accoutrements and all other Incidents 00 03 06 For Hospital and Poundage weekly.       
dragoons.    l. s. d. To Each Drag●on a week for his subsistence Washing, forage shoeing linen &c. 00 06 00 For Clothing Accoutrements, and all other Incidents, Hospital money and Poundage. 00 02 02 To Each Corporal for his Subsistence &c. 00 08 00 For his Clothing accoutrements Hospital, Poundage and all other Accoutrements. 00 02 06 To Each sergeant for his subsistence &c. 00 14 00 For Clothing Accoutrements, Hospital, Foundage and all other Incidents. 00 03 06 
FOOT.    l. s. d. To Each Soldier a week for his subsistence Washing &c. 00 02 04 For Clothing weekly to be left with the Paymaster General 00 00 06 Six pence a week to be left in the Captains hands for keeping the Company in shoes stockings, linen and mending of their Cloths. 00 00 06 For Hospital and Poundage. 00 00 02 To Each Corporal and Drummer for Subsistence &c. and for all other things as the private Soldier. 00 03 00 To Each sergeant for subsistence &c. per week. 00 06 00 For his Clothing &c. Hospital and Poundage. 00 04 06  
ANd Whereas We expect that all Officers and Soldiers in pay shall keep within their Respective Garrisons and Quarters not having leave from us, or the Duke of Tyrconnell Capt. General of Our Forces accord-to the Rules prescribed by Our late Declaration of the 12th day of November 1689. We do hereby Will and Require all General Officers and other Officers of Our Army all Governours of Cities or Towns, Mayors, Portrifs, Headboroughs and other Civil Magistrates, all Iustices of the Peace, High and Petty Constables, and all other Our Officers and Ministers both Civil and Military that wherever they shall find any private Soldiers straggling from their garrisons, or Quarters not having sufficient Passports in writing to seize and sand them to the next Gaxison, or Quarters from whence they are to be sent by the Respective Officers Commanding in Chief from Quarter to Quarter till they come to the garrison, or Quarter to which they belong, whereof the Commandant in each garrison and Quarter is to take Notice●, and to see Our Pleasure in this particular duly Executed.  
Our further Will and Pleasure is that no Officers servant shall Ride in the Ranks of any Troop( Excepting one of the Cornets, who is to carry the Standard)& that no man on any pretence whatever shall Ride in the Ranks of any Troop that is not a real Trooper, or has any dependence on any Officer whatever, and We also Require the colonels, Lieutenant colonels and Majors, to visit each Troop, or Company of their Respective Regiments at least once a Month, and that one of them do stay four or five days in each Garrison, or Quarter, that they may be fully acquainted with the State and Condition of each Troop and Company and may know their Order and Discipline, and may be enabled to give us a Distinct account thereof, which We expect they shall do once every two months at least by sending to Our Secretary at War a Rool of each Troop, or Company with the Officers names marked, that are present, or absent, together with the reason of their absence, with their particular Observations on all Defects and what men, or Horses they observe unfit for Our Service.  
Our Will and Pleasure is that no Deduction shall be hereafter made for Agents, or Clerks, We allowing of no such to, or in any Regiment, Troop, or Company of this Our Army, We expecting that the mayor for each Regiment, and the Captain for each Troop, or Company by himself, or one of his Officers whom he shall appoint, and for whom he shall be answerable shall look after and keep the Accounts of Each Regiment Troop, and Company, and shall take especial Care that the men keep their Arms fixed, their Cloths, linen, and other Accoutrements Whole, Neat and Clean, and We do hereby strictly charge and command all Officers and Soldiers of Our Army that they duly and Reverendly serve God, by frequenting the Churches and chapels at the time of Divine Service at least on Sundays and holidays, and that all the Roman catholic Soldiers in this Our Army do always at Easter and at least once every year besides Receive the Holy Sacrament, of which each Soldier is to produce a Certificate to the colonel, or chief Officer in command of each Regiment wherein he is Inlisted under the hand of the Priest from whom he Received the same on pain of one Months Imprisonment.  
And We strictly Require all the chaplains of this Our Army that they duly attend their Respective Regiments and Remain constantly with their Regiments, and that they do at least on Sundays and Holy dayes catechize and Exhort the Soldiers and hear their confessions at Easter and other usual Feasts.  
And We do expect that all the Officers and Soldiers of this Our Army, shall in all other particulars behave and Demean themselves as become good Christians and Loyal Subjects, That they do not Insult over any of the Magistrates, or Inhabitants on their March and in their Quarters, or offer any Violence to their Persons or goods on pain of Death, or such other penalty as the Court marshal shall judge fit, but that they behave themselves Modestly and Civilly towards them, paying duly for their Provisions forage and other Necessaries, or( in case by any accident they shall not have duly Received their Subsistence as is before set down) by Reason whereof they may not be able to pay their Quarters, in all such case the Officer Commanding each Troop, or Company where that shall happen is to give the persons concerned Notes duly perfected drawn on the Pay-master General of Our Army for the said sums which shall be satisfied accordingly.  
That no Officer or Soldier shall presume to Quarter himself, or any other Officer or Soldier under his Command but by the Billet of the Magistrate, or Proper Officer thereunto appointed; and that on their March, or otherwise no Officer or Soldier do on any pretence whatsoever, press or take any of Our Subjects Carriages, or Horses under the penalty set forth in a Proclamation dated the 24th day of June 1689. and in two former Declarations, The one dated the 24th day of September 1689. and the other dated the 8th day of September 1689. without special Drders as in the said Declarations is set forth, and if any officers or Soldiers of our Army will higher any Horses, or Carriages paying the usual Rates for the same, We strictly Charge and Command all such Officers and Soldiers so concerned not to Abuse, or Injure such carriages, or Horses, but that the Officers shall see them Restored in like good Condition as they Received them, together with their hire to the Owners, and that no Horse, or Carriage shall be Carried further then one days March under the several Penalties aforesaid.  
And Our Will and Pleasure is, that all Officers and Souldiers of Our Army shall upon demand be aiding and assisting to any of the Civil Magistrates or others employed in following and apprehending any Tories, Robbers, or other disorderly people, or suppressing of Riots and Tumults, and to the Officers employed in and about Our Revenue and Stores in the due execution of their Employment, in hindering us from being defrauded of Our just Duties and Customs, and by no means to be aiding or assisting to any that shall be any ways concerned in any such practices, on pain of undergoing the utmost severities the nature of the Fact shall deserve.  
And whereas great abuses may be committed by empressing of Money to any Officer either in Our Treasury, or the Office of the Paymaster-General of Our Army either in behalf of himself, or of the Regiment Troop or Company under his Command, Our Will and Pleasure is, and We do strictly strictly Charge and Command, that no Officer on any pretence whatever shall impress any Pay either on his own account, or on account of his Regiment, Troop or Company.  
And whereas several Subalterns and Private Souldiers of Our Army having Complaints against their Officers or Superiors concerning their Pay or other grievances, do immediately make their application to us for redress, without first applying themselves to the Superior Officer on the place from whom they might receive present relief; We do therefore hereby declare that We will not immediately receive any complaints from such Subalterns, or private Souldiers against their Officers or Superiors, till they shall have first applied themselves to their proper Officer or Superior upon the place; that is to say, to the colonel, or other chief Officer in command of the Regiment, from whom if they shall not receive due satisfaction, they are then to apply themselves to us, and We shall take care that such Right be done them as to Iustice appertaineth. And We do hereby strictly charge and command all Out General Officers, Governors, colonels and Commandants to receive the complaints of the people of the country concerning any injury or wrong to be done to them by any Officer or soldier of Our Army, and to redress the same according to Iustice; and in case the General Officers, Governors, colonels, or Commandants upon such Complaints to be made to them, will not cause satisfaction to be made to the party grieved, We do require such General Officers, Governors, colonels, or Commandants, forthwith to sand up a state of the matter to Our Secretary at War, in order to be laid before us, with their reasons why they did not, or could not make some reasonable end of the matter.  
And to the end that all the Officers and Souldiers of this Our Army may be fully instructed in every particular of their duty, and of Our Pleasure in these and other matters not herein particularly mentioned and expressed, It is Our Will and Pleasure that every Officer of Horse, Drag●ons, and Foot in this Our Army, shall have and keep constantly by him a copy of the Articles of War, as also the Rules and Instructions for taking and regulating the Musters, and of this Our Declaration, and of all other Our Declarations relating to the Ordering and Government of Our Army and of all such other Orders which We already have, or shall from time to time think fit to publish to that purpose, and that the Governor, colonel, or Commandant in each Garrison, or Quarter, do once in two months at the least draw out the men under his Command, and cause the same to be distinctly red before them, that they may not be able in any wise to pled Ignorance thereof.  
And We do further think fit that this Our Declaration be forthwith red and published at the Head of every Troop and Company of this Our Army, and be also Posted up, and affixed in the Market and other public places in all Cities, Towns, Garrisons and Quarters in and throughout this Our Kingdom, to the end that no person whatever may pretend Ignorance of the same.  
Given at Our Court at Dublin-Castle the 23d. Day of December 1689. And in the Fifth Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command, RI. NAGLE.  
God Save the King.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook the Assignee of Benjamin took Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and are to be Sold at His Majesties Printing-House on Ormonde-Key, 1689.