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I. R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
BY THE KING.  
JAMES R.  
WHEREAS an Address hath been made to Us by several good and pious persons, for Our licence to make a collection for the better assistance of such of the Souldiers of Our Army as now are, or shall be sick and wounded in Our Service, We could not but very well approve of so Charitable and Christian-like a proposal; and have therefore thought fit hereby not only to licence, but also earnestly to Recommend the same to all the Nobility, Gentry, and others throughout this Kingdom, to contribute towards so good a Work, in such proportion as they shall think fit. And for the further promoting and effecting thereof, We do hereby likewise recommend it to the several Archbishops and Bishops, 〈◇〉 well Roman catholics as Protestants, to appoint in their respective dioceses and Parishes, some fit persons to demand and receive the Benevolence and Cha●… y of all good Christians, for the use of the said sick and wounded Souldiers; and that they do also take care that the Names of the persons who shall so contribute, together with what Money shall be so collected upon that occasion, be returned, and paid into the hands of Luke Hore of Dublin Merchant, who is hereby authorised to receive the same. And We shall take care that the same( over and above Our allowance to such sick and wounded Souldiers) be applied, and issued from time to time, for the use and purpose aforesaid.  
Given at Our Court at our Castle of Dublin the 5th day of August, and in the Fifth Year of Our Reign. By His Majesties Command. WILL. TALBOT.  
God Save the King.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, Assigns of Benjamin took Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and are to be Sold at His Majesties Printing-House on Ormonde-Key, and the Colledge-Arms in Castle-street. 1689.