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death_n	life_n	lord_n	word_n	9,286	5	4.0695	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22036	By the King in calling to our princely remembrance, that in the late rebellion vpon pretence of depopulation and vnlawfull inclosures, the greatest number of the offenders have not beene proceeded with according to iustice and their traiterous deseruings ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1607 (1607)	STC 8402; ESTC S3660	1,117	1

❧ By the King IN calling to our Princely remembrance that in the late Rebellion vpon pretence of Depopulation and vnlawfull Inclosures the greatest number of the offenders haue not beene proceeded with according to Justice and their traiterous deseruings no nor so much as apprehended or touched for the same although they bee in no better case or degree then those few which haue suffered or beene called in question There want not some reasons and circumstances which if wee would consult onely with policie or passion mought induce vs to further seueritie and a more generall execution of the Law vpon the same offenders For wee are not ignorant that of all other seditions and rebellions none doth bring such infinite waste and desolation vpon a Kingdome or State as these popular Insurrections which though they doe seldome shake or indanger a Crowne yet they doe bring a heape of calamities vpon multitudes of innocent Subiects and chiefly vpon the Authors and Acters themselues And againe Wee doe obserue that there was not so much as any necessitie of famine or dearth of corne or any other extraordinary accident that might stirre or prouoke them in that maner to offend but that it may be thought to proceede of a kinde of insolencie and contempt of our milde and gracious Gouernment which mought in some Prince turne the same into more heauy wrath and displeasure But We neuerthelesse hauing at the very entrance of our Raigne in the highest treasons against our owne Person intermingled Mercie with iustice are much more inclined in this case which concerneth a number of poore simple people to extend our naturall clemencie to wards them Whereupon we haue resolued to set wide open the gate of our Mercie vnto them and to bestowe vpon them our free Grace and Pardon without further Suite or Supplication And therefore we doe hereby take and receiue all the sayd Offenders and euery of them to our Mercie and of our Grace and meere motion freely pardon vnto them their sayd Offences and all paines of Death or other punishment due for the same and promise vnto them in the word of their naturall Liege Lord and King that they shall not be in any wise molested or impeached in Life Member Lands or Goods for their sayd Offences or any of them So as neuerthelesse that before Michaelmas next they doe submit themselues and acknowledge their sayd Offences before our Lieutenant Deputie Lieutenant or Sheriffe in the Countie where they shall remaine whereof Wee will and command a Note or Entrie to be made and kept And We are further graciously pleased that if any of them seuerally or iointly shal desire for their better assurance to haue our Pardon vnder our great Seale that our Chancellor shal make the same vnto them without further warrant in that behalfe Not intending neuerthelesse to preiudice any our Subiects priuate Suite or Action but so much as in Us is absolutely to acquite discharge them against Us our Heires Successors Giuen at our Castle of Windsor the 24. day of Iuly in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO DOM 1607.