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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79294	By the King. A proclamation concerning His Majesties gracious pardon, in pursuance of His Majesties former declaration	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C3254; Thomason 669.f.25[47]; ESTC R212437	1,944	1

By the King A PROCLAMATION Concerning His Majesties gracious PARDON In pursuance of His Majesties former DECLARATION CHARLES R. CHARLES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Whereas by Our Declaration Dated at Breda the 4 14 day of April last past We did Declare That We did grant a Full and General Pardon which We were ready to pass under Our Great Seal of England to all Our Subjects of what Degree or Quality soever who within Forty days after the Publication there of should lay hold upon that Our Grace and Favor and should by any the publick Act Declare their doing so and that they returned to the Loyalty and Obedience of good Subjects excepting only such persons as should be excepted by Parliament And We did further Declare That those only excepted all Our subjects how faulty soever should rely upon the Word of a King solemnly given by that Our Declaration That no Crime whatsoever committed against Vs or Our Royal Father before the publication thereof should ever rise in Iudgment or be brought in question against any of them to the least Indammagement either of their Lives Liberties or Estates Or as far forth as lay in Our Power so much as to the prejudice of their Reputation by any reproach or term of distinction from the rest of Our best Subjects We desiring and ordaining That thenceforward all Notes of Discord Separation and difference of Parties might be utterly abolished amongst all Our Subjects whom we invited and Conjured to a perfect Vnion amongst themselves under Our Protection for the resettlement of Our just Rights and theirs in a Free Parlament Which Our said Declaration We sent Inclosed in Our Letters to both Houses of Parliament and the same was by them received the first Day of May last And afterwards according to Our Intention and Will was Printed and Published for the satisfaction of Our Subjects And whereas afterwards that is to say the seaventh day of June instant Our Commons assembled in Parliament did Resolve and Declare That they did by that their publique Act for and in behalf of themselves and every of them and of all the Commons of England of what Quality or Degree soever they were Lay hold upon Our Free and Generall Pardon according as in Our said Letters and Declaration it was Granted Tendred or Expressed And that Our House with their Speaker did attend and present to Vs their Humble desire That it may be as effectuall to all Our Subjects in particular Except as before Excepted as if every of them had at any time since the first of May last personally layd hold upon Our Grace and Pardon and by publique Act declared their doing so And that Wee Would be pleased to Declare Our acceptance thereof accordingly and by Our Royall Proclamation to assure the hearts of Our Subjects of the same We being very willing and desirous to administer all just satisfaction and ease to the mindes of our people and to remove all Feares and and Iealousies which may concern their security And to manifest to them and the World that Our heart is possessed With the same Clemency and tenderness towards them that Wee expressed in that Our Declaration Which if it were not We should not think Our self worthy of those signal Belssings Which God Almighty hath powred upon Vs and the Nation since And by the publication of that Our Declaration in the Cheerfull obedience of Our Subjects Do hereby publish and declare That We do Graciously accept the said Address of Our said House of Commons to the full Intent and End thereof and on the behalf of All the Commons of England and that We will very willingly and cheerfully give Our Royall Assent to the said Act of Free and General pardon when it shall be presented to Vs by Our two Houses of Parlament and which We do with some Impatience expect as the most reasonable and solid Foundation of that peace happiness and security We hope and pray for to Our self and all Our Dominions And for the better manifestation of Our gracious intentions and desire herein and in regard that the great Deliverations of Our Houses of Parliament upon all the weighty Affairs of the Kingdom cannot admit that expedition in the dispatch of this Bill which the general fears and apprehensions of Our people may long for and that the consideration of excepting Notorious Delinquents may not stop the current of Our Mercy and Grace towards the generality of Our Subjects We leave it to themselves to take and sue out Our particular Pardons in such manner as they think fit And to that purpose We have appointed Our Secretaries of State to present Warrants to Vs for Our Signature directing Our Atturney General to prepare Bills for the passing Pardons to such who shall desire the same in the issuing whereof We will take it upon Our Self and it shall be Our Care and the Care of those Our Ministers through whose hands the same are to pass That no Pardon shall pass to any of those Notorious Offenders who are in danger or like to be be Excepted by the Parliament And We have given order to Our Attorney-General and Council at Law for preparing as full a Pardon of all Treasons Felonies and other Misdemeanors for all other persons which have happened or been occasioned by reason of the late Troubles as they can wish Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Fifteenth day of June in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign 1660. London Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KINGS most Excellent Majesty 1660.