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A79009 By the King. A proclamation for the security and protection of the possessors of delinquents lands, in the county of Wilts who have, or shall become his Majesties tenants.; Proclamations. 1644-03-05 England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1644 (1644) Wing C2629; ESTC R225679 916 1

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BY THE KING CR HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A Proclamation for the security and Protection of the Possessors of Delinquents Lands in the County of Wilts who have or shall become his Majesties Tenants WHEREAS diverse Seditious and Rebelliously affected persons of Our County of Wilts being conscious to have justly deserved our high displeasure and the punishment of the Lawes have withdrawn themselves from their estates and dwellings in that County unto other parts and places of this Kingdome in the power and possession of the Rebells where they remaine and either personally or by supplies of Money and other Provisions are in Rebellion against us And whereas by vertue of our Commission lately issued under our Great Seal of England the Lands of many such Delinquents have been seized and by Our Commissioners disposed and Let at reasonable and moderate rates to severall Tenants who have agreed to pay their Rents to Us and for Our use untill the said Rebellious Persons shall submit themselves to Legall Tryalls For the better inabling therefore and incouragement of such Tenants to performe their undertakings for Our service and that henceforth they may be freed from that violence which the Souldiers of Our Armies too frequently without command have exercised upon possessors of Delinquents Lands We doe hereby Declare That all persons whatsoever as well such as formerly held Lands of such Delinquents and now are or hereafter by agreements as aforesaid or otherwise shall become Our Tenants as others who have or shall take such estates of Our Commissioners in that County shall be held reputed and esteemed to be in our immediat Protection and Regard Wherefore We Will Require and Command all Officers and Souldiers of Our Armies that they at any time presume not to doe wrong or dammage to their Persons Houses Cattell Lands or Goods And that as much as may be possible and the service will permit they forbeare at any time to Billet or Quarter themselves or Horses on them but that in all things such respect be had of them and their welldoing as is justly due to persons in Our speciall Service and Protection And We doe hereby farther Order and Declare That if any such Officers or Souldiers shall after notice that they are Our Tenants in contempt of this Our Proclamation doe any Act whereby such Persons or any of them shall be damnified or oppressed upon due information thereof given they shall receive such severe and exemplary punishment as their Offences shall deserve Given at Our Court at Oxford the fifth of March in the Ninteenth yeare of our Reigne 1643. GOD SAVE THE KING Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Vniversity 1643.