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A79971 Arthur Lord Capell Lieutenant Generall under the Prince His Highnesse of His Majesties forces, in the counties of VVorcester, Salop, and Chester, and the sixt northern counties of VVales To all commanders, officers, and souldiers, and to all other His Majesties subjects whatsoever, whom these presents shall or may in anywise concern. Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649. 1643 (1643) Wing C470; Thomason 669.f.7[1]; ESTC R212630 1,541 1

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ARTHVR Lord CAPELL Lieutenant Generall under the Prince His Highnesse of His Majesties Forces in the Counties of VVorcester Salop and Chester and the sixt Northern Counties of VVales To all Commanders Officers and Souldiers and to all other His MAJESTIES Subjects whatsoever whom these presents shall or may in anywise concern WHereas the Kings most Excellent Majestie having a tender Regard and gracious Care of the preservation of the Goods and Estates of his loving and well-affected Subjects hath by two severall Proclamations the one of the fift of November last the other of the seventeenth of March last inhibited all His Majesties Commanders Officers and Souldiers of His Armies to commit any Spoyle Robbery Plunder or Pillage upon any His Majesties Subjects or their Goods with direction for a strict and severe proceeding against the Offenders by the Law Martiall Notwithstanding which His Majesties gracious and tender Provision for His People complaints have been made to me of some Outrages and Plunders committed by some Souldiers in His Majesties Service since the said Proclamations and before my coming into these Counties and Parts within the Command abovesaid which occasioneth much Fear and Doubt in His Majesties well-affected People in these Counties and Parts and may become exceedingly disadvantagious to the present Service I hereby signifie and Declare That if any Officer of what Degree or Quality soever or any Souldier under their Commands within the Counties abovesaid shall at any time hereafter wilfully do or permit or countenance to be done any Spoyle Robberie Plunder or Pillage upon any the Persons Goods Horses Cattell or Provisions of Corn Hay or Victuall of His Majesties Subjects in the said Counties contrary to His Majesties said Proclamations That I shall undoubtedly upon Complaint exhibited and due proof thereof to me made proceed strictly according to the exact Tenor of His Majesties said Proclamations and according to the latitude of my own Commission from His Majestie agreeable with the Discipline of Warre severely to punish the Offenders and every of them And whereas there are divers Persons within the Counties and Parts abovesaid notoriously known to be disaffected to His Majestie his righteous Cause and his present Service whose Estates are obnoxious and lyable to Seizure and Confiscation These are to signifie and declare That when and as often as any such seizure shall be made the same shall not otherwise be done but by particular Warrant and Direction of His Majestie or such who shall have the immediate Command in Chief of the Forces of these Counties and Parts And that due care shall be had and taken for the punctuall Inventorying and valuable Apprizing of such Moneys Goods Cattell or other Estate which shall be so seized to the end that Accompt may be given thereof to His Majestie And that the Party and Parties Owners thereof in case they shall acquit themselves of the Crimes to their Charges laid may have a fitting Recompence and Restorement And I do hereby further signifie and declare That all such ready Moneys and Moneys to be raised by disposall of any Goods or Cattell so at any time from such known Disaffected Persons to be seized shall be disposed wholly and as thriftily as may be in His Majesties present Service for defence of the said Counties and Parts and as much as in me lyeth for the ease of the Burthen and Charge which may otherwise fall upon those His Majesties good Subjects who have readily and in good proportion exprest their affections to the Cause and Service Hereby Willing and straitly Charging and Commanding That no Officers or Souldiers presume to intermeddle with any estate of any man under the Notion or Reputation of a Malignant without my speciall Warrant and Authority him or them thereunto enabling And I do further direct and require all Officers under my Command That this my Command be published in all the Quarters within the said Counties and Parts wherein His Majesties Commanders and Souldiers are or hereafter shall happen to be Quartered by the sounding of Trumpets and beating of Drumms for the monition of Officers and Souldiers in their duties And that care be taken that the same may be likewise published in all Churches and Chappells within these Counties and Parts abovesaid for the satisfaction of His Majesties good and well-affected Subjects Given under my Hand and Seale at Arms this Third day of Aprill 1643. ARTHVR CAPELL ❧ Imprinted at Shrewsbury by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Ma●●stie And by the Assignes of ●OHN BILL 1643.