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&quot; mency, hereby as well publish and promise to all 

 &quot; our subjects remission and free pardon of all by- 

 &quot; past offences whatsoever, against our person or 

 &quot; estate, in adhering to our said enemy, by whom, 

 &quot; we know well, they have been misled, if they shall 

 &quot; within time convenient submit themselves unto us. 

 &quot; And for such as shall come with the foremost to 

 &quot; assist our righteous quarrel, we shall make them 

 * so far partakers of our princely favour and bounty, 

 &quot; as shall be highly for the comfort of them and 

 &quot; theirs, both during their life and after their death: 

 &quot; as also we shall, by all means which God shall put 

 &quot; into our hands, demean ourselves to give royal 

 &quot; contentment to all degrees and estates of our 

 &quot; people, maintaining the liberties of holy church 

 &quot; in their entire, preserving the honours, privileges, 

 &quot; and pre-eminences of our nobles, from contempt or 

 &quot; disparagement according to the dignity of their 

 &quot; blood. We shall also unyoke our people from all 

 &quot; heavy burdens and endurances, and confirm our 

 &quot; cities, boroughs and towns, in their charters and 

 &quot; freedoms, with enlargement where it shall be de- 

 &quot; served ; and in all points give our subjects cause to 

 &quot; think, that the blessed and debonair government 

 &quot; of our noble father King Edward, in his last times, 

 &quot; is in us revived. 



&quot; And forasmuch as the putting to death, or 

 &quot; taking alive of our said mortal enemy, may be a 

 &quot; mean to stay much effusion of blood, which other- 

 &quot; wise may ensue, if by compulsion or fair promises 

 he shall draw after him any number of our sub- 



