than by the order and rigour of justice to punish you according to your demerits, of his inestimable goodness, benignance, mercy, and pity, and at your most humble petitions and submissions made unto his Highness, he is contented and pleased to give and grant and by this present proclamation doth give and grant unto you all and to all and every your confederates wheresoever they dwell, of whatsoever estate, degree, or condition so ever you or they be, or by what name or names so ever they or you be or may be called, his general and free pardon for all manner treason, rebellions, insurrections, misprisions of treason, murders, robberies, felons, and of all accessories of the same and of every of them, unlawful assemblies, unlawful conventicles, unlawful speaking of words, confederacies, riots, routs, and all other trespasses, offences and contempts done and committed by you or any of you against the King’s Majesty, his crown or dignity royal, within and from the time of the beginning of the said rebellion whensoever it was unto the present day of proclaiming of this proclamation, and of all pains, judgments, executions of death and all other penalties, forfeitures, fines and forfeitures of lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels, by any of your forfeitures incurred by reason of the premisses or any of them; which fines, forfeitures, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods and chattels, the King’s said Highness of his special grace and mere motion by these presents giveth to such of you as have or should have forfeited or lost the same by occasion of the premisses or any of them: And also his Highness is pleased and contented that you and every of you from time to time shall and may have upon your suits to be made hereafter in his Chancery his said most gracious and free pardon under his Great Seal concerning the premisses, without any further bill or warrant to be obtained for the same, and without paying any thing for the Great Seal thereof: And that you and every of you, from time to time, may freely and liberally sue for his said pardon when and as often as it shall like you, without any trouble, vexation or impeachment for the premisses or any of them by his heirs or by any his officiaries, ministers, or subjects, by any manner of means or in any manner of wise. Provided always that you and every of you in token of a perfect declaration and knowledge that ye do heartily lament and be sorry for your said offences, shall make your humble submission unto his Highness in the presence of his right trusty and right entirely beloved cousins and councillors the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Shrewsbury, his Lieutenants General, or any of them, or to their deputy or deputies of them, or any of them, or such other person or persons as the King’s Highness shall appoint for the same: Furthermore, the King’s most