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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For the Suppre&s;&s;ing of di&s;orderly and un&s;ea&s;onable Meetings, in Taverns and Tipling-hou&s;es, And al&s;o forbidding Footmen to wear Swords, or other Weapons, within <HI>London, We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and their Liberties.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_AS We cannot but hope that Our late Proclamation again&s;t Vitious, Debauched, and Prophane Per&s;ons, hath in a great mea&s;ure attained tho&s;e good ends and purpo&s;es, to which it was intended, So we cannot but take notice withal, that there are &s;till &s;ome Per&s;ons, who&s;e Licentious Appetites, are neither under the Command of any Rea&s;on, nor willing to be re&s;trained by any Laws, Men that glory in their &s;hame, and make this onely u&s;e of Virtuous Examples to deride them:</P>
<P>Now (though We have made a firm and &s;trict re&s;olution with Our Self, never to give any the lea&s;t Countenance or Imployment, to Men of &s;uch Inclinations; to the end that all Our Subjects, may at la&s;t perceive, that it will be their Intere&s;t, as well as their Religion, to be|come Virtuous and Sober Per&s;ons; Yet) becau&s;e &s;uch Methods as the&s;e, are not like to prove of &s;o quick an operation as the infectious Manners of &s;ome Men do require;</P>
<P>We do therefore hereby &s;traitly Charge and Command All Our Subjects, of what Quality or De|gree &s;oever they be, That they pre&s;ume not, contrary to the good Laws and Statutes made in the time of Our Royal Father, and Grand-father, to be Tipling in any Tavern, Victualling-hou&s;e, Ale-hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, or other Tipling-hou&s;e, nor to continue, or abide therein, after the hour of Nine of the Clock at night. And We do further Charge and Command All Keepers of Taverns, Ale-hou&s;es, Victualling-hou&s;es, and other Tipling-hou&s;es, That they pre&s;ume not in any wi&s;e, to Receive, Harbour, or Permit any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, to be &s;o Tipling, or to continue in his or their hou&s;es, after the hour of Nine of the Clock at night, other then &s;uch Per&s;ons as are Lodgers in his or their re&s;pective hou&s;es, under pain of incurring the utmo&s;t Penalties, which by any Laws or Statutes of this Our Realm (tho&s;e e&s;pecially which have been made in the Time of Our Royal Father or Grand father) can or may be inflicted upon &s;uch Per&s;ons as &s;hall be found there, and &s;uch Ma&s;ters of hou&s;es as &s;hall &s;uffer them to abide there, together with &s;uch other Fines and Penalties, as upon the Centemners of this Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, &s;hall be thought fit to be further lawfully impo&s;ed.</P>
<P>And We do further Charge and Command All Mayors, Bayliffs, Sheriffs, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, and other Officers, to take &s;trict care that this Our Proclamation be duly Obeyed, and to enter into any Tavern, Ale-hou&s;e, or other Tipling-hou&s;e, to &s;earch for &s;uch di&s;orderly Per&s;ons as &s;hall be found there Tipling contrary to the &s;aid Laws, or that &s;hall abide there after the hour of Nine of the Clock, in contempt of Our Laws, and this Our Proclamation, and to Levy the Pe|nalties, and cau&s;e the Offenders, together with the Ma&s;ter or Mi&s;tre&s;s of &s;uch re&s;pective hou&s;e where they &s;hall be found, to come before the next Iu&s;tice of Peace, who is hereby required to cau&s;e all and every the Per&s;ons &s;o brought before him, to enter into Bond for their Appearance at the next Se&s;&s;i|ons of Peace to be held within their re&s;pective Limits, and then, and there, to an&s;wer &s;uch matters as &s;hall be objected again&s;t them on Our behalf.</P>
<P>And to the end that no inferiour Officers, or Mini&s;ters of Ju&s;tice, may be any ways di&s;couraged, in their diligent and vigorous Pro&s;ecution of the&s;e Our Commands; We do hereby Publi&s;h and Declare, That if any Our Officers afore&s;aid, &s;hall be re&s;i&s;ted in the execution of this his Charge, or any ways affronted or abu&s;ed, We &s;hall look upon it as a Contempt of Our own Per&s;on and Authority, and cau&s;e it to be Pro&s;ecuted and Vindicated accordingly.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as Mi&s;chiefs have frequently hapned, and are likely to En&s;ue, by Pages, Footmen and Lacquies Wearing Swords and Weapons; For prevention thereof for the future, We do hereby Prohibit all Pages, Footmen, and Laquies, from carrying or u&s;ing Swords or other Weapons with|in the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> or the Liberties thereof, at their perils, and upon pain of Our Di&s;plea&s;ure, and the utmo&s;t puni&s;hment, which by Law can be inflicted upon them. And We do here|by &s;trictly Charge and Command All Ma&s;ters of &s;uch Pages, Footmen, and Lacquies, That they &s;uffer them not to wear, or u&s;e any Sword, or other Weapons, within the Places afore&s;aid, contrary to the Tenor of this Our Royal Proclamation in that behalf.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the Twenty ninth day of <HI>September,</HI> in the Twelfth year of Our Reign.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1660.</P>
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