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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE> <HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> Again&s;t Slanderers and Lee&s;ing-makers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_JAMES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Pri|vy Council, Pur&s;evants, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheri&s;&s;s in that part, conjunctly, and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas We are Informed That divers Mi|ni&s;ters, and others, to promote their Seditious de&s;igns, Do take upon them in Sermons, and other Di&s;cour&s;es, To Allarm the People, and to rai&s;e di&s;like of Our Per&s;on and Govern|ment in their Hearts, De&s;aming and Slandering Our De&s;igns, or at lea&s;t, medling in Our Affairs; All which are highly puni&s;hable, and the Puni&s;hments Declared by Our Laws and Acts of Parliament; E&s;pecially by the &s;eventh <HI>Act</HI> of the eight <HI>Parl.</HI> of King <HI>James</HI> the Sixth, Our Royal Grand-Father, (of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory) <HI>Cap.</HI> 134. Intituled, <HI>Anent Slander|ers of the King, His Progenitors, E&s;tate and Realm;</HI> And of which, in &s;o far as relates to the&s;e Affaires, The Tenor follows. Fora&s;much as it is under&s;tood to Our Soveraign Lord, and His Three E&s;tates A&s;&s;em|bled in this pre&s;ent Parliament, What great harm and inconvenient has fallen in this Realm, chiefly &s;ince the beginning of the Civil Troubles, occurred in the time of His Highne&s;s minority, through the wicked and licentious, publick and private Speeches, and untrue Calumnies of divers His Subjects, to the Di&s;dain, Contempt and Reproach of his Maje&s;ty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Council and Proceedings, and to the di&s;honour and prejudice of His Highne&s;s, His Parents, Progenitors and E&s;tate: Stir|ring up His Highne&s;s Subjects thereby to mi&s;liking, Sedition, &V;nquietne&s;s, and to ca&s;t off their due obedience to His <HI>Ma|je&s;ty,</HI> to their evident peril, tin&s;el and de&s;truction; His Highne&s;s continuing always in Love and Clemency toward all His good Subjects, and mo&s;t willing to &s;eek the &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of them all; Which wil&s;ully, needle&s;s, and upon plain ma|lice, after His Highne&s;s Mercy and Pardon, oft-times afore granted, has procured them&s;elves by their Trea&s;onable Deeds, to be cut off as corrupt members of this Common-well: Therefore it is Statute and Ordained by Our Soveraign Lord, and His three Estates in this pre&s;ent Parliament, That none of His Subjects (of what&s;oever Function, Degree, or Quality in time coming) &s;hall pre&s;ume to take upon hand, privatly, or publickly in Sermons, Declarations, or familiar Conferences, to utter any fal&s;e, Slanderous or untrue Speeches, to the di&s;dain, reproach and contempt of His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> His Council and Proceedings; or to the di&s;honour, hurt or prejudice of His Highne&s;s, His Parents and Progenitors, or to meddle in the Affairs of His Highne&s;s, and His E&s;tate pre&s;ent, bygone, and in time coming, under the pains contained in the Acts of Parliament, again&s;t makers and tellers of Lee&s;ings: Certifying them that &s;hall be tried Contraveeners thereof, or that hear &s;ick &s;landerous Speeches, and reports not the &s;ame with diligence, the &s;aid pains &s;hall be executed again&s;t them with all rigor, in example of others. And to the end that &s;o nece&s;&s;ary and laudable a Law may receive due and punctual obedience; We there|fore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Declare, That the Contraveeners hereof any manner of way, &s;hall be examplarly puni&s;hed with all rigor, conform to the pre&s;cript of the &s;aid Statute in all points. And that Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be made publick and known, Our Will is, And We Charge you &s;trictly and Com|mand, That incontinent, the&s;e our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and all other Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the head Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, And there, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make publication of Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, that all Our Leidges may have notice thereof, and give obedience thereto, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;eventeenth day of <HI>June,</HI> One Thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty &s;ix Years. And of Our Reign the &s;econd Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>COLIN M^cKENZIE,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>R.L.S.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>June</HI> 28. 1686</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty, Anno Dom.</HI> 1686.</P>
<P>Reprinted at <HI>London,</HI> for <HI>J. L.</HI> 1686.</P>
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