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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Protector: A PROCLAMATION For perfecting the COLLECTION For relief of The Prote&s;tant Inhabitants of the Valleys of <HI>Lucern, Angrona,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas His Highne&s;s from a deep Sence of the &s;ad Calamities of the poor Inhabitants of the Valleys of <HI>Lucern, Angrona,</HI> and others within the Dominions of the Duke of <HI>Sa|voy</HI> (occa&s;ioned by their faithful Adherence to their profe&s;sion of the Reformed Religion) and from a Confidence that the Good People of this Nation would (in this day of their Brethrens Trouble) manife&s;t a &s;erious Sen&s;e of the Sufferings of their Fellow-Mem|bers, profe&s;sing the &s;ame Faith and Hope, did in <HI>May</HI> la&s;t (by and with the Advice of the Council) publi&s;h a Declaration, thereby inviting the People of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> to &s;et apart the Fourteenth of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t for a Day of Solemn Fa&s;ting and Humiliation, and &s;eeking the Face of God on behalf of tho&s;e oppre&s;&s;ed Witne&s;&s;es of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, expre&s;sing withal His de&s;ire, that the Peo|ple might then be &s;tirred up to a free and liberal Contribution for their Relief, to be made in &s;uch way and maner as was &s;et forth in certain In&s;tructions thereunto annexed: And whereas His High|ne&s;s hath received Information, That (although the People of many Pari&s;hes and Congregations have with a liberal hand extended their Bounty, in contributing largely to their Relief, yet) through the negligence of &s;ome, to whom the di&s;per&s;ing of the &s;aid Declarations and In&s;tructions to the re|&s;pective Pari&s;hes, was intru&s;ted, the &s;aid Fa&s;t and Collection hath been in many places wholly omit|ted; To the intent therefore that tho&s;e who&s;e Hearts God &s;hall &s;tir up, may not be deprived of &s;o precious an Opportunity of Refre&s;hing the Bowels of the afflicted Members of Chri&s;t, His High|ne&s;s (upon Advice with His Council) doth hereby recommend it to all the &s;everal Pari&s;hes and Congregations in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> where the &s;aid Collection hath not been made, that they would improve this pre&s;ent Sea&s;on of drawing out their Compa&s;sion on behalf of their &s;aid di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Bre|thren; As al&s;o to the Mini&s;ters of the &s;aid &s;everal Congregations, to &s;tir up the People thereof to a Free and Liberal Contribution as afore&s;aid, and to pur&s;ue the way for Collecting and Paying in the &s;aid Moneys pre&s;cribed in the &s;aid In&s;tructions. And whereas &s;everal Sums of Money already collected are not yet returned nor certified, according to the &s;aid In&s;tructions, His Highne&s;s doth here|by Will and Require the &s;everal Mini&s;ters, Churchwardens, and other per&s;ons imployed about the &s;aid Collections, and the &s;everal Iu&s;tices of Peace, to who&s;e hands any of the Moneys &s;o collected have been paid, &s;peedily to return as well the Certificates as the &s;aid Moneys, according to the pur|port of the &s;aid In&s;tructions, that &s;o tho&s;e Ends which have been propounded, and &s;hall be faithfully pro&s;ecuted for imploying the &s;aid Moneys for the &s;aid Prote&s;tants Relief, may with more &s;peed and ad|vantage be accompli&s;hed; On which Accompt His Highne&s;s doubts not, but all per&s;ons who bear the Name of Chri&s;t, will (according to their &s;everal Concernments herein) lay out their Intere&s;ts and faithful Endeavors in this &s;o pious, nece&s;&s;ary and honorable a Work, with Chearfulne&s;s and Ex|pedition.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>White-Hall</HI> <DATE>this <HI>12^t^h day of July, 1655.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Publi&s;hed by His Highne&s;s &s;pecial Command.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>Iohn Field,</HI> Printers to His Highne&s;s. 1655.</P>
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