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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
</FIGURE>By the King. A PROCLAMATION, Prohibiting the &s;eizing of any Per&s;ons, or Searching Hou&s;es without Warrant, except in time of Actual In&s;urrections.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas ever &s;ince Our arrival into <HI>England,</HI> We have made it Our great care and Study to improve the mercies of Almighty God in Our Happy and Miraculous Re&s;tauration, by endeavouring all that lay in Us, to compo&s;e and &s;ettle the minds of all Our Subjects: And in order thereunto We did fre&eacute;ly give Our Royal a&s;&s;ent to an act of General Pardon and Oblivion (which We are re&s;olved inviolably on Our part to ke&eacute;p and ob&s;erve) yet &s;uch hath be&eacute;n the re&s;tle&s;s and perver&s;e di&s;po&s;ition of certain unrea&s;onable men di&s;affected to Our Royal Per&s;on and Government, that they have lately attempted, and actually began the levying a new War, and the re|vival (as much as in them lay) of tho&s;e differences and divi&s;ions which We have &s;o often de&s;ired and endeavoured to have buried in perpetual Oblivion: And for the bet|ter effecting their malicious and traitorous purpo&s;es, had provided them&s;elves with &s;tores of Arms and other Warlike Ammunition, and many of them lay privately, and do yet lurk in and about Our Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> watching all opportunities to put their wicked de&s;igns in executi|on: For preventing whereof, and for the pre&s;ervation of Our Peace, We have been nece&s;&s;itated to cau&s;e diligent &s;earch to be made for &s;uch Arms, and to &s;ecure &s;everal per&s;ons, whom We had good cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect to be engaged in the &s;aid wicked and traitorous de&s;igns; Which neverthele&s;s We de&s;ired might be done in &s;o orderly a man|ner as &s;uch an exigence would bear, and not to the terrifying&punc; di&s;turbance, or injury of any of Our good Subjects who were lately of the Army under the Duke of <HI>Albemarle,</HI> and therein in&s;trumental to Our Happy Re&s;taura|tion, or others, in their Per&s;ons, E&s;tates, or Families.</P>
<P>And We being given to under&s;tand, That during tho&s;e late Commotions, &s;everal per&s;ons have been impri&s;on|ed by Souldiers and others, their Hou&s;es &s;earched, and their Goods taken away without lawful Authority, And that thereupon opprobrious words and terms of di&s;&s;en&s;ion and di&s;crimination of parties have been u&s;ed and given, to Our great di&s;&s;ervice, contrary to the before-&s;aid Act of Pardon and Oblivion; and notwith&s;tanding Our Royal Plea&s;ure &s;o often publi&s;hed and declared to the contrary.</P>
<P>The&s;e are therefore &s;trictly to Charge and Command all Officers and Souldiers, and all other per&s;ons what|&s;oever (unle&s;s it be upon inevitable nece&s;&s;ity of &s;uddain and actual Rebellion or In&s;urrection) to forbear to mo|le&s;t or trouble any of Our good Subjects, either in their Per&s;ons or E&s;tates, and not to pre&s;ume to apprehend or &s;ecure any per&s;on or per&s;ons, or &s;eize any Armes what&s;oever, or to &s;earch any hou&s;es, without a lawful War|rant under the Hand and Seal of &s;ome one or more of the Lords of Our Privy Council, or under the Hand and Seal of &s;ome one or more of Our Lord Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, or Iu&s;tices of the Peace, in their re&s;pective Liberties and Precincts, within the &s;everal Counties, Cities, and Towns Corporate, in Our Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed:</HI> And We Will that the &s;aid Warrants be always directed to &s;ome Con&s;table, or other known Legal Officer; and that no Souldiers do other|wi&s;e interpo&s;e or meddle with the execution of any of the &s;aid Warrants, then by aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting of the &s;aid Con&s;table, or other &s;uch known Legal Officer or Officers, as afore&s;aid: And all Military Officers and Soul|diers are hereby commanded to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to &s;uch Con&s;table, or other Legal Officers, being by them or any of them thereunto required: And we do hereby declare, That a&s;well all tho&s;e who &s;hall hereafter be &s;o hardy as to offend again&s;t this Our Proclamation, &s;hall not onely not receive countenance from Us therein, but &s;hall be left to be proceeded again&s;t according to Our Laws, and incur Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, as per&s;ons doing their utmo&s;t to bring &s;candal and contempt upon Our Government.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the Seventeenth day of <HI>January,</HI> in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign, One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill,</HI> Printer to the KING'S mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1660&punc;</P>
<P>At the KING'S Printing-Hou&s;e in <HI>Black-Friers.</HI></P>
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