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<P>OLIVARIVS DEI GRA: REIPVB: ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, ET HIBERNIAE, &amp;^c PROTECTOR</P>
<P>PAX QVAERITVR BELLO.</P>
</FIGURE>&leaf; By the Protector. A PROCLAMATION Commanding all Papi&s;ts and all other per&s;ons, who have been of the late Kings Party or his Sons, to depart out of the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and late Lines of Communication, on or before <DATE><HI>Munday</HI> the 8. of <HI>March,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty &s;even.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>_HIs Highne&s;s the Lord Protector being informed of the frequent meeting of divers Pa|pi&s;ts and other ill-affected per&s;ons (who have born Arms again&s;t this Common|wealth, or otherwi&s;e adhered to the Enemies in the late Wars) in, and about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and the places adjacent, and having received of late certain intelligence of de&s;ignes now on Foot, and endeavoured to be carried on by corre&s;pondencies with the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> and with <HI>Charls Stuart,</HI> and their Agents and Complices, and judging it nece&s;&s;ary to u&s;e all means for pre&s;erving of the Peace of the Nation, and to prevent the mi&s;chiefs which may ari&s;e by &s;uch de&s;ignes, Doth (by, and with the advice of his Privy Council) &s;traitly Charge and Command all Papi&s;ts, and all other per&s;ons, who have been at any time in Arms again&s;t the Commonwealth, or have adhered unto, or willingly a&s;&s;i&s;ted the Enemies thereof in the time of the late War, being within the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> or the late Lines of Communication, and not under re&s;traint, on or before the Eighth day of March now next coming, (or if under re&s;traint, then within three daies after their re&s;pective enlargement) to depart out of the &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and late lines of Communication, and all other places within Twenty miles of the &s;aid late Lines, unle&s;s it be their places of habitation for them&s;elves and their Families, and not to return until the Fir&s;t day of <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> Term next: And His Highne&s;s doth Require and Command the Lord Mayor of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the Aldermen of the &s;aid City, and likewi&s;e the Iu&s;tices of the Peace within the &s;aid Cities, and of the &s;everal Counties of <HI>Middle&s;ex, Surrey, Hertford, Kent</HI> and <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> within their Limits and Iurisdictions, to cau&s;e &s;trict Wards and Watches to be kept, and to make frequent and diligent &s;earches for, and to apprehend, or cau&s;e to be apprehended, all &s;uch per&s;ons afore&s;aid, which &s;hall be found within the &s;aid Cities, Pla|ces, or Di&s;tance afore&s;aid, after the time or times before Limited for their departure, and them and every of them to commit to Pri&s;on, and from time to time to certifie their proceedings therein, to His Highne&s;s Council, under their Hands and Seals. And all Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, all Cap|tains of Guards, Officers and Souldiers, and all other the good People of this Commonwealth, are Required to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Iu&s;tices of the Peace, and other Officers afore&s;aid, in the due execution of the Premi&s;&s;es, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their utmo&s;t perils. And for the better di&s;covery of all Papi&s;ts, and ill affected per&s;ons which now are, or during the time a|fore&s;aid, &s;hall re&s;ort unto the &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> or Places within the late Lines of Communication, His Highne&s;s, by, and with the advice of His &s;aid Privy Council, doth Charge and Require all and every Hou&s;holder and Hou&s;holders, within the &s;aid Cities and Places afore&s;aid, on or before the Tenth day of <HI>March</HI> now next coming, to deliver in writing under their Hands unto the Alderman of the Ward, if &s;uch Hou&s;holder live within the City of <HI>London,</HI> or to the next Iu&s;tice of the Peace, a perfect Li&s;t of the Names of all per&s;ons now lodging within the Hou&s;e of &s;uch Hou&s;holder, together with their Additions; and if they are Papi&s;ts, to mention the &s;ame in &s;uch Li&s;t, and &s;o from time to time within Four and twenty hours after the receiving of any per&s;on to Lodge in his or their Hou&s;e and Hou&s;es, to deliver in the Names of &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons in manner afore&s;aid, to &s;uch Alderman or next Iu&s;tice of the Peace: And the Aldermen of the re&s;pective Wards within the &s;aid City of <HI>London,</HI> and the Iu&s;tices of Peace within the &s;aid City of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and places within the late Lines of Communication, are Required to take care that Li&s;ts be accordingly &s;ent in unto them from all and every Hou&s;holder afore&s;aid, and to make enquiry of the truth of &s;uch Li&s;ts: And all Con&s;tables and other Officers are enjoyned and required to ob&s;erve the Orders and Directions of &s;uch Alderman and Iu&s;tice of Peace re&s;pectively herein, and to yield obedience there|unto. And the &s;aid Aldermen and Iu&s;tices of the Peace re&s;pectively, are hereby likewi&s;e required to tran&s;mit true Copies of &s;uch Li&s;ts unto the Clerks of his Highne&s;s Council, or one of them: And his Highne&s;s doth hereby declare, that all and every &s;uch Hou&s;holder as &s;hall make default of &s;ending in &s;uch Li&s;ts as afore&s;aid, or &s;hall &s;end in a fal&s;e Li&s;t, &s;hall be taken and deemed an Enemy to the Peace and Security of the Commonwealth.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Palace of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE>the 27th day of <HI>February,</HI> in the year of Our Lord, 1657.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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