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<P>OLIVARIVS DEI GRA: REIP: ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, ET HIBERNIAE, &amp;^c PROTECTOR</P>
<P>PAX QVAERITUR BELLO.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Protector. A PROCLAMATION Of His Highne&s;s, Prohibiting Hor&s;e-Races in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales</HI> for Eight Moneths.</HEAD>
<P>_ALthough it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God of his infinite mercy and goodne&s;s, to di&s;cover and di&s;appoint from time to time the manifold, wicked, and &s;ecret Plots and Devices again&s;t the peace and welfare of the&s;e Nations, contrived by the re&s;tle&s;s &amp; implacable Enemies of this Commonwealth, yet they &s;till make it their bu&s;ine&s;s and take hold of all opportuni|ties to in&s;inuate their Principles into the mindes of tho&s;e that are of &s;ober and peaceable di&s;po&s;itions; and that chiefly by the advantage of publique Meetings, and the concour&s;e of People at Hor&s;e-Races and other &s;uch like Meetings, that they may the better carry on their pernici|ous ends to involve the&s;e Nations in new Troubles. His Highne&s;s therefore, with the advice of His Privy Council, hath thought fit to declare His Will and plea&s;ure to be, And doth expre&s;ly charge and Command, That from and after the Eighth day of this in&s;tant <HI>April,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred Fifty and eight, during the &s;pace of eight Moneths from thence next en&s;uing, there &s;hall be no Hor&s;e-Races, nor any Meetings or A&s;&s;embling together for that purpo&s;e of any per&s;ons what&s;oever, on any pretence or colour in any place or places what&s;oever, within this His Highne&s;s Realm of <HI>England</HI> or Dominion of <HI>Wales.</HI> And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons of what e&s;tate, degree, quality or condition &s;oever, &s;hall at any time during the &s;aid &s;pace of 8. Moneths, pre&s;ume or take upon him or them to appoint any Hor&s;e-Race or Hor&s;e-Races, or a&s;&s;emble or meet together in any place or places by any colour or pretence what&s;oe|ver, Then and in &s;uch ca&s;e they are and &s;hall be, and &s;hall be taken and proceeded again&s;t as breakers of the publique Peace, and contemners of His Highne&s;s ju&s;t Commands herein. And His Highne&s;s Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Majors, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, Headboroughs, and (other His High|ne&s;s Officers and Mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice, calling to their ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;tance (if need require) any Offi|cers or Souldiers of His Highne&s;s Army quartered or lying near &s;uch place or places) are hereby &s;trait|ly charged and Commanded, That immediately upon notice given unto them, or any of them, of any &s;uch Hor&s;e-Race, or Hor&s;e-Races, or appointment thereof, they do not omit but repair to tho&s;e places, and &s;ei&s;e or cau&s;e to be &s;ei&s;ed all and every &s;uch Hor&s;es as &s;hall be brought or &s;ent to the &s;aid place or places; And likewi&s;e to apprehend and cau&s;e to be apprehended and keep, or cau&s;e to be kept in &s;afe cu&s;tody, the bodies of all and every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, who &s;hall &s;o a&s;&s;emble and meet together, on any &s;uch pretences, or other pretence what&s;oever, and bring or cau&s;e them to be brought before the Lords of His Highne&s;s Privy Council, to be examined and further proceeded again&s;t for their contempts according to the &s;everity of Law and Iu&s;tice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at His Highne&s;s Palace of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE>the 8th day of <HI>April,</HI> in the year of Our Lord, 1658.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>London, Printed by <HI>Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to His Highne&s;s, 1658.</P>
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