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<HEAD>By the Lord Protector. A PROCLAMATION of his HIGHNES, with the con&s;ent of his Council, for continuing all Per&s;ons being in Office for the Execution of Publike Ju&s;tice at the time of the late Change of Government, until his HIGHNES further direction.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_OLIVER, LORD PROTECTOR</HI> of the Common-wealth of <HI>Eng|land, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> con&s;idering, That whereas the exerci&s;e of the chief Magi&s;tracy, and the Admini&s;tration of Government within the &s;aid Common-wealth, is inve&s;ted and e&s;tabli&s;hed in his Highne&s;s, a&s;si&s;ted with a Council, And le&s;t thereupon the &s;etled and ordinary cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice in the Common-wealth (if remedy were not provided) might receive interruption, his Highne&s;s in his care of the State, and publike Iu&s;tice thereof, (re&s;erving to future con&s;ideration the reformation and redre&s;s of any abu&s;es by mi&s;|government, upon better knowledge taken thereof) is plea&s;ed, and doth hereby expre&s;ly &s;ignifie, declare and ordain, by and with the advice and con&s;ent of his Council, who have power until the meeting of the next Parliament to make Laws &amp; Ordinances for the peace and welfare of the&s;e Nations, where it &s;hall be nece&s;|&s;ary, which &s;hall be binding and in force until Order &s;hall be taken in Parliament concerning the &s;ame, that all per&s;ons who on the 10. day of this in&s;tant <HI>Decem.</HI> were duly and lawfully po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ed of any place of Iudicature, or Office of Authority, Iuri&s;diction or Government, within this Common-wealth, &s;hall be, and &s;hall &s;o hold them&s;elves continued in the &s;aid Offices and places re&s;pectively as formely they held and enjoyed the &s;ame, and not otherwi&s;e, until his Highne&s;s plea&s;ure be further known; And all Commi&s;&s;ions, Patents, and other Grants, which re&s;pect or relate unto the doing and executing of publick Iu&s;tice, and all Proceedings of what Nature &s;oever in Courts of Common Law, or Equity, or in the Court of Admiralty, or by Commi&s;&s;ioners of Sewers, &s;hall &s;tand and be in the &s;ame and like force to all Intents and Purpo&s;es as the &s;ame were on the &s;aid tenth day of this in&s;tant <HI>December,</HI> until further Order given by his Highne&s;s therein; And that in the mean time (for pre&s;ervation of the publike Peace, and nece&s;&s;ary proceedings in matters of Iu&s;tice, and for Safety of the State) all the &s;aid Per&s;ons, of what&s;oever Place, Power, Degree, or Condition, may not fail, every one &s;everally according to his re&s;pective Place, Office or Charge, to proceed in the per|formance and execution of all Duties thereunto belonging, as formerly appertained to them and every of them, whil&s;t the former Government was in being.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at White-Hall <DATE>this 21. of December, in the year of our Lord 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> Printer to his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, 1653.</P>
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