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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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By his Excellency the Lord General
AND THE
Council of State.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas Information is given that &s;everall per&s;ons di&s;affect|ed
to the Peace of this Common-wealth, upon occa&s;ion of
the pre&s;ent change of Government, do a&s;&s;emble together
in a riotous and tumultuous manner in the great Level of
the Fenns, and contrary to the Law in that ca&s;e pro|vided,
throw in Inclo&s;ures, and by violence and force di&s;|po&s;&s;e&s;s
the Adventurers for Dreining the &s;aid great Level,
who in pur&s;uance of an Act of Parliament, have been
e&s;tabli&s;ht in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of &s;everall proportions of Land
aiotted to them in recompence of their &s;aid undertaking: which his &s;aid Excel|lency,
and Council of State, taking into con&s;ideration, and how illegal and pre|judicial
to the peace of this Nation &s;uch proceedings are, have held them&s;elves
obliged &s;treightiy to forbid (as they do hereby) all &s;uch unlawfull A&s;&s;emblies,
and riotous Actings for the future.</P>
<P>And to the end that all pretences may be taken away from the &s;aid per&s;ons, The
Council hath appointed unintere&s;&s;ed per&s;ons of the &s;everal Counties wherein the
Level lies, to be Commis&s;ioners, to be Re&s;ident from time to time upon the place,
to hear and determine in a &s;hort and ea&s;ie way, particular Complaints and Grie|vances
in reference to the Dreining of the great Levell, to whom all &s;uch per&s;ons
may in a peaceable manner make their application, and have right done unto them;
And therefore if any Per&s;ons what&s;oever &s;hall hereafter continue the afore&s;aid
force and violence, or di&s;turb the &s;aid Adventurers, or their Agents, in their pof|fe&s;&s;ion,
or proceeding in the Works of Dreining, according to the &s;aid Act of Par|liament,
or otherwi&s;e demean them&s;elves in any riotous, di&s;orderly, or tumultu|ous
manner, they are to be lookt upon as di&s;turbers of the publick Peace, and
be proceeded again&s;t accordingly; And all Maiors, Bayliffs, Sheriffs, Ju&s;tices
of the Peace, Con&s;tables, and other Magi&s;trates and Officers both Civil
and Military, are hereby required to be very carefull and vigilant in the premi&s;&s;es,
and if any thing be done contrary hereunto, they are to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting
to bring the Offenders to puni&s;hment.</P>
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<P><DATE><HI>Wedne&s;day June</HI> 29. 1653.</DATE> At the Council of State at White-Hall, Ordered, That this
Declaration be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Thurloe</SIGNED> Secr.</CLOSER>
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<P>London, <HI>Printed for</HI> Giles Calvert, Thomas Brewster, <HI>and by and for</HI> Henry Hills, <HI>MCDLIII.</HI></P>
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