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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>At the Court at</HI> Whitehall, <DATE><HI>the Third of</HI> October, 1676.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>Pre&s;ent 
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<ITEM>The Kings mo&s;t Excellent Majesty</ITEM>
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<ITEM>His Highne&s;s Prince <HI>Rupert</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Chancellor</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Trea&s;urer</ITEM>
<ITEM>Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Duke of <HI>Lauderdale</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earl of <HI>O&s;sery</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earl of <HI>Sunderland</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earl of <HI>Peterborrow</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earl of <HI>Bath</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earl of <HI>Craven</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earl of <HI>Carbery</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Vi&s;count <HI>Faconberg</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Vi&s;count <HI>Newport</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. Secretary <HI>Coventry</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. Secretary William&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter of the Ordnance.</ITEM>
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<P>_Whereas His Maje&s;ty and this Boord are informed of the bold and open repair made to &s;everal places, and e&s;pecially to Her Maje&s;ties Chappel at <HI>Somer&s;et. Hou&s;e,</HI> and the Hou&s;es of Forreign Amba&s;&s;adors, Agents, and other Publick Mini&s;ters, for the hearing of Ma&s;s, and other Wor&s;hip and Service of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Church; and that the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adors, Agents, and Mini&s;ters, do permit and &s;uffer both daily Ma&s;&s;es to be &s;aid, and other Wor&s;hip and Service to be performed in their Hou&s;es, in a publick manner, by <HI>Engli&s;h, Scoti&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Prie&s;ts, and al&s;o Sermons in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> to be Preached in their &s;aid Hou&s;es and Chappels, which the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom do expre&s;ly forbid His &s;ubjects to frequent or do: His Maje&s;ty taking the &s;ame into &s;erious Con&s;ideration, and being &s;en&s;ible thereof, as a matter highly tending to the violation of the Laws of the Realm, and the &s;candal of Religion and Go|vernment, and breach of good Order, and in His Princely Wi&s;dom weighing the dangerous Con&s;equence thereof, is Re&s;olved to take &s;trict Order for the &s;topping this evil before it &s;pread any further.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty therefore, by the advice of his Council, doth hereby forbid any of His &s;aid &s;ubjects hereafter to offend in the like kind, at their utmo&s;t perils; And &s;traitly Commands. That no others pre&s;ume to Re&s;ort to Her Maje&s;ties Chappel, but &s;uch as are Her Majesties Dome&s;tick Servants. And to the end this Provi&s;ion and Order may be the more effectual, His maje&s;ty doth Command, that fora&s;much as concerneth the repair to the hou&s;es of forreign Amba&s;&s;a|dors, Agents and Mini&s;ters, at the time of Ma&s;s, or other <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Wor&s;hip or Service, &s;ome Me&s;&s;engers of the Cham|ber, or other Officers or per&s;ons fit for that &s;ervice, be appointed to Watch at the &s;everal Pa&s;&s;ages to their Hou&s;es, and without entring into the &s;aid hou&s;es, or invading the Freedom and Priviledges belonging unto them, ob&s;erve &s;uch per&s;ons as go thither at &s;uch times, without &s;topping or que&s;tioning any as they go thither, but at their coming from thence, they are to apprehend and bring the &s;aid per&s;ons to the Boord, and &s;uch as they cannot apprehend, to bring their Names. And that the Amba&s;&s;adors and other Forreign Mini&s;ters may have no cau&s;e to complain for this Proceeding, as if there were any intention to wrong or di&s;re&s;pect them, His Maje&s;ty doth likewi&s;e order, for the preventing of any &s;uch mi&s;taking and &s;ini&s;ter interpretation, that His principal Secretaries of State (according unto His Maje&s;ties expre&s;s Commands now gi|ven unto them) &s;hould be hereby authorized and required forthwith to repair to the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adors, Agents, and other forreign Mini&s;ters, to make known unto them His Maje&s;ties Plea&s;ure concerning the &s;ame; And that as His Maje&s;ty is careful not to have any the ju&s;t Priviledges and Immunities of the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adors, Agents, or Mini&s;ters, to be in any degree infringed or violated, &s;o in the afore&s;aid particulars of permitting Ma&s;&s;es or other Service to be &s;aid by any of the &s;aid Prie&s;ts, or Sermons to be preached in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in their Hou&s;es or Chappels (things never heard of or attemp|ted by any precedent Amba&s;&s;adors or Agents here) or in &s;uffering His &s;ubjects to re&s;ort unto them, His Maje&s;ty is no le&s;s careful of pre&s;erving His Laws, and conteining His Subjects in their due obedience to the &s;ame; and doth therefore ex|pect the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adors, Agents and Mini&s;ters compliance accordingly. And hereof His Maje&s;ty thinks fit that Notice &s;hould be fir&s;t given to the &s;aid publick Mini&s;ters (the rather to te&s;tifie His Re&s;pects unto them) before the &s;tricter cour&s;e His Maje&s;ty hath re&s;olved, be taken with His own Subjects, by a vigorous Pro&s;ecution, and Infliction of Penalties and Puni&s;hments for the preventing and repre&s;&s;ing the like hereafter.</P>
<P>And it is likewi&s;e Ordered, that the Ma&s;&s;engers of the Chamber, or others to be imployed in the &s;ervice before &s;pecified, &s;hall be appointed, and receive their Charge from the Lord Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> and the &s;aid Secretaries, or &s;ome of them, who are to take &s;pecial care to &s;ee this put in due and effectual Execution.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>EDW. WALKER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty. <HI>Anno Dom. 1676.</HI></P>
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