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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A PROCLAMATION, Commanding all Per&s;ons being Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or &s;o reputed, to depart from the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and all other Places within Ten miles of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, having taken into their &s;erious Con&s;ideration the Bloudy and Traiterous De&s;igns of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants again&s;t His Maje&s;ties Sacred Per&s;on and Government, and the Prote&s;tant Religion, have (for preven|tion thereof) mo&s;t humbly be&s;ought His Maje&s;ty to i&s;&s;ue forth His Royal Proclamation, to the effect, and for the purpo&s;es hereafter mentioned: The Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty hath been Graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed readily to conde&s;cend thereunto; And doth by this His Royal Proclamation &s;traitly Charge and Command all per&s;ons being Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or &s;o reputed, that they do on or before the Seventh day of <HI>November</HI> next en&s;uing (under pain of His Maje&s;ties highe&s;t Di&s;|plea&s;ure, and of the &s;evere&s;t Execution of the Laws again&s;t them) depart and retire them&s;elves and their Families from His Maje&s;ties Royal Palaces of <HI>Whitehall, Somer&s;et Hou&s;e,</HI> and St. <HI>James,</HI> the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and from all other Places within Ten miles di&s;tance of the &s;ame: And that no Per&s;on being a Popi&s;h Recu&s;ant, or &s;o reputed, do pre&s;ume at any time hereafter to repair or return to His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Palaces, or any of them, or to the &s;aid Cities, or either of them, or within Ten miles of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Provided, That nothing before contained, &s;hall extend to &s;uch Hou&s;holders dwelling within the &s;aid Cities, or either of them, or in any Place within Ten miles of the &s;ame, who being Traders; exerci&s;ing &s;ome Trade or Manual Occupation, have been there &s;ettled for the &s;pace of Twelve Months la&s;t pa&s;t, in Hou&s;es of their Own, and have not an Habitation el&s;e|where, and who &s;hall give in their Names, and the Names of all other Per&s;ons in their Families, to the two next Ju&s;tices of the Peace. And His Maje&s;ty doth &s;trictly Charge and Command, That immediately after the &s;aid Seventh day of <HI>Novem|ber,</HI> the Con&s;tables, Church-wardens, and other Pari&s;h Officers within the &s;aid Cities, and either of them, and within Ten miles of the &s;ame, do go from Hou&s;e to Hou&s;e in their &s;everal Pari&s;hes, Hamlets, Con&s;tabularies, and Divi&s;ions re&s;pective|ly, and there take an Account of the Names and Surnames of all &s;uch Per&s;ons as are Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or reputed &s;o to be, as well Hou&s;holders as Lodgers, or Servants, and to carry a Li&s;t of their Names to the two next Ju&s;tices of the Peace, who are hereby Required and Enjoyned to &s;end for them, and every of them, and to tender to them and every of them, the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and to commit to Pri&s;on till the next &s;ucceeding Se&s;&s;ions of the Peace, all &s;uch Per&s;ons as &s;hall refu&s;e the &s;aid Oaths, and at the &s;aid next Se&s;&s;ions to proceed again&s;t them according to Law: His Maje&s;ty hereby giving the &s;aid Ju&s;tices to under&s;tand, That the better to enable them to tender the &s;aid Oaths, His Maje&s;ty hath Commanded re&s;pective Commi&s;&s;ions to be i&s;&s;ued under His Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> to the Ju&s;tices of Peace within the &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and the Places within Ten miles of the &s;ame, to Authorize and Require them, or any two of them re&s;pectively, to admini&s;ter the &s;aid Oaths accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the Thirtieth day of <HI>October, 1678.</HI> in the Thirtieth year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred MAJESTY. 1678.</P>
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