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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION OF WILLIAM and MARY, KING and QUEEN of <HI>England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> To all Their Loving Subjects in the Kingdom of <HI>IRELAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>WILLIAM R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas it is incumbent upon Us to take care of, and pre&s;erve all Our Subjects within Our Do|minions, of what Per&s;wa&s;ion &s;oever in Matters of Religion; And We being highly &s;en&s;ible of the Mi&s;eries Our Kingdom of <HI>Ireland</HI> is, and may be expo&s;ed to, by the Forces there rai&s;|ed and kept up, under pretence of Religion, at the In&s;tigation of Romi&s;h Priests, and by the Influence of Foraign Councils, in Oppo&s;ition to Us and Our Government; And being de&s;irous to prevent the Calamities and Destruction, that must fall upon Our People in that Kingdom, in ca&s;e Our Forces, now ready to enter the &s;aid Kingdom, (which We doubt not, but with Gods Help, may be &s;ufficient to reduce it to due Obedience) &s;hall proceed to Effect the &s;ame: We do hereby Declare and Promi&s;e to all Our Sub|jects what&s;oever within that Kingdom, Full and entire Pardon and Indemnity for all things by them Act|ed, Done or Committed, by Virtue or Colour of any Authority, of pretended Authority within the &s;aid Kingdom, and a full and free Enjoyment of their re&s;pective E&s;tates, according to Law, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> upon Notice of Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, &s;ignified in this Our Declaration, they &s;hall lay down their Arms, and retire them&s;elves to their re&s;pective Habitations and Places of Abode, at, or before the tenth Day of <HI>April</HI> next, and there &s;hall peaceably behave them&s;elves, and live as good Subjects ought to do.</P>
<P>And We do hereby further Declare and Promi&s;e to all Our Subjects of the Romi&s;h Church, that hither|to have not taken Arms, or that &s;hall upon Notice of this Our Declaration lay down their Arms, and re|tire and live as afore&s;aid, That they &s;hall for the future have all the Favour for the private Exerci&s;e of their Religion, that the Law allows, and we can now grant to them; And that we &s;hall &s;peedily call a Parliament in the &s;aid Kingdom, and therein promote a further Indulgence to them.</P>
<P>And We do hereby further Declare, That if notwith&s;tanding this Our Declaration, any of Our Sub|jects &s;hall continue in Arms in Oppo&s;ition to Us, that we &s;hall then think Our Selves free and clear of all the Blood that may be Spilt, and of the De&s;truction and Mi&s;ery, which by rea&s;on thereof may be occa|&s;ioned; And We &s;hall look upon Our Selves to be ju&s;tified before God and Man, in Our Proceedings by Force and Arms again&s;t them, as Rebels and Traitors; And &s;uch We do hereby Declare all tho&s;e to be who &s;hall Act as afore&s;aid, again&s;t us and Our Authority, as is herein expre&s;&s;ed: And that the Lands and E&s;tates of all &s;uch as &s;hall, after Notice of this Our Declaration, per&s;ist in their Rebellion, or be in any wi&s;e Abettors thereof, and which by Law will be Forfeited unto Us, &s;hall be by Us di&s;tributed and di&s;po&s;ed to tho&s;e, that &s;hall be Aiding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting in reducing the &s;aid Kingdom to its due Obedience.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at<HI> Whitehall </HI><DATE>this 22th, Day of<HI> February, </HI>1688</DATE>. In the Fir&s;t Year of Our Reign.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed by <HI>Charles Bill</HI> and <HI>Thomas Newcomb,</HI> Printers to the King and Queen's most Excellent Maje&s;ties. And Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> in the Year 1689.</P>
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