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<HEAD>AN ORDINANCE OF BOTH HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT, For the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Publike Stage-Playes throughout the Kingdome, during the&s;e Calamitous Times.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed E&s;tate of Ireland, &s;teeped in her own Blood, and the di&s;tracted E&s;tate of England, threatned with a Cloud of Blood, by a Civill Warre; call for all po&s;&s;ible meanes to appea&s;e and avert the Wrath of God appearing in the&s;e Iudgements: Among&s;t which, Fa&s;ting and Prayer having bin often tryed to be very effectuall, have bin lately, and are &s;till enjoyned: And whereas publike Sports doe not well agree with publike Calamities, nor publike Stage-Playes with the Sea&s;ons of Humiliation, this being an Exerci&s;e of &s;ad and pious Solemnity, and the other being Spectacles of Plea&s;ure, too commonly expre&s;&s;ing lacivious Mirth and levitie: It is therfore thought fit, and Ordeined by the Lords and Commons in this Parliament A&s;&s;em|bled, that while the&s;e &s;ad Cau&s;es and &s;et times of Humiliation doe con|tinue, publike Stage-playes &s;hall cea&s;e, and bee forborne. In&s;tead of which, are recommended to the people of this Land, the profitable and &s;ea&s;onable Con&s;iderations of Repentance, Reconciliation, and peace with God, which probably may produce outward peace and pro&s;perity, and bring againe Times of Joy and Gladne&s;&s;e to the&s;e Nations.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die &V;eneris, <HI>Septemb.</HI> the <HI>2. 1642.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that this Ordinance concerning <HI>Stage-Playes</HI> be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne Cler. Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Septemb. 3. London printed for Iohn Wright. 1642,</P>
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