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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION, Di&s;charging Trade and Commerce with the City of <HI>London,</HI> and other Places of the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> &s;u&s;pected of the Plague.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI></HI> <DATE><HI>the twenty one of <HI>December,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred &s;ixty five.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, taking to their &s;erious con&s;ideration, that albeit by the infinit mercy of GOD, this Kingdom hath been hitherto pre&s;erved from the plague of Pe&s;ti|lence, which hath long continued at <HI>London,</HI> and broken out in many other Towns and Places of the Kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> Yet the danger and fear of infection is as great as it hath been heretofore, by the re&s;ore of many People and Merchants to the City of <HI>London,</HI> and other Places &s;u&s;pected, for beginning Commerce and Trade, and adventuring to bring into this Kingdom all Commodities as formerly, albeit the Plague is not yet altogether cea&s;ed, and that all Goods and Merchandi&s;e to be imported from thence, may be yet ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pected: And that Merchants and other Traffickers may conceive, that the Act and Proclamation of the twelfth of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, whereby all Trade and Commerce betwixt this Kingdom and the City of <HI>London,</HI> and other &s;u&s;pected Places, was di&s;charged till the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t, is now no more in force after the elap&s;ing of the &s;aid fir&s;t of <HI>November;</HI> albeit by the &s;aid former Act and Proclamation, the &s;aid re&s;traint and prohibition is not only laid on till the &s;aid fir&s;t of <HI>November,</HI> but ay and while it &s;hould be expre&s;ly taken off by another Act and Proclamation. Therefore, that none pretend ignorance, they of new ratifie and approve the fore&s;aid Act, in the whole Heads and Clau&s;es thereof, and ordains all parties concerned to give full and exact obedience thereto, and declares the &s;ame to &s;tand and be of full force, untill the fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next to come, in the year of GOD, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;ix, and longer, ay and while the &s;ame be di&s;charged: With certification, if any per&s;on what&s;omever &s;hall contraveen the &s;ame, they &s;hall be lyable to the whole pains and penalties therein contained, to be inflicted without mercy. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed by Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Armes, at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Peer and Shoar of <HI>Lieth,</HI> Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of <HI>Dunce</HI> and <HI>Jedburgh,</HI> and other places needfull, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne, <HI>Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1665.</P>
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