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<P>HONI SIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>AT EDINBURGH, <DATE>The twelfth day of <HI>December,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;even.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas, there are many printed Copies of a mo&s;t trea&s;onable and &s;editious Pamphlet, Entituled, <HI>Naphtali; Or, wre&s;tlings of the Church of Scotland,</HI> lately imported, vended and di&s;per&s;ed within this Kingdom, of purpo&s;e to &s;educe the Subjects from their loyalty, alleagiance and obedience, and to &s;trengthen the di&s;-affected in their rebellions Principles and Practi&s;es; the &s;aid Pamphlet, upon examination, being found to be full of trea&s;on|able and &s;editious calumnies, and lyes, traducing the Kings Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> His Government, the proceedings of the late Parliament, Secret Council and other Judicatories, and tho&s;e entru&s;ted under His Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> with the Government of the Kingdom, both in Church and State, to the great &s;candal of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the di&s;turbance of the peace of the Kingdom, thereby to rai&s;e new &s;edition and troubles, and to involve the Kingdom again in an unnatural and bloody war. The printing of which Pamphlet, vending and di&s;per&s;ing thereof, being contrair to the laudable Laws and &s;everal Acts of Parliament made again&s;t the &s;ame; Therefore, and to vindicat the Honour of this Kingdom from &s;uch trea&s;onable and fal&s;e a&s;per&s;ions, in dete&s;tation of &s;uch abominable Practi&s;es, The Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council ordain, that upon the fourteenth day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant, the &s;aid Pamphlet be pub|lickly burnt in the high-street of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> near to the Mercat-cro&s;s thereof, by the hand of the Hangman; And that all havers of any of the &s;aids Pamphlets, re&s;iding be&s;outh the water of <HI>Tay,</HI> &s;hall bring in and deliver the &s;ame to the Sheriffs of the re&s;pective Shires or their Deputes, to be tran&s;mitted to the Clerk of the Privy Council by them, betwixt and the twelfth day of <HI>January</HI> next; and benorth the &s;aid water betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>February</HI> thereafter: With certification, that if thereafter, any per&s;on of what&s;oever degree, quality or &s;et they &s;hall be of, &s;hall have any of the &s;aids printed Copies in their cu&s;tody or po&s;&s;e&s;sion, that they &s;hall be lyable in payment of the &s;um of two thou&s;and pounds Scots money, to be exacted without any favour or defalcation. And farther, if they or any other per&s;on &s;hall be found hereafter to be contriver, abbettor or a&s;&s;i&s;ter to the making up, printing, publi&s;hing or di&s;per&s;ing of the &s;aid &s;editious Pamphlet, that they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t as Authors, Printers, Importers, Venders and Di&s;per&s;ers of &s;editious and infamous Libels, and all pains and penalties made again&s;t them &s;hall be inflicted without mercy. And ordains the Magi&s;trates of the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> to cau&s;e burn one of the Copies of the &s;aid Pamphlet in manner fore&s;aid: and that the&s;e pre&s;ents be forthwith printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat|-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. S^t^i^. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1667.</P>
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