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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, OF BOTH HOUSES OF <HI>PARLIAMENT,</HI> For Proclaiming of His MAJESTY King of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_ALthough it can no way be doubted, but that His Maje&s;ties Right and Title to His Crowns and Kingdoms, is, and was every way com|pleated by the Death of His mo&s;t Royal Father of Glorious Memory, without the Ceremony or Solemnity of a Proclamation; Yet &s;ince Proclamations in &s;uch ca&s;es have been alwayes u&s;ed, to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occa&s;ion te&s;tifie their Duty and Re|&s;pects; And &s;ince the Armed Violence, and other the Calamities of the&s;e many years la&s;t pa&s;t, have hitherto deprived Vs of any &s;uch op|portunity, wherein we might expre&s;s Our Loyalty and Allegiance to His Maje&s;tie: WE therefore the Lords and Commons now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, together with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com|mons of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and other Freemen of this Kingdom now pre&s;ent, Do, according to Our Duty and Allegiance, heartily, joyfully, and unanimou&s;ly Acknowledge and Proclaim, That immediately upon the Decea&s;e of Our late Sovereign Lord King <HI>CHARLES,</HI> the Impe|rial Crown of the Realm of <HI>England,</HI> and of all the Kingdoms, Dominions, and Rights belonging to the &s;ame, did by inherent Birth-right, and lawfull and undoubted Succe&s;&s;ion, de&s;cend and come to His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty <HI>CHARLES the Second,</HI> as being Lineally, Iu&s;tly, and Lawfully next Heir of the Blood-Royal of this Realm; And that by the Goodne&s;s and Providence of Al|mighty GOD, He is of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> the mo&s;t Potent, Mighty, and Vndoubted KING, Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And thereunto we mo&s;t humbly and faith|fully do &s;ubmit and oblige our Selves, our Heirs and Po&s;terities for ever.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated <DATE>the Eighth day of <HI>May, 1660.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the <HI>KING.</HI></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Martis, May</HI> 8. 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>ORdered by the Lords in Parliament a&s;&s;embled,</HI> That this PROCLAMATION be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>JO. BROWNE, <HI>Cleric. Parliamentorum.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-printed by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> in <HI>Harts</HI> Clo&s;e, over again&s;t the Trone-Church, 1660.</P>
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