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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A PROCLAMATION To Re&s;train the Spreading of Fal&s;e News, and Licentious Talking of Matters of State and Government.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by the antient Laws and Satutes of this Realm, great and heavy Penalties are Inflicted upon all &s;uch as &s;hall be found to be &s;preaders of fal&s;e News, or promoters of any Malicious Slanders and Calumnies in their ordinary and common Di&s;cour&s;es, and by a late Statute made in the Thirteenth year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, <HI>Who&s;o|ever &s;hall Utter or Publi&s;h any words, or things to Incite and Stir up the People to hatred or di&s;like of the Per&s;on of His Maje&s;ty, or the E&s;tabli&s;ht Government, is thereby made uncapable of holding any Office or Imployment what&s;oever either in Church or State.</HI> Notwith&s;tanding all which Laws and Statutes, there have been of late more bold and Licentious Di&s;cour&s;es then formerly; and men have a&s;&s;umed to them&s;elves a liberty, not only in <HI>Coffee-hou&s;es,</HI> but in other Places and Meetings, both publick and private, to cen&s;ure and defame the Proceedings of State, by &s;peaking evil of things they under&s;tand not, and endeavour|ing to create and nouri&s;h an univer&s;al Jealou&s;ie and Di&s;&s;atisfaction in the minds of all His Maje&s;ties good Subjects: His Maje&s;ty con&s;idering therefore that Offences of this nature, cannot proceed from want or ignorance of Laws to Restrain and puni&s;h them, but mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity proceed from the re&s;tle&s;&s;e Ma|lice of &s;ome, who&s;e &s;editious ends and aims are already too well known, or from the carele&s;&s;e demeanour of others, who pre&s;ume too much upon His Maje&s;ties accu&s;tomed Clemency and Goodne&s;&s;e, Hath thought fit by Advice of His Council, to Publi&s;h this His Royal Proclamation; And doth hereby fore|warn, and straitly Command all His Loving Subjects, of what &s;tate or condition &s;oever they be, from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t, that they pre&s;ume not henceforth by Writing or Speaking, to &V;tter or Publi&s;h any Fal&s;e News or Reports, or to intermeddle with the Affairs of State and Government, or with the per&s;ons of any His Maje&s;ties Coun&s;ellours or Ministers, in their common and ordinary Di&s;cour&s;es, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their utmo&s;t perils. And becau&s;e all bold and irreverent Speeches touching matters of this high nature are puni&s;hable, not onely in the Speakers, but in the Hearers al&s;o, unle&s;&s;e they do &s;peedily reveal the &s;ame unto &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, or &s;ome other His Majesties Judges or Ju&s;tices of the Peace within the &s;pace of four and twenty hours next after &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ords &s;poken. Therefore that all men may be left without excu&s;e, who &s;hall not hereafter contain them|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">elves within that modest and dutiful Regard which becomes them, His Maje&s;ty doth further De|clare, That he will proceed with all Severity, again&s;t all manner of per&s;ons who &s;hall u&s;e any bold or un|lawful Speeches of this nature, or be pre&s;ent at any <HI>Coffee-hou&s;e,</HI> or other publick or private meeting where &s;uch Speeches are u&s;ed, without Revealing the &s;ame in due time, His Maje&s;ty being re&s;olved to Suppre&s;&s;e this unlawful and undutiful kind of Di&s;cour&s;e, by a mo&s;t Strict and Exemplary Puni&s;h|ment of all &s;uch Offenders as &s;hall be hereafter di&s;covered.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the 12^t^h day of <HI>June,</HI> in the 24^t^h year of Our Reign, 1672.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-printed in the Year, 1672.</P>
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