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<NAME>Colm MacCrossan</NAME>
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<ITEM>We&s;t Rid. </ITEM>
<ITEM>Com. Ebor. &s;&s;.</ITEM>
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<DATELINE>Ad general. Se&s;&s;ion. pacis Dom. Regis tent. apud Donca&s;ter, per adjourn. in &amp; per le We&s;t Rid. Com. praed. <DATE>decimo &s;exto die Januarii, Anno Regni Dom. no&s;tri Caroli &s;ecundi nunc Regis Angl. &amp;c. trice&s;imo quarto.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<HEAD>The Humble Pre&s;entment of the Grand Jury at the &s;aid Se&s;&s;ions, as followeth.</HEAD>
<P>WE do pre&s;ent, That nothing like Union both in Church and State, can contribute to the happine&s;s of this Government, and to its continuance, as it is now e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law.</P>
<P>That remi&s;sne&s;s both in Magi&s;trates and Officers, as to the putting all Laws in exe|cution again&s;t Popi&s;h and Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters is hurtful to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>We do al&s;o pre&s;ent, That all per&s;ons who&s;e Wor&s;hip is contrary to the Liturgy and Practice of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> are equally dangerous to the Government; and that all Magi&s;trates are under an equal obligation to put the Laws in execution, as well again&s;t Popi&s;h as Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters.</P>
<P>We do al&s;o pre&s;ent, That where any Magi&s;trates are ob&s;erved to favour factions, and not to put the Laws in execution, as afore&s;aid, the King ought to be acquainted therewith, that his authority may not be made u&s;e of, to protect where it ought to puni&s;h.</P>
<P>We do al&s;o pre&s;ent, That the names of all per&s;ons, whether Papi&s;ts or Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters, known to be di&s;affected, con&s;equently dangerous to the Government, ought to be repre&s;ented to the Lord Lieutenant or his Deputies, to the end they may forthwith be di&s;armed, according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm.</P>
<P>We do further pre&s;ent, That the neglects of Con&s;tables, and other Officers, in putting the Laws in execution again&s;t Rogues, Vagrants, petty Chap-men and <HI>Scotch</HI> Pedlars is dangerous and prejudicial to his Maje&s;ties Subjects, and e&s;pecially to the Trades-men of this Kingdom.</P>
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<P>WE his Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of the Peace of the &s;aid Riding, pre&s;ent at the &s;aid Se&s;&s;ions, do here|by declare our con&s;ent and concurrence with the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, repre&s;ent|ing the body of the &s;aid Riding, in their above&s;aid Pre&s;entment; and have re&s;olved, in order thereun|to, to u&s;e all diligent and lawful means of contriving to put the Laws in execution again&s;t all Di&s;&s;en|ters, as well Popi&s;h as Prote&s;tant; per&s;ons, who though they differ in the manner, yet agree too vi&s;ibly in the matter, of fo&s;tering and encouraging of Schi&s;m and Faction.</P>
<P>We further Order, the like Warrants be &s;ent out from this Se&s;&s;ions which were from the la&s;t, to all Chief Con&s;tables, Petty Con&s;tables, Church-wardens and Over&s;eers of the Poor, commanding them, and every of them, to give an account in Writing, upon Oath, to the Ju&s;tices of the Peace at the next Se&s;&s;ions, to be held at <HI>Pontefract,</HI> for this Riding, what Conventicles are held, and who are Di&s;&s;enters, with their Names, in their re&s;pective Pari&s;hes, Towns or Hamblets, to the end they may be proceeded gain&s;t, and pro&s;ecuted according to Law.</P>
<P>We further Order, this Pre&s;entment be Printed, and one of them be affixed to every Warrant &s;o di&s;tri|buted and &s;ent out, to the end we may fir&s;t rightly execute the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us by his Sacred Maje&s;ty, in the execution of the Laws; and that all Di&s;&s;enters, of either or any per&s;wa&s;ion, knowing our re|&s;olutions herein, may have warning thereby to reconcile them&s;elves to the Church, and to avoid the penalty of the Laws.</P>
<P>And we further Order, That all per&s;ons that keep Ale-hou&s;es or Victualling-hou&s;es, or other publick Hou&s;es within the &s;aid Riding, bring a Certificate under the hand of the Par&s;on of the Pari&s;h, or other Incumbent there, at the &s;ame time that they come to renew their Licences for the en&s;uing year, that they have duly repaired to their Pari&s;h Churches, and received the Sacrament, according to Law.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Walter Davis.</HI> 1683.</P>
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