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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<Q LANG="frm">DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>By His EXCELLENCY, Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Captain General and GOVERNOUR in Chief of His Maje&s;ties Province of the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;etts-Bay</HI> in <HI>New-England, &amp;c.</HI> and Vice Admiral of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A Proclamation.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Province of the Ma&s;&s;achu&s;etts-Bay in New-England.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>FORASMUCH as the Sanctification of the Lords Day is of Divine In&s;titution, and enforced by many gracious Promi&s;es made unto the Ob&s;ervers thereof; as well as divers &s;evere Threatnings denounced again&s;t the violaters of the &s;ame. Notwith&s;tanding which, and the good and whol&s;ome Laws made and enacted within this Province, and under the Sanction of the Royal Authority, in that ca&s;e provided, It is ob&s;erved that not only Children and Youth, but many per&s;ons of riper years, do too often prophane the &s;aid Day by frequenting of Taverns and Ale-hou&s;es for Tipling and Drinking, walking abroad in the &s;treets and fields for diver&s;ion and recreation, and otherwi&s;e mi&s;pend the &s;aid Holy Time.</P>
<P><HI>I</HI> do therefore by and with the advice and con&s;ent of His Maje&s;ties Council of this Province, upon the Addre&s;s of the A&s;&s;embly, hereby command and require the &s;trict Ob&s;ervation of the Lords Day from time to time. And that all Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Grand-jurors, Con&s;tables, Tything-men, and other Officers whom it doth or may concern in their &s;everal places, do take effectual care, that the Laws made for the Ob&s;ervation of the &s;aid Day, be vigorou&s;ly put in Execution again&s;t all per&s;ons that &s;hall tran&s;gre&s;s the &s;ame, or prophane the &s;aid Day in any way or manner what&s;oever.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council Chamber in <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> <DATE>the Twenty-fir&s;t day of <HI>June;</HI> In the Eleventh Year of His Maje&s;ties Reign. <HI>Annoque Domini,</HI> 1699.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>BELLOMONT.</SIGNED>
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<P>By Order of His Ex|cellency &amp; Council,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>I&s;aac Addington,</HI> Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<CLOSER>GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>BOSTON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Bartholomew Green,</HI> and <HI>John Allen,</HI> Printers to His Excellency the GOVERNOUR and COUNCIL. 1699.</P>
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