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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<BYLINE>By the King.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For re&s;toring Goods imbezzell'd during the late Fire and &s;ince.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the general amazement and di&s;traction occa&s;ioned by the late dreadful Fire was &s;o great, that many per&s;ons were &s;urpri&s;ed and overtaken by the Flames before they could get time or opportunity to remove any part of their Goods, and others who made a &s;hift to remove &s;ome of their Goods, did yet do it in that ha&s;te and confu&s;ion, that they were fain to leave very much behind them, By rea&s;on whereof great quantities of Plate, Money, Iewels, Hou&s;hold-&s;tuffe, Goods and Merchandize, be&s;ides many value|able Materials for Building are daily found out and di&s;covered among&s;t the Ruins of tho&s;e &s;everal Hou&s;es which have been de&s;troyed, to which neverthele&s;s the true Own|ers are &s;till legally and rightfully entituled, and have in no &s;ort lo&s;t their propriety; Nor will the finding of any Goods thus expo&s;ed excu&s;e any Per&s;on who &s;hall wilfully or feloniou&s;ly take and carry them away from inturring the penalties of Law, which may in &s;ome ca&s;es extend even to the lo&s;s of life, and in all ca&s;es will extend to Fine and Impri&s;onment, be&s;ides the Damages which the injured party may recover by Action. And whereas al&s;o divers per&s;ons have notwith&s;tanding adventured, and do &s;till day|ly pre&s;ume to take, &s;eize, and carry away what&s;oever they can find or lay hands upon, which may be of any value or con&s;ideration, of whom &s;ome few may po&s;&s;ibly intend to re&s;tore the &s;ame to the Rightful Owners as &s;oon as they &s;hall be known; And others may po&s;&s;ibly have offended in this kind meerly through ignorance, not well under&s;tanding the nature of their Crimes in Law, nor knowing the dangerous con&s;equences of their offences, nor the &s;everities to which they are become lyable. His Maje&s;ty therefore to the end that all his Subjects may know the danger of the Law, and that they may be left without any kind of excu&s;e or pitty if they bring the extremities of Law upon them&s;elves, hath thought fit by this his Royal Proclamation to publi&s;h and declare, and doth hereby require and command all per&s;ons what&s;oever who have &s;eized or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed any Plate, Iewels, Money, Hou&s;hold-&s;tuffe, Goods or Merchandize, or any Materials for building not truly and of right belonging to them, that they do within the &s;pace of eight daies after this his Proclamation cau&s;e the &s;ame to be brought into the Armory in <HI>Finsbury-fields,</HI> and there delivered unto &s;uch Per&s;ons as by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen &s;hall be appointed to receive the &s;ame, To the end the &s;ame may be Inventoryed and pre|&s;erved there for the true and rightful Owners, and re&s;tored to them after the Charges of keeping the &s;ame, and a competent Reward to the Parties who found them and brought them in &s;hall be fir&s;t deducted, which Reward &s;hall be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, or &s;uch other of the Court of Aldermen as by them &s;hall be appointed, and the Names of the Parties who ought to receive the &s;aid Reward &s;hall be duely Regi&s;tred and Entred: And his Maje&s;ty doth hereby declare, That all Per&s;ons in who&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion any Goods or Merchandizes &s;hall be found after the &s;aid Eight days expired, whereof they cannot prove them&s;elves to be the true and Lawful Proprietors, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t in his Name and at his Suit, as per&s;ons that have broken the Peace, and po&s;&s;e&s;t them&s;elves by Rapines and &s;poyle of other mens Goods, his Maje&s;ty being re&s;ol|ved to puni&s;h the&s;e Crimes and offences with the utmo&s;t &s;everities of Law, and then with the paines of Felony where the Ca&s;e will bear it. And hereof all Iudges, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Mayors, Iurors, Con&s;tables, and all others his Maje&s;ties Officers and Mini&s;ters in all his Courts of Iu&s;tice and Publick Se&s;&s;ions are re|quired to take notice, and to &s;ee that &s;trict and effectual pro&s;ecution be had accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the Nineteenth day of <HI>September</HI> in the Eighteenth year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1666.</P>
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