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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation re&s;training the withdrawing His Maje&s;ties Subjects from the Church of England, and giving &s;candall in re&s;orting to Ma&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings Maje&s;ty finding of late that &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties natu|rall</HI> born Subjects, have abu&s;ed His Maje&s;ties Princely goodne&s;&s;e, and the ea&s;e which they enjoy under His gracious and milde Govern|ment, by withdrawing &s;undry His Subjects to the Romane &s;uper|&s;tition, and to for&s;ake the Church of <HI>England;</HI> and likewi&s;e by re&s;ort|ing to Ma&s;&s;es, and Service celebrated according to the Rites of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> expre&s;ly contrary to the Lawes of this Realm, and in contempt of &s;undry Acts of Parliament, Proclamations, and Or|ders of the Privie Councell, and to the great &s;candall of His Maje|&s;ties Government both in Church and State: For prevention where|of for the time to come, and for pre&s;ervation of Religion, as it &s;tands e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church of <HI>England,</HI> which His Maje&s;tie is re&s;olved con&s;tantly to main|tain; His Maje&s;tie, in His Princely Wi&s;dome, hath thought fit to &s;et forth this declaration of His Royall Will and Plea&s;ure; whereby He doth not only &s;traightly charge and command all and every His Subjects to take notice, that the former Statutes, Proclamations, and Orders of the Privie Councell, publi&s;hed and made for reformation of the like mi&s;demeanors, are &s;till in full force, but doth expre&s;ly Will and Command, all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons, Clerks, and Lay, that they from henceforth forbear to attempt or endeavour to withdraw any of His Maje&s;ties Subjects from Religion, as it is now profe&s;&s;ed in the Church of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> or by per&s;wa&s;ions, or any other means to di&s;tract them in the &s;ame, or to &s;ollicite them to adhere to the Church of <HI>Rome;</HI> under pain of the &s;evere&s;t puni&s;hments which by the Laws and Statutes in &s;uch ca&s;e are provided. And His Maje&s;tie doth hereby further declare, that if any of the Romane party &s;hall from henceforth, in contempt of this His Maie&s;ties Admonition, and of the Statutes, Proclamations, and Orders above&s;aid, give &s;candall by telebrating or hearing of any Ma&s;&s;e or Ma&s;&s;es, or any other Service which &s;hall be celebra|ted after the Rites of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> That then His Maie&s;tie will cau&s;e to be put in execution again&s;t &s;uch contumacious per&s;ons, tho&s;e penalties which by the Lawes and Sta|tutes are to be inflicted upon all tho&s;e that wilfully and &s;candalou&s;ly tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the &s;ame. And of this His Maje&s;tie will expect a better accompt of His Officers and Mini&s;ters whom it &s;hall concern, then heretofore they have made.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at the Court at Whitehall, </HI> <DATE><HI>the twentieth day of December, in the thirteenth yeare of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of IOHN BILL. 1637.</P>
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