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<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<BYLINE>By the King.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Concerning the Adjournment of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_THe King our Soveraign Lord con&s;idering the great and general Infection of the Plague, which at this pre&s;ent is in the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> &amp; other places near adjoyning, and how perillous it might be to His loving Subjects if they &s;hould be inforced to repair thither for their Suits and Cau&s;es, before &s;uch time as it &s;hall plea&s;e Almighty God of his goodne&s;s and mercy to remove or cea&s;e that heavy Vi&s;itation; His Maje&s;ty therefore of His &s;pecial Grace and Favour to His people, and for their better Safety and Pre&s;ervation, is plea&s;ed to adjourn part of this Term of St. <HI>Michael</HI> now next coming; (That is to &s;ay) in and from the fir&s;t Return thereof, called <HI>Tres Michaelis,</HI> unto the fifth Return of the &s;ame Term, called <HI>Octabis Sancti Martini,</HI> from <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to <HI>Oxford</HI> in the County of <HI>Oxford,</HI> and there to be held and continued for the re&s;idue of the &s;aid Term: which His Maje|&s;ty &s;ignifieth to all His loving Subjects of this Realm, to the intent they which have Cau&s;e or Commandment to ap|pear in any of His Highne&s;s Courts at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> in, or at any day or time in or after the &s;aid <HI>Tres Michaelis,</HI> may tarry at their dwellings, or where their bu&s;ine&s;s otherwi&s;e &s;hall lie, without re&s;orting to any of the &s;aid Courts for that cau&s;e, before the &s;aid <HI>Octabis Sancti Martini</HI> next coming, and that without danger of forfeiture, penalty, or contempt to incur to|wards His Maje&s;ty in that behalf. And neverthele&s;s His Maje&s;ties Plea&s;ure is, That according to the ancient Order of the Laws, the E&s;&s;oynes of the &s;aid <HI>Tres Michaelis</HI> &s;hall be kept; at which time Writs of Adjournment (which His Maje&s;ty commandeth the Lord High Chancellour of <HI>England</HI> to make forth) &s;hall be directed to the Iu&s;tices of either Bench, and to the Iudges of all other His Maje&s;ties Courts, to whom like Writs have been u&s;ually directed, giving them power to Adjourn the next <HI>Michaelmas Term,</HI> in and from <HI>Tres Michaelis</HI> unto the &s;aid Fifth Return as afore&s;aid. And the &s;aid Adjournment to be made in the Fir&s;t day of the &s;aid <HI>Tres Michaelis,</HI> commonly called the day of E&s;&s;oynes. And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby declare His further Will and Plea&s;ure to be, That in the &s;aid Term there &s;hall be no Tri|als by Iuries, or any Iudgement upon Demurrers, or Special Verdicts in any of His Courts of <HI>Kings Bench, Common Pleas,</HI> or <HI>Exchequer.</HI> And that all Matters, Cau&s;es, and Suits depending between party and party in His other Courts of <HI>Chancery, Exchequer-Chambers,</HI> or <HI>Dutchy</HI> of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> &s;hall have continuance, and the parties &s;hall have day from the Date of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, until the &s;aid Fifth Return as afore&s;aid. And al&s;o, That there &s;hall be no Iudicial Hearings, or determining of any cau&s;es, or matters in any of the &s;aid Courts of <HI>Chancery, Exchequer-Chambers,</HI> or <HI>Dutchy</HI> of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> during the &s;aid Term. And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby al&s;o further Declare, That no party &s;hall be compelled, or need to appear in per&s;on in any of His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Courts, at any time during the &s;aid Term, but may make their appearance by their Attorneys (&s;aving only in Ca&s;es of Outlawry) And that no Iuries, or any whom the &s;ame may concern, &s;hall be compelled, or need to appear in any of His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Courts, at any time during the &s;aid Term, for any Cau&s;e or Matter what&s;oever, unle&s;s it be for &s;ome &s;pecial and important Cau&s;e for his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice only. And whereas His Maje&s;ty having removed the Receipt of His <HI>Exchequer,</HI> together with the <HI>Tally-Office,</HI> and all things thereunto belonging, from <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to His Honour of <HI>Non&s;uch</HI> in the County of <HI>Surrey,</HI> did by His Proclamation of the 26th of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, direct all Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Collectors, and other Officers, Accomptants, and per&s;ons what&s;oever, who were to pay in any Moneys into the &s;aid Receipt, or otherwi&s;e to attend the &s;ame, to keep their days and times at <HI>Non&s;uch</HI> afore&s;aid, and there to pay and perform in all things as they &s;hould or ought to have done at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> until His Maje&s;ty &s;hould declare his Plea&s;ure to the contrary. Now His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure is, and he doth hereby direct and command, That His &s;aid Receipt of <HI>Exchequer,</HI> together with the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ally-Office,</HI> and all things thereunto belonging, &s;hall be continued and kept at <HI>Non&s;uch</HI> afore&s;aid, until His Maje&s;ty &s;hall declare His further Plea&s;ure to the contrary; whither all per&s;ons whom the &s;ame doth concern, may take notice to repair upon all occa&s;ions, for, or concerning the bringing in, or i&s;&s;uing out of His Maje&s;ties Trea&s;ure at the Receipt of His <HI>Exchequer.</HI> Provided, and His Maje&s;ty com|mands all Collectors, Receivors, Sheriffs, and other Accomptants, and all other per&s;ons that &s;hould or ought to Accompt in any of His Maje&s;ties Courts of <HI>Exchequer,</HI> or <HI>Dutchy</HI> of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> or to enter into any Accompt in either of the &s;aid Courts, or otherwi&s;e to attend the &s;ame, to repair unto <HI>Oxford</HI> at the time afore&s;aid, and there to Accompt, and to perform in all things touching their Accompts, as though no &s;uch Proclamation or Adjournment had been had or made. And His Maje&s;ties further Plea&s;ure &amp; Commandment is, That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons who ought to Accompt or Pay any &s;um or &s;ums of money to His Maje&s;ty in any of the Courts &amp; Places afore&s;aid, do make default therein, then his Highne&s;s Writs and Proce&s;s &s;hall be awarded, and &s;ent forth again&s;t every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons; and the &s;ame to be duly and orderly &s;erved and returned by the Sheriffs and Officers thereunto appointed, in &s;uch like manner and form as the &s;ame &s;hould have been if this or the &s;aid former Proclamation had not been made. And if any Sheriff, or other Officer &s;hall make default, or be negligent in Serving Executing or Returning of any of the Writs and Pro|ce&s;&s;es afore&s;aid. That then every &s;uch Sheriff and other Officer &s;hall incur &s;uch pains and penalties, as by the &s;aid Courts or any of them &s;hall be Taxed and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed. Willing and Commanding all and every His Maje&s;ties She|riffs, Officers Mini&s;ters and Subjects to whom it doth or &s;hall appertain, to ob&s;erve and keep their A&s;&s;emblies and Appearances with all their Returns and Certificates, in his Highne&s;s &s;aid Court at <HI>Oxford,</HI> in <HI>Oct&agrave;bis Sancti Martini</HI> next coming, then and there to be holden and kept, and there to do their Offices and Duties in every behalf, in like man|ner and form, as they &s;hould or ought to have done if this pre&s;ent Proclamation had not been had or made, as they will an&s;wer to the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Oxford</HI> <DATE>the Six and twentieth day of <HI>September,</HI> in the Seventeenth year of His Maje&s;ties 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>Christopher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1665.</P>
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