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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation publi&s;hing an Act of State, and His Maje&s;ties command concerning a &s;candalous Paper lately di&s;per&s;ed among&s;t many of His Subjects.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas a Paper containing many fal&s;hoods, and tending much</HI> to the di&s;honour of His Maje&s;ties late proceedings in the pacifi|cation given to His Subjects of <HI>Scotland,</HI> hath been di&s;per&s;ed in divers parts of this Kingdome, whereupon an Act of Councell hath been made in the&s;e words en&s;uing:</P>
<P>On Sunday the fourth day of Augu&s;t, one thou&s;and &s;ix hun|dred thirty and nine, His Maje&s;ty being in Councell, was plea&s;ed to acquaint the Lords with a Paper which he had &s;een at <HI>Barwick,</HI> entituled, <HI>Some conditions of His Maje&s;ties treaty with His Subjects of Scotland are &s;et down here for remembrance.</HI> Which Paper being in mo&s;t parts full of fal&s;hood, di&s;honour, and &s;candall to His Maje&s;ties proceedings in the late pacification given, of His Princely grace and good|ne&s;&s;e to His Subjects of <HI>Scotland,</HI> hath been very frequently &s;pread here in <HI>England,</HI> and ad|vowed by &s;ome in <HI>Scotland</HI> to have been approved and allowed as truth, by &s;ome of tho&s;e Lords of <HI>England</HI> who attended His Maje&s;ty, and were pre&s;ent at the Pacification in the Camp: Whereupon the Paper having been read, and His Maje&s;ty commanding tho&s;e Eng|li&s;h Lords to declare their knowledge therein, the Earle Mar&s;hall fir&s;t begun to put His Maje&s;ty in remembrance that &s;ome few dayes after the Pacification was concluded, &s;ome of the Scotti&s;h Lords coming to the Lord Chamberlains Tent, &s;ent to &s;peak with him and the Earle of <HI>Holland,</HI> and offered them a certain Paper, which they pretended to have been collected for the help of their memories, and not otherwi&s;e, nor to be publi&s;hed: but the &s;aid Engli&s;h Lords very dutifully and di&s;creetly refu&s;ed to accept that or any &s;uch Paper, but referred them&s;elves totally to the Pacification in writing; And the &s;aid Earle Mar&s;hall further declared, that now upon the reading, he for his part held the &s;aid Paper for the mo&s;t part fal&s;e and &s;candalous, and no way agreeable to what His Maje&s;tie expre&s;&s;ed at the Pacification.</P>
<P>Next the Lord Chamberlain declared, that he being ready to take Hor&s;e, and a number of his friends about him taking their leave, the Lord <HI>Loudun</HI> pre&s;&s;ed him with much im|portunity to receive a Paper, which he took, not knowing what it contained; But at night when he came to his lodging, doubting it might be &s;ome &s;uch Paper as had been formerly offered, and was refu&s;ed, took it without reading it, and &s;ealed it up, and &s;o kept it untill he pre&s;ented it to his Maje&s;tie at <HI>Whitehall;</HI> profe&s;&s;ing that till that time he had never read any
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<PB REF="2">one word of it, nor &s;een any other Copy thereof: Which Paper being that which had been di|vulged, was the very &s;ame which his Maje&s;tie commanded to be read at the Board.</P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Sali&s;bury</HI> likewi&s;e de&s;ired to ju&s;tifie him&s;elf of a particular &s;candall laid upon him, that he had received and brought Copies of this Paper from the North, Which he decla|red, could not be, becau&s;e he was come away from the Campe before that Paper had been of|fered, and that he had never &s;een that nor any copy thereof, before his Maje&s;ties return to <HI>Theobalds.</HI></P>
<P>After this the Lord Chamberlain, the Earls of <HI>Sali&s;bury, Holland,</HI> and <HI>Bark&s;hire,</HI> concurred with the Earle Mar&s;hall, that the contents of that Paper were for the mo&s;t part notoriou&s;ly &s;candalous, and fal&s;e, and contrary to what his Maje&s;tie clearly expre&s;&s;ed at the Pacification.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie likewi&s;e declared, that before his coming from <HI>Barwick,</HI> he &s;hewed a Copy of this &s;candalous Paper to the Earle of <HI>Lyn&s;ey,</HI> the Earle of <HI>Holland,</HI> Ma&s;ter Trea&s;urer, and Ma&s;ter Secretary <HI>Coke,</HI> who fully concurred in the afore&s;aid opinion with the other Lords: All which Lords, and particularly the Earle of <HI>Holland,</HI> advowed the fal&s;ne&s;&s;e thereof to the faces of tho&s;e Scotti&s;h Lords, who were beleeved to be the divulgers of it, the Lords of the Councell of <HI>Scotland</HI> being there likewi&s;e pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>All which con&s;idered, the whole Board unanimou&s;ly became humble petitioners to his Maje&s;tie, that this fal&s;e and &s;candalous Paper might be publikely burnt by the Hangman; and that his Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure might be publi&s;hed by Proclamation, that no per&s;on or per|&s;ons hereafter, of what degree or condition &s;oever, pre&s;ume to keep any Copy thereof, but that within ten dayes after the &s;aid Proclamation publi&s;hed, every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;hal deliver to the next Iu&s;tice of Peace adjoyning to his or their dwelling, all and every Copy and Copies thereof, the &s;ame to be by the &s;aid Iu&s;tice of peace immediately &s;ent or brought to one of his Maje&s;ties principall Secretaries, upon perill of incurring the uttermo&s;t of &s;uch puni&s;hments and penalties as by the Laws of this Realme are to be inflicted upon tho&s;e that keep &s;uch &s;candalous and &s;editious Papers. All which was accordingly ordered and com|manded to be entred into the Councell-Book, as an Act of State.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie therefore by the advice of his Privy Councell, doth hereby publi&s;h the &s;aid Act of State unto all his loving Subjects, to the end that being forewarned they may avoid the dangers which may en&s;ue by the retaining or concealing any Copy or Tran&s;cript of the &s;aid Paper. Hereby requiring and &s;traightly charging and commanding all and all manner of per&s;ons whom&s;oever, that they pre&s;ume not to keep any Copie of the &s;ame Paper, but that within ten dayes after the publi&s;hing of this Proclamation they do deliver all and every Co|pie and Copies thereof, or of any part of the matter or writing therein contained, unto &s;uch per&s;ons, and according as in the &s;aid Act of State is directed; and fully ob&s;erve the whole Contents of the &s;aid Act according to the tenour thereof, upon &s;uch pains and penalties as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme may be inflicted upon them for &s;uch their con|tempts and mi&s;demeanours: His Maje&s;tie hereby pardoning and remitting unto &s;uch per|&s;ons as have formerly had any Copie of the &s;aid Paper in their cu&s;tody, and &s;hall deliver the &s;ame according to the direction of this Proclamation, all their offences for their former de|taining thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at His Maje&s;ties Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE><HI> the eleventh day of Augu&s;t, 1639. and in the fifteenth yeer of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1639.</P>
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