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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>&para; By the King.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the &s;uppre&s;sing of profane Swearing and Cur&s;ing.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas at a Parliament begun and holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter the nine|teenth day of February, in the one and twentieth yeere of the Reigne of our late mo&s;t deare and Royall Father, King <HI>Iames</HI> of euer ble&s;&s;ed memory (among&s;t other good and whole&s;ome Lawes then made and e&s;tabli&s;hed for the Weale-publike of this Realme) it was enacted by the authority of the &s;ame Parliament, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hould from thenceforth prophanely Sweare or Cur&s;e, vnder the pe|nalties therein contained. We taking into Our Princely con&s;ideration, the great increa&s;e of tho&s;e &s;innes, which are the more audaciou&s;ly practi&s;ed, and frequently committed by loo&s;e and wicked per&s;ons, in regard the &s;aid Statute made for preuention and re&s;traint thereof, is not con&s;tantly put in execution, Haue therefore with the aduice of Our Priuie Councill (for the better repre&s;|&s;ing of tho&s;e odious &s;innes) by Our Letters Patents dated the one and twentieth day of Iuly la&s;t pa&s;t, erected an office for the receiuing of the forfeitures incurred by &s;uch profane Swea|rers and Cur&s;ers: And repo&s;ing much tru&s;t and confidence in the fidelity, indu&s;try, wi&s;edome, and piety of Our welbeloued &s;eruant <HI>Robert Le&s;lie</HI> E&s;quire, one of the Gentlemen of our Priuie-Chamber, haue thereby ordained and appointed, that he by him&s;elfe, or his &s;ufficient A&s;&s;ignes or Deputies, and none other per&s;on (except the Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, Churchwar|dens, Ouer&s;eers of the poore, and others by the &s;aid Statute authorized) &s;hall in euery Pari&s;h within this Our Realme of England, and Dominion of Wales, attend that &s;eruice and office, and for a certaine number of yeares therein contained, &s;hall and may receiue the Penaltie ap|pointed by the &s;aid Statute, from all and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons liuing within Our &s;aid Realme and Dominion, offending again&s;t the tenor of the &s;ame (who haue not paid the &s;aid Penalty to any the per&s;ons authorized by the &s;aid Statute, to receiue the &s;ame before it be de|manded by Our &s;aid &s;eruant, his A&s;&s;ignes or Deputies) wherein We haue taken e&s;peciall care, that &s;ecurity be giuen for the faithfull collecting of tho&s;e Penalties, and for a true accompt and payment of the &s;ame twice euery yeere vnto the Bi&s;hops of the Dioce&s;&s;es, wherein the &s;ame &s;hall be receiued, by who&s;e care and order the moneys thereby ari&s;ing &s;hall bee iu&s;tly di&s;tributed among&s;t Our poore &s;ubiects of the Pari&s;hes where the Offences are or &s;hall be committed, ac|cording as by the &s;ame Statute is limited and appointed.</P>
<P>And therefore We do hereby &s;trictly charge and command all manner of per&s;ons liuing in Our &s;aid Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales, to be conformable in all things vnto Our Royall will and plea&s;ure in Our &s;aid letters Patents mentioned and contained. And to the end Our &s;aid &s;eruant, his A&s;&s;ignes and Deputies may the more readily and &s;incerely performe the tru&s;t in them repo&s;ed: We do hereby grant, publi&s;h, and declare, that Our &s;aid Seruant, his A&s;&s;ignes and Deputies, and euery of them &s;hall be hereafter exempted and freed from bearing any other office or charge in the Pari&s;hes where he and they &s;hall dwell, during the time that they &s;hall be imployed in this &s;eruice, to the end that they may the better looke to the execution of the fore&s;aid Statute, in regard the &s;ame &s;o highly tendeth to the aduancement of piety, and reliefe of the poore.</P>
<P>And We doe hereby require and command all our Iu&s;tices, Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, She|riffes, Magi&s;trates, Bafliffes, Con&s;tables, Church wardens, Ouer&s;eers of the poore, and all other Our Officers, Mini&s;ters, and Subiects, within Our &s;aid Kingdome and Dominion of Wales, to whom it &s;hall appertaine, to be aiding, helping, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to Our &s;aid Seruant, his A&s;&s;ignes and Deputies, in all things concerning the Premi&s;es, as they tender Our plea&s;ure, and will auoid the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at Oatelands, <DATE>the &s;ix and twentieth day of Iuly, in the eleuenth yeare of Our reigne.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of Iohn Bill. 1635.</P>
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