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<FIGDESC>arms of Charles II</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION For the Confinement of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants within Five Miles of their re&s;pective Dwellings.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty having been Informed of the Dangerous and Wicked Plots and De&s;igns of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, again&s;t His Maje&s;ties Royal Per&s;on and Government, and tending to the Subver&s;ion of the True Prote&s;tant Religion E&s;tabli&s;hed by Law within this His Realm, Doth (with the Advice of His Privy Council) by this His Royal Proclamation, &s;trictly Charge and Command all per&s;ons being above the Age of Sixteen years, born within any of His Maje&s;ties Realms or Dominions, or made Denizens, who being Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, have been, or &s;hall be thereof Law|fully Convicted, That they and every of them do (according to the Statutes in that behalf made) repair to their re&s;pective places of abode; and if they have no places of abode, then to the places where the Father or Mother of &s;uch re&s;pective per&s;ons is or &s;hall be then dwelling, and do not at any time thereafter remove or pa&s;s above Five miles from thence, upon Pain that the Offenders &s;hall lo&s;e and forfeit to the Kings Maje&s;ty, all their Goods and Chattels, and al&s;o all their Lands and Tenements, Rents, Annuities, and Hereditaments, during their re&s;pective natural lives. And becau&s;e many Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, who are notoriou&s;ly known, or reputed to be &s;uch, have notwith&s;tanding, by the connivance or negligence of tho&s;e by whom they ought to have been Pro&s;ecuted, e&s;caped Conviction, and yet may be (by their concour&s;e and contrivances) as dangerous to His Maje&s;ty, His Government, and the True Prote&s;tant Religion, as tho&s;e who are actually Convicted; His Maje&s;ty doth hereby further &s;traitly Charge and Command all His Iudges, Iu&s;tices, Magi&s;trates, Mini&s;ters and Officers, That if any Popi&s;h Recu&s;ant, or per&s;on reputed &s;o to be, though not Convicted, being above the Age of Eighteen years, &s;hall not repair to his or her place of abode, and there continue with|out removing or pa&s;&s;ing above Five miles from thence, That then &s;uch Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or per&s;ons reputed to be &s;o re&s;pectively, &s;hall be Pro&s;ecuted and brought to Puni&s;hment, as well by tendring unto them the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and taking advantage of their refu&s;al thereof, as by putting in Execution the &s;evere&s;t Laws which are now in force again&s;t them. And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby further &s;ignifie to all His Loving Subjects, That upon Certificate made to the Lord Chancellor of <HI>England,</HI> by any Iu&s;tice of the Peace, That there are any Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or per&s;ons reputed to be &s;uch, who do not give their Obedi|ence to this His Maje&s;ties Royal Proclamation, together with the Names of &s;uch Offenders, His Maje&s;ty hath Commanded the &s;aid Lord Chancellor to I&s;&s;ue forth re&s;pective Commi&s;&s;ions under the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> to the Iu&s;tices of the Peace (of the &s;everal Counties, Cities and Liberties from which &s;uch Certificates &s;hall come) to Require and Authorize them, or any Two of them re&s;pectively, to tender and admini&s;ter the &s;aid Oaths to the &s;aid Offenders ac|cordingly. Provided, That nothing herein contained, &s;hall be Con&s;trued to Command any Popi&s;h Recu&s;ant Convicted, or any other Popi&s;h Recu&s;ant, or per&s;on reputed to be &s;uch, to come within Ten miles of the Cities of <HI>London</HI> or <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> or to require any of the per&s;ons afore|&s;aid to repair to their places of abode, or other the places afore&s;aid, who are Re&s;trained by Im|pri&s;onment, or Di&s;abled by &s;uch Sickne&s;s, as they &s;hall not be able to Travel without immi|nent danger of life, during the re&s;pective times of &s;uch Impri&s;onment, or Di&s;ability; or to Confine any &s;uch per&s;ons within the &s;aid &s;pace of Five miles from the places afore&s;aid, who &s;hall be (according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm) Allowed, or Licenced to Travel, or Remove from thence; So that their Travelling, Attending, and Returning by pretence of &s;uch Allowance or Licence, be no longer, or otherwi&s;e then by the &s;aid Statutes is Warranted.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the Tenth day of <HI>November</HI> 1678. In the Thirtieth year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb,</HI> and <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1678.</P>
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