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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>depiction of England's coat of arms, 1625</FIGDESC>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
</FIGURE> &para; By the King. &leaf; A Proclamation for the better Confining of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, Conuict according to the Lawe.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas by Our Lawes, all Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants</HI> Con|uict ought to remaine Confined to their dwellings, or places of a|bode, or within fiue miles thereof, vnle&s;&s;e in ca&s;es nece&s;&s;ary, vpon &s;pecial Licences obtained, according to the &s;ame Lawes; And where Our louing Subiects, the Lords and Commons in Parliament did, among&s;t other things, humbly petition Vs, That for the better &s;ecuring of Our State again&s;t the ill affections of Ie&s;uited Papi&s;ts, the&s;e Lawes might be put in due execution:</P>
<P>Wee, conceiuing that the&s;e Lawes will be executed with better &s;ucce&s;&s;e, if Wee &s;hall publi&s;h Our re&s;olution herein, and by &s;ome fitting Cautions preuent tho&s;e eua&s;ions, which haue been heretofore practi&s;ed for the deluding of tho&s;e Lawes, and propound Rewards to tho&s;e, who &s;hall di&s;couer the offenders, Haue thought fit by this Our Royall Proclamation to declare, and doe hereby declare Our will and plea&s;ure concerning the premi&s;&s;es, in manner follow|ing.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t therefore, Wee doe hereby publi&s;h Our full re&s;olution to bee, and doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that tho&s;e Lawes, concerning the confining of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, bee from hencefoorth duely ob&s;erued, and that the offenders again&s;t the &s;ame &s;hall incurre and re|ceiue tho&s;e penalties and puni&s;hments which their high contempts de&s;erue, and which by Our Lawes ought to be inflicted vpon them.</P>
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<P>And further, Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, which by the &s;ayd Lawes haue power to grant Licences, in ca&s;es nece&s;&s;ary, to di&s;pence with the Con|finement of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants conuict, for a time, that they take &s;peciall care, that they grant no Licences, but in &s;uch ca&s;es where they &s;hall finde good probability of trueth in the &s;ugge&s;ti|ons made for the obtaining thereof, and then but for &s;uch time onely, as in their iudgements is conuenient for the di&s;patch of tho&s;e occa&s;ions and bu&s;ine&s;&s;es which are &s;ugge&s;ted to mooue the granting of tho&s;e Licences.</P>
<P>And We doe further &s;traitly charge and command, That no Popi&s;h Recu&s;ant conuict doe pre|&s;ume to make any feigned or vntrue &s;ugge&s;tion, for the obtaining of &s;uch Licence; or if he, or &s;hee &s;hall haue cau&s;e to trauaile from the place of their Confinement, that they doe not &s;ugge&s;t their bu&s;ine&s;&s;es to be of other nature, then in trueth they be, or to require longer time of di&s;patch then is requi&s;ite, that &s;o they may returne againe to their places of Confinement, without any vnnece&s;&s;arie delay; and that during the time permitted vnto them by their Licences, they take heede that they abu&s;e not the Libertie granted vnto them for other purpo&s;es, then were truely intended vnto them. And if any &s;hall aduenture to offend herein, Wee doe hereby giue them knowledge, that they mu&s;t expect that puni&s;hment, which by Our Lawes, or by Our Preroga|tiue Royall, can iu&s;tly be inflicted vpon the offenders for &s;o high a contempt.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, le&s;t the hope of impunitie may giue encouragement to any to offend, Wee doe hereby promi&s;e, which Wee will con&s;tantly performe, That who&s;oeuer &s;hall di&s;couer any offen|ces, or offenders again&s;t Our &s;ayd Lawes, or again&s;t this Our Royall Proclamation, vnto Our Attourney Generall, for the time being, whom Wee haue commanded to take knowledge of all &s;uch Informations, and to proceed again&s;t the offenders according to the due cour&s;e of Our Lawes, that &s;uch per&s;ons who &s;hall make &s;uch di&s;couerie, and prooue the &s;ame, whereby any offenders may receiue their de&s;erued puni&s;hment, &s;hall be rewarded with a full fourth part of the Forfeitures, which &s;hall, or may come or accrew vnto Vs vpon the Conuiction of the offen|ders, or other Iudgement or Sentence legally had again&s;t them, to intitle Vs thereunto, as of Our free Gift.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at White-Hall, <DATE>the eleuenth day of Ianuary, in the fir&s;t yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXV.</P>
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