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<HEAD>BY THE Lords Ju&s;tices AND COUNCIL.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>Mich. Armach. C. Granard.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS by the Ancient Laws and Statutes of this Realm great and heavy Penalties are inflicted upon all &s;uch as &s;hall be found to be &s;preaders of fal&s;e News, or promoters of any malicious Slanders and Calumnies in their ordinary and common di&s;cour&s;es; And by the &s;aid Laws it is provided, that the Tellers and Publi&s;hers of fal&s;e News and Tales &s;hall be taken and adjudged to be the fir&s;t authors and contrivers of them, in ca&s;e he or they &s;hall not bring forth and produce the per&s;on from whom he or they fir&s;t heard the &s;aid News or Tales. And notwith&s;tanding that the &s;aid Penalties of the &s;aid Laws and Statutes have by a Pro|clamation i&s;&s;ued from this Board, dated the <HI>9th.</HI> of <HI>July</HI> 1672 been publi&s;hed and made known, that &s;o all per&s;ons might take notice of them, and avoid the &s;aid Penalties, yet there have been of late more bold and licentious Di&s;cour&s;es than formerly, and men have a&s;&s;umed to them&s;elves a liberty not only in Coffee-hou&s;es but in other places and meetings both publick and private, to cen&s;ure and defame the proceedings of State, by &s;peaking evil of things they under&s;tand not, and endeavouring to create and nouri&s;h an univer&s;al
<PB REF="2"> Iealou&s;ie and Di&s;&s;atisfaction in the minds of all His Maje&s;ties good Subjects; We therefore the Lords Iu&s;tices and Council have thought fit, by this our Pro|clamation, to forewarn and &s;trictly command all His Maje&s;ties Subjects, that they pre&s;ume not henceforth, by writing or &s;peaking, to utter or publi&s;h any fal&s;e News or Reports, or to intermeddle with the affairs of State or Government, or with the Per&s;ons of His Maje&s;ties Coun&s;ellors or Mini&s;ters, in their common or ordinary di&s;cour&s;es, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their utmo&s;t perils; And becau&s;e all bold and irreverent Speeches touching matters of this high na|ture are puni&s;hable, not only in the Speakers, but in the Hearers al&s;o; unle&s;s they do &s;peedily reveal the &s;ame unto &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, or &s;ome other His Maje&s;ties Iudges or Iu&s;tices of the Peace; therefore, that all men may be left without excu&s;e, who &s;hall not hereafter contain them&s;elves within that mode&s;t and dutiful regard which becomes them; We do further de|clare, that we will proceed with all &s;everity again&s;t all manner of per&s;ons, who &s;hall u&s;e any bold or unlawful Speeches of this nature, or be pre&s;ent at any Coffee-hou&s;e, or other publick or private meeting, where &s;uch Speeches are u&s;ed without revealing the &s;ame in due time; We being re&s;olved to &s;uppre&s;s this un|lawful and undutiful kind of Di&s;cour&s;e, by a mo&s;t &s;trict and exemplary puni&s;h|ment of all &s;uch Offenders as &s;hall be hereafter di&s;covered; And to that end We do hereby will and require all and every His Maje&s;ties Iudges and Iu&s;tices of the Peace, and all other His Maje&s;ties Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters in their &s;eve|ral &s;tations, that they take &s;pecial care to have the &s;aid Laws put in due execu|tion again&s;t all &s;uch as have or &s;hall hereafter offend in this kind.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at the <HI>Council-Chamber</HI> in <HI>Dublin</HI></HI> <DATE><HI>the tenth day of <HI>July.</HI></HI> 1685.</DATE></DATELINE> <HI>GOD Save the KING.</HI>
<SIGNED>Franc. Dublin. Longford. Ble&s;inton. Char. Feilding. William Davys. John Keating. He. Hene. John Davys.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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