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<FIGDESC>arms of James II</FIGDESC>
<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>JAMES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>WHEREAS We have upon &s;everal occa&s;ions &s;olemnly declared Our Royal Inclinations and con&s;tant re&s;olution of giving Free Liberty of Con&s;cience to all Our Subjects: In pur&s;uance whereof, We have given Our Royal A&s;&s;ent to a Bill pa&s;&s;ed in the la&s;t Se&s;sion of Parliament lately Held for this Our Kingdom; By which it is Enacted, that all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons profe&s;sing Chri&s;tianity, &s;hall have and enjoy Liberty of Con&s;cience, and Full and Free Exerci&s;e of their re&s;pective Religious Ways and Forms of Wor&s;hip within this Realm; and that they and every of them may Meet and A&s;&s;emble together, with their Pa&s;tors, Teachers and Preach|ers, to Teach, Preach, and Exerci&s;e their &s;everal Functions in &s;uch Churches, Chaples, Private Hou&s;es, and other Places as they &s;hall have for that pur|po&s;e. And whereas We are informed that &s;everal Per&s;ons of late have en|tred into &s;ome Churches within this Our Kingdom, wherein the Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ters did perform their Functions; And as We cannot but re&s;ent in a high mea&s;ure their Carriage and behaviour therein, as being done di&s;orderly, and contrary to Our many repeated Declarations, and even contrary to the &s;aid late Act of Parliament for Liberty of Con&s;cience; So We find Our Self obliged to prevent the like Di&s;order for the future: And therefore have thought fit, by the Advice of Our Privy-Council, to Charge and Command, and We do hereby &s;trictly Charge and Command all Our Subjects of this Kingdom, that they or any of them do not pre&s;ume to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s any Prote|&s;tant Archbi&s;hop, Bi&s;hop, Dean or Chapter, Curate, Vicar or other Prote&s;tant Incumbent of any Church or Churches what&s;oever that they or any of them are in po&s;&s;e&s;sion of; and that they or any of them do not pre&s;ume to enter into any other Church formerly belonging to the Prote&s;tants, upon pretence of being de&s;erted by the Mini&s;ter or Incumbent thereof, or that the Mini|&s;ter is become a Rebel, or a Traytor, and the Church going to ruine or de|cay, without fir&s;t making their application to Vs, to know Our Plea&s;ure therein.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Dublin-Ca&s;tle</HI></HI> <DATE><HI>the 13th <HI>Day of</HI> December</HI> 1689. <HI>And in the Fifth Year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> Printed by <HI>Andrew Crook</HI> the A&s;&s;ign of <HI>Benjamin Tooke</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; and are to be Sold at His Maje&s;ties Printing-Hou&s;e on <HI>Ormonde-Key,</HI> 1689.</P>
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