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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>BY THE KING</SIGNED></OPENER>
<OPENER><SIGNED>JAMES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS We are informed that &s;everal of the Inhabitants of the Province of Vl&s;ter, being forced away by the Enemy, did with their Stock and Cattel go into Our Counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare, and We&s;t-Meath, where they have committed great Spoyls upon the Inhabitants of tho&s;e Counties, by con|&s;uming a great part of their Corn and Hay, and are &s;till re|maining in the &s;aid Counties with their Kereights, doing great injuries to the Inhabitants thereof, which if not prevented, will be of evil con&s;equence to Our Affairs; &s;ince We propo&s;e that a great part of Our Army may be &s;upplyed out of the &s;aid Counties. For remedy whereof, We have thought fit to Charge and Command; And We do hereby &s;trictly Charge and Command all the &s;aid Inhabitants of Vl&s;ter, commonly called Kereight-men, that they do forthwith remove all their Kereights, Cows and Hor&s;es out of the &s;aid Counties, and carry them to the Mountains of Wicklow, Slieveblymen, Slieveneman, Slievemara, the Hills of Gaw|lin and Ideogh. And in ca&s;e the &s;aid Inhabitants will fail herein, We do Charge, and &s;trictly Command Our Lieutenants, and Deputy Lieutenants of Our &s;aid Counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare, and We&s;t-Meath, to cau&s;e the &s;aid Kereights and Cattel to be removed out of the &s;aid Counties into the places afore&s;aid, as they &s;hall an&s;wer the contrary at their peril.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Camp near the Bridge of Affayne <DATE>the 24th day of September 1689. And in the Fifth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ties Command. RI. NAGLE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God Save The KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>DUBLIN, Printed by <HI>Andrew Crook</HI> and <HI>Samuel Hel&s;ham</HI> A&s;&s;igns of <HI>Benjamin Tooke,</HI> Printer to the King's Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty: And are to be Sold at His Ma|je&s;ties Printing-Hou&s;e on <HI>Ormond-Key,</HI> and the <HI>Colledge-Arms</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;tle-&s;treet,</HI> 1689.</P>
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