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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Again&s;t all Seditious Railers and Slanderers, whether Civil, or Eccle&s;ia&s;tick of the Kings Maje&s;ty and His Government; And <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gain&s;t <HI>Remon&s;trators</HI> and their Adherents, and again&s;t all unlawfull Con<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ocation of His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Leidges.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the 20^t^h. of <HI>September,</HI> 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Committee of E&s;tates pre&s;ently conveened by His Maje&s;ties &s;peciall Warrand and Authority; Laying &s;eriou&s;ly to heart the great Tru&s;t committed to them for carrying on, ordering, and u&s;ing of all means which may tend to the &s;ecuring of the Peace of this Kingdom, and maintaining and furthering His Maje&s;ties Power and Authority therein. Con&s;idering, that by many Acts of Par|liament, all Lei&s;eing-makers, and tellers thereof, makers of evil Information, or engendering di&s;cord betwixt the KING and His People; All Reproachers, or Slanderers of His Maje&s;tie, Government, or Realms, depravers of His Laws, mi&s;con&s;truers of His Proceedings, medlers in the affaires of His E&s;tate: As al&s;o, all hearers of any &s;uch Lei&s;ings, Calumnies or Slanders, by Word or Writ, and Concealers thereof, &s;hould be puni&s;hed as &s;editious per&s;ons, Enemies to His Maje&s;tie&punc; and the pain of Death to be execute upon them, as at length is contained in the 43. Act. of K. <HI>James</HI> 1. his 3. parl. The 83. <HI>Act</HI> of K. <HI>James</HI> Fifth his 6. parl. The 134 <HI>Act</HI> parl. 8. The 10. <HI>Act</HI> parl. 10. The 205 <HI>Act</HI> parl. 14. of K. <HI>James</HI> 6. And the 27 <HI>Act</HI> of the 2. parl. of His Sacred Maje&s;ties uniquhile deare&s;t Father of ble&s;&s;ed Memory, Which more particularly, in relation to any &s;uch Re|proaches, Lies, or Calumnies concerning the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and His Maje&s;ties worthy Subjects therein, is expre&s;ly prohibite by the 9 <HI>Act</HI> of King <HI>James</HI> 6. his 20 parl. holden in <HI>Anno</HI> 1609. under the pain &s;pecified in the &s;aid <HI>Act.</HI> Likeas, all Convocation of His Maje&s;ties Leidges without His Maje&s;ties &s;pecial Command, or expre&s;&s;e Licence, what ever Quality, E&s;tate&punc; or Function the Per&s;ons be of, Spirituall, or Temporall, is expre&s;ly prohibite by the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Act</HI> parl. 8. K&punc; <HI>James</HI> 6&punc; under the pains therein contained. As al&s;o, The <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> pre&s;ented to the Committee of E&s;tates in <HI>Anno,</HI> 1650. Declared by Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maje&s;tie and Parliament in <HI>July</HI> 16<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Sediti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Neverthele&s;&s;e, and albeit it hath plea&s;ed the Almighty GOD of His wonderfull Goodne&s;&s;e and Providence, happily to re&s;tore His Sacred Maje&s;ty to the peaceable Government of His Ancient Kingdoms, and all His Maje&s;ties Subjects to t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ir wonted Peace, Freedom, and Priviledge, which is (as it ought to be) a matter of great rejoycing to all good Chri&s;tians and Loyal Subjects what&s;oever, both at home and abroad: Yet the &s;aid Committeee of E&s;tates, certainly knowing, and receiving dayly Information, that &s;everal of His Maje&s;ties Leidges and Subjects within this Kingdom, do contrary to the &s;aids <HI>Acts</HI> of Parliament, Convocat, Conveen and A&s;&s;emble them&s;elves, without His Maje&s;ties &s;pecial Command and Licence: And that there are &s;everal &s;candalous &s;editious Speeches uttered and Preached in Sermons, Declamations and otherwi&s;e, and &s;everal calumnious Pa&s;quils, Libels, Ryms, and others Writs Devi&s;ed, Vented, and Publi&s;hed to the reproach or &s;lander of His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, E&s;tate, or Government: As al&s;o, That &s;everal His Maje&s;ties Subjects, do own, adhere to, avow, abate, or a&s;&s;i&s;t the fore&s;aid <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> whereby His Maje&s;ties Loyal well-meaning Subjects may be drawn from their due Allegiance, and en&s;nared in &s;uch &s;editious Combinations and Meetings, and involved in their &s;aid Trea&s;onable Plots and Practices, unle&s;&s;e timeous remedy be provided. There|fore, The Committee of E&s;tates, in His Maje&s;ties Name and Authority, Command and Charge, that no Subject, or Subjects within this Kingdom, of what&s;oever Quality, E&s;tate, or Function they be of, Spirituall, or Temporall, pre&s;ume, or take upon hand, to Convocate, Conveen, or A&s;&s;emble them&s;elves together for holding of Councils, Conventions, or A&s;&s;emblies, to Treat, Con&s;ult, or Determinate in any matter of E&s;tate, Civil, or Eccle|&s;ia&s;tick, (except in the ordinary Judicatories) without His Maje&s;ties &s;pecial Command and expre&s;&s;e Licence had and obtained to that effect. As al&s;o, that none of them of what&s;oever Function, Degree or Quality, pre&s;ume, nor take upon hand, privatly, or publictly, in Sermons, Preachings, Declamations, Speeches, or otherwi&s;e, by Word or Writ, to Utter, Devi&s;e, or Vent any purpo&s;e of Reproach or Slander again&s;t His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, E&s;tate, or Go|vernment, His Parents, or Progenitors, or to deprave His Laws and Acts of Parliament, or mi&s;con&s;true His Proceedings, whereby any mi&s;liking may be moved betwixt His Maje&s;ty and His Nobility, and Loving Subjects, or to medle in the Affairs of His Maje&s;ty and His E&s;tate, pre&s;ent, bygone, and in time coming; Or to own, abate, or a&s;&s;i&s;t the fore&s;aid <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> With Certification, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, conform to the Te|nors of the &s;aids re&s;pective Acts of Parliament. Likeas, The &s;aid Committee of E&s;tates Declares, that any per&s;on or per&s;ons, who hears any &s;uch Lei&s;ing, Calumnie, or Slanderous Speech, or &s;hall &s;ee or have any &s;uch Pa&s;quils, or Writs as afore&s;aid, and reveals not the &s;ame to His Maje&s;ty, or one of the &s;aid Committee, or to the Sheriff, Steward, or Bailie of the Shire, Stewards in Regality, or Royalty, or to the Prove&s;t, or one of the Bailies within Burgh, as with be&s;t conveniency he may; be whom the &s;ame may come to the knowledge of His Maje&s;ty His Parliament, the &s;aid Committee of E&s;tates, or His Maje&s;ties Privie Council, by whom the &s;aids Lei&s;ing-makers and Authors of &s;uch &s;landerous Speeches may be called, tryed, and pu|ni&s;hed according to the &s;aids Acts, In that ca&s;e they &s;hall incurre the like Cen&s;ure or puni&s;hment as the principall party offender. And the &s;aid Com|mittee of E&s;tates, con&s;idering that His Maje&s;ties Leidges are &s;ubject more ea&s;ily to be en&s;nared and enti&s;ed to any &s;uch Seditious or Trea&s;onable Cour&s;es and Practices by Mini&s;ters in their Sermons, Prayers, Declamations, and private Di&s;cour&s;es: The &s;aid Committee do Declare, that upon Information given to them of any thing uttered or &s;poken contrary to the Tenor of the preceeding Act, the &s;ame being lawfully proven in pre&s;ence of the &s;aid Com|mittee, or Parliament, or His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, They &s;ummarily will Seque&s;trate their whole Stipend, and Impri&s;on their per&s;on, untill His Maje|&s;tie, Parliament, or Committee of E&s;tates, or any other Judge competent &s;hall proceed to the finall cognition and Sentencing of their &s;aid Crime or Crimes. And to the effect, that this Act and Ordinance may come to the knowledge of all His Maje&s;ties Leidges, Ordains Publication to be made thereof, at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Heid Burghs of the Shires; And Ordains the Magi&s;trates of the &s;everal Heid Burghs to &s;end &s;o many of the &s;aids Proclamations to each Collector of the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment of every Shire, requiring the &s;aid Collector to &s;end the &s;ame to the &s;everal Paroches, that the fore&s;aid Proclamation may be Read after Sermon, and Affixt upon the Kirk-doors of each Paroch, and upon the Mercat Cro&s;&s;e of each Heid Burgh. Extracted forth of the Books of the &s;aid Committee, be me</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>JO. HAY</HI> Cler. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>EDINB&V;RGH</HI> by a Society of <HI>Stationers,</HI> 1660.</P>
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