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<HEAD>BY THE LORD DEPUTY AND COUNCIL.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>TYRCONNELL.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS &s;everal per&s;ons di&s;affected to his Ma|je&s;ties mo&s;t &s;erene and au&s;picious Government, have of late in a riotous and warlike manner a&s;&s;embled together in &s;everal parts of this his Kingdom, and have contrived and entred into &s;e|veral A&s;&s;ociations, which they have mo&s;t indu|&s;triou&s;ly endeavoured to &s;pread and divulge a|mong&s;t his Maje&s;ties liege people in divers parts of the Kingdom, which We mu&s;t conclude to have been made and procured by per&s;ons who de|&s;ire to di&s;turb the peaceable and e&s;tabli&s;h'd Go|vernment thereof; and which contain, as We conceive, no le&s;s offence than that of High Trea&s;on, to which We are the more induced to give credit, in regard they have proceeded &s;o far in their in&s;o|lencies, as that by fre&s;h informations which We the Lord Deputy have re|ceived, they have taken upon them to fortifie them&s;elves, by po&s;&s;e&s;sing of places of &s;trength, and dividing them&s;elves into Troops and Companies, providing them&s;elves of Arms and Ammunition in manife&s;t breach of the Laws, and to the great Terror of his Maje&s;ties liege people. And becau&s;e We are a&s;&s;ured that &s;everal well-meaning per&s;ons among&s;t them have been &s;educed upon pretence of groundle&s;s fears and jealou&s;ies by fiery &s;pirits that are Ringleaders of tho&s;e Factions, who being broken in their Fortunes as well as their Reputations, may occa&s;ion the ruine of many harmle&s;s and well-meaning men, by involving them in their own trea&s;onable de&s;igns, and making them partakers of the Crimes that they them&s;elves are guilty of. And We being very &s;en&s;ible of the misfortune that the&s;e men are like to bring them&s;elves further into, which can be no le&s;s than the forfeiture of their lives
<PB REF="2"> and e&s;tates for Rebellion and Trea&s;on, which We are willing to prevent as much as in Vs lieth. And in order thereunto, and to &s;ettle the Peace of this Kingdom, and to prevent the effu&s;ion of Chri&s;tian Blood, which We the Lord Deputy of this Kingdom have hitherto endeavoured to prevent with all the care and indu&s;try imaginable, notwith&s;tanding the many Affronts of late offered to His Maje&s;ties Government.</P>
<P>And to quiet the mindes of the People, We the Lord Deputy and Council have thought fit and do hereby in his Maje&s;ties name &s;trictly Charge and Command all the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;o A&s;&s;embled within this Kingdom forthwith to di&s;per&s;e and withdraw them&s;elves from tho&s;e Rebellious meetings by re|pairing to their re&s;pective Habitations, and to betake them&s;elves to their &s;e|veral Occupations and Callings as formerly, upon the doing whereof We do in his Maje&s;ties behalf hereby a&s;&s;ure them and every of them of his Ma|je&s;ties Protection and Pardon for their Per&s;ons and E&s;tates for any the Of|fences afore&s;aid, and while they continue within the bounds of their Allegi|ance and duty to his Maje&s;ty; but in ca&s;e they &s;hall &s;till per&s;evere in their &s;aid crimes and fail to give due obedience to the&s;e our Commands, We do hereby Declare that we will give direction to his Maje&s;ties Atturney General to proceed again&s;t them and every of them according to Law as in ca&s;es of High Trea&s;on hath been always u&s;ed, And whereas from the&s;e irregular and unwarranted proceedings of the A&s;&s;ociators afore&s;aid, manifold and great inconveniences already have and more are da ly like to en&s;ue by &s;everal Thieves and Robbers who in confidence of impunity do frequently de&s;poyle and Robb his Maje&s;ties Subjects by &s;tealing their Cattle in greater num|bers then for many years la&s;t pa&s;t hath been known. We do hereby publi&s;h and declare that we will u&s;e our utmo&s;t endeavors by all Legal wayes and meanes to bring the &s;aid Theives and Robbers to condigne puni&s;hment, And We do hereby require all Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Magi&s;trates, Sheriffs, High and Petty Con&s;tables and all other his Maje&s;ties Loving Subjects to u&s;e their utmo&s;t endeavors to di&s;cover and bring to Iu&s;tice the &s;aid Malefactors hereby charging and commanding all his Maje&s;ties military Officers and Soldiers of this Kingdom to be Aiding and As&s;i&s;ting to them in &s;o doing: And we do further recommend to all his Maje&s;ties Subjects of this Realm to lay a&s;ide all fears and apprehen&s;ions of any violence to be u&s;ed to them; We firmly a&s;&s;ureing all his Maje&s;ties Subjects of what per&s;wa&s;ion &s;oever that to the utmo&s;t of our power they and every of them demeaning them&s;elves peaceably and quietly &s;hall be Protected by his Maje&s;ties Government here both in their Per&s;ons and E&s;tates again&s;t all violences and attempts what&s;o|ever.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council-Chamber in <HI>Dublin</HI>
<DATE>the 25th day of <HI>January</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>A. Fytton C. Galmoy, T. Nugent, John Keating, Jo. Davys. De. Daly, Rich: Hamilton, Tho: Newcomen, Garett Moore,</SIGNED><LB> God Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> 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 Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; and are to be Sold at the Kin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s Printinghou&s;e on <HI>Ormonde-Key,</HI> and the <HI>Colledge-Arms</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;tle-&s;treet.</HI> 1688.</P>
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