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<FIGDESC>monogram of 'W' (William) superimposed on 'M' (Mary)</FIGDESC>
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<Q LANG="frm">JE MEINTIENDRAY</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>BY THE Lords-Ju&s;tices and COUNCIL. A PROCLAMATION</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>CHARLES PORTER</ITEM>
<ITEM>THO. CONINGESBY,</ITEM>
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<P>WHereas We have by Our Proclamation, bearing Date the Eighteenth day of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, thought fit to Publi&s;h and Declare in the words following,</P>
<P>WHereas many Idle and Di&s;&s;olute Per&s;ons have of late de&s;erted their Habitations, and are become Tories, Thieves and Rapparees, committing mo&s;t outrageous Robberies, Burglaries and Thefts, and may therefore ju&s;tly look on their E&s;tate as de&s;perate, and that they have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed beyond hopes of Pardon: Neverthele&s;s, We being wil|ling to impute their Ob&s;tinacy to the Ignorance they were in of their own Con|dition, the Influence and Delu&s;ions they may be under from their Landlords and other Superiors. To the end they may be left without all excu&s;e, if they &s;hall refu&s;e and neglect the pre&s;ent Grace and Favour, are plea&s;ed to publi&s;h and declare by this Our Proclamation at this in&s;tant, after many &s;ignal Defeats of tho&s;e Forces in the Field, and reducing mo&s;t of the &s;trong Holds and Garri&s;ons from whence they may have derived their confidence, Their Maje&s;ties farther Favour, Grace and Pardon to all and every &s;uch Robbers, Thieves and Rappa|rees within Our Quarters, as are now on their keeping, as &s;hall within the &s;pace of one Month from the Date hereof, render them&s;elves and deliver up their Arms to any Iu&s;tice or Iu&s;tices of the Peace of any Counties, and before &s;uch Iu&s;tice or Iu&s;tices of the Peace take the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to Their Maje&s;ties, Our Sovereign Lord and Lady King <HI>WILLIAM</HI> and Queen <HI>MARY,</HI> that they &s;hall on Certificate from &s;uch Iu&s;tice of the Peace, be received into Their Maje&s;ties Protection, and be full and freely pardoned, as to their Lives and Liberties, all Trea&s;ons, Burglaries, Robberies, Thefts and other Crimes and Mi&s;demeanours what&s;oever before that time by them com|mitted or done, and the Iu&s;tices of the Peace, who &s;hall give any &s;uch Certificate, are hereby required and directed to make return unto Vs the Lords Iu&s;tices un|der their han<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s the names of all &s;uch per&s;ons to whom they &s;hall have given any Certificate, with the places of their Aboad or Re&s;idence, what quality or degree they were of, and what Arms were delivered up by them, And We do hereby declare, that We &s;hall hereafter look on all &s;uch per&s;ons that &s;hall willfully refu&s;e and neglect this their Maje&s;ties Grace and Clemency altogether unworthy thereof in time to come, neverthele&s;s it is not hereby in|tended the &s;aid Grace and Pardon &s;hall be con&s;trued to extend to any offence or offences that &s;hall be willfully Commited after notice of this Our Proclama|tion.</P>
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<P>And forasmuch as tho&s;e Thieves, Robbers, and Rapparees have their In|couragement, and Sub&s;i&s;tance from divers per&s;ons who pretend to live peaceably under the Protection of their Maje&s;ties Government being relieved, harboured, concealed, and comforted by them contrary to the many good Laws of this King|dom. We do hereby declare that any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons that &s;hall on any pretence what&s;oever relieve, harbour, conceal, or comfort any the &s;aid Thieves, Robbers, or Rapparees or their accomplices &s;hall loo&s;e and forfeit the benefit of his or their Protection, and be al&s;o pro&s;ecuted with the utmo&s;t &s;everity of the Laws for &s;uch offence, And as a reward to all &s;uch Loyal Subjects, as &s;hall detect and di&s;cover any the &s;aid Thieves, Robbers, and Rapparees &s;o as they &s;hall be apprehended or any of their harbourers or relievers &s;o as they &s;hall thereof be convicted &s;hall for every &s;uch Tory or Rapparee &s;o apprehended and for every harbourer or reliever &s;o Convicted be paid the Sum of forty &s;hillings. And whereas the unprofitable Cu&s;tom of Burning Corn in the &s;traw is by a &s;tatute made in this Kingdom in the eleventh year of King <HI>CHARLES</HI> the fir&s;t prohibited under &s;evere penaltyes, yet is the &s;ame as We are informed in divers places practi&s;ed and more e&s;pecially for Comfort and Support of the &s;aid Robbers and Rapparees, We do therefore hereby declare and publi&s;h that all per&s;ons offending therein &s;hall loo&s;e and forfeit the benefit of their protections and &s;hall be al&s;o farther proceeded again&s;t according to Law. And whereas divers all affected per&s;ons under colour and pretence of &s;ecureing their Corn do hide and bury the &s;ame, in truth the better to enable them&s;elves to relieve and &s;uccour To|ries, Thieves and Rapparees, and to let the &s;aid Tories, Thieves and Rappa|rees know where to have and take the &s;ame: We have thought fit hereby to de|clare, all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall hide or bury their Corn &s;hall be reputed and tak|en as di&s;affected to the Government and &s;hall loo&s;e and forfeit the benefit of any protections heretofore given them.</P>
<P>And whereas &s;ince the i&s;&s;uing of the &s;aid Proclamation, the Province of <HI>Con|naught</HI> and all other places which then were in the Enemies Quarters are re|duced to Their Maje&s;ties Obedience, neverthele&s;s many Idle and Di&s;&s;olute Per|&s;ons do continue to commit Outrageous Robberies and Thefts in tho&s;e Parts, We therefore to leave them al&s;o without Excu&s;e, if they &s;hall refu&s;e this Our pre&s;ent Grace and Favour, are plea&s;ed to Declare and Publi&s;h by this Our Pro|clamation Their Maje&s;ties further Grace and Pardon to all and every &s;uch Rob|bers, Thieves and Rapparees in the &s;aid Province of <HI>Connaught,</HI> and all other places which at the time of I&s;&s;uing Our Proclamation afore&s;aid were in the Enemies Quarters, as &s;hall by or before the Fifth day of <HI>November</HI> next lay hold on the &s;aid Proclamation, and render and &s;ubmit them&s;elves to Their Maje&s;ties Government, as by the &s;aid Proclamation is directed and required, the benefit whereof &s;hall be as fully extended to them, as if they had come in by the time in the &s;aid Proclamation heretofore limited.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council-Chamber in <HI>Dublin</HI>
<DATE>the 14th day of <HI>October,</HI> 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Fran. Dublin,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Droheda,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Longford,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Granard,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anth. Meath,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rob. Fitz-Gerald,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ry, Reynell,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ri. Pyne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jn^o Hely,</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED> GOD Save the KING and QUEEN,</CLOSER>
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