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DIEV ET MON DROIT

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE

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A PROCLAMATION For the Confinement of Popish Recusants within Five Miles of their respective Dwellings.

THeir Majesties having received Information, That divers Popish Recusants holding Correspondence with, or Favouring Their Ma∣jesties Enemies, do withdraw from their Habitations, Designing and Endeavouring to Corrupt and Seduce Their Majesties Sub∣jects, and them Excite to Sedition and Rebellion, at this time, whilst Their Majesties with most of the Princes of Christendom are Engaged in a necessary War against the French King, for Their common Security, and the particular Preservation of these King∣doms, whereon the Interest and Safety of all and singular Their Majesties Subjects do depend; have thought fit (with the Advice of Their Privy Council) to Issue this Their Royal Proclamation, and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Popish Recusants, being above the Age of Sixteén years, born within any of Their Majesties Realms or Dominions, or made Denizens, That they and every of them do (accor∣ding to the Statutes in that behalf made) repair to their respective Places of Abode, and if they have no Places of Abode, then to the Places where the Father or Mother of such respective Person is, or shall be then dwelling, and do not thereafter Remove or Pass above Five Miles from thence. And Their Majesties do hereby further straitly Charge and Command all Their Iudges, Iustices, Magistrates, Ministers and Officers, That if such Popish Recusant, or Person reputed so to be, shall not repair to his or her Place of Abode, and there continue with∣out Removing or Passing above Five Miles from thence, according to the true Intent and Tenour of the Statutes in that behalf, That then such Popish Recusants, or Persons so re∣puted respectively, be Prosecuted and brought to Punishment, as well by Tendring unto them the Oaths mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled [An Act for the Abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Appoint∣ing order Oaths] as by putting in Execution the severest Laws which are now in Force against them.