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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE


At the Court at Whitehall, The Nineteenth of November 1678.
By the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council.

WHereas His Majesty by His late Royal Proclamati­on, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October last, did straitly Charge and Command all persons, be­ing Popish Recusants, or so reputed, to depart and retire themselves and their Families, on or before the Seventh day of this instant November, from His Majesties Royal Palaces of Whitehall, Somerset House, S. James, the Cities of London and West­minster, and from all other Places within Ten miles distance of the same; His Majestly upon fur­ther Consideration, was Graciously pleased to De­clare in Council, That the said Proclamation was not meant to extend to any Merchants Strangers of the Romish Religion, residing in or near this City, upon account of Trade, who in all times past have had the freedom of remaining here, so as they give in their Names, and Places of Habitation respectively, to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, within Six days after notice of this Order; Neither to Strangers (other then Popish Priests and Iesuits) who out of curiosity come into this Kingdom as Travellers, so as they give in their Names, together with the Places where they Lodge, within Six days after the date of these Presents, or after their Ar­rival here, to one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State; But that such Merchants Strangers and Foreiners as aforesaid, have the same Liberty of residing at, or coming to the Places above mentioned, as if the aforesaid Pro­clamation had never been Issued.

JOHN NICHOLAS.

LONDON, Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Nowcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1678.

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