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DIEV ET MON DROIT

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE


By the Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL.

ORMONDE.

WHereas certain wicked persons of Fanatick and Disloyal principles, disaffected to His Majesties Just and Gracious Government, and to the Peace and Settlement of this Kingdome, have lately most Traiterously and Disloyally conspired to raise Rebellious Di­sturbances in this Realm, and particularly had designed on the 21 day of this present May to surprize and take His Majesties Ca­stle of Dublin, His principal Fort in this his Kingdome, and to seize on the Person of Us the Lord Lieutenant in order to their carrying on their mischievous Contrivances, for renewing Bloody confusions throughout this Kingdome from which Evils this Realm and all His Majesties Subjects therein have been but newly redeemed, and that by the Blessing of God and His Majesties happy restauration to His Rightful Crowns and Kingdomes: And as We look upon those odious Conspira­cies as the mischievous Contrivancies of some Fanatick and Disloyal persons of Desperate Fortunes, as well as of Desperate & destructive Principles, who endeavour to amend their own conditions by the ruine of others, or to set up some thing (if they knew what) suitable to the Frenzie of their own Humours and Imaginations, though at the charge and hazard of others, and at the price of other mens blood whom they labour to seduce, so now their horrid Conspira­cie being by the Blessing of God discovered and disappointed, and some of the Conspirators ap­prehended and committed to Prison, We therefore have thought fit hereby to make it publickly known for the comfort and quieting the mindes of all His Majesties good and loyal Subjects in [...]

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