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By the King, A PROCLAMATION Against Spreading of a Traiterous Declaration Published by James Duke of Monmouth.

JAMES R.

WHereas James Duke of Monmouth, in order to Excite and Stir up Our Sub­jects to Ioyn with him, in a Rebellion against Vs, hath lately by his Re­bellious Emissaries, Published and Dispersed a most Vile and Traiterous Paper, against Vs and Our Government, Entituled, The Declaration of James Duke of Monmouth, and the Noblemen, Gentlemen and others now in Arms, for Defence and Vindication of the Protestant Religion, and of the Laws, Rights and Priviledges of England, from the Invasion made upon them, and for Delivering the Kingdom, from the Vsurpation and Ty­ranny of Vs, by the Name of James Duke of York; which Paper Our Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Assembled in Parliament, have Iustly Condemned to be Burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman, as Con­tain ng the Highest of Treasons, which the utmost Malice of Our most Implacable Enemies could falsly Contrive against Vs: We out of Our Princely Grace and Ten­derness to Our Subjects, lest any of them through Ignorance of the Danger, they will inevitably incur thereby, may be misled to Receive and Entertain the said Traiterous Paper, or to Publish the same to others their Fellow Subjects, have thought fit with the Advice of Our Privy Council, hereby to give Notice thereof, to all Our Loving Subjects, and do hereby strictly Charge and Com­mand all Our Lieutenants, Deputy-Lieutenants, Sheriffs, Iustices of the Peace, Mayors, Bay­liffs, Headboroughs, High-Constables, Petty-Constables, and all other Our Officers Military and Civil, and all and every Our Loving Subjects within this Our Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, that they Apprehend and Cause to be Apprehended, all and every Person and Persons, who shall Publish, Disperse or Entertain, without Discovery thereof to the next Iustice of the Peace, the said Traiterous Paper, to the End they may be Proceeded against as Traytors to Vs Our Crown and Dignity, as they will Answer the Contrary at their Peril.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Fifteenth Day of June 1685. In the First Year of Our Reign.

God save the King.

LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1685.

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