WHereas notwithstanding the several Acts of Parliament, whereby the Resorting of Papists to the Cities of London and Westminster, and Places thereunto adja­cent, are declared to be dangerous to the Peace and Safety of this Kingdom, and the Ways and Methods Provided and Enacted as well for Discovering as Amoving them; And notwithstanding the Manifestation of Their Majesties Princely Disposition to extend Their Protection and Royal Grace to all and every of Their Subjects that will live Quietly and Peaceably under Their Go­vernment, divers Popish Recusants, being ill affected to Their Majestites Go­vernment, and of restless Spirits, have lately Resorted to the said Cities and Places in great numbers, and thereby having opportunity to Meet, have taken great Boldness to Consult and Prosecute divers Mischievous and Treasonable Designs and Practices, contrary to the Duty of their Allegiance: Their Ma­jesties have therefore thought fit (by the Advice of Their Privy Council) to Is­sue out this Their Royal Proclamation, and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Popish Recu­sants, and Persons reputed so to be, (Except Merchant Strangers, and such other Persons as in the said Acts are Excepted) on or before the Seven and twentieth Day of this instant June, to depart out of the said Cities, and from all Places within the Distance of Ten Miles of the same, And Their Majesties do hereby further Require and Command, That if any of the said Popish Recusants, or so reputed, shall presume to remain within either of the said Cities, or Ten Miles adjacent, or repair or return to the same, they be Proceeded against as Persons Conspiring against the Peace and Welfare of the Government. And Their Majesties do hereby straitly Charge and Command the Lord Mayor of London, and all and every the Iustices of the Peace, Constables, and other Their Majesties Officers and Ministers of Iustice within the said Cities, and either of them, and within Ten Miles of the same, That they do make strict Search and En­quiry for, and with all Vigour Proceed against all and every Person or Persons who shall be found within the said Cities of London and Westminster, and within Ten Miles of the same, contrary to the Effect of any of the said Statutes, and the Purport of this Their Majesties Proclamation. And Their Majesties do further strictly Charge and Command, That immediately after the said Seven and twentieth Day of June, the Constables, Churchwardens, and other Officers within the said Cities and Places, do go from House to House in their several Parishes, Hamlets, Constableries and Divisions respectively, and there take an Ac­count of the Names and Sirnames of all such Persons as are Popish Recusants, or reputed so to be, as well Householders as Lodgers or Servants, and to carry a List of their Names to the two next Iustices of the Peace, who are hereby Required and Enjoyned to Send for, and Proceed against them (Excepting always Merchant Foreiners, Settled Housholders, and other Persons in the said Acts Excepted) as aforesaid: And they the said Iustices are likewise Required, when they shall have received such List or Lists, to certifie the same, together with their Proceedings thereupon, to Their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Seventeenth Day of June, 1690. In the Second Year of Our Reign.

God save King William and Queen Mary.