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BY THE KING.
His Majesties Proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant, cal­led, A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation, &c.

WHereas there is a Printed Paper, entituled, A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation, and defence of Religion, the Honour and Happinesse of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland, pretended to be Or­dered by the Commons in Parliament on the twenty first day of September last, to be Printed and Published; VVhich Covenant though it seems to make spe­cious expressions of Piety and Religion, is in Truth nothing else but a Trayterous and Seditious Combination against Vs, and against the established Religion and Lawes of this Kingdome, in pursuance of a Trayterous Designe, and endeavour to bring in forraigne Force to invade this Kingdome: VVe doe therefore straitly Charge and Command all Our loving Subjects, of what degree or quality soever, upon their Allegiance, that they presume not to take the said Seditious and Trai­terous Covenant. And VVe doe likewise hereby forbid and inhibite all Our Subjects to impose, administer, or tender the said Covenant, as they and every of them will answer the Contrary at their utmost and extreamest Perills.

Given at Our Court at Oxford, this ninth day of October, in the nineteenth yeare of Our Reigne.

God save the KING.

OXFORD, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the Vniversity. 1643.

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