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By the King. A PROCLAMATION To Reſtrain the Spreading of Falſe News, and Licentious Talking of Matters of State and Government. CHARLES R.

WHereas by the antient Laws and Satutes of this Realm, great and heavy Penalties are Inflicted upon all ſuch as ſhall be found to be ſpreaders of falſe News, or promoters of any Malicious Slanders and Calumnies in their ordinary and common Diſcourſes, and by a late Statute made in the Thirteenth year of His Majeſties Reign, Whoſoever ſhall Utter or Publiſh any words, or things to Incite and Stir up the People to hatred or diſlike of the Perſon of His Majeſty, or the Eſtabliſht Government, is thereby made uncapable of holding any Office or Imployment whatſoever either in Church or State. Notwithſtanding all which Laws and Statutes, there have been of late more bold and Licentious Diſcourſes then formerly; and men have aſſumed to themſelves a liberty, not only in Coffee-houſes, but in other Places and Meetings, both publick and private, to cenſure and defame the Proceedings of State, by ſpeaking evil of things they underſtand not, and endeavouring to create and nouriſh an univerſal Jealouſie and Diſſatisfaction in the minds of all His Majeſties good Subjects: His Majeſty conſidering therefore that Offences of this nature, cannot proceed from want or ignorance of Laws to Restrain and puniſh them, but muſt of neceſſity proceed from the reſtleſſe Malice of ſome, whoſe ſeditious ends and aims are already too well known, or from the careleſſe demeanour of others, who preſume too much upon His Majeſties accuſtomed Clemency and Goodneſſe, Hath thought fit by Advice of His Council, to Publiſh this His Royal Proclamation; And doth hereby forewarn, and straitly Command all His Loving Subjects, of what ſtate or condition ſoever they be, from the higheſt to the loweſt, that they preſume not henceforth by Writing or Speaking, to Ʋtter or Publiſh any Falſe News or Reports, or to intermeddle with the Affairs of State and Government, or with the perſons of any His Majeſties Counſellours or Ministers, in their common and ordinary Diſcourſes, as they will anſwer the contrary at their utmoſt perils. And becauſe all bold and irreverent Speeches touching matters of this high nature are puniſhable, not onely in the Speakers, but in the Hearers alſo, unleſſe they do ſpeedily reveal the ſame unto ſome of His Majeſties Privy Council, or ſome other His Majesties Judges or Juſtices of the Peace within the ſpace of four and twenty hours next after ſuch • ords ſpoken. Therefore that all men may be left without excuſe, who ſhall not hereafter contain them •• elves within that modest and dutiful Regard which becomes them, His Majeſty doth further Declare, That he will proceed with all Severity, againſt all manner of perſons who ſhall uſe any bold or unlawful Speeches of this nature, or be preſent at any Coffee-houſe, or other publick or private meeting where ſuch Speeches are uſed, without Revealing the ſame in due time, His Majeſty being reſolved to Suppreſſe this unlawful and undutiful kind of Diſcourſe, by a moſt Strict and Exemplary Puniſhment of all ſuch Offenders as ſhall be hereafter diſcovered.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the 12th day of June, in the 24th year of Our Reign, 1672. GOD ſave the KING.

EDINBƲRGH, Re-printed in the Year, 1672.