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DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
At the Court at Whitehall, 
 April the Seventh, 1680.  
Present, 
 

The Kings most Excellent Majesty,  
His Highness' Prince Rupert  
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury  
Lord Chancellor  
Lord Precedent  
Lord Privy Seal  
Duke of Albemarle  
Marquis of Winchester  
Marquis of Worcester  
Earl of Sunderland  
Earl of Bridgwater  
Earl of Essex  
Mr. Hyde  
Mr. Finch  
Mr. Secretary Coventry  
Lord Chief Justice North  
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer  
Sir Leolyne Jenkins  
Mr. Godolphin.    
FOR the preventing tumultuous Disorders which may happen hereafter upon pretence of assembling to make Bonfires and Public Fireworks, and disappointing the evil Designs of Persons disaffected to the Government, who commonly make use of such Occasions to turn those Meetings into Riots and Tumults:  
It is this day Ordered by his Majesty in Council, That no person or persons whatsoever do presume to make or encourage the making any Bonfires or other public Fireworks on the Twenty ninth day of May next ensuing, being the Anniversary day of the Birth and happy Restauration of His most Sacred Majesty, or at or upon any other Festival day, or at any other time or times whatsoever, without particular permission, leave, or Order first had from his Majesty, or this Board, or signified to them by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London, or by the justices of the Peace in their respective Limits, upon pain of his Majesty's Displeasure, and being prosecuted with the utmost severity of the Law. Whereof all persons whom it may concern are to take Notice at their Perils.  
FRANCIS GWYN.   

LONDON, Printed by John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills; Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1680.