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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, 
 This Tenth of November, 1682.  
Present, 
 

The Kings most Excellent Majesty,  
His Highness' Prince Rupert  
Lord Chancellor  
Lord Precedent  
Lord Privy Seal  
Duke of Ormond  
Lord Chamberlain  
Earl of Oxford  
Earl of Chesterfield  
Earl of Sunderland  
Earl of Clarendon  
Earl of Bath  
Earl of Craven  
Earl of Aylesbury  
Earl of Conway  
Lord Viscount Hide  
Lord Finch  
Lord Bishop of London  
Lord Chief Justice North  
Mr. Secretary Jenkins  
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer  
Sir Tho. Chicheley  
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 Meétings 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 upon any Festival-Day, or at any other Time or Times whatsoever, without particular Direction or Order first had from His Majesty, or this Board, or from 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 Peril: And the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen of London, and His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the County of Middlesex, and the City and Liberty of Westminster, are hereby Strictly Charged and Required to take Care therein accordingly.  
Francis Gwyn.   

LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceased: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1682.