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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
At the Court at Whitehall, The Nineteenth of November 1678.  
By the King's most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.  
WHereas His Majesty by His late Royal Proclamation, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October last, did straight Charge and Command all persons, being Popish Recusants, or so reputed, to depart and retire themselves and their Families, on or before the Seventh day of this instant November, from His Majesty's Royal Palaces of Whitehall, Somerset House, S. James, the Cities of London and Westminster, and from all other Places within Ten miles' distance of the same; His Majestly upon further Consideration, was Graciously pleased to Declare in Council, That the said Proclamation was not meant to extend to any Merchant's Strangers of the Romish Religion, residing in or near this City, upon account of Trade, who in all times past have had the freedom of remaining here, so as they give in their Names, and Places of Habitation respectively, to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, within Six days after notice of this Order; Neither to Strangers (other then Popish Priests and jesuits) who out of curiosity come into this Kingdom as Travellers, so as they give in their Names, together with the Places where they Lodge, within Six days after the date of these Presents, or after their Arrival here, to one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; But that such Merchant's Strangers and Foreiners as aforesaid, have the same Liberty of residing at, or coming to the Places above mentioned, as if the aforesaid Proclamation had never been Issued.  
JOHN NICHOLAS.   

LONDON, Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Nowcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1678.