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DIEV ET MON DROIT   
BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT AND COUNCILS.  
JO: BERKELEY.  
WHEREAS by the ancient Laws and Statutes 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. 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 Coffeehouses, but in other Places and Meetings, both public 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 jealousy and Dissatisfaction in the minds of all His Majesty's good Subjects: We the Lord Lieutenant and Council considering 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 r●●tless malice of some, whose Seditious ends and aims are already too well known, or from the careless demeanour of others who presume too much upon His Majesty's accustomed Clemency and Goodness, have thought fit by this Our Proclamation to forewarn, and straight command all His Majesty's 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 Utter or publish any false News or Reports, or to intermeddle with the Affairs of State and Government or with the persons of any His Majesty's Councillors 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 Punnishable, not only in the speakers, but in the hearers also, unless they do speedily reveal the same unto some of His Majesty's Privy Council, or some other His Majesty's Judges or Justices of the Peace, therefore that all men may be left without excuse, who shall not hereafter contain themselves within that modest and dutiful regard which becomes them We do further declare, that we 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 public or Private meeting where such speeches are used without revealing the same in due time, we being resolved to suppress 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 the Council Chamber in Dublin the 9th day of July 1672. 

Ja: Armachanus.  
Mich Dublin Canc.  
O: Bryen.  
Art. Forbese.  
Ro: Booth.  
I: Temple.  
Paul Davys.  
H: Ingoldsby  
Char: Meredyth.   God Save the King.   

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