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DIEV ET MON DROIT  
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By the Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL.  
ORMONDE.  
WHereas certain wicked persons of Fanatic and Disloyal principles, disaffected to His Majesty's Just and Gracious Government, and to the Peace and Settlement of this Kingdom, have lately most Traitorously and Disloyally conspired to raise Rebellious Disturbances in this Realm, and particularly had designed on the 21 day of this present May to surprise and take His Majesty's Castle of Dublin, His principal Fort in this his Kingdom, and to seize on the Person of Us the Lord Lieutenant in order to their carrying on their mischievous Contrivances, for renewing Bloody confusions throughout this Kingdom from which Evils this Realm and all His Majesty's Subjects therein have been but newly redeemed, and that by the Blessing of God and His Majesty's happy restauration to His Rightful Crowns and Kingdoms: And as We look upon those odious Conspiracies as the mischievous Contrivancies of some Fanatic and Disloyal persons of Desperate Fortunes, as well as of Desperate & destructive Principles, who endeavour to amend their own conditions by the ruin of others, or to set up some thing (if they knew what) suitable to the Frenzy of their own Humours and Imaginations, though at the charge and hazard of others, and at the price of other men's blood whom they labour to seduce, so now their horrid Conspiracy being by the Blessing of God discovered and disappointed, and some of the Conspirators apprehended and committed to Prison, We therefore have thought fit hereby to make it publicly known for the comfort and quieting the minds of all His Majesty's good and loyal Subjects in