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DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the Lord Deputy AND COUNCIL.  
TYRCONNELL.  
WHEREAS several persons of wicked and restless Spirits have industriously gone about to spread false News, and to promote malicious Slanders and Calumnies, with an intention to raise Divisions amongst His Majesty's Good and Loyal Subjects of this Kingdom. And whereas We the Lord Deputy and Council, in order to suppress these unlawful and malicious practices, have by a late Proclamation forewarned, and strictly Commanded all His Majesty's Subjects, that they should not presume by writing or speaking, to utter or publish any such false News or Reports, thereby declaring that such as should offend therein, should be Prosecuted according to the utmost Rigour of the Law. And though We have caused the said Proclamation to be published in all the parts of this Kingdom, and so might have justly Expected a full Compliance thereunto from all His Majesty's Subjects, yet such is the perverse humour and continuing malice of some restless spirits, that in contempt of Our said Proclamation, and of the known Laws of this Realm, they make it their constant practice by Writing & Speaking, to Publish and spread False News and Reports, and their Iniquity have so far prevailed upon them, that they have raised a most scandalous, impious, and false Calumny and Report, as if His Majesty's Protestant Subjects here were to be Massacred by His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects of this Kingdom; Which Report was so Industriously improved, as that not only an Account thereof was sent into England and several there persuaded that a Massacre was actually 〈…〉 upon many of His Majesty's Protestant Subjects; but that several persons in this City, either out of fear and apprehension, or out of some evil Design to disturb the Peace, have met and assembled together at an unseasonable time of the night, in a riotous and warlike manner to the great Terror of His Majesty's people; and of the other hand, several other persons endowed with the same spirit, have maliciously and scandalously given out, as if His Majesties Roman-Catholick Subjects here were to be killed and Massacred by His Majesty's Protestant Subjects of this Realm. All which Contrivances are set on foot in this time of Invasion by Factious and Rebellious Spirits, with an intention to prejudice His Majesty's Affairs by raising and fomenting Animosities between His Majesty's People.  
We the Lord Deputy and Council in order to obviate the intended Designs of such malicious Contrivances and unjust practices do hereby Recommend Earnestly to all His Majesty's Subjects of this Kingdom, of what persuasion soever they be in point of Religion, to rest assured of his Majesty's Protection without the least apprehension: And that as the Government for the time past hath taken effectual care for preserving his Majesty's Peace within his Realm in so for the time to come will take the like care to preserve and Protest all His Majesty's Subjects within this Kingdom without any distinction, in their persons, Liberty and Properties while they continue steady and firm in their Duty and Allegiance to His Majesty, And do further in His Majesty's behalf conjure all His Majesty's Subjects of this Kingdom, to lay aside all manner of Animosities and Jealousies and Cheerfully to Unite together in the defence of His Majesty and their Country against all Foreign Invasion, and to look upon the spreaders of those malicious reports to be Enemies to their King and Country, And we do further strictly Charge and command all His Majesty's Subjects of this Realm, that they presume not henceforth to meet at unseasonable times with fire Arms in great numbers, or in a tumultuous manner to the Terror of His Majesty's People, as they shall answer the same at their peril, We being resolved to take such measures for the preservation of the Peace of this Kingdom as shall be thought needful upon such occasion: And we do also strictly Command that the said former Proclamation against the spreaders of false News and Reports be put in due Execution against all Offenders in that Kind according to the utmost Rigour of the Law, And we do hereby will and require all and every his Majesty's Judges and Justices of the Peace, and all other his Majesty's Magistrates and Ministers in their several Stations, that they take special care to have the Laws put in due Execution against all such as have Offended or shall hereafter Offend in the matters aforesaid.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin, the 7th. day of December 1688. 

A. Fytton,  
C. Granard,  
P. Roscomon,  
Lymerick,  
Gormanston,  
Mountjoy,  
Bellewe,  
J. Macartie,  
T. Newgent,  
John Keating,  
Stephen Rice,  
John Davys,  
D. Daly,  
Tho. Newcomen,  
N. Poursell.  
  GOD Save the KING.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham: And reprinted at London, by George Croom, at the Blue-Ball in Thames-street. 1688.