royal coat of arms By the King, A PROCLAMATION Against Spreading of a Traitorous Declaration Published by James Duke of Monmouth.  
JAMES R.  
WHereas James Duke of Monmouth, in order to Excite and Stir up Our Subjects to join with him, in a Rebellion against Us, hath lately by his Rebellious Emissaries, Published and Dispersed a most Vile and Traitorous Paper, against Us and Our Government, Entitled, The Declaration of James Duke of Monmouth, and the Noblemen, Gentlemen and others now in Arms, for Defence and Vindication of the Protestant Religion, and of the Laws, Rights and Privileges of England, from the Invasion made upon them, and for Delivering the Kingdom, from the Usurpation and Tyranny of Us, by the Name of James Duke of York; which Paper Our Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Assembled in Parliament, have justly Condemned to be Burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman, as Containing the Highest of Treasons, which the utmost Malice of Our most Implacable Enemies could falsely Contrive against Us: We out of Our Princely Grace and Tenderness to Our Subjects, lest any of them through Ignorance of the Danger, they will inevitably incur thereby, may be misled to Receive and Entertain the said Traitorous Paper, or to Publish the same to others their Fellow Subjects, have thought fit with the Advice of Our Privy Council, hereby to give Notice thereof, to all Our Loving Subjects, and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Our Lieutenants, Deputy-Lieutenants, Sheriffs, justices of the Peace, Mayor, Bailiffs, Headboroughs, High-Constables, Petty-Constables, and all other Our Officers Military and Civil, and all and every Our Loving Subjects within this Our Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, that they Apprehend and Cause to be Apprehended, all and every Person and Persons, who shall Publish, Disperse or Entertain, without Discovery thereof to the next justice of the Peace, the said Traitorous Paper, to the End they may be Proceeded against as Traitors to Us Our Crown and Dignity, as they will Answer the Contrary at their Peril.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Fifteenth Day of June 1685. In the First Year of Our Reign. God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Deceased: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1685.