By the King and Queen, A PROCLAMATION Commanding all Papists, and Reputed Papists, forthwith to departed from the Cities of London and Westminster, and from within Ten Miles of the same. Marry R. WHereas notwithstanding the several Acts of Parliament, whereby the Resorting of Papists to the Cities of London and Westminster, and Places thereunto adjacent, are declared to be dangerous to the Peace and Safety of this Kingdom, and the Ways and Methods Provided and Enacted as well for Discovering as Amoving them; And notwithstanding the Manifestation of Their Majesty's Princely Disposition to extend Their Protection and Royal Grace to all and every of Their Subjects that will live Quietly and Peaceably under Their Government, divers Popish Recusants, being ill affected to Their Majestites Government, and of restless Spirits, have lately Resorted to the said Cities and Places in great numbers, and thereby having opportunity to Meet, have taken great Boldness to Consult and Prosecute divers Mischievous and Treasonable Designs and Practices, contrary to the Duty of their Allegiance: Their Majesties have therefore thought fit (by the Advice of Their Privy Council) to Issue out this Their Royal Proclamation, and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Popish Recusants, and Persons reputed so to be, (Except Merchant Strangers, and such other Persons as in the said Acts are Excepted) on or before the Seven and twentieth Day of this instant June, to departed out of the said Cities, and from all Places within the Distance of Ten Miles of the same, And Their Majesties do hereby further Require and Command, That if any of the said Popish Recusants, or so reputed, shall presume to remain within either of the said Cities, or Ten Miles adjacent, or repair or return to the same, they be Proceeded against as Persons Conspiring against the Peace and Welfare of the Government. And Their Majesties do hereby straight Charge and Command the Lord Mayor of London, and all and every the justices of the Peace, Constables, and other Their Majesty's Officers and Ministers of justice within the said Cities, and either of them, and within Ten Miles of the same, That they do make strict Search and Enquiry for, and with all Vigour Proceed against all and every Person or Persons who shall be found within the said Cities of London and Westminster, and within Ten Miles of the same, contrary to the Effect of any of the said Statutes, and the Purport of this Their Majesty's Proclamation. And Their Majesties do further strictly Charge and Command, That immediately after the said Seven and twentieth Day of June, the Constables, Churchwardens, and other Officers within the said Cities and Places, do go from House to House in their several Parishes, Hamlets, Constableries and Divisions respectively, and there take an Account of the Names and Surnames of all such Persons as are Popish Recusants, or reputed so to be, as well Householders as Lodgers or Servants, and to carry a List of their Names to the two next justices of the Peace, who are hereby Required and Enjoined to Send for, and Proceed against them (Excepting always Merchant Foreiners, Settled Householders, and other Persons in the said Acts Excepted) as aforesaid: And they the said justices are likewise Required, when they shall have received such List or Lists, to certify the same, together with their Proceed thereupon, to Their Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council. Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Seventeenth Day of June, 1690. In the Second Year of Our Reign. God save King William and Queen Mary. LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties. M.DC.XC.