DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms By the King and Queen, A PROCLAMATION For the better Discovery of Seditious Libelers. MARIE R. WE being sensible that divers Evil Disposed Persons being not Reform or Wrought upon by Our Grace and Favour, notwithstanding We have extended Our Royal Mercy and Clemency to Our Subjects, as well by Our General as Particular Pardons, since Our Accession to the Crown, do make it their business as well to Write as Print sundry False, Infamous, and Scandalous Libels, endeavouring thereby not only to Traduce and Reproach the Ecclesiastical and Temporal Government of this Kingdom, and the public Ministers of the same, but also to stir up and dispose the minds of Our Subjects to Sedition and Rebellion: For the discovery of which wicked Offenders, and to the intent they may receive such Punishments as the Laws of this Our Realm in such Cases direct, We (with the Advice of Our Privy Council) do by this Our Royal Proclamation Publish and Declare, That if any Person or Persons shall discover or make known to either of Our Principal Secretaries of State, or to any justice of the Peace, the Person or Persons to whom any such Libel at any time since Our last General Pardon, hath been, or shall hereafter be brought, and by him or them received, in order to Print or Transcribe the same, or the place where such Libel shall be Printing, or Transcribing, whereby the same shall happen to be Seized, or the Person or Persons by whom any such Libel at any time since Our said General Pardon hath been or shall hereafter be Printed, Transcribed, or otherwise Published, or shall discover and make known to either of Our said Principal Secretaries of State, or to any justice of Peace, any Press kept contrary to Law by any Person or Persons wheresoever, he or they making every such Discovery shall have and receive as a Reward from Us the Sum of Twenty Pounds. And We do further hereby Publish and Declare, That if any Person or Persons shall Discover and make known to either of Our said Principal Secretaries of State, or to a justice of the Peace, the Author of any such Libel, which at any time since Our said General Pardon has been or shall hereafter be devised and made, or the Person or Persons who at any time since Our said General Pardon have, or hath handed, or brought, or shall hereafter hand or bring any such Libel to the Press, or to any Person or Persons in order to Print the same, so that they may be brought to Punishment, he or they making such Discovery shall receive and have from Us the Sum of Fifty Pounds. And to the end that the Person or Persons making such Discovery may Without any Charge or Attendance immediately after the same made, receive the respective Rewards hereby proposed, We do by this Our Royal Proclamation Require the Commissioners of Our Treasury, or Our High Treasurer of England for the time being, that upon a Certificate from either of Our Principal Secretaries of State, or any justice of the Peace of any such Discovery made, he or they do satisfy and pay the said respective Sums to the Persons or Persons making such Discovery Without any Delay or Abatement whatsoever. And We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all and every Our justices of the Peace, to whom such Discovery shall be made, that he or they with all possible speed do give Notice thereof to Us, or to one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, to the end that the said Libels may be Suppressed, and the Parties offending effectually prosecuted. Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Thirteenth Day of September, 1692. In the Fourth Year of Our Reign. God save King William and Queen Mary. London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased; Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties. 1692.