monogram of 'W' (William) superimposed on' M' (Mary) RR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms By the King and Queen, A PROCLAMATION For the Confinement of Popish Recusants within Five Miles of their respective Dwellings. Marie R. THeir Majesty's having received Information, That divers Popish Recusants holding Correspondence with, or Favouring Their Majesty's Enemies, do withdraw from their Habitations, Designing and Endeavouring to Corrupt and Seduce Their Majesty's Subjects, and them Excite to Sedition and Rebellion, at this time, whilst Their Majesties with most of the Princes of Christendom are Engaged in a necessary War against the French King, for Their common Security, and the particular Preservation of these Kingdoms, whereon the Interest and Safety of all and singular Their Majesty's Subjects do depend; have thought fit (with the Advice of Their Privy Council) to Issue this Their Royal Proclamation, and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Popish Recusants, being above the Age of Sixteéns years, born within any of Their Majesty's Realms or Dominions, or made Denizens, That they and every of them do (according to the Statutes in that behalf made) repair to their respective Places of Abode, and if they have no Places of Abode, then to the Places where the Father or Mother of such respective Person is, or shall be then dwelling, and do not thereafter Remove or Pass above Five Miles from thence. And Their Majesties do hereby further straight Charge and Command all Their judges, justices, Magistrates, Ministers and Officers, That if such Popish Recusant, or Person reputed so to be, shall not repair to his or her Place of Abode, and there continue without Removing or Passing above Five Miles from thence, according to the true Intent and Tenor of the Statutes in that behalf, That then such Popish Recusants, or Persons so reputed respectively, be Prosecuted and brought to Punishment, as well by Tendering unto them the Oaths mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of Their Majesty's Reign, Entitled [An Act for the Abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Appointing order Oaths] as by putting in Execution the severest Laws which are now in Force against them. 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, 1690.