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BY THE KING. 
 His Majesty's Proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant, called, A solemn League and Covenant for Reformation, etc.  
WHereas there is a Printed Paper, entitled, A solemn League and Covenant for Reformation, and defence of Religion, the Honour and Happiness of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, pretended to be Ordered by the Commons in Parliament on the twenty first day of September last, to be Printed and Published; Which Covenant though it seems to make specious expressions of Piety and Religion, is in Truth nothing else but a Traitorous and Seditious Combination against Us, and against the established Religion and Laws of this Kingdom, in pursuance of a Traitorous Design, and endeavour to bring in foreign Force to invade this Kingdom: We do therefore straight Charge and Command all Our loving Subjects, of what degree or quality soever, upon their Allegiance, that they presume not to take the said Seditious and Traitorous Covenant. And We do likewise hereby forbid and inhibit all Our Subjects to impose, administer, or tender the said Covenant, as they and every of them will answer the Contrary at their utmost and extremest Perils.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, this ninth day of October, in the nineteenth year of Our Reign.  
God save the KING.   

OXFORD, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University. 1643.