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By the King.  
A PROCLAMATION, Commanding all Cashiered Officers and Soldiers, and other Persons that cannot give a good Account for their being here, to depart our of the Cities of London and Westminster.  
CHARLES R.  
HIs Majesty having a very tender care for the preservation of the Peace of this His Kingdom (the sweetness whereof His Subjects have begun to taste, after the long miseries of the late Troubles) and being Solicitous to prevent all Occasions that may give the least umbrage of the disturbance thereof, and having Information that divers of the formerly cashiered Officers and Soldiers, and other dissolute and disaffected persons do daily resort to this City and Suburbs thereof, and great numbers of them do at this time remain therein: His Majesty doth therefore strictly charge and command all such Officers and Soldiers, and dissolute disaffected Persons, That cannot give so good account of their being here, as shall be approved by some of His majesty's Privy council, or the Committee appointed for disbanding the Army, within two days after Publication of this His Proclamation, to depart the Cities of London and Westminster, and Suburbs thereof, and to retire and remove themselves at twenty miles' distance from the said Cities, and there to remain, and not to return to the said Cities without leave first obtained, and this to do without fail, upon pain of Imprisonment, and his majesty's high Displeasure.  
Given at the Court at Whitehall, this 17th day of December, in the Twelfth Year of his majesty's Reign, 1660. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

LONDON Printed by John Bill, Printer to the KING'S most Excellent MAJESTY, 1660.  
At the KING'S Printing-House in Blackfriars.