depiction of England's coat of arms, 1625 
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE  
DIEV ET MON DROIT  ¶ By the King. ❧ A Proclamation for the better Confining of Popish Recusants, Convict according to the Law.  
WHereas by Our Laws, all Popish Recusants Convict aught to remain Confined to their dwellings, or places of abode, or within five miles thereof, unless in cases necessary, upon special Licences obtained, according to the same Laws; And where Our loving Subjects, the Lords and Commons in Parliament did, amongst other things, humbly petition Us, That for the better securing of Our State against the ill affections of jesuited Papists, these Laws might be put in due execution:  
We, conceiving that these Laws will be executed with better success, if We shall publish Our resolution herein, and by some fitting Cautions prevent those evasions, which have been heretofore practised for the deluding of those Laws, and propound Rewards to those, who shall discover the offenders, Have thought fit by this Our Royal Proclamation to declare, and do hereby declare Our will and pleasure concerning the premises, in manner following.  
First therefore, We do hereby publish Our full resolution to be, and do hereby straight charge and command, that those Laws, concerning the confining of Popish Recusants, be from henceforth duly observed, and that the offenders against the same shall incur and receive those penalties and punishments which their high contempts deserve, and which by Our Laws ought to be inflicted upon them.  
And further, We do hereby straight charge and command all persons whatsoever, which by the said Laws have power to grant Licences, in cases necessary, to dispense with the Confinement of Popish Recusants convict, for a time, that they take special care, that they grant no Licences, but in such cases where they shall find good probability of truth in the suggestions made for the obtaining thereof, and then but for such time only, as in their judgements is convenient for the dispatch of those occasions and businesses which are suggested to move the granting of those Licences.  
And We do further straight charge and command, That no Popish Recusant convict do presume to make any feigned or untrue suggestion, for the obtaining of such Licence; or if he, or she shall have cause to travail from the place of their Confinement, that they do not suggest their businesses to be of other nature, then in truth they be, or to require longer time of dispatch than is requisite, that so they may return again to their places of Confinement, without any unnecessary delay; and that during the time permitted unto them by their Licences, they take heed that they abuse not the Liberty granted unto them for other purposes, than were truly intended unto them. And if any shall adventure to offend herein, We do hereby give them knowledge, that they must expect that punishment, which by Our Laws, or by Our Prerogative Royal, can justly be inflicted upon the offenders for so high a contempt.  
And lastly, lest the hope of impunity may give encouragement to any to offend, We do hereby promise, which We will constantly perform, That whosoever shall discover any offences, or offenders against Our said Laws, or against this Our Royal Proclamation, unto Our Attorney General, for the time being, whom We have commanded to take knowledge of all such Informations, and to proceed against the offenders according to the due course of Our Laws, that such persons who shall make such discovery, and prove the same, whereby any offenders may receive their deserved punishment, shall be rewarded with a full fourth part of the Forfeitures, which shall, or may come or accrue unto Us upon the Conviction of the offenders, or other judgement or Sentence legally had against them, to entitle Us thereunto, as of Our free Gift.  
Given at White-Hall, the eleventh day of january, in the first year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland.  
God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. M.DC.XXV.