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¶ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation for the suppressing of profane Swearing and Cursing.  
WHereas at a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the nineteenth day of February, in the one and twentieth year of the reign of our late most dear and royal Father, King james of ever blessed memory( amongst other good and wholesome laws then made and established for the weal-public of this realm) it was enacted by the authority of the same Parliament, that no person or persons should from thenceforth profanely swear or Curse, under the penalties therein contained. We taking into Our Princely consideration, the great increase of those sins, which are the more audaciously practised, and frequently committed by loose and wicked persons, in regard the said Statute made for prevention and restraint thereof, is not constantly put in execution, Haue therefore with the advice of Our privy council( for the better repressing of those odious sins) by Our Letters Patents dated the one and twentieth day of july last past, erected an office for the receiving of the forfeitures incurred by such profane Swearers and Cursers: And reposing much trust and confidence in the fidelity, industry, wisdom, and piety of Our well-beloved seruant Robert Leslie Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of our Priuie-Chamber, haue thereby ordained and appointed, that he by himself, or his sufficient assigns or Deputies, and none other person( except the Iustices of Peace, Constables, Churchwardens, overseers of the poor, and others by the said Statute authorised) shall in every Parish within this Our realm of England, and Dominion of Wales, attend that service and office, and for a certain number of yeares therein contained, shall and may receive the penalty appointed by the said Statute, from all and every person and persons living within Our said realm and Dominion, offending against the tenor of the same( who haue not paid the said Penalty to any the persons authorised by the said Statute, to receive the same before it be demanded by Our said seruant, his assigns or Deputies) wherein We haue taken especial care, that security be given for the faithful collecting of those Penalties, and for a true account and payment of the same twice every year unto the Bishops of the dioceses, wherein the same shall be received, by whose care and order the moneys thereby arising shall bee justly distributed amongst Our poor subiects of the Parishes where the Offences are or shall be committed, according as by the same Statute is limited and appointed.  
And therefore We do hereby strictly charge and command all manner of persons living in Our said kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, to be conformable in all things unto Our royal will and pleasure in Our said letters Patents mentioned and contained. And to the end Our said seruant, his assigns and Deputies may the more readily and sincerely perform the trust in them reposed: We do hereby grant, publish, and declare, that Our said Seruant, his assigns and Deputies, and every of them shall be hereafter exempted and freed from bearing any other office or charge in the Parishes where he and they shall dwell, during the time that they shall be employed in this service, to the end that they may the better look to the execution of the foresaid Statute, in regard the same so highly tendeth to the aduancement of piety, and relief of the poor.  
And We do hereby require and command all our Iustices, Iustices of peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Magistrates, Bafliffes, Constables, Church wardens, overseers of the poor, and all other Our Officers, Ministers, and Subiects, within Our said kingdom and Dominion of Wales, to whom it shall appertain, to be aiding, helping, and assisting to Our said Seruant, his assigns and Deputies, in all things concerning the Premises, as they tender Our pleasure, and will avoid the contrary at their uttermost perils.  
given at Our Court at Oatelands, the six and twentieth day of july, in the eleventh year of Our reign.  
God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of John Bill. 1635.