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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation commanding Popish Recusants to repair to their own dwellings, and not afterwards to come to Court, or within ten miles of London, without special Licence: And for disarming of them, as the Law requireth.  
THe Kings most Excellent majesty, taking notice of the extraordinary resort and confluence at this time of Popish Recusants to the Cities of London and Westminster, and the parts adjacent,( although by the laws of the Realm they ought to be confined and remain within five miles of their dwelling places) Hath thought fit, out of His Princely and provident care for preventing all dangers and inconveniencies that might thereby arise, to declare His royal will and pleasure therein: And therefore doth hereby discharge all former Licences granted unto them or any of them for their repairing hither: And doth further straitly charge and command, That all Popish Recusants whatsoever, shall within fifteen dayes next coming, repair to their own dwelling houses and places of confinement, according to the Law; Not presuming at any time hereafter to resort to the Cities of London or Westminster, or to His Majesties Court, or to the Court of His dearest Consort the Queen, or of the Prince His dear Son, wheresoever, or within ten miles of London, without special Licence had thereunto; under pain of thesevere execution of His Majesties laws against the offenders, and of the highest contempt against His regal authority.  
And His majesty is likewise pleased, and doth hereby straitly charge and command all Iustices of Peace in all parts of this His Realm, That according to the laws in that behalf they do take from all Popish Recusants convicted, all such armor, Gun-power, and Munition of any kind, as any of them have either in their own hands, or in the hands of any other for them, and see the same safely kept and disposed according to the Laws, leaving them for their necessary defence of their houses and persons so much as by the Law is prescribed: Wherein as His Majesties said Iustices have been heretofore too remiss; so if He shall find this His express Commandment neglected, or not diligently executed, as is fit, and as the importance thereof doth require, His majesty will make them know by severe punishment what it is to be careless of His royal Commandments in cases of this nature.  
Given at the Court at Whitehall the eleventh day of November, in the sixteenth year of His Majesties 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. 1640.