HON● 〈…〉 ●VI 〈…〉 ye MEIN TIENDRAY BY THE LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND, A PROCLAMATION. sidney, Tho. Coningsby. WHereas several Irish Papists within this Kingdom notwithstanding the Grace and favour extended to them by their Maiestys gracious Declaration and the protection they enjoyed under their Government have most ungratefully relapsed into their former Rebellious courses& whilst they feignedly pretended to pay Allegiance to their Majesties have most Treacherously Aided and assisted their Majesties Enemies not onely by giving them intelligence but also by assembling themselves in great numbers to terrify plunder and destroy their Majesties good Protestant Subjects. Wee do therefore for the prevention of the like evils for the time to come, and for the greater security of their Majesties good subjects and the peace of this Kingdom. strictly charge and command all persons of the Popish Religion within this Kingdom upon pain of Imprisonment that they do not without Special licence from us or the general of their Majesties Forces or from some one of their Majesties Iustices of Peace of this Kingdom Depart or travail out of the Parish where they respectively Inhabit or Dwell unless to the market town next to such their dwelling, and upon Market days, Except in Cities or great Towns and there not to go out of the Liberties and Precincts of such Cities and Towns unless to the next Market as aforesaid. Exepting also that the aforesaid Irish Papists may during the time of this present harvest, for their lawful& necessary occations travail three miles beyond the Parish in which they dwell,& no farther; And if they shall presume to Act contrary hereunto We do hereby strictly charge and command all Magistrates, Constables, Petty-constables and other their Majesties good subjects to arrest the Offenders and to bring them before the next Iustice of Peace who is hereby required to commit them to safe custody as persons who contemn the Royal Authority and design the disturbance of the peace of this Kingdom. And all Iustices of Peace are commanded to forbear bailing any person so committed until they have given us an account of the reasons induceing them so to do and receive Our directions therein, and We hereby will and require all Iustices of Peace to take care that they licence no person but such as they personally know to be of quiet deportment and who have some settled place of abode within five miles of the habitation of the Iustice of Peace giving such licence, and before the granting of such licence, shall make some reasonable cause appear for their desiring the same. All which qualifications are to be inserted in the said licence and all Iustices of peace are to keep a Register of the names of all persons they shall so Licence, which shall be transmitted every three months to such person or persons as We shall Order. And lastly no Iustice of Peace shall take more than Four Pence for granting such licence. Given at their Majesties Castle of DUBLIN this 18th day of Septem. 1690. In the Second Year of their Majesties Reign. God Save the KING and QUEEN, JO. DAVIS. DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook, Assignee of Benjamin took, Printer to the King and Queens Most Excellent Majesties; and are to be sold on Ormonde-Key.