BY THE Lords Justices AND COUNCIL.  
Mich. Armach. C. Granard.  
WHEREAS by the Ancient Laws and Statutes of this Realm great and heavy Penalties are inflicted upon all such as shall be found to be spreaders of false News, or promoters of any malicious Slanders and Calumnies in their ordinary and common discourses; And by the said Laws it is provided, that the Tellers and Publishers of false News and Tales shall be taken and adjudged to be the first authors and contrivers of them, in case he or they shall not bring forth and produce the person from whom he or they first heard the said News or Tales. And notwithstanding that the said Penalties of the said Laws and Statutes have by a Proclamation issued from this Board, dated the 9th. of July 1672 been published and made known, that so all persons might take notice of them, and avoid the said Penalties, yet there have been of late more bold and licentious Discourses than formerly, and men have assumed to themselves a liberty not only in Coffee-houses but in other places and meetings both public and private, to censure and defame the proceedings of State, by speaking evil of things they understand not, and endeavouring to create and nourish an universal iealousy and Dissatisfaction in the minds of all His Majesties good Subjects; We therefore the Lords Iustices and Council have thought fit, by this our Proclamation, to forewarn and strictly command all His Majesties Subjects, that they presume not henceforth, by writing or speaking, to utter or publish any false News or Reports, or to intermeddle with the affairs of State or Government, or with the Persons of His Majesties Counsellors or Ministers, in their common or ordinary discourses, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils; And because all bold and irreverent Speeches touching matters of this high nature are punishable, not only in the Speakers, but in the Hearers also; unless they do speedily reveal the same unto some of His Majesties Privy Council, or some other His Majesties Iudges or Iustices of the Peace; therefore, that all men may be left without excuse, who shall not hereafter contain themselves within that modest and dutiful regard which becomes them; We do further declare, that we will proceed with all severity against all manner of persons, who shall use any bold or unlawful Speeches of this nature, or be present at any Coffee-house, or other public or private meeting, where such Speeches are used without revealing the same in due time; We being resolved to suppress this unlawful and undutiful kind of Discourse, by a most strict and exemplary punishment of all such Offenders as shall be hereafter discovered; And to that end We do hereby will and require all and every His Majesties Iudges and Iustices of the Peace, and all other His Majesties Magistrates and Ministers in their several stations, that they take special care to have the said Laws put in due execution against all such as have or shall hereafter offend in this kind.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin the tenth day of July. 1685. GOD Save the KING. Franc. Dublin. Longford. Blesinton. Char. fielding. William Davys. John Keating. He. Hene. John Davys.   

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