I2 R  dieu ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and on one side and the Scottish unicorn on the other  
BY THE LORD DEPUTY AND COUNCIL.  
TYRCONNELL.  
WHEREAS several persons of wicked and restless Spirits have industriously gone about to spread false News, and to promote malicious Slanders and Calumnies, with an intention to raise Division amongst His Majesties Good and Loyal subjects of this Kingdom. And whereas We the Lord Deputy and council, in order to suppress these unlawful and malicious practices, have by a late Proclamation forewarned, and strictly Commanded all His Majesties Subjects, that they should not presume by writing or speaking to utter or publish any such false News or Reports, thereby declaring that such as should offend therein, should be Prosecuted according to the utmost Rigour of the Law. And though We have caused the said Proclamation to be published in all the parts of this Kingdom, and so might have justly Expected a full Compliance thereunto from all His Majesties Subjects, yet such is the perverse humour and continuing malice of some restless spirits, that in contempt of Our said Proclamation, and of the known Laws of this Realm, they make it their constant practise by Writing and Speaking, to Publish and spread False News and Reports, and their Iniquity have so far prevailed upon them, that they have raised a most scandalous, impious, and false calumny and Report, as if his Majesty's Protestant Subjects here were to be Massacred by His Majesties Roman catholic Subjects of this Kingdom; Which Report was so Industriously improved, as that not only an Account thereof was sent into England and several there persuaded that a Massacre was actually committed here upon many of His Majesties Protestant Subjects; but that several persons in this City, either out of fear and apprehension, or out of some evil Design to disturb the Peace, have met and assembled together at an unseasonable time of the night, in a riotous and warlike manner, to the great Terror of His Majesties people; and of the other hand, several other persons endowed with the same spirit, have maliciously and scandalously given out, as if His Majesties Roman-Catholick Subjects here were to be killed and massacred by his Majesties Protestant Subjects of this Realm. All which Contrivances are set on foot in this time of Invasion by Factious and Rebellious Spirits, with an intention to prejudice His Majesty's Affairs by raising and fomenting Animosities between His Majesties People.  
We the Lord Deputy and council in order to obviate the intended designs of such malicious Contrivances and unjust practices do hereby Recommend Earnestly to all his Majesties Subjects of this Kingdom, of what persuasion soever they be in point of Religion, to rest assured of his Majesties Protection without the least appr●hension: And that as the government for the time past hath taken effectual care for preserving his Majesties Peace within this Realm so for the time to come will take the like care to preserve and Protect all his Majesties Subjects within this kingdom without any distinction, in their persons, Liberty and Properties while they continue steady and firm in their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesty, And do further in his Majesties behalf conjure all his Majesties Subjects of this Kingdom to lay aside all manner of Animosities and jealousies and Cheerfully to unite together in the defence of his Majesty and their Country against all foreign Invasion, and to look upon the spreaders of those malicious reports to be Enemies to their King and Country; And we do further strictly Charge and command all his Majesties Subjects of this Realm that they presume not henceforth to meet at unseasonable times with fire Arms in great numbers, or in a tumultuous manner to the Terror of his Majesties People as they shall answer the same at their peril, We being resolved to take such measurs for the preservation of the Peaee of this Kingdom as shall be thought needful upon such occasion: And we do also strictly Command that the said former Proclamation against the spreaders of false News and Reports be put in due Execution against all Offenders in that Kind according to the utmost Rigor of the Law, And we do hereby will and require all and every his Majesties Iudges and Iustices of Peace and all other his Majesties magistrates and Ministers in their several Stations that they take special care to have t●e Laws put in due Execution against all such as have Offended or shall hereafter Offend in the matters aforesaid.  
Given at the Councel-chamber in Dublin the 7th day of December. 1688. A. Fytton, C. Granard, P. Roscomon, Lymerick, Gormanston, Mountjoy, Bellewe, I. Macartie, T. Newgent, John Keating, Stephen Rice, John Davys, De. Daly, Tho: Newcomen N: Pursell. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, Assigns of Benjamin took Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty; and are to be Sold by Andrew Crook at His Majesties Printing-house on Ormonde-Key, and by Samuel Helsham at the Colledge-Arms in Castle-street. 1688.