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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
dieu ET MON DROIT   
By The KING,  
A PROCLAMATION.  
JAMES R.  
WHEREAS We are certainly informed that Our unnatural Enemy, the Prince of Orange, doth intend suddenly to invade this Our Kingdom of Ireland, having an Army of foreigners and Rebels ready to land in one or more places thereof; and that for the better compassing of his unjust ends therein, and for the better encouragement of the said foreigners and Rebels in so great an undertaking, the said Prince of Orange hath promised to bestow and distribute all the Lands of Ireland belonging to all Our catholics, and other Our Loyal Subjects here, amongst the said ●… eigners and Rebels, and to confer upon them all the Offices, whether 〈…〉 or Military, Ecclesiastical or Temporal, within this Realm, and thereupon to extirpate, ruin and destroy all Our catholics, and other Our Loyal Subjects within this Our Kingdom. For the prevention whereof, We have heretofore summoned all Our Roman catholic Subjects, from sixteen to sixty, to be ready, as well armed as they can, to oppose the said Invaders. And to the same purpose We have ordered a Militia to be settled in Our several Counties of Ireland, and have also commanded certain Forces to be raised for the recruiting Our Standing Army. And whereas several Captains with great cheerfulness, out of their fervent zeal to us, have raised several Companies for Our Service, and subsisted them for many months at their own Costs and Charges; some whereof were Regimented under certain colonels, and others of them were independent Companies, not inlisted in any Regiment: And though We were very sensible of their zealous carriage towards us, yet, as well to lessen the charge We were at in supporting Our Troops, as that the circumstances of Our affairs did not require so great an Army as was then on Foot, We gave Orders that the said several Companies should be laid by from Our then present Service▪ and at the same time ordered that Our thainks should be given them, with an assurance to the said Captains that they should not only be recompensed in due time for their charges, but that they and their said Companies upon the first occasion should be employed in Our Service, and mustered in Our Troops, and being resolved to make a Vigorous Defence, against the unjust designs of such foreigners and Rebels, and having to that purpose set up Our Royal Standard at Our Camp at Dublin, and knowing it to be of great Consequence to Our affairs, that the said Companies so laid by for a time should be made up, and that such of Our Subjects as are provided with Horses, should Immediately come to Our Assistance; We have thought fit by the advice of Our Privy Council to Charge and Require, and We do hereby strictly Charge and Require all such Captains, Inferior Officers and Souldiers who were so laid by, and who are not now of Our Standing Army that they do forthwith get together, and that such Captaines do forthwith complete their respective Companies, and having so don, that they Immediately do Repair to Our Camp at Dublin, or to any other Place where Our Forces shall be Encamped, where they shall be out of hand put in Actual Pay, hereby requiring them to come as well Armed as they can; And We do further by the Advice aforesaid, strictly charge and require all Gentlemen and others of the Roman catholics of Ireland,( not being of Our Standing Army, or Officers who are to make up their Companies as aforesaid, and not being Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants or Commissioners of Array appointed in any County) and who are furnished with Serviceable Horses, that they forthwith upon their Allegiance and duty to us, repair to Our Royal Standard wherever the same is or shall be, and that they take special care to come as well Armed as they can, to serve us, as Volentiers for the defence of the Kingdom, against the Attempts of the said foreigners and Rebels hereby Declaring that such of them as shall not be able to Subsist themselves, will be Subsisted and suplyed by us,  
Given at Our Court at Our Castle of Dublin, the 5th day of August 1689. And in the fifth year of Our Reign. GOD SAVE THE KING.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, Assigns of Benjamin took Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and are to be Sold at His Majesties Printing-House on Ormond-Key, and the Colledg-Arms in Castle-street. 1689.