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I R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
By The KING,  
A PROCLAMATION.  
JAMES R  
WHEREAS Complaint hath been made to us by the Postmaster General of this Our Kingdom of Ireland that divers abuses have been lately Committed by several Curriers, and others riding Post in this Kingdom, and by some other persons who presume to open the Post-mails and Letters, and that several Post-masters have been disabled from keeping Horses and Servants sufficient for their purpose, by reason of their being burdened with Quartering of Soldiers, which if not remedied may prove a great hindrance to Our Service, and a great lestening of the profits of the Post Office; To prevent therefore the like mischiefs for the future, We have thought fit by the advice of Our Privy Council to Publish and Declare that Our Will and Pleasure is, that no Post-master shall be obliged to furnish any Horses for any person or persons whatsoever going from this Our City of Dublin to any other place of this Kingdom, unless such person or persons have a Warrant for that purpose signed by the Duke of Tyrconnell Captain General of Our Army, or by one of Our secretaries, or to furnish any Horses for any person or persons whatsoever coming from any other part of this Kingdom to Our said City of Dublin, unless such person or persons have a Certificate from the Governor or other Commander in chief of such Town or Port as he or they do come from, that They are employed in carrying some Dispatches that relate to Our immediate Scrvice. And Our further Will and pleasure is, that all persons whatsoever who shall Ride Post within this Our Kingdom, shall pay at the rate of three pence sterling per Mile for every Horse they shall make use off, which sum they shall pay down at every Stage, before they take Horse, and that they and every of them( without the consent of the Owner) shall not Ride the Horses they take at one Stage any further then to the next Post Town where they shall leave them and their Bridles and Saddles with the Post master there, nor shall they nor any of them Ride any other way but the usual and accustomend Post road. And Our further will and pleasure is, that no person or persons whatsoever shall presume to open any of the Post-mails or any Post-letters but such as shall be to them directed and delivered out by the several Post-masters appointed for that Service. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, that no Officer or Soldier, Horse, Foot, or Dragoone, shall be quartered in the House of any Post-master who doth not keep a public Inn or House of Entertainment; And that no person whatsoever do take or seize upon pretence of paying for it or otherwise, any Hay, Corn, or Straw, that such Post-masters shall keep for the use of any of their Post-horses; And where any such Post-masters do keep any public Inns, and Stables, they or any of them shall not be over burdened with the Quartering of Horse, or dragoons, but every one of them shall be always left sufficient stable room and forage for the number of six Horses to be by them kept for the use of the Post. And We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Our Officers Military and Civil, and all other Our loving Subjects whatsoever that they and every of them be aiding and Assisting to the several Host-masters in the due execution of these presents, and do seize and apprehended all such persons as they shall find Transgressing in the premises, in Order to bring them to Iustice as disturbers of Our peace and Contemners of Our royal Commands.  
Given at Our Court at Our Castle of Dublin the 30th day of November. 1689. And in the Fifth Year of Our Reign.  
GOD SAVE THE KING,   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook the assign of Benjamin Took Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and are to be Sold at his Majesties Printing-House on Ormond Key. 1689.