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A32570 By the King, a proclamation for the more effectual suppressing of popery England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1679 (1679) Wing C3494; ESTC R39187 4,052 3

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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT By the King A PROCLAMATION For the more Effectual Suppressing of Popery CHARLES R. HIs Majesty being sensible of the great Increase of Popery within this Kingdom of late Years by reason of the neglect of putting in Execution those good Laws which were provided for Suppressing the same whereby Iesuits and Priests have beén emboldned to resort hither from Parts beyond the Seas in great numbers and they and others have openly practised to assert the most pernicious and damnable Principles of that Religion and to perswade and withdraw divers of His Majesties good Subjects from their Obedience to His Majesty and to reconcile them to the Pope and Seé of Rome And that notwithstanding the good Laws made to Restrain the same it hath beén the general practice of the Papists to send their Children and Relations into Foreign Parts to be bred up in Popery By which bold and wicked Practices and the Impunity that hath followed thereupon His Majesty apprehends that many of His good Subjects may be ignorant of the said Laws And therefore hath thought fit by this His Royal Proclamation by the Advice of His Privy Council to Publish and make known the Principal and most Penal of the said Laws as well to prevent and hinder any of His Loving Subjects from being misled into any the said Offences through ignorance as to guide and encourage all persons knowing of any such Offences to a Legal Prosecution of the same The Substance of the said Laws is as followeth By Writing Printing Preaching Teaching Deéd or Act or by any Speéch to set forth maintain or defend the Authority or Iurisdiction or Power of the Bishop of Rome or his Seé heretofore claimed used or usurped within this Realm or to attribute any such manner of Iurisdiction Authority or Preéminence to the said Seé of Rome or to any Bishop of the said Seé for the time being or to aid assist and comfort any in doing the same The First Offence is Praemunire the Second Offence is made High Treason by 5 Eliz. Cap. 1. To receive relieve comfort aid or maintain any Iesuit Seminary Priest or other Priest Deacon or Religious or Ecclesiastical person made by any Authority Power or Iurisdiction derived challenged or pretended from the the Seé of Rome being at liberty or out of hold knowing him to be such is Felony without benefit of Clergy by 27 Eliz. Cap. 2. By the Stat. 23 Eliz. 1. It is High Treason to withdraw any of the Kings Subjects to the Romish Religion to the intent to withdraw them from their Natural Obedience to the King and it is High Treason in the persons so willingly withdrawn And all Aiders Avertors and Concealers thereof knowingly are guilty of Misprision of Treason To put in practice to Absolve Perswade or Withdraw any of His Majesties Subjects of this Realm of England from their Natural Obedience to His Majesty or to Reconcile them to the Pope or Seé of Rome or to move them to promise Obedience to any pretended Authority to the See of Rome or to any other Prince State or Potentate is High Treason by the Statute 3 Jac. Cap. 4. whether done upon the Seas or beyond the Seas or in any other Place within His Majesties Dominions To be willingly Absolved or Withdrawn in manner aforesaid or to be willingly Reconciled or to promise Obedience to any such pretended Authority Prince State or Potentate or to Procure Counsel Aid or Maintain such Offenders knowing the same is likewise made High Treason by the same Statute For any Person under the Obedience of the King to pass or go or to convey or send or cause to be sent or conveyed any Child or other Person out of any of the Kings Dominions into any the Parts beyond the Seas out of the Kings Obedience to the intent and purpose to enter into or be resident or trained up in any Priory Abby Nunnery Popish Vniversity Colledge or School or House of Iesuits Priests or in any private Popish Family and to be there by any Iesuit Seminary Priest Frier Monk or other Popish Person instructed perswaded or strengthened in the Popish Religion in any sort to profess the same Or to convey or send or to cause to be conveyed or sent by the hands or means of any person whatsoever any Sum or Sums of Money or other thing towards the mainteinance of any Child or other person gone or sent or to go or be sent and trained and instructed as aforesaid or under the Name or Colour of any Charity Benevolence or Alms towards the Relief of any Priory Abby Nunnery Colledge School or any Religious House whatsoever All persons offending being convicted are disabled to use any Action Bill Plaint or Information in course of Law or to prosecute any Suit in any Court of Equity or to be Committeé of any Ward or Executor or Administrator to any person or capable of any Legacy or Deéd of Gift and forfeit all Goods and Chattels and all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rents Annuities Offices and Estates of Freé-hold for and during their natural lives by the Stat. 3 Car. Cap. 2. For the more precise knowledge of which Laws and all other Laws made for Suppressing the Growth of Popery in case His Majesties loving Subjects cannot conveniently have the Printed Statutes or cannot well interpret the same they are to resort to any of His Majesties Iudges Iustices of Peace or other Magistrates who are hereby required and commanded upon all occasions to guide and direct them therein it being His Majesties Resolution that all the said Laws shall be strictly put in execution And His Majesty doth hereby further Charge and Command all and every His loving Subjects That in case any person shall by any Discourse or Disputation offer to maintain the Popes Authority or Iurisdiction or to Perswade or Pervert them to the Popish Religion or that they know any person guilty of any the Offences aforementioned or any other Offences against the Laws to Depress Popery that they do immediately reveal the same to some Magistrate that the Offenders may be Prosecuted and Punished according to their Demerits And for the better encouraging of all persons that shall do their Duty herein His Majesty will be Graciously pleased by His Letters of Privy-Seal to Enable all His Iudges of His several Courts at Westminster to reward all Prosecutors upon the said Laws or other Laws made for Suppressing the Growth of Popery according to their Discretions out of such Forfeitures as shall from thence accrue to His Majesty over and above what is already by the said Laws or any of them alloted to the Informer Given at Our Court at Whitehall the One and twentieth day of December 1679. In the One and thirtieth year of Our Reign GOD SAVE THE KING London Printed by John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1679. DIEV ET MON DROIT By the King A PROCLAMATION For the
Apprehending of Robbers or Highway-men and for a Reward to the Apprehenders CHARLES R. WE minding to secure all Our Loving Subjects in Travelling and going about their Lawful Occasions do hereby Publish and Declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure to be And We do hereby Command all Our Officers of Iustice and other Our Loving Subjects That they use their utmost diligence and endeavour for the Apprehending all Robbers or Highway-men to the end they may be proceeded against according to Law And for the Encouragement of such as shall Apprehend and such Offender or Offenders We are Graciously pleased and do hereby Declare That such person or persons who shall at any time before the Second day of March next Apprehend any Robber or Highway-man and cause him to be brought into Custody shall within Fifteén days after his Conviction Have a Reward of Ten pounds for every such Offender so Apprehended and Convicted And all and every Sheriffs and Sheriff of the respective Counties and Sheriff wicks where such Conviction shall be had are and is hereby Required upon the Certificate of the Iudge or Two or more Iustices of the Peace before whom such person or persons shall be Convicted of such Apprehension and Conviction to pay unto the person or persons who shall Apprehend such Offender or Offenders the Reward aforesaid within the time aforesaid for each and every Offender so Apprehended and Convicted as aforesaid out of Our Moneys received by such Sheriff or Sheriffs in that County where such Conviction shall be which shall be allowed unto him or them upon His or their Accompts in the Exchequer for the Allowance whereof this Proclamation shall be a sufficient Warrant And lastly We do hereby Charge and Command all Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants Iustices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs and other Officers and Persons whatsoever to take notice of this Our Royal Proclamation and give due Obedience thereunto and also to be Aiding and Assisting in all things tending to the Execution thereof as they tender Our Displeasure and upon pain of being proceéded against as Contemners of Our Royal Authority Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Fifth day of March 1679 80. In the Two and thirtieth year of Our Reign God save the King London Printed by John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1679 80. C R DIEV ET MON DROIT At the Court at Whitehall April the Sixteenth 1680. Present The Kings most Excellent Majesty His Highness Prince Rupert Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellor Lord President Lord Privy Seal Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Worcester Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Sunderland Earl of Essex Earl of Bathe Viscount Fauconberg Lord Bishop of London Mr. Hyde Lord Chief Justice North Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Leoline Jenkins Mr. Seymor Mr. Godolphin WHereas Information hath been this day given to His Majesty in Council upon Oath That John Arnold Esq one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County of Monmouth was the last night between the Hours of Nine and Ten of the Clock in Bell Yard near Jack-an-apes Lane end maliciously and feloniously assaulted dangerously wounded and endeavoured to be assassinated by Three Persons unknown who are since fled one of them being hurt in the Leg After which barbarous Fact one of the said Three Persons did utter these words to the said Mr. Arnold Damme yee Dog now pray for the Soul of Captain Evans Which Evans was a Iesuite executed in the County of Glamorgan and who sometime before his apprehension had threatned to Pistoll the said Mr. Arnold It is Ordered by His Majesty in Council That the Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Iustices of Peace of the County of Middlesex and City of Westminster do cause diligent Search to be forthwith made within their several Iurisdictions for the said persons or any of them or any that did Incite Encourage or set them on to make that Attempt And for an Encouragement to all persons to use their utmost diligence herein His Majesty is pleased to promise That there shall be the Reward of One hundred pounds forthwith paid to any who shall Discover or Apprehend the said Threé persons or any one of them or any of those who did Incite them thereunto And if any one of the said Threé Persons being touched with Remorse for that horrid Fact shall discover the same and his Accomplices His Majesty is Graciously pleased to promise that he shall have his Pardon for the same besides the said Reward And for the better Notification hereof It is further Directed That this Order be forthwith Printed and Published FRANCIS GWYN London Printed by John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1680.