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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B24847	By the Lords Iustices and Council. Maurice Eustace Canc. Orrery. Mountrath. Whereas we are given to understand by the informations of many persons well deserving credit, that of late times there have been sundry unlawful assemblies in many parts of the kingdom ...; Miscellaneous Documents. 1661-01-22	Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.; Eustace, Maurice, Sir, ca. 1590-1661.; Mountrath, Charles Coote, Earl of, ca. 1610-1661.; Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing I955; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.21.f.1[20]; ESTC R226599	1,677	1

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT By the Lords Iustices and Council Maurice Eustace Canc. Orrery Mountrath WHereas We are given to understand by the Informations of many persons well deserving credit that of late times there have been sundry unlawful assemblies in many parts of this Kingdom held by Papists by Presbyterians by Independents by Anabaptists by Quakers and other Fanatical persons meeting in great numbers divers hundreds and sometimes thousands at an assembly convened and congregated some by a forraign pretended Iurisdiction others by a pretended Domestique Authority from a Presbytery others under pretence of Congregational Churches and all of them contrary to and in contempt of his Majesties Royal Authority and the established Laws of the Land and if not seasonably prevented threatning the disturbance of the good Government Peace and Tranquility of the Kingdom In which Assemblies some have taken upon them on their own heads to appoint publique Fasts and days of Humiliation or Thanksgiving for his Majesties Subjects and to give holy Orders and induct into Ecclesiastical benefices and to deprive Ministers who have good titles by the Laws of this Realm at their pleasures by their Arbitrary Orders by the force of such of their parishioners as joyn with them and go along with them At which meetings they are not afraid to speak evil of Dignities and to cast dirt in the face of the lawful Magistrates yea to usurp the essential rights of Soveraignty it self and to inveigh against the known Laws of this Realm We therefore the Lords Iustices and Council considering and desiring timely to prevent the many sad inconveniences and mischiefs which must of necessity flow from these tumultuous courses if not prevented and what apparent dangers they threaten to the Kingdom in general Have thought fit to declare to all his Majesties loving Subjects that all such Assemblies whether it be of Papists of Presbyterians of Independents of Anabaptists of Quakers or of any other Fanatical persons are in themselves altogether unlawful and most dangerous to the common good of the Kingdom And therefore We do strictly inhibit and forbid all his Majesties Subjects either Ecclesiastical or Lay to call or convocate any such Assemblies under the name of days of Humiliation or days of Thanksgiving or consistorial days or under any other pretence whatsoever or to be present at them or to execute their sentences or to be present or any way to assist at the execution of them as they will answer the contrary at their perils And We do hereby further declare that as We can readily pass by such disorderly and tumultuous meetings for the time past upon hope of amendment for the future so if any person or persons whatsoever shall for the future presume to convocate or appoint any such Assemblies or meet at them being convocated by any others or shall disperse or spread abroad any of their Orders Sentences or Acts or execute or assist at the execution of any of their said Orders or Sentences or Acts or any part of them hereafter We shall call him to a strict account aswel for the time past as for the future And as We assure Our Selves that the most Reverend Arch-Bishops and the right Reverend Bishops will use all due care and industry to gain such as have been seduced into those Turbulent and Seditious courses to obedience and conformity to the just Laws of this Realm so We do hereby require and charge them and all Governors Iustices of Peace Sherifs and all other his Majesties loving Subjects and Officers whatsoever that they suffer not any such unlawful meetings under the pretence of Religion to be held within their several Provinces Diocesses Sheires or districts for the future but seize upon all such persons so assembled and bind them over with sufficient sureties to answer for such unlawful meetings and all other abuses and disorders aforesaid either before the Iudges of Assize or the Iustices of the Peace at their Sessions according to the quality or degree of their offences there to be proceeded with according to Law as they tender his Majesties service and the prosperity and welfare of this Kingdom And We require all Commanders Officers and Souldiers of his Majesties Army and all other his Majesties Subjects as occasion may be offered or their assistance required to be ayding and assisting in the due execution of these our commands whereof they may not fail And We require all Mayors Sherifs and all other Officers of Cities Counties and Corporate Towns to cause this Proclamation to be forthwith Published and Proclaimed and publiquely fixed up in all publique places within their respective limits Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin the 22. day of Ianuary 1660. Io. Armachanus Cork Cloyn Ross Ia. Margetson Elect. Dublin Montgomerie Michael Boyle Elect. Hen. Tichborne Rob. Forth Rob. Meredith Theo. Iones GOD SAVE THE KING Imprinted at Dublin by William Bladen by special Order Anno Dom. 1660.