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By the King . A PROCLAMATION Against Tumultuous Petitions . CHARLES R.

WHereas His Majesty hath been informed , That divers evil disposed Persons at this time , endeavour in several parts of this Kingdom , to Frame Petitions to His Majesty for specious ends and purposes relating to the Publick , and thereupon to Collect and Procure to the same , the Hands or Subscriptions of multitudes of His Majesties Subjects ; Which Proceedings are contrary to the Common and known Laws of this Land , for that it tends to promote Discontents amongst the People , and to Raise Sedition and Rebellion . His Majesty considering the evil Consequences that may happen if such Offences should go unpunished , and lest that any of His good Subjects should be inveigled by Plausible Pretences , or should through inadvertency or ignorance , be engaged to a Breach of the Laws in any of the Particulars aforesaid , His Majesty hath therefore thought fit ( by the Advice of His Privy Council ) to Declare and make the same known by this His Royal Proclamation , and doth hereby strictly Charge and Command all and every His Loving Subjects , of what Rank or Degree soever , That they presume not to Agitate or Promote any such Subscriptions , nor in any wise joyn in any Petition of that manner to be Preferred to His Majesty , upon Peril of the utmost Rigour of the Law that may be inflicted for the same . And His Majesty doth further Command all Magistrates , and other Officers to whom it shall appertain , to take effectual Care , that all such Offenders against the Laws , be Prosecuted and Punished according to their Demerâ—Źts .

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twelfth 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.