THeir Majesties having received Information , That divers Popish Recusants holding Correspondence with , or Favouring Their Majesties Enemies , do withdraw from their Habitations , Designing and Endeavouring to Corrupt and Seduce Their Majesties Subjects , and them Excite to Sedition and Rebellion , at this time , whilst Their Majesties with most of the Princes of Christendom are Engaged in a necessary War against the French King , for Their common Security , and the particular Preservation of these Kingdoms , whereon the Interest and Safety of all and singular Their Majesties Subjects do depend ; have thought fit ( with the Advice of Their Privy Council ) to Issue this Their Royal Proclamation , and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Popish Recusants , being above the Age of Sixteén years , born within any of Their Majesties Realms or Dominions , or made Denizens , That they and every of them do ( according to the Statutes in that behalf made ) repair to their respective Places of Abode , and if they have no Places of Abode , then to the Places where the Father or Mother of such respective Person is , or shall be then dwelling , and do not thereafter Remove or Pass above Five Miles from thence . And Their Majesties do hereby further straitly Charge and Command all Their Iudges , Iustices , Magistrates , Ministers and Officers , That if such Popish Recusant , or Person reputed so to be , shall not repair to his or her Place of Abode , and there continue without Removing or Passing above Five Miles from thence , according to the true Intent and Tenour of the Statutes in that behalf , That then such Popish Recusants , or Persons so reputed respectively , be Prosecuted and brought to Punishment , as well by Tendring unto them the Oaths mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of Their Majesties Reign , Entituled [ An Act for the Abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance , and Appointing order Oaths ] as by putting in Execution the severest Laws which are now in Force against them .