By the King. A proclamation for the better confining of popish recusants, conuict according to the lawe. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B12923 of text S100902 in the English Short Title CatalogTextual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B12923 STC 8816 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 506.h.11[31] 99892388 ocm99892388 185620 2248559545

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B12923) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 185620) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C2:2[31]) By the King. A proclamation for the better confining of popish recusants, conuict according to the lawe. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 2 sheets. By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, Imprinted at London : M.DC.XXV. [1625, i.e. 1626] Caption title. Dated at end: VVhite-Hall, the eleuenth day of Ianuary, in the first yeere of our reigne .. Imprint from colophon. The years are given according to Lady Day dating. Arms 12; Steele notation: Con- securing 2) which as. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Catholics -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the King. A proclamation for the better confining of popish recusants, conuict according to the lawe. . n/a 1626 2 772 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2014-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-02 Sampled and proofread 2014-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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By the King . ❧ A Proclamation for the better Confining of Popish Recusants , Conuict according to the Lawe .

WHereas by Our Lawes , all Popish Recusants Conuict ought to remaine Confined to their dwellings , or places of abode , or within fiue miles thereof , vnlesse in cases necessary , vpon special Licences obtained , according to the same Lawes ; And where Our louing Subiects , the Lords and Commons in Parliament did , amongst other things , humbly petition Vs , That for the better securing of Our State against the ill affections of Iesuited Papists , these Lawes might be put in due execution :

Wee , conceiuing that these Lawes will be executed with better successe , if Wee shall publish Our resolution herein , and by some fitting Cautions preuent those euasions , which haue been heretofore practised for the deluding of those Lawes , and propound Rewards to those , who shall discouer the offenders , Haue thought fit by this Our Royall Proclamation to declare , and doe hereby declare Our will and pleasure concerning the premisses , in manner following .

First therefore , Wee doe hereby publish Our full resolution to bee , and doe hereby straitly charge and command , that those Lawes , concerning the confining of Popish Recusants , bee from hencefoorth duely obserued , and that the offenders against the same shall incurre and receiue those penalties and punishments which their high contempts deserue , and which by Our Lawes ought to be inflicted vpon them .

And further , Wee doe hereby straitly charge and command all persons whatsoeuer , which by the sayd Lawes haue power to grant Licences , in cases necessary , to dispence with the Confinement of Popish Recusants conuict , for a time , that they take speciall care , that they grant no Licences , but in such cases where they shall finde good probability of trueth in the suggestions made for the obtaining thereof , and then but for such time onely , as in their iudgements is conuenient for the dispatch of those occasions and businesses which are suggested to mooue the granting of those Licences .

And We doe further straitly charge and command , That no Popish Recusant conuict doe presume to make any feigned or vntrue suggestion , for the obtaining of such Licence ; or if he , or shee shall haue cause to trauaile from the place of their Confinement , that they doe not suggest their businesses to be of other nature , then in trueth they be , or to require longer time of dispatch then is requisite , that so they may returne againe to their places of Confinement , without any vnnecessarie delay ; and that during the time permitted vnto them by their Licences , they take heede that they abuse not the Libertie granted vnto them for other purposes , then were truely intended vnto them . And if any shall aduenture to offend herein , Wee doe hereby giue them knowledge , that they must expect that punishment , which by Our Lawes , or by Our Prerogatiue Royall , can iustly be inflicted vpon the offenders for so high a contempt .

And lastly , lest the hope of impunitie may giue encouragement to any to offend , Wee doe hereby promise , which Wee will constantly performe , That whosoeuer shall discouer any offences , or offenders against Our sayd Lawes , or against this Our Royall Proclamation , vnto Our Attourney Generall , for the time being , whom Wee haue commanded to take knowledge of all such Informations , and to proceed against the offenders according to the due course of Our Lawes , that such persons who shall make such discouerie , and prooue the same , whereby any offenders may receiue their deserued punishment , shall be rewarded with a full fourth part of the Forfeitures , which shall , or may come or accrew vnto Vs vpon the Conuiction of the offenders , or other Iudgement or Sentence legally had against them , to intitle Vs thereunto , as of Our free Gift .

Giuen at White-Hall , the eleuenth day of Ianuary , in the first yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine , France and Ireland . God saue the King .

Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie . M.DC.XXV .