all Persons who Should refuse to take the Oaths therein directed to be
made, and Should refuse to make and Subscribe the Said Declaration
in the Said Act of the thirtieth Year of the Reign of the Said late King
Charles the Second, Should Suffer all Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures
and Disabilities as a Popish Recusant Convict, and be taken and
deemed a Popish Recusant Convict to all Intents and Purposes
whatsoever; And by an Act made in the 35th. Year of the Reign
of Queen Elizabeth< no role > every Popish Recusant Convict is to repair to
the Place of his usual Dwelling or Abode, and not at any time to
remove above five Miles from thence unless thereunto Licensed
according to the Direction of that Act, or of a Subsequent Act
made in the third Year of the Reign of the late King James the first:
We do therefore in his Majesty< no role > 's Name and by his express Commands
hereby pray and require your Grace forthwith to Signify his Majesty< no role > 's
Pleasure to the Justices of the Peace of your County that they do with
the utmost Diligence put the Laws in Execution against Papists
reputed Papists and Non Jurors being dangerous to his Majesty< no role > 's
Government , and that they tender to them the Said Oaths and
Declaration, and take from them their Horses and Arms, and use
their Endeavours to confine them to their usual Habitations, and
that the Said Justices do likewise use their utmost Endeavours to
prevent and Suppress all Riots, Tumults and unlawful Assemblies
and put in due and Strict Execution all Laws made for preventing
or for the more Speedy and effectual Suppressing and punishing the
Same in Such Manner as by Law is directed; And your Grace is
to require the Said Justices of the Peace to return to you an exact
Account of their proceedings herein which you are directed to
transmit to this Board. And So we bid your Grace very
heartily farewell. From the Council Chamber at Whitehall
the twenty fourth day of February 1743.

To his Grace
The Duke of Newcastle
Custos Rotulorum of the County
of Middlesex and City and Liberty
of Westminster .

Your Grace's very loving Friends
Hardwicke C.
Cholmondeley C.P.S.
Dorset
Richmond
Montagu
Pembroke.