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all Persons who Should refuse to take the Oaths therein directed to be
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made, and Should refuse to make and Subscribe the Said Declaration
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in the Said Act of the thirtieth Year of the Reign of the Said late King
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Charles the Second, Should Suffer all Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures
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and Disabilities as a Popish Recusant Convict, and be taken and
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deemed a Popish Recusant Convict to all Intents and Purposes
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whatsoever; And by an Act made in the 35th. Year of the Reign
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of
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Queen Elizabeth
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every Popish Recusant Convict is to repair to
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the Place of his usual Dwelling or Abode, and not at any time to
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remove above five Miles from thence unless thereunto Licensed
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according to the Direction of that Act, or of a Subsequent Act
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made in the third Year of the Reign of the late King James the first:
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We do therefore in
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his Majesty
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's Name and by his express Commands
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hereby pray and require your Grace forthwith to Signify
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his Majesty
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Pleasure to the
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Justices of the Peace
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of your County that they do with
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the utmost Diligence put the Laws in Execution against Papists
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reputed Papists and Non Jurors being dangerous to
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, and that they tender to them the Said Oaths and
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Declaration, and take from them their Horses and Arms, and use
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their Endeavours to confine them to their usual Habitations, and
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that the Said Justices do likewise use their utmost Endeavours to
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prevent and Suppress all Riots, Tumults and unlawful Assemblies
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and put in due and Strict Execution all Laws made for preventing
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or for the more Speedy and effectual Suppressing and punishing the
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Same in Such Manner as by Law is directed; And your Grace is
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to require the Said
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to return to you an exact
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Account of their proceedings herein which you are directed to
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transmit to this Board. And So we bid your Grace very
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heartily farewell. From the Council Chamber at
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the twenty fourth day of February 1743.
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To his Grace
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The Duke of
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Newcastle
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Custos Rotulorum of the County
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of
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Middlesex
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and City and Liberty
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of
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Your Grace's very loving Friends
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Hardwicke C.
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Cholmondeley C.P.S.
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Dorset
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Richmond
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Montagu
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Pembroke.
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