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<p n="258"> BY THE KING.</p>
<p n="259">A PROCLAMATION.</p>
<p n="260">GEORGE R.</p>
<p n="261">WHEREAS divers wicked and seditious Writings have been printed, published, and industriously dispersed, tending<lb></lb>
to excite Tumult and Disorder by endeavouring to raise groundless Jealousies and Discontents in the Mind of Our<lb></lb>
faithful and loving Subjects, respecting the Laws, and happy Constitution of Government, Civil and Religious,<lb></lb>
established in this Kingdom, and endeavouring to vilify and bring into Contempt the wife and wholesome Provisions<lb></lb>
made at the Time of the glorious Revolution, and since strengthened and confirmed by subsequent Laws, for the<lb></lb>
Preservation and Security of the Rights and Liberties of Our faithful and loving Subjects: And Whereas divers<lb></lb>
Writings have also been printed, published, and industriously dispersed, recommending the said wicked and seditious Publications to the<lb></lb>
Attention of all our faithful and loving Subjects: And Whereas We have also Reason to believe that Correspondences have been entered<lb></lb>
into with sundry Persons in Foreign Parts, with a veiw to forward the cirminal and wicked Purposes abovementioned: And Whereas the<lb></lb>
Wealth, Happiness, and Prosperity of this Kingdom do, under Divine Providence, chiefly depend upon a due Submission to the Laws, a<lb></lb>
just Confidence in the Integrity and Wisdom of Parliament, and a Continuance of that zealous Attachment to the Government and<lb></lb>
Constitution of the Kingdom, which has ever prevailed in the Minds of the People thereof: And whereas there is nothing which We so<lb></lb>
earnestly desire, as to secure the Public Peace and Prosperity, and to preserve to all Our loving Subjects, the full Enjoyment of their<lb></lb>
Rights and Liberties, both Religious and Civil: We therefore being resolved, as far as in Us lies, to repress the wicked and seditious<lb></lb>
Paracties aforesaid, and to deter al Persons from following so pernicious an Example, have thought fit, by the Advice of Our Privy<lb></lb>
Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, solemnly warning all Our loving Subjects, as they tender their own Happi-<lb></lb>
ness, and that of their Posterity, to guard against all such Attempts which aim at the Subversion of all regular Government within this <lb></lb>
Kingdom, and which are inconsistent with the Peace and Order of Society; and earnestly exhorting them at all Times, and to the utmost<lb></lb>
of their Power, to avoid and discourage all Proceedings tending to produce Riots and Tumults: And we do strictly charge and command<lb></lb>
all our Magistrates in and throughout Our Kingdom of Great Britain, that they do make diligent Enquiry in order to discover the Authors<lb></lb>
and Printers of such wicked and seditious Writings as aforesaid; and all others who shall disperse the same: And We do further charge<lb></lb>
and command all Our Sheriffs, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50874_occ68">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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, Chief Magistrates in our Cities, Boroughs, and Corporations, and all other Our<lb></lb>
Officers and Magistrates throughout Our Kingdom of Great Britain, that they do, in their several and respective Stations, take the most im-<lb></lb>
mediate and effectual Care to suppress and prevent all Riots, Tumults, and other Disorders which may be attempted to be raised or made<lb></lb>
by any Person or Persons, which, on whatever Pretext they may be grounded, are not only contrary to Law, but dangerous to the most<lb></lb>
important Interests of this Kingdom; And we do further require and command all and every Our Magistrates aforesaid, that they do, from<lb></lb>
Time to Time, transmit to One of Our Principal Secretaries of State, due and full Information of such Persons as shall be found offending<lb></lb>
as aforesaid, or in any Degree aiding or abetting therein; it being Our Determination, for the Preservation of the Peace and Happiness of<lb></lb>
Our faithful and loving Subjects, to carry the Laws vigorously into execution against such Offenders as aforesaid.</p>
<p n="262">Given at Our Court at the Queen's House, the Twenty-first Day of May, One thousand<lb></lb>
seven hundred and nienty-two, in the Thirty-second Year of Our Reign.</p>
<p n="263">God save the King.</p>
<p n="264">LONDON:</p>
<p n="265">Printed by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50874_n265-1">JOHN RIDER</rs>
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, No. 36, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50874_geo179">Little Britain</rs>
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. 1792.</p>
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