HIs Majesty having a very tender care for the preservation of the Peace of this His Kingdom (the sweetness whereof His Subjects have begun to taste, after the long miseries of the late Troubles) and being Solicitous to prevent all Occasi­ons that may give the least Vmbrage of the disturbance thereof, and having Information that divers of the former­ly Casheired Officers and Soldiers, and other dissolute and disaffected persons do daily resort to this City and Suburbs thereof, and great numbers of them do at this time remain therein: His Majesty doth therefore strictly charge and command all such Officers and Soldiers, and dissolute disaffected Persons, That cannot give so good account of their being here, as shall be approved by some of His Majesties Privy Councel, or the Committee appointed for disbanding the Army, within two days after Publication of this His Proclamation, to depart the Cities of London and Westminster, and Suburbs thereof, and to retire and remove themselves at twenty miles distance from the said Cities, and there to remain, and not to return to the said Cities without leave first obtained, and this to do with­out fail, upon pain of Imprisonment, and his Majesties high Displeasure.

Given at the Court at Whitehall, this 17 ^th day of December, in the Twelfth Year of his Majesties Reign, 1660.

GOD SAVE THE KING.