DIEV ET MON DROIT

❧ A Declaration.

THe LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament, having received several Informations, That there have been divers Tumults, Ryots, Outrages, and Misdemea­nors lately committed in sundry parts of this Realm by unquiet and discontented spirits, to the disturbance of the Publick Peace, and fomenting of new Troubles, do hereby Order and Declare, That all Sheriffs, Iustices of the Peace, Mayors, Constables, and other Ministers of Publick Iustice that were in Office the 25 th day of April 1660. shall be continued in their respective Offices, and shall exercise the same in the KINGS Majesties Name and Style, and shall use their best Endeavours to suppress and prevent all Ryots, Tumults, unlawfull Assemblies and Misde­meanors whatsoever against the Lawes and Peace of this Realm, and all treasonable and seditious Words, Reports, and Rumors against His Majesties Royal Person and Authority, and proceed against all Offenders therein according to Law and Iustice; And all Military Officers and Souldiers and all others are to be aiding and assisting to them therein.

Die Lunae, 7 Maii, 1660.

ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled, That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.

JO. BROWNE, Cleric. Parliamentorum.

LONDON, Printed by John Macock, and Francis Tyton, Printers to the House of Lords, 1660.

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