WHereas We have been informed, that divers of the late Disbanded Officers and Soldiers, and several other persons heretofore Cashiered and Turned out of the late Army (many whereof being persons of desperate Fortunes and Designs) do now remain in and about Our Cities of London and Westminster, and have their daily Meetings, and are frequently Plotting and Contriving wicked Designs and Practises against Our Royal Person, and the Peace and Government of this Our Kingdom; We taking the same into Our serious consideration, and for preventing the evil consequences thereof, have thought fit, by, and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to publish and declare, and do hereby publish and declare Our will and pleasure to be, That all and every person and persons being heretofore an Officer or Soldier serving in any of the Armies of the late Vsurped Powers, and have been Disbanded, Ca­shiered, or Turned out of any of the said Armies (who are not under Imprisonment, or other legal Re­straint, or have not their constant Habitations and Families within Our Cities of London and Westminster, or the Suburbs thereof, or who shall not procure or obtain a Licence from Vs or any three or more of Our Privy Council in this behalf) do on or before the Twenty sixth day of this instant June, depart out of the said Cities of London and Westminster, and the Liberties and Suburbs thereof. And We do hereby charge and require them, and every of them to depart accordingly, and not to return again, or come within Twenty miles of the same Our Cities of London and Westminster, or either of them, from this time, until after the Twenty fourth day of December next ensuing; And that they, or any of them do not, or shall not in the mean time, wear, use, carry, or ride with any Sword, Pistol, or other Arms or Weapons. And herein We do and shall expect from all persons concerned, a due and punctual Submission and Conformity at their perils, and upon pain of Our high Displeasure, willing and hereby commanding the Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Iustices of Peace, Constables, and other Our Officers and Ministers of, and in the several Counties, Cities, and places of this Our Kingdom, to apprehend and seize the persons, and take away the Arms and Weapons of all such as shall be found faulty, or offenders in, or contrary to the pur­port, true intent, and meaning of this Our Royal Proclamation, and them to send to the Goal of the City or County where they are apprehended, sending the Lords of Our Privy Council a note of their names, and of their particular Offences, that so they may be further proceeded against for their contempts according to Iustice.

Given at Our Court at Hampton-Court, this Two and twentieth day of June, 1662. in the Fourteenth year of Our Reign.

God save the King.