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[We have had several Proclamations against Papistical traitors ; here is one dkected against loyal
Puritans. The AngUcan Hierarchy were carrying on a triangular duel; fighting the Romanists with one
hand, and their own reforming Clergy supported by a large portion of the laity, with the other. This
Proclamation appeared, as we have seen from p. 454, about a year after the event; and was, as the Bishop
of London's letter at p. 466 tells us, perfectly useless. It is reprinted from a copy in the Grenville
Collection of Proclamations, p. 150.
 


 

|IIe Queenes Maiestie consydering that notwithstanding that by great
and mature deliberation of the wysest of this Realme, a godly and
good order of publique prayer and administration of the Sacramentes
hath ben set foorth and allowed by Parliament, and commonly
through the whole Realme, in al the tyme of her Maiesties raigne
receiued and vsed: yet some persons of theyr natures vnquietly disposed, desyrous
to change, and therefore redy to fynde fault with al wel established orders, do not
only refrayne from comming to the Church, where the diuine seruice and common
prayer is o[r]derly vsed, but also do vse of theyr owne deuises, other rites and
ceremonies then are by the lawes of the Realme receiued and vsed: and besydes
that, some of them haue rashly set foorth, and by stealth imprinted certayne
bookes vnder the title of an admonition to the Parliament, and one other in defence
of the sayde admonition, the whiche bookes do tende to no other ende, but to make
diuision and dissention in the opinions of men, and to breede talkes and disputes
agajmst common order. Her highnesse therefore, both to represse suche insolent
and inordinate contemptes of suche as refuse to come to common prayer and diuine
seruice, according to the order established by Parliament, to the euil and pernitious
example of others, and to kepe her subiectes in one vniforme, godly, and quiet
order within her Realme, to auoyde al controuersies, scismes, and dissentions that
may aryse: doth strayghtly charge and commaunde al her Maiesties faythful and
true subiectes, them selues to kepe, and to cause others suche as be vnder them,
to kepe the order of common prayer, diuine seruices, and administration of the
Sacramentes, accordyng as in the sayde booke of diuine seruice they be set foorth,.
and none other contrary or repugnant, vpon payne of her highnesse indignation,
and of other paynes in the sayd acte comprysed.

And as concerning the said bookes, called, The admonition to the Parliament, and
al other bookes made for the defence of the sayd admonition, or agreeable there¬
with, the whiche bookes do cheefely tende to the deprauyng and fyndyng fault
with the sayde hooke of eommon prayer, and administration of the Sacramentes,
and of the orders receiued here in this .Churche and common wealth of Englande :
Her highnesse strayghtly chargeth and commaundeth al and euery Prin er,
Stationer, Booke bynder* Marchaunt, and al other men of what qualitie or
condition he or they be, who hath in theyr custodie any of the sayd bookes, to
bring in the same to the Byshop of the' diocesse, or to one of her ^ hyghnesse
priuie Counsel, within twentie dayes after that he shal haue notice of this
Proclamation, and not to kepe any of them without licence or allowance of the
sayde Byshop, vpon payne of imprysonment, and her" highnesse further displeasure.

Geuen at our Manour of Greenewiche, the. xi. day of June .1573. the fyfteenth
yere of our raigne.

God saue the Queene.

yv Imprinted at London in Powles church-

garde, hy Bicharde Jugge, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie
Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. ]
I. 464