By the King, a proclamation. William R. Whereas by a statute made in the twenty seventh year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, it is, amongst other things, enacted, that if any of the subjects of this kingdom ... shall be of, or brought up in any college of Jesuits

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• By the King, a proclamation. William R. Whereas by a statute made in the twenty seventh year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, it is, amongst other things, enacted, that if any of the subjects of this kingdom ... shall be of, or brought up in any college of Jesuits
• Proclamations. 1700-02-11
• Whereas by a staute made in the twenty seventh year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth

People / Organizations

• England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III). (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1699. [i.e. 1700]

Added name

William III, King of England, 1650-1702.

Publication year

1700

ESTC No.

R228590

Grub Street ID

101260

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1°.

Note

At end of text: "Given at our court at Kensington, the eleventh day of February, 1699. In the eleventh year of Our reign."

Recalls an Act by Queen Elizabeth which commands that if any subject not in orders being a student of a foreign Jesuit college or seminary shall not return within six months of Proclamation under the Great Seal in London, and take the oath of supremacy, he shall be judged a traitor on his return. All subjects are to return. Guardians, &c., are to enforce return, and not to support them abroad. - Steele

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