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pliable to theſe parts of Our Realmes, to bee publiſhed to all Our Subiects.

Whereas Wee did iuſtly in Our Progreſse through Lancaſhire, rebuke ſome Puritanes and preciſe people, and tooke order that the like vnlawfull carriage ſhould not bee vsed by any of them hereafter, in the prohibiting and vnlawfull puniſhing of Our good people for vſing their lawfull Recreations, and honeſt exerciſes vpon Sundayes and other Holy dayes, after the afternoon Sermon or Seruice: Wee now finde that two ſorts of people wherewith that Countrey is much infected, (Wee meane

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