Numb. 303.
Mercurius Politicus,
COMPRISING
The sum of Foreine Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on Foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
For Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria} Horat. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday March 27: to Thursday April 3. 1656.
By his Highness Council in Scotland, for the Government
thereof.
A Declaration for putting in execution the Lawes in force
against Jesuits, Seminary Priests, and Traffiquing Papists.
WHereas the common Design and practice of Jesuites,
Seminary Priests and Trafficking Papists,
to seduce the People of Scotland from the true
Religion professed in this Nation; and also to
withdraw them from their due obedience to
their supreme Magistrate, and to stirr up sedition and hostility
within this Countrey, hath caused divers good Laws to be