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upon their refusal so to do, have had an oath administered unto them not
warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm, and have been constrained to become bound and make appearance and give utterance before your Privy Council, and in other places, and others of them have
been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested
and disquieted; and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon
your people in several counties by lord lieutenants, deputy lieutenants,
commissioners for musters, justices of peace and others, by command or
direction from your Majesty or you