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A great many Wicked Pamphlets have of late spread Vile Lies within the city concerning the Queen's appointed Nobility. Many of these Scribes have been Prosecuted for their crimes; but they have been given sentences of Great Leniency, amounting to a mere Thirty Days in Captivity, and allowed to retain their Heads. Still others have been allowed to Run Free despite their Slanders and Calumnies.
Such a thing ought not be Tolerated; and it need not be Tolerated, for such men commit not only Deception, but Treason. To aid the enemies of Cheliax against our Queen is to betray the Country, and by suggesting such claims as have been repeated in the pamphlets is an attack on the Dignity of the Queen, and an attack on all Cheliax.
I speak here not of such Ordinary Claims as that the Nobility appointed by the Queen have proposed certain Laws in the Convention, so long as such claims be True; for there is no Treason in Honestly Repeating such accounts, even if men think ill of their conduct. But there are certain Scribes who have written Far Worse Slanders, saying that there are those among the Queen's appointed Nobility who were Born of Abrogail Thrune I, or who have Gone to Bed with Archdevils, or who have committed Perfidy against a Surrendered Foe. Such Vile Falsehoods are Treason against the Queen — and even if they were True, they would still constitute Treason, for Foolish Men might be stirred to Betrayal of their Country.
Let those Wicked Pamphleteers who have put such things to paper be Arrested at once, and brought in on charges of Treason, and given the Mercy of the Final Blade or the Uncertainty of the Noose as he chooses; and henceforth, if any man should claim something so Base about the Nobility selected by our Queen, let him be arrested too, and let him be dealt with likewise by the Queen's Magistrates.