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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
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<HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Apprehending <HI>Henry Every,</HI> alias <HI>Bridgeman,</HI> and &s;undry other Pirates.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part Conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute Greet|ing, For as much as, We are Informed that <HI>Henry Every,</HI> alias <HI>Bridgeman,</HI> together with &s;everal other Per&s;ons, <HI>En|gli&s;h</HI> Men, <HI>Scots</HI> Men, and Foraigners, to the Number of about One Hundred and Thirty, did Steal, and Run away with the <HI>Ship</HI> called the <HI>Phau&s;ie,</HI> alias <HI>Charles,</HI> of Fourty &s;ix Guns from the Port of <HI>Corunns</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> and Commit &s;e|veral Acts of Pyrracy under <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Colours upon the Seas of <HI>India</HI> or <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> Contrary to the Law of Nations, and of this Kingdom in particular; And that the &s;aid <HI>Henry Every,</HI> and &s;everals of his Accomplices, &s;ince, Committing of the &s;aids Acts of Pyrracy, having left the &s;aid <HI>Ship</HI> in the <HI>I&s;land</HI> of <HI>Providence,</HI> are Returned to, and have Di&s;per&s;ed them&s;elves within this Our antient Kingdom, thinking, and intending thereby to Save &amp; Shelter them&s;elves from the Puni&s;hment &amp; Execution of Law Due to &s;uch Hainous and Notorious Offenders: And We being Re&s;olved, that outmo&s;t Diligence &s;hall be U&s;ed for Seizing, and Apprehending the Per&s;ons of &s;uch Open and Villanous Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors; Do therefore, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Require, and Command, the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries, Baillies of Regalities, and their Re&s;pective Deputs, Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Officers of Our Army, Commanders of Our Forces and Gari&s;ons, and all others Imployed, or Tru&s;ted by Us in any Station what|&s;oever, Civil or Military within this Kingdom, and Our Good Subjects what&s;oever within the &s;ame, to do their outmo&s;t lndeavour and Dili|gence to Seize upon, and Apprehend the Per&s;ons of the &s;aid <HI>Henry Every,</HI> alias <HI>Bridgema,</HI> together with <HI>James Cray, Thomas Summerton, Edward Kirwood, William Down, John Reddy, John Stroger, Nathaniel Pike, Peter Soans, Henry Adams, Francis Frennier Tho|mas John&s;on, Jo&s;eph Dau&s;on, Samuel Dau&s;on, James Lewis, Jehn Sparks, Jo&s;eph Go&s;s, Charles Falconer, James Murray, Robert Rich, John Mi|ler, John King, Edward Savil, William Philips, Thomas Jope,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Beli&s;h,</HI> his Accomplices, or any of them, and &s;uch others as were with them in the &s;aid Ship (who may be Probably known and Di&s;covered by the Great Quantities of <HI>Per&s;on</HI> and <HI>Indian</HI> Gold and Silver which they have with them) and Deliver him or them Pri&s;oners to the next Magi&s;trat of any of Our Burghs, to be by them keeped in &s;afe Cu&s;tody until farther Order be taken for bringing him or them to &s;uch Coodign Puni&s;hment as their Crime does De&s;erve, and out of De|te&s;tation to &s;uch a Horrid villany, and to the Effect the &s;ame may not go Un-puni&s;hed; and for Incouraging the Magi&s;trats above-named, and any other of Our Good Subjects to Search for, and Apprehend &s;uch Nottrorious Rogues: We with Advice fore&s;aid do make Offer, and A&s;&s;ure the Payment of the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds Sterling for the &s;aid <HI>Henry Every,</HI> alias <HI>Bridgman,</HI> and Fiftieth Pounds Sterling Money fore&s;aid for every one of the other Per&s;ons above-named to any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons who &s;hail Seize and Apprehend them or any of them, and Deliver him or them Pri&s;oners to any of the Magi&s;trats of Our Burghs, which &s;hall be Truely and Faithfully payed, as a Reward to the &s;aid Per&s;on or Per&s;ons who &s;hall Apprehend and Deliver Pri&s;oner to any of Our Magi&s;trats the &s;aids <HI>Henry Every,</HI> or any other of his Ac|complices above-named, Indemnifying hereby all and every one of Our Subjects from any Hazard of Slaughter, Mutilation, or other Acts of Violence which they may Commit against the &s;aid <HI>Henry Every,</HI> or any of his Accomplices, or any Per&s;ons that &s;hall A&s;&s;i&s;t them, to Hinder and Oppo&s;e their being Seized and Taken: And We with Advice fore&s;aid Peremptorly Inhibit and Di&s;charge all, and every one of Our Subjects what&s;omever to Shelter, Harbour, Conceal, or any ways A&s;&s;i&s;t, or Supply the &s;aid <HI>Henry Every,</HI> or any of his Accomplices above-named upon their Highe&s;t Peril. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you Strictly, and Command, that Incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cor&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Remanent Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority make Intimation here of that none may pretend Ignorance, And Ordains the&s;e Pre|&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Eighteenth Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of Our Reign the Eighth Year, <HI>1696</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <SIGNED><HI>DA. MONCRIEFF.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno</HI> DOM, 1696.</P>
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