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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; A Proclamation for the &s;earch and apprehen&s;ion of certaine Pirates.</HEAD>
<P>_Whereas it hath appeared vnto vs by &s;undry credible informations and certificats fro~ forreine parts, That <HI>Richard Gifford</HI> Captaine of a &s;hip or Flyboat, lately called The Fortune, &amp; <HI>Richard Lux</HI> Ma&s;ter of a &s;hip called The Hopewell, <HI>William Mellon, Humfrey Ra&s;toll, Tho|mas Better, Robert Gyles, Iohn Thomas, Iohn Burrage, Baldwine Barber, Henry Radclife, Iohn Bani&s;ter, William Smith,</HI> with diuers others their Complices, and A&s;&s;ociats, &s;eruing as Mariners or Souldiers in the &s;aid Ships, haue vnder colour of friend&s;hip and peaceable Traf|fique, committed mo&s;t fowle outrages, murders, &s;poyles and Depredations within the <HI>Streits,</HI> and <HI>Mediterranean</HI> Seas, as well within the Ports as without, to the great offence of all our friends, to the extreame lo&s;&s;e and hurt of our Merchants trading tho&s;e parts, both in their per|&s;ons and goods, and to the great di&s;plea&s;ure of God and men; Wee of our Princely care for the admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice (the maine pillar of our E&s;tate) doe with no le&s;&s;e zeale, a&s;well for the &s;ati&s;faction of foreine Princes, as for the example of others in like ca&s;es offending, intend to pro|&s;ecute them, and all their Abettorz, Complices and Acce&s;&s;aries with the greate&s;t &s;eueritie of our Lawes in that ca&s;e prouided:</P>
<P>And therefore we will and &s;traightly command all and euery our Officers and louing Sub|iects, that immediatly after the &s;ight of this pre&s;ent Proclamation, they and euery of them doe make dilignet &s;earch and enquirie in all places as well exempt as not exempt, for the &s;ayd per|&s;ons, and all and euery of them, and them, or any of them &s;o found, to apprehend and commit to the next Gaole, there to be deteined vntill our high Admirall, or his Lieutenant the Iudge of the high Court of the Admiraltie, vpon notice giuen vnto either of them of the per&s;ons &s;o com|mitted, &s;hall take order in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And moreouer our Plea&s;ure is, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, &s;hall wittingly or wilfully receiue, conceale, harbour, entertaine or lodge the &s;ayd Pyrates and Murtherers, or any of them, or any of their &s;aid Complices or A&s;&s;ociates into their hou&s;e or hou&s;es, after the &s;ight or knowledge of this Proclamation (knowing them by pregnant circum&s;tances, credible infor|mations or otherwi&s;e to be the per&s;ons before named) vpon paine to euery &s;uch per&s;on and per|&s;ons &s;o receiuing, concealing, harbouring, entertaining or lodging any of the &s;ayd Pirates and Murtherers, or any of their Complices, of death and forfeiture of all their Lands, goods and chattels, according to the Lawes and Statutes in that ca&s;e prouided.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen our Manour of Greenwich <DATE>the thirteenth day of Iune, in the fourth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. 1606.</P>
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