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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for the &s;uppre&s;sing of Felons, and Outlawes, their Aiders and Abettors, by bringing them to bee an&s;werable to the &s;euerall Lawes of the &s;euerall Realmes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas Wee are informed by the chiefe Landlords, and</HI> In|habitants of the Lands and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, next adioyning to the Out-Bounds of Our Kingdomes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> that by the great and generall intercour&s;e, &s;ecret practi&s;es, and combinati|ons of Outlawes, Felons, and Malefactors of both tho&s;e King|domes, diuers and &s;undry Outrages and Felonies haue beene by them committed, to the great hurt, dammage and preiudice of Our good and dutifull Subiects, contrary to the weale and peaceable gouernment of both Our &s;ayd Realmes; Wee hereupon taking into Our tender and Princely con&s;ideration, the &s;peedy reformation of &s;uch &s;o enormious mi&s;chiefes and inconueniences, and calling to minde, that &s;undry the chiefe Landlords of the Lands and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions next adioyning to the Frontiers of Our &s;ayd two Kingdomes, were contented to vndertake to Our late Father of ble&s;&s;ed memorie, that their Tenants vnder them &s;hould be an&s;werable to Our Lawes, for any Felony, or other capitall Crime they &s;hould bee charged with; and if the partie or parties delinquent &s;hould happen to flie before hee or they &s;hould bee apprehended, and the partie grieued &s;hould by cour&s;e of Law Iudict and Conuict the partie or parties delinquent, of the &s;aid Felonie or Felonies, that then the &s;ayd Landlord, to whom the Forfeiture of &s;uch partie or parties Conuicted &s;hould accrew, &s;hould make re&s;titution to the partie grieued, of &s;uch goods as were &s;tollen from him by the &s;aid partie or parties Conuicted, by the &s;ight of two Iu&s;tices of Peace of the &s;aid County, where the &s;aid Felonie was committed, to bee indifferently cho&s;en by the &s;ayd partie grieued, and the &s;ayd Landlord: The &s;ayd Landlord beeing lawfully authorized by him&s;elfe, his officers and &s;eruants to &s;earch for, and to apprehend any Felons, Fugitiues, Receitors, Abettors, Out-putters, or any other &s;u&s;pected per&s;ons &s;ecretly lurking, remaining, or beeing within the &s;ayd Landlords bounds or limits, and him or them to bring,
<PB REF="2">and make an&s;werable to the &s;euerall Lawes of Our &s;aid Kingdomes: Of which &s;ayd vndertaking Wee well approue, and by this Our Proclamation doe &s;traitly charge and com|mand all chiefe Landlords in the Counties of <HI>Cumberland</HI> and <HI>Northumberland,</HI> whom it may in any &s;ort concerne, to put the &s;ame in execution to the vttermo&s;t of their power: And hereby accordingly giuing them, their officers and &s;eruants, full and ab&s;olute power and authoritie, to &s;earch for all manner of Felons, Fugitiues, Outlawes, Receitors, Abet|tors, Out-putters, or any other vnknowen or &s;u&s;pected per&s;ons, &s;ecretly lurking, remay|ning or beeing within euery, or any of the &s;ayd &s;euerall chiefe Landlords Bounds or Li|mits, and them to apprehend and make an&s;werable to the &s;euerall Lawes of Our &s;aid King|domes.</P>
<P>And Wee doe hereby further forbid, forwarne, and &s;traitly charge and command all, and all manner of per&s;ons, inhabiting any where within Tenne miles of the &s;aid Out-Bounds, and Frontiers of either of Our &s;aid Kingdomes, to forbeare to harbour, receiue, entertaine, or relieue any Felon, Fugitiue, outlawed, vnknowen or &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pected per&s;on, where|in if any bee di&s;couered to offend after the Fea&s;t of Saint <HI>Iames</HI> the Apo&s;tle next en&s;uing, Wee will and command all and &s;ingular the &s;ayd chiefe Landlords, their officers, and &s;er|uants, forthwith to apprehend all &s;uch offenders, in who&s;e &s;euerall bounds or limits they in|habite; and them to pre&s;ent to the next Iu&s;tice of Peace of the County where they &s;hall be ap|prehended, whom Wee &s;traitly charge and command in&s;tantly to commit them to the next Gaole, there to remaine without Baile or Mainepri&s;e, vntill the partie or parties &s;o har|boured, receiued, entertained, or relieued, doe yeeld them&s;elues to bee brought foorth, and per&s;onally appeare before the &s;eate of Iu&s;tice, to an&s;were and abide their Trials for &s;uch their offences, as on Our behalfe they &s;hall be charged with, according to the &s;euerall Lawes of Our &s;aid &s;euerall Kingdomes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Court at Saint Iames, </HI> <DATE><HI>the Thirtieth day of Iune, in the &s;ixth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAIESTIE: and by the A&s;signes of Iohn Bill. M.DC.XXX.</P>
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