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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<BYLINE>By the King.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Requiring &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Subjects in the parts beyond the Seas, to return into <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by an Act of the late Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, Intituled, <HI>An Act for Attainting <HI>Thomas Dolman, Jo&s;eph Bampfield,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Scott</HI> of High Trea&s;on, if they render not them&s;elves by a day;</HI> It is (among&s;t other things therein contained) Enacted, That all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons who then were, or then after &s;hould be beyond the Seas, and whom His Maje&s;ty by any of His Royal Procla|mations to be i&s;&s;ued under the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> during the continuance of this War with the States of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> &s;hould name and require to return into <HI>England,</HI> and render them&s;elves by a certain day therein to be mentioned, to &s;ome or one of His Maje&s;ties Iu&s;tices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they &s;hould fir&s;t arive, and &s;hould not return and render them&s;elves accordingly, and abide their Legal Tryal, &s;hould from and after the day to them to be prefixed by &s;uch Pro|clamation, &s;tand and be Attainted of High Trea&s;on, to all intents and purpo&s;es, and &s;hould &s;uffer &s;uch pains and Penalties, and undergo &s;uch Forfeitures as per&s;ons Attainted of High Trea&s;on ought to do. And whereas <HI>John Desbrough,</HI> commonly called Colonel <HI>Desbrough, Thomas Kel&s;ey, John White, John Grove, William Burton, William Scott</HI> &s;on of <HI>Thomas Scott,</HI> lately Attainted and Executed for Execrable High Trea&s;on, Sir <HI>Robert Honywood</HI> junior, <HI>Thomas Cole</HI> of <HI>Southampton, <GAP DESC="missing" REASON="omitted in print" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Spurway, Edward Radden,</HI> Dr. <HI>Edward Richard&s;on, John Phelps,</HI> and <HI>John Nicholas</HI> of <HI>Mon|mouth&s;hire,</HI> being His Maje&s;ties Subjects, have withdrawn them&s;elves, and are at pre&s;ent (the &s;aid War continu|ing) in parts beyond the Seas, without any rea&s;onable cau&s;e for Merchandi&s;e or otherwi&s;e, and &s;ome of them con|trary to all Bonds, both of their Duty and Allegiance to the King their Soveraign, and affection to their native Countrey, have Trea&s;onably engaged them&s;elves in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ctual Service in the &s;aid War; and the abode of all and every of them in Foreign parts is dangerous, and again&s;t the Publick &s;afety of His Maje&s;ty and His Realm: Therefore the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, and in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Act of Parlia|ment, by this His Proclamation under the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> doth name and require them the &s;aid <HI>John De&s;|brough, Thomas Kel&s;ey, John White, John Grove, William Burton, William Scott,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert Honywood</HI> junior, <HI>Thomas Cole</HI> of <HI>Southampton, <GAP DESC="missing" REASON="omitted in print" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Spurway, Edward Radden,</HI> Dr. <HI>Edward Richard&s;on, John Phelps,</HI> and <HI>John Nicholas</HI> of <HI>Monmouth|&s;hire,</HI> and every of them, by the Two and twentieth day of <HI>July</HI> next coming, being Three Kalendar moneths and more from the date of this Proclamation, to return into <HI>England,</HI> and render them&s;elves to &s;ome or one of His Maje|&s;ties Iu&s;tices of the Peace for the County wherein he or they &s;hall fir&s;t arive; His Maje&s;ty hereby Declaring, That they and every of them who &s;hall not return and render them&s;elves accordingly, and abide their Legal Tryal, from and after the &s;aid Two and twentieth of <HI>July,</HI> to them prefixed by this Proclamation as afore&s;aid, by force of the &s;aid Act of Parliament, will &s;tand and be Attainted of High Trea&s;on, and undergo the Forfeitures of per&s;ons Attainted of High Trea&s;on: Whereof they and every of them are to take notice at their perils. And His Maje&s;ty doth here|by Command and Require the Iu&s;tices of Peace to whom any of the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;hall render them&s;elves, to keep them in &s;afe Cu&s;tody, and adverti&s;e His Maje&s;ty, or one of His Principal Secretaries of State thereof, that further Order and Directions may be therein given.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the One and twentieth day of <HI>April,</HI> 1666.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Christopher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1666.</P>
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