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<HEAD><Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q></HEAD>
<P>W. R.</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
</FIGURE> By the Lords Ju&s;tices, A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>Tho. Cantuar. </ITEM>
<ITEM>Sunderland, </ITEM>
<ITEM>Romney, </ITEM>
<ITEM>Orford.</ITEM>
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<P>_WHereas We have received Information, That &s;everal Bills of Credit i&s;|&s;ued out of the Exchequer pur&s;uant to &s;everal Acts made the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this pre&s;ent Parliament, have be&eacute;n Forged and Counterfeited by Altering the Sums therein contained, and by Forging Endor&s;ements thereupon. And upon Examination it doth not appear, That there have be&eacute;n more than Five of the &s;aid Bills Counterfeited and Altered, which Five Bills are &s;ecured, &s;o that no Per&s;on can receive any further Prejudice thereby. And whereas &s;everal of the Per&s;ons concerned in the &s;aid Forgery and Counterfeiting are Apprehended, and in Cu&s;to|dy for the &s;aid Offence, but others <HI>(viz.) Domingo Antunes</HI> a <HI>Portugue&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Robert Marriot,</HI> a Taylor, who lately lived in <HI>Arundel-&s;treet,</HI> who were principally concerned therein, have Ab&s;conded from their u&s;ual Places of Abode, and are fled from Iu&s;tice: We therefore (with the Advice of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council) have thought fit to I&s;&s;ue this Proclamation, hereby Com|manding all His Maje&s;ties Loving Subjects to Di&s;cover, Take and Apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Domingo Antunes,</HI> and <HI>Robert Marriot</HI> wherever they or either of them may be found, and to carry them be|fore the next Iu&s;tice of Peace or Chief Magi&s;trate, who is hereby Required to Commit them to the next Goal, there to remain until they &s;hall be thence Delivered by due Cour&s;e of Law. And We do hereby Require the &s;aid Iu&s;tice, or other Chief Magi&s;trate immediately to give Notice thereof to His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, or to one of His Maje&s;ties Principal Secretaries of State. And We do hereby &s;trictly Charge and Command all His Maje&s;ties Loving Subjects (as they will An&s;wer the contrary at their Perils) that they do not any ways Conceal, but Di&s;cover, Take and Apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Domingo Antunes</HI> and <HI>Robert Marriot,</HI> or either of them, to the end they may be proceeded again&s;t for &s;uch their Offence, according to Law. And We do hereby Promi&s;e and Declare, That who&s;oever &s;hall Di&s;cover and Apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Domingo Antunes</HI> and <HI>Robert Mar|riot,</HI> or either of them, and bring them before &s;uch Iu&s;tice of the Peace, or Chief Magi&s;trate, &s;hall receive as a Reward for each of the &s;aid Per&s;ons, the Sum of One hundred Pounds; which &s;aid Sum of One hundred Pounds the Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Trea&s;ury are hereby Direct|ed to Pay accordingly. And We do hereby further Promi&s;e and Declare, That if any of the Per&s;ons concerned in the &s;aid Forgery and Counterfeiting (except the &s;aid <HI>Domingo Antunes</HI> and <HI>Robert Marriot)</HI> &s;hall Di&s;cover and Apprehend the other Per&s;ons concerned in the &s;aid Forgery and Counterfeiting, or any or either of them, and bring them before &s;uch Iu&s;tice of the Peace or Chief Magi&s;trate, as afore&s;aid, &s;uch Per&s;on &s;hall not only have and receive the &s;aid Reward of One hundred Pounds, but &s;hall al&s;o have His Maje&s;ties Gracious Pardon for &s;uch his Offence.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the Twenty fourth Day of <HI>September,</HI> 1697. <HI>In the Ninth Year of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Charles Bill,</HI> and the Executrix of <HI>Thomas Newcomb,</HI> deceas'd, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1697.</P>
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