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A32552 By the King, a proclamation for the discovery of the murtherers of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1678 (1678) Wing C3474; ESTC R33421 779 1

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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION For the Discovery of the Murtherers of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey CHARLES R. WHereas it appears by an Inquisition lately taken before one of His Majesties Coroners of His County of Middlesex upon view of the Body of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey Knight one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the same County That the said Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey was in a Barbarous and Inhumane manner lately Murthered by persons whose names were to the Iury unknown The Kings most Excellent Majesty out of His Royal Inclination to Iustice and to the intent that so Horrid and Detestable a Murther may be with utmost Severity punished whereby all others may be deterred from Committing or Attempting such Bloudy and Wicked Crimes doth by this His Royal Proclamation Strictly Charge and Command all His Iudges Iustices of the Peace and other Magistrates and all His Officers and other His loving Subjects That they do use their utmost diligence in their several Places and Capacities to Find out and Discover the Murtherers of the said Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey and if they make any considerable Discovery by whom the said Murther was Committed to give speedy Information thereof to one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and likewise to use their utmost Endeavour to Apprehend the Murtherers And as a Reward to such as shall make a Discovery of the Murtherers His Majesty is graciously pleased hereby to Promise to any Person or Persons who shall make such a Discovery whereby the said Murtherers or any of them shall be Apprehended the Sum of Five hundred Pounds which shall be immediately paid down upon sufficient Testimony that such Persons or Person Apprehended are or is Guilty of the said Murther And if any one of the Murtherers shall Discover the rest whereby they or any one of them shall be Apprehended such Discoverer shall not onely be Pardoned his Offence but shall in like manner receive the said Reward of Five hundred Pounds Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth day of October1678 in the Thirtieth year of Our Reign God save the King LONDON Printed by John Bill Christopher Barker Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1678.