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A39490 By the Lords Justices, a proclamation Tho. Cantuar. J. Sommers C.S. Shrewsbury. Dorset. Whereas we have received information upon oath, that the persons hereafter mentioned have committed high treason in clipping and counterfeiting the current coin of this kingdom ... England and Wales. Lords Justices. 1696 (1696) Wing E936; ESTC R213251 1,514 1

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W R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the Lords Justices A PROCLAMATION Tho. Cantuar. J. Sommers C. S. Shrewsbury WHereas We have received Information upon Oath That the Persons hereafter mentioned have Committed High Treason in Clipping and Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom for which several Warrants for High Treason have beén Issued out against them but they have withdrawn themselves from their usual Places of Abode and are fled from Iustice We have therefore thought fit by the Advice of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council to Issue this Proclamation and We do hereby Command and Require all His Majesties Loving Subjects to Discover Take and Apprehend Captain William Wintour of Dymock in the County of Gloucester he is a Tall Lusty Big Man of a Brown Complexion of about Five and fourty Years of Age He speaks Loud and Hoarse Anthony _____ his Servant of a Middle Stature a Black Swarthy Complexion Short Black Curled Hair about Five and twenty Years Old he speaks in the Welch Tone William Barnes a Sadler without the Southgate-street at Gloucester he is a Short Thick Man with a very Red Face about Fifty Years Old William Trigg of Mitchel Dean in the said County a Black Short Thick Man betweén Twenty and Thirty Years Old with a Black Curled Head of Hair William Cutler of Mitchel Dean aforesaid a Tall Thin Black Man Pale Visaged betweén Thirty and Fourty shot through one of his Hands wears his own Hair Richard Beard of Dymock aforesaid a Middle-sized Man about Eight and twenty Years Old Brown hair goes a little Splay-footed with his Toes out William Broadly of Mitchel-Dean aforesaid Blacksmith a Tall Lusty Man of a Brown Complexion a little Disfigured with the Small Pox about Thirty Years Old his own Hair Thin and Lank John Tanner of the Parish of Box in the County of Wilts a very Little Short Thin Man between Thirty and Fourty of a Brown Complexion wears his own Hair Thomas Tanner Brother of the said John of the Parish aforesaid somewhat Taller and of the same Complexion with his Brother where ever they may be found and to carry them before the next Iustice of the Peace or other Chief Magistrate who is hereby Required to Commit them to the next Goal there to Remain till they shall be Delivered by due Course of Law And We do hereby Require the said Iustice or other Magistrate immediately to give Notice thereof to His Majesties Privy Council or one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State And We do hereby Publish and Declare to all Persons who shall Conceal the Persons above named or any of them or be Aiding or Assisting in the Concealing of any of them or Furthering their Escape that they shall be Proceeded against for such their Offence with the utmost Severity according to Law And for the Encouragement of all Persons to be Diligent and Careful in endeavouring to Apprehend and Discover any of the said Persons We do hereby further Declare That whosoever shall Discover and Apprehend the said William Wintour shall have the Reward of One hundred Pounds and whosoever shall Discover and Apprehend the said Anthony _____ shall have the Reward of Fifty Pounds and whosoever shall Discover and Apprehend any of the other Persons above named and shall bring them before some Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid shall Have and Receive as a Reward the Sum of Twenty Pounds Which said several Sums the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury are hereby Required to Pay accordingly over and above the Sum of Fourty Pounds Appointed to be Paid for the Apprehending and Convicting any Person Guilty of Clipping or Coining by an Act of Parliament made in the Sixth and Seventh Years of His Majesties Reign And We do hereby further Declare in case the said Anthony shall Surrender himself to any Iustice of the Peace or other Chief Magistrate and shall make a full Confession and Discovery of his Knowledge of any Persons being Guilty of Clipping or Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom he shall have His Majesties most Gracious Pardon for his said Offence Given at the Council Chamber at Whitehall the Tenth Day of September 1696. In the Eighth Year of His Majesties Reign God save the King LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1696.