Forasmuch as it hath appeared unto us aswell by our owne viewes in
our travailes in this present Progresse of his Majestie, as also by
good and credible information from divers and sundrie partes of the
Realme, that Rogues grow againe and increase to bee incorrigible, and
dangerous not onely to his Majesties loving Subjects abroad, but also
to his Majestie and his Honourable Houshold and attendants in and
about his Court, which growing partly through the remissenes of some
Justices of the Peace, and other Officers in the Countrey, and partly
for that there hath beene no Suite made for assigning some place beyond
the Seas, to which such incorrigible or dangerous Rogues might bee
banished, according to the Statute in that behalfe made: We therfore
of his Majesties privie Councel, whose names are hereunto subscribed,
finding it of necessitie to reforme great abuses, and to have the due
execution of so good and necessarie a Law, doe according to the power
limitted unto us by the same Statute, hereby Assigne and thinke it fit
and expedient, that the places and partes beyond the Seas to which any
such incorrigible or dangerous Rogues shall bee banished and conveyed
according to the said Statute, shall bee these Countries and places
following, viz. The New-found Land, the East and West Indies, France,
Germanie, Spaine, and the Low-countries, or any of them.
_T. Buckhurst._ _Lenox._ _Nottingham._
_Suffolke._ _Devonshire._ _Mar._
_Ro. Cecill._ _E. Wotton._ _Jo. Stanhop._
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most
Excellent Majestie. Anno 1603.
_2 pp. folio. Copies in Antiq., B. M., Crawf., P. R. O., and Q. C.
Entered on Patent Rolls. Printed in Rymer's "Foedera," xvi, 554, and in
Barker's "Booke of Proclamations," p. 44._