Whereas Their Majesties have received Information That the Persons
herein after particularly Named have Conspired together, and with
divers other disaffected Persons, to Disturb and destroy Their
Government, and for that purpose have Abetted and Adhered to Their
Majesties Enemies in the present Invasion, for which cause several
Warrants for High Treason have lately been Issued out against them,
but they have withdrawn themselves from their usual places of Abode,
and are fled from Justice; Their Majesties therefore have thought
fit by the Advice of Their Privy Council, to Issue this Their Royal
Proclamation: And Their Majesties do hereby Command and Require all
Their Loving Subjects to Discover, Take and Apprehend Edward Henry Earl
of Litchfeild, Thomas Earl of Aylesbury, William Lord Montgomery, Roger
Earl of Castlemaine, Richard Viscount Preston, Henry Lord Belasyse, Sir
Edward Hales, Sir Robert Thorold, Sir Robert Hamilton, Sir Theophilus
Oglethorp, Colonel Edward Sackvile, Lieutenant Colonel Duncan
Abercromy, Lieutenant Colonel William Richardson, Major Thomas Soaper,
Captain David Lloyd, William Pen[1] Esq; Edmund Elliot Esq; Marmaduke
Langdale Esq; and Edward Rutter wherever they may be found, and to
carry them before the next Justice of the Peace, or Chief Magistrate;
who is hereby Required to Commit them to the next Goal, there to
remain until they be thence delivered by due Course of Law: And Their
Majesties do hereby Require the said Justice or other Magistrate
immediately to give Notice thereof to Them or Their Privy Council:
And Their Majesties do hereby Publish and Declare to all Persons that
shall Conceal the Persons above named, or any of them, or be Aiding or
Assisting in the Concealing of them, or furthering their Escape, that
they shall be proceeded against for such their Offence with the utmost
Severity according to Law.
Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Fourteenth Day of July, 1690.[2]
In the Second Year of Our Reign.