Whereas Their Majesties have received Information, That Francis late
Bishop of Ely, William Penn Esquire, and James Grahme Esquire, with
other Ill-affected Persons, have Designed and Endeavoured to Depose
Their Majesties, and Subvert the Government of this Kingdom, by
procuring an Invasion of the same by the French, and other Treasonable
Practices, and have to that end held Correspondence, and Conspired
with divers Enemies and Traitors, and particularly with Sir Richard
Grahme Baronet, (Viscount Preston in the Kingdom of Scotland) and John
Ashton Gent. lately Attainted of High Treason; For which Cause several
Warrants for High Treason have 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have withdrawn themselves from their usual Places of Abode, and are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 and
with 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 the said Francis
late Bishop of Ely, William Penn and James Grahme, 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 Fifth Day of February, 1690/1. In
the Second Year of Our Reign.