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Rh the Pyrates; and that nothing might be wanting, he carried with him, the King’s Proclamation of Pardon, to thoe who hould return to their Duty by a certain Time; the Proclamation is as follows;

Hereas we have received Information, that everal Perons, Subjects of Great Britain, have ince the th Day of June, in the Year of our Lord, committed divers Pyracies and Robberies upon the High-Seas, in the Wet-Indies, or adjoyning to our Plantations, which hath and may Occaion great Damage to the Merchants of Great Britain, and others trading into thoe Parts; and tho’ we have appointed uch a Force as we judge ufficient for uppreing the aid Pyrates, yet the more effectually to put an End to the ame, we have thought fit, by and with the Advice of our Privy Council, to Iue this our Royal Proclamation; and we do hereby promie, and declare, that in Cae any of the aid Pyrates, hall on or before the th of September, in the Year of our Lord , urrender him or themelves, to one of our Principal Secretaries of State in Great Britain or Ireland, or to any Governor or Deputy Governor of any of our Plantations beyond the Seas; every uch Pyrate and Pyrates o urrendering him, or themelves, as aforeaid, hall have our gracious Pardon, of and for uch, his or their Pyracy, or Pyracies, by him or them committed before the fifth of January next enuing. And we do hereby trictly charge and command all our Admirals, Captains, and other Officers at Sea, and all our Governors and Commanders of any Forts, Catles, or other Places in our Plantations, and all other our Officers Civil and Military, to eize and take Rh