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By the King. A proclamation declaring His Maiesties pleasure concerning Sir VValter Ravvleigh, and those vvho aduentured with him; Proclamations. 1618-06-09
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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1618
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STC 8569.5; ESTC S100779
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⧠By the King ¶ A Proclamation declaring His Maiesties pleasure concerning Sir Walter Rawleigh and those who aduentured with him WHereas We gaue Licence to Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight and ãâ¦ã of Our Subiects with him to vndertake a Voyage to the Couâârey of Guyana where they pretended great hopes probabilities to mââe discouery of certaine Gold Mines for the lawfull enriching of themââlues and these Our Kingdoms Wherein We did by expresse limitatâââ and Caution restraine and forbid them and euery of them from aââempting any Acte of hostilitie wrong or violence whatsoeuer vpon âny of the Territories States or Subiects of any forraine Prince ââth whom We are in amitie And more peculiarly of those of our deare Brother the King of âpaine in respect of his Dominions and Interests in that Continent All which notwithstanding we are since informed by a Common fame that they or some ãâã them haue by an hostile inuasion of the towne of S. Thome being vnder the obedience of ãâ¦ã deare Brother the King of Spaine and by killing of diuers of the inhabitants therof his Sâââects and after by sacking and burning of the said towne as much as in them for their owne pa ãâ¦ã ay malitiously broken and infringed the Peace and Amity which hath been so happily estabâââhed and so long inuiolably continued betweene Vs and the Subiects of both Our Crownes We haue therefore held it fit as appertaining neerely to Our Royall Iustice and Houââ eftsoones to make a publique declaration of Our owne vtter mislike and detestation of the sââ insolences and excesses if any such haue bene by any of Our Subiects committed And for tâ better detection and clearing of the very trueth of the said common fame Wee doe hereby sâââitly charge and require all Our Subiects whatsoeuer that haue any particular vnderstandiââ ãâã notice therof vpon their duety and alleagiance which they owe Vs immediately after publiââtion of this Our pleasure to repaire vnto some of Our Priuy Counsell and to discouer and make knowne vnto them their whole knowledge and vnderstanding concerning the same vndeââââ¦ing of our High displeasure and indignation that Wee may thereupon proceede in Our Pâââââly Iustice to the exemplary punishment and coertion of all such as shal be conuicted and found ââââty of so scandalous and enormous outrages Giuen at Our Palace Manor of Greenwich the ninth day of Iune in the sixteenth yeere of Our Reigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the one and fiftieth God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill deputie Printers for the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO. M.DC.XVIII