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the Pyrates ; and that nothing might be wanting 

 he carried with him, the King's Proclamation of* 



Pardon, to thole who fhould return to their 

 Duty by a certain Time j the Proclamation is as 

 follows J . 



By the KING, 



A PROCLAMATION, for fuppreiCne of 



PYRATES. ° 



w 



GEORGE R. 



Hereas m have received Information^ that fever al 

 Perfonsy Subjects of Great Britain, have fince 

 Mie 24th Day of June, in the Tear of our Lord 171^ 

 committed divers Pyracies and Robberies nfon the Hiah- 

 Seasy in the Weft-Indies, or ddjoynlng to our Plantatitn? 

 which hath and may Occajion great Damage to the Mer- 

 chants of Great Britain, and others trading into thofe 

 Pans -J and tho' we have appointed fuch a Force as we 

 judge fjifficient for fuppre(fwg the faid Pyrates, yet the 

 more effeStually to put an End to the fame, we have thought 

 fit, by and with the Advice of our Privy Council, to me 

 this our Royal Proclamation ; and m do hereby vromife 

 and declare, that in Cafe any of the faid Pyrates (iLlL 

 on or before the ^th of September, in the Tear of our Lord 

 lllo, furrender him or themfelves, to one of our Prin- 

 cipal Secretaries of State in Great Britain or Ireland 

 or to any Governor or Deputy Governor of any of our 

 Plantations beyond the Seas j eve-ry fuch Pyrate and Pyratei 

 fo furrendering him, or themfelves, as aforefaid, fhall have 

 our gracious Pardon, of hd for fuch, his or their Pyracy 

 or Pyracies, by him or them committed before the fifth of 

 January next enfuing. And we do hereby fir iBly char Je 

 and command all our Admirals, Captains, and other Of 

 fleers at Sea, and all our Governors and Commande-^'s of 

 my Forts, Cafiles, or other Places in our Plantations and 

 all other m Officers Civil md Military, t9 feiz.e mdtake 



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