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brought to condign punishment; Wee have thought fitt and
in Councill determined by this our Proclamation, publickly to
make knowne and declare such our Information, hereby will-
ing and requireing as also strictly chargeing and Commanding
all and singular his L^sps Officers civill and military within this
Province, and others the good people thereof to make all dili-
gent search and Enquiry in and about their severall precincts
and places of abode, or else where, where they shall happen
to come or be informed of the said George Talbott, and to use
their utmost endeavour, skill, cunning and power by all waies
and meanes Imaginable to find him, and him wheresoever he
shall be found forthwith to apprehend, and with a secure and
Safe guard to keepe and convey with all speed to his L^sps:

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Councill at the City of S^t Maries in ord^r to be further secured
untill such time as he shall be brought to a legall tryall,
whereof lett none faile at their perill: And that it may the
better be knowne & divulged wee Doe hereby strictly charge
and Command all and singular the respective sheriffes of the
severall and respective Counties within this Province, forth-
with upon receipt hereof to make publick Proclamation hereof
in all and every the most publick and convenient places within
their s^d Counties, Soe that none endeavouring to conceale, or
connive at the concealement or carrying away from Justice
the said Murderer may have any colour or pretence to plead
Ignorance, or haveing noe knowledge thereof.
Given at the City of S^t Maries under the greate Seale of
this Province of Maryland the second day of March in the
Tenth yeare of the Dominion of the R^t hon^ble Charles &c.
Annoq Dmi. 1684: