132 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98.

          Lib. H. D.     Copyes of the Ordered tht all the sd Letters &ca be laid before

                Lords Lre and

                Procl abt the House of Delegates for their prusall Ordered

                Capt Every that Copyes of the said Proclamacon and Lords

                Order'd to be sent to each Letter touching the sd Every and Pirates be sent

                County to be to the Severall Counties of the Province to be

                published made publick and that a Proclamacon be prepared

          to issue, Comanding due and Strict observance of the same

          was accordingly done aud followes in these Words Vizt

            By his Exncy the Capt Genll &ca A Proclamacon.

                             Maryland ss.

                His Excys Procl abt Whereas the Rt hone the Lords of his Mats

                      Capt Every & most honrble privy Councill have by Letter of the

               other Pyrats &c:    27th of August past Signifyed unto me how that

                        one Henry Every alias Bridgman with divers

                other persons English and fforreignrs having Run away with

                the Ship Charles the Second alias the Phancy had Committed

                Severall Acts of Piracy in the Seas of India and Persia &Ca and

                that their Exncys the Lords Justices of England had thereupon

                thought fit by Proclamation in his Mats Name to require all

                his Mats Admlls Comanders and other Officers at Sea and all

                Governrs Comanders and other Officrs whatsoever in his

                Mats Plantacons to Secure and Apprehend the sd Henry Every

                alias Bridgman and other persons Nam'd in the Proclama

                tion and such others as were with them in the sd Ship and

                whereas by further Information Given their sd Lordps that

                divers Pyrates and Sea Robbers have of late years gone from

                Severall parts of his Mats plantacons in America to the Seas

                of India and Persia and other Remote parts upon the like

                Piraticall designes and that some of them have Return'd

                home again and dispersed themselves in his Mats plantacons

                with great quantities of Gold and other plunder, have

                Directed and Commanded that all such Pirates and Sea

                Robbers should be Seized and Apprehended &ca A Copy of

                which Letter and Proclamation aforemention'd is herewith

                Sent and whereas by a Clause in another Letter by me Reed:

             p. 514 from the Rt honrble the Lords of the Councill for Trade and

                fforreign Plantacons bearing date at Whitehall the ffirst day

                of ffebry last, their Lordships have been pleasd to Signifye

                his Mats pleasure to the respective Governrs of all his Plan

                tacons be very Carefull that noe Pyrates or Sea Robbers be

                any where Shelter'd or Entertain'd under the Severest

                penalties a Copy of which Clause is likewise herewith sent in

                pursuance of which Sd two Letters and Proclamation I doe

                hereby in his Mats Name Strictly Charge and Cornand all

                Officers Military & Civill and all other his Mats Loving