The Upper House. 373

Maryland ss.

By his Excellcy John Hart Esqr Capt Genl & Governour in
Chief of the sd Province

A Proclamation

Whereas on Sunday night last the tenth of June Instant
(Being Supposed to be the Anniversary Day of the Birth of
the Person Who is commonly called the Pretender) four of
the Great Guns on the Court House Hill in the City of
Annapolis where loaden And two of them fired off by some
wicked disloyal & Traiterous Persons as yet undiscovered
And as It is Supposed in Honour of the said Pretender and
Contempt & opposition of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord
George by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France
& Ireland Defender of the Faith &ca his just Right & happy
Government as by Law Established, And to the extreme
Surprize Dread & Disquiett of all his said Majesty's good
& faithful Subjects of this Province, I have thought fitt to
issue this my Proclamation declaring, that in Case any person
do discover to me or any of his Lordship's Council of State
or other Magistrate within this Province All or any of the
persons Who Loaded & fired the sd Gunns or otherwise
Caused or procured them so to be loaden or fired in the night
aforesaid So that the Person or persons so by them discovered
to have been Concerned in that Traiterous Wicked Audacious
& Insolent Action may be apprehended and brought to Jus-

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tice therefore I will immediately give unto such Discoverer or
Discoverers the Sum of twenty pounds Sterl. And in Case
any one Person concerned and having Acted therein will
forthwith make a full & free discovery of his Accomplices
such Person shall not only receive a pardon for such his
Offence but shall likewise be Entituled to have & receive
from me the afd Reward of twenty Pounds Sterl.
Given at the City of Annapolis under the Great Seal of this
said Province this fifteenth day of June in the second year of
his Majesty's Reign &c. And in the first year of the Domin-
ion of the Right Honble Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore
Absolute Lord & Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland &
Avalon &c. Annoq Domini 1716

Whereupon one Jacob Fox a Servant to Mr Joseph Hill
made the Discovery and confessed himself to be one that fired
one of the afd Guns
And upon Tryal the Person that fired the other was solemnly
Convicted thereof & Whipped & Pilloried therefore.
And two others were also tryed found guilty & fined for

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