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¶ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the due and speedy execution of the Statute against Rogues, Vagabonds, Idle, and dissolute persons.  
WHereas at a Parliament holden at Westminster in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of his majesties late dear Sister deceased queen Elizabeth, a profitable and necessary Law was made for the repressing of Rogues, Uagabonds, idle and dissolute persons, wherewith this realm was then much infested, by the due execution of which Lawe, great good ensued to the whole Common weal of this realm, but now of late by the remissness, negligence, and connivency of some Iustices of the Peace, and other Officers in diuers parts of the realm, they haue swarmed and abounded every where more frequently then in times past, which will grow to the great and imminent danger of the whole realm, if by the goodness of God Almighty, and the due and timely execution of the said Law the same be not prevented.  
And where to the end that no impediment might be to the due and full execution of the same Law, his Highnesse privy council, according to the power to them in that behalf given by the said Law, haue by their Order assigned places and parts beyond the Seas, unto which such incorrigible or dangerous Rogues should according to the same Lawe be banished and conveyed, as by the Order in that behalf made, and under this present Proclamation particularly mentioned and set down, more at large appeareth: His majesty purposing( for the universal good of the whole realm) to haue the same Law duly and fully executed, doth by aduise of his privy council require all Iustices of Peace, Maiors, bailiffs, Hedboroughs, Constables, and other Officers whatsoever to whom it appertaineth, to see that the said Law be in all the parts, and branches of the same carefully, duly and exactly executed, as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their uttermost perils.  
given at his majesties Mannour of Woodstocke the seventeenth day of September 1603. in the first year of his Highnesse reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the seven and thirtieth. God save the King.   

The Order.  
FOrasmuch as it hath appeared unto us as well by our own views in our travails in this present progress of his majesty, as also by good and credible information from diuers and sundry partes of the realm, that Rogues grow again and increase to bee incorrigible, and dangerous not onely to his majesties loving Subiects abroad, but also to his majesty and his Honourable household and attendants in and about his Court, which growing partly through the remissness of some Iustices of the Peace, and other Officers in the country, and partly for that there hath been no Suite made for assigning some place beyond the Seas, to which such incorrigible or dangerous Rogues might bee banished, according to the Statute in that behalf made: We therfore of his majesties privy council, whose names are hereunto subscribed, finding it of necessity to reform great abuses, and to haue the due execution of so good and necessary a Law, do according to the power limited unto us by the same Statute, hereby assign and think it fit and expedient, that the places and partes beyond the Seas to which any such incorrigible or dangerous Rogues shall bee banished and conveyed according to the said Statute, shall bee these Countries and places following, viz. The New-found Land, the East and West Indies, France, germany, spain, and the Low-countries, or any of them.  


T. Buckhurst.  
Lenox.  
Notingham.  
suffolk.  
devonshire.  
Mar.  
Ro. cecil.  
E. Wotton.  
jo. Stanhop.     

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty. Anno 1603.