❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the search and apprehension of certain Pirates.  
Whereas it hath appeared unto us by sundry credible informations and certificates from foreign parts, That Richard Gifford Captain of a ship or Flyboat, lately called The Fortune, & Richard Lux Master of a ship called The Hopewell, William melon, Humphrey Rastoll, Thomas Better, Robert Gyles, john Thomas, john Borage, Baldwine Barber, Henry Radclife, john Banister, William Smith, with divers others their Complices, and Associates, serving as Mariners or Soldiers in the said Ships, have under colour of friendship and peaceable Traffic, committed most fowl outrages, murders, spoils and Depredations within the straights, and Mediterranean Seas, as well within the Ports as without, to the great offence of all our friends, to the extreme loss and hurt of our Merchants trading those parts, both in their persons and goods, and to the great displeasure of God and men; We of our Princely care for the administration of justice (the main pillar of our Estate) do with no less zeal, aswell for the satisfaction of foreign Princes, as for the example of others in like cases offending, intent to prosecute them, and all their Abettorz, Complices and Accessaries with the greatest severity of our Laws in that case provided:  
And therefore we will and straightly command all and every our Officers and loving Subjects, that immediately after the sight of this present Proclamation, they and every of them do make dilignet search and inquiry in all places as well exempt as not exempt, for the said persons, and all and every of them, and them, or any of them so found, to apprehend and commit to the next jail, there to be detained until our high Admiral, or his Lieutenant the judge of the high Court of the Admiralty, upon notice given unto either of them of the persons so committed, shall take order in that behalf.  
And moreover our Pleasure is, That no person or persons whatsoever, shall wittingly or wilfully receive, conceal, harbour, entertain or lodge the said Pirates and Murderers, or any of them, or any of their said Complices or Associates into their house or houses, after the sight or knowledge of this Proclamation (knowing them by pregnant circumstances, credible informations or otherwise to be the persons before named) upon pain to every such person and persons so receiving, concealing, harbouring, entertaining or lodging any of the said Pirates and Murderers, or any of their Complices, of death and forfeiture of all their Lands, goods and chattels, according to the Laws and Statutes in that case provided.  
Given our Manor of Greenwich the thirteenth day of june, in the fourth year of our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1606.