❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the apprehending of the L. Maxwell.  
WHereas the Lord Maxwell, a Noble man of our Realm of Scotland, being our prisoner in our Castle of Edinburgh, for great disorders there committed, hath broken prison, which by the Laws of that our Realm is Treason, And in his breach hath done violence to the Porter of the Castle, having sore wounded him, And likewise attempted to have delivered Sir james Mac donnel, a person guilty of many heinous offences, prisoner in the same place: After which escape he is now (as we are informed) fled into this our Realm of England, and lieth lurking in and about our City of London: Having had heretofore good proof of our people's love and devotion towards us, in their readiness to discover and apprehend any persons guilty of Treasons against Us and our Estate, We have thought it fit to publish unto them the escape of the said Lord Maxwell, and the cause thereof; And to require and charge all Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, justices of Peace, majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, Headboroughes, and all other our Officers, Ministers and loving Subjects, to do their best endeavour to discover and apprehend the said Lord Maxwell, and to deliver him, if he shall light into their hands, to some of our Officers, and to give knowledge thereof to Us or our Privy Council.  
And to the end they may the better find and discover him, they shall know him by these signs, He is about the age of three and twenty years, tall and slender, of a whitish complexion, his face full of pockhooles, his nose short and low in the midst, a little hair on his chin of a white colour, the hair of his head somewhat darker, and his legs are very long and small.  
Given at our Palace of Westminster the nineteenth day of December, in the fifth 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.  
Anno Dom. 1607.