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By the Lords Justices, A PROCLAMATION For Apprehending WILLIAM BERKENHEAD.  


Tho. Cantuar  
J. Summer  
C. S.  
Shrewsbury.  
Godolphin.    
WHereas William Berkenhead, being a Middle sized Man with a little Face, of Brown Complexion, about Fifty years of Age, and hath gone by the Names of Fish, East, West, South, and Baker, and was formerly a Custom-house Officer, was heretofore Committed to his Majesty's Prison of Newgate for High Treason, as being Guilty of the late Horrid Conspiracy, and did on Saturday the Nine and twentieth of this Instant August, make his escape out of the said Prison: We therefore, with the Advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, have thought fit to Issue this Proclamation, Commanding all His Majesty's Subjects, to Discover, Take and Apprehend the said William Berkenhead wherever he may be found, and to carry him to the next Justies of the Peace or Chief Magistrate, who is hereby Required to Commit him to the next Goal, there to Remain till he shall be Delivered by due Course of Law. And We do hereby Require such Justice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate to give Notice thereof to His Majesty's Privy Council, or one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. And We do hereby Publish and Declare, That whosoever shall Conceal the said William Berkenhead, shall be Proceeded against with the utmost Severity according to Law. And whosoever shall Discover and Apprehend the said William Berkenhead, and bring him before such justice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate, shall receive for Reward the Sum of One thousand Pounds; which said Sum of One thousand Pounds the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are hereby Directed to Pay.  
Given at the Council Chamber in Whitehall, the One and thirtieth Day of August, 1696. In the Eighth Year of His Majesty's Reign.  
God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, decea'sd; Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1696.