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By the King, A PROCLAMATION For Apprehending _____ GRASCOMB.  
WILLIAM R.  
WHereas upon Examination taken before a Committee of the House of Commons, touching the Printing, Publishing and Dispersing of a False, Scandalous and Seditious Pamphlet, Destructive to the Freedom and Liberties of Parliament, Entitled, An Account of the Proceed of the House of Commons in Relation to the Recoining the Clipped Money, and Falling the Price of Guineas, It appeared that one _____ Grascomb was the Person that brought the Manuscript of the said Pamphlet to the Printer to be Printed: And whereas the said _____ Grascomb hath Absconded from his usual Place of Abode, and is fled from justice: And whereas the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled, have humbly besought Us to Issue Our Royal Proclamation, for Apprehending of the ssaid _____ Grascomb; We therefore (with the Advice of Our Privy Council) have thought fit to Issue this Our Royal Proclamation, hereby Commanding all Our Loving Subjects to Discover, Take and Apprehend the said _____ Grascomb where ever he may be found, and to Carry him before the next justice of the Peace, or Chief Magistrate, who is hereby Required to Commit him to the next Goal, there to Remain until he shall be thence Delivered by due Course of Law. And We do hereby Require the said justice or other Chief Magistrate immediately to give Notice thereof to Our Privy Council; or to one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. And We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Our Loving Subjects (as they will answer the contrary at their Perils) that they do not any ways Conceal, but Discover, Take and Apprehend the said _____ Grascomb, to the end he may be Proceéded against according to Law. And We do hereby Promise and Declare that whosoever shall Discover and Apprehend the said Grascomb, and bring him before such justice of the Peace, or Chief Magistrate, shall Receive, as a Reward, the Sum of Five hundred Pounds mentioned in Our late Proclamation, bearing Date the Fifth Day of November last; which said Sum of Five hundred Pounds the Commissioners of Our Treasury are hereby Directed to Pay accordingly.  
Given at Our Court at Kensington the Tenth Day of December, 1696. In the Eighth Year of Our Reign. 
 God save the King.   

LONODN; Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1696.;