By the King and Queen, A PROCLAMATION. WILLIAM R. WHereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament Assembled, having received Information, that divers Officers and Soldiers are now in Actual Rebellion, and levying War against Us within this Kingdom, and that divers other Soldiers and Traitorously Affected Persons are Corresponding with and Adhering to them, Have by their humble Address besought Us to Issue Our Royal Proclamation, to Declare the said Officers and Soldiers and their Adherents, to be Rebels and Traitors, and to Require all Our good Subjects to Apprehend, Subdue, and Prosecute them as such; To the End none may pretend Ignorance of their Duty by Law in such Case, We have therefore thought sit by this Our Royal Proclamation, to Publish and Declare all and every the said Officers and Soldiers, and all their Alders, Abettors and Adherents, to be Rebels and Traitors to Us and Our Government: And We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all and singular Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Mayors, Sheriffs, justices of the Peace, Bailiffs, Headboroughs, Constables, and all others Our Officers Civil and Military, and all Our Subjects of what Estate, Quality or Degree soever they be, to use their best and utmost Endeavours, as well to Resist, Repel, and Suppress, as also to Seize and Prosecute according to the utmost Rigour of the Law the said Rebels and Traitors, and all their Accomplices, Correspondents, and Abettors, We Resolving to make the said Criminals severe Examples of Our Just Indignation, To the Intent that all Persons hereafter may be left without Excuse, if they should be found Offending in such manner. Given at Our Court at Whitehall this 16th day of March, In the First Year of Our Reign. God save the King and Queen. LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King and Queen's Most Excellent Majesties. 1688.