❧ By the Parliament. WHereas Information is given to the Parliament, That John Mordant Esq son to the late Earl of Peterborough, Col. Edward Massey, commonly called Major General Massey, Charles Stuart, commonly called the Earl of Leichfield, Sir Thomas Leventhorp Knight, William Compton Esq son to the late Earl of Northampton, Thomas Fanshaw, son of Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight, and Richard Brown Citizen of London, commonly called Major General Brown, stand Charged with several Treasonable Designs and Practices against the Commonwealth, and that some of them have of late been seen to be joined with a Body of Horse in Arms and Rebellion against the Parliament; And all and every of them stand violently suspected to be engaged in the same Treasonable Design with Sir George Booth Knight, lately in Arms against the same: And whereas the persons above named, and every of them, have of late absented, and do still absent themselves from their respective Dwellings and Places of Habitation, and no account can or will be given by their or any of their respective relations, where they or any of them are; The Parliament have thereupon thought fit to Declare and Command, and by this their public Proclamation do Declare and Command, That they and every of them upon or before the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fifty and nine, do render themselves to the Parliament or Council of State; to which, if they and every of them do not conform and submit unto, than he or they respectively making default therein, shall be accounted and taken as guilty of the said Crimes they stand respectively Charged with, and shall be adjudged, deemed and taken as Ingaged with the said Sir George Booth in his Rebellion and Treasonable Design as aforesaid: And their respective Estates shall be, and are hereby Declared to be Forfeited and Confiscate to the use of the Commonwealth. And they do further Command all justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Mayors, Constables and all other Officers, Civil or Military, and all other the People of this Commonwealth, to use their utmost care and diligence for the apprehending of the persons abovesaid, and every of them; and after the apprehending of them or any of them, to bring or cause to be brought, him or them so apprehended, to the Council of State. And for Encouragement therein, the Parliament doth Declare, That whosoever shall apprehend them or any of them, and bring them to the Council of State as aforesaid, for every one of them so apprehended, shall have the sum of One hundred pounds of lawful Money. And to the end that no person or persons whatsoever may pretend ignorance of the danger that shall or may fall on them who shall harbour, Entertain or Conceal any of the persons above named, hereby Commanded to render themselves; the Parliament do therefore hereby Declare, That the Laws and Statutes heretofore made and provided against persons that do Entertain, Comfort, harbour or Conceal persons Convicted of High Treason, shall be put in Execution against all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall Entertain, Comfort, harbour or Conceal the persons above named, or any of them. Given at Westminster the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord 1659. Saturday, September 3. 1659. ORdered by the Parliament, That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published. THO. St NICHOLAS, Clerk of the Parliament. London, Printed by JOHN ●…ELD, Printer to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in F●●●●●●, over against Dunstan's Church, 1659.