❧ By the Council of State.  
A PROCLAMATION.  
WHereas the Council of State hath received Information, that there is an endeavour by Colonel John Lambert, and other Officers (lately reduced) to raise a new War, and to unbroil the Nation in blood and distractions, and to hinder the Members from meeting in the next Parliament, on whose free council (under God) the hope of settling the Nations doth principally depend. And being informed that Colonel John Hewson, Col. Ralph Cobbet, Col. Edward Salmon, Col. Ashfeild, Major Creed, Major General Tho. Harrison, Col. John Okey, Major Wagstaff, lieutenant Col. Miller, Captain John Blackwell, Captain Richard Dean, and Major Gladman (some of them being the number of those nine Officers upon whom the Parliament put a mark of displeasure, for their former disturbing of Parliament Authority, and Colonel Robert Lilburn, Who was summoned to attend the Council, and came accordingly to London, hath lurked privately about the Town, and is since departed, without making his Appearance) are persons apprehended to be dangerous, and bent to engage with the said Colonel John Lambert, in disturbing the Peace of the Nation, and to interrupt the sitting of the next Parliament. The Council doth therefore hereby strictly charge, and require the said Colonel John Hewson, Col. Ralph Cobbet, Col. Edward Salmon, Col. Ashfeild, Major Creed, Major General Thomas Harrison, Col. John Okey, Major Wagstaff, lieutenant Colonel Miller, Captain John Blackwell, Capt. Richard Dean, Major Gladman, and Col. Robert Lilburn, to appear and tender themselves to the Council at Whitehall, within three days after the proclaiming of this Proclamation, in the County or place where any of the said persons are or shall be, under the pains and penalties of being proceeded against, and of having their Estates to be forthwith Seized and sequestered for the use of the commonwealth, in case of their failer to appear according to the time limited by this Proclamation.  
Given at the Council of State at Whitehall, this one and twentieth day of April, 1660.   

LONDON, Printed by Abel Roper and Tho. Collins, Printers to the Council of State.