depiction of a crown ❧ By the King.  
IT is so manifest to the world by all our proceedings hitherto towards those Subiects of ours, which do profess the Romish Religion, how slow Wee haue been to extend the severity of our laws( in matter of life) even against the Romish Priests themselves, who seditiously incite and warrant the ignorant Papists to forsake their natural love and loyalty; as We assure ourselves that all which Wee shall now require hereby at the hands of our people, will appear most just by the laws of Nature, and by the strait bonds of our peoples affections to us their sovereign, and to their country( although there were no such certain positive laws as there are, so straightly to enjoin the same, and under so heavy pains.) And therefore seeing it is now made plame and evident by diuers examinations of many of those Prisoners that haue been the principal conspirators in the barbarous practise to destroy( with Powder) our own Person and posterity, with the whole State of the realm in Parliament assembled, that those three Iesuites under name, John Gerrard aliâs brook, Henry Garnet aliâs Walley, aliâs Darcy, aliâs Farmer, Oswald Tesmond aliâs Greenway, haue all three peculiarly been practisers in the same; and being thoroughly persuaded that( in this Treason so foul and odious to every good Subiects ears and hearts) We shall find no man so blind or impious, as for any distinction whatsoever to forbear to do their uttermost dueties for the discovery and apprehension of them that haue so extraordinarily sinned against GOD, and betrayed us:  
We haue now thought good( in that consideration the rather) not only to make known to all men, the bloody and cruel crimes whereof these particular persons are guilty, but also to declare to all our Subiects hereby, That although the conformity of all our Subiects to our commandements herein, shall be no more then that which we do assuredly promise ourselves from such loving people, of whose fidelity we haue had so extraordinary experience in like cases; nevertheless wee are resolved, that whosoever shalbe found to haue been the particular occasion or instrument of their apprehensions, or any of them, shal be particularly rewarded by us, as diuers haue been already, that haue shewed their zeal and forwardness for the prosecution and apprehension of some of these Conspirators: Adding thereunto this further protestation, That if it shall appear by any confessions hereafter, that any persons within our Dominions or Countreyes( after this declaration of these mens guiltiness in crimes so far beyond example) shall presume to be a Harbourer, maintainer, or Concealer of any of these three persons, or shall not do his best for their discovery and apprehension, That we are resolved( without hope of mercy or forgiveness) to suffer the laws of the realm, to be most severely executed vpon them, as vpon those whom we esteem to be no less pernicious to our Person, State and Common wealth, then those that haue been actors and Concealers of the main treason itself.  
given at our Palace of Westminster the fifteenth of Ianuarie, in the third year of our reign of Great britain, France and Ireland.  
God save the King.   

Description of the several parties above name.  
John Gerrard, aliâs brook, of stature Tall, and according thereunto well Set: his complexion Swart or Blackish: his Face large: his cheeks sticking out, and somewhat Hollow underneath the cheeks: the hair of his Head long, if it be not cut off: his Beard cut close, saving little moustaches, and a little Tuft under his lower lip: about forty yeeres old.  
HEnry Garnet, aliâs Walley, aliâs Darcy, aliâs Farmer, of a middling Stature, full Faced, fat of body, of Complexion faire: his Forehead high on each side, with a little thin hair coming down vpon the midst of the forepart of his Head: the hair of his Head and Beard grifeled: of Age between fifty and threescore: his Beard on his cheeks cut close, on his chin but thin, and somewhat short: his Gate upright, and comely for a fat man.  
OSwald Tesmond, aliâs Greenway, of mean Stature, somewhat gross: his hair black: his Beard bushy and brown, something long, a broad Forehead, and about forty yeeres of age.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty. ANNO DOM. 1606.