monogram of 'W' (William) superimposed on' M' (Mary) RR  ye MEINTIENDRAY HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion on one side and the Scottish unicorn on the other  
BY THE Lords-Justices AND COUNCIL. A PROCLAMATION.  


CHARLES PORTER,  
THO: CONINGESBY.    
WHereas many Idle and Dissolute Persons have of late deserted their Habitations and are become Tories, Thieves and Rapparees, committing most outrageous Robberies, Burglaries and Thefts, and may therefore justly look on their Estate as desperate, and that they have transgressed beyond hopes of pardon; nevertheless, We being willing to impute their Obstinacy to the Ignorance they were in of their own Condition; the Influence and Delusions they may be under from their Landlords and other Superiors: To the end that they may be left without all excuse, if they shall refuse and neglect the present Grace and Favour, are pleased to publish and Declare by this Our Proclamation at this Instant, after many Signal Defeats of those Forces in the Field, and reducing most of the strong Holds and Garrisons from whence they may have derived their Confidence, Their Majesties farther Favour, Grace and Pardon to all and every such Robbers, Thieves and Rapparees within Our Quarters as are now on their keeping, as shall within the space of one Month from the Oate hereof, render themselves and deliver up their Arms to any Iustice or Iustices of the Peace of any Counties and before such Iustice or Iustices of the Peace take the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to their Majesties. Our sovereign Lord and Lady King WILLIAM and Queen MARY that they shall on Certificate from such Iustice of the Peace be received into their Majesties Protection and be fully and freely pardonned, as to their Lives and Liberties; all Treasons, Burglaries, Robberies, Thefts and other Crimes and misdemeanours whatsoever, before that time by them Committed or done, and the Iustices of the Peace who shall give any such Certificate are hereby required, and directed to make return unto us the Lords-Iustices under their hands the names of all such persons to whom they shall have given any Certificate with the places of their abode or residence, what quality or degree they were of, and what Arms were delivered up by them, And We do hereby declare, that We shall hereafter look on all such persons that shall wilfully refuse and neglect this their Majesties Grace and Clemency altogether unworthy thereof in time to come, nevertheless it is not hereby intended the said Grace and Pardon shall be construed to extend to any offence or offences that shall be wilfully committed after notice of this Our Proclamation.  
And forasmuch as those Thieves, Robbers, and Rapparees have their encouragement, and subsistence from divers persons who pretend to live peaceably under the Protection of their Majesties Government being relieved, harboured, concealed, and comforted by them contrary to the many good Laws of this Kingdom. We do hereby declare that any Person or Persons that shall on any pretence whatsoever relieve, harbour, conceal, or comfort any the said Thieves, Robbers, or Rapparees or their complices shall loose and forfeit the benefit of his or their Protection, and be also prosecuted with the utmost severity of the Laws for such offence, And as a reward to all such Loyal Subjects, as shall detect and discover any the said Thieves, Robbers, and Rapparees so as they shall be apprehended or any of their harbourers or relievers so as they shall thereof be convicted shall for every such Tory or Rapparee so apprehended and for every harbourer or reliever so Convicted be paid the Sum of forty shillings. And whereas the unprofitable Custom of Burning Corn in the straw is by a statute made in this Kingdom in the eleventh year of King CHARLES the first prohibited under severe penalties, yet is the same as We are informed in divers places practised and more especially for Comfort and Support of the said Robbers and Rapparees, We do therefore hereby declare and publish that all persons offending therein shall loose and forfeit the benefit of their protections and shall be also farther proceeded against according to Law. And whereas divers ill affencted persons under colour and pretence of securing their Corn do hid and bury the same, in truth the better to enable themselves to relieve and succour Tories, Thieves and Rapparees, and to let the said Tories, Thieves and Rapparees know where to have and take the same: We have thought fit hereby to declare, all such persons as shall hid or bury their Corn shall be reputed and taken as disaffected to the Government and shall loose and forfeit the benefit of any protections heretofore given them.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin the 18th. day of September, 1691. 

Fran. Dublin,  
Anth. Meath,  
Ri. Reynell,  
Ri. pine,   God Save the King and Queen.   

Dublin, Printed by Andrew Crook Assignee of Benjamin took, Printer to the King and Queen at their Majesties Printing-house on Ormonde-Key.