WHereas the Lord Maxwell , a Noble man of our Realme of Scotland , being our prisoner in our Castle of Edinburgh , for great disorders there committed , hath broken prison , which by the Lawes of that our Realme is Treason , And in his breach hath done violence to the Porter of the Castle , hauing sore wounded him , And likewise attempted to haue deliuered Sir Iames Mac Donnell , a person guiltie of many heynous offences , prisoner in the same place : After which escape he is now ( as we are informed ) fled into this our Realme of England , and lyeth lurking in and about our City of London : Hauing had heretofore good proofe of our peoples loue and deuotion towards vs , in their readinesse to discouer and apprehend any persons guiltie of Treasons against Us and our Estate , Wee haue thought it fit to publish vnto them the escape of the said Lord Maxwell , and the cause thereof ; And to require and charge all Lieutenants , Deputie Lieutenants , Iustices of Peace , Maiors , Sheriffes , Bayliffes , Constables , Headboroughes , and all other our Officers , Ministers and louing Subiects , to doe their best endeuour to discouer and apprehend the said Lord Maxwell , and to deliuer him , if he shall light into their hands , to some of our Officers , and to giue knowledge thereof to Us or our Priuie Councell .

And to the end they may the better finde and discouer him , they shall know him by these signes , Hee is about the age of three and twentie yeeres , tall and slender , of a whitish complexion , his face full of pockhooles , his nose short and low in the middest , a little haire on his chinne of a white colour , the haire of his head somewhat darker , and his legs are very long and small .