By the King, a proclamation for the discovery of the death of John Powell, late of London, merchant England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32550 of text R33420 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3473). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A32550 Wing C3473 ESTC R33420 13304376 ocm 13304376 98962 2264198197

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32550) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98962) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1546:34) By the King, a proclamation for the discovery of the death of John Powell, late of London, merchant England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1 broadside. Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills ..., London : 1678. "Given at our court at Whitehall, the two and twentieth day of November, 1678, in the thirtieth year of our reign." Reproduction of original in the Harvard Library. eng Powell, John, d. 1678. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. eebo By the King. A proclamation for the discovery of the death of John Powell, late of London, merchant. England and Wales. Sovereign 1678 1 360 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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By the King . A PROCLAMATION For the Discovery of the Death of John Powell , late of London , Merchant . CHARLES R.

WHereas there is a violent presumption that John Powell late of London Merchant , was lately Murthered by persons unknown , The Kings most Excellent Majesty , out of His Royal inclination to Justice , and to the intent that so Horrible and Crying Offence may be Discovered , and the Authors of the same severely Punished , Doth by this His Royal Proclamation strictly Charge and Command all His Judges , Justices of the Peace , Magistrates , and other His Officers and Loyal Subjects , That they do use their utmost endeavours to find out and discover the truth of the said supposed Murther , and the Circumstances and Authors of the same , and to give speédy Information of what they shall find therein , to one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State ; And in case it shall be discovered that the said John Powell was Murthered , His Majesty is Graciously pleased hereby to Promise to any person or persons who shall make such a Discovery , whereby the Murtherers , or any of them shall be Apprehended , the sum of Two hundred pounds , which shall be immediately paid down , upon sufficient Testimony that such Persons or Person Apprehended , are , or is Guilty of the said Murther . And if any of the Murtherers shall Discover the rest , whereby they or any of them shall be Apprehended , such Discoverer shall not onely be Pardoned his Offence , but shall in like manner receive the like Reward of Two hundred pounds .

Given at Our Court at Whitehall , the Two and twentieth day of November , 1678. In the Thirtieth year of Our Reign . God save the King .

LONDON , Printed by John Bill , Christopher Barker , Thomas Newcomb , and Henry Hills , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty . 1678.