By the King and Queen, a proclamation whereas we have received information, that divers seamen and mariners who have been hired and impressed in our service and do belong to our ships of war, do absent themselves from our said ships ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66261 of text R37251 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2547). 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. 3 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 A66261 Wing W2547 ESTC R37251 16284911 ocm 16284911 105250 2240854052

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A66261) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105250) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1602:44) By the King and Queen, a proclamation whereas we have received information, that divers seamen and mariners who have been hired and impressed in our service and do belong to our ships of war, do absent themselves from our said ships ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1 broadside. Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb ..., London : 1690. "Given at our court at Whitehall the twentieth day of November, 1690, in the second year of our reign." Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702. eebo By the King and Queen, a proclamation. William R. Whereas we have received information, that divers seamen and mariners who have been hired and impres England and Wales. Sovereign 1690 1 385 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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By the King and Queen , A PROCLAMATION . William R.

WHereas We have received Information , That divers Seamen and Mariners , who have been Hired and Imprested in Our Service , and do belong to Our Ships of War , do absent themselves from Our said Ships , and betake themselves on Board several Merchant Ships and Vessels , with an intent to depart out of this Our Kingdom without Our Royal Licence in that behalf first obtained , We have thought fit , by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council , to Publish this Our Royal Proclamation ; And We do hereby Require and Command all and singular Seamen , Mariners , and Seafaring Men belonging to any of Our Ships of War , and absenting themselves from the same , as aforesaid , that they , and every of them , do forthwith upon the Publishing of this Our Proclamation , repair on Board such of Our respective Ships or Vessels unto which they do belong , upon Pain of their being Punished as Deserters ; Hereby Declaring , That as We are very desirous of giving all due Encouragement to such Seamen and Mariners employed in Our Service , as shall be found doing their Duty in their several Stations and Employments ; So We are Resolved to Proceed with the utmost Severity of Law against all such as shall neglect to give Obedience to this Our Proclamation . And We do hereby Command all Captains , Commanders , and other Officers of Our Ships whom it may concern , to make diligent Search on Board all Merchant Ships , for any such Seamen who do or shall absent themselves from Our Service , and upon finding them , to take them from on Board such Merchant Ships , and Secure them , in order to their being brought to Condign Punishment .

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of November , 1690. In the Second Year of Our Reign . God save King William and Queen Mary .

LONDON , Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb , Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties . 1690.