❧
By
the
King
.
WHereas
Thomas
Percy
Gentleman
,
and
some
other
his
Confederates
,
persons
knowen
to
be
so
vtterly
corrupted
with
the
superstition
of
the
Romish
Religion
,
as
seduced
with
the
blindnesse
thereof
,
and
being
otherwise
of
lewde
life
,
insolent
disposition
,
and
for
the
most
part
of
desperate
estate
,
haue
beene
discouered
to
haue
contriued
the
most
horrible
treason
that
euer
entred
into
the
hearts
of
men
,
against
our
Person
,
our
Children
,
the
whole
Nobilitie
,
Clergie
,
and
Commons
in
Parliament
assembled
,
which
howsoeuer
cloaked
with
zeale
of
Superstitious
Religion
,
aymed
indeed
at
the
Subuersion
of
the
State
,
and
to
induce
an
horrible
confusion
of
all
things
,
In
which
they
and
all
others
of
bankerupt
and
necessitous
estate
,
might
haue
those
of
better
abilitie
for
a
pray
to
repaire
their
beggerly
Fortunes
,
and
haue
proceeded
so
farre
some
of
them
in
their
deuilish
Attempts
,
as
to
assemble
in
Troupes
in
our
Counties
of
Warwicke
and
Worcester
,
where
they
haue
broken
vp
a
Stable
,
and
taken
out
Horses
of
diuers
Noblemen
and
Gentlemen
,
within
our
towne
of
Warwicke
,
And
no
doubt
but
doe
proceede
further
in
their
purposes
,
seeking
to
raise
some
Rebellion
in
our
Realme
,
and
will
with
many
fained
and
false
Allegations
seeke
to
seduce
diuers
of
our
Subiects
,
especially
with
shew
of
Religion
:
Although
wee
are
by
good
experience
so
well
perswaded
of
the
Loyaltie
of
diuers
of
our
Subiects
(
though
not
professing
true
Religion
)
that
they
doe
as
much
abhorre
this
detestable
conspiracie
as
our Selfe
,
and
will
bee
ready
to
doe
their
best
endeuours
(
though
with
expence
of
their
blood
)
to
suppresse
all
Attemptors
against
our
safetie
and
the
quiet
of
our
State
,
and
to
discouer
whomsoeuer
they
shall
suspect
to
be
of
Rebellious
or
Traiterous
disposition
:
Yet
haue
Wee
thought
good
by
this
our
open
Declaration
,
to
giue
warning
and
aduertisement
to
all
our
Subiects
whatsoeuer
,
of
that
horrible
purpose
of
Percies
and
his
complices
,
and
to
distinguish
betweene
all
others
,
calling
themselues
Catholickes
,
and
these
detestable
Traitours
:
And
therefore
doe
denounce
and
publish
all
the
Persons
hereunder
named
,
Adherents
to
Percy
,
to
bee
Traitours
knowen
,
and
that
all
others
are
in
the
same
case
,
who
shall
in
any
wise
either
receiue
,
abbette
,
cherish
,
entertaine
,
or
adhere
vnto
them
,
or
not
doe
their
best
endeuours
to
apprehend
and
take
them
.
Wherefore
wee
will
and
command
all
our
Lieutenants
,
Deputy
lieutenants
,
Sheriffes
,
Iustices
of
Peace
,
Mayors
,
Bayliffes
,
Constables
,
and
all
other
our
Officers
,
Ministers
and
louing
Subiects
,
to
take
knowledge
thereof
,
and
to
doe
their
best
duties
herein
,
as
they
will
answere
the
contrary
at
their
vttermost
perill
:
Not
doubting
,
but
that
they
all
,
without
regard
of
their
pretence
of
Religion
,
will
with
one
heart
and
will
,
employ
themselues
for
the
suppressing
,
apprehending
,
detecting
,
and
discouering
of
all
sorts
of
persons
any
wayes
likely
to
be
priuie
to
a
Treason
so
hatefull
to
God
and
men
,
and
implying
in
it
the
vtter
subuersion
of
this
Realme
,
and
dignitie
thereof
.
And
where
we
doe
heare
that
many
doe
spread
abroad
,
that
this
Conspiracie
was
intended
onely
for
matter
of
Religion
,
and
that
forreigne
Princes
our
neighbours
are
interessed
therein
,
which
Rumors
are
diuulged
by
busie
persons
both
to
scandalize
the
Amitie
wherein
we
stand
with
all
Christian
Princes
and
States
,
and
to
giue
vnto
lewde
persons
hope
that
they
shall
be
backed
in
their
enterprises
by
great
Potentates
:
Wee
doe
declare
,
that
we
cannot
admitte
so
inhumane
a
thought
,
as
to
conceiue
that
any
Prince
,
of
what
Religion
soeuer
,
could
giue
eare
to
so
Sauage
and
Barbarous
an
imagination
:
And
that
by
such
examinations
as
hitherto
haue
been
taken
,
we
find
them
all
,
and
their
ministers
cleere
from
any
suspicion
of
priuitie
thereunto
;
whereof
one
infallible
argument
to
vs
is
,
that
all
the
Ministers
of
forraine
Princes
,
which
are
now
here
,
made
earnest
sute
to
vs
to
be
present
in
the
place
that
day
.
And
therefore
we
doe
admonish
and
charge
all
our
Subiects
,
that
they
shall
not
speake
of
any
the
Princes
our
neighbours
,
or
their
Ambassadours
,
otherwise
then
reuerently
,
vpon
paine
of
our
displeasure
,
and
to
bee
punished
as
persons
seeking
the
disturbance
of
the
Peace
,
wherein
we
liue
with
our
sayd
neighbours
.
Giuen
at
our
Pallace
of
Westminster
,
the
seuenth
day
of
Nouember
,
in
the
third
yeere
of
our
reigne
of
Great
Britaine
,
France
,
and
Ireland
.
God
saue
the
King
.