1 p. folio. There are two issues, varying slightly in set-up and in the cut of the royal arms. Copies in Antiq., B. M., Crawf., Dalk., D. H., Guild., P. C., P. R. O., and Q. C. Entered on Patent Rolls; entered in Privy Council Register, III William, vol. 1, p. 479. Printed in "London Gazette," July 17, 1690; reproduced in January 1909 number of the "Journal of the Friends Historical Society."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Because of his friendship for James II, William Penn fell under suspicion when William III came to the throne. On February 27, 1689, a warrant was issued by the Privy Council for his arrest upon suspicion of high treason (Privy Council Register, III William, vol. 1, p. 24). In June 1690 the interception of a letter written to him by James II caused him to be brought before the Privy Council. Upon receiving the news of the proclamation including him among the King's enemies, he at once surrenderd himself, but no evidence appearing against him, he was discharged by the court of King's bench on November 28. (Dict. of National Biography, xliv, 315).
[2] Dixon, in his William Penn (1872 ed., p. 275), is evidently in error in referring to this proclamation as issued on June 24. J. M. Rigg, in his article on Penn in the Dictionary of National Biography, gives the date as July 17, possibly because on one of the two copies of the proclamation in the British Museum someone has written this date, or because it was printed in the London Gazette on that day.
[1691, February 5.]
[For Apprehending William Penn.]
BY THE KING AND QUEEN.
A PROCLAMATION
For Discovering and Apprehending the late Bishop of Ely, William Penn, and James Grahme.