London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1700/1.
1 p. folio. Copies in Antiq., B. M., P. C., and P. R. O. Entered on Patent Rolls; entered in Privy Council Register, III William, vol. 6, p. 162. Printed in "London Gazette," March 17, 1701.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The prevalence of piracy in American waters can best be traced in the documents listed in the Calendars of State Papers, Colonial, for the last decade of the 17th century.
[2] The draft of this proclamation was referred to the Admiralty, January 23, 1701, to propose the amount of the rewards to be offered, and was sent to the Board of Trade, February 20, 1701, to fix the time when pirates should be allowed to make confessions (Acts of Privy Council, ii, 342).
[3] Two proclamations, dated July 17 and August 10, 1696, had been issued offering a reward for the capture of Every for having committed piracies in the seas of India and Persia (Acts of Privy Council, ii, 300).
[1702, March 9.]
[Continuing Officers in the Colonies.]