By the KING. |
A PROCLAMATION. |
| George R. |
| WHEREAS a great Number of Disorderly Persons have assembled
themselves together in a Riotous and Tumultuous Manner, and
have been guilty of many Acts of Treason and Rebellion, having
made an Assault on the Gaol of Newgate, set loose the
Prisoners confined therein, and set fire to and destroyed the
said Prison: And whereas Houses are now pulling down in several
Parts of Our Cities of London and Westminster,
and Liberties thereof, and Fires kindled for consuming the Materials
and Furniture of the same, whereby it is become absolutely necessary
to use the most effectual Means to quiet such Disturbances,
to preserve the Lives and Properties of Individuals, and to
restore the Peace of the Country: We therefore, taking the same
into Our most serious Consideration, have thought fit, by and
with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal
Proclamation, hereby strictly charging and exhorting all Our
loving Subjects to preserve the Peace, and to keep themselves,
their Servants and Apprentices, quietly within their respective
Dwellings, to the End that all well-disposed Persons may avoid
those Mischiefs which the Continuance of such riotous Proceedings
may bring upon the Guilty: And as it is necessary, from the
circumstances before-mentioned, to employ the Military Force,
with which We are by Law entrusted for the immediate Suppression
of such Rebellious and Traiterous Attempts, now making against
the Peace and Dignity of Our Crown, and the Safety of the Lives
and Properties of Our Subjects, We have therefore issued the
most direct and effectual Orders to all Our Officers, by an
immediate Exertion of their utmost Force, to repress the same,
of which all Persons are to take Notice. |
Given at Our Court at St. James's,
the Seventh Day of June, One thousand
seven hundred and eighty, in the Twentieth Year of Our Reign. |
God save the King. |
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LONDON: |
PRINTED BY CHARLES EYRE and WILLIAM STRAHAN,
Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1780. |
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