BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL▪
WHereas Redmond O Hanlon of Tonderegee in the County of Armagh, Yeoman; Laughlin Mac Redmond O Hanlon of Kelleany, Yeoman, and several other persons named in a Proclamation Issued from this Board, dated the 14th. of December 1674 were for the reasons in the said Proclamation expressed, Proclaimed Rebels and Traytors, And whereas the said Redmond and Laughlin O Hanlon, and their Complices, have (since the publishing of the said Proclamation) in several Counties of this Kingdom, appeared in Armes against His Majesties authority, and several of them Committed Murthers, Burglaries, Robberies and Stealths, besides divers other outrages, to the Terror and annoyance of his Majesties Loyal and good Subjects, and the disturbance of the Peace of the Kingdom; upon which misdemeanors and Crimes, being pursued by some of His Majesties Good subjects assisted by some of his Majesties Army, they the said persons and their Complices are fled to the Woodes and Mountains, and stand upon their Keeping, so as they are not answereable or ameasneable to Law, but willfull contemners of the same, and cannot as yet be apprehended, whereby they may be punished according to the ordinary course of Law. We therefore do hereby declare, that the said Redmond O Hanlon, and Laughlin O Hanlon shall henceforth be called, reputed and taken for Notorious [Page] Rebels and Traytors against his Majestie, and accordingly to be prosecuted by all his Majesties Loveing and good Subjects, in all Hostile manner. And we further declare, that whatsoever person or persons shall comfort, relieve or a bet them or either of them, they are & shall be reputed, deemed & adjudged Traytors in like degree with the forenamed Traytors & Rebels themselves, & to be proceeded against according to Law; And we do in his Majesties name straightly Charge and Command all his Majesties Loyal Subjects, upon their duty of allegiance to His Majesty, not onely to forbear to receive or relieve the persons aforesaid or any of them, but also to make diligent search and enquiry in what place or places the said persons shall from time to time Lurk or be relieved; and by all means possible to prosecute, apprehend and take the bodies of them, and them to bring or cause to be brought under safe custodie unto the high Sheriff of the respective Counties where any of them shall be apprehended, to be by such Sheriffs kept in strict & safe custodie, untill we upon notice thereof shall give further direction concerning them, or resisting or refusing, to be taken to kill them or either of them, And for the better encouragment of such person or persons who shall prosecute and bring in the said Redmond and Laughlin O Hanlon, We do hereby publickly declare, that whosoever shall bring unto any Sheriff the bodies of them or either of them alive, or kill any of them, and bring his head to the Sheriff of the County where he shall be killed, to be by such Sheriff set up in some publique place in that County. shall have for his reward for each of them so brought in, or his head, viz for Redmond O Hanlon, one hundred pounds, and for Laughlin O Hanlon Fifty pounds, for payment of which summs respectively, We will give sufficient warrant as occasion shall require, and will take care that the same shall be immediately paid accordingly; And towards the speedie effecting of this service, all Commanders of Horse and Foot, and all other His Majesties Officers and Loveing Subjects are to be aiding and assisting, as they and every of them will answer the Contrary at their peril.
- Mich: Armach: C.
- Jo: Dublin.
- Arran.
- Ranelagh.
- Longford.
- Lanesborough,
- Ed: Brabazon.
- Char: Meredith.
- Ro: Booth.
- John Keatinge.
- Jo: Davys.
- VVm Flower.
- Tho: Newcomen.
God save the King.