Handlist of proclamations issued by royal and other constitutional authorities, 1714-1910, George I to Edward VII

GEORGE I.
12th to 13th Year.
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26 MARCH 1726.
(25 March.)
26 March. By the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For
discovering and apprehending the persons suspected of
having murdered Mr. James Robinson and others on
board the ship called " Prosperity," of Belfast, which
was wrecked near Portrane, co. Dublin.
R.O., Dublin.
18 April. For prev^enting frauds and abuses by con¬
cealment of the death of any reduced officer on half-pay.
4 May. By the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Irish
Parliament further prorogued from the 17th May to the
nth August.
24 May His Majesty's Speech proroguing Parliament
to the 2ist July.
30 May. Soldiers who may have deserted from one
regiment and joined another prior to the ist May, may
remain in the latter without fear of molestation.
1 June. By the Lords Justices of Ireland. For dis¬
covering and apprehending the persons concerned in
the murder of the crew belonging to a ship wrecked at
Mallbay, co. Clare.
R.O., Dublin.
6 June. For apprehending the persons who set fire to
the houses of Mr. Thorne, one of his Majesty's keepers
in Windsor Forest. ;^5o reward.
5 July. By the Privy Council. Parliament further
prorogued from the 21st July to the 8th September.
28 July. By the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Irish
Parliament further prorogued from the nth August to
the 23rd March.
13th Year.
(i August.)
3 September. For apprehending certain persons un¬
known, for unlawfully hunting deer in Whittlewood
Forest, and brutally beating two keepers. ;^ioo reward.
6 September. By the Prizy Council. Parliament
further prorogued from 8th September to the 10th
November.
25 October. For apprehending the persons who mali¬
ciously set fire to Widow Ball's house at Baynham
Ferry, Essex. ;^5o reward.
4 November. By the Privy Council. Parliament
further prorogued from the loth November to the 8th
December.
29 November. By the Privy Council. Parliament
further prorogued from the 8th December to the 17th
January.
B.M.
29 November. Parliament further prorogued from the
8th December to the 17th January, and then to assemble.
12 December. For apprehending the persons who set
fire to several ricks, and poisoned seven horses at
Tcrfland, Somerset, on the 31st August.
22 December. All half-pay officers to report them¬
selves twice per year, and for the future not to leave his
Majesty's Dominions without special licence.
30 DECEMBER 1726.
30 December. The several privates who deserted their
regiment when ordered aboard H.M.S. at Portsmouth,
to be pardoned if they surrender themselves before the
i2th January.
1726-27.
(i January.)
14 January. For apprehending William Cunningham,
Esq., and an accomplice who attempted to carry away
Mr. Benson's wife and divers goods from his house on
the 20th November. ;^5o reward.
14 January. By the Lords Justices of Ireland. For
apprehending the persons who carried away Honora
Mathew, widow.
R.O., Dublin.
14 January. By the Lords Justices of h-eland. Against
Tories, robbers, etc.
R.O., Dublin.
17 January. His Majesty's Speech at the opening of
the new session of Parliament.
11 February. To prevent disputes, soldiers who may
have deserted from one regiment and joined another
prior to the ist February, are to remain in the latter
unmolested.
4 March. By the Lords fustices of England. Revising
the Standing Orders of the House as to the bringing in
of appeals.
9 March. For apprehending the persons who have
counterfeited twenty-shilling notes of the Bank of Scot¬
land.
24 March. For apprehending the persons who broke
into a house in Love lane and carried away several
pieces of plate. ;^2o reward.
1727.
(25 March.)
28 March. By the Privy Council. For granting Letters
of Marque and general reprisals against the ships,
goods, and subjects of the King of Spain.
15 April. For apprehending the person who robbed
and murdered Mr. W. Darby in the Temple between the
loth and the i ith of April.
21 April. By the Privy Council. Requiring William
Cooke and seven other persons to surrender themselves
within forty daj^s, to answer a charge of unlawfully
hunting deer, etc.
15 May. His Majesty's Speech proroguing Parliament
to the 27th June.
31 May. By the Privy Council. Appointing Lords
Justices to administer the government during his
Majesty's absence.
Note.—3 June. The King left England for Holland and
Hanover. The King died suddenly at about two
o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the nth of June,
1727, at Osnaburg, Hanover, in the sixty-eighth year
of his age, and the thirteenth year of his reign.