Mary II of England

“ And also all loose and unknown Persons whatsoever, who may justly be suspected to be Seamen or Watermen, and to cause them to be sent to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of Their Majesties Navy in London, or to such other of the Persons and Places aforesaid, to which they may most conveniently be sent, in order to their being Employed in Their Majesties Service ”

“ Whereas divers Seamen and Mariners have lately left their usual and ordinary Places of Abode, and have removed themselves into some private and obscure Places, endeavouring thereby to avoid or escape from Their Majesties present Service: Their Majesties therefore, by the Advice of Their Privy Council, have upon the present Extraordinary Occasion, thought fit to Publish this Their Royal Proclamation ”