By the Quene
Subtitle: the Quenes moste excellent Maiestie, beyng infourmed, that there is presently growyng and encreasyng in certaine evyll disposed persons, in and nere the citye of London, such an inordinate boldnes, as they having knowledge of processe sent forth out of sundry courtes of recorde, to attache them by their bodyes, to answer unto justice ...
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 455
Publisher: In Powles churchyard, by Richarde Jugge and John Cawood, printers to the Quenes Maiestie; By Bonham Norton and John Bill
Published: 1618
Place of publication: Imprinted at London; i.e. London
Language: eng
Subjects: Resisting an officer; Early works to 1800; Arrest (Police methods); Proclamations
Other titles: Quenes moste excellent Maiestie, beyng infourmed, that there is presently growyng and encreasyng in certaine evyll disposed persons, in and nere the citye of London
Notes: Cum priuilegio regiae maiestatis.

"Yeuen at Westminster the xxi. day of March, 1564 [1565] ..."

The year in the imprint is according to Lady Day dating.

Presumably reprinted about 1618; cf. W.A. Jackson in the Harvard library bulletin, v.1, no.1, Winter 1947.

Formerly STC 7985.

A proclamation that anyone resisting arrest is to incur further punishment; bystanders are to aid justice.

STC (2nd ed.) 7986.3

Steele 608 (England)