Title: By the King, a proclamation. George R. Whereas we did think fit, by and with the advice of our Privy=council, to issue our royal proclamation, bearing date the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and seventeen, in the fourth year of our reign, therein taking notice, that we had received information, that several persons, subjects of Great Britain, had ... committed divers piracies and robberies upon the high seas in the West-Indies ...