Officers Civil and
Military, and others Her Majesties loving Subjects to Apprehend and
Seize the said Persons, or any of them, whom they may know or find, and
them secure and their Treasure, and bring them before one of the
Council, or next Justice of the Peace, in order to their being safely
conveyed to Boston, to be Examined and brought to Answer what shall be
Objected against them, on Her Majesties behalf.

"And all Her Majesties Subjects, and others, are hereby strictly
forbidden to entertain, harbour, or conceal any of the said Persons, or
their Treasure, or to convey away, or in any manner further the Escape
of any of them, on pain of being proceeded against with utmost Severity
of Law, as accessories and partakers with them in their Crime.

Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the 24th Day of May in the Third
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady ANNE, by the Grace of GOD of
England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith,
etc. Annoque Domi. 1704.

T. POVEY.

By Order of the Lieut.
Governor and Council,
Isaac Addington, Secr.
GOD Save The QUEEN."

The editor of _The Boston News-Letter_, commenting on the foregoing
fulmination, saw fit to qualify his previous mention of Quelch's
voyage, and announced under date of May 27:

"Our last gave an Account of Captain Quelch's being said to Arrive from
N. Spain, having made a good Voyage, but by the foregoing Proclamation
'tis uncertain whence they came, and too palpably evident they have
committed Piracies, either upon her Majesties Subjects or Allies....
William Whiting lyes sick, like to dye, not yet examined. There are
two more of them sick at Marble head, and another in Salem Gaol, and
James Austin imprisoned at Piscataqua."

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[Illustration: An ancient map of Jamaica showing the haunts of the
pirates and the track of the treasure galleons.]

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As soon as Governor Dudley returned to Boston, a few days later, he
issued a proclamation to reinforce that of the Lieutenant Governor, and
one paragraph indicated that the case of John Quelch was moving swiftly
toward the gallows.

"And it being now made Evident by the Confession of some of the said
Persons apprehended and Examined, that the Gold and Treasure by them
Imported was robb'd and taken from the Subject of the Crown of