William R. Whereas Our game in and about Our palace of Hampton-Court in the counties of Middlesex and Surry, hath of late years been much destroyed by persons pretending leave from us, and by hawking, hunting, and setting at unseasonable and unlawful times in the year;

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  • William R. Whereas Our game in and about Our palace of Hampton-Court in the counties of Middlesex and Surry, hath of late years been much destroyed by persons pretending leave from us, and by hawking, hunting, and setting at unseasonable and unlawful times in the year;
  • Proclamations. 1689-07-08
  • Whereas Our game in and about Our palace of Hampton-Court in the counties of Middlesex and Surry, hath of late years been much destroyed
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Imprint
London : printed by Charles Bill, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the King and Queens most excellent Majesties, 1689.
Added name
William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
Publication year
1689
ESTC No.
R223068
Grub Street ID
96969
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1/4°.
Note
"Forbids killing any hare, partridge, pheasant, heath-powt, ... within 10 miles of Hampton Court by hunting, hawking, setting, ... No greyhounds, lurchers, or setting dogs to be kept." -- Steele

Title taken from caption title and first lines of text

At end of text: Given at Our palace of Hampton-Court the eighth day of July 1689, in the first year of Our reign

Steele notation: Hampton- Duck the; Arms 113.