Section IV A Proclamation at the Time of the Exigent in Criminal Cases to be delivered Three Months before Return.

31 Eliz. c. 3.

And whereas it is agreeable to justice that Proceedings to Outlaries in Criminal Causes should be as publick and notorious as in Civil Causes because the consequences to persons outlawed in Criminal Causes are more fatal and dangerous to them and their posterities then in any other causes be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That upon the issueing of any Exigent out of any of Their Majesties Courts against any person or persons for any Criminal matter before Judgment or Conviction there shall X1 issue X2out a Writt of Proclamation beareing the same test and returne to the Sheriff or Sheriffs of X3 County City or Towne Corporate where the person or persons in the Record of the said Proceedings is or are menc[i]oned to be or inhabit according to the forme of the Statute made in the One and thirtieth yeare of the Reigne of the late Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory which Writt of Proclamation shall be delivered to the said Sheriff or Sheriffs three months before the returne of the same.