Whereas it Appears by Proof on Oath, that William Pendergast [and Seven Others] ... Have Committed High Treason. ... I Have Thought Fit ... Hereby Strictly Enjoining and Commanding All Magistrates, Justices of the Peace ... to Apprehend, Or Cause to be Apprehended, All and Every the Persons Above-named, and Charged with Having Committed High Treason ... Given Under My Hand, and Seal at Arms at Fort-George, in the City of New-York, the Twentieth Day of June, 1766