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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> Requiring all the Members of <HI>Parlament</HI> to wait on, and attend His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> High Commi&s;&s;ioner at the <HI>Palace</HI> of <HI>Holy-rood-hou&s;e,</HI> <DATE>the 23. of <HI>April, 1685.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
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<HEAD>Pre&s;ent in COUNCIL His Orace the Duke of <HI>Queensberry,</HI> &amp;c. His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> High <HI>COMMISSIONER.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>The Lord High <HI>Chancellor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord Archbi&s;hop of St. <HI>Andrews.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord Arch-bi&s;hop of <HI>Gla&s;gow.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Marque&s;s of <HI>Athol,</HI> L. <HI>Privy Seal.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord Marque&s;s of <HI>Dowgla&s;s.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Errol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Linlithgow,</HI> Lord <HI>Ju&s;tice.</HI> General.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Southesk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Panmure.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Balcarras.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Kintore.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord <HI>Living&s;ton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord <HI>Kinniaird.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The L. <HI>Pre&s;ident of the Se&s;&s;ion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The L. <HI>Regi&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The L. <HI>Advocat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The L. <HI>Justice Clerk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The L. <HI>Castle Hill.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Drumelzier.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Abbots-hall.</ITEM>
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<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_James</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI>Defender of the Faith, </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>to Our Lyon King at Armes, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as We having by Our Royal Proclamation, dated at Our Court at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> the Sixteenth day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, upon divers weighty Con&s;iderations of great Importance to Our Service, and to the Peace and Tranquillity of this our Ancient Kingdom: Thougt &s;it to call a <HI>Parliament,</HI> to meet at Our City of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> upon <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 words"> day of <HI>April,</HI> then next en&s;uing: And which Diet of Meeting was thereafter by Our Royal Proclamation of the twentieth and &s;e|cond of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, Continued and Adjourned from the &s;aid Ninth, to the twentieth and third day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>April</HI> In|&s;tant; and We being re&s;olved that all the Members of the &s;aid <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;hould according to their Allegiance and Duty, attend and keep the &s;aid Meeting of <HI>Parliament,</HI> upon the &s;aid twentieth third In&s;tant, and upon that day by eight a Clock in the Morning wait upon our High Commi&s;&s;ioner, from Our <HI>Palace</HI> of <HI>Holy-rood hou&s;e</HI> to Our <HI>Parliament-hou&s;e,</HI> in his Riding up and down from, and to, Our &s;aid <HI>Palace,</HI> and keep and attend the whole Diers and Meetings of Our &s;aid <HI>Parliament,</HI> during the Sitting thereof. We therefore with the Advice of our Privy Council, Do hereby Require and Command all the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and all Commi&s;&s;ioners of Shires and Burrows, to wait upon, and attend Our High Commi&s;&s;ioner, tho &s;aid day of the Meeting of our Parliament, by eight a Clock in the Morning Preci&s;ely, and to Ride according to their Ranks and Orders, from our &s;aid <HI>Palace</HI> to Our <HI>Parliament-hou&s;e,</HI> and from thence down again to Our &s;aid <HI>Palace</HI>; and to keep and attend all the Diets and Meetings of our &s;aid <HI>Parliament,</HI> du|ring the Sitting thereof; Certifying &s;uch as (without a Lawful Excu&s;e, timely repre&s;ented and admitted by our High Commi&s;&s;ioner) &s;hall be ab&s;ent, they &s;hall be lyable unto, and incur the Pains and Penalties following, contained in an Act of the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion, of the fir&s;t <HI>Parliament</HI> of Our Deare&s;t Brother, of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory; Dated the thirteenth day of <HI>May,</HI> 1662. <HI>viz</HI>: Each Arch-Bi&s;hop, Bi&s;hop and Noble Man, the &s;umm of twelve hun|dred Pounds <HI>Scots</HI>: Each Comm&s;&s;ioner of Shires the &s;umm of &s;ix hundred Pounds <HI>Scots</HI>: And each Commi&s;&s;ioner of Burrows, the Summ of two hun|dred Pounds <HI>Scots,</HI> to be paid to Our Ca&s;h-keeper, for Our U&s;e: At who&s;e In&s;tance, all Execution nece&s;&s;ary is hereby ordered to pa&s;s for Payment thereof: Which Penalties conform to the &s;aid Act of <HI>Parliament,</HI> are declared to be by and attour, and without Prejudice of what other Cen&s;ure Our <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;hall think &s;it to inflict for fo high Contempt and Neglect of Our Authority. And We further Declare, that &s;uch Members of Our, <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> as &s;hall not accompany our High Commi&s;&s;ioner on Hor&s;eback decently with Foot-Mantles, from Our &s;aid <HI>Palace,</HI> to Our &s;aid <HI>Parliament-Hou&s;e,</HI> and from thence down again to Our &s;aid <HI>Palace,</HI> &s;hall bo reputed for Ab&s;ents, and incur the &s;ame Pains and Penalties, as if they were Ab&s;ent, which are to be Inflicted and Exacted with all Rigour, conform to the thirty fourth Act of the eleventh <HI>Parliament</HI> of Our Royal Grandfather King <HI>James</HI> the Sixth of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory. And further, Wo hereby Require and Command all Per&s;ons who have recieved Commi&s;&s;ions from our &s;everal Shires and Burrows for being Members of our &s;aid <HI>Parliament,</HI> to enter and give in the &s;ame to Our Clerk of Regi&s;ter, the day immediately preceeding the &s;aid Sitting of Our <HI>Parliament,</HI> betwixt ten and twelve a Clock in tho Forenoon, (or &s;ooner) to be by him con&s;idered and Marked, as they will an&s;wer the contrary oh their Peril. And to the effect our plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;es may be timeou&s;ly known to all Per&s;ons concerned, Our will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly and command, that in continent the&s;e our Letters &s;een, yo pa&s;s to tho Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other Places needful, and there by open <HI>Proclamation,</HI> make Publication of Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;es, that all Per&s;ons concerned may have notice thereof, and give exact and perem|tor Obedience thereto.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fourteenth day of <HI>April, 1685.</HI> And of Our Reign the fir&s;t Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti., Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Ann DOM,</HI> 1685. And Reprinted at <HI>London,</HI> by <HI>George Croom,</HI> at the Sign of the <HI>Blue Ball</HI> in <HI>Thames-&s;treet,</HI> over again&s;t <HI>Baynard's-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
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