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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION For the CONVENTION of ESTATES.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Scotland, England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects Whom the&s;e pre&s;ents do or may concern, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>The great care We have of the honour and &s;afety of that Our ancient Kingdom, moved Vs &s;ome moneths ago to give Order for the rai&s;ing of &s;uch Forces, both Hor&s;e and Foot, as We conceived nece&s;&s;ary to prevent a &s;udden Inva&s;ion; And &s;eing that ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary War in which We are engaged doth &s;till continue, We do think it nece&s;|&s;ary to keep up the&s;e Forces, for the defence of that Our King|dom, as long as the pre&s;ent danger from Foreign Enemies remains. Therefore, to the end, the ea&s;ie&s;t and mo&s;t regular way of their maintenance may be agreed upon, We have thought fit to call a Convention of the E&s;tates of that Our ancient Kingdom, to meet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> upon the ninth day of <HI>January</HI> next to come; And do hereby require and command all Archbi&s;hops, Dukes, Marque&s;&s;es, Earls, Vi&s;counts, Bi&s;hops, Lords and Officers of State of that Our Kingdom, to be pre&s;ent and attend that Dyet; And al&s;o We do require all Our Sheriffs in the &s;everal Shires and their Deputies, that if there be any new Elections made for this year of Commi&s;sioners to Parliaments or Conventions, they make timous intimation to tho&s;e Commi&s;sioners to keep this Meeting: but if there be no Elections already made, that then they forth|with call and conveen all the Free-holders in the re&s;pective Shires, that according to the Laws and Acts of Parliament, Elections may be made of fit per&s;ons to be Commi&s;|&s;ioners for this Convention, and that Our Royal Burroughs make choice of Commi&s;|&s;ioners accordingly, and that they, and all other per&s;ons having intere&s;t, attend this Convention of Our E&s;tates, under the pains contained in Our Laws made there|anent. And that all Our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, We do hereby command Our Lyon King at Armes, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers, Pur&s;evants and Me&s;&s;engers at Armes, to make timous Proclama|tion hereof at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the head Burroughs in the &s;everal Shires of that Our Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the twenty fifth of <HI>October,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;ix, and of Our Reign the eighteenth year.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1666.</P>
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