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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Di&s;charging Levies, vvithout His Maje&s;ties &s;pecial Licence.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of God, King of <HI>Great Brittain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Armes, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas, We are informed, that &s;ome per&s;ons have of late pre&s;umed to levy Men within this Our ancient Kingdom, although they have not any Authority from &V;s for that effect. Therefore, We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby prohibit and di&s;charge any per&s;on or per&s;ons, whatfoever to levy any men in this Kingdom, or to take or tran&s;port any of Our Subjects thereof into the &s;ervice of any Forraign Prince or State what|&s;oeever, without Our &s;pecial licence: and di&s;charges all Ma&s;ters of Ships to receive on board, or tran&s;port them, under all highe&s;t pains to be inflicted upon the Contraveeners; Re|quiring hereby the Fermorers of Our Customs and Exci&s;e, their Collectors, and Waiters, to take &s;pecial notice of any &s;uch Per&s;ons, whom they &s;hall find pa&s;sing forth of this Kingdom, upon the fore&s;aid account; and to &s;top them in their pa&s;&s;age, as they will be an&s;werable. And if need be, that they require the concurrence of the Magistrates of Burghs, and others in authority under &V;s, who are hereby ordained to be aiding and a&s;sisting to them herein. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places need|ful, that none pretend ignorance. The which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;eve|rally, Our full Power, by thir Our Letters: Delivering them by you, duely execute and in|dor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twenty third Day of <HI>July,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;eventy four, and of Our Reign, the twenty &s;ixth Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>At. Gih&s;on, <HI>Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1674.</P>
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