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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Offering a Reward of <HI>One hundred pound Sterling,</HI> so any who &s;hall bring in the Per&s;on of Mr. <HI>James Renwick</HI> (a Seditious Field-Preacher) dead or alive.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_IAMES</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 Arms, and his Brethen Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Constitute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> Fora&s;much, as one Mr. <HI>James Renwick,</HI> a Flagitious and Scandalous per&s;on, has pre&s;umed and takes upon hand, the&s;e &s;everal years bygone, to Convocat together numbers of our unmarry, and Ignorant Com|mons, to Hou&s;e and Field-Conventicles, (which our Law &s;o justly Terms the Nur&s;eries of Sedition, and Rendezvou&s;'s of Rebellion) in &s;ome of the Western Shires of this Our Ancient Kingdom, and has frequently Preached at the&s;e Rebellious Meetings, his Seditious and Traiterous Principles and opinions, intending thereby to Debauch &s;ome of the Ignorant People from their bouden Duty, and obedience they ow to Us as their Rightful Soveraign Lord and Monarch. And We out of our Royal Care and Ten|derne&s;s to Our People, being de&s;irous to deliver all Our loving Subjects, from the Malign influence of &s;uch a wretched Impo&s;ture; Have therefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council (as is u&s;ual in &s;uch Ca&s;es) not only thought &s;it to Declare the &s;aid Mr. <HI>James Renwick</HI> an open and notorious Rebel, and Traitor again&s;t Us, and Our Royal Government, But likewi&s;e hereby Authori&s;e and Require all Our loving Subjects to treat him as &s;uch And al&s;o Prohibite and Di&s;charge all Our Subject, Men or Women, That none of them offer or pre&s;ume to Harbour, re&s;et, Supply, Corre&s;pond with, Hide, or Conceal the Per&s;on of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>James Renwick,</HI> Rebel fore&s;aid, under the pain of incurring the &s;everest punishments, pre&s;cribed by the Acts of Parliament and Procla|mations of our Privy Council, made again&s;t Re&s;etters of Rebels; But that they do their outmo&s;t endeavour to pur&s;ue him, as the wor&s;t of Traitors: And to the end the &s;aid Mr. <HI>James Renwick</HI> may the better be Di&s;covered, Apprehended and brought <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Ju&s;tice: We with Advice fore&s;aid, Do hereby Require and Command all Our Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies of Regalities <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">|gi&s;trats of Burghs, and Ju&s;tices of the Peace, not only to cau&s;e Search for, Pur&s;ue and Apprehend the Per&s;on of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>James Renwick,</HI> Rebel fore&s;aid, wherever he can be found within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> their a&s;si&s;tance to any who &s;hall offer to Apprehend him: And if in pur&s;uit of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>James Renwick</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> he, or any of his Rebellious A&s;sociats, re&s;i&s;ting to be taken, any of our &s;aids Magistrats, or other <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Kill, or Mutilat him, or any of them, We hereby Declare that they, nor none a&s;si&s;ting them &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> pur&s;ued Civily or Criminally therefore in time-coming, but that the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;hall be als &s;ufficient for <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> they had Our &s;pecial Remi&s;sion, and that their doing thereof &s;hall be repute good and acceptable Service <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> incouragement of &s;uch as &s;hall apprehend, and bring in the per&s;on of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>James Renwick,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Alive,</HI> he, or they &s;hall have the Reward of <HI>One hundreth Pound Sterling Money,</HI> to be in instantly payed to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of our The&s;aury. And We ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, on the South-&s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> and other <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> riffs in the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the ninth day of</HI> December, <HI>1686. And of Our Reign <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI>
<SIGNED><HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>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 His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM. 1686.</HI></P>
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