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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Intercommuning the Rebels in the <HI>Ba&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith; To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arm, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con|&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much, as by clear and expre&s;s Acts of Parliament <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Our Kingdom, <HI>It is Declared to be High Trea&s;on , To Stuff Hou&s;es, or hold them a|gain&s;t &V;s, or to A&s;&s;ail any Castles or Forts under Our Command, and to Maintain and hold out the &s;ame by open Force and Violence , e&s;pecially after they are Charged and Re|quired by Our Heraulds, with Our Coat Di&s;played in Our Name and Authority to Deliver up, and Surrender the &s;ame, under the Pains contained in the &s;aids Acts;</HI> Ne|verthele&s;s <HI>James Halyburton, Michael Middleton, Patrick Roy,</HI> and <HI>David Dumbar,</HI> &s;ometimes Pri&s;oners in Our Fort and Garri&s;on of the <HI>Ba&s;s,</HI> and certain others, who have a&s;&s;ociat and joined them&s;elves with them, have dared, after the Surpry&s;ing of the &s;aid Garri&s;on where they were Pri&s;oners, pre&s;umptuou&s;ly to Fortifie, and by open Violence Defend and Maintain Our &s;aid Garri&s;on of the <HI>Ba&s;s,</HI> again&s;t Us, and Our Authority, notwith&s;tanding of their being Charged in manner fora|&s;aid to deliver up the &s;ame, and thereby have owned them&s;elves open and manife&s;t Traitors; And We being careful that none of Our good Subjects be en&s;nared by the &s;aids Rebels, and involved in their Guilt; Do therefore, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Declare the Per&s;ons above-named, and all who have joyned them&s;elves with them, in Surpri&s;ing, Maintaining or Defending Our &s;aid Garri&s;on of the <HI>Ba&s;s,</HI> guilty of open and manife&s;t Trea&s;on and Rebellion, and ought to be pur&s;ued as Traitors to Us; And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Di&s;charge and Command all Our Subjects, that no per&s;on pre&s;ume to Aid, Abett, A&s;&s;i&s;t, Harbour, of any ways Supply the &s;aids Traitors, or any of them, under the pain of Trea&s;on, and that they do not keep Corre&s;pondence, or Intercommune with them, without Warrand from Our Privy Council for that effect, under the pains for&s;aid; Certifying &s;uch who &s;hall do in the contrary, that they &s;hall be holden and repute, treated, and proceeded again&s;t as Art and Part of, and acce&s;&s;ory to the fore&s;aid Crime of Trea&s;on and Rebellion again&s;t Us and Our Authority, with the utmo&s;t &s;everity of Our Law. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;traitly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires, of <HI>Haddingtoun, Fife, Berwick</HI> and <HI>Clackman|nan;</HI> and in Our Name and Authority, there, and at other places needful, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance, as ye will an&s;wer to Us thereupon, the which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally, Our full Power, by the&s;e Our Letters, delivering them by you, duly execute, and indor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet, at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of</HI> July. <HI>And of Our Reign the Third year,</HI> 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii,</HI>
<SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls Sti Con&s;ilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER><HI>GOD &s;ave King</HI> VVilliam <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM,</HI> 1691.</P>
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