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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENS</P>
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A PROCLAMATION, For bringing in HORSES out of &s;ome VVe&s;tern Shires.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the 25. of <HI>March,</HI> 1667.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_CHARLES, by the Grace of GOD, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith. To Our Lovits, <GAP DESC="blank"> Me&s;&s;engers, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;ev|erally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as it is more then high time, to prevent the ri&s;ing of di&s;affected per&s;ons, who, during the continuance of the War with Our Forraign Enemies, are ready to break out in open Rebellion, and ri&s;e in Arms again&s;t Us, and Our Authority, by di&s;abling them from putting them&s;elves in a military po&s;ture, and in a condition to make any &s;udden marches, or attempts upon Our well affected Subjects, or any part of Our &s;tand|ing Forces, or to joyn with the&s;e, who are of there own pernitiousand di&s;loyal Principles, who live at a di&s;tance from them. Therefore, We with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, command and charge all per&s;ons within the Shires of <HI>Lanerk, Air, Renfrew, Wigton,</HI> and Stewartry of <HI>Kirkcudbright,</HI> of what&s;oever quality, who have refu&s;ed to accept of any pub|lick tru&s;t, or have de&s;erted the &s;ame, being in place: As al&s;o, all tho&s;e who withdraw from publick Ordinances, and do not keep their own Paroch Churches, or do not &s;ubmit to the pre&s;ent Government of Church and State. As likewi&s;e all tho&s;e who being warned to ri&s;e, and joyn with Our Forces, for suppre&s;&s;ing the late Rebellion, did not give obedience, unle&s;&s;e the &s;aids per&s;ons will take the <HI>Oath</HI> of <HI>Allegiance,</HI> and &s;ub&s;cribe the <HI>Declaration</HI> appointed by the late Act of Parliament. That after the fifteenth day of May next, they, by them&s;elves, nor no per&s;ons to their u&s;e and behove, do not keep any &s;erviceable Hor&s;es, above the rate of one hun|dred merks Scots, under any pretext what&s;oever: with certification, if the failzie, that upon information of any per&s;on well affected, the Sheriff, or any two of the Justices of Peace within the Shire, &s;hall cau&s;e value &s;uch hor&s;es, and finding them above the rate fore&s;aid, &s;hall cau&s;e deliver them to the informer, and that without any payment, or &s;atisfaction to be made therefore. And requires all Sheriffs and Justices of Peace, within their re&s;pective bounds, to i&s;&s;ue orders, for conveening the Contraveeners of this Act before them, and cau&s;ing Apprize any &s;uch hor&s;es, by indifferent per&s;ons, that it may be known, if they be above the rate fore|&s;aid. And, in ca&s;e that the per&s;ons who compear, &s;hall offer to purge them&s;elves of any &s;u&s;pition of di&s;affection to our Government, upon the accounts fore&s;aids; That they ad|mini&s;ter to them the <HI>Oath</HI> of <HI>Allegiance,</HI> and offer the <HI>Declaration</HI> to be &s;ub&s;cribed by them, which being taken, and &s;ub&s;cribed by them as &s;aid is, then we enjoyn them, to di&s;mi&s;&s;e the &s;aids per&s;ons, with their hor&s;es, to be kept by them, without any farther trouble or mole&s;tation: Otherwi&s;e, that they proceed as &s;aid is. And ordains the Sheriffs of the &s;aid Shires, to cau&s;e intimat the&s;e pre&s;ents by publick Proclamation, at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires and Stewartry: And cau&s;e read the &s;ame at all the Paroch Churches of the &s;aids bounds, upon a Sunday before noon, after Divine Service, with all Diligence. And that the&s;e pre&s;ents be printed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
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<P>EDINBURGH, Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Majesty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1667.</P>
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