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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Securing the Peace of the High-lands.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_IAMES by the Grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as We having by Our late Proclamation of the twen|tieth day of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, Renewed a Commi&s;&s;ion granted by Our Deare&s;t and Royal Bro|ther, of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, of the date the ninth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1682. years, to the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners therein-mentioned, and for the Di&s;tricts therein &s;pecified, for &s;eeing to the Peace of the Highlands; And whereas we are Informed, that notwith&s;tanding of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and Our &s;aid Proclamation, Thieves, Sorners, and Robbers do continue full to Infe&s;t, Rob, Spoil, and trouble Our People there; And being Re&s;olved that they &s;hould be brought to condign puni&s;hment, both for bygones, and in time coming: We with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Require and Command Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Di&s;trict of <HI>Caithne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Suther|land,</HI> to meet at <HI>Lochnaver</HI> the fir&s;t day of <HI>October</HI> next; And the&s;e for the Di&s;trict of the Shires of <HI>Ro&s;s, Inverne&s;s, Cromarty, Nairn</HI> and <HI>Elgin,</HI> to meet at the head of <HI>Lochne&s;s</HI> the &s;aid fir&s;t day of <HI>October</HI> next; The&s;e for the Di&s;trict of the Shires of <HI>Bamff, Aberdeen, Kincardin</HI> and <HI>Forfar,</HI> to meet at <HI>Kincardin</HI> of <HI>Neil,</HI> the twenty &s;econd day of <HI>September</HI> In&s;tant; And the&s;e of the Di&s;trict of the Shires of <HI>Perth, Stirling, Dumbartoun</HI> and <HI>Argile,</HI> to meet at the Kirk of <HI>Balquhidder,</HI> the &s;aid twentieth &s;econd day of <HI>September</HI> In&s;tant: And then, and there, To affix and hold Courts, Call and Conveen before them re&s;pectively, all per&s;ons &s;u&s;pect, or that &s;hall be &s;u&s;pect guilty of any of the Wrongs, Thifts, Robberies, Depre|dations, or any other Crimes mentioned in the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and Our &s;aid late Proclamation, and to proceed again&s;t, and puni&s;h them according to Our Laws, and as is fully mentioned in the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and Proclamation; Declaring hereby, that the per&s;ons guilty of the &s;aids Crimes, are not to be under&s;tood to be comprehended within Our late Act of Indemnity, as to re&s;toring of privat Damnages, Lo&s;&s;es and Injuries; But that Our &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners may proceed again&s;t and puni&s;h them, as &s;aid is: And further, we hereby Impower and Authorize Our &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, in their Di&s;tricts re&s;pective (after the &s;aid fir&s;t day of meeting) To appoint their own Dyets, and places of meeting thereafter, from time to time, as they &s;hall find mo&s;t convenient for Our Service, and the Peace of the Highlands; and therein to Do, and Act every manner of way, conform to the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, and Our Proclamation following thereupon, and the Laws, and Acts of Parliament of this Our Realm, Promitten to hold firm and &s;table, &amp;c. And We hereby Require and Command all Our Sheriffs, and Our other Magi&s;trats within the &s;aids Di&s;tricts <HI>re&s;pective</HI>; to be concurring and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to Our &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners in the Premi&s;&s;es, as they will an&s;wer at their highe&s;t peril. And that Our Plea&s;ure herein may be known, Our Will is, and We Charge you, &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to Our Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of <HI>Caithne&s;s, Sutherland, Innerne&s;s, Cromarty, Nairn, Elgin, Bamff Aberdeen, Kincardine, For|far, Perth, Dumbarton, Stirling, Argile, Tarbet,</HI> and other places needful, and there, in Our Royal Name and Authority, make Publication of Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es; And We hereby Require the Sheriffs, and other Magi&s;trats of the re&s;pective Shires fore&s;aids, to cau&s;e this Our Proclamation to be read and affixed at the &s;everal Paroch-kirk-doors, upon the fir&s;t Lords Day, after the fame comes to their hands, and after Divine Wor&s;hip, be&s;ides their cau&s;ing publi&s;h the &s;ame at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es afore&s;aid, as they will be an&s;werable.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the third day of <HI>September, 1685.</HI> And of Our Reign the fir&s;t Year</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. <HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save 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.</HI> 1685.</P>
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