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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Di&s;charging any Per&s;ons to travel vvith Arms vvithout Licence.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_CHARLES, by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith:</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank"> our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, 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 the bearing of, and &s;hooting with Fire-arms, &s;uch as Hagbuts, Culverings, and Pi&s;tols, without Licence from Us, is prohibited and di&s;charged by &s;everal Acts of Parliament, under diver&s;e great pains and penalties, e&s;pecially by the eighteenth Act of the fir&s;t Parliament, eighty &s;eventh Act of the &s;ixt Parliament, and the &s;ixt Act of the &s;ixteenth Parliament of King <HI>James</HI> the &s;ixt; And We, taking to Our con&s;ideration what Attrocious Facts are committed by rebellious and di&s;orderly per&s;ons, who go in Arms to Field Conventicles, the&s;e <HI>Rendevouzes</HI> of Re|bellion, and pre&s;ume to make re&s;i&s;tance to Our Forces when they offer to di&s;&s;ipate them: Therefore We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do prohibite and di&s;|charge all Our Subjects of this Kingdom, except the Officers and Souldiers of Our &s;tand|ing Forces, and of the Militia, to travel with any Fire-arms, as Muskets, Hagbuts, Cul|verings and Pi&s;tols, unle&s;s they have a Licence from One of Our Privy Council, or the Sheriff of the Shire where they dwell, under the pains and penalties contained in the &s;aids Acts of Parliament. Likeas, We with advice fore&s;aid, do hereby Authorize and require, all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailies, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, and Officers of Our Forces, that they take notice of all per&s;ons whom they find travelling, not only car|rying the &s;aids Fire-arms, but al&s;o carrying Swords, Durks, Whingers, Halbards, Poll-axes, or any other Weapons in|va&s;ive; that they &s;eize upon the &s;aids Fire-arms, and &s;ecure the per&s;ons carrying the &s;ame, not having Licence from one of Our Privy Council, or from a Sheriff, or Stewart granted to the&s;e within their Juri&s;diction, until they give Bond and Cauti|on to compear before Competent Judges, and an&s;wer for their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of the &s;aids Acts of Parliament; and in ca&s;e the &s;aids Travellers be found to carry any of the &s;aids Arms, they not being Noblemen, Landed-Gentlemen, or their Chil|dren, or Servants travelling with them or their Children, and not having pa&s;&s;es expre&s;&s;ing whence they came, and whither they go, under the hand of one of Our Privy Council, Lords of Se&s;&s;ion, Sheriff, Stewarts, Bailies of Royalties or Re|galities, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, or Commi&s;&s;ioners of Exci&s;e granted in favours of the&s;e within their Bounds; that the &s;aids per&s;ons be examined by Our &s;aids Judges, and Officers in who&s;e Bounds they &s;hall be found; and in ca&s;e they cannot give a &s;ufficient account of them&s;elves, that they are none of the&s;e vagrant per&s;ons, di&s;turbers of the peace, and com|mitters of the &s;aids In&s;olencies; We do Command Our &s;aids Judges, and Officers to &s;eize upon their Arms, and &s;ecure their per&s;ons in the next pri&s;on, and with all diligence to &s;end an account of their Names and Examination to Our Sheriff-Deputs, &s;pecially Commi&s;&s;ionate for puni&s;hing of Conventicles, and other di&s;orders of that kind; that without delay they may pro|ceed to the tryal of the &s;aids per&s;ons, according to their Commi&s;&s;ions and In&s;tructions. And We Ordain the&s;e pre&s;ents to con|tinue and endure until the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> next. 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 other places needful, and there make publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the eight day of <HI>May,</HI> 1679, and of Our Reign the thretty one Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Alexr. Gib&s;on, Cl. 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. 1679.</P>
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