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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Appointing the Magi&s;trates of Burghs of Regality and Barrony, and their Clerks, to take the Oath of Alleadgeance, and &s;igne the Declaration.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> <DATE>the fir&s;t Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1678:</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner His Grace, and Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, Con&s;idering, That by the fifth Act of the &s;econd Se&s;&s;ion of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> fir&s;t Parliament, His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> with Advice of His E&s;tates of Parliament, did Statute, Ordain, and Enact, That all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hould thereafter be called or admitted to any publick Tru&s;t or Office, under His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Government within this Kingdom; That is to &s;ay, to be Officers of State, Mem|bers of Parliament, Privy Coun&s;ellers, Lords of Se&s;&s;ion, Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Exchequer, Members of the Colledge of Ju&s;tice, She|riffs, Stewarts, or Commi&s;&s;aries their Deputs and Clerks, Magi|&s;trates, and Council of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace and their Clerks, or any other publick Charge, Office and Tru&s;t within this Kingdom, &s;hall at and before their Admi&s;&s;ion to the Exerci&s;e of &s;uch places or Offices, publickly in face of the re&s;pective Courts they relate to, &s;ub|&s;cribe the Declaration thereto &s;ubjoyned, and that they &s;hall have no Right to the &s;aid Offices or Benefites thereof, untill they &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;ame as &s;aid is; but that every &s;uch per&s;on who &s;hall offer to enter and exerce any &s;uch Office, before he &s;ub&s;cribe the Declaration, is to be reputed and puni&s;hed as an U&s;urper of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Authority, and the Place to be di&s;po&s;ed of to another: And by the &s;econd Act of the third Se&s;&s;ion of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> &s;aid fir&s;t Parliament, relating to the former Act, It is recommended to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council to be carefull, that the&s;e Acts be put in due Execution, and receive obedience conform to the tenour thereof. And whereas the Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner his Grace, and Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Councill are informed, That the Magi&s;trates of &s;everal Burghs of Regality and Barrony, and their Clerks, who exerce publick Juri&s;diction, Office and Tru&s;t in their &s;everal Bounds, and who by the &s;aid Acts of Parliament, are obliged, at or before they enter to the Exerci&s;e of &s;uch Offices and Plac<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, to take the Oath of Alleadgeance and &s;igne the Declaration, yet do take upon them the exerci&s;e of the &s;aid publick Tru&s;t, Office and Juri&s;diction, without taking the &s;aid Oath and &s;igning the Declaration: Do therefore hereby Require and Command, all &s;uch Magi&s;trates of Burghs of Regality and Barrony, and their Clerks, (who have not at their entry to their &s;aids Offices, taken the Oath of Alleadgeance and &s;igned the Declaration) to take the &s;aid Oath, and &s;ign the Declaration, publickly in face of the re&s;pective Courts to which they relate, betwixt and the Term of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> next: And it is hereby Declared, That the &s;aids Magi&s;trates of Burghs of Regality and Barrony, and their Clerks, &s;hall hereafter have no Right to their &s;aids Offices or Benefites thereof, untill they take the &s;aid Oath, and &s;ub&s;cribe the Declaration, as &s;aid is; But that every one of them who &s;hall exerce any &s;uch publick Office, Charge or Juri&s;diction, before they &s;o do, is to be reputed and puni&s;hed as an u&s;urper of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Autho|rity, and the Place to be di&s;po&s;ed of to another, conform to the &s;aids Acts of Parliament: Hereby requi|ring the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires to &s;ee this Act put in Execution, and to report to the Council their Diligence, betwixt and the &s;econd Thur&s;day of <HI>November</HI> next. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the head Burghs of the &s;eve|ral Shires, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Al. Gib&s;one,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty, Anno Dom.</HI> 1678.</P>
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