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</FIGURE>ACT Di&s;charging any to travel thorow the Highlands, with more Per&s;ons then the Law allows.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the tenth day of <HI>October,</HI> 1678.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Coun|cil, Con&s;idering, that albeit by diver&s;e Acts of Parliament, the convocation of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Leiges by any per&s;on above their ordinar and allowed Re|tinue, is prohibit under diver&s;e pains and penalties; notwith&s;tanding where|of &s;everal Inhabitants of the High|lands are in u&s;e, when they travel through the countrey, to be accompa|nied and attended by a number of loo&s;s and idle per&s;ons, not being their dome&s;tick &s;ervants, and thereby occa&s;ion is given to &s;tealing, &s;or|ning, and &s;everal other di&s;orders: For preventing whereof, the &s;aids Lords do prohibit and di&s;charge all per&s;ons Inhabitants of the Highlands of what&s;omever degree or quality, to travel in the Highlands or keep any meetings there, having any in their re|tinue and company, who are not their own dome&s;tick &s;ervants, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed and publi&s;hed at the Mercat cro&s;&s;es of the &s;everal head Burghs of this Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Al. Gib&s;on,</HI> Cls. 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 MAJESTY. 1678.</P>
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