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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, By the King and Queens Maje&s;ties.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM <HI>and</HI> MARY, by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain,</HI> France, and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith; To Our Lovits,<GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;|&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting: Whereas there hath been &s;everal Trea&s;onable, and Seditious De&s;igns and Combinations, &s;et on foot of late, in both Our Kingdoms, by Per&s;ons enemies to the Prote&s;tant Religion, and ill affected to Our Government, who have pre&s;umed to take Commi&s;&s;ions from the late King <HI>James,</HI> intending not only to &s;upport the Rebellion in the Highlands of this Our Antient Kingdom, as appears by Bonds, A&s;|&s;ociations, and Letters, but likewi&s;e, to Form Parties, and to Creat Sedition and Commotion, in other places thereof; To which end <HI>Henry Navail Pain,</HI> Pri&s;oner in Our <HI>Ca&s;tle of Edinburgh,</HI> a Traffecking Papi&s;t, was &s;ent into this Kingdom, and &s;eized in <HI>Annandale,</HI> and &s;everal of his A&s;&s;ociats and Corre|&s;pondents, have been by Our Warrand &s;ecured in Our Kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> and there being clear Evi|dence of a Corre&s;pondence betwixt the &s;aid <HI>Pain</HI> and &s;everal per&s;ons in this Our Antient Kingdom, and there being many &s;u&s;pect and di&s;affected per&s;ons, lurking in, and about Our City of <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> There|fore We, with Advice of Our Privy Council have thought fit for the Security of the Government, to cau&s;e Search be made in, and about the City of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> for the Apprehending and Securing of &s;everal per|&s;ons who have never acknowledged the Government now E&s;tabli&s;hed, and who are known to be per&s;ons di&s;affected and oppo&s;ite thereto; and becau&s;e &s;uch per&s;ons will not be wanting to give &s;ini&s;terous impre&s;&s;ions of Our Procedure, and to in&s;inuat in the minds of &s;ome, that there is great danger of an In&s;urrection, or Inva&s;ion, and in the apprehen&s;ions of others Our good Subjects, that they may be in hazard to be &s;eized: Therefore We, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Have thought fit, to I&s;&s;ue forth this Proclamation, for the Information of Our good Subjects, and a&s;sure all who do live peaceably and dutifully, that they are, and &s;hall be in perfect Security, and that We will give Our outmo&s;t Endeavour to Protect and Defend Our good Subjects, from the attempts of the Enemies of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Our Government. 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, and in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the ninteenth Day of</HI> June. <HI>And of Our Reign, the &s;econd Year, 1690.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Goncilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King and Queens mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1690.</P>
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