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<P>IN DEFENCE</P>
<P>CR</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>GOD SAVE THE KING</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION,</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovites, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers 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 Lords of The Committy of our privy Council met in the we&s;t, By Comi&s;sion from our privy Council, Having in pursueance of the Comi&s;&s;ion and in&s;tructions given to them, i&s;&s;ued forth a Proclamatione upon the nynth of this in&s;tant; Requyreing and Commanding all and &s;undry the Heretors, Lyfrentars, and Land-Lords within the Shyre of <HI>Air,</HI> and Juri&s;dictions within the &s;ame; To appear per&s;onally be|fore the &s;aids Lords within the <HI>Tolbuith</HI> of the burgh of <HI>Air,</HI> upon the re&s;pective dayes therein mentioned; To give Band for them&s;elves, there men, Tenents, Servants, and Cottars for the &s;ecuritie of the peace, and quyet of the Countrey, and pre&s;er|ving the &s;ame from di&s;orders heireafter, at the particular Dyets therein &s;pecified, As they would be an&s;werable; Notwith&s;tand|ing thereof many of the &s;aids Heretors, and others for&s;aids, Have not appeared, And divers of &s;uch as did appear have refu&s;ed to Sub&s;cryue the &s;aid Band, And we having Ju&s;t rea&s;on to Su&s;pect that the&s;e per&s;ons may &s;eek after, or wait for &s;ome occa&s;ion of further di&s;&s;turbance; And finding it unfit that they &s;hould have or keep any other Hor&s;es but Such as may be nece&s;sare for Ploughing, and Labouring of the ground. Wee therefore with advice of the &s;aids Lords of the Committy of our privy Council doe hereby re|quire and command all Heretors, Fewars, Lyfrentars, and Land-Lords within the &s;aid Shyre of <HI>Air,</HI> and Juri&s;dictions within the &s;ame (who have not given the &s;aid Band) To put out of there po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and furth of the &s;aids bounds, all Hor&s;es and meers belong|ing to them, above the value of Fifty pounds Scots betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> nixt to come. And doe di&s;charge them, and every one of them, to have or keep any &s;uch Hor&s;es or meers thereafter, above the &s;aid value without Speciall Licence from the Lords of our Council, or there Committy under the paine of forfaulting of there Hor&s;es or Meers, And payment to the Lords Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of our The&s;aurie for our u&s;e, or any that &s;hal be appoynted by them of the &s;oume of An Hundreth pounds Scots for each Hor&s;e or meet above the value for&s;aid that the &s;aid per&s;ons or any of them shall have or keep after the &s;aid day. As al&s;o we ordaine all Tenents, Cottars, or Servants within the &s;aids bounds betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>May</HI> nixt. To put out of there po&s;&s;e&s;sion and furth of the &s;aid Shyre and Juri&s;dictions for&s;aids, any hor&s;es or meers belonging to them above the &s;aid value without &s;peciall Licence, as &s;aid is, under the paine of forfaulting the &s;aids hor&s;es and meers and payment of the penaltie above writen. OUR WILL is Herefore And we charge you &s;traitlie and Command, That incontinent the&s;e our Letters &s;ein, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Air,</HI> Head-burgh of the Shereffdome thereof. And to the mercat Cro&s;es of the Bailliaries of <HI>Cuninghame</HI> and <HI>Carrik</HI> within the &s;ame And other places needfull, and thereat in our Name and Authority by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend ignorance. The which to do we commit to you conjunctly and &s;everallie our full power, by their Our Letters delivering them be you duely execute and indor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at <HI>Air</HI> <DATE>the tuenty two day of <HI>February</HI> 1678 and of our Reigne, the threttie <HI>Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Commi&s;&s;ionis Hugh Stevenson, Cl.</HI> Com:</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King,</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>GLASGOW,</HI> Printed By <HI>Robert Sanders,</HI> Printer to the City and Univer&s;ity.</P>
<P>By warrant of the Committy of Council 1678.</P>
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