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</FIGURE> A PROCLAMATION, Again&s;t Field Conventicles, and offering a Revvard for appre|hending Iames Renvvick, Alexander Shiels, and Hou&s;toun, Seditious Field Preachers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_JAMES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everaly, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> Fora&s;much as We having by Our gracious Proclamation of the Twentieth eight of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, given &s;o full and comprehen&s;ive a Tolleration and Indulgence to tender Con&s;ciences, that there can be no pretence left for Field Conventicles, the&s;e Readezvouzes of Rebellion, a|gain&s;t which, by the fore&s;aid Proclamation, We have left all Our Laws and Proclamations of Council in full force and vigour, and have thereby of new again, &s;trictly Required and Command|ed all Our Judges and Officers, Civil, Criminal and Military, to &s;urpro&s;s the &s;aids Field Con|venticles or Seditious A&s;&s;emblies in the Fields, and to puni&s;h all per&s;ons Preachers or Hearers thereat, conform to the outmo&s;t rigour of Our Laws; Yet neverthele&s;s, one <HI>James Renwick,</HI> a flagitious and &s;candalous per&s;on, (whom We by Our Royal Proclamation of the Ninth day of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t, have Declared an open, notorious and avowed Traitor, and Di&s;charged all Our Leidges, all manner of Intercommuning with him) Having with <HI>Alexander Sheils,</HI> and  <GAP DESC="blank">  <HI>Hou&s;toun,</HI> and &s;ome others their A&s;&s;ociats, Shaken off all fear of GOD, as well as Alledgiance to Us His Vice-gerent, Do pre&s;ume to keep numerous Conventicles in the Fields, and in their Preachings di&s;own Us and Our Authority, endeavouring to Seduce &s;ome of Our unwarry Commons, from their Duty and Allegiance to Us their native Mo|narch, and expre&s;ly Teaching the Doctrine of <HI>Rebellion and Re&s;i&s;tance;</HI> We therefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Prohibit and Di&s;charge all &s;uch Rebellious A&s;&s;emblies in the Fields, and &s;trictly Require and Command all Our Judges, and all in Authority under Us, particularly the Officers and Souldiers of Our &s;tanding Forces, to &s;urpre&s;s the &s;aids Rebel|lious Field Conventicles with all rigour, and all Our Judges and others concerned, to puni&s;h all per&s;ons pre&s;ent thereat, conform to the pre&s;cript of Our Laws; Requiring hereby, and Authorizing all Our Officers, Civil or Military, and all Our other good Sub|jects, to apprehend and &s;ecure in Firmance the Per&s;ons of the &s;aid <HI>James Renwick, Alexander Sheils,</HI> and  <GAP DESC="blank">  <HI>Houstoun,</HI> wherever they can be found; For who&s;e incouragement in this Our Service, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Do hereby Promi&s;e and En&s;ure to them, the &s;um of <HI>One hundred pound Sterling mony</HI> for each of the &s;aids three per&s;ons who &s;hall be apprehended and &s;ecured in manner fore&s;aid, forth of Our The&s;aury, as a Reward; And to the end the&s;e Pre&s;ents may be made known, Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly 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 rema|nent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there, in Our Name and Au|thority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the eighteenth day of</HI> October, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty &s;even, And of Our Reign the third year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> WILL. PATERSON, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></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 <HI>Maje&s;ty, Anno DOM.</HI> 1687.</P>
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