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</FIGURE> <HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> Again&s;t Re&s;etting or A&s;&s;i&s;ting <HI>Thomas</HI> and Capt. <HI>Simeon Fra&s;ers</HI> Elder and Younger of <HI>Beaufort,</HI> and their Accomplices.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, to <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: Fora&s;much as <HI>Tho|mas Fra&s;er</HI> of <HI>Beaufort,</HI> and Captain <HI>Simeon Fra&s;er</HI> his Son, with their A&s;&s;ociats of their own Name, and other bro|ken men their Complices; have pre&s;umed wickedly and traiterou&s;ly to Convocat, Conveen, and ri&s;e in Arms, and by open force and violence, did &s;eize upon, and apprehend the per&s;ons of the Lord <HI>Saltoun</HI> and the Lord <HI>Mungo Murray,</HI> and others of Our free Liedges, and carry them away, and detain them Pri&s;oners during their plea&s;ure; And farder did Occupy and Po&s;&s;e&s;s certain Hou&s;es and Strengths, and Fortifie and Stuff the &s;ame with Armed Men, Ammunition, and other Warlike Provi&s;ions: As likewi&s;e, mo&s;t Villainou&s;ly Seiz upon, and detain Captive the Per&s;on of the Lady Dowager of <HI>Lovat,</HI> treating her with un-heard of In&s;olencies, and carrying her about with them by open force, and in a mo&s;t Villainous and cruel Captivity; for which attrocious and unparallel'd Crimes they having been Charged in Our Name and Authority, by an Herauld in his Formalities, to lay down their Arms, and render them&s;elves, and enter their Per&s;ons Pri&s;oners, to underly the Law, under the pain of being Denounced Fugitives and Rebels: And having for their high Contempt and Di&s;obedience, been actually Denounced Rebels, and put to Our Horn, do ne|verthele&s;s continue and per&s;i&s;tin their fore&s;aid Rebellion, and Traiterous and Wicked Practices, and do daily add new In&s;olencies to the &s;ame; &s;o that we have been nece&s;&s;itate to give Commi&s;&s;ion to Our Sheriffs and their Deputs; as al&s;o to the Officers of Our For|ces, and Souldiers under their Command, to March again&s;t them in Feir of Weir, as open and declared Enemies. Wherefore We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to prohibite, likeas We hereby mo&s;t &s;trictly prohibite and Di&s;charge all Our Liedges and Subjects what&s;oever, e&s;pecially the&s;e Neighbouring with the &s;aids <HI>Beauforts</HI> Elder and younger, and their Com|plices, that they on no ways Re&s;et, Affi&s;t, Abett, or Aid, with Meat, Drink, or any other Provi&s;ions, or any other manner of way, what&s;oever the faid <HI>Beauforts,</HI> or any of their Complices; certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall pre&s;ume to do or act in the contrary, they &s;hall be held and repute as Partakers, Art and Part with the &s;aids Rebels, and puni&s;hed accordingly with all rigor. And farder, We do hereby Command and Charge all Our good Subjects, to withdraw and withhold from, and drive out of the way of the &s;aids Rebels, all manner of help, comfort and relief; as al&s;o, all their Hor&s;es, Cattel, and other Goods, whereby they may be any ways helped, comforted, or relieved, under all highe&s;t pains. Likeas, in farder dete&s;tation of the &s;aids Crimes, and for the better puni&s;hing there|of, We do hereby with Advice fore&s;aid, promi&s;e to any of Our good Subjects, whether Officers, Souldiers, or others, or even to any of the Complices of the &s;aids <HI>Beauforts,</HI> who &s;hall bring in the &s;aids <HI>Beauforts,</HI> or either of them, dead or alive, the Sum of Four Thou&s;and Merks <HI>Scots</HI> Money of Reward, to be punctually payed by Our The&s;aury, on the Warrant of the&s;e pre&s;ents, with an In|demnity al&s;o to any of the &s;aids Complices, who &s;hall perform this good &s;ervice; declaring that what-ever Slaughter, Mutilation, Blood, Fire-rai&s;ing, or other Violence &s;hall happen to be acted, done, or committed by all, or any of the fore&s;aids per&s;ons hereby authorized to March again&s;t the &s;aids Rebels, in &s;iezing, reducing, and &s;ubduing them, as &s;aid is, the &s;ame &s;hall be holden lawful, and warrantable, and good &s;ervice to Our Government, and the Actors and Acce&s;&s;ories thereto, &s;hall be, and are fully Indem|nified and &s;ecured to all intents and purpo&s;es. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, 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;es of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none pretend ignorance: And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Geven under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the Seventh Day of</HI> July, <HI>and of Our Reign the Tenth Year,</HI> 1698.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Concili.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1698.</P>
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