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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Di&s;charging all per&s;ons in the Southern and We&s;tern Shires, to Travel from one Juri&s;diction to another without a Pa&s;s.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</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 Lyon King at Arms, and his brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Coun|cil, Pur&s;evants, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pe|cially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> Fora&s;much as We having thought fit to Commi&s;&s;ionat &s;ome of Our Privy Council, to go to the Southern and VVe&s;tern Shires of this Kingdom, for supp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and puni&s;hing di&s;orders there, and We being-re&s;olved to prevent the Traveling <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">|king and Vagrant per&s;ons, and others di&s;affected to Our Government, in the &s;aids Shires, during the abode of Our Commi&s;&s;ioners there, for carrying of fal&s;e News, and other wick|ed purpo&s;es. Do therefore, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, hereby &s;trictly Prohibite and Di&s;charge all Our Subjects, of what quality &s;oever, to go out of one Juri&s;diction to another, in the &s;aid Southern and We&s;tern Shires, without a Pa&s;s from one of Our Privy Coun&s;ellors, Our &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, or the Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Commi&s;&s;ioners of Exci&s;e, or Ju&s;tices of Peace of the Juri&s;diction from whence they came, or any one of them, un|der the pain of being puni&s;hed as per&s;ons di&s;affected to Our Government. And VVe hereby Require the &s;everal Magi|&s;trats fore&s;aids, to apprehend and &s;ecure any per&s;on coming within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions without having a Pa&s;s, as &s;aid is, until the return of Our &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, as they will be an&s;werable. Our Will is herefore, and VVe Charge you &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, you pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and remanent Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the head Burghs of the VVe&s;tern and Southern Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there, by open Proclamation, make publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that all per&s;ons concerned may have notice thereof, and give obedience thereto, as they will be an&s;werable.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;ixteenth day of</HI> September, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty four, and of our Reign, the thirtieth and &s;ix Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij.</HI> WILL. PATERSON, <HI>Cl. Sti. Concilij.</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 Maje&s;ty, <HI>anno DOM.</HI> 1684.</P>
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