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<P><UNCLEAR>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</UNCLEAR></P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For &s;ecuring the Peace of the Shire of <HI>CAITHNESS.</HI></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 <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 notwith&s;tanding by Our Laws and Acts of <HI>Parliament,</HI> the convocating of Our Leidges without Our &s;pecial, Authority and War|rand therefore, be expre&s;sly discharged; Yet We are informed, that certain broken, and lawle&s;s Men, within Our Shir<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Caithne&s;s,</HI> have from time to time convocate them&s;elves in Arms within the &s;aid Shire and have mo&s;t unwarrantably, fir&s;t be&s;ieged, and then thrown down, the Hou&s;es bel<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">ging to the Earl of <HI>Caithne&s;s,</HI> and continues &s;till to exact upon, and oppre&s;s his Tenant<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> taking away the Corns out of his Girnels, exacting &s;ums of Money, and free Quarter, t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> the great contempt of Our Authority. And We being re&s;olved to protect all &s;uch as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 word"> peaceably under Us, and in Obedience to our Laws; Have therefore with Advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit to Declare and Te&s;tifie Our Abhorrence of all &s;uch atrocious Crimes of Oppre&s;&s;ion, and Illegal Procedure; and that We will with all &s;peed and rigor puni&s;h all &s;uch as &s;hall be found to have had any acce&s;&s;ion to the &s;ame, before our ordinar Judicatures. But lea&s;t in the mean time, the Rents and Victual payable out of the &s;aid Earls Lands &s;hould be tran&s;ported, &s;o that reparation could not be had: We do therefore expre&s;sly di&s;charge any Merchants, to buy, or any Skippers to tran&s;port the Victual growing upon any of the &s;aid Earls Lands, without his own, or his, Chamberlains Licence and con&s;ent, under the pain of the confi&s;cation of the &s;aid Ship, wherein the &s;aid Victual &s;hall be tran&s;ported. Likeas, to prevent the tran&s;porting of the &s;ame, under the name and colour of Victual belonging to private Per&s;ons: We do hereby Declare, that any &s;uch Per&s;ons who &s;hall lend their Name to &s;uch a Tran&s;portation, &s;hall be lyable to the &s;aid Earl, in the &s;um of Ten Pounds <HI>Scots,</HI> for every Boll &s;o tran&s;ported. And to the end the &s;aid Earl may have peaceable acce&s;s to his own E&s;tate in <HI>Caithne&s;s,</HI> We hereby di&s;charge all Our Subjects, of what quality &s;oever, to &s;top him, his Friends and Followers in their Journey, to and from <HI>Caithne&s;s</HI>; Commanding al&s;o hereby all &s;uch as have Ferry-Boats, to give him the ordinary and &s;peedy Pa&s;&s;age, and Our Subjects upon his Way, to provide him and them with Entertainment at the ordinary Rates of the Country, as they will be an&s;werable: Commanding hereby all Our good Subjects to countenance and a&s;&s;i&s;t Our Heraulds, Pur&s;evants, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, either for citing the Per&s;ons concerned in Our Name, or for executing Our Laws again&s;t them, and more e&s;pecially in the publication hereof. And ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh, Aberdene, Inuerne&s;s, Thur&s;o, Caithne&s;s-weik,</HI> and other places needful, that all Per&s;ons concerned may have notice of the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fourth day of <HI>March,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty Years. And of Our Reign the thirty and two Year</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>A L. GIBSON,</HI> Cl. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
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> 1680.</P>
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