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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For the Exerci&s;e of the Government in His Majesties Name only.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To Our Lyon King at Arms, his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, or 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 it hath Plea&s;ed Almighty GOD to remove by Death, Our Dear Con&s;ort, Queen <HI>Mary;</HI> So that the Sole and Full Right of the Crown and Royal Dig|nity of this Our Antient Kingdom, as well as the Exerci&s;e of the &s;aid Royal Power, is now in Our Sole Per&s;on, and to be Exerci&s;ed by Us, for hereafter, in Our Name only: Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Have thought fit to Intimat and Declare, that for hereafter the fore|&s;aid Royal Power is to be Exerci&s;ed in Our Name only, and that all Letters, Gifts, Patents, and other Writs what&s;omever, which heretofore were in u&s;e to pa&s;s in the Name of &V;s, and the &s;aid Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> are for hereafter to be Di|rected, and to pa&s;s in Our Name only. And further, That the Oath of Al|ledgance is hereafter to be Sworn, and the &s;ame, and the A&s;&s;urance Sub&s;cribed by all concerned to Swear and Sub&s;cribe the &s;ame to Us, and in Our Name only: Siklike, and in the &s;ame Manner as they were in u&s;e before to be Sub&s;cribed and &s;worn to Us, and the &s;aid Queen <HI>Mary</HI> Joyntly. OUR WILL IS Herefore, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Command, That Incontinent thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mer|cat-Cro&s;&s;es of the whole head Burghs of the re&s;pective Shires, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, And there In Our Name and Authority, by open Pro|clamation, make Publication hereof, to the effect all Our Liedges may regu|lat them&s;elves accordingly; And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;econd Day of</HI> January. <HI>And of Our Reign the &s;ixth year,</HI> 1695.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI>
<SIGNED>D A: MONCRIEFF, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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