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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For the Security of MINISTERS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the thirteenth day of</HI> June, <HI>one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;even.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<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 Lovits,  <GAP DESC="blank">  Me&s;&s;engers, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as We, by divers Acts of Parliaments and Proclamations, have expre&s;&s;ed and declared Our Royal care and re&s;o|lution, to protect the Orthodox and well-affected Clergy and Mini&s;ters: And to that effect and purpo&s;e, a Proclamation was i&s;&s;ued by Us upon the fifth of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, com|manding all Heretors and Parochioners within the We&s;tern Shires therein mentioned, to protect and defend the per&s;ons, families and goods of their re&s;pective Mini&s;ters within their &s;everal Paroches, from all affronts and injuries to be committed by in&s;olent and di&s;-affected per&s;ons to the pre&s;ent Government, in manner, with, and under the certifications and pains therein contained. And neverthele&s;s, the malice and rage of &s;uch per&s;ons is &s;o implacable again&s;t loyal Mini&s;ters, upon no other account, but that they are faithful and obedient to Our Laws and Authority, that of late, &s;ince the &s;aid Proclamation, divers outrages have been committed within the &s;aids we&s;tern and other Shires, by invading and wounding the per&s;ons of &s;everal Mini&s;ters, a&s;&s;aulting them in their hou&s;es, and plundering and robbing their goods, to the great &s;candal of Religion, contempt of Our Authority, and di&s;couragement of the Preachers of the Go&s;pel, and is a great incouragement to &s;uch &s;acraligious and wicked per&s;ons, that within the Paroches where &s;uch in&s;olencies are committed and done to Mini&s;ters, there is no wanting per&s;ons of the &s;ame temper and principles, who do &s;ecretly favour and comply with them; and they do pre&s;ume, that the Actors with-drawing, the Parochioners will not be que&s;tioned, and that they will not think them&s;elves concerned to prevent or repair the wrongs done to the Mini&s;ters. Therefore We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, command and charge all Heretors, Life-renters and others, having any real intere&s;t and rent within the &s;everal Paroches of the Kingdom, whither they re&s;ide within the &s;ame or not, their Bailies, Chamberlains and others having tru&s;t under them, and all other Parochioners, to protect, defend, and &s;ecure the per&s;ons, families and goods of their Mini&s;ters, not only in the exerci&s;e of their Mini&s;terial Function, but in their dwelling-hou&s;es, or being el&s;ewhere within the Paroch, from all injuries, affronts and prejudices which they may incur in their per&s;ons and goods, from the violence and inva&s;ion of any phanatick or di&s;-affected per&s;on: and that upon the notice of any attempt of &s;uch, they immediately repair to any place where they &s;hall beat &s;uch injuries are offered, and &s;eize upon the per&s;ons of the committers; and in ca&s;e that they flye out of the &s;aids bounds, that they give notice to the Sheriff or any Gar|ri&s;on or Forces that &s;hall be neare&s;t to the&s;e places, that they may pur&s;ue them till they be apprehended and brought to tryal: With certification, that if any &s;uch outrages &s;hall be committed, the Actors, and all per&s;ons who &s;hall have any acce&s;sion to the &s;ame, and &s;hall aid, a&s;&s;i&s;t, or any way comply with, or &s;hall willingly re&s;&s;et and conceal the delinquents, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t and puni&s;hed with all &s;everity, as equally guilty with the invadors. And farther, if they be not apprehended and brought to tryal by the means and diligence of the Parochioners, Letters &s;hall be directed at the in&s;tance of Our Advocat, to cite the Parochioners to appear before the Lords of Our Privy Council, at the lea&s;t to &s;end three or four of their number &s;pecially authorized for that effect, to hear and &s;ee the Parochioners decerned to pay to the Mini&s;ter for reparation, damage and intere&s;t, &s;uch a &s;um and fine as Our Coun|cil &s;hall think fit to determine, (&s;pecial con&s;ideration being alwayes had of well-affected Heretors and Parochio|ners, who con&s;tantly attend the publick Ordinances, and as they are required by the Mini&s;ters, concur with them in the exerci&s;e of Church-di&s;cipline, who are to be relieved of the half of the fine to be impo&s;ed, which is to be payed by the di&s;-affected, who are to be tryed to be &s;uch by the Ju&s;tices of Peace, or other Judge-ordinar) and a citation of Parochioners in general, at the Mercat-cro&s;s of the Shire, being intimate at the Paroch-church upon a Sunday before-noon after divine Service, We declare to be &s;ufficient; and the &s;aid &s;um &s;o to be modified, &s;hall be divided among&s;t the Heretors and Life-renters and others, according to their re&s;pective Valuations, and is to be advanced and payed by them to the Sheriffs, Stewarts, or Bailies of Regalities and Baileries, who are hereby ordained by them&s;elves or their Deputes, to uplift the &s;ame for the u&s;e of the Mini&s;ter, and to u&s;e all lawful execu|tion for that effect: And for relief of the &s;aids Heretors, Life-renters and others fore&s;aids, their &s;everal Tennents are hereby ordained to pay the third part of the &s;everal proportions payable by their Ma&s;ters; and where any per|&s;on has more Tennents then one, the third part payable for relief of their Ma&s;ter is to be divided and proportioned betwixt their Tennents proportionally, and according to the duty they pay <HI>re&s;pective:</HI> And if any que&s;tion ari&s;e there|anent, either among&s;t the Tennents them&s;elves, or the Tennents and their Ma&s;ters, the &s;ame is to be determined by the Iu&s;tices of Peace or Sheriff of the Shires, or other Iudges Ordinar in who&s;e jurisdiction they re&s;ide, in the option of the complainers. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of the head Burghs of this Kingdom, and read at all Paroch-churches upon a Sunday before-noon, after divine Service, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1667.</P>
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