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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
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PROCLAMATION For Apprehending Sir <HI>George Barclay.</HI></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, Sir <HI>George Barclay</HI> having entered into a Horrid and Dete&s;table Con&s;piracy, with diver&s;e other Wicked and Traiterous Per&s;ons, to A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate and Murder Our Sacred Per&s;on, is not yet apprehended and brought to Justice, but is &s;uppo&s;ed to have made his e&s;cape out of the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> (whers that execrable Villany was to have been Perpetrat) and to have fled to, and taken his Refuge in this Our Ancient Kingdom; And We being re&s;olved to u&s;e all endiavours, to bring &s;uch a Barbarous Traitor to Condign puni&s;hment. Do therefore, Require and Command all Magi&s;trats, and Mini&s;ters of Our Law, Officers of Our Army, and Souldiers under Our pay: and all other the good Sub|jects of this Our Antient Kingdom, what&s;oever, to Di&s;cover, Seize upon; Take and apprehend, the Per&s;on of the &s;aid Sir <HI>George Barclay,</HI> wherever he may be found, and to carry him to the next &s;ure Pri&s;on, where he is to be detained till farther Order, and Our Privy Council to be immediatly acquainted therewith : And for the Encouragement of all Per&s;ons, to be diligent and careful in Di&s;covering, and Apprehending the &s;aid Sir <HI>George Barclay,</HI> We do hereby Declare, that who&s;oever &s;hall Apprehend the &s;aid Sir <HI>George Barclay,</HI> and deliver him to any Magi&s;trat within this Kingdom, to be detained Pri&s;oner as &s;aid is, &s;hall receive, and have payed to them the Sum of One thou&s;and pounds Sterling as a reward for their good &s;ervice, which Sum We hereby require the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioner of Our Trea&s;ury, to make payment of accordingly; And in ca&s;e any of Our good Subjects &s;hall Kill, Mutilator hurt the &s;aid Sir <HI>George Barclay,</HI> or any per&s;on who &s;hall pre&s;ume to withstand Our good Subjects in the Apprehending of him, the &s;aids Per&s;ons who &s;hall Kill, Hurt, or Wound the &s;aid Sir <HI>George Bar|clay</HI> or any others who &s;hall &s;tand up Violently to Defend or withstand his being Apprehended, &s;hall be hereby as &s;ufficiently Indemnified, as if they had a Remi&s;&s;ion under Our Great Seal for the &s;ame: And farther, We hereby &s;trictly Prohibite and Di&s;charge all the Subjects of this Our Ancient Kingdom, to Conceal, Harbour, or Supplie the &s;aid Sir <HI>George Barclay,</HI> under the Pains of being proceeded again&s;t with all Rigor, according to the &s;everal Laws and Acts of Parliament made anent Harbouring, or Re&s;etting Fugitives and Traitors. <HI>OUR WILL IS HEREFORE,</HI> 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 of <HI>Edinburgh</HI>; and to the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the whole remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;e|veral Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and There in Our Name and Authority, by open Procla|mation, make Publication of the Premi&s;es, that none may pretend Ignorance, And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Seventh Day of <HI>May,</HI> and of Our Reign the Eight Year, 1696</DATE>.</DATELINE>
Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</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 the Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1696.</P>
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