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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Di&s;charging Corre&s;pondence and Commerce with <HI>France.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM by the Grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> 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,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For|asmuch as, albeit the Corre&s;ponding and keeping Commerce with our Ene|mies, again&s;t whom we are now in a State of War, is Di&s;charged by &s;everal Laws and Acts of Parliament under the pain of Trea&s;on, and particularly by the eight Act of the third Se&s;&s;ion of this Our Current Parliament, all our Subjects are expre&s;ly Di&s;charged to go to the Kingdom of <HI>France,</HI> or any of the Dominions &s;ubject to the <HI>French</HI> King, after the fir&s;t Day of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety three years, or being already in the &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>France,</HI> or Countries fore&s;aid to &s;tay or abide therein after the fir&s;t day of <HI>August</HI> in the &s;aid year, without expre&s;s Leave from Us, or the Lords of Our Privy Council, under the pain of Trea&s;on; yet &s;undrie of Our Sub|jects pre&s;ume to have Commerce, and to Corre&s;pond and keep Intelligence with Per&s;ons Re&s;iding in the &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>France,</HI> now in a State of War with Us, or Dominions thereto belonging, without Authority fore&s;aid: Therefore, and to the effect, Our Subjects may know their Danger in the Premi&s;&s;es, if they &s;hall for hereafter Tran&s;gre&s;s in manner fore&s;aid; We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do &s;trictly Prohibit and Di&s;charge all and every one of Our Subjects within this Our Antient King|dom to Corre&s;pond, keep Intelligence, or have any Commerce what&s;omever with the &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>France,</HI> or Per&s;ons Re&s;iding within the &s;ame, or Domi|nions belonging to the <HI>French</HI> King, without Authority fore&s;aid, under the Pain of being Puni&s;hed as Corre&s;ponders with Declared Traitours, to the outmo&s;t Ri|gor; Declaring hereby that this &s;hall be without Prejudice of any former Acts made again&s;t Trea&s;on, or Trea&s;onable Corre&s;pondencies, or the Puni&s;hment of &s;uch as have already incurred the Pains thereof. <HI>Our Will Is Herefore,</HI> 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 Mercat Cro&s;|&s;es of the Head-burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Our Kingdom: and there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none may pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Twenty fir&s;t day of <HI>January,</HI> and of Our Reign the Seventh year, 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Coneilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
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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