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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For Apprehending the per&s;ons After-named, as having been in <HI>France</HI> contrair to tke Acts of Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France and 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 Severally, Specially Con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For as much as by the Eighth Act of the fourth Se&s;&s;ion of this Our current Parliament; It is Statute and Or|dained, That none of the Subjects within this Kingdom without expre&s;s leave from Us or Our Privy Council &s;hould pre&s;ume to go to the Kingdom of France, or any of the Dominions &s;ubject to the French King after the fir&s;t day of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety three, or being already in the &s;aid Kingdom of France, or Countries fore&s;aid, &s;hould pre&s;ume to &s;tay or abide therein after the fir&s;t day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> then next to come, without expre&s;s leave from Us, or Our Privy Council under the pain of Trea|&s;on: Neverthele&s;s in manife&s;t contempt of the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, and Us and Our Authority, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Grahame Young|er of Duntroon, Mr. Charles Kinnaird brother to the Lord Kinnaird, Mr. Alexander Maitland brother to the Earl of Lauderdale, Captain <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Deans, Captain <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Ruthven, Lieutenant I&s;aac Threcal, Lieutenant <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Auchmouty, En&s;ign Alex|ander Innes, Lieutenants Daniel and John Banes, En&s;ign William Ram&s;ay, &s;ometime in Hodge's Regiment, En&s;ign Alexander San|delands &s;ometime in Wauchop's Regiment, En&s;ign Laurence Drummond of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Captain Robert Somervail, Captain William David&s;on, Lieutenant William Main, Lieutenant James Hender&s;on, En&s;ign Robert Southerland, En&s;ign Alexander Sinclair, Lieute|nant John Bell, &s;ometime in D'Offerel's Regiment, En&s;ign William Innes in D'Offerel's Regiment, En&s;ign William Lyon in the &s;aid Regiment, William and Hugh Southerlands Nephewes to Major General Southerland, Walter Nisbet &s;on to Alexander Nisbet of Graigintinny, William Sinclair &s;on to the decea&s;'d <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Sinclair of Dun, Thomas Clark brother to the decea&s;'d Mr. William Clark Advocat, Robert Kinloch of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Mr, William Pear&s;on &s;on to <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Pear&s;on &s;ometime Mini&s;ter at Stirling, Alex|ander Nisbet &s;on to <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Nisbet Merchant in Gla&s;gow, Mr. James O&s;wald &s;ometime Chappeland to the Lady Halket, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Cuthbert &s;on to Cuthbert Provo&s;t of Inverne&s;s, Captain Patrick Grahame, Captains Robert and William Charters, Cap|tain John Ram&s;ay, Lieutenant Collonel Rattray, Lieutenant Collonel Oliphant, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas, Robert Stuart Agent in Edinburgh, En&s;ign John Menzies &s;on to <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Menzies of Comrie, Major John Gordon, Captain James Adam&s;on, Charles Far|quhar&s;on <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Robert King, Captain John Living&s;ton, Lieutenant John Creighton, Sir John M^clain of that Ilk, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Irwine of Stepletoun, Captain <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Mair; have dared mo&s;t pre&s;umptuou&s;ly to repair and go to the &s;aid Kingdom of France, or being therein to Remain and Continue within the &s;ame, after the times prefixed by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament; whereby they have manife&s;tly incurred the pain of Trea&s;on &s;pecified in the &s;aid Act: And We being Informed that the &s;aids Guilty Per&s;ons are Returned to, and Lurk within this Our ancient Kingdom without being Sea&s;ed upon, and brought to Condign Puni&s;hment as their Crime de&s;erves; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, hereby Require and Command, the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom and their Deputs, The Stewarts of Stewartries, Baillies of Regalities and their Deputs, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs within their Re&s;pective Juri&s;|dictions, To &s;earch for, take, and Apprehend all and every one of the Per&s;ons above named, and commit them to &s;afe Cu&s;tody, and &s;ure Firmance, and detain them Pri&s;oners within their Re&s;pective Tolbuiths until they be brought to Tryal and condign Puni&s;hment for the Crimes above-written; And that they report their Diligence in the Premi&s;&s;es to the Lords of Our Privy Council betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>Aprile</HI> next to come, under the pain of being reckoned Countenancers of, and Connivers at the &s;aids Trea&s;onable Per&s;ons; As al&s;o We with Advice fore&s;aid, Impower and Command all the Officers of Our Army, and Our other good Subjects within this Kingdom to Sea&s;e upon, Take, and Apprehend all or any of the Per&s;ons above-named, where ever they can be Di&s;covered, And deliver them to the next Magi&s;trat, to be Committed and detained Pri&s;oners in manner above-&s;pecified and to the effect none of Our good Sujects may be En&s;nared, or made partakers of the Guilt of the &s;aids Per|&s;ons by their Lurking among them. We with Advice fore&s;aid Strictly Prohibit and Di&s;charge any of Our Subjects within this Kingdom, to Harbour, Re&s;et, Provide, or any ways Relieve and Supply any of the fore&s;aids Per&s;ons; but that they Deliver them up to one or other of the Magi&s;trats fore&s;aids to be Proceeded again&s;t according to Ju&s;tice, under the pains contained in the Acts of Parliament made thereanent. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you Strictly, 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 remnant Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom; And there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation make Intima|tion hereof, that none pretend Ignorance; 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 Twelfth Day of</HI> March, <HI>And of Our Reign the &s;eventh Year,</HI> 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</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 His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1696.</P>
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