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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Di&s;covering and Apprehending &s;uch as Rob the Pacquets.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith, </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as &s;ome Per&s;ons of Per|nicious and Di&s;loyal Principles, have frequently of late made it their bu&s;ine&s;s to Rob and away-take the ordinary Pacquet, and thereby have done their outmo&s;t endeavours to Intercept Our Royal Commands to Our Commi&s;&s;ioner and Privy Council, and to hinder that Communication, which is ab&s;olutely requi|&s;ite, both for the right Admini&s;tration of Our Government, and the Support of Trade and Commerce among&s;t Our good Subjects, to the high Contempt of Our Authority, and the great Lo&s;s and Damnage of Our People; and particularly, <HI>James Seton</HI> Younge&s;t lawful Son to the Vi&s;count of <HI>King&s;toun,</HI> and <HI>John Seton,</HI> Brother-German to <HI>Sir George Seton</HI> of <HI>Garlestoun,</HI> being highly di&s;affected to Us, and Our Government; Did upon <HI>Saturnday</HI> la&s;t, the Sixteenth day of Au|gu&s;t current, in the After-noon, (having at fir&s;t put on Ma&s;ques on their Faces,) in an Ho&s;tile manner, A&s;&s;ault, and Fall upon the Po&s;t-Boy of <HI>Cockburn&s;path,</HI> betwixt the Alms-hou&s;e and <HI>Hedderwick-muire,</HI> as he was Riding the ordinary Pacquet from <HI>Cockburn&s;path</HI> to <HI>Haddingtoun</HI>; and holding a Bended Pi&s;tol to his Brea&s;t, threatned to kill him; and having tyed the Hor&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Po&s;t boys Feet, and bound him&s;elf with Cords, did carry away the Pacquet towards <HI>Garletoun</HI>; and the Per&s;ons a|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">ed, having been afterwards under Cu&s;tody; and being Con&s;cious to them&s;elves of their own Guilt, have made their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">nd at thi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> of Ju&s;tice: And We being earne&s;tly de&s;irous, that the&s;e Per&s;ons, als well as any <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> and Villainous Crimes, &s;hould be Di&s;covered and Apprehended, that they may be <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Puni&s;hment, and that &s;uch a bold Enterprize may not be attempted for the future; Do therefore, with <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> of Our Privy Council, Command and Require all Our Sheriffs, Stewarts, Magi&s;trats of Our Royal Burghs, Baillies of Our Bailliaries and Regalities, Ju&s;tices of Peace, and all other Mini&s;ters of Our Law, to make diligent Search and Enquiry for the &s;aid <HI>James</HI> and <HI>John Setons,</HI> or any others whom they can di&s;cover to have been acce&s;&s;ory with them in the &s;aids Crimes, and all &s;uch who hitherto have enterprized &s;uch a daring Attempt, as the Robbing and Stealing of Our ordinary Pacquet and to Commit them to Pri&s;on, until they be Tryed according to Law. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, hereby pe|remptorily Prohibite and Di&s;charge all and &s;undry Our Leidges, from Robbing, Reaving, or Stealing, Stopping, or Inter|cepting of the ordinary Pacquet, Black-Box, or By-Bag, whether by open Force and Violence, or otherways, under the Pains and Penalties due to Common-Reavers and Robbers, and Di&s;turbers of the Publick Peace, by the Laws and Practicque of this Nation: And in ca&s;e any &s;hall be &s;o daringly bold, as to attempt any &s;uch thing hereafter, We with Advice and Con&s;ent of Our Privy Council, Ordain all Our Leidges, upon the fir&s;t notice thereof, immediatly to Ri&s;e, Cry, Rai&s;e the Fray, and follow them, with Certification to &s;uch who &s;hall be negligent herein, or who ever Re&s;ets or Intertains them with Meat, Drink, Lodging, or otherways, &s;hall be holden and repute as Partakers, and Art and Part of the &s;aids Crimes, and &s;hall be Puni&s;hed according|ly. And for the more effectual Di&s;covery and Apprehending of the &s;aids <HI>James</HI> and <HI>John Setons,</HI> or any others, which have, or &s;hall be guilty of the &s;aids Crimes, of Seizing upon, Stealing, or Intercepting of the &s;aids Pacquets, We, with Ad|vice fore&s;aid, do A&s;&s;ure and Declare, that what-ever Charges and Expences &s;hall be laid out by any of Our Leidges, upon the &s;aid Service, or what ever damnage &s;hall be &s;u&s;tained by them, in di&s;covering and apprehending of the &s;aids Criminals, &s;hall be duely refounded and payed to them, with a competent Reward for their pains and diligence, according to the Qua|lity and Merit of the &s;aid Service. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you &s;traitly, and Command that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh, Haddingtoun, Dunce,</HI> and other places needful, and that at the re|&s;pective Places, in Our Name and Authority, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Ninteenth day of Augu&s;t, One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety and of Our Reign the Second Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave King WILLIAM and Queen Mary</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1690.</P>
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