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<P>IN DEFENCE</P>
<P>CR</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>GOD SAVE THE KING</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Anent Tenents and others who Shall be removed, For not taking, The BAND to live orderly,</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovites, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers or 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 The Lords of The Committy of our privy Council met in the we&s;t, By Comi&s;sion from our privy Council, having taken to their Con&s;ideration that divers Heretors, Lyfrentars and Land-Lords within the Shyres of <HI>Air, Lanerk, Renfrew, Stirling, Roxburgh, Dumfrei&s;s, Wigtoun, Stewartrie</HI> of <HI>Kirkcudburgh,</HI> And Juri&s;dictions, within the &s;ame; Have given band for them&s;elves their wyves Bairnes and Servants, that they &s;hall not be pre&s;ent at any Conventicles, and di&s;orderly meettings; But &s;hall live orderlie in obedience to the Law, under the pains and penalties contained in the acts of Parlament made ther-anent; And that there haill Tenents and Cottars <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> &s;hall Likewayes ab&s;taine, and refraine from the &s;aids Conventicles, and other illegall meetings: not authorized by the Law: And further that they &s;hall not re&s;et nor Common with Forfaulted per&s;ons, Intercommoned <HI>Ministers,</HI> or ragrant Preach|ers; But &s;hall doe there utemo&s;t Indeavor to apprehend there per&s;ones; And Inca&s;e any of there Tennents, Cottars, and there for&s;aids, &s;hall contravene; they have obliged them&s;elves to take and apprehend any Per&s;on or per&s;ones guilty thereof and pre&s;ent them to the Judge ordinar, that they may be fyned, and Impri&s;oned as is provided in the acts of Parlament made there anent: Vtherwayes that they &s;hall remove them and there Families off there ground, And if they faillie thereintill, they have oblidged them&s;elves to be lyable to &s;uch paines and penalties as the &s;aids delinquents have incurred by the Law; And the &s;aids Lords Haveing prefixed particular Dyetts for &s;uch Heretors, Lyfrentors, And others as have not alreadie given Band: To give the Same at the &s;aids Dyetts with Certification contained in the acts made there-anent. And whereas &s;ome Heretors, Lyfrentars and Landlords who have given, or &s;hal give the &s;aid Band; May be nece&s;&s;itate to remove &s;ome of there Tennents, or Cottars that may happen to be &s;o willfull as to refu&s;e to grant them bands of releiff, or that Some of their Tennents or Cottars may leave there Lands, And goe to the Lands of other Heretors upon expectation to be received as Tennents, or Cottars to them, or harbour|ed, &s;heltered, or re&s;ett in &s;ome part of their ground, to the prejudice of there former Ma&s;ters of purpo&s;e to eshew the giving of the &s;aid Band, and to di&s;appoynt the execution of our Lawes made in that behalf. We therefore with advyce of the &s;aids Lords of the Committy of our privy Councill Doe hereby prohibit and di&s;charge all Heretors, Fewars, Lyfrentars and others to re&s;ett, Supplie; or harbour any of the&s;e Tennents, or Cottars that &s;hall happen to remove, or be removed for not giving the &s;aid Band of releife from the ground and Lands of any Heretors who have given, or &s;hall give the &s;aid Band; or to &s;et them any Lands in Tak, or other wayes to permitt them to po&s;&s;e&s;s any part thereof, upon any colour, or pretext what&s;omever, under the penaltie of Six Hundreth pounds Scots for each Tennent, And three Hundreth pound money for&s;aid for each Cottar, to be payed by the Heretors, or others for&s;aids who &s;hall happen to Contraven the tenor hereof, The one half thereof to us, or to the Lords Comi&s;&s;ioners of our The&s;aury for our u&s;e, And the other half to the informer. OUR WILL IS And we charge you Straitlie and Command, That incontinent the&s;e our Letters &s;ein, yepa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of the Head-burghs of the Shires of <HI>Air, Lanerk, Renfrew. Stirling, Roxburgh, Dumfreis, Wigtoune, Stewartrie</HI> of <HI>Kirkcurdburgh,</HI> And other places needfull, and thereatin our Name and Authority by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend ignorance. The which to do we Commit to you Conjunctly and &s;everallie our full power, by the&s;e Our Letters delivering them by you duely ex|ecute and indor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at our Burgh of <HI>Air</HI> <DATE>the Eleventh day of <HI>February</HI> 1678. and of our Reigne, the threttie <HI>Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Comi&s;&s;ionis Hugh Stevensone, Cl.</HI> Com:</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King,</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>GLASGOW,</HI> Printed By <HI>Robert Sanders,</HI> Printer to the City and Univer&s;ity. 1678.</P>
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