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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Di&s;charging the Importing, Vending, Di&s;per&s;ing, or Keeping Seditious Books and Pamphlets.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_IAMES</HI> 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>Fora&s;much as we being informed, that there are many Impious and Scan|dalous Books and Pamphlets printed in <HI>Holland,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, Inciting Our Subjects to Murder and A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination, as well as Rebellion, to the great reproach of the <HI>Chri&s;tian-Religion,</HI> and the ruine of all Humane Society; in which al&s;o Our Government, and the Actions of Our Royal Predece&s;&s;ors, and Our own, are repre&s;ented as Cruel, Barbarous, and Tyrannical, and all &s;uch as have Served and Obeyed Us, are railed at as Enemies to GOD, and their Native Country: Not|with&s;tanding of the great Care We have always taken to Tollerate all different Per&s;wa&s;ions, and the Clemency We have &s;hown in Pardoning the greate&s;t Criminals; which Books are brought Home into this Kingdom, and Vended, and Spread here; and we being mo&s;t de&s;irous, on this, as on all other Occa&s;ions, to prevent any of Our Subjects being brought into a Snare. We have thought fit hereby to Intimat, and make Known, that if any of Our Subjects &s;hall hereafter bring Home, Vend or Sell, Di&s;per&s;e or Lend any of the Books underwritten, <HI>viz.</HI> All Tran&s;lations of <HI>Bucha|nan de Jure Regni, Lex Rex, Jus Populi, Nephtali, The Cup of cold Water, The Scots Mi&s;t, The Appo|logetical Relation, Mene Techel, The Hynd let loo&s;e, The trea&s;onable Proclamations i&s;&s;ued out at Sanquhar, and the&s;e i&s;&s;ued out by the late Duke of Monmouth, and the late Earl of Argile,</HI> or any other Books that are, or &s;hall be hereafter Written or Printed defending the&s;e Trea&s;onable and Seditious Principles, they &s;hall be lyable as if they were Authors of the &s;aids Books; and all other Our Subjects are hereby Commanded to bring in any of the &s;aids Books they have, and deliver them in to any Privy Coun&s;ellor, Sheriff, Baillie of Regality, or Bailliaries, or their Deputs, or any Magi&s;trats of Burrows, to be tran&s;mitted by them to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, to the end the &s;ame may be de&s;troyed, with Certification, that whoever (except Privy Coun&s;ellors) &s;hall be found to have any of the &s;aids Books, and not to have delivered them up, &s;hall be Fyned, for Our V&s;e, in &s;uch a Penalty, as Our Council &s;hall appoint, for each of the &s;aids Books, that he or they have not delivered up. And appoints the &s;aids Books and Pamphlets to be brought in betwixt and the Dyets following, <HI>viz.</HI> the&s;e in the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Suburbs thereof, betwixt and the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>September</HI> next to come, and all others within this Kingdom, be|twixt and the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>November</HI> next to come. And to the end Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be made publick and known, Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Com|mand, that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and whole remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication of Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es. And recommends to the Mo&s;t Reverend the Arch-Bi&s;hops, and Right Reve|rend Bi&s;hops, to cau&s;e read this Our Royal Proclamation, in all the Pulpits of this Kingdom, upon &s;ome convenient Lords Day, in the Forenoon, immediatly after Divine Service, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> the Fifteenth day of <HI>August,</HI> <DATE>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty eight Years. And of Our Reign the Fourth Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> 1688.</P>
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