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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="royal proclamation">
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<P>W R</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Publi&s;hing the <HI>Peace</HI> betwixt His Maje&s;ty and the <HI>French</HI> King.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM, By the Grace of <HI>GOD,</HI> King of Great-<HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon, King at Arms; his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Coun|cil, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and Severally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas, a Peace hath been Treated and Concluded at Our Royal Palace of <HI>Re&s;|wick,</HI> the Tenth day of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, between Us and the <HI>French</HI> King, and the Ratifications thereof &s;ince Exchanged, in conformity thereunto; We have thought &s;it hereby, to Command that the &s;ame be Publi&s;hed through|out all Our Dominions: And We do hereby Declare, that all Ships, Merchandizes, and other moveable Goods what&s;oever, which have been, or &s;hall be taken from the Subjects of the <HI>French</HI> King, after the Twenty &s;econd of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, in the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> and North Seas; after the Twenty &s;econd of <HI>October</HI> In&s;tant, from the &s;aid <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> and North Seas, as far as the <HI>Cape</HI>-St. <HI>Vincent;</HI> after the Nynteenth of <HI>November</HI> next, beyond the &s;aid <HI>Cape</HI>-St. <HI>Vincent</HI> on this &s;ide of the Equinoctial Line, as well in the Ocean and <HI>Mediterranean</HI> Sea, as el&s;e where; And la&s;tly, after the Tenth of <HI>March</HI> next to come, beyond the &s;aid Line throughout the whole World, without any Exception or di&s;tinction of Time or Place, and without any Form of Proce&s;s &s;hall immediately, and without Damnage be Re&s;tored to the Owners, according to the &s;aid Treaty. <HI>OUR WILL IS HEREFORE,</HI> and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Commands, that Incontinent the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful, and in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof, that all may have Intimation, and none may pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Twenty Sixth Day of <HI>October,</HI> and of Our Reign the Ninth Year, <HI>1697.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1697.</P>
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