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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Sei&s;ing the Hor&s;es and Arms of Papists, and Per&s;ons above the Degree of Commons, not Qualified according to the Act of Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</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 by the Sixth Act of the Fourth Se&s;&s;ion of this Our current Parliament, <HI>It is Statute and Ordained, that all Per&s;ons who &s;hall not &s;wear the Oath of Allegiance, and &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;ame, with the A&s;&s;urance to Us, &s;hall not be allowed to keep any Hor&s;es above an hundred Merks Price, nor any &s;ort of Arms more than a Walking-Sword, certifying &s;uch as &s;hould be found to have Hor&s;es and Arms contrary to that Provi&s;ion, either in their own or in the keeping of others, that both the Owner and Keeper &s;hould incur the Penalty of an thou&s;and Merks, the one half to the Informer, and the other to Us.</HI> And by the fore&s;aid Act, the Lords of Our Privy Council are Authorized and Impowered to take &s;uch further effectual Methods for Di&s;arming the&s;e Per&s;ons, and &s;eizing of their Hor&s;es above the fore&s;aid Value, as they &s;hould judge nece&s;&s;ary. And We Con&s;idering how requi&s;ite and needful it is at this time, that all Papi&s;ts, and Heretors, and others, above the degree of Commons within this Kingdom, who have not &s;worn the Oath of Allegiance, and &s;ub&s;cribed the &s;ame, with the A&s;&s;urance to Us, &s;hould be Di&s;armed, and their Hor&s;es above the Price fore&s;aid &s;eized and imployed for Our U&s;e, to oppo&s;e and with&s;tand the Inva&s;ion now threatned from <HI>France.</HI> And for the better &s;ecuring the Peace and Quiet of this Our Kingdom from all Di&s;turbance and Commotion, that may be moved or made within the &s;ame, in ca&s;e any &s;uch Forraign Inva&s;ion &s;hould happen, have therefore thought fit, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, to Require and Command; likeas, with Advice fore&s;aid, We hereby peremptorly Require and Command the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires of this King|dom, Stewarts of Stewartries, Baillies of Regalities, and their re&s;pective Deputs, and the Magi&s;trats of Burghs within their &s;everal Juri&s;di|ctions, immediatly after Publication hereof, to pa&s;s through every Paroch within their re&s;pective Bounds, and call before them all the Pa|pi&s;ts, and the Heretors and others above the degree of Commons within the &s;ame, who have not taken, or will not take the Oath of Alle|giance, and &s;ub&s;cribe, the &s;ame with the A&s;&s;urance to Us; and Require and Command them upon Oath to Declare, what Hor&s;es they had &s;ince the fir&s;t of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, or pre&s;ently have above the Price of an Hundred Merks, and in who&s;e Cu&s;tody they are, and what Arms more than a Walking-Sword, they &s;ince the day fore&s;aid had, or pre&s;ently have belonging to them, and immediatly to deliver into the Cu&s;tody and Keeping of the &s;aid Sheriff, or their Deputs, or other Magi&s;trats <HI>re&s;pective</HI> fore&s;aid, before whom they &s;hall Depone the &s;aids Hor&s;es and Arms in their Cu&s;tody, to be keeped by the &s;aid Sheriffs and other Magi&s;trats fore&s;aids, in &s;ure Cu&s;tody, untill they make report of the Number thereof to the Lords of Our Privy Council, which they are hereby Required to do, betwixt and the Second day of <HI>April</HI> next for all upon this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> and for all the re&s;t of this Kingdom betwixt and the Fifth Day of <HI>May</HI> next, under the pain of Five Hundred Merks <HI>Scots</HI>; and where either the &s;aids Heretors, and others fore&s;aids, do not Compear and Depone, or do not in&s;tantly deliver the &s;aids Hor&s;es and Arms, acknowledged by their Oath to belong to them. We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Sheriffs and other Magi&s;trats <HI>re&s;pective</HI> above named, within their &s;everal Juri&s;dictions, to &s;eize upon the Hor&s;es and Arms belonging to the &s;aids Per&s;ons, and take the &s;ame into their Cu|&s;tody and Keeping, where-ever they can be found, and make report thereof betwixt and the day fore&s;aid, under the Pains above-&s;et-down. and for the more effectual Execution of the Premi&s;&s;es, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Impower and Authorize any of the Magi&s;trats <HI>re&s;pecti|ve</HI> above-named, to call for, and we hereby Require and Ordain the Commander in Chief of Our Forces, to grant &s;uf|ficient Parties of Our Troops whenever they &s;hall be required, to go along with, and be a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid re&s;pective Magi&s;trats, in fei&s;ing upon, and &s;earching for the &s;aids Hor&s;es and Arms to be delivered to, and detained by the &s;aids re&s;pective Magi&s;trats, and reported to Our Privy Council, in manner above-mentioned; And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the &s;aids re&s;pective Magi&s;trats, in the Report to be made by them to Our Privy Council, and likewi&s;e the Officers of Our Troops that &s;hall be imployed for their A&s;&s;i&s;tance, to Declare upon Oath, that they have not re&s;tored or given back any Hor&s;es above the price of one hundred Merks, or Arms more than a Walking-Sword to any of the fore&s;aids per&s;ons not qualified according to Law, or others belonging to them, but that they have effectually Seized, and Reported all the Hor&s;es above the price fore&s;aid, and Arms more than the &s;aid Walking-Sword belonging to any of the &s;aids unqualified He|retors, and others fore&s;aids within their re&s;pective Bounds, conform to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, and the Orders here &s;et down, and how &s;oon &s;oever the &s;aid Report &s;hall be made; We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, will &s;end the nece&s;&s;ary Orders to the Sheriffs and other Magi&s;trats re&s;pective above-named, how to di&s;po&s;e upon the &s;aids Hor&s;es and Arms to the be&s;t Advantage for Our Ser|vice, which they are punctually to ob&s;erve and obey, as they will be an&s;werable. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and we Charge you &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof that none pretend Ignorance, and Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the thirteenth day of <HI>March,</HI> and of Our Reign the &s;eventh year <HI>1696.</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>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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