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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For apprehending <HI>Fergus Templetoun</HI> a Murderer.</HEAD>
<P><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; To <GAP DESC="blank"> 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; Fora&s;much as We are well informed of a cruel Murder committed by <HI>Fergus Temple|toun</HI> a little black Curly-headed Man, Souldier in Captain <GAP DESC="blank"> <HI>Home</HI> his Company, in the Lord <HI>Strathnaver</HI> his Regiment, upon <HI>James Dunlop</HI> in <HI>Kirkland,</HI> with in his own Hou&s;e or Barn where he was living peaceably; the Mur|derer pretending that he was &s;earching for De&s;erters; which <HI>Fergus Temple|toun</HI> being apprehended, and committed Pri&s;oner to the Guards in <HI>Pa&s;ley,</HI> did make his e&s;cape. And We being de&s;irous that the Committers of &s;o hainous a Mur|der, &s;hould be brought to condign puni&s;hment. Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby Require and Command all our Ma|gi&s;trats, Officers, Souldiers, and others Our Liedges, to do their outmo&s;t endea|vour and diligence to apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Fergus Templetoun,</HI> and deliver him Pri&s;o|ner to the Magi&s;trats of any of Our Burghs, to be by them kept in &s;afe Cu&s;tody, untill he be brought to tryal, and &s;uffer condign puni&s;hment for the &s;aid Crime. And We out of Our dete&s;tation to &s;uch a horrid Crime, and to the effect the &s;ame may not go unpuni&s;hed&punc; And for encouraging of per&s;ons to &s;earch for, and ap|prehend the Murderer; do hereby make offer of the Sum of Five hun|dred Merks to any per&s;on or per&s;ons who &s;hall apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Fergus Templetoun,</HI> and deliver him Pri&s;oner to the Magi&s;trats of of any of Our Burghs, which We hereby promi&s;e &s;hall be faithfully payed as a Reward to the &s;aid per&s;on or per&s;ons, lot their apprehending of the &s;aid Mur|derer, Indemnifying hereby all Per&s;ons from all hazard of Slaughter, Mutilation, or any other Acts of Violence, which they may commit again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Fergus Temple|toun,</HI> or any Per&s;ons with him, in apprehending the &s;aid Murderer. And we with Advice <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ore&s;aid peremptorly Inhibit and Di&s;charge, all and every our Leidges what&s;oever, to Shelter Harbour, Conceal, or any ways A&s;&s;i&s;t or Supply the &s;aid <HI>Fergus Templetoun,</HI> upon their highe&s;t peril. OUR WILL IS HERE|FORE, 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,</HI> and Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the whole remanent Burghs in this Kingdom, and other Places needful, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may 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 Fir&s;t day of <HI>February,</HI> and of Our Reign the fifth Year, <HI>1694</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii <SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King <HI>VVilliam</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printers to Their Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1694.</P>
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