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</FIGURE>EDINBURGH, The 16. day of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred &s;eventy and four Years. ACT <HI>A&s;&s;uring a reward to any who &s;hall apprehend &s;ome Rebels and others.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as the keeping of Field-Conventicles, and the intruding upon, and invading of Pulpits, are mo&s;t unlawful and di&s;orderly practices, tending to the di&s;turbance of the Peace, and to the affront of His <HI>Ma|je&s;ties</HI> Authority, and notwith&s;tanding the Laws and Acts of Parlia|ment prohibiting the &s;ame, under high pains therein mentioned, the Ring-leaders, Promoters, and other per&s;ons guilty of the &s;aid di&s;or|ders, are emboldned to commit the &s;ame, pre&s;uming that they will not be di&s;covered and brought to trial and puni&s;hment: Therefore the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council for the encouragement of all His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> good Subjects to di&s;cover and apprehend all &s;uch per&s;ons as is after-mentioned, do hereby offer, declare, and give a&s;&s;urance, that if any per&s;on, being of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> &s;tanding Forces, or of the Militia, or any other His <HI>Majesties</HI> Subjects, &s;hall &s;eiz upon, and apprehend any per&s;on or per|&s;ons, who &s;ince His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> late gracious Proclamation of the 24. of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, hath Convo|cated any number of per&s;ons to Field-Conventicles, or at any <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> per&s;ons thereto, or &s;hall apprehend any Heretors or others being at Field-Conventicles, while the &s;aids per&s;ons are pre&s;ent at, or coming from the &s;ame, &s;o that the &s;aids per&s;ons apprehended &s;hall be brought to a trial, and &s;hall be found guilty and convict of the &s;aid offences, that the appre|henders of &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall have the gift of the Fines of the &s;aids per&s;ons given to them: And in|ca&s;e any per&s;on or per&s;ons be cited for the &s;aids crimes and offences, and after certification is grant|ed again&s;t them for their contumacy and not appearing, &s;hall be apprehended, the apprehenders of &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall have the gift of their E&s;cheats, and benefit ari&s;ing from the &s;aid certifications. And whoever of the &s;tanding Forces, Militia, or others His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> good Subjects, &s;hall appre|hend any Mini&s;ter or other per&s;on Preaching at any Field-Conventicle, or who hath Preached &s;ince the &s;aid Proclamation, or &s;hall at any time hereafter Preach at Field-Conventicles, or any of them. And what&s;oever per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall apprehend and &s;eiz upon any Outed Mini&s;ter who are not licenced by the Council, or any other per&s;on not authorized nor tolerat by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, who &s;ince the time fore&s;aid have invaded, or &s;hall invade any Pulpit or Pulpits, the per|&s;on or per&s;ons apprehending any of the Mini&s;ters or other per&s;ons fore&s;aid guilty of Preaching at Field-Conventicles, or invading of Pulpits, &s;hall for their reward have payed to them the &s;um of an thou&s;and Merks: And for the per&s;ons after-named, <HI>viz.</HI> Mr, <HI>John Wel&s;h,</HI> Mr. <HI>Gabriel Sempil,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Samuel Arnot,</HI> the apprehenders &s;hall have the &s;um of 2000 Merks payed to them. And His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects are not only warranted to &s;eiz upon, and apprehend the &s;aids di&s;orderly per&s;ons in manner fore&s;aid; But it further declared by the &s;aids Lords of Council, that upon con&s;ideration of the condition of the per&s;ons who &s;hall be appre|hended according as they have been more &s;tickling and active in the &s;aid di&s;orders, and the pains and diligence of the apprehenders and other circum&s;tances, they will al&s;o con&s;ider what further reward &s;hall be given to them for their &s;ervice. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Tho. Hay,</HI> Cl^s. S^t^i^. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by His <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI>'s Printers: <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1674.</P>
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