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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION Appointing the Heretors of &s;everal Shires to be in readi|ne&s;s upon Fourty eight Hours Adverti&s;ement, to attend His Maje&s;ties Host, and Standard.</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 Sher|iffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Forasmuch, as this Our Ancient Kingdom is at pre&s;ent threatned with an Inva&s;ion from abroad, of <HI>French,</HI> and Forraign <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> and other Enemies, of de&s;ign to make this Nation the Seat of a Bloody War; For preventing whereof, and in order to put this Kingdom in a po&s;ture of Defence: We have thought fit, at this time, that the Heretors of the Shires after mentioned, &s;hould be in rea|dine&s;&s;e to oppo&s;e the &s;aid Inva&s;ion, and Suppre&s;&s;e any Inte&s;tine In&s;urrection that may happen; Therefore, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do command and Require all the Heretors, Wad&s;etters and Life|renters, of what&s;oever Quality, within the Shyres of <HI>Edinburgh, Hadding|toun, Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Drumfries, Dumbartoun, Bute, Linlithgow, Stirling, Clackmannan, Fife,</HI> and <HI>Kinro&s;s,</HI> and Shyres of <HI>Wig|toun</HI> and Stewartry of <HI>Kirkcudbright, Air, Lanerk, Argyll,</HI> and <HI>Renfrew</HI> and <HI>Perth Shyre.</HI> To put them&s;elves pre&s;ently in readine&s;&s;e, with their be&s;t Hor&s;es and Arms, and Provi&s;ions nece&s;&s;ary, according to their re&s;pective Qualities and E&s;tates, to meet and conveen upon Fourtie Eight hours adverti&s;ement, and attend our Ho&s;t, and Standard, as they &s;hall be called by order from Our Privy Council, for re&s;i&s;ting the &s;aid Inva&s;ion and In&s;urrection, if the &s;ame &s;hal happen under &s;uch Commanders, and Officers, and at &s;uch times, and places, as &s;hall be appointed by Our Privy Council, and there to receive &s;uch farder Orders, as &s;hall be given by Us, or the&s;e Commi&s;&s;ionat by Us: And We do hereby Certifie all herein concerned, who &s;hall not attend &s;uch Randevouzes to be appointed, &amp; obey the&s;e Pre&s;ents, in manner above-ordained, that they &s;hall be puni&s;hed as wilful Ab&s;enters from Our Ho&s;t, and Standard, with all Rigor, <HI>OUR VVILL IS HEREFORE,</HI> And We charge you &s;trickly, and Command, That incontinent, the&s;e Our Lettets &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shyres and Stewartries above-mentioned. And there in Our Name and Autho|rity, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, 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 eleventh day of <HI> December,</HI> and of Our Reign the Eight year, 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave 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 <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="2 words"> mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1696.</P>
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