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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Anent &s;ome Rebels, Robbers, Fugitives, and Thieves, who are, or have been lately in Arms in the Braes of <HI>Lochaber.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_JAMES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;undry our good and loving Subjects, to who&s;e knowledge the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, Greet|ing,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as We having granted a Commi&s;&s;ion of Fire and Sword to the Laird of <HI>M^cinto&s;h,</HI> for recovering po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Lands of <HI>Keapoch,</HI> and others detained from him illegally by <HI>Coll M^cdonald</HI> and his Adherents; and having joyned with the Laird of <HI>M^cinto&s;h,</HI> a Company of Our Forces under the Command of Captain <HI>M^ckenzie</HI> of <HI>Suddy,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Coll</HI> having a&s;&s;ociat to him&s;elf all the Out|laws, and other de&s;perat Thieves and Robbers bearing the &s;irname of <HI>M^cdonald,</HI> and others their A&s;&s;o|ciats and Accomplices, to the number of &s;even or eight hundred men; they did in a mo&s;t trea&s;onable and rebellious manner, dare to Invade and Surprize &s;uch as were cloathed with Our Authority, and to Murder and A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inat many of them: And We being fully Re&s;olved in all ca&s;es to defend and maintain Our Subject; in their ju&s;t Rights, Properties and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and to puni&s;h &s;everely &s;uch as either oppo&s;e Our Autho|rity, or injure them; We have thought fit and nece&s;&s;ary to Commi&s;&s;ionat others of Our Forces, under the Command of Cap|tain <HI>Charles Straiton,</HI> to repair to the &s;aid place, and to reduce by all po&s;&s;ible means and methods the &s;aids Rebels, and to require the Chiefs of all the Neighbouring Clanns to be ready, with &s;uch numbers of their Clanns, Friends, and Followers, as &s;hall be de&s;ired and required to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in the way and manner expre&s;t in Our re&s;pective Letters to them; And for the more &s;peedy and effectual &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the &s;aids Rebels, We do hereby Declare, that whoever &s;hall Maintain, Harbour, or Re&s;ett them, by them|&s;elves or others, give the lea&s;t A&s;&s;i&s;tance, by Meat, Drink, Money, or any other Supply, or &s;hall omit to do their outmo&s;t en|deavour for apprehending them, or &s;hall any manner of way Intercommune with them, &s;hall be puni&s;hed as acce&s;&s;ories to their Crimes and Accomplices thereof, with the outmo&s;t &s;everity of Our Laws. We do al&s;o hereby Order and Command all the &s;aids Chiefs of Clanns, Heretors, Wod&s;etters, Liferenters; Tack&s;men, Chamberlains and others, Bordering upon any part of Our Seas, Firths, or I&s;les, to &s;ecure all their Boats and Pa&s;&s;ages, to the end none of the &s;aids Traitors be Ferried over, and that as they &s;hall be an&s;werable upon their highe&s;t peril. And for the better pro&s;ecution of all the &s;aids ends and de&s;igns, We hereby Di&s;charge any of Our Subjects to travel in the High-lands without Pa&s;&s;es from their Land-lords and Ma&s;ters, and that ay and while the &s;aids Rebels be fully reduced: Impowering hereby any having Commi&s;&s;ion from Us, or any under their Command, to &s;eize and apprehend &s;uch as want Pa&s;&s;es, ay and till they be able to give a &s;ufficient account of them&s;elves. Expecting that all Our good Subjects will concurr in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing and rooting out the &s;aids Barbarous and Inhumane Traitors to their outmo&s;t power, which We will look upon as mo&s;t acceptable &s;ervice; Indemnifying hereby fully all &s;uch who &s;hall act or concurr in the pro&s;ecution of this Our Proclamation. And to the end Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be made publick and known, Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly, 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 whole remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication of Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Fifteenth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty eight Years; and of Our Reign the Fourth Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. COLIN M^c KENZIE Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty: Anno DOM.</HI> 1688.</P>
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