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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>A PROCLAMATION.</HI> Containing his Maje&s;ties Gracious Pardon and Indemnity.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P><HI>_CHARLES</HI> the Second, by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Scotland, England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects whom the&s;e pre&s;ents do or may concern, Greet|ing: The ju&s;t Re&s;entments We have of the rebellious cour&s;es taken by &s;ome in that Our ancient King|dom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by poi&s;oning Our people with Principles incon&s;i&s;tent with true Piety, and all Hu|mane Society, as well as with Our Royal Government, and of the humorous Factions of others, who (under pretext of re-pre&s;entin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> Grievances to Us) have mo&s;t unju&s;tly, both in <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> Defamed our Judicatures of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and thereby weakened Our Authority, therein repre&s;ented; All which, did not hinder Us from endeavouring to quiet the one by Our late Proclamation; and the other by a publick Hearing and Debate: And being mo&s;t de&s;irous to cover all the Imperfections of Our Subjects, and to remove the Fears and Jealou&s;ies, whence they proceed; We have therefore, by Our Royal Authority, and the un|doubted Prerogative of Our Crown, thought fit (with the Advice of Our Privy Council) to Indemnifie, Remit and Pardon (with the Exceptions after &s;pecified) all &s;uch as have been at Field, or Hou&s;e Conventicles; all &s;uch as are guil|ty of irregular admini&s;tration of the Sacraments, and other Schi&s;matick Di&s;orders, all &s;uch as have been engaged in the Rebellion, 1666. Or the late Rebellion this pre&s;ent Year of God, 1679. All &s;uch have Spoken, Written, Printed, Publi&s;hed, or di&s;per&s;ed any Traiterous Speeches, infamous Libels, or Pa&s;quils, all &s;ich as have mi&s;-repre&s;ented any of Our Judicatures, Servants, or Subjects, or have advi&s;ed any thing contrary to Our Laws, all &s;uch as have malever&s;ed in any publick Station, or Tru&s;t: and generally, all &s;uch as are lyable to any pur&s;uit, for any Cau&s;e, or Occa&s;ion, re|lating to any publick Admini&s;tration, by Contrivances, Actings, Oppo&s;itions, or otherways preceeding the date hereof, Declaring the generallity of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, to be effectual to all intents and purpo&s;es, as if every Circum&s;tance of every the fore&s;aid Delinquencies, or Mi&s;-demeanours were particularly and &s;pecially here in&s;erted; and as if every of the per&s;ons that might be challenged and pur&s;ued for the &s;ame, had a Remi&s;&s;ion under Our great Seal, or an Act of Indemnity pa&s;t in his favours. Di&s;charging any of Our Officers, or Subjects, to pur&s;ue any per&s;on or per&s;ons upon any &s;uch Accounts, ei|ther <HI>advindictam publicam vel privitam,</HI> or to upbraid them therewith. And Commanding all Our Judges to Interpret this Our Remi&s;&s;ion and Indemnity, with all po&s;&s;ible latitude and favour, as they will be an&s;werable to Us upon their highe&s;t perils. Excepting &s;uch as are already forefaulted by Our Parliaments, or Our Criminal Court, fined by Our Privy Coun|cil; and &s;uch who being fined by Inferiour Judicatures, have payed, or tran&s;acted for their fines, in &s;o far as concerns their re&s;pective fines, &s;o impo&s;ed: Excepting al&s;o, all &s;uch Heretors and Mini&s;ters, who have been in the late Rebellion, or were contrivers thereof, and &s;uch Heretors as have contributed thereto, by Levies of Men or Money, and excepting like|wi&s;e &s;uch as obeyed not Our, and Our Councils Proclamation, in a&s;&s;i&s;ting in Our Ho&s;t; to be pur&s;ued for that their De|linquency, according to Law; and &s;uch per&s;ons as have threatned, or abu&s;ed any of the Orthodox Clergy, or any of Our good Subjects for a&s;&s;i&s;ting Us, in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the late Rebellion; and that, &s;ince Our Proclamation, dated the twenty ninth day of <HI>June,</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t: Which Indemnity We do grant to tho&s;e who were ingaged in the late Rebellion, provided that they &s;hall appear before &s;uch as Our Privy Council &s;hall nominate, betwixt and the dyets following, <HI>viz.</HI> the&s;e that are with|in this Kingdom, betwixt and the eighteenth day of <HI>September,</HI> and the&s;e that are furth thereof, betwixt and the thirteenth of <HI>November</HI> next to come, and enact them&s;elves, never to carry Arms again&s;t Us, or Our Authority, and with expre&s;s condition, that if ever they &s;hall be at any Field conventicle, or &s;hall do any violence to any of Our Orthodox Clergy, this Our Indemnity &s;hall not be u&s;eful to &s;uch Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors any manner of way; as it &s;hall not be to any for private Crimes, &s;uch as Murders, A&s;&s;a&s;&s;i|nations, Thefts, Adulteries, the fines and denunciations thereof, and &s;uch like as never u&s;e to be comprehended under ge|neral Acts of Indemnity, and particularly the Execrable Murder of the late Arch-bi&s;hop of St. <HI>Andrews:</HI> Nor to &s;uch as were appointed to be carryed to the Plantations, by our Letter, dated the twenty ninth day of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, though their lives be by this Our Royal Proclamation al&s;o, &s;ecured unto them, in manner, and upon the conditions above-mentioned. But le&s;t the hope of Impunity &s;hould embolden the malicious to future di&s;orders; We do hereby Command Our Privy Council, and all Our other Judicatures, to pur&s;ue and puni&s;h will all the &s;everity that Law can allow, all &s;uch as &s;hall hereafter threaten or abu&s;e the Orthodox Clergy, murmure again&s;t Our Judicatures, or Officers, or &s;hall make, publi&s;h, print, or di&s;per&s;e Ly|bels, or Pa&s;quils; the&s;e being the fore-runners of all Rebellions; and which, by defaming Authority, do di&s;appoint all its ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary Methods. And to the end, all Our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, We do hereby Command Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers, Pur&s;evants, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, to make timous Intimation hereof, at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court, at <HI>Wind&s;or Ca&s;tle,</HI> <DATE>the twenty &s;eventh day of <HI>July,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred &s;eventy and nine. And of our Reign, the thirtieth one Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> Command,
<HI>LAUDERDALE.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1679. And Re-Printed at <HI>London,</HI> for <HI>Andrew Forre&s;ter,</HI> in <HI>King-&s;treet, We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
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