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<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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A PROCLAMATION, For bringing in ARMS out of &s;ome VVe&s;t Shires. <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the 25. of <HI>March,</HI> 1667.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith. To Our Lovits, <GAP DESC="blank"> Me&s;&s;engers, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as the late Rebellion, and ri&s;ing in Arms in the Western Shires, is too great an evidence that there are man Di&s;affected Persons in the&s;e Places, who are ready to involve the Kingdom again in a bloody and unnatural war: And that we have ju&s;t rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect that the&s;e Rebels will be ready to lay hold in this opportuni|ty, to ri&s;e in Arms, when we are nece&s;&s;itate to continue the war with Our Forraign Enemies. And not only to make u&s;e of &s;uch Arms, Powder and Ammunition, as they have concealed, or may be tran&s;ported to them from Our Enemies; but will &s;eize upon the Arms of Our well affected Sub|jects, who re&s;ide among&s;t them, and are not able to make re&s;i&s;tance: Which may endanger the Peace of the Kingdom, and weaken Our Forces, nece&s;&s;itating them at one time to oppo&s;e Forraign Inva&s;ions, and Inte&s;tine Commotions. As likewi&s;e, that according to their former wicked practices, they may invade the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel, who are lawfully admitted Preachers among&s;t them, and do violence or injury to their Per&s;ons, to the great contemnt of Our Authority, and &s;candal of the Reformed Religion, as it is now prote&s;t. Therefore, We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Command and charge all per&s;ons re&s;iding within the Shires of <HI>Lanerk, Air, Renfrew, Wigton,</HI> and the Stewartry of <HI>Kirkcudbright,</HI> be|twixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>May</HI> next, to bring in all their Arms and Ammunition which they have in their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, of what&s;oever &s;ort (allowing Gentlemen only to carry Swords, and none other) to the Head Burgh of the re&s;pective Shires and Stewartry; and deliver the &s;ame to the Sheriff, his Depute, or any having his Order. With Certification to them, if they faylie, they &s;hall be Fyn'd by Our Secret Council in the &s;ums of Money underwritten; <HI>viz.</HI> Jik Gentleman, in the &s;um of two thou&s;and Merks; and every other per&s;on, in the &s;um of five hundreth Merks; to be divided, the one half to be paid to Our Exchequer, and the other half to any per&s;on who &s;hall fir&s;t di&s;cover the Concealers: And further, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t as &s;editious per&s;ons, and di&s;affected to Our Government, Likeas, We ordain the &s;aid Sheriff, his Depute, or any other appointed by him, immediatly upon the delivery of their &s;aid Arms or Ammunition, to carry the &s;ame of <HI>Striviling,</HI> or <HI>Dumbarton</HI> Ca&s;tles, which &s;hall be next adjacent; there to be kept by the Governor thereof. As likewi&s;e, We Command and Charge, That all Heretors and Pari&s;htioners, re&s;iding in any of the Paroches within the &s;aids bounds, Protect and Defend the Per|&s;ons, Famalies and Goods of their re&s;pective Mini&s;ters, within their &s;everal Paroches, from all Affronts and Injuries to be committed by in&s;olent and di&s;affected Per&s;ons to the pre&s;ent Government; as well when they are in the Exerci&s;e of the Mini&s;terial Function, as re&s;iding at their own hou&s;es and Dwellings: with certification, that if any Injury or Affront &s;hall be done to them, in their Per&s;ons or Goods, that the Pa|ri&s;htioners who &s;hall &s;uffer the &s;ame to be done, and not oppo&s;e the doing thereof, &s;hall be repute and hol|den as art and part of the &s;aids Crimes and Violence, and be proceeded again&s;t by Law, as guilty thereof, and puni&s;hed according to the quality of their offence, with all rigour. And inca&s;e the &s;aids Injuries &s;hall be done by &s;urpri&s;al, That they follow and pur&s;ue the committers thereof, untill they apprehend their Per|&s;ons, and pre&s;ent them to Our Secret Council, to be Judged by them, as they &s;hall order: Other|wi&s;e we declare, that they them&s;elves &s;hall be lyable for &s;uch Reparation, Dammage and Interest, as the &s;aids Lords of Council &s;hall think &s;it to determine. And Ordains the &s;aids Sheriffs to cau&s;e intimat the&s;e pre&s;ents, by Publick Proclamation, at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the head Burghs of the &s;aids re&s;pec|tive Shires and Stewartries: And cau&s;e read the &s;ame at all the Paroch Churches within the &s;aids Shires and Stewartry, upon a Sunday before noon, after Divine Service, with all diligence: And that the&s;e pre&s;ents be printed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kingsmo&s;t Excellent Majesty, <HI>Anno Dom.,</HI> 1667.</P>
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