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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Di&s;charging Per&s;ons to Travel to <HI>Ireland</HI> without <HI>Pa&s;&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>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 Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and Severally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute; Greeting,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For|asmuch as, &s;eve<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="2 letters">al Vagabounds and other Idle per&s;ons have been in u&s;e to haunt and frequent this our Kingdom, for &s;everal years by pa&s;t, during the Summer time only, and have retired them&s;elves into the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> how &s;oon the Winter did approach; as al&s;o many young men have put them|&s;elves out of &s;etled Service, that they might be at the greater Liberty to with|draw them&s;elves and retire out of the Kingdom, whenever Recruits were to be made up for our Service, or the time of making the Levies appointed by Act of Parliament drew near, to the great prejudice of our Service, and In|crea&s;e, and Incouragment of Vagabounds and idle per&s;ons, who might be well imployed therein: for Remedy whereof, We with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council do &s;trictly prohibite and di&s;charge all per&s;ons what&s;omever, either as Pa&s;&s;engers or how&s;oever, otherway<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">s Imployed in Ships, or Boats, to go or Tran&s;port them&s;elves into the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> without &s;ufficient Pa&s;&s;es under the hand of one of the Lords or others of Our Privy Council, or of the Sheriff of the Shire, Stewart of the Stewartry, or Baillies of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lity or Bailliery, within who&s;e Bounds the per&s;ons intending for <HI>Ireland</HI> does dwel and re&s;ide, bearing their Names, De&s;ignations, and places of their Abode, and Inployment for the la&s;t year preceeding; and We wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">h Advice fore&s;aid, do hereby Require, and &s;trictly Command all Collectors of our Cu&s;toms, Survey|ers, Clerks, Waiters at the &s;everal Ports, and all Ma&s;ters, and Sea men of Ships, Barks, or Boats, that they &s;uffer no per&s;on what&s;omever to Pa&s;s or Tran|&s;port them&s;elves to the &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> without they be furni&s;hed and provided with a &s;ufficient Pa&s;s, granted in manner above-mentioned, as they will be An&s;werable at their highe&s;t Peril; and if any &s;hall attempt to Tran&s;port them&s;elves to the &s;aid Kingdom, otherways then is above provi|ded, that they &s;ea&s;e upon their per&s;ons, and deliver them to the next Magi|&s;trat by him to be committed and detained in Pri&s;on till farder Order. <HI>Our Will Is Herefore,</HI> and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incon|tinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the whole Remanent Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority by o|pen Proclamation make Intimation hereof, that none may 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 Thirtieth fir&s;t of <HI>December,</HI> and of Our Reign the Seventh year, 1695.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii,</HI> GILB ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii,</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save 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> Prin|ter to the Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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