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</FIGURE> <HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> Again&s;t Robbers and Vagabounds, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>WIlliam</HI> by the Grace of God King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that Part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting; FORASMUCHAS, it is generally Complained, that there be many Idle, Lou&s;e and Vagabound Per&s;ons, who &s;ingly by them&s;elves, and in Companies, go throw the Countrey, And both to Burgh and Landward, Rob or Steal from People their Goods, do Violence to their Per&s;ons, and extort from them Meat, Drink and Lodging without payment, and commit &s;everal other Abu&s;es, contrair to the Laws and Acts of Parliament: THEREFORE, We have thought fit to Enjoyn and Command Likeas, We hereby, with the Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, &s;trictly Enjoyn, Command and Charge all Sheriffs, Lords of Regality, Baillies of Bailliaries, Stewarts of Stewartries, and their Deputs, Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, and other Judges and Officers of the Law, to put the following Laws and Acts of Parliament in due and vigorous Execution; <HI>Viz.</HI> The &s;eventh Act Parliament fir&s;t, <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t, whereby it is Statute, that no Companies pa&s;s in the Countrey, and ly on Our Leidges, or Thig or Sojourn on them under the Pain of A&s;&s;ything of the Party Compleaning; The Act <HI>James</HI> &s;econd, Parliament &s;ixth, <HI>Caput</HI> twenty one, whereby it is ordained, that for the away-putting of Sorners, Overlyers and Ma&s;terfull Beggars, Inqui&s;ition be made by all Judges a|gain&s;t them, and they be put in Our Ward or Our Irons for their Tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, as long as they have any Goods of their own to live upon, that their Ears be nailed to the Tron or other Tree, and that the &s;ame be cut off, and they Bani&s;hed the Countrey; And if thereafter they be found, that they be hanged, Act <HI>James</HI> &s;econd, Parliament eleventh, <HI>Caput</HI> fourty five, whereby it is &s;tatute, that wherever Sorners are overtaken, they be delivered to Our Sheriffs, and that furthwith Our Ju&s;tices do Law upon them, as upon Thieves and Robbers, Act Parliament 12. <HI>Caput</HI> 53. <HI>ibidem,</HI> whereby it is &s;tatute, that no Man reive another of any manner of Goods which they are in Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion off, Act <HI>James</HI> the third, Parliament tenth, <HI>Caput</HI> &s;eventy eight ratifying the &s;aids Acts; And Act <HI>James</HI> the &s;ixt Par|liament twelfth, <HI>Caput</HI> on hundred and fourty &s;eventh, whereby it is &s;tatute, that all Men certifie concerning Vagabounds and &s;u&s;pect Per&s;ons, that they may be apprehended under the Pains due to the&s;e Vagabounds; And generally, all other Laws and Acts made a|gain&s;t Robbing, Thieving, Sorning, and other Abu&s;es of that &s;ort, and for pre&s;erving the Peace and good Order of the Kingdom and for the better pre&s;erving of the Peace and Safety of Our Liedges; We with Advice fore&s;aid, and in pur&s;uance of the fore&s;aids Laws, do farder Command and Charge all Sheriffs, Magi&s;trats, and other Officers above named, that they cau&s;e &s;pecial notice to be taken of all idle and vagabound Per&s;ons, either in Burgh or Landward, and that they take up their Names, and take &s;uch Security of them for their good Behaviour, as they &s;hall judge needful: As al&s;o, We with Advice fore&s;aid do hereby impower the Ju&s;tices of Peace, and Heretors within each Paroch, to appoint one or more within the Bounds thereof, as they &s;hall &s;ee needful, to be Watches both by Night and Day, for preventing the fore&s;aids Abu&s;es, by giving timeous Warning, and conveening the Neighbourhead to re&s;i&s;t the fore&s;aid Robbers, Thieves, Sorners, or others committing the &s;aids Abu&s;es, and Seize and Apprehend them, and to defend Leil-Mens Per&s;ons and Goods, and bring to Ju&s;tice and condign Puni&s;hment the fore&s;aids Per&s;ons guilty, for which the&s;e &s;hall be &s;ufficient War|rant. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, 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 remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof that none pretend Ignorance, and Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the twenty eight day of</HI> December, <HI>and of Our Reign the ninth Year</HI> 1697.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT. <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>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 the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1697.</P>
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