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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_CHARLES 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: We having, with the advice and con&s;ent of Our Parliaments, pa&s;t &s;o many Acts in favours of the Prote&s;tant Religion, again&s;t Field-Conventicles, whereby our Subjects were withdrawn from publick Ordinances, in &s;uch ways as expo&s;ed them to hear <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> or any other Irregular Preachers, and were at la&s;t debauched to meet with Arms informed Rebellions; We might have expected a mo&s;t hearty con|currence from all &s;uch as re&s;olved to live to live Religiou&s;ly and Peaceably in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing tho&s;e Di&s;orders: In place whereof Magi&s;trates having by their negligence, and Ma&s;ters by their connivance, hightned tho&s;e Di&s;tempers into a formed Rebellion, founded upon Extravagancies, incon&s;i&s;tent with the Prote&s;tant Religion and Our Monarchy; Which, We having by the Mercy of God, and the Affection of Our Subjects, overcome s;o totally, that Our Clemency cannot be lyable to any mi&s;-con&s;truction: We have therefore thought fit, with the Advice of Our Privy Coun|cil, to recommend the vigorous Execution of all Our former Laws and Proclamations again&s;t &s;uch <HI>Rendezvouzes</HI> of <HI>Rebellion;</HI> Commanding hereby Our Judges, Magi&s;trates and Officers of all Ranks and Degrees to apprehend, condemn and puni&s;h all &s;uch as frequent any Field-conventicles, the Mini&s;ters by Death, and the Hearers by Fining, and otherways according to the pre&s;cript of Our Laws; &s;uch as bear Arms there, being to be demained as Traitors, conform to Our former Pro|clamation, dated the 13. day of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, and ordaining that all Ma&s;ters &s;hall be lyable for pre&s;enting &s;uch of their Ten|nants, and &s;uch live upon their Ground to underly the Law in Our Ju&s;tice-airs, conform to the &s;ixth <HI>Act, Par.</HI> third <HI>James</HI> the fifth. As al&s;o, We mo&s;t peremptorily Command all in Office under Us, to pro&s;ecute with all legal Rigor, tho&s;e Inhumane and Execrable Murderers of the late Arch-bi&s;hop of St. <HI>Andrews,</HI> and all &s;uch as have had acce&s;&s;ion thereto, by concealing or re&s;&s;etting the A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inates. But We, being de&s;irous to reclaim all &s;uch in that Our ancient Kingdom, as have been mi&s;led by Ignorance, or blind Zeal (the pretexts of Di&s;orders) and to convince all indifferent Per&s;ons, that too great &s;everity is as far from Our De&s;ign, as Our Inclinations, have according to the Power re&s;erved to Us, by the fifth <HI>Act,</HI> and &s;econd <HI>Se&s;&s;ion</HI> of Our &s;econd <HI>Parliament,</HI> &s;u&s;pended the Execution of all Laws and Acts again&s;t &s;uch as frequent Hou&s;e-conventicles in the Low Countreys on the South-&s;ide of the River of <HI>Tay</HI> only: Excepting always the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and two Miles round about the &s;ame, with the Lord&s;hips of <HI>Mu&s;&s;elburgh</HI> and <HI>Dalkeith,</HI> the Cities of St. <HI>Andrews</HI> and <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> and <HI>Stirling,</HI> and a Mile about each of them; being fully re&s;olved, not to &s;uffer the Seat of Our Government, nor Our Univer&s;ities to be pe&s;tred with any irregularities what&s;oever. And for a further evidence of Our Protection to all who re&s;olve to live peaceably, We hereby &s;u&s;pend all Diligences for Fines upon the account of Conventicles, except &s;uch Fines as are impo&s;ed by Our Privy Council, and &s;uch Fines of Inferiour Judicatures, as were uplifted or tran&s;acted for, prior to the 29. of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, and all Letters of Intercommuning, and other Executions, except in &s;o far as concerns tho&s;e who were Our actual Servants, or in Publick Tru&s;t. But to the end, that none whom We may ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pect, &s;hall under the colour of this Favour, continue to Preach Rebellion, Schi&s;m and Here&s;ie; We hereby Ordain all &s;uch as &s;hall be &s;uf|fered to Preach, to have their Names given in, and &s;urety found to Our Privy Council for their peaceable behaviour, only one Preacher being allowed to a Paroch; and none to be allowed who have appeared again&s;t Us in this late Rebelli|on, nor none who &s;hall be admitted by the Un-conform Mini&s;ters in any time hereafter: A&s;&s;uring all tho&s;e to whom We have extended this Favour, that if they or any of them, &s;hall for the future frequent any Field-conventicles, or di&s;turb the Peace of the&s;e Our Kingdoms, We will &s;ecure Our People, and maintain Our Authority and Laws by &s;uch effectual cour&s;es, as in ruining the Authors, cannot be thought rigid, after &s;o in&s;ufferable and unnece&s;&s;ary Provocations. This Our forberance being to continue in Force only during Our Royal Plea&s;ure, as We &s;hall &s;ee tho&s;e Di&s;&s;enters de&s;erve Our favour. 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, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, to make Proclamation hereof, at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>White-hall,</HI> <DATE>the 29. day of <HI>June,</HI> 1679. and of Our Reign the thretty one Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>By His</HI> MAJESTIES <HI>Command,</HI>
LAUDERDALE.</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 Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dous.</HI> 1679.</P>
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