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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Prorogating the Dyet, for in bringing and pre&s;cribing the Method of Stateing of the Accompts of Arrears due by the Forces to the Countrey.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland 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 &s;e|verally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as, by &s;undry former Proclamations Emitted by Vs, with Advice of Our Privy Council, certain days were prefixed to Our Subjects, for bringing the the &s;everal Accompts Due by Our Forces within this Kingdom to them, Stated and verified in manner mentioned in the &s;aids Procla|mations: and We being re&s;olved that none of Our good Subjects &s;hould be cut &s;hort, and de&s;appointed of the Pay|ment, of Vhat is ju&s;tly re&s;ting to them by any of Our Forces, by their not having given in their Accompts to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, before the days prefixed in the former Proclamations: Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to Prorogat the time for Verifying, and giving in of the &s;aids Accompts to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, until the fifteenth day of <HI>March</HI> next to come, and do yet Allow, and Ordain the Landlords, and others, to whom there are any Accompts re&s;ting by Our Forces, before the fir&s;t Day of <HI>February,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred Ninety one years; To repair to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, or any who of them, within the re&s;pective Shires where the &s;aids Accompts are re&s;ting, and there State &amp; Verifie by writ, Oath or Witne&s;&s;es, how many Souldiers were quartered on the &s;aids Landlords, or other Per&s;ons Creditors, That they advanced of Meat, or Drink to the Souldiers them&s;elves, or Forrage to their Horses, or what they advan|ced of Meat,, Drink, Meal, or Malt to Our Gari&s;ons: or what Sums of Mony, either to Our Forces, or Gari&s;ons for their Sub&s;i&s;tance, preceeding the &s;aid fir&s;t Day of <HI>February,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred Ninety and one: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Ordain the &s;aids Landlords, or other Per&s;ons Creditors, to give their Oaths, that no part of what they Claim as Due by Our Forces, is payed to them, and require them to in&s;truct their Accompts fully and clearly before the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, by conde&s;cending particularly upon the time, when the Accompts Were furni&s;hed. and al&s;o upon the Company, or at lea&s;t the Regiment, or Troop, to Whom the Souldiers, or Troopers did belong, and to in&s;ert all the Articles Due by every Regiment, in a Paragraph, or &s;eparate Accompt by it&s;elf though the &s;ame was upon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment, who&s;e Arrears and Debts to the Countrey, are to be Stated in Accompts, differently from the&s;e upon the <HI>Scots</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment; And We with Advice fore&s;aid, require and Com|mand all and &s;undry Our good Subjects, to whom any Debts are Due by Our Forces, and Gari&s;ons, for the Cau&s;es above-written preceeding the Day above-mentioned, to tran&s;mit the &s;ame with the Verifications thereof, and report of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply thereupon, clearly and di&s;tinctly in&s;tructed, and Verified in manner above expre&s;t, to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, betwixt and the &s;aid fifteenth Day of <HI>March</HI> next to come, to the Effect, that when ever the fore&s;aids Accompts upon the <HI>Scots</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment, hereby ordered to be brought in, &s;hall be revi&s;ed and approven, by the Lords of Our Privy Council, to whom We earne&s;tly recommend, to di&s;patch the &s;ame with all Diligence po&s;&s;ible: Then the Lords of Our Thea&s;ury are with all one convenience, to give precepts to the Shires, and Burghs and other Creditors in the &s;aids Accompts, upon the Receiver of Our Crown-Rents, for Payment to them, of the re&s;pective Sums that &s;hall be found Due by the Lords of Our Privy Council, in manner fore&s;aid, out of the Lack Duty of the Pole-mony, appointed to be payed to him at Candle&s;ma&s;s and Whit&s;undy next, and Our &s;aid Receiver is to make punctual Payment of the &s;aids precepts, after the fore&s;aids Terms, as he &s;hall be ordered by the &s;aids Lords of Our Trea&s;ury:and that the Debts of the&s;e upon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment being &s;o Stated, and di|&s;tinctly cleared, may be tran&s;mitted to Vs; that We in Our Royal wi&s;dom may order &s;uch cour&s;e to be taken for &s;atisfy|ing the &s;ame; as We &s;hall think ju&s;t. OWR 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 remnant Mercat|-Cro&s;ses of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twenty &s;econd day of <HI>January,</HI> and of Our Reign the Sixth year, 1695</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELLIOT</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King <HI>William.</HI></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 His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1695.</P>
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