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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION,</HI> Di&s;charging Per&s;ons to be brought from the <HI>Netherlands</HI> without Pa&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders 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: Fora&s;much as, The Merchants and Skippers, and others Trafficking and pa&s;&s;ing betwixt this Our Antient Kingdom, and the Pro|vinces of the <HI>Netherlands</HI> Do pre&s;ume, to bring into this Kingdom, per&s;ons Obnoxius to Our Laws, and notourly Di&s;affected to Our Government: As al&s;o, De&s;erters from Our Forces in the &s;aid Parts, for Remeed whereof, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Have thought fit, here|by &s;trictly to Prohibite and Di&s;charge all Merchants, Ma&s;ters, Skippers, or Mates and Mariners, and Pa&s;&s;engers, in any Ships; Barks, or Ve&s;&s;els; To bring home into this Kingdom, or any of the Poris, or Coa&s;ts thereof, any per&s;on or per|&s;ons from the &s;aid <HI>Netherlands,</HI> unle&s;s they have Pa&s;&s;es in manner following, <HI>viz.</HI> Every one of the &s;aids per&s;ons not be|ing a Souldier, a Pa&s;s from the Secretaries of this Kingdom, or their Deput attending Our Per&s;on in the &s;aid <HI>Netherlands</HI> for the time; and every Souldier or other Per&s;on who have Served in Our Armies, a Pa&s;s from the Colonel of the Regiment wherein they Served, or a Superiour Officer; which Pa&s;&s;es are to be pre&s;ented to the Con&s;ervator of the Priviledges of this Our Kingdom, Re&s;iding in the &s;aid Provinces, or his Deput in his ab&s;ence, who is to make a Li&s;t of the &s;aids per&s;ons, hav|ing and producing their Pa&s;&s;es, as &s;aid is, and to deliver the &s;ame Sub&s;cribed with his Hand, to the Ma&s;ter or Skipper of the Ship, for his Warrand, to bring home the per&s;ons named therein: As al&s;o, the &s;aid Ma&s;ter or Skipper at his arrival within the River of <HI>Forth,</HI> or any Port or Creik thereof, &s;hall, before he &s;uffer any of the per&s;ons contained in the &s;aid Li&s;t, to go a-&s;hore out of his Ve&s;&s;el, pre&s;ent the fore&s;aid Li&s;t to Our Advocat or Sollicitor, at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> for the time, or in their ab&s;ence, to one or other of the Lords of Our Privy Council, and receive his Order, for &s;etting of the &s;aid per&s;ons a-&s;hore; And if the Ve&s;&s;el &s;hall arrive at any other Port, or Coa&s;t within the Kingdom, then the Skipper &s;hall pre&s;ent his &s;aid l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, to a Magi&s;trat of the next Burgh-Royal, who &s;hall be obliged either to take Caution of the per&s;ons contained there|in, that they &s;hall pre&s;ent them&s;elves, when called, by the Lords of Our Privy Council: Or at lea&s;t, if they cannot find caution, they &s;hall enact them&s;elves, both, under a rea&s;onable Penalty, to pre&s;ent them&s;elves, as &s;aid is: Which Bonds and Acts, the &s;aid Magi&s;trat, is to Tran&s;mit with all diligence, to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, within a fourthnight at farthe&s;t, after receiving of the &s;ame: And the &s;aids Magi&s;trats having taken the &s;aids Bonds or Sub&s;criptions, are then to give Order for the per&s;ons coming a-&s;hore; Certifying the &s;aid Merchants, Ma&s;ters, Skippers, Mates, Mariners, and Pa&s;|&s;engers, and Magi&s;trats above-mentioned, that if any of them fail in the Premi&s;&s;es, they &s;hall be lyable in the penalty of five Hundreth Merks <HI>Scots,</HI> each of them, <HI>toties, quoties,</HI> to be payed to Our Receiver-General, for Our u&s;e: And far|ther, Requiring Our Solicitor, to u&s;e exact Diligence, to &s;ee thir Pre&s;ents execute, and the fore&s;aid Penalties, when incur|red payed. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you &s;traitly 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 to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom; and al&s;o to the &s;everal Sea-ports Towns within the &s;ame, (and Appoints the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, to &s;ee thir Pre&s;ents publi&s;hed at the &s;everal Sea-Towns within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions) and there, by open Proclamation, make publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend Ignorance. And Ordains thir Pre&s;ents to be Prin|ted.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;ixth Day of</HI> September. <HI>And of Our Reign the &s;ixth Year,</HI> 1694.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Deminorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB: ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER><HI>GOD &s;ave King</HI> VVilliam <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew And<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters">,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties. 1694.</P>
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