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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Indemnifying De&s;erters, who &s;hall return to their Ma|je&s;ties Service.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith: To Macers of Our privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting. For|a&s;much as, We under&s;tand that a great many Souldiers of the Forces pre&s;ently un|der Our Pay, and in Our Service within this Our antient Kingdom and Abroad, have De&s;erted their Colours, and do Skulk and hide them&s;elves in ob&s;cure Pla|ces, being afraid to return to Our Service, out of Dread of that Ju&s;tly De&s;erved Puni&s;hment due to De&s;erters, by the Severity of Military Laws: For Remeid whereof, and that all Souldiers who have De&s;erted as &s;aid is, may be Inexcu&s;able and receive chat Condign Puni&s;hment due to De&s;erters by the Military Laws, in ca&s;e they &s;hall not give Punctual Obedience to this pre&s;ent Proclamation. There|fore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby Pe|remptorily Require and Command, all Souldiers within this Our antient King|dom, who have been in Our Service, and under Our Pay, in any of the Regi|ments, Troops, or Companies now in Our Service, within this Our antient Kingdom, or forth thereof, (who have not left the &s;ame upon a Pa&s;s granted to them, by their Captain or other Superior Officer,) to return to Our Service, and pre&s;ent them&s;elves to the Commander in Chief, or any Commi&s;&s;ionat Offi|cer of Our Forces within our &s;aid Kingdom. And We with Ad ice fore&s;aid, Pardon and Indemnifie them and every one of them, who &s;hall return and pre|&s;ent them&s;elves in manner fore&s;aid, within two Moneths after the date hereof, Certifying all &s;uch who &s;hall not return and accept, and take the Benefit of this Our Gracious Indemnity within the &s;pace fore&s;aid, they &s;hall be Treated as De|&s;erters, when, and wherever they &s;hall be &s;ei&s;ed on without Mercy. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command all Magi&s;trats and Mini&s;ters of the Law within this Realm, to Concur with, and be A&s;&s;i&s;ting to the Officers of Our Forces, and &s;uch as &s;hall be imployed by them, in Sei&s;ing and Securing the Per|&s;ons of all &s;uch De&s;erters (in manner &s;pecified in the former Proclamations,) as &s;hall not accept of the Benefit of this Indemnity, within the &s;pace above-written. 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>Edin|burgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the whole Head-Burghs within this Kingdom, and there by open Proclamation, make Publication hereof, that none may pre|tend 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 Fifth Day of <HI>Aprile.</HI> And of Our Reign the Fourth Year 1693.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary,</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maje&s;ties, 1693.</P>
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