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<HEAD>ACT Condemning a Pamphlet, called, <HI>An apologetick Relation of &s;uffering Mini&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE><HI>the eighth day of <HI>February,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;ix.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council con&s;idering, that by divers ancient and laudable Laws and Acts of Parliament; and particularly by the tenth Act, Parl. tenth, the hundred and thirty fourth Act, Parl. eigth, of King <HI>James</HI> the &s;ixth of ble&s;&s;ed memory, and by &s;everal other Laws and Acts, the Authors, Printers, Venders or Di&s;per&s;ers of infamous and &s;candalous Lideis, are puni&s;hable by death, confi&s;cation of moveables, and divers other high pains and puni&s;hments. And the &s;aids Lords bring informed, that there hath been a Pamphlet, of the nature fort&s;aid, entituled, <HI>An apologetick Relation of the particular &s;uffer|ings of the Mini&s;ters of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;ince <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1660.</HI> which is printed and di&s;per&s;ed into &s;everal parts of this Kingdom; and upon examination and peru&s;al thereof, is found to be full of &s;editions, trea&s;onable and rebellious Principles, contrived of purpo&s;e to traduce the Kings Authority and G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">|ment the proceedings of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ats Parliament and of the Kings Privy Council, contrait to the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Prote<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">nt Religion profe&s;t within this Kingdom and e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 words"> the Lieges from their all<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">giance and obedience, and to &s;trengthen the di&s;-affected in their <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Principles and Practi&s;ies. Therefore, to vindicat the honour of this Kingdom, and to witne&s;s and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, that &s;uch Principles and Tenets, as are contained in the &s;aid Pamphlet, are dete&s;ted and abhorred by them as trea&s;onable and &s;editious, and are contra<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> to the Laws of the Kingdom, and de&s;tructive of the Kings Authority and Prerogative Royal, under which this Kingdom hath flouri&s;hed for many ages, and that they may &s;how How much they abominat &s;uch Tenets and Principles; They ordain, that upon the fourteenth day of <HI>February</HI> in&s;tant, the &s;aid Pamphlet be publickly hurnt on the high Street of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> near to the Mercat-cro&s;s, by the hand of the Hang-man: And that all havers of the &s;aids Pamphlets, re&s;iding be&s;outh the water of <HI>Tay,</HI> &s;hall bring in and deliver the &s;ame to the Sheriffs of the re&s;pective Shires, or their Deputes, to be tran&s;mitted by them to the Clers of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Privy Council, betwixt and the la&s;t day of <HI>February</HI> in&s;tant; and benorth the &s;aid water, betwixt and the twenty fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next: With certification, that if there|after any per&s;on, of what&s;oever <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, quality or &s;er they be of, &s;hall have any of the &s;aids printed Copies in their cu&s;tody or po&s;&s;e&s;sion, th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ey &s;hall be lyable in payment of the &s;um of two <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Scots</HI> money, to be exacted <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> any <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> or defalcation. And further, if they or any other per&s;on &s;hall be found hereafter to be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> or A&s;&s;i&s;ter to the making up, printing, publi&s;hing or <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;hall be proceeded <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> A|uthors, Printers, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and all <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and penalties <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">: And <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> to cau&s;e burn out of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words">. And <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> printed, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> and other places needful, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne, <HI>Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1666.</P>
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