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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
</FIGURE> A PROCLAMATION, <HI>Again&s;t &s;preading of fal&s;e News,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh, </HI><DATE><HI>November</HI> 10. 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<HEAD>Pre&s;ent in Council.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Perth,</HI> Lord High Chancelor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His Grace the Lord Arch-bi&s;hop of St. <HI>Andrews.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His Grace the Lord Arch-bi&s;hop of <HI>Gla&s;gow.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Marque&s;s of <HI>Athol,</HI> Lord Privy-Seal.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His Grace the Duke of <HI>Gordon.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Errol.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Marr.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Linlithgow,</HI> Lord Ju&s;tice-General.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Drumfermling.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Strathmore.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Southe&s;que.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Traquair.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Belcarras.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Earl of <HI>Bradalban.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord Vi&s;count of <HI>Tarbat,</HI> Clerk of Regi&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord <HI>Strathnaver.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord <HI>Maitland,</HI> Thea&s;urer-Deput.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord <HI>Duffus.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord <HI>Kinaird.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Mr of <HI>Balmerino.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord Pre&s;ident of the Se&s;&s;ion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord Advocat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord Ju&s;tice-Clerk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Lord <HI>Ca&s;tlehill.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lieutennent General <HI>Monro,</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Laird of <HI>Niddrie.</HI></HI></ITEM>
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<P>_WHereas We have &s;een a Proclamation i&s;&s;ued out in Name of His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> Declaring, That the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> and his Adherents, have de&s;igned to Invade His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Kingdoms; and that now His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> hath &s;ignified by His Royal Letter, of the date at <HI>Whitehall</HI> the fifth day of <HI>November</HI> In&s;tant, That they are Landing in <HI>England,</HI> and in Order thereto, have Contrived and Framed &s;everal Trea&s;onable Papers, and Declarations, Hoping thereby to Seduce and Corrupt His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects, and that &s;everal per&s;ons are im|ployed to di&s;per&s;e the &s;ame; And &s;ince &s;uch Methods may be taken to Corrupt His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects, in this His Antient Kingdom; Therefore We, the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Pri|vy Council, in His Royal Name, and by His Authority, have thought it nece&s;&s;ary to Admo|ni&s;h all His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects within this Kingdom, of what degree or quality &s;oever, that they do not Publi&s;h, Di&s;per&s;e, Repeat, or Hand about the &s;aids Trea&s;onable Papers, or De|clarations, or any of them, or any other Paper, or Papers of &s;uch like Nature, and particular|ly a Declaration in the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI>'s Name, and another in the Name of the <HI>States General,</HI> nor pre&s;ume to Read, Receive, Conceal, or Keep the &s;aid Trea&s;onable Papers, or Declarations, or any of them, or any other Payer, or Papers to that purport; or to di&s;per&s;e any fal&s;e News, tending to the Amu&s;ing His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects, or to the Di&s;turbance of the Peace of the Kingdom, without Di&s;|covering, and Revealing the &s;ame as &s;peedily as may be, to &s;ome of the Privy Council, or to &s;ome other Iudges, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, or Magi&s;trats, upon peril of being pro&s;ecuted according to the outmo&s;t &s;everity of Law.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council, by me, <HI>WILL. PATERSON, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save 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 <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> Anno <HI>DOMINI.</HI> 1688.</P>
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