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<HEAD>ACT Anent Suppre&s;sing Conventicles, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>Edinburgh, <HI>the ninteenth day of</HI> December, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and three years.</HI></P>
<P>_THE which day, Forasmuch as the Lord Prove&s;t, Bail&yogh;ies and Council of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> taking to their &s;erious con&s;ideration, how zealous and careful his Sacred <HI>Majesty,</HI> hath been &s;ince His happy Re&s;tauration, for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing all Conventicles, Unwarrantable meetings, and Conventions of His Subjects within this Kingdom, by &s;everal laudable Laws and Acts of Parliament, made again&s;t the &s;ame: And al&s;o that by the 17 <HI>Act</HI> of of the 3d. <HI>Se&s;&s;ion</HI> of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> 2d <HI>Parliament, It is expre&s;ly Statute and Ordained, That all Magi&s;trates of Burghs-Royal &s;hall call before them all &s;uch as are Burge&s;&s;es, as &s;hall be guilty of keeping Conventicles: and proceed again&s;t them by Fyning, or otherwi&s;e ac|cording to Law, and that they make an account of their diligence to His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, and that they be careful in putting their Acts to due Execution again&s;t the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">p|ers of Conventicles, conform to the Tru&s;t and Power committed to them, and that an ac|compt of their Proceedings be returned yearly to His Maje&s;ties Privy Council upon the fir&s;t day of</HI> July, <HI>under the pain of</HI> 500. <HI>merks, for each years Fail&yogh;ie:</HI> They therefore be|ing &s;en&s;ible of the Duty and Tru&s;t committed to them by His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> and E&s;tates of Parliament; and that it is ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Service, and for the peaceable and quiet Government of the good Town; and that all effectual means be taken for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Conventicles within the City and Privi|ledges thereof, which tends &s;o much to the prejudice of the publick Wor&s;hip of God, to the &s;candal of the reformed Religion, and is the reproach of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Authority and Government: And al&s;o, that the &s;low progre&s;s hitherto made, in di&s;covering and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Conventicles, Unlawful-Bapti&s;ms and Marriages, and entertaining of Inter|communed and vagrant Per&s;ons, did proceed from this, that there was no due Incouragment or Reward promi&s;ed and allowed, to &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hould di&s;cover any Conventicles or Unwarrantable meetings within this City and Privi|ledges thereof. Do therefore unanimou&s;ly Statute and Ordain, That any per&s;on who &s;hall di&s;cover any Conventicle, that &s;hall be keeped within the &s;aid City or Priviledges thereof, or Unlawful-Bapti&s;ms and Marriages, and entertaining of intercommuned and vagrant Per&s;ons, to any of the Magi&s;trates within the &s;ame; &s;o that the &s;aid Conventicle be actu|ally attatched, &s;ei&s;ed upon, and found in the place di&s;covered, and that the &s;aids Unlawful-Bapti&s;ms and Marriages, and the entertaining of intercommuned and vagrant Per&s;ons be in&s;tructed, the &s;aids per&s;ons di&s;coverers &s;hall have for their re|ward for each Conventicle, Unlawful-Bapti&s;m or Marriage, or the entertaining of any intercommuned and vagrant Per|&s;on that &s;hall happen to be di&s;covered, the &s;um of three&s;core pounds Scots money; and who&s;oever &s;hall di&s;cover any per&s;ons, who&s;e Re&s;idence is in the Country, that comes to the City to lurk, and ab&s;ents them&s;elves from their own Pa|roch-Churches, and withdraws from the publick Wor&s;hip in the City, &s;hall have for each per&s;on twelve pounds for their pains; And in regard that the Lord Prove&s;t, Bail&yogh;ies <HI>&amp;c.</HI> intends a vigorous Execution of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> good Laws again&s;t &s;eparation and withdrawing from the E&s;tabli&s;hed publick Wor&s;hip. They do hereby require all the Citizens and other Inhabitants what&s;oever in the &s;aid Burgh and Juri&s;dictions thereof, duly to attend the publick Ordinances and Wor&s;hip; Certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall ab&s;ent them&s;elves, or withdraw therefrom, that they &s;hall be impartially Fyned ac|cording to Law. And for encouragment of the&s;e who &s;hall delate any per&s;on &s;o withdrawing, who are not contained in the Li&s;ts given up to the Magi&s;trates by per&s;ons authorized for that effect, &s;hall have &s;ix pounds Scots in&s;tantly payed unto him, providing alwayes the per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o delated, be convicted guilty of withdrawing as afore&s;aid. And Ordains this pre&s;ent Act to be Proclaimed through the City by Touck of Drum, and Printed that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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