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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<P> HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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A PROCLAMATION, For Calling of the PARLIAMENT. Edinburgh, <HI>the fifteenth day of</HI> July, <HI>one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty nine.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Scotland, England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects, whom the&s;e pre&s;ents do or may concern, Greeting. Fora&s;much as, upon divers great and weighty con&s;iderations, relating to the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the quiet and happine&s;s of this Our ancient Kingdom in all its Intere&s;ts, and for the good of Our Service; We do think it nece&s;&s;ary to call a Parliament, to be held at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to begin the nineteenth day of <HI>October</HI> next, at which time, Our Commi&s;sioner, &s;ufficiently authorized and in&s;tructed by Us, &s;hall be pre&s;ent. Therefore, We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby require and command, all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Arch|bi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, the Dukes, Marque&s;&s;es, Earls, Di&s;counts, Lords, and Our Officers of E&s;tate of this Kingdom, to be pre&s;ent at Our Parliament the &s;aid day: As al&s;o, We do require and command all tho&s;e who have right to choo&s;e Commi&s;sioners for the &s;everal Shires, to meet within the re&s;pective Shires at the <HI>Michaelmas</HI> head Court next en&s;uing, and make their Elections according to Law; And &s;icklike, We require and command Our Royal Burroughs to meet in due time for choo&s;ing of their Commi&s;|&s;ioners; And that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Our Officers of E&s;tate afore|mentioned, Commi&s;sioners of Shires and Burroughs, and all other per&s;ons concerned and having intere&s;t, be pre&s;ent at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> the fore&s;aid nineteenth day of <HI>October,</HI> to keep this meeting of Our Parliament, under the pains contained in Our Acts of Parliament made thereanent. And that all Our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, We do hereby command Our Lyon King at Arms, and his brethren Heraulds, Macers, Pur&s;evants and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, to make timeous Proclamation hereof at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the head Burroughs of the &s;everal Shires of this Our Kingdom, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Tho. Hay,</HI> Cls. Sti Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1669.</P>
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