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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Di&s;covering and Apprehending Hou&s;e-breakers, Thieves and Robbers, and their Re&s;etters.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>VVILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our She|riffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as it is certainly informed, that of late there has been many Hou&s;es broken, and that this Crime of Hou&s;e breaking is become is a manner gene|ral over all the Kingdom, by Thieves and Robbers, who have &s;tollen, rob|bed, and away-taken, great quantities of Goods out of the &s;aids Hou&s;es, to the great lo&s;s and dammage of many people; and to the effect that the &s;aids Thieves and Robbers may be di&s;covered, and brought to condign puni&s;h|ment: Therefore We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit by open Proclamation to give notice, that if any per&s;on or per|&s;ons &s;hall di&s;cover any of the&s;e Thieves, Robbers, and Hou&s;e-breakers, or their Re&s;etters, &s;o as that they may be apprehended and brought to puni&s;hment, they &s;hall have the Sum of an hundred Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> Money as a Reward for every per&s;on that &s;hall be di&s;covered and apprehended, &s;o as they may be brought to puni&s;hment, as &s;aid is. As al&s;o, if any of the&s;e Thieves, Robbers and Hou&s;e-breakers, or the Re&s;etters, &s;hall di&s;cover any of their Accompli|ces, &s;o as that they may be apprehended and brought to puni&s;hment, as afore|&s;aid, the di&s;coverer &s;hall not only be indemnified for the Crime, but likewi&s;e have the fore&s;aid Reward. And farder, We with Advice fore&s;aid, recom|mend to, and impower all Our good Subjects, to &s;eiz and apprehehend all Idle and Vagrant Per&s;ons, or Vagabonds, and bring them before the next Ju|&s;tice of Peace, or other Magi&s;trats to Burgh or Landwart, to be by them &s;e|cured as Law will. 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>Edinburgh,</HI> and other remanent Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and thereat in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation make Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend ignorance. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of Our Reign the twelfth year <HI>1700.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1700.</P>
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