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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For taking the Oaths of Ma&s;ters of Ships, Boats, Barks, and other Ve&s;&s;els, Outvvard or Invvard bound into this Kingdom, anent their Pa&s;&s;engers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, or Me&s;|&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, greeting,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For|a&s;much as many wicked and rebellious Per&s;ons, being con&s;cious of their own guilt, have fled from this King|dom into forreign Kingdoms or Countreys, where they continue to carry on their Traiterous and Helli&s;h De|&s;igns again&s;t Our Sacred Per&s;on, and the Government of this Our Realm, by corre&s;ponding and keeping of In|telligence with their rebellious Complices, lurking within this Kingdom: Therefore, and for preventing of the &s;aids De&s;igns as much as can be, We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby Re|quire and Command all Ma&s;ters of Ships going from this Kingdom, or returning to the &s;ame, to pre&s;ent all and every one of their Pa&s;&s;engers upon Oath, to the &s;everal Per&s;ons to be named by the Cu&s;tomers in the &s;everal Precincts following, <HI>viz.</HI> All Ma&s;ters of Ships, Barks, Boats, or other Ve&s;&s;els, going from, or returning to any place within the Precincts of the Cu&s;tome-Office of <HI>Leith</HI> and <HI>Prestoun-Pans,</HI> to the Collectore there for the time. All within the Precinct of the Cu&s;tome of <HI>Borrow&s;tounne&s;s,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Kirkaldy,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Montro&s;s,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Aberdene,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Port-patrick,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Air,</HI> to the Collec|tors there for the time. Tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Irving,</HI> to the Collectors there for the time. And tho&s;e of the Precinct of <HI>Port-Gla&s;gow,</HI> to the Collectors there, for whom the Tack&s;-men and Cu&s;tomers are to be an&s;werable. Declaring hereby, That whatever Matter of Ship, Bark, Boat, or Ve&s;&s;el, &s;hall do in the contrair, &s;hall lo&s;e his whole Goods (the one half to the Informer, and the other half to Us) his per&s;on &s;hall be Impri&s;on|ed and he declared uncapable to be a Ma&s;ter of a Ship, Bark, or other Ve&s;&s;el hereafter, And if any of the &s;aids Ma&s;ters of Ships, or other Ve&s;&s;els fore|&s;aid, &s;hall Import to this Kingdom, any Traitors, Rebels, Fugitives, Intercommuned, or bani&s;hed per&s;ons, it is hereby Declared they &s;hall be liable therefore conform to the Laws and Acts of Parliament, and Proclamations made again&s;t Re&s;&s;etters of Rebels; Requiring al&s;o the per&s;ons above|-mentioned, authorized to take the &s;aid Oath, to give an exact account of their Diligence the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of every Moneth to the Clerks of Our Privy Councils; And We do hereby Require and Command the Collectors and Clerks of Our &s;everal Cu&s;tom Offices, to accept of no report In|ward from any Ma&s;ter of a Ship, Bark, Boat, or other Ve&s;&s;el, and the Keepers of the Cocquet-office not to give out the &s;ame to any &s;uch Ma&s;ter out|ward bound, until he receive Te&s;tificat from the per&s;ons above-written, authorized as &s;aid is, within who&s;e precinct any &s;uch Ship, Bark, Boat, or o|ther Ve&s;&s;el is, That he has made Faith anent his Pa&s;&s;engers as afore&s;aid, and that he neither hath, had, nor has any other Pa&s;&s;engers from abroad, nor outward bound, then the&s;e mentioned in his Oath, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril; And further, Declaring that the Ma&s;ter and Owner &s;hall lo&s;e the Ship, Boat, Bark, or Ve&s;&s;el and Goods, in which any per&s;on not given up as &s;aid is, &s;hall be in-brought unto this Kingdom, or Tran&s;ported forth thereof; and that all Magi&s;trats of Burghs of Royalty or Regality, and Heretors, on who&s;e Ground &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall be Landed, are to be liable and puni&s;hed therefore, at Our Privy Council &s;hall think fit, in ca&s;e they do not Diligence to prevent the &s;ame, or apprehend the per&s;ons &s;o Landed: And to the effect Our plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known, to all per&s;ons concerned. Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontenent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and the remanent Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the head Burghs of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and thereat, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that all per&s;ons concerned may have notice thereof, and give pun|ctual and exact obedience thereto.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fifteenth day of <HI>September,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and four. And of Our Reign, the thir|tieth and &s;ixth Year</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cl. Sti. Con&s;lii.</SIGNED><LB>
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 Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1684.</P>
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