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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Di&s;charging the levying or tran&s;porting of Souldiers vvithout Licence.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Brittain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der of the Faith</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>to <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at armes, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially, con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>fora&s;much, as, We by Our Proclamation, dated the twenty third day of <HI>July,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred, and &s;eventy four years, did prohibite and di&s;charge any per&s;on or per&s;ons to Levy any men in this Kingdom or to take or tran&s;port any of Our Sub|jects thereof into the &s;ervice of any forreign Prince or State, without Our &s;pecial Licence: and di&s;charged all Masters of &s;hips to receive on board, or tran&s;port them under all highe&s;t pains to be inflicted on the contra|veeners. Requiring thereby the fermorers of Our Customes and Exci&s;e their collectors and waiters, to take &s;pecial notice of any &s;uch per&s;ons whom they &s;hould find pa&s;&s;ing furth of this Kingdom upon the fore&s;aid accompt; and to &s;top them in their pa&s;&s;age, as they would be an&s;werable: And if need were, that they require the concurrance of the Magi&s;trates of Burghs and others in authority under &V;s, to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to them therein. Like|as, We by another Proclamation, of the date, the first day of <HI>October,</HI> the year fore&s;aid did renew Our &s;aid Proclamation; and further, did prohibite and di&s;charge all ma&s;ters of &s;hips to receive on board or to tran&s;port to any forreign countrey any &s;ubjects of this Kingdom, who had been levied without Our &s;pecial licence, or any other <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> who are not <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> or &s;ea-men, unle&s;s they had a pa&s;s under the hand of any one of Our <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> authorize and require any of Our privy Coun&s;ellors upon information given, that any of Our &s;ubjects of this King|dom, &s;ouldiers or others were taken on to &s;erve in any forreign countrey without warrand as &s;aid is, to cau&s;e &s;top them in their pa&s;&s;age and impri&s;on them and to cau&s;e &s;ei&s;e upon and &s;ecure the per&s;ons who had ingaged them, or &s;hould be known to have been dealing with and &s;educing them thereto, until they &s;hould find caution, to an&s;wer for the &s;ome, and that they &s;hould not levy nor tran&s;port any of Our &s;ubjects to any forreign &s;ervice with power to any Privy Coun&s;ellor to give &s;uch orders as &s;hould be nece&s;&s;arie for that effect to the magistrates of Burghs or any of the &s;tanding forces, who are thereby required to put the&s;e orders inexecution as they wil be an&s;werable at their high|e&s;t perill; and it is thereby declared, that &s;uch per&s;ons as had alreadie contraveened the fore&s;aid Proclamation &s;hould be proceeded again&s;t and con&s;ored conform to the tenour thereof, as at length is contained in the &s;aids Procla|mations. And whereas upon diver&s;e important and weighty con&s;iderations, We have thought fit again to re|new Our &s;aids former Proclamation. We therefore, with advice of the Lords of Our Privie Councill, do <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Proclamations afore&s;aids and ordains the &s;ame to continue and &s;tand in ful force and to be pun|ctually ob&s;erved and put in execution in time coming after the form and tenour thereof, and under the pains and certifications therein contained in all points. And ordains the&s;e per&s;ents to be printed, and publication to be <UNCLEAR>made</UNCLEAR> thereof at the mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places that none pretend ignorance. The which to do, We commit to you conjunctly and &s;everally Our full power be thir Our Letters, delivering <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <UNCLEAR>duely execute and</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> again to the bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><UNCLEAR>Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the tenth</UNCLEAR> day of June, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;eventy <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <UNCLEAR>and of Our Reign, the</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eventh year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Al. Gib&s;on Cl. S^t^i^.</HI> Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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