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<HEAD>ACT Di&s;charging Boats, Barks, or Ve&s;&s;els from Going to the <HI>Ba&s;s,</HI> or Furni&s;hing Supplys there to.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE><HI>February</HI> 28. 1694.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of Their Maje&s;ties Privy Coucil, being informed, that &s;everal of the Rebels who hold out the I&s;le and Rock of the <HI>Ba&s;s,</HI> are at pre&s;ent come, or driven a&s;hore, and that by the late Storms, the Boats belonging to the &s;aids Rebels are lo&s;t, which may prove an effectual mean of their Reduction, Do hereby &s;trictly Command and Charge all Per&s;ons, Skippers, Owners, or Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of Boats, Barks, or other Ve&s;&s;els, great or &s;mall, re&s;iding and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the &s;aids Boats, Barks, or Ve&s;&s;els, on either &s;ide of the <HI>Firth,</HI> from <HI>Stirling</HI> to St. <HI>Andrews</HI> upon the one &s;ide, and from <HI>Stirling</HI> to <HI>Berwick</HI> one the other &s;ide of the &s;aid Rock, that they carefully keep and &s;ecure the &s;ame, both Night and Day, from being either &s;eized upon, Stollen, or otherways taken away by the &s;aids Rebels, or any of them, or any other per&s;on for their u&s;e and &s;ervice, under all highe&s;t pains; and that neither they, nor any per&s;on what&s;oever pre&s;ume to Hire, Lend, or otherways furni&s;h any Boat, Bark, or other Ve&s;&s;el to the &s;aids Rebels, or any of them, or any other for their U&s;e and Service, under the pains due to Corre&s;ponders with, and Supplyers of Rebels and Traitors. And far|der, the &s;aids Lords, Do hereby Renew and A&s;&s;ure the Promi&s;e of twenty pound <HI>Sterling,</HI> formerly made to any per&s;on who &s;hall &s;eize any of the &s;aids Rebels wherever they may be found, and &s;hall deliver the Per&s;on &s;o &s;eized to any of Their Maje&s;ties Officers, either Civil or Military. And they Ordain that the&s;e pre&s;ents be Printed and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and al&s;o at all the Towns on the Coa&s;t of either &s;ide of the <HI>Firth</HI> within the bounds fore&s;aid, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted by me GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King <HI>VVilliam</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></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 Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1694.</P>
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