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<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For Surpre&s;&s;ing of Tumults in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and el&s;ewhere.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_JAMES, by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Constitute, Greet|ing:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as there can nothing tend more to overturn the Prote|stant Religion, Liberty and Property of the Kingdom in general, nor of every particular per&s;on, than the being expo&s;ed to the Arbitrary In|&s;ults of Licentious Tumults, who being guided only by blinded Rage, are ready to make a Prey of any who&s;e E&s;tates, or Per&s;ons can &s;atisfie their Revenge, or Avarice; Therefore the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council Con&s;idering the late Execrable Tumults, rai&s;ed within this City, and the formidable Effects thereof, not only within this City, but that it has &s;pread it &s;elf over the Countrey, Have thought fit to Di&s;charge all Tumultuary Meet|ings within this City, or Suburbs, under the highe&s;t pains that Law can allow; And as by former Proclamations, &s;o now again, Command and Impower the Magi&s;trats of this City to take all Effectual Cour&s;es for Repre&s;&s;ing the&s;e Tumults, A&s;&s;uring them, that if they fail there|in, they will Tran&s;fer the Judicatures to &s;ome other Town, that will <UNCLEAR>be</UNCLEAR> more Loyal and Obedient to Law, and that they will Interpole with His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> that not only the Town and Magi&s;trats &s;hall be puni&s;hed, but that all their Deaconries &s;hall be Di&s;&s;olved and their Colledge clo&s;ed up; And that for the future, all who &s;hall be found guilty, &s;hall be Excepted from Acts of Indemnity; And lest Strangers &s;hould (under the pre&s;ence of Bu&s;ine&s;s) come in to this City, to di&s;turb the &s;ame, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the &s;aids Tumults; We Do in a mo&s;t &s;pecial manner Require and Impower them, to take up Li&s;ts of &s;uch as enter into the City, and to look exactly unto their behaviour, and to put them under Caution, if they think fit: As al&s;o, to prevent Tumults in other Burghs, they Command and Require the Magi&s;trats to put the Laws in Execution, again&s;t all &s;uch as Convocate them&s;elves illegally, or offer to Invade or Rob privat Hou&s;es, and they Impower all Sheriffs, Baillies of Regalities, Baillies of Bail&yogh;iaries, or their Deputs, to prevent and di&s;&s;ipat all &s;uch Convocations within their re&s;pective juri&s;dictions, And to Convocat all Heretors and others, who are hereby Ordered to a&s;&s;i&s;t them, to the Effect fore&s;aid, under all highe&s;t pain. And Ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be forthwith Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s; of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the thirteenth day of <HI>December, 1688.</HI> And of Our Reign, the fourth year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. <HI>WIL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
<HI>GOD Save the KING.</HI></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 <HI>Maje&s;ty: Anno DOM.</HI> 1688.</P>
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