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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For providing Magazines of Corns, Hay and Straw, to Their Maje&s;ties Troops.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We taking into Our Royal Con&s;idera|tion, the great and many Inconveniencies, which Our Troops, as well as the Countrey, do, or may &s;u&s;tain, in ca&s;e Provi&s;ions and Stores of Corn, <HI>Hay</HI> and Straw, he not timou&s;ly and orderly made, at the re&s;pective Burghs and Places, where Our Forces &s;hall be Quartered. Therefore We, with the Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Require and Command, the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, or the plurality of &s;uch of them as &s;hall conveen, conform to the <HI>6th Act, 3d Se&s;&s;.</HI> of Our fir&s;t <HI>Parl.</HI> within the &s;everal Shires, where any of the Troops of Our Forces, Hor&s;e, or Dragoons &s;hall happen to be Quartered, to meet each fir&s;t and third <HI>Tue&s;days</HI> of e|very Moneth, during the continuance of the Forces in the &s;aids Shires, and to appoint rea&s;onable prices of Corns, Hay, and Straw, at which the &s;ame &s;hall be &s;old and furni&s;hed; And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the &s;aids Com|mi&s;&s;ioners, to Ordain the Collectors of Supply, within the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, upon a competent allowance for their pains, to provide, buy up, and furni&s;h, where they can be&s;t have it for ready Money, (to be payed by them out of the Ce&s;s of the &s;aids &s;hires, received by the &s;aid Collector) &s;ufficient Magazins of Corn, Hay, and Straw, for the &s;pace of four|teen dayes, at the &s;everal Burghs of the &s;aids Shires, for the number of Hor&s;es quartered, or to be quartered upon them, and in the pre&s;ent Service of the &s;aids Officers, Troopers, or Dragoons them&s;elves; with Certification, that if any Hor&s;e not pre&s;ently in their Service, &s;hall be intertained upon the &s;aid Magazin, the Hor&s;e &s;hall be Confi&s;cat, and the Officer, Trooper, or Dragoon, in who&s;e Name he is intertained, &s;hal be Ca&s;hired, and turned out of the &s;aid Troop, and &s;o from time to time, during the continuance of their Quarters at that place: And We Declare, That what Provi&s;ions have been, or &s;hall be furni&s;hed by the &s;aids Collectors, forth of the for&s;aids Magazines, to the Officers or others of Our Forces, and &s;hall be unpayed by them, the &s;ame &s;hall be allowed to the &s;aids Collectors, and retained by them, out of the fir&s;t end of the Ce&s;s, due and payable by the &s;aids Shires, conform to the Receipts thereof granted to them by any Trooper or Dragoon, or any of their Officers, conde&s;cending upon the Names of the &s;aids Officers, Troopers, or Dragoons, and upon the Troop and Re|giment, to which they do belong; And the &s;aids Officers are hereby Required from time to time, to call &s;uch of their &s;aids Troopers as cannot Write, before them&s;elves, and in their Names grant Receipts to the Collector for what hath been or &s;hall be delivered by him to them, out of the &s;aids Magazines, under the Certification above-written. And We, with Advice fore|&s;aid, Do hereby peremptorly Command and Require, the General Receivers of the Ce&s;s and Supply, to allow to the Col|lectors fore&s;aids, what &s;hall be in&s;tructed to be given out by them in the terms above-written, in the fir&s;t end of the Ce&s;s and Supply of the Shire, where the &s;aids Provi&s;ions have been, or &s;hall be made, and to receive the &s;aids Receipts from the Col|lectors in the &s;everal Shires, as &s;ufficient exoneration to them of the Ce&s;s of the Shire <HI>pro tanto,</HI> and only Order Quartering for what &s;hall be re&s;ting by the &s;aids Shires, after the &s;aids Magazines and Provi&s;ions are allowed, under the pain of being deprived of their Offices as General Receivers in all time coming, and the Premi&s;&s;es to be ob&s;erved as the Rule of providing, and furni&s;hing &s;uch of Our Forces, as are upon the <HI>Scots</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment; and as to the&s;e of Our Forces which are upon the <HI>En|gli&s;h</HI> Pay, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Ordain the Collectors fore&s;aids of the re&s;pective Shires, to furni&s;h them forth of the &s;aids Magazines, upon their making payment by ready Money for what they &s;hall receive at the rea&s;onable prices fore&s;aids, to be &s;et down or appointed by Our &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply in the &s;everal Shires, as &s;aid is, and no otherwi&s;e. And to the effect Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known, Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you &s;traitly and Command, that in|continent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the whole remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance, as ye will an&s;wer to Us thereupon; The which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally, Our full Power, by the&s;e Pre&s;ents delivering them by you, duly Execute, and Indor&s;ed again to the bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twelfth day of <HI>December,</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;econd year, <HI>1690.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. D A. MONCREIFF, Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1690.</P>
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