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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Compleating the Levy for the thou&s;and Men, for the Year <HI>1697.</HI> And in ca&s;e of deficiency to poynd the Leaders.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM By the Grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith: To <GAP DESC="blank" RESP="OXF" 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; Fora&s;much, as We by Our Proclamation, of the Date the &s;ixteenth day of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, did Require and Command the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, to have Met upon the Days, and at the Places mentioned in the &s;aid Proclamation; And there and then to have De&s;igned and had in Readine&s;s in manner, and Conform to the twenty third Act la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this current Parliament; and Method therein &s;et down; The re&s;pective Numbers of Men particularly mentioned in the fore&s;aid Proclamation, or Twenty four Pound <HI>Scots</HI> for each Man not delivered to, or received by the Officers &s;ent by Order of Our Privy Council, or of Collonel <HI>George Hamilton</HI> Collonel to one of Our Regiments of Foot in <HI>Flanders,</HI> at the head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewar|tries of this Kingdom, at the Days particularly mentioned in the fore&s;aid Proclamation: And albeit Officers did attend at the head Burghs of the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires and Stewartries at the Time and upon the Days prefixed in Our former Proclamation, to have recei|ved the Men from the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires and Stewartries which they were to Furni&s;h for this year, or Twenty four Pounds for each un|delivered Man, conform to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament: Neverthele&s;s in many Shires, neither Men nor Money were delivered, to the great Detriment of Our Service; and Di&s;appointment of Our Officers, who thereby were to make the Recruits nece&s;&s;ary for Our Troops in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and to the great Expen&s;e of the &s;aids Officers and their needle&s;s Attendance; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Require and Command the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, of all the Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, to Meet, and timeou&s;ly de&s;ign Leaders for the re&s;pective Proportions of Men to be Furni&s;hed by their &s;aids Shires or Stewartries; and which Leaders &s;o de|&s;igned for all the Shires and Stewartries upon this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command to Provide and have in Rea|dine&s;s the re&s;pective Numbers of Men, which they as Leaders are appointed to Furni&s;h; or Twenty four Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each undelivered Man; Which Men or Money fore&s;aid, are to be delivered or payed in by them, at the head Burghs of the re&s;pective Shires or Stewartries, to &s;uch Officers or others as &s;hall be &s;ent by the Lords of Our Privy Council, or the &s;aid Collonel <HI>George Hamilton,</HI> &s;ufficiently Impowered by written Orders and Warrands upon the Twentieth day of this In&s;tant Month of <HI>February.</HI> And the re&s;pective Leaders for all the re&s;t of the Kingdom, to deliver or pay their Men or Money, at the re&s;pective head Burghs of their Shires or Stewartries, to the Per&s;ons to be &s;ent and Impowered in manner fore&s;aid, upon the Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next to come; with Certification to the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, who &s;hall not de&s;ign Leaders within their re&s;pective Bounds, they &s;hall be lyable to the Penalties for their Fail&yogh;our therein, mentioned in the Acts of Parli|ament made anent the Militia. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Certifie, Declare and Decern, that &s;uch of the Leaders who &s;hall faill to deli|ver the Men, or pay the Money to the Per&s;ons &s;o to be &s;ent and Impowered in manner fore&s;aid, at the Places, and upon the Days re&s;pective above-mentioned, they &s;hall be lyable to the &s;aids Per&s;ons Impowered to receive the &s;ame, in the Sum of One hundred Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each Man that &s;hall not be delivered, or the &s;aid Sum of Twenty four Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> in Money payed for him, in manner fore&s;aid; which hundreth Pounds is pre&s;ently to be Exacted and Rai&s;ed from the re&s;pective deficient Leaders in manner &s;pecified, and appointed for Deficiency in the Outreicks to the Militia, by the <HI>&s;econd Act, &s;econd Parliament King</HI> Charles <HI>the Second</HI>: Conform whereunto, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Authorize and Impower the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, or any two of them, after Tryal taken, that the re&s;pective Leaders, or any of them have been Deficient in the delivery of their Men, or Payments fore&s;aids, to give Order and Warrand to any Per|&s;on whom they &s;hall think fit, (whom We hereby make and Con&s;titute Our Sheriff in that part to that effect allenarly) to Poynd and De&s;trin&yogh;ie, the readie&s;t Goods and Gear of the &s;aids deficient Leaders, wherever the &s;ame may be found; Appry&s;e and make Sale thereof towards the payment of the &s;aid hundred Pounds for each undelivered Man to be &s;pecified in the &s;aid Warrant, and the Charges and Expen&s;es of the Poynding and Appry&s;ing, (the&s;e Charges always not exceeding the Sum of ten Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> Money for each hundred Pounds,) for which the Poynding &s;hall be u&s;ed, with power to our &s;aid Sheriff in that part, by vertue of that Order, to Poynd the Goods, without nece&s;&s;ity of carrying the &s;ame to the Paroch-Church, or Mercat-Cro&s;s of the Head-Burgh of the Shire, or Stewartry to be Appry&s;ed, and to do and act in the Execution of the &s;aid Order, &s;icklike as a Me&s;|&s;enger at Arms may do by the Law, in Execution of Letters of Poynding and Appry&s;ing given under our Signet: Providing always, that the Goods Poynded be Valued and Appry&s;ed by two hone&s;t Sworn Men, who&s;e Oaths, the &s;aid Sheriff in that part, is Authorized to take for that effect. And Declares that it &s;hall be lei&s;um to the Party, from whom the Goods &s;hall be Poynded, to redeem the &s;ame within &s;ix days after the Poynding, by payment of the Sums for which the Poynding &s;hall be u&s;ed, Expen&s;es of the Poynding fore&s;aid, and fourty Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> Money for each day during the not Redemption. And in ca&s;e the Goods be not redeemed within the &s;pace fore&s;aid, Declares, that it &s;hall be lawful to the &s;aid Per&s;on, Officer, or other, to who&s;e Behove the Goods are Poynded, to retain the Goods, or &s;ell the &s;ame, he &s;atisfying the Party, from whom the Goods were Poynded, of the &s;uperplus Price, if any be, after Deduction of the third of the Sum to which they were Appry&s;ed, and fourty Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> for ilk day during the &s;pace the Party had power to redeem: And Declares the &s;aid Warrand, Signed by two of the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, to have the Force and Strength of a Decreet; and that there is no nece&s;&s;ity of any Precept, or Charge to follow thereon; but that the Poynding and Appry&s;ing &s;o u&s;ed, by vertue of the &s;aid Warrant is and &s;hall be as lawful and valid, as if all the Solemnities requi&s;it and u&s;ual in Poyndings, were ob&s;erved conform to the fore&s;aid Act concerning the Militia, in all Points according to which, the Numbers of Men to be Outreiked for Our Service in this pre&s;ent year, were to be furni|&s;hed. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent 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 remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance. And We hereby Ordain Our Sollicitor to Tran&s;mit Copies hereof to the &s;everal Clerks to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom. And We Require and Command them to give Adverti&s;ement in Writing, to the &s;everal Leaders within their Bounds, of the days prefixed for Delivery of their &s;aid Men, or the &s;aid twenty four Pounds <HI>Scots,</HI> and of the Certification and Penalty above-&s;et-down, in ca&s;e of fail&yogh;ie, with the Execution to follow hereupon, for exacting thereof, as they will be An&s;werable. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the tenth Day of <HI>February,</HI> And of Our Reign the eight Year, <HI>1697.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the KING.</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 His most Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1697.</P>
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