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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Offering a Reward and Imdemnity to &s;uch as &s;hall di&s;cover the burning of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Prie&s;t-field,</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Our Lyon King at Arms, and his brethren Heraulds, Macers of our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the Government of this Our ancient Kingdom, being entru&s;ted to Us by the Almighty God, we have ever endeavoured, with a Royal and Fatherly care, to pre&s;erve it free from Inte&s;tine Di&s;orders; and Civil War, the greate&s;t of all dangers (becau&s;e Our Subjects mu&s;t fall therein on both &s;ides) by repre&s;&s;ing all Tumults and Combinations, in their fir&s;t appearances: In order whereunto, being informed that &s;ome di&s;orderly Boys, as well Students in the Colledge of <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> as Apprentices of that Our City, did of late enter into Bonds and Combinati|ons, and gather them&s;elves in tumults upon the Streets of that Our City, differencing them&s;elves by cognizances, and threatning to burn the Hou&s;e of <HI>Prie&s;t-field,</HI> belonging to the Provo&s;t of that Our City; Our Privy Council did only endeavour to &s;ecure the Publick Peace, and prevent In&s;olences again&s;t Our Faithful and Loyal subjects, and albeit We delayed any puni&s;hment of &s;o great Di&s;orders, till &s;uitable means &s;hould be offered for preventing the ill con&s;equences which naturally follow &s;uch Licenciou&s;ne&s;s: Yet &s;o far was Our Clemency abu&s;ed, that the &s;aid Hou&s;e of <HI>Prie&s;t-field,</HI> was, to the great a&s;toni&s;hment of all &s;ober men, burnt down according to the&s;e threatnings, which is clearly proved to Our Privy Council, by mo&s;t unan&s;werable proofs; By which, all Our Loyal and Peaceable Subjects are put in danger, as to their Lives and Fortunes, and the Prote&s;tant Religion defamed by &s;uch as u&s;e it for a Cloak to their Impieties: We have therefore thought fit, for di&s;covery of that dreadful Crime, and to prevent all future mi&s;chiefs, by a mo&s;t exact inquiry into what is pa&s;t, to offer; Likeas, We by advice of Our Privy Council, offer a full Indemnity and Remi&s;&s;ion to any one who &s;hall fir&s;t di&s;cover the &s;aid dreadful Crime, together with the Sum of two thou&s;and merks for his di&s;covery; Which Remi&s;&s;ion We declare to be as &s;ufficient, as if the &s;ame were pa&s;t Our Seals: And which &s;um, We hereby Command and Empower the Commi&s;&s;i|oners of Our The&s;aury to pay to the &s;aid di&s;coverer, whom We hereby take into Our &s;pecial Protection. And We ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Publi&s;hed by you, at the Merkat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful, and the &s;ame to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet, at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the thretteenth day of</HI> January, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and one, and of Our Reign, the thretty two year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum, Secreti Concilij.</HI>
<SIGNED>WIL. PATERSON. <HI>Cl. Sti. Concilij.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</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 Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1681.</P>
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