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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For e&s;tablish&s;ing Lieutenents in the Shires of Argyle and Tarbet, for &s;ecuring the Peace of the High-lands.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender 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;eve|rally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as We under&s;tanding that <HI>Archibald</HI> late Earl of <HI>Ar|gyle</HI> hath not only con&s;ulted and concurred with <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> con&s;pirators, in their late trea&s;onable Plot again&s;t Our Per&s;on, Our deare&s;t and only Brother, and Our Royel Government, but hath been eminently active therein, encouraging his Complices, by undertaking to rai&s;e a con&s;iderable Force in this Our Ancient Kingdom, for beginning, and carring on of that villanous Con&s;piracy; And We being obliged by the Law of GOD and Man, to endeavour by all ju&s;t means to di&s;appont tho&s;e Helli&s;h Machinations, and to prevent the ruine of Our good People, which nece&s;&s;arily would en&s;ue, if the malicious de&s;igns of the &s;aid late Earl of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and others his Accomplices, &s;hould take any effect; And We having in order thereto, e&s;tablished Lieutenents in the Shires of <HI>Argyle,</HI> and <HI>Tarbet,</HI> for preventing and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the Projects and Seditions intended by the &s;aid late Earls de|&s;cending in the&s;e places, and his Convocating others, who are ill-principled, and di&s;affected to Our Government; And it being fit that the &s;aids Lieutenents &s;hould be a&s;&s;i&s;ted by Our other good Subjects, in ca&s;e of &s;uch traiterous attempts: We therefore, by vertue of Our Royal Authority, and with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Command and Require, that the per&s;ons af|ter-named, have in readine&s;s with all convenient diligence, the re&s;pective proportions, and number of Men after-mentioned, well pro|vided, in Feir of Weir, well Armed, and with thirty days Provi&s;ion, for concurring with, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting our &s;aid Lieutenents, in main|taining Our Royal Authority, and executing of Our Laws, and pre&s;erving the Peace of this Our Realm, as they &s;hall be required by Our &s;aids Lieutenent, on any nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion, <HI>viz.</HI> The Earl of <HI>Monteith</HI> two hundred Men, and the Laird <HI>Lu&s;s</HI> one hundred Men, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Lieutenent of <HI>Cowel,</HI> when they &s;hall be required: The Marque&s;s of <HI>Athol</HI> three hundred Men, and the Earl of <HI>Braid-Albin</HI> three hundred Men, to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Lieutenent of <HI>Inverrary</HI>: The Sheriff of <HI>Boot</HI> two hundred Men: The Laird of <HI>M^cclean</HI> two hundred Men:  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>M^ccleud</HI> of <HI>Harris</HI> two hundred Men: And <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> for <HI>Ila</HI> two hundred Men, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Lieutenent of <HI>Sadell</HI> or <HI>Kintyre</HI>: The Marque&s;s of <HI>Huntley,</HI> and Earl of <HI>Perth</HI> three hunderd Men: The Laird of <HI>Mc|kinto&s;h</HI> two hundred Men: The Laird of <HI>M^ckinnen</HI> one hundred Men, And the Laird of <HI>Appine</HI> one hundred Men, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Lieu|tenent of <HI>Craigne&s;s</HI>: The Marque&s;s of <HI>Huntley,</HI> and Earl of <HI>Perth</HI> three hundred Men, The Laird <HI>Lochyell</HI> two hundred Men: The Captain of <HI>Clanronnald</HI> two hundred Men, And the Laird of <HI>Glengarry</HI> one hundred Men: for a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Lieutenent of <HI>Dun&s;taffnage</HI>; The Earl of <HI>Mary</HI> three hundred Men: The Laird <HI>Weem</HI> one hundred Men, The Earl of <HI>Seaforth</HI> three hundred Men, And Sir <HI>Donald M^cdonald</HI> of <HI>Slait</HI> two hundred Men, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Lieutenent of <HI>Tarbet</HI>: And all the per&s;on above-named, are hereby requi|red to have their fore&s;aids number in readine&s;s, and to certiorat Our Chancellor thereof, with all convenient diligence, and to have their &s;aids Numbers fitted and prepared to march with all diligence to the &s;aids re&s;pective Lieutenents, as they &s;hall require the fa|mine: And to the effect the ill-affected people may be the more terrified from attempting any thing to  the prejudice of Us, or of Our good Subjects: We hereby Command and Require all Our Liedg-men, betwixt &s;ixty and &s;ixteen, within the re&s;pective Shires after-mentioned well provided, in Feir of Weir, to march on &s;ix days warning, with thirty days Provi&s;ion, to the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the &s;everal Lieutenents, when they &s;hall require the &s;ame; and there to act and do as they &s;hall be commanded by the &s;aids Lieutenents, or others having command from Us; To wit, all within the Shires <HI>Dumbartoun,</HI> and <HI>Stirling,</HI> and Stewartry of <HI>Monteith,</HI> for to an&s;wer the Lieutenent of <HI>Cowall</HI>: All within the Shire of <HI>Perth,</HI> to an&s;wer the Lieutenent of <HI>Inverrary</HI>: All within the Shires of <HI>Forfer</HI> and <HI>Kincardine,</HI> and Stewartry of <HI>Stra|thern,</HI> to an&s;wer the Lieutenent of <HI>Craigne&s;s</HI>: All within the Shires of <HI>Aberdene</HI> and <HI>Bamff,</HI> above <HI>Kincairn</HI> of <HI>Neill, Kildrummie,</HI> and <HI>Keith,</HI> to an&s;wer the Lieutenent of <HI>Tarbet</HI>: All within the Shire of <HI>Boot,</HI> I&s;les of <HI>Mull</HI> and <HI>Ila,</HI> to an&s;wer the Lieutenent of <HI>Saddel</HI> or <HI>Kintrey</HI>: And all within the Shires of <HI>Inuerne&s;s, Elgine, Nairn</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;s,</HI> to an&s;wer the Lieutenent of <HI>Dun&s;taffnage,</HI> And all Our Leidges are hereby required to give obedience to the &s;aids Lieutenents, to act, a&s;&s;i&s;t, and concurr with them in manner fore&s;aid, under the pain of tin&s;el of Life, Lands, and Goods; And thereby, and attour, all the Fencible Men within ilk re&s;pective Divi&s;ion, are hereby required to give obedience to &s;aid Lieutenents, in manner, and to the effect above-written, under the fore&s;aids pain. And to the ef|fect Our &s;pecial plea&s;ure in the premi&s;&s;es may be made known, that all per&s;ons concerned may give exact and punctual obedience there|unto. Our Will is, and We charge you &s;trictly, and command, that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s; to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat Cro&s;s of the Head Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and there by open Proclamation, make Publication of the premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance. As al&s;o, We ordain the&s;e pre&s;ents to be affixt on the &s;everal Paroch Kirk-doors within the High-lands, and the &s;everal Sheriffs of the Shires fore&s;aids, to &s;ee the &s;ame done accordingly, as they will be an|&s;werable.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fifth day of May, One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and four. And of Our Reign, the thirtieth and &s;ixth Year, <HI>1684</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>WILL PATERSON.</HI> Cls. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"></SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING</CLOSER>
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