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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Appointing all Pa&s;&s;es to Ships to be granted hereafter by the High-Admiral, his Deputes, Judges and Officers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms, His Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, con|junctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We having by Our Proclamation in the-Year 1676, for the &s;ecurity of the Trade of Our Subjects of this Our Ancient Kingdom, appointed that Pa&s;&s;es might be granted by &s;ome in the &s;everal Di&s;tricts there|in-mentioned; di&s;charging all others (except tho&s;e therein appointed) to grant Pa&s;&s;es to any Ships within this Our Kingdom, and appointed a general Surveyer for the whole Kingdom, who was to receive his Commi&s;&s;ion from Our Council: But now finding that the&s;e methods have proved ineffectual, and being fully informed that the granting of &s;uch Pa&s;&s;es and Safe-conducts to Ships, do of right appertain to the Authority, Power and Priviledge of the Admiral; and that it is now the only undoubted right of Our deare&s;t and only Brother, who is Great Admiral of this Our Ancient Kingdom, and who by being lately here, has had occa&s;ion fully to know the concerns thereof: We have therefore, with advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit to declare it to be Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, that in all time coming, all Pa&s;&s;es to Ships within this Our Ancient Kingdom &s;hall be granted by the High Admiral of the &s;ame, his Deputes and Judges of the High-Court of Admiralty, and written, and &s;ealed by the Clerks of the &s;aid Court, as for|merly they were in u&s;e to be; Hereby evacuating all former Pa&s;&s;es, granted by any Per&s;on what&s;oever, and declaring them void and null in all time coming. And to the end that this Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure may be known and obeyed, We do hereby Require and Command all Our Subjects within this Our Ancient Kingdom, to take Pa&s;&s;es for their Ships when they go to Sea, from the &s;aid High Admiral, his Deputes and Judges of the &s;aid High-Court of Admiralty, and from none el&s;e, as they will be an&s;werable to Us upon their highe&s;t peril: Having left it entirely to the care of Our deare&s;t Brother, High Admiral of this Our Ancient Kingdom, (who knows all the &s;everal Treaties concluded betwixt Us and Our Allies;) to give &s;uch Directions from time to time to his Deputes and Officers of the Admira'ty, as may be effectual for the &s;ecuring the Trade of Our Subjects, and for preventing all Abu&s;es and Inconveniencies that may occur any time hereafter. 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> Peer and Shore of <HI>Leith,</HI> and to the &s;everal Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of this Kingdom, and other places needful; and there by open Proclamation, make publication of Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;es, that all Our Subjects may have notice thereof, and give obedience thereto, as they will be an&s;werable on their highe&s;t peril. And We ordain Copies hereof to be po&s;ted up in every Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e, to direct Per&s;ons concerned where and from whom Pa&s;&s;es to Ships hereafter are to be had. And We ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;ixth day of <HI>May,</HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty Years; And of Our Reign the thirty two Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cl. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, Anno <HI>DOM.</HI> 1680.</P>
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