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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A PROCLAMATION, For calling a Convention of ESTATES.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the grace of GOD, King of <HI>Scotland, England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects whom the&s;e pre&s;ents do, or may, concern, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>The large and real te&s;timonies, which Our good Subjects of Our ancient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland</HI> have given of their fidelity and affection to Our Per&s;on, Authority and Government, do daily con|firm the re&s;olutions We have taken to be very tender and carefull of their con|cerns, and to improve all occa&s;ions which may tend to their happine&s;s and peace; and upon that account, have been hithertills &s;paring to put them to any charge for carrying on this War, wherein We are now engaged, with the Inhabitants of the <HI>United Pro|vinces,</HI> for the maintainance of Our own Honour, and the Peace and Trade of Our Kingdoms: yet, being confident of their readine&s;s to hazard their lives and fortunes in this ju&s;t quarrel, wherein Our Honour and Service, and their own Intere&s;t, is &s;o much involved, as to the i&s;&s;ue and event thereof; and that they may witne&s;s their zeal and re&s;olutions to maintain the &s;ame, by a national Supply and Taxation, as has been formerly granted to Our Royal Ance&s;tors, when their occa&s;ions required the &s;ame. Therefore We have thought fit, to call a convention of E&s;tates of that Our ancient Kingdom, to meet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> upon the &s;econd day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next to come: And do hereby require and command, all Archbi&s;hops, Dukes, Marque&s;&s;es, Earls, Vi&s;counts, Bi&s;hops, Lords and Officers of State, of that Our Kingdom, to be pre&s;ent, and attend that diet. And al&s;o We do require all Our Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, and their Deputes, that if there be any new election, made for this year, of Commi&s;sioners to Parliaments or Conventions, they make timeous intima|tions to the&s;e Commi&s;sioners, to keep this meeting: But, if there be no elections already made, that then they forthwith call and conveen all the Free-holders in their re&s;pective Shires, that accord|ing to the Laws and Acts of Parliament, elections may be made of fit per&s;ons to be Commi&s;|&s;ioners for this convention, and that Our Royal Burroughs make choice of Commi&s;sioners accordingly; and that they, and all others having intere&s;t, attend this convention of Our E&s;tates, under the pains contained in Our Laws made thereanent. And that all Our good Subjects may have due notice of this Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, We do hereby command Our Lyon, King at Arms, and his brethren Heraulds, Macers, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, to make timeous Proclamation hereof at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the head Burroughs, in the &s;everal Shires of that Our Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd day of <HI>June,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty five, and of Our Reign the &s;even|teenth year.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1665.</P>
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