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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For Apprehending the Lord <HI>Bellendine.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the fourth day of</HI> July, 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lord high Commi&s;&s;ioner, and Lords of His Ma|je&s;ties Privy Council being well Informed of the hor|rid Murder, Committed by <HI>Iohn</HI> Lord <HI>Bellen|dine,</HI> on the third of this In&s;tant <HI>Iuly,</HI> upon one of His Maje&s;ties Souldiers, under the Command of Major General <HI>M^ccay,</HI> without any occa&s;ion or provocation: Therefore the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, in His Maje&s;ties Name and Authority, Have thought fit, by open Proclamation, to Certifie the Leidges of this Inhumane Murder, and do Require all Magi&s;trats, Souldiers, and other Leidges, to do their outmo&s;t Indeavour and Diligence, to Apprehend the &s;aid Lord <HI>Bellendine,</HI> that he may be brought to condign Puni&s;hment, e&s;pecially &s;uch of the Leidges as lives at Pa&s;&s;es, or Ferries; and in ca&s;e any of the Leidges may have &s;een the &s;aid Lord <HI>Bellendine</HI> before they were certified of his Crime, and Required to Apprehend him, that immediatly up|on Intimation of this Proclamation, the&s;e per&s;ons give notice to the next Magi&s;trats, Ju&s;tices of Peace, Officers of the Army, or Con|&s;tables, where they did &s;ee the &s;aid Lord <HI>Bellendine,</HI> &s;ince the committing of the &s;aid Murder, to the effect he may be Pur&s;ued, and Sei&s;ed. Indemnifying hereby any Per&s;on from the hazard of Slaughter, Mutilation, or any other Acts of Violence, which they may commit again&s;t the &s;aid Lord <HI>Bellendine,</HI> or any per&s;ons with him, in Apprehending of him: And for the further Incou|ragement of this Service, The Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Coun|cil, Do Promi&s;e and A&s;&s;ure the Sum of Two thou&s;and Merks Scots to any per&s;on or Per&s;ons, who &s;hall &s;eize the &s;aid Lord <HI>Bellendine,</HI> and Deliver him to any of His Maje&s;ties Magi&s;trats or Officers of his Army; Di&s;charging hereby any of His Maje&s;ties Leidges to Shel|ter, Harbour, or any ways A&s;&s;i&s;t or Supply the &s;aid Lord <HI>Bellen|dine</HI> upon their highe&s;t peril. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Print|ed and Publi&s;hed by Macers, Pur&s;evants, or Me&s;&s;engers, at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> or any other places nece&s;&s;ary. Extracted by me,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> by Order of the Privy Council, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1689.</P>
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