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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Di&s;charging the levying or tran&s;porting of Souldiers vvithout Licence.</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 <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially constitute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as We did by a Proclamation of the twenty third of <HI>July</HI> last, prohibit any per&s;ons what&s;oever to levy any men in this Our ancient Kingdom, or to tran&s;port any of Our Subjects thereof into the &s;ervice of any forraign Prince or State without Our &s;pecial licence: and di&s;charged all Ma&s;ters of &s;hips to tran&s;port them under all highest pains. And we being informed, that notwith&s;tan|ding of the &s;aid Proclamation, &s;ince the publi&s;hing thereof, many of Our &s;ubjects of this Kingdom, have been taken on and tran&s;ported abroad, and &s;ome of the &s;ouldiers of Our &s;tanding Forces have been, and daily are &s;educed and debauched from their &s;ervice, and in|gaged to &s;erve in forraign Countries by per&s;ons having no warrand or licence from &V;s, in high and manife&s;t contempt of Our Authority, and contrare to the &s;aid Proclamation. There|fore, We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby prohibit and di&s;|charge all Masters of Ships to receive on board, or to tran&s;port to any forraign Countrey any &s;ubjects of this Kingdom who have been levyed without Our &s;pecial licence, or any other Pa&s;&s;engers who are not Merchants or Seamen, unle&s;s they have a Pa&s;s under the hand of any one of Our Privy Councellors: Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall tran&s;gre&s;s herein, that they &s;hall be fyned in the &s;um of three thou&s;and merks, Scots money; whereof a third part to be ap|plyed to the u&s;e of the informer. Likeas, We do hereby authorize and require any one of Our Privy Councellors, upon information given, that any of Our Subjects of this Kingdom, Souldiers or others are taken on to &s;erve in any forraign Countrey, without warrand, as &s;aid is, to cau&s;e &s;top them in their pa&s;&s;age, and impri&s;on them, and to cau&s;e &s;eize upon and &s;e|cure the per&s;ons who have ingaged them, or who &s;hall be known to have been dealing with, and &s;educing them thereto, until they find caution to an&s;wer for the &s;ame, and that they &s;hall not levy or tran&s;port any of Our Subjects to any forraign &s;ervice; with power to any Privy Councellor to give &s;uch orders as &s;hall be nece&s;&s;ary for that effect to the Magi&s;trats of Burghs, or any of Our &s;tanding forces, who are hereby required to put the&s;e orders in exe|cution, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril. And it is hereby declared, that &s;uch per&s;ons as have already contraveened the former Proclamation, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and cen&s;ured conform to the tenor thereof. The which to do we commit to you con|junctly and &s;everally Our full Power by thir Our Letters, delivering them by you duely exe|cute and indor&s;at again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Sig<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI><UNCLEAR>Edinburgh</UNCLEAR>,</HI> <DATE>the first of <HI>October,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hun|dred, and &s;eventy four Years.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Al. Gib&s;on Cl. S^t^i^.</HI> Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
God Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1674.</P>
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