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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Lord high Chancellor, and remanent Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The Humble Petition of His Maje&s;ties Printer and Servants.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat where Your Petitioners are nece&s;&s;arly Employed in His Maje&s;ties Service at all times, but e&s;pecially in time of War, when Publick Papers are &s;o frequent at the Pre&s;s, which nece&s;&s;itats us to be at Work both Day and Night, at all Times, and on all Occa&s;ions; It's therefore Humbly De&s;ired, That as the Kings Printers and their Servants in all Kingdoms are Exempted, not only from per&s;onal Attendance on Publick Occa&s;ions, and at all times; but are Freed from all Burthen what&s;oever: So that the Petitioners may be accordingly Exempted, whereby they will be enabled to Serve His Ma|je&s;ty in their Employment; and that this may be made the more effectual, To Di&s;charge the Magi&s;trats of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> from troubling the Petitioners in all time coming, with Watchings, Wardings, Outreick of the Militia, or &s;uch other Publick Burthens,</P>
<CLOSER>And we and our Succe&s;&s;ors, Serving His Maje&s;ty in the &s;aid Art &s;hall ever Pray, &amp;<HI>c.</HI><LB>
<SIGNED>By Order of the Secret Committee, <HI>TARBAT.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>For the whole Officers of the Militia-Regiment, within the Good Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> who may be herein re&s;pectively concerned, and whole Officers of the Train-bands thereof.</HEAD>
<P>YOU are hereby Di&s;charged from troubling and mole&s;ting M^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">^S, <HI>Tailzifer,</HI> or any of her Servants imployed in the Printing-hou&s;e, in attending the Mi|litia, or any of your Companies, in re&s;pect of the con&s;tant Imployment they have in the Publick Con|cerns; For which the&s;e &s;hall be your Warrand, un|der my Hand, At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the 21 of <HI>May,</HI> 1685. years.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>GEORGE DRUMMOND Collonel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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