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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION,</HI> Indemnifying De&s;erters, and declaring what Pa&s;ses will be &s;ufficient.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, <HI>King of Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Pri|vy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting: For|a&s;much as, VVe have allowed and Ordained, that all De&s;erters from Our Re|giments in Flanders, &s;ince their being there, be &s;eized as De&s;erters by Our Officers, lately come from <HI>Flanders</HI> for Recruits; As al&s;o, that &s;uch of the&s;e De&s;erters who ingaged in any of Our Regiments abiding in <HI>Scotland,</HI> be de|livered to the &s;aids Officers, to be tran&s;ported again to <HI>Flanders;</HI> And lea&s;t the fore&s;aids De&s;erters may apprehend that they may &s;till be lyable to puni&s;h|ment as De&s;erters; Therefore VVe with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby fully Pardon and Indemnifie all &s;uch of the &s;aids De&s;er|ters as &s;hall happen to be tran&s;ported to <HI>Flanders</HI> in manner fore&s;aid for their &s;aid De&s;ertion, remitting to the &s;aids De&s;erters their fore&s;aid Crime of De&s;ertion, as fully and freely in all re&s;pects, as if the &s;aid Crime had never been committed and incurred, but that all other De&s;erters may be duly puni&s;hed, and none may pre&s;ume for hereafter to De&s;ert on any pretence. VVe further hereby with Ad|vice fore&s;aid, Ratifie and Revive all former Proclamations again&s;t De&s;erters, ordaining the &s;ame to be put to execution again&s;t all De&s;erters not hereby par|doned, or pre&s;ently engaged in Our Service, with all rigour; And that for hereafter no que&s;tion may be moved about Pa&s;&s;es, VVe hereby with Advice fore&s;aid, Ordain all Collonels of the Regiments in Our Service, to intimat to their inferiour Officers, that none of them pre&s;ume to give a Pa&s;s to any Soul|dier under their Command, unle&s;s the &s;aid inferiour Officer be a Field Officer, and in ab&s;ence of the &s;aids Collonels out of the Kingdom: Declaring, likeas it is hereby Declared, That all Pa&s;&s;es to be hereafter given contrair to the pre&s;ent Order, &s;hall be void and of no effect to the per&s;ons bearers and u&s;ers thereof: OUR VVILL 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> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this King|dom, and there, in Our Name and Authority make publication hereof, that none may pretend ignorance. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the twenty &s;ixth day of</HI> February,<HI>and of Our Reign the &s;ixth year, 1695.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI>
<SIGNED>GILB: ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1695.</P>
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