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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Indemnifying &s;uch as have been in Arms before the First of <HI>June</HI> last.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> Defenders of the faith; To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his brethren Heraulds, Pur&s;evants, Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: Whereas We did allow <HI>John</HI> Earl of <HI>Bradalbin,</HI> to meet with the Highlanders, and others in Arms again&s;t Us, and Our Authority, in order to the Reducing of them to Our Obedience, and by a Repre&s;entation made to Us in their names, We under&s;tand their willingne&s;s to render them&s;elves in &s;ubjecti|on to Our Authority and Laws, humbly asking Pardon for what is pa&s;t, and Our A&s;&s;i&s;tance for accommodating &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and Funds, which do at pre&s;ent, and have very long troubled the&s;e places; And We being &s;atisfied, that nothing <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> conduce more to the Peace of the Highlands, and Reduce them from Rapine and Arms, to Vertue and Indu&s;try, than making away of the occa&s;ions of the&s;e Differences and Feuds, which prevail with them, to neglect the opportunities, to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and Cultivat their Countrey, and to accu&s;tom them&s;elves to Depredations and Idlene&s;s; In order whereunto, We <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Graciou&s;ly to Pardon, Indemnifie, and Re&s;tore all that have been in Arms again&s;t Us and Our Government, who &s;hall take the Oath of Allegiance, pre&s;cribed by Our Act of Parliament, before the fir&s;t day of <HI>January</HI> next. There|fore We, with the Advice of Our Privy Council, Do Indemnifie, Pardon, and Forgive all that have been in Arms again&s;t Us or Our Government, before the fir&s;t day of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, of all Trea&s;ons, Rebellions, Robberies, Depredations, Sedi|tions, Lea&s;ing-making, hearing and not revealing of Trea&s;on; and generally, every thing that can be objected again&s;t any of the per&s;ons fore&s;aids, for being in Arms or Rebellion, preceeding the date hereof: Re&s;toring and Reponing, all and eve|ry one of the &s;aids per&s;ons, who have been in Arms again&s;t Us, before the time fore&s;aid, to their Lives, E&s;tates, Dignities, Fame and Blood, als fully and freely, as if they had never been guilty, or had never been Condemned for the Crimes fore&s;aids, and als fully and effectually, as if each of them had particular Remi&s;&s;ions, containing a &s;pecial enumeration of their Crimes, duly and orderly expede under Our Great Seal for the &s;ame; upon this expre&s;s Condition always, that the per&s;ons fore|&s;aids, who have been to Arms before the time fore&s;aid, and &s;hall plead and take the benefit of this Our Gracious Indemnity, Swear and Sign the Oath of Allegiance to Us by them&s;elves, or the Sheriff Clerks &s;ub&s;cribing for &s;uch as cannot write, and that before famous Witne&s;&s;es, betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>January</HI> next to come, in pre&s;ence of the Lords of Our Privy Council, or the Sheriff, or their Deputs of the re&s;pective Shires, where any of the &s;aids per&s;ons live; Requiring hereby, and Commanding the &s;aids Sheriffs, their Deputs and Clerks, before whom any &s;hall Swear the &s;aid Oath of Allegiance, for the benefit of this our Indemnity, to tran&s;mit to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, exact Li&s;ts of all per&s;ons by their ordinary De|&s;ignations, who &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;aid Oath in their pre&s;ence, and take the benefit of Our &s;aid Indemnity, betwixt and the tenth day of the &s;aid Moneth of <HI>January</HI> next, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril. And We with Advice fore|&s;aid, Do a&s;&s;ure and Declare, all &s;uch per&s;ons who have been in Arms before the fir&s;t of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, and &s;hall betwixt and the fir&s;t of <HI>January</HI> next, take the benefit of this Our Gracious Indemnity, by Swearing and Signing, as &s;aid is, the &s;aid Oath of Allegiance to Us, that they &s;hall be altogether free, &s;afe, and &s;ecure from all manner of Puni&s;hment, Pains and Penalties, that can be inflicted upon them for open Rebellion, or any other of the Crimes above-&s;pecified, and that &s;uch as &s;hall continue ob|st<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">at, and incorrigible, after this Gracious offer of Mercy, &s;hall be puni&s;hed as Traitors and Rebels, and other wayes, to the out|mo&s;t extremity of Law; And We, with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command, all Judges and Mini&s;ters of Our Law, to Interpret this pre&s;ent Indemnity in the mo&s;t favourable and ample manner; Prohibiting and Di&s;charging them to call in que|&s;tion any of the per&s;ons for&s;aids, who &s;hall take the benefit hereof in manner abovementioned, for any of the Crimes above|written, in time coming. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;traitly and Command, that incon|tinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head|Burghs of this Our Antient Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, as ye will an&s;wer to Us thereupon. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed in manner fore|&s;aid: The which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally, as &s;aid is, Our full Power, by the&s;e Pre&s;ents, deli|vering them by you, duly Execute, and indor&s;ed again to the bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the twenty &s;eventh day of</HI> Augu&s;t, 1691. <HI>And of Our Reign the third Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. Et in Supplementum Signeti,</HI>
<SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls Secreti Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER><HI>GOD &s;ave King</HI> William <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1691.</P>
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