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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For preventing of fal&s;e Mu&s;tures.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twentie ninth day of <HI>November,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty nine years.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Taking to their &s;erious Con&s;ideration, how much it doth con|cern the Intere&s;t of His Maje&s;ties Service, as well as the Security and Honour of the Kingdom, that all fal&s;e Mu&s;tures be Di&s;charged, which, not with &s;tanding of all the care taken, hath not hitherto been effectually prevented: They Do therefore, in Their Maje&s;ties Name and Authority, Prohibite and Di&s;charge all the Officers of His Maje&s;ties Forces, als well Hor&s;e, Foot, as Dragoons, and Commanders of Garri&s;ons, from making any fal&s;e Mu&s;tures, and from giving up to any Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter-general, or any other per&s;on who &s;hall be appointed by the &s;aids Lords, or by him, to Mu&s;ture the Forces, The Names of any as Soldiers, who are not true men, and who does not attend the Company, and perform the con&s;tant ordinary Duty of a Soldier, or the Names of any Ser|vants, with Certification to the Contraveeners, That they &s;hall not only be Ca&s;hired with Infamy, but likewi&s;e &s;hall be ly|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> re&s;ound to the Lords of the The&s;aury, and General Receivers, what they have &s;o unju&s;tly uplifted on the account of tho&s;e men they have &s;o fal&s;ely given up and Mu&s;tured, and &s;hall be Impri&s;oned until they make payment thereof according|ly. And the &s;aids Lords, Do in Name and Authority fore&s;aid, Prohibite and Di&s;charge all per&s;ons what&s;omever to be imployed at any &s;uch fal&s;e Mu&s;ture, under the Certification of being Whipped, and Burned in the Cheek. And the &s;aids Lords, Do hereby in Their Maje&s;ties Name and Authority fore&s;aid, Command and Require all the Captains of the whole Forces, as well Hor&s;e, Foot, as Dragoons, and Commanders of Garri&s;ons, to give in under their hands, Li&s;ts of all the Soldiers of the &s;everal Troops and Companies under their Command, to their Majors, where they are Regimented, who with the &s;aids Captains where they are not Regimented, &s;hall be obliged to give in the &s;aids Li&s;ts, both to Sir <HI>Thomas Moncrieff,</HI> Clerk to the The&s;aury and Exchequer, and to the Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter-general, and keep another Double thereof for them&s;elves, to be renewed Quarterly, which they appoint to bear an account where the Soldiers were born, out of what place of the Coun|trey they were Levied, and of what Trade and Imployment they were before their engagement, to the effect, that the &s;aids Lords may cau&s;e examine and try in the&s;e places, whether they be actually in the Service or not; And they hereby Di&s;|charge the Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ter-general, or any other per&s;on who &s;hall be appointed for Mu&s;tering of the Forces, to Mu&s;ter any who does not attend the Company, and who perform not the ordinary Duty of a Soldier, or any Servants: And likew&s;e they Di&s;charge him to allow any Officers or Soldiers on Foreloff, or on Parties, as true men, unle&s;s the Captain of the company, or Troop, or in his ab&s;ence the next Commanding Officer thereof, at granting the Foreloff, or &s;ending out of the Party, give in under his hand, to the Commanding Officer of the place, the Names of the&s;e Officers and Soldiers, that are out on a Par|ty, and to what place they are gone, and in what Hou&s;es they were formerly Quartered, and for what time the&s;e per&s;ons are out on Foreloff: And they Ordain the &s;aid Commanding Officer to keep a Li&s;t of the per&s;ons, to whom Foreloffs were gran|ted, or who are &s;ent out on Parties, with the principal Note given in by the Officers of the Troops or Companies, or Garri|ri&s;ons, To the effect, that &s;trict Inquiry and Di&s;qui&s;ition may be made thereanent; Declaring hereby, that who&s;oever &s;hall give &s;uch Li&s;t or Note, if the &s;ame &s;hall be found to be fal&s;e, tha the &s;hall incur the former Certification of being Ca&s;hired with Infamy. And for encouragement of &s;uch as &s;hall Di&s;cover and Prove the &s;ame, or who &s;hall Di&s;cover and Prove any &s;uch fal&s;e Mu&s;ture, The &s;aids Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, do hereby promi&s;e and en&s;ure to any Lieutenant, Coronet, or En|&s;ign, who &s;hall make Di&s;covery of either of the particulars above mentioned, whether in the Troops or Companies wherein they Serve, or any other Company or Troop within the Regiment, and prove the &s;ame, that they &s;hall have a Commi&s;&s;ion in place of the&s;e who &s;hall make &s;uch fal&s;e Mu&s;tures, or grant &s;uch fal&s;e Declarations, as to Soldiers pretended to be on Foreloff, or &s;ent out on Parties; And they do likewi&s;e promi&s;e and en&s;ure a Reward of five hundred merks to be given to any Serjeant, or Corporal, and the Sum of two hundred merks to a Soldier, who &s;hall make either of the Di&s;coveries, and prove the &s;ame; be|&s;ides that, they &s;hall have a Pa&s;s out of the company, if de&s;ired, or liberty to &s;erve in that, or any other Company, or Regi|ment. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed by Macers of Privy Council. Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Sheriffs in that part, at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and at the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-burghs of the whole Shires within this Kingdom, and to be Read upon the head of the Regiments, Troops, or Companies, the time of the Mu&s;tering thereof, that none may pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Secreti Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> By Order of Secret Council, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1689.</P>
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