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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For Re-calling and Prohibiting Sea-men from the Service of forreign Princes and States.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;eventh day of</HI> June, <HI>one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty four.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_The Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, having received a Letter from the Kings <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> dated at <HI>Whitehall</HI> the &s;econd day of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, commanding a Procla|mation to be i&s;sued in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> name; bearing, That the Kings mo&s;t Excel|lent <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> hath been adverti&s;ed, That great numbers of Mariners and other Sea-faring men, His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> natural born Subjects of this His ancient King|dom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> have be taken them&s;elves to the Services of forreign Princes and States, to the great di&s;&s;ervice of His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> and their native Country; and whereby His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> and His Realms are unfurni&s;hed of men of their &s;ort and calling, if there &s;hall be cau&s;e to u&s;e them. For remi&s;s whereof at pre&s;ent, and preventing the like for the future, the Kings mo&s;t Excellent <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> both Will and &s;treightly Charge and Command, all and &s;ingular Ma&s;ters of Ships, Pilots, Mariners, Sea|men, Ship-wrights, and other Sea-faring men what&s;oever and where&s;oever, being His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> natural Subjects of this His Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> who are in the Service of any forreign Prince or State, or do &s;ervice in any forreign Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, That forthwith they do withdraw them&s;elves, and depart from &s;uch forreign Services, and return home to their native Country and lawfull Vocations, or to &s;ome of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Dominions.</P>
<P>And further, His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> both prohibit and forbid all and &s;ingular Ma&s;ters of Ships, Pilots Mari|ners, Sea-men, Ship-wrights, and other Sea-faring men what&s;oever, being His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> natural born Subjects of this his Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> from entering them&s;elves; and both hereby fir&s;t &s;tre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">y Charge and Command them, and every one of them, from henceforth to forbear to enter them&s;elves into pay, or otherwi&s;e to be take them&s;elves to the Service of forreign Princes or States, or to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> in any forr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;el or Ship, other than the Ships and Ve&s;&s;els belonging to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Domini<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">s without <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">nce and obtained in that behalf. To all which His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> doth, and will, expect due obedience and confor|mity: And doth publi&s;h and declare, That the offenders to the contrary, &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">l not only incur Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> ju&s;t di&s;plea&s;ure, but be proceeded again&s;t for their contempt, according to the utmo&s;t &s;everities of Law.</P>
<P>Therefore, they have ordained, and by the&s;e pre&s;ents ordains Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, as She|riffs in that part, in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Name and Authority, to make publick intimation hereof at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Peer and Shoar of <HI>Leith,</HI> and at the Mercat-cro&s;ses of all Royal Burroughs where there are any Sea-ports, that all per&s;ons therein concerned may give due and speedy o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">dience to this His Maje&s;ties Royal Commands, as they will an&s;wer upon their outmo&s;t perils. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. Sti Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan T<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">er,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1664.</P>
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