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<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
</FIGURE><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For making up Men deficient in the la&s;t Levies.</HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of Great Brittain, <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith, To  <GAP DESC="blank" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that Part, Conjunctly and Severally, &s;pe|cially Con&s;titute, Greeting; FOR AS MUCH AS, in Pro&s;ecution of the &s;eventh Act of the fourth Se&s;&s;ion of this Our current Parliament, cheerfully offering to Us, a pre&s;ent Levy of two thou&s;and nine hundred and &s;eventy nine Foot, to be Levyed off the &s;everal Shires and Burghs of this Kingdom, effeiring to the Proportions and Numbers &s;et down in the fore&s;aid Act. The Lords of Our Privy Council, conform to the Power given to them in the fore&s;aid Act of Parli|ament, by their In&s;tructions to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, of the Date the eighth day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t: appointed the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners furthwith, to make exact Li&s;ts of the Heretors and Lands lyable in the &s;aid Levy, that &s;o it might be perfectly known who were lyable. And in ca&s;e any men were to be put out by Fractions, and that they could not agree who &s;hould furni&s;h the body of the man, the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hould order the Fractions to meet at a certain day and place, and there determine it by an equal Lot, effeiring to their re&s;pective Numbers of Men, or the quantities of their re&s;pective Valuations, as the u&s;e was in every Shire; &s;o that every Lotter was to have as many Lots, as he had Numbers of Men, or quantities of valued Rent &s;ufficient for the Outreik of a man: And in ca&s;e any of the &s;aids Fractions &s;hould not meet, or &s;hould refu&s;e to Lot, the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners were authorized to appoint &s;uch as they &s;hould think fit, to meet and Lot for them. And in ca&s;e the per&s;on upon whom the Lot fell to put out a man for him&s;elf and his Fraction, &s;hould fail in furni&s;hing the man, or &s;hould furni&s;h an in&s;ufficient man; then the Tennents and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the Lands and Ground belonging to the &s;aids per&s;ons who &s;hould have put out the man, &s;hould be lyable; and the per&s;on upon whom the Lot did fall, and who fail&yogh;ied to put out the man in manner fore&s;aid, &s;hould be decerned in the Sum of two hundred Merks. To which Act of Parliament and In&s;tructions fore&s;aid, We expected punctual and exact Complyance and Obedience. Yet, not only a great many outreicked and furni&s;hed to &s;erve as Souldiers in the &s;aid new Levy, are rejected and &s;ent home as In&s;ufficient; but likewi&s;e, many lyable to outreick and furni&s;h men for the &s;aid Levy, are deficient and altogether wanting, in &s;ending out the Numbers of men wherein they are lyable, conform to the &s;aid Act of Parliament and In&s;tructions fore&s;aids, and thereby have Incurred the Penalties contained in the &s;aids In&s;tructions, by and attour their being ly|able for the per&s;ons of the men whom they were to have outreiked, conform to the &s;aid Act of Parliament and In&s;tructions. Therefore, and for the more effectual providing the &s;aid men, and compleating the number of Souldiers offered to Us by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, and exacting the Penalties Con&s;titute in the fore&s;aids In&s;tructions; We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, peremptorly Require and Command the Sheriff, of the &s;everal Shires, and their Deputs, Stewarts of Sewartries, Baillies of Regalities, and their re&s;pective Deputs, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs Royal, within this Our antient Kingdom, as they wil be an&s;werable, each of them within their own re&s;pective Juri&s;dicti|ons, pre&s;ently upon &s;ight hereof, to call for a Li&s;t of the deficient men within their re&s;pective Bounds, and of the Per&s;ons who &s;hould have put out the &s;ame and upon recept thereof, where no Lotting hath been made for Fractions, that he immediatly ca&s;t Lots among&s;t the &s;aids Fracti|ons, who &s;hall put out the man one or more, and then &s;hall pa&s;s to the Ground of his Lands upon whom the Lot &s;hall happen to fall, and there immedialy pitch upon, take and apprehend a &s;ufficient man out of his &s;aid men, able to &s;erve Us as a Souldier, and commit them Pri&s;oners to the Pri&s;on of the head Burgh of the Shire, there to be keeped at four &s;hillig <HI>Scots per diem,</HI> upon the Expen&s;es of the Officer who is to receive him upon adverti&s;ement from the Sheriff, or other Judge fore&s;aid who cau&s;es apprehend and commit him to the &s;aid Pri&s;on: and which Allowance is to be refounded to the &s;aid Officer, by the Pay of the &s;aid Souldier, which is to be allowed to him for the &s;aid per&s;on, from the day of his being committed, as if he had been Li&s;ted and Inrolled as a Souldier in Our Service; and in like manner, &s;hall apprehend &s;ufficient men upon the Ground of the Lands of the&s;e who are deficient, according to the numbers they have not put out, and are lyable to, whether by the Rule of the Militia &s;pe|cified in the Act of Parliament, or other ways; and deliver them to the next Commanding Officers, in manner, and to the end above mentioned: and likewi&s;e, that they cau&s;e exact the Penallies mentioned in the &s;aids In&s;tructions, from all who have incurred the &s;ame, by and attour the ap|prehending and delivering the man, in manner fore&s;aid. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that in continent 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 Remanent Burghs of the whole Shires of this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make publick Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend Igno|rance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of Our Reign the &s;ixth Year, 1694.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELLIOT.</SIGNED></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 Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties. 1694.</P>
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