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</FIGURE><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> For the Calling out the Levy of One Thou&s;and Men, for the Year <HI>1697.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith: To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;tiute, Greeting. Fora&s;much, as by the Twenty third Act of the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this current Parliament, <HI>It is Statute and Ordained,</HI> That for the Service of this pre&s;ent War, and Recruit|ing of Our Regiments, either at Home or Abroad, there &s;hall be Furni&s;hed to Us the Number of One Thou&s;and Men yearly, when We &s;hall Require them, to be Proportioned and Levied, conform to the Proportions contained in the Act of Parliament, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty three, Intituled, <HI>An Humble Tender to His Sacred Maje&s;ty of the Duty and Loyalty of His Ancient Kingdom of</HI> Scotland, as to the Twenty thou&s;and Foot therein-mentioned; which Thou&s;and Men, by the fore&s;aid Act, are appointed to be Furni&s;hed and Levied in this manner, <HI>viz.</HI> That the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply for the re|&s;pective Bounds where the &s;aids Proportions &s;hall fall, or any Five of them as the <HI>Quorum,</HI> appointed to that effect by the fore&s;aid Act, or the Sheriffs and their Deputs, or the Lords and Baillies of Regalities, or Stewarts and their Deputs, the Magi&s;trats of Burghs, fir&s;t de&s;ign and cau&s;e be given, the idle, loo&s;e and vagabond per&s;ons lyable by former Acts of Parliament, to be &s;eized by Sheriffs to make up the fore&s;aid Number, and the remainder of the &s;aid Pro|portions are to be put furth according to the former Rules in u&s;e for &s;ubdivid|ing the &s;ame within each Shire&punc; And by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, Here|tors are Impowered to de&s;ign and make choice of &s;uch young Fencible Men living within their re&s;pective Bounds, and not having Wife or Children, and who earn their Living by daily Wages or Termly Hire, as &s;hal &s;atisfie for their part of the &s;aid Levy, or other wi&s;e the Tennents and Fencible-Men &s;hall have their option to offer and pay down for each of the &s;aid Men that may fall to be put out by them, the Sum of Twenty four pound <HI>Scots,</HI> &s;o that the Di|&s;trict &s;hall either deliver a good Man effectually, or pay the &s;aid Twenty four pounds: And furder, the &s;aids Heretors (conform to the fore&s;aid Act of
<PB N="2" REF="2">Parliament) are hereby Impowered to &s;ecure the per&s;on or per&s;ons de|&s;igned, or cho&s;en as &s;aid is; and for the encouragement of the fore&s;aids per&s;ons &s;o to be de&s;igned and made choice of, it is further <HI>Statute and Ordained</HI> by the fore&s;aid Act, that each of them &s;hall before Delivery, have Twenty pounds <HI>Scots</HI> payed to him in ready Money by the Officer who receives him, at the &s;ight of one of the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners; as al&s;o, that their being put furth and engaged as &s;aid is, &s;hall not oblige them longer to be and continue Souldiers than for the &s;pace of three years, and the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> next after the I&s;h of the &s;aids three years from the time of their Engagement. And We Con&s;idering, that the pre&s;ent Exigence of Our Ser|vice, doth require the fore&s;aid Number of One Thou&s;and Men, to be Furni&s;h|ed and Levied for this pre&s;ent Year with all di&s;patch and expedition: There|fore We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council, Require and Com|mend the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply of the &s;everal Shires, Stewartries and Burghs within this Kingdom, upon this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> to meet at the Head-Burghs of their re&s;pective Shires and Stewartries upon the &s;eventh day of <HI>Januarie</HI> next to come one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety &s;even, &amp; the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Sup|ply for all the re&s;t of this Kingdom, at the Head-burghs of their re&s;pective Shires &amp; Stewartries, upon the fourteenth day of the &s;aid Month with Certification to &s;uch of them not other ways imployed in our publick Service who &s;hal not meet, they &s;hal be lyable each of them to the Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament made anent the Militia and there to Proceed, De&s;ign, and have in readine&s;s, in manner, and conform to the Twenty third Act la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this current Parliament, and Method therein &s;et down the particular Number of Men re|&s;pective after-mentioned, or Twenty four pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each Man to be delivered to the Officers to be &s;ent by Order of our Priyy Council, or of Col|lonel <HI>George Hamilton</HI> Colonel to one of our Regiments in <HI>Flanders,</HI> at the re&s;pective Head-Burghs, upon payment of Twenty pounds <HI>Scots</HI> to every Man who &s;hall be delivered of the &s;aid One Thou&s;and Men, in manner above|mentioned, upon the days after &s;et down. <HI>viz.</HI> The&s;e for the Shires of <HI>Edinburgh Berwick, Had<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ingtoun, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Linlithgow, Drumfries, Wig|town</HI> and Stewartrie of <HI>Kirkeudbright, Air, Renfrew, Lanerk, Stirling, Cla<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">kmannan, Fife, Kinro&s;s,</HI> and the&s;e of the Shires of <HI>Argile, Bute</HI> and <HI>Dumbartoun,</HI> with the&s;e for the Town of <HI>Edinburgh, Leith</HI> and <HI>Cannongate,</HI> at the re&s;pective Head-burghs thereof, upon the Fifteenth day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>Jannuary</HI> next, and the&s;e for the Shires of <HI>Perth, Forfar, Kincardin,</HI> and <HI>Mari&s;hal</HI>'s part of <HI>Aberdeen, Bamf,</HI> and the re&s;t of <HI>Aberdeen-Shire,</HI> with the&s;e for the Shires of <HI>Elgin, Nairn,</HI> and this &s;ide of <HI>Ne&s;s,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Sea|forth</HI> and Lord <HI>Lovats</HI> Divi&s;ion of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> the Shires of <HI>Southerland, Caithne&s;s,</HI> and the re&s;t of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> with the Stewartrie of <HI>Orkney</HI> and <HI>Zetland,</HI> upon the twenty &s;econd day of the &s;aid Month: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require the &s;aid Collonel <HI>George Hamilton</HI> timeou&s;ly to di&s;|patch and &s;end &s;uch Officers, or others as he &s;hall think fit, &s;ufficiently im|powered with an Order and Warrand under his Hand, to the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries before-mentioned, to receive thereat the Pro|portions of Men wherein the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires, Stewartries and Burghs are lyable, and to make payment of the Twenty pounds <HI>Scots</HI> to each Per&s;on who &s;hall be delivered to them as a Souldier in manner fore&s;aid, or other|ways to receive and get payment of the &s;aid Twenty four pound <HI>Scots</HI> for e|very undelivered Per&s;on, and grant Receipt of the &s;amen; And which thou&s;and Men, or twenty four pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each undelivered Man, are to be delivered to, and received by the &s;aids Officers at the Head-Burghs of the
<PB N="3" REF="2">&s;everal Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom in manner, and by the Pro|portions after mentioned <HI>viz.</HI> That there be delivered for the Shires of <HI>Rox|burgh</HI> and <HI>Selkirk</HI> at the Head-Burghs thereof, the Number of Sixty &s;ix Men; For the, Shire of <HI>Benvick</HI> at the Head-Burgh thereof, the Number of Fourty Men. For the Shire of <HI>Haddingtoun</HI> Fourty Men. For the Shire of <HI>Peebles</HI> Thirteen Men. For the Shire of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> Fourty Men. For the Shire of <HI>Dumfried</HI> Fourty Men. For the Shire of <HI>Wigtoun</HI> Fifteen Men. For the Stewartrie of <HI>Kirkcudbright</HI> Twenty five Men. For the Shires of <HI>Air</HI> and <HI>Ren|frew</HI> Sixty &s;ix Men. For the Shire of <HI>Lanerk</HI> Fifty Men. For the Shire of <HI>Lin|lithgow</HI> &s;eventeen Men. By the Town of <HI>Edinburgh, Leith and Cannongate,</HI> Fourty Men. By the Shires of <HI>Stirling and Clackmannan</HI> Thirty four Men. By <HI>Fife and Kinro&s;s</HI> Eighty Men. By the Shires of <HI>Argyle, Dumbartoun</HI> and <HI>Bute,</HI> Fourty Men: As al&s;o there is to be delivered in manner fore&s;aid by the Shire of <HI>Perth</HI> Eighty Men. By the Shire of <HI>Forfar</HI> Fifty Men. By the Shire of <HI>Kincardin</HI> and <HI>Mari&s;hals</HI> Part of <HI>Aberdene</HI> Fourty Men. By the Shire of <HI>Bamf,</HI> and re&s;t of <HI>Aberdeen</HI> Shire, Fifty three Men. By the Shires of <HI>Nairn. Elgin,</HI> and this &s;ide of <HI>Ne&s;s,</HI> Fifty Men. By the Earl of <HI>Seaforths,</HI> and Lord <HI>Lovats</HI> Divi&s;ion of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> Thirty four Men. By the Shires of <HI>Sutherland, Caithne&s;s,</HI> and the re&s;t of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> Fifty three Men. And by the Stew|artries of <HI>Orkney</HI> and <HI>Zetland,</HI> Thirty four Men, or twenty four Pounds <HI>Scots re&s;pective,</HI> for each undelivered Man in manner above-mentioned. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, authorize and appoint the &s;everal per&s;ons af|ter-named, to judge and determine upon all Differences and Debates that may ari&s;e betwixt the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;everal Shires and Burghs, and the Officers that &s;hal be &s;ent to them anent the Sufficiency and In&s;ufficiency of the men to be Outreiked in this pre&s;ent Levie, <HI>viz. Sir</HI> John Pringle of S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">itchel the Laird of Grubet younger, and the Sheriff-deput of Roxburgh for the &s;aid Shire, Sir James Murray of Philiphaugh, one of the Senators of the Colledge of Ju&s;tice, or his Depute for the shire of Selkirk, Sir John Hume of Blaca|der, Sir John Swintoun of that Ilk; or the Sheriff-deput of the Shire of Ber|vick, with either of them for the &s;aid Shire, the Earle of Lauderdale with ei|ther of the Sheriff-deputs of Edinburgh for the Shire thereof, the Lord Pro|vo&s;t of Edinburgh, with Sir William Au&s;truther of that Ilk one of the Senators of the Colledge of Ju&s;tice for the Town of Edinburgh, the Lairds of Pre&s;ton|grange and Bean<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">oun, or either of them, with the Sheriff deput of Hadding|toun for the &s;aid Shire Law&s;on of Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">muir with the Sheriff-depute of Peebles for the &s;aid Shire, Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closburn, and John&s;toun of Elche&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ls for the Shire of Drumfries, Sir An|drew Agnew of Lochnaw and the Laird of Garthland for the Shire of Wigton the Lairds of Ru&s;co and Machrimore for the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright, the Lairds of Rowalland, Kilbirnie, Cai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">letoun, and John Mure Provo&s;t of Air, and the Sheriff-deput of Air for the Shire of Air, the Lairds of Craigens Glander&s;toun, and Gald well, and the Sheriff-deput of Renfrew for the &s;aid Shire, Sir Alexander Monro of Bear-crofts, and William Cunninghame of Boquhane for the Shire of Stirling Rollo of Wood&s;ide for the Shire of Clackmannan Hamilton of Ud&s;toun Sheriff-deput, &amp; Andrew <HI>Hay</HI> of Craignethen for the Overward of Lanerk Shire Hamilton of Barn|cleugh, &amp; Hamilton of Aikenhead for the Netherward thereof, the Lairds of Living&s;toun, Duding&s;toun, &amp; Pardivan for the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow,
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y">Sir <HI>Charles Halket</HI> of <HI>Pitfirren,</HI> Sir <HI>James Mcgill</HI> of <HI>Rankellior,</HI> the Lairds of <HI>Randifoord, Auchtermarnie, Readie, Hay younger</HI> of <HI>Naughtoun,</HI> and the Sheriff-Deput of <HI>Fyf,</HI> for the Shire, of <HI>Fyf;</HI> The Ma&s;ter of <HI>Burghly</HI> for the Shire of <HI>Kinro&s;s,</HI> the Lord <HI>Ruthven,</HI> Sir <HI>Colin Campbel</HI> of <HI>Aberuchle</HI> one of the Senators of the Colledge of Ju&s;tice, the Lairds of <HI>Megni&s;h, Culforgie, Dumbarnie</HI> younger; And the Sheriff-Deput of <HI>Perth,</HI> for the Shire of <HI>Perth; Fullertoun</HI> of <HI>Kinnaber,</HI> and Miln of <HI>Balwillo,</HI> for the Shire of <HI>Forfar; Irving</HI> of <HI>Kincou&s;ie,</HI> and the Sheriff-De|put of <HI>Kincardin</HI> for the &s;aid Shire; And <HI>Mar&s;chals</HI> part of <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Craigivar, Alexander Duff</HI> of <HI>Braco,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Munimusk</HI> younger, the Laird of <HI>Birkenboog,</HI> and Sheriff-Deput of <HI>Bamff</HI> for the re&s;t of <HI>Aberdeen</HI>-Shire and Bamff; The Lairds of <HI>Brodie, Lethim</HI> and <HI>Culloden, Dumbar</HI> of <HI>Grange,</HI> and the Sheriff-Deput of <HI>Inver<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;s</HI> for <HI>Elgin, Nairn,</HI> and this &s;ide of <HI>Ne&s;s;</HI> Sir <HI>Alexander Mckenzie</HI> of <HI>Coull, Mckenzie</HI> of <HI>Red|ca&s;tle,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Collodon,</HI> and <HI>Frazar</HI> of <HI>Rerick,</HI> for the Earl, of <HI>Seaforth,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Lovats,</HI> Divi&s;ion of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Bal|nagoon,</HI> Sir <HI>Adam Gordon</HI> of <HI>Dalfollie,</HI> and the Sheriff-Deput of <HI>Southerland,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Hempriggs, Sinclair</HI> of <HI>Brimes</HI> younger; for the re&s;t of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI> and Shires of <HI>Southerland</HI> and <HI>Caithne&s;s;</HI> The Land of <HI>Ardkin|gla&s;s,</HI> Sir <HI>John Campbel</HI> of <HI>Carrick,</HI> for the Shire of <HI>Argyle</HI> and the Sheriff-Deput of the &s;aid Shire, <HI>Claud Hamilton</HI> of <HI>Barns; Colquhoun</HI> of <HI>Craig|toun</HI> for Shire of <HI>Dumbarton;</HI> The Laird of <HI>Kelburn</HI> or his Deput for the Shire of <HI>Bute; James Beakie</HI> of <HI>Tankerne&s;s,</HI> and the Laird of <HI>Grahame&s;hall</HI> for <HI>Orkney</HI> and <HI>Zetland:</HI> And to the Effect Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trict|ly 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 remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the Sixteenth day of</HI> December, <HI>and of Our Reign the eighth year</HI> 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave 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, 1696.</P>
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