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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEU ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE> A PROCLAMATION, <HI>Again&s;t Tumults in</HI> Edinburgh.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>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;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Forasmuch as, by the frequent Tumults rai&s;ed within the Burgh of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> by loo&s;e and di&s;orderly per&s;ons, &s;pecially Journey-men, Prenti&s;es, and other ill di&s;po&s;ed Servants and Young-men, great Inconveniences fall out, and many innocent peo|ple are hurt, mutilat, and killed: For preventing whereof, and that all Our Leidges may know the Hazard and Danger they run, by Conveening or Joyning to|gether in a Tumultuary way, or by being on the Streets either when the Guards of this City, or Our &s;tanding Forces are commanded to &s;uppre&s;s any &s;uch Tu|mult. We with Advice of Our Privy Council, Prohibite and Di&s;charge all Tu|multuary and Ryotous Meetings, of any per&s;ons what&s;oever, by Night or by Day, within Our &s;aid Burgh or Suburbs thereof, under the highe&s;t Pains of Law: And with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command all per&s;ons what&s;oever, upon any Appearance of Tumult, Ryot, or Rout in the Streets, &amp; drawing out of the Guards to &s;uppre&s;s the &s;ame; immediatly to retire them&s;elves home to their own Hou&s;es re&s;pective, and keep them&s;elves within Doors, under the Pain of being repute and holden Acce&s;&s;ory to the &s;aids Tumults. And for the better &s;uppres&s;ing and di&s;per&s;ing any &s;uch Tumultuary and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">yotous Meetings. And We Authorize and Impower the Magi&s;trats of our &s;aid Burgh, to order the Officers of any of Our &s;tanding Forces, who &s;hall be called in within the &s;aid Burgh, to the effect fore&s;aid, as well as the Train-Bands and Guards of Our Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> to fire upon, and &s;hoot with Bullets, again&s;t &s;uch as &s;hall &s;o a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves in &s;uch Tumults and Ryots with Arms, or make Re&s;i&s;tance to the Magi&s;trats of Our &s;aid Burgh, or Forces imployed for &s;uppres&s;ing thereof: And to the effect Our plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known. OUR WILL IS, and We Charge you &s;traitly, and Command, that in continent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mer|cat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that all may know their Hazard. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the third day of</HI> March, <HI>and of Our Reign the fourth Year,</HI> 1693.</DATE></DATELINE> <HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti.</HI>
<SIGNED>GIUB. ELLIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER><HI>GOD &s;ave King</HI> William <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary,</TRAILER>
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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 Ex|cellent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> 1693.</P>
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