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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Appointing the Officers and Souldiers of the Militia, to keep the diets of Rendezvous a&s;&s;igned to them.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_CHARLES, by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> De|fender of the Faith,</SIGNED><SALUTE> To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunct|ly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as there have lately ap|peared in Arms, and are now ri&s;en in manife&s;t Rebellion, in &s;ome We&s;tern Shires, great numbers of per&s;ons, who have had the boldne&s;s to fight and oppo&s;e Our &s;tanding Forces: For pur&s;uing and di&s;&s;ipating of which rebells, We, with advice of Our Privy Council, having i&s;&s;ued forth &s;everal Orders to the Earl of <HI>Linlithgow,</HI> Major-General, and Commander in Chief of Our Forces, and to the Militia Forces, Hor&s;e and Foot, in divers Shires, to concur and joyn with Our Forces, as they &s;hall be Ordered. And whereas by the &s;econd <HI>Act</HI> of the fir&s;t <HI>Se&s;&s;ion</HI> of Our &s;econd <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI> and the fir&s;t <HI>Act</HI> of the third <HI>Se&s;&s;ion</HI> of that &s;ame <HI>Parliament,</HI> We, and Our E&s;tates, have, for the greater &s;ecurity of the publick Peace, &s;ettled a Militia in the &s;e|veral Shires, appointed days of rendezvous, and determined the penalties of ab&s;ent Officers and Souldiers, in time of Peace and War; and particularly the Out|reikers of Hor&s;e and Foot, are lyable in &s;ix Pounds Scots for the ab&s;ence of ilk Hor&s;e-man, and two Pounds Scots for ilk Foot-man, each day of the rendezvous in time of Peace, and the double thereof in time of War; and the Of|ficers of the Militia, to be lyable to, and forefeit the Fynes following, <HI>viz.</HI> A Major, and a Captain of Foot, and a Lieute|nant, and Collonel of Hor&s;e fifty Pounds, and the other inferior Officers twenty four pounds, for ilk days ab&s;ence, in time of War, and the half thereof in time of Peace. And albeit We doubt not, but that the whole Officers and Soldiers of Our Militia will, upon this occa&s;ion, when &s;uch a rebellious rabble do pre&s;ume to appear in Arms, attack, kill and invade Our Forces, cheerfully witne&s;s their zeal for Our &s;ervice and their own &s;ecurity, and come forth and joyn in oppo&s;ition to the&s;e Rebels, as they &s;hall receive Orders: Yet We have thought fit hereby, in pur&s;uance of Our &s;aids Laws and Acts of Par|liament, to intimate and make known to the whole Officers and Soldiers of the Militia, that if they, or any of them &s;hall refu&s;e to come out, and keep their &s;everal dayes of Rendezvous, and joyn and act with Our Forces, as they &s;hall be required by Our Privy Council or Commander in Chief, That they &s;hall not only be fined in the particular penalties above-expre&s;t, without favour or defalcation; But if they &s;hall be negligent in their duty herein, they &s;hall be looked upon as di&s;affected per&s;ons, and favourers and complyers with Rebels, and pur&s;ued and puni&s;hed accordingly. And We Ordain the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needfull. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE> the fifth day of <HI>June,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;eventy nine, and of Our Reign the thretty one year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Tho. Hay, Cl. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dem.</HI> 1679.</P>
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