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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>For preventing of Depredations from the High-landers.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the 12. day of <HI>November</HI> 1689.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lords of His Maje&s;ties Priv Council Con&s;idering, that &s;ome of the Rebels in the Highlands may Convocat, and make Incur&s;ions upon, and Wa&s;te, Robe, and Ruine <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">me of His Maje&s;ties <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oyal and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ell Affected Subjects, in &s;undry parts of the Countrey; Therefore the &s;aids Lords, for preventing Depredations, and for Securing the Countrey from &s;uch Inhumane Attempts for the future, Have appointed &s;uch a number of Garri&s;ons towards the Borders of the High ands, in places mo&s;t convenient, as may &s;erve to Secure the Peace and Quiet of the&s;e Countreys, and &s;ave His Maje&s;ties good Subjects from the Depredations of &s;uch Di&s;orderly Rours, and Incur&s;ions of the &s;aids Rebels; and have Ordered the nece&s;&s;ary Provi&s;ions for the Sub&s;i&s;tence of the &s;aids Garri&s;ons: And to the effect, all due Concurrence, and A&s;&s;i&s;tance requ &s;it may be g ven, to the Commanders of the &s;aids Garri&s;ons, in Defending the Countrey from any Inroads from the Highlands, or in Attacking of any part of the Rebels approaching towards the Borders thereof, The &s;aids Lords Do, in Their Maje&s;ties Name and Authority, Prohibite and Di&s;charge all and &s;un|dry the Leidges, from Harbouring, Re&s;etting, or A&s;&s;i&s;ting any of the &s;aids Rebels, under the pain of Trea&s;on as being Art and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">art with them; And they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">o, in Name and Au|thority fore&s;aid, Require and Command all the Leidges, not only to give exact and timous Intimation to the Commanders of the next Garri&s;on, of the appearance and approach of a|ny of the &s;aids Rebels, whether in a Body or Parties, That the &s;aids Garri&s;ons may be in a read<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;s, and g ve a Signal by Fyring of a Beacon upon the next mo&s;t con&s;picuous place of the Countrey, to be in a po&s;ture of Defence of them&s;elves, and their Goods; But al&s;o up|on the &s;aid Signal, all the Fencible-men within twelve miles of the &s;aid Garri&s;on, which g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ve the Signal, &s;hall be obliged to repair in Arms, with four dayes Provi&s;ion, to the next Garri&s;on, and a&s;&s;i&s;t the Commanding Officer thereof, and to Pro&s;ecute &s;uch Orders and Directions as they &s;hall receive from the Comman<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ing Officers of the &s;aid next adjacent Gar|ri&s;on, for Attacking of the Enemy, Expelling the Rebels, and Defending them&s;elves, and their Countrey, and pre&s;erving and recovering thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Goods: With Certification to &s;uch as &s;hall be Deficient, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> negligent herein, or &s;hall not do their outmo&s;t endeavour to &s;top the In falling of the Rebels, and hinder them from carrying away the Spreath that &s;hall be taken by them, that they &s;hall not only be lyable to the Parties who&s;e Goods are &s;o Rob|bed, and carryed off, for Reparation, but &s;hall be holden and Repute as Connivers at, and Complyers with the &s;aids Rebels, and puni&s;hed accordingly; And in ca&s;e the In-fall of the Rebels &s;hall happen to be of any con&s;iderable Force, that then the Commanding Officer of the &s;aid Garri&s;on, give Adverti&s;ement to &s;uch as have the Command of the Divi&s;ions of the re&s;pective Shires, where &s;uch Irruptions &s;hall be made, and to the chief Commanding Officer of that Quarter, and to the next Garri&s;ons, and &s;o from one to another, until all be Adverti&s;ed, how far it &s;hall be judged nece&s;&s;ary. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and al&s;o, at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of <HI>Argile, Dumbartoun, Striviling, Perth, Kincardine, A|berdene, Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ff, Elgin, Ro&s;s, Nairn, Inverne&s;s,</HI> and other places needful, by Macers of Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Sheriffs in that part, that none may pretend Igno|rance.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilis.</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT <HI>Cls Sti Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave King William &amp; Queen Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> by Order of Secret Council, 1689.</P>
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