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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>For Regulating the Army's Payment of their Quarters.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the Seventeenth day of</HI> September, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty nine years.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Taking to their Con&s;ideration, that when Their Maje&s;ties Forces &s;hal be Di&s;po&s;ed of in their Winter-Quarters, or in their Tran&s;ient-Quarters, while they pa&s;s through the Countrey, they may commit Abu&s;es on the Countrey People, by exacting Free-Quarters, or at lea&s;t not &s;a|tisfying their Land-lords for the &s;ame, and that others may De&s;troy and carry away their Cornes and Hay, with|out giving any &s;atisfaction therefore; And they being mo&s;t de&s;irous, that Provi&s;ions be made for the &s;aids Forces, and the Furni&s;hers thereof &s;ufficiently &s;atisfied and payed, and that the Parties &s;o Injured may be Redre&s;&s;ed of the prejudice they &s;hall Su&s;tain by any of His Maje&s;ties Forces; and that &s;uch Abu&s;es may be fully prevented, Do therefore conform to the 3d <HI>Act</HI> of the 3d <HI>Parl.</HI> of K. <HI>Ch.</HI> 2d. In Their Maje&s;ties Name and Authority, Strictly Prohibit and Di&s;charge all Free-Quartering of the Souldiers, either Tran&s;ient or Local, upon any of Their Maje&s;ties Subjects; and in ca&s;e any Officers or Souldiers, &s;hall exact any Free-Quarters, or any &s;uch Locality hereafter, the Damnage being in&s;tructed before two Commi&s;|&s;ioners of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, upon production of a Certificat thereof under their hands, the Officer being Required by way of In|&s;trument, to give Redre&s;s to the Party, and not doing the &s;ame, &s;hall lo&s;s a Months Pay, which they ordain to be given to the Party injured, by the Collector of the Ce&s;s or Exci&s;e in the Shire, by and attour the &s;aid Damnage, which they Declare, &s;hall be allowed to him by the General Receivers; And in ca&s;e any of the Officers or Souldiers upon the <HI>Scots</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment, &s;hall remove from their Quarters, Local or Tran&s;ient, without paying the &s;ame, or at lea&s;t Clearing and Fitting Accompts with their Land-lords, under their Hands; The Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council allow their &s;aids Land-lords to repair to two of the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, and before them verifie their Accompts upon their Oath, and Sign the &s;ame with the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, that payment may be made to the &s;aids Land-lords, conform to the &s;aids Accompts by the General Receiv|ers and their Collectors, off the fir&s;t end of the Pay that &s;hall be due to the &s;aids Officers and Souldiers, who &s;hall Remove with|out Paying or Clearing their &s;aids Quarters. And becau&s;e the Forces upon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hment, cannot fall under the manner of payment, &s;pecified in the &s;aid <HI>Act:</HI> Therefore the &s;aids Lords of Privy Council, Do hereby Ordain and Appoint, that before any of the &s;aids Forces Remove from their Quarters, Local or Tran&s;ient, that they &s;hall clear with their Land-lords, either by pre&s;ent Payment, or by Stated and Fitted Accompts, under the Hands of their Officers, wherein if they fail, The &s;aids Lords Declare, that it &s;hall be lei&s;um and lawful to any Per&s;ons who had Souldiers Quartered upon them, or Furni&s;hed them any Provi&s;ions, to Repair to any two o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the pre&s;ent Comm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">oners o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ment, and to verifie the Accompts re&s;ting to them by any of the &s;aid Forces, upon their own Oaths, to the effect that the &s;aids Accompts being Signed by them, and two of the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, the &s;ame may be reported to the &s;aids Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, who Declare they will Order pre&s;ent payment to be made to the &s;aids Parties, conform to their &s;aids Fitted, Sworn and Sub&s;cribed Accompts, and that out of His Maje&s;ties Revenue, and will repre&s;ent the &s;ame to his Maje&s;ty, that Warrant may be granted for &s;topping and re&s;oun|ding to His Maje&s;ties The&s;aury and Exchequer, proportionally of their Pay from <HI>England,</HI> effeirand to the <HI>Quota</HI> that &s;hall be found due to the &s;aids per&s;ons, and payed to them in manner fore&s;aid; And for the Damnages their Land-lords and others may happen to &s;u&s;tain by the neglect of the &s;aids Officers and Souldiers, or their delay of timous Satisfaction, and for preventing the great and many inconvenencies that the Countrey do &s;u&s;tain from the Officers and Souldiers, by their Pillaging and taking away of Corns, without any Appretiation thereof, or &s;atisfaction given for the &s;ame; They Do, in Their Maje&s;ties Name and Au|thority fore&s;aid, Require and Command the pre&s;ent Commi&s;&s;ioners of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, whereof five to be a <HI>Quorum,</HI> within all the Shires on this &s;ide the River of <HI>Tay,</HI> betwixt and the third day of <HI>October</HI> next; And all the Commi&s;&s;ioners on the other &s;ide thereof, betwixt and the eleventh Day of the &s;aid Month, to meet and appoint the prices of Corns, Straw and Hay, and to take and lay down &s;uch effectual methods, for providing a Magazine of the &s;aids Provi&s;ions, for the &s;pace of eight dayes at the &s;everal Burghs of their Shires, as they &s;hall be adverti&s;ed, for the number of Forces to be Quartered upon them, and &s;o from time to time, during the continuation of their Quarters at that place: And the &s;aids Lords Require and Command, the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners to Order and Appoint the Collectors of Ce&s;s within the &s;aids re&s;pective Shires, to make preparation for, and furni&s;h the &s;aids Magazines, in manner, and for the time above-mentioned, which &s;hall be allowed to them <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> out of the Ce&s;s due, and payable by the &s;aids Shires, how far they &s;hall not be payed by the &s;aids Officers and Troopers. And they Do hereby Strictly Di&s;charge and Prohibite, all Officers and Souldiers from going out to Forrage from the place of their a&s;&s;ign|ed Quarters, under all highe&s;t Penalty. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>E|dinburgh,</HI> and other places needful, that none may pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave King William and 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, <HI>Ann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Dom.</HI> 1689.</P>
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