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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Anent Baggage-Hor&s;es.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|ders of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits,  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Coun|cil, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, con|junctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as by the 3d. <HI>Act, Parl.</HI> 3. <HI>Charl.</HI> 2d. It is Provided and Or|dained, that in ca&s;e it &s;hall happen any Hor&s;es to be imployed, and made u&s;e of by Officers and Souldiers, in Towns, or in the Countrey, for car|rying Artilliary, Ammunition, or Provi&s;ion, or any other u&s;e of the Army, there be payed for each day that they Travel, Three &s;hillings <HI>Scots</HI> for each two Miles to the Man and Hor&s;e, and each day that they do not Travel, Six &s;hillings <HI>Scots</HI> to the Man, and as much for the Hor&s;e; the Man being obliged to provide Him&s;elf and the Hor&s;e, which by the &s;aid Act is ap|pointed to be payed by the Magi&s;trats of the Burghs, if the Hor&s;es be ta|ken within a Town, or if in the Countrey, by the Collector of the Sup|ply in the Shire, who are to be re-payed thereof, or to have the &s;ame al|lowed to them by the Receivers-General. And &s;icklike, We, with Ad|vice of Our E&s;tates of Our Parliament, by Our Act of the Date, the Thir|tieth day of <HI>May,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety, did Impower the Lords of Our Privy Council, to proportion and Impo&s;e Baggage-hor&s;es, for the tran&s;porting of Provi&s;ions and Furniture nece&s;&s;ary to Our Army, the Expences of the Hor&s;es always being payed conform to the Act of Parliament above-mentioned. And to the effect the &s;aids Baggage-Hor&s;es may be orderly furni&s;hed, and with greater equality Outreiked and Provided, for the ea&s;e and conveniency of Our Subjects, and be in readine&s;s for Carrying and tran&s;porting any thing requi&s;ite and nece&s;&s;ary for the Accommodation of Our Forces, and Expedition of Our Service, in the &s;everal Shires and Burghs of this Kingdom, where Our Army &s;hall have occa&s;ion to March thorow, or be Quartered in the &s;ame. Therefore We, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Ordain every Heretor of this Our Ancient Kingdom, and the Tutors, Factors, or Chamberlains of &s;uch of them as are Minors, or live not within the Shire where they have
<PB N="2" REF="2">Lands lying, and the whole Magi&s;trats of Our Burghs-Royal within this Kingdom, to de&s;ign, have in readine&s;s, and &s;et a-part for that u&s;e, be|twixt and the Twenty two day of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, a &s;ufficient Baggage-hor&s;e, well Furni&s;hed and Graithed, with Sodds, a Sack, and a pair of Baccats, or Creills, with a Man for each two Hor&s;es, and that effeiring to every Twenty Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment they pay Monthly of Supply to Us, by vertue of the <HI>6th Act, 2d Se&s;s</HI> of Our Current Parliament; And where there are le&s;&s;er Sums payed by the &s;aids Heretors or Magi&s;trats, either un|der Twenty Pounds, or more than the round Sums of one or moe Twen|ty Pounds, the Heretor or Burgh which pays the greate&s;t Fraction, under Twenty Pounds, or over and above the one or moe Twenty Pounds pay|able by them Monthly, &s;hall be lyable to Outreik and Furni&s;h a Baggage-Hor&s;e, with a Man in the next place, and &s;o from the greater to the le&s;|&s;er Sums of Monthly Supply, thorow the whole Heretors of the Shires, and Magi&s;trats of the Burghs of this Kingdom, untill all and every one of them have equally and proportionally contributed to Our &s;aid Service, in the Outreik and Furni&s;hing of Baggage-Hor&s;es, effeiring and conform to their &s;everal Intere&s;ts and Monthly payments, ay and while &s;uch a number of Baggage-Hor&s;es be Furni&s;hed and Outreiked by the &s;everal Shires and Burghs within the &s;ame, as corre&s;ponds to the Monthly payments of Sup|ply they are lyable to, by vertue of the Act of Parliament fore&s;aid; and that &s;uch who have once furni&s;hed, in obedience to the&s;e pre&s;ents, &s;hall not be lyable to furni&s;h again, untill all &s;uch who pays the le&s;&s;er Sums of Monthly Supply have likewi&s;e furni&s;hed and &s;et forth Baggage-Hor&s;es, as do effeir and corre&s;pond to the Monthly Supply, payable by the re&s;pective Shires and Burghs within the &s;ame: And which whole Bag|gage-Hor&s;es above-expre&s;t, with the Servants attending the &s;ame, &s;hall be punctually payed, conform to the Acts of Parliament above-mention|ed, for the time they &s;hall be imployed and made u&s;e of. And We, with Advice fore&s;aid, peremptorly Require and Command the Heretors, for their Baggage-Hor&s;e, and their Servants to be &s;ent forth with them from Burgh and Landwart <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;,</HI> to an&s;wer and obey what Directions and Commands &s;hall be given to them by Sir <HI>Thomas Living&s;ton,</HI> Commander in Chief of Our Forces within this Kingdom, and punctually to meet from &s;uch Shires and Burghs <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;</HI> within the &s;ame; in &s;uch numbers, and at &s;uch times and places, as the &s;aid Sir <HI>Thomas</HI> &s;hall find nece&s;&s;ary to enjoyn and appoint from time to time. And for the better pre&s;erving of the &s;aids Hor&s;es, and &s;afe returning thereof to the re&s;pective Heretors and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, who &s;end out the &s;ame, and that the Men|&s;ervants who attend them may be duely provided for, and entertained, We, with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command, that the Baggage-Hor&s;es furni&s;hed by each Shire, and Burghs within the &s;ame, when met and gathered together, at the places to be appointed by the &s;aid Sir <HI>Tho|mas Living&s;ton</HI> for their Rendezvouz, be pre&s;ented to the Commi&s;&s;ary for the Army, whom We by the&s;e pre&s;ents Require and Command to grant Receipts therefore, and take care for the equal di&s;tribution of the &s;ame, among&s;t the &s;everal Regiments, upon the Officers Receipts thereof, for the more commodious &s;ervice of Our Army; And how &s;oon the &s;aids Bag|gage-Hor&s;es furni&s;hed by any Shire, &s;hall have Marched to a Neighbour|ing Shire, then &s;uch a number of the &s;aids Baggage-Hor&s;es, which have
<PB N="3" REF="2">come from the remote&s;t places, &s;hall be di&s;mi&s;s'd and &s;ent back, effeiring to the number of Hor&s;es furni&s;hed by the Shire they arrive at, which &s;hall Conveen, to take their Baggage off their hands: And in ca&s;e no Receipts be given for the &s;aids Baggage-Hor&s;es by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary, to whom they are pre&s;ented, it &s;hall be a &s;ufficient In&s;truction again&s;t him, that he hath received the &s;aids Hor&s;es, if In&s;truments be taken and produced again&s;t him at the delivery thereof, or a Declaration Sub&s;cribed by two Credible Per&s;ons, in ab&s;ence of a Nottar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">: And We hereby Ordain the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary, to make the &s;aids Hor&s;es and Graith forth-coming, and re&s;tore the &s;ame to the true Owners and Out|reikers thereof: And &s;icklike we hereby Require and Command, the Commi&s;&s;aries of Our Army, to furni&s;h and afford Victuals and Su&s;tain|ance to the Baggage-men, who attend the &s;aids Hor&s;es, out of the Provi|&s;ions and Stores of Our Army, from time to time, keeping accompt thereof, that the &s;ame may be deduced out of the Wages allowed to them by <HI>Act</HI> of <HI>Parliament;</HI> And for the more commodious and &s;peedy Out|reik of the &s;aids Baggage-Hor&s;es from Burgh and Landwart <HI>re&s;pective</HI> fore|&s;aid: We with Advice of Our Privy Council, Give and Grant full Power and Warrand to each Heretor, to pre&s;s the Hor&s;e or Hor&s;es he is lyable to furni&s;h, with the Servants nece&s;&s;ary to attend the &s;ame, within any part of his own Ground, the Hor&s;e not exceeding four pounds Sterling value; And Appoints the &s;aids Heretors, to draw up an Accompt of the &s;aids Hor&s;e or Hor&s;es, as they &s;hall be Prized by three hone&s;t Neighbours up|on Oath, Sub&s;cribed with their Hands, with their Graith, not exceeding fourty &s;hilling Scots for the &s;aid Graith; and according to the extent of that Accompt, if the Hor&s;e &s;hall not return, the Heretor Out-reiker of the &s;ame, &s;hall be allowed the Apprized value thereof, not exceeding the price fore&s;aid, out of the Ce&s;s payable by the &s;aid Heretor, to be applyed by him to the u&s;e of the Out-reiker of the Hor&s;e, or from whom he was pre&s;&s;ed. And the &s;everal Collectors are hereby required to give allow|ance thereof upon production to them of the Apprized value of the &s;aid Hor&s;e, with the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary his Receipt, that the Hor&s;e was Out|reiked, or In&s;truments taken, or Declarations fore&s;aid produced, upon the delivery of the &s;aid Hor&s;e, again&s;t him: And which Apprized va|lue of the &s;aid Hor&s;es, is to be deduced out of the Pay of that Regiment, to which the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary &s;hall in&s;truct he delivered him; or otherways he is to be lyable therefore him&s;elf. And further, We with Advice fore|&s;aid, Grant Warrand to, and Impower the Magi&s;trats of Our Burghs with|in their own Juri&s;diction, to pre&s;s the Hor&s;es and Men to be &s;ent along with them, the Hor&s;e and Graith to be e&s;timat and prized, in&s;tructed to be delivered, and payed in manner above &s;et down. And to the end the &s;aid Sir <HI>Thomas Livingston</HI> may have particular knowledge of the number of Baggage-Hor&s;e, to be furni&s;hed out of every Shire and Burgh, by the Rule above-mentioned, and of the per&s;ons lyable to Out-reik the &s;ame; We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command all the Collectors of Sup|ply within the &s;everal Shires and Burghs of this Kingdom, whenever they &s;hall be required by the &s;aid Commander in Chief, to &s;end in to him with all expedition, and particularly at pre&s;ent, the Collectors of Supply, for the Shires and Burghs <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;</HI> following; <HI>viz.</HI> The Shires of <HI>Edinburgh, Striv|ling, Perth, Fife, Kinro&s;e, Linlithgow, Dumbartoun,</HI> and <HI>Clackmannan,</HI> and
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y">Burghs re&s;pective within the &s;ame, &s;ub&s;cribed with their hands, exact Li&s;ts and Doubles of the whole Heretors within their Shires, and the pro|portions of Supply Monthly payable by them, conform to the &s;aid <HI>6th Act</HI> of Our current Parliament; Certifying &s;uch of the Collectors who &s;hall be deficient in &s;ending in the &s;aids Li&s;ts, that they &s;hall be pur&s;ued as ob|&s;tructers of Our Service, and di&s;affected to Our Government. And fur|ther, We hereby Require and Command the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary, to Report and Tran&s;mit to Our Privy Council, true and exact Li&s;ts of &s;uch as &s;hall be Deficient in Out-reiking and &s;ending forth their Baggage-Hor&s;es, and Men to attend the &s;ame, conform to the rule and proportion of Monthly Supply above-mentioned, when they are required &s;o to do, by the &s;aid Sir <HI>Thomas,</HI> that the &s;ame may be proceeded again&s;t therefore with all ri|gor. 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 Pre&s;ents &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that all per&s;ons concern|ed may have notice thereof, and none pretend ignorance, as ye will an|&s;wer to Us thereupon; the which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally, Our full Power, by the&s;e Our Letters, delivering them by you, duly execute, and indor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the eleventh day of</HI> June, <HI>and of Our Reign, the third year,</HI> 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>anno DOM.</HI> 1691.</P>
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