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<HEAD>ACT OF PRIVY COUNCIL, Di&s;charging any Leavies or Recruits for the Service of the <HI>States-General of the &V;nited Provinces.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the nineteenth day of <HI>January,</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOrasmuch as the King's most Excellent <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> hath &s;ignified to the Privy Council of this His Ancient Kingdom, That they &s;uffer no moe Men to be Leavied by way of Recruits, or otherwi&s;e, for the Service of the <HI>States-General of the United-Provinces,</HI> or for making up the Regiments already there, and Required them to give the nece&s;&s;ary Or|ders, Di&s;charging the &s;ame. Therefore the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, in Pur&s;uance of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Royal Will and Plea&s;ure afore&s;aid, Do hereby expre&s;ly Prohibite and Di&s;charge, all Officers, or Souldiers, in the Service of the &s;aids <HI>States-General,</HI> from Leavying, or taking on any of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Subjects of this Kingdom, by way of Recruits, or otherwi&s;e, for the Service fore&s;aid; Requiring hereby all Magistrats and others, who have any Souldiers taken on, as &s;aid is, in Custody, to &s;et them forthwith at Liberty; And in ca&s;e they be put aboard of Ships, Do hereby &s;trictly Require and Command, the Ma&s;ters, Owners, and Skippers of &s;uch Ships, or other Ve&s;&s;els, forthwith to di&s;mi&s;s them, under the pain of Confi&s;cation of the Ship, or Ve&s;&s;el, in ca&s;e they Tran&s;port them, or any of them abroad, after Publication hereof, be&s;ides any other puni&s;hment the Council &s;hall think fit to inflict on them. And further, The &s;aids Lords Do al&s;o expre&s;ly Prohibit and Di&s;charge, all Ma&s;ters, Owners, and Skippers, from taking aboard any per&s;ons for the Service fore|&s;aid, under the Certifications above-written; And in ca&s;e the &s;aids Officers, and Souldiers, &s;hall notwith&s;tanding of this Prohibition, continue to Leavie Souldiers, The &s;aids Lords Declares, That they &s;hall be puni&s;hed for their contempt, with the outmo&s;t of &s;everity. And to the end the&s;e Pre&s;ents may be made publick and known, The &s;aids Lords Do hereby Require and Command, the Macers of Council, to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Me&s;&s;engers at Armes to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;ses of the remanent Head-Burghs of this Kingdom, and there, in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the &s;ame, that none may pretend ignorance.  Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council, by Mr. <HI>Colin M^cken&yogh;ie</HI> Clerk to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>COL, M^cKEN&YOGH;IE, Cls. Sti, Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
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 <HI>Maje&s;ty, Anno Dom.</HI> 1688.</P>
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