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<HEAD>ACT OF THE COMMITTEE <HI>OF</HI> ESTATES Again&s;t Run-awayes, and Fugitive Souldiers, and their Re&s;etters.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Edinburgh,</HI>11. <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1648.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Committee of E&s;tates con&s;idering the prejudices that hath occured to the publict &s;ervice in former expeditions, by the ba&s;e carriage of &s;ome Officers and Souldiers who run away from their Colours, and becomes fugitives, and that the like may fall out in this &s;ervice, if tymous cour&s;e be not tane for preventing thereof. Therefore they do Statute and Ordaine, That all tho&s;e both of hor&s;e and Foot who &s;hall run away from their Companies and Colours without a pa&s;s from the Lord General, or &s;ome of the Generall Officers, or at lea&s;t from the chief Officer of the Regiment &s;hall be appre|hended by the Committees of War or any of them, by the Colonels of the Shire, Captains of Paroches or Magi&s;trates within Burghs, or others, now authori&s;ed by this Act for that purpo&s;e wherever they can be apprehended. And that the&s;e by we&s;t or by north this Town be &s;ent to the Tolbuith of <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> And the&s;e by &s;outh <HI>Edinburgh</HI> be &s;ent with a guard to the Army or to the next Garri|&s;on to be puni&s;hed according to the Articles of Military Di&s;cipline, or that the Committees of War and Colonells within ilk Shire, and Magi&s;trates within Burgh (if they &s;hall think it expedient; for the terrifying of others) decimat the &s;aids fugitives both Hor&s;e and Foot, and cau&s;e hang the tenth man; And if there be but one or more within the number of ten, to cau&s;e hang ane, and &s;end the re&s;t as afore&s;aid. And becau&s;e the entertaining and re&s;etting of thir Fugitives, embolden them to keep them&s;elves &s;till lurking, and encoura|geth others by their example to run away. Therefore it is Statute and Ordained, that who&s;oever &s;hall re&s;&s;et or entertain any of the &s;aids Fugitives, or &s;hall have knowledge of their being within their bounds, and &s;hall not delate and deliver them to the Committee of the Shire and Commi&s;&s;ioners aftermentioned &s;hall be liable in the &s;um of five hundreth Marks for ilk Hor&s;man, and one hundreth pounds for ilk Footman, be&s;ides the making forth command the partie re&s;et or another in his place. The one half to be employed for the publict expence in putting this Act into execution, and the other half thereof to the delaters, who &s;hall qualifie the re&s;et or concealment by witne&s;&s;es, oath of partie or otherwayes. Likeas the Committee of E&s;tates do hereby di&s;pone the right of the &s;aids &s;ums to be applied in manner fore&s;aid. And becau&s;e the travelling of per|&s;ons through the Countrey without &s;ufficient Pa&s;&s;es may prove an ob&s;truction to the due execution of this Act. The Com|mittee doth hereby give warrand and Command to the Magi&s;trates of Burghs, or any per&s;on on the Committee of War of the Shires, or any other who &s;hall have Warrand by vertue hereof, to apprehend any per&s;on they &s;hall finde travelling within their bounds without &s;ufficient Pa&s;&s;es from the&s;e that &s;ent them: And that none be allowed to &s;tay or re&s;ide in any Shire or Burgh, without &s;ufficient Te&s;timoniall from the Magi&s;trates of the Burgh, or the Kirk Se&s;&s;ion where they la&s;t li|ved, under the pain of ane hundreth pounds to be encurred by the re&s;etters and to be employed as afore&s;aid. And for the better and more punctuall execution of this Act: The Committee of E&s;tates do hereby give power and Commi&s;&s;ion, ex|pre&s;s bidding, and charge to the per&s;ons underwritten, or both or either of them within their &s;everall Shires by the advice of the Committee of War of the Shire. And if the Committee &s;hal be unwilling, or delay to concur with them at their fir&s;t meeting, than by advice of &s;uch of the Committee as wil joyn with them. And if none joyn with them as &s;aid is, that then both or either of them, by them&s;elves take cour&s;e to &s;ee this Act put in execution: That they appoint Commi&s;&s;ioners in ilk Paro&s;ch to &s;ee it done within their bounds, and once each fortnight take ane accompt from them, and return it to the Committee of E&s;tates: The Commi&s;&s;ioners names are as followeth, For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Berwick,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Langton;</HI> For the She|riffdom of <HI>Hadingtoun,</HI> Sir <HI>John Sinclair</HI> of <HI>Herdmeston,</HI> and Mr. <HI>James Dunhame</HI> of <HI>Lufnes;</HI> For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> Sir <HI>John Dalmahoy</HI> of that ilk, and Sir <HI>John Gib&s;on</HI> of <HI>Alder&s;ton;</HI> For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Roxburgh,</HI> the Sheriff of <HI>Tiviotdail;</HI> For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Selkirk,</HI> Sir <HI>John Murray</HI> of <HI>Philiphauch,</HI> and the Laird of <HI>Whytbank;</HI> For the Sheriff|dom of <HI>Dumfreis,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Lag;</HI> For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Peebles,</HI> the Lairds of <HI>Prestongrange</HI> and <HI>Dawick;</HI> For the She|riffdom of <HI>Lanerk,</HI> the Lord <HI>Lee</HI> and <HI>James Hammilton</HI> of <HI>Boigis;</HI> For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Lithgow, William Drummond</HI> of <HI>Ricarton</HI> &amp; <GAP DESC="blank"> <HI>Hammilton</HI> of <HI>Binnie;</HI> For the Sheriffdom of <HI>Stirlin,</HI> the Lairds of <HI>Polmais</HI> &amp; <HI>Carden;</HI> For the Shire of <HI>Clak|mannan,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Sanchie;</HI> For the Shire of <HI>Air,</HI> the L^d^s^. of <HI>Culloin</HI> &amp; <HI>Kilbirnie;</HI> for the Shire of <HI>Renfrew</HI> the L^d^s^. of <HI>Duchal</HI> &amp; <HI>Howston;</HI> for the Shire of <HI>Wigtoun</HI> &amp; <HI>Kirkcudbright.</HI> <GAP DESC="blank"> For the Shire of <HI>Fyffe,</HI> the L^d^s^. of <HI>Reres</HI> &amp; <HI>Cambo;</HI> For the &s;hire of <HI>Perth,</HI> the L. of <HI>Inchmartine</HI> &amp; <HI>Balthayok;</HI> For the &s;hire of <HI>Forfar,</HI> the L^d^s^. of <HI>Balnamoon</HI> &amp; <HI>Fintrie;</HI> For the &s;hire of <HI>Kin|cardine,</HI> Lairds of <HI>Pittarro</HI> &amp; <HI>Morphie;</HI> For the Shire of <HI>Aberdeen</HI> the Laird of <HI>Udine</HI> and <HI>Patrick Le&s;lie</HI> Prove&s;t of <HI>Aberdeen;</HI> For the &s;hire of <HI>Bamff,</HI> the Laird of <HI>Birkinboig</HI> younger and Troup; For the &s;hires of <HI>Elgine</HI> and <HI>Nairn,</HI> the Lairds of <HI>Innes</HI> and Sheriff of <HI>Murray;</HI> For the &s;hire of <HI>Innernes</HI> &s;ir <HI>John Mackenzie</HI> and Colonel <HI>Robert Home.</HI> And the Committees Ordains this Act to be Printed and Publi&s;hed, and that the Commi&s;&s;ioners aforementioned to be carefull that this Act be duely pub|li&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Burghs and Paro&s;ch Kirks within their Shires, Wherethrough none pretend ignorance thereof, <HI>Extractum.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Arch. Primero&s;e,</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excel|lent Maje&s;tie, 1648.</P>
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