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<HEAD>ACT OF PRIVY COUNCIL, Ordering Probation and Information to be &s;ent in with publick pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh <DATE>the twentieth day of <HI>March.</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, to prevent the great pre|judice that may ari&s;e to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Service, by the not &s;ending in probation with the Pri&s;oners, who are &s;ent in to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Pri&s;ons, and particularly tho&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and <HI>Cannogate,</HI> whereby His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Advocat cannot know the grounds whereupon they are to be pur&s;ued, or how to find a probation; as al&s;o the extraordinary prejudices that daily ari&s;e to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> &s;ubjects, by being impri&s;oned through Malice, Ignorance or Mis-information; Do therefore hereby or|dain all Officers of the Army, Magi&s;trats or others who &s;end in pri&s;oners, to &s;end in to His Majesties Advocat, or the Clerks of the Council, as &s;ufficient Information of their Crimes, with a full account of the Depo&s;itions of &s;uch Witne&s;ses, or other Probation as can be had again&s;t them; warranting the Keepers of the Pri&s;ons, to receive none into their Pri&s;ons unle&s;s Information or Probati|on be &s;ent in, as &s;aid is, to be verified to the &s;aids Keepers, by the &s;aids Clerks, excepting alwi&s;e &s;uch as are &s;ent in Pri&s;oners by order from a Privy Coun&s;elor; To whom it is hereby Recommended, to &s;end al&s;o an Account to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Advocat of their Crime, and Probation, with their fir&s;t conveniencie; and His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Advocat is hereby required to repre&s;ent to the Privy Coun|cil the Grounds and Warrands of the &s;aid Impri&s;onment, the very next Council day after the Pri&s;oners are incarcerated, as &s;aid is, to the end they may be either &s;et at Liberty or puni&s;hed. And to the effect the&s;e pre&s;ents may be publi&s;hed and known; The &s;aids Lords Ordain the Macers of Council to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and there by &s;ound of Trumpet, make Publication of the &s;ame, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<P>Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council, by me Mr. <HI>Colin Mcken&yogh;ie</HI> Clerk of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> mo&s;t honourable Privy Council.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Col. M^cken&yogh;ie,</HI> 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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