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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION.<LB>
Anent the Hor&s;es and Arms of &s;uch as refu&s;e the OATHS.</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> Defenders of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;|&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as, by the &s;ixth Act of the Fourth Se&s;&s;ion of Our current Parliament. It was Statute for a further Security to the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Our Government in this pre&s;ent Exigence; That both the per&s;ons therein particularly &s;pecified, and all other per&s;ons, whether ranked in the &s;aid Act or not, who &s;hall not Swear the Oath of Alledgiance, and Sub|&s;cribe the &s;ame, and A&s;&s;urance &s;ubjoyned to the &s;aid Act, &s;hould not be allowed to keep any Hor&s;es above a hun|dred merks <HI>Scots,</HI> or any &s;ort of Arms, more than a Walking-Sword; Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall be found to have Hor&s;es and Arms contrary to this Provi&s;ion, either in their own, or in the keeping of others, that both the Owner and the Keeper &s;hall incur the Penalty of a Thou&s;and Merks <HI>Scots,</HI> the one half to the Informer, and the other to &V;s. And the Lords of Our Privy Council are Authorized and Impowered, to take &s;uch furder effectual Methods for Di&s;-arming the&s;e Per&s;ons, and &s;eizing of their Hor&s;es above the fore&s;aid Value, as they &s;hall judge nece&s;&s;ary; And We being re&s;olved, that the fore&s;aid Act be put effectually to Execution: Do therefore with the Advice of Our Lords of Privy Council, Command and Charge, all per&s;ons of what&s;oever Degree or Rank, with|out Exception, who have not already qualified them&s;elves, by duely Swearing and Sub&s;cribing the fore&s;aid Oath of Alledgiance, and Sub&s;cribing the fore&s;aid A&s;&s;urance, or who &s;hall not qualfie them&s;elves by Swearing and Sub&s;cribing as &s;aid is, before the Sheriffs Stew|arts, Baillies, Ju&s;tices of Peace, or other Judges ordinary of the Juri&s;diction within the which they Live, or their Deputs, betwixt and the Third and Eleventh days of <HI>April</HI> next, <HI>viz.</HI> The&s;e one this &s;ide of the water of <HI>Tay,</HI> betwixt and the &s;aid Third day, and the&s;e on the other &s;ide, betwixt and the &s;aid Eleventh day, and report an Authentick Certificat thereof, &s;ub&s;cribed by the &s;aid Judge and his Clerk; To deliver up all their Hor&s;es above the fore&s;aid Value of a hundred Merks the Head, whether in their own keeping, or in the keeping of any others, with all &s;orts of Arms that they have, either in their own keeping, or in the keeping of others, more than a Walking-Sword, betwixt and the fore&s;aids days to the &s;ame Judge, at the Tolbooth of the Head-Burgh of the fore&s;aid Juri&s;diction, within which they live, which Hor&s;es and Arms &s;o delivered, are to be Rouped by the &s;aid Judge, the fir&s;t Mercat-day thereafter, to the be&s;t Avail, and the Price is to be given to the Deliverer and Owner fore&s;aid, certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall Contraveen, and not give ready Obedience hereunto, by keeping either their own, or other mens Hor&s;e or Arms, contrary to the Provi&s;ion fore&s;aid, be|twixt and the fore&s;aids days, they &s;hall incur the fore&s;aid Penalty of one thou&s;and Merks, the one half to Us, and the other half to the Informer, and that over and above the lo&s;s of the Hor&s;es and Arms; with this Provi&s;ion neverthele&s;s, that the &s;aids Hor&s;es and Arms amitted as above, are al&s;o to be Rouped to the be&s;t Avail, in manner above-pre&s;cribed, and the Price reckoned and compted in part of payment of the fore&s;aid Penalty <HI>pro tanto.</HI> And it is hereby Declared, that it &s;hall be &s;ufficient for the Informer, to Challenge the Keeper or Haver of the &s;aid Hor&s;e or Arms, contrary to the fore&s;aid Act, and to Conveen them &s;ummarly upon a Charge of &s;ix days, before the Judge Ordinary of the Bounds, and to refer if he think fit, the fore&s;aid Having or Keeping to their Oaths, in&s;tead of all further Probation, whereupon Decreet &s;hall be pronounced, unle&s;s the fore&s;aid authentick Certificat be produced without further delay: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Di&s;charge all Advocation, or Su&s;pen&s;ion to be given in the Premi&s;&s;es, upon any pretext; And furder, do hereby require all the fore&s;aid Sheriffs, Baillies, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, and other Judges ordinary, and their Deputs, to make diligent Inquiry within their re&s;pective Bounds, for the &s;aid Hor&s;e and Arms, and the Keepers and Havers thereof contrary to the fore&s;aid <HI>Act,</HI> and to cau&s;e execute the &s;ame again&s;t them, as they will be an&s;werable to Us upon their highe&s;t peril. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you &s;trictly and Command, that Incontinent thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this Our Antient Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Autho|rity, by open Proclamation, make publick Intimation hereof, that none may pretend Ignorance. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the thirteenth day of <HI>March,</HI> and of Our Reign the Fifth Year, 1694.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave King <HI>VVilliam</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM,</HI> 1694.</P>
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