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<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Anent Ministers not Praying for Their Majesties, King</HI> William <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France&punc;</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, 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 albeit by the Act of the Meeting of E&s;tates of this Our Antient Kingdom, Dated the thirteenth Day of <HI>April,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty nine, Our Leidges were Certified; not to owne; or acknowledge the late King <HI>James</HI> the Se|venth for their King, but that they and every one of them &s;hould render their Dutiful Obedience to Us; and in particular, that all the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel within this Kingdom &s;hould publick|ly Pray for Us, as King and Queen of this Realm, under the Pains and Certifications &s;pecified in the &s;aid Act: As al&s;o, We with Advice of Our E&s;tates of Parliament, by Our Act of the twenty &s;econd of <HI>July,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety, Ordained the &s;aid Act and Proclamation of the E&s;tates of this Kingdom; to be put to further Execution, again&s;t all &s;uch Mini&s;ters; who had not given Obedience thereto, by Praying for Us, in manner mentioned in the &s;aid Act; And that the Lords of Our Privy Council &s;hould proceed therein, or impower other Magi&s;trats to do the &s;ame within their re&s;pective bounds, as they &s;hould &s;ee Cau&s;e; Yet neverthele&s;s; the &s;aids Acts have been &s;o far from receiving the punctual and exact Obedience due to them. That many Preachers have either pre&s;umed wholly to neglect Praying for Us, as King and Queen of this Realm, conform to the &s;aids Acts, or at lea&s;t have &s;o far te&s;tified a want of ingenuity and plainne&s;s required in a Duty of this Na|ture, that they make u&s;e of &s;uch ambiguous and unclear Expre&s;&s;ions in their Prayers, as the hearers cannot di&s;tinctly know they Pray for Us, to the great Di&s;paragement of the &s;aids Laws, and contempt of our Authority. Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do &s;trictly Require and Command the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, Baillies of Regalities, Stewarts of Stewartries, and Magi&s;trats of the Burghs Royal of this Kingdom within their bounds, and Juri&s;dictions <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> to make due and exact tryal what Mini&s;ters Preaching in Churches or Meeting-Hou&s;es, within their re&s;pective bounds, Pray not ordinarly for Us, in &s;uch circum&s;tantiat Terms, as their Hearers may di&s;tinctly know that they Pray for Us, as King and Queen of this Realm; And for that effect, We with Advice fore&s;aid, Hereby Require and Impower the &s;everal Magi&s;trats re&s;pective fore&s;aids; To conveen and call before them &s;uch per&s;ons as they &s;hall think fit, to give Information and Evidence again&s;t &s;uch Mini&s;ters Preaching in Churches or Meeting-Hou&s;es, who fail in their Obedience to the Acts above-mentioned, in manner above &s;et down, and that the &s;aids Magi&s;trats <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> Tran&s;mit under their Hands, to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, betwixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>June</HI> next to come, (for &s;uch as are on this &s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> and the fifteenth day of the &s;aid Month, for the&s;e on the other &s;ide thereof,) the Names of the &s;everal Mini&s;ters offending in the Premi&s;&s;es, with the place of their re&s;idence, and the original Information and Evidence they have received and taken again&s;t them, To the Effect they may be pro&s;ecute with all rigor, and the Penalties and Certifications in the &s;aids Laws contained, ju&s;tly inflicted and exe|cute again&s;t them; With Certification to the &s;aids re&s;pective Magi&s;trats, who fail herein, they &s;hall be repute as Connivers at, and Abettors of the &s;aids Offenders, and negligent in the Execution and Performance of their Offices, and Duty committed to them, and pro|&s;ecute as &s;uch accordingly. OUR WILL IS Herefore; and we Charge you &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this Our Antient Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es; And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed in manner fore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under OUr Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twenty eighth day of <HI>April.</HI> And of Our Reign, the fourth Year, 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King VVilliam and Queen Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</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&punc;</HI> 1692.</P>
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