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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE>The twenty third of <HI>February,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty four.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council con&s;idering, that albeit it is appointed by the fifth Act of the &s;econd Se&s;sion of this la&s;t Parliament, all per&s;ons in publick Tru&s;t, or who &s;hould be called thereafter or admitted to any publick Tru&s;t or Office, &s;hould publickly, in face of their re&s;pective Courts to which they relate, &s;ub|&s;cribe the Declaration appointed by the &s;aid Act; and that they &s;hould have no right to their re&s;pective Offices, till they &s;hould &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;ame. As likewi&s;e, that in pur&s;uance thereof, Orders have been i&s;&s;ued from the Council to the Sheriffs of Shires and Magi&s;trates of Burghs, for offering the &s;ame to all per&s;ons in publick Tru&s;t within their re&s;pective Iurisdictions, and to return an account thereof betwixt and the eighteenth of this in&s;tant: Yet notwith&s;tanding, many per&s;ons do refu&s;e or delay to give obedience, that yet continue to exerci&s;e their Places and Offices. Therefore, they ordain a Herauld, as Sheriff in that part, in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> name, by open Proclamation, at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the &s;everal head Burghs of this Kingdom, to di&s;charge all per|&s;ons in publick Tru&s;t and Office under His <HI>Maje&s;ty;</HI> &s;uch as Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailies of Regalities, or other Bailies, Commi&s;&s;ars, their Deputes and Clerks, Magi&s;trates and Council of Burghs, Iu&s;tices of Peace and their Clerks, and all others in publick Tru&s;t or Place within this Kingdom, who &s;hall not &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;aid Declaration betwixt and the fourteenth day of <HI>April</HI> next to come, to exerci&s;e any of their &s;aids Offices or Places; With certification, that if they do in the contrary, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t and puni&s;hed as u&s;urpers of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Royal Authority, and their Places di&s;po&s;ed of to others. And ordains the &s;ame to be printed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent MAjESTY, 1664.</P>
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