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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>ACT OF COUNCIL, Anent Papi&s;ts.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the fourteenth day of <HI>December,</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, for preventing Jealou&s;ies and Fears in this Kingdom, and for the Security of the Kingdom, Do here|by Ordain Sheriffs, Baillies, Lords of Regality, and Magi&s;trats of Bur|rows, to &s;earch the Hou&s;es of Papi&s;ts, within their Juri&s;dictions, and to &s;eize, and &s;ecure all Arms and Ammunition that &s;hall be found therein, except &s;uch as they, or any of them, according to their quality, u&s;e to wear for them&s;elves, and their nece&s;&s;ary Servants; And all ju&s;t Jealou&s;ies being thus removed again&s;t them, The Lords of His <HI>Majeties</HI> Privy Council, Do hereby Recommend to all the &s;aids Officers of the Law, to Protect the Per&s;ons, and Hou&s;es of the &s;aids Papi&s;ts, again&s;t all publick Tumults, and privat In&s;ults, by preventing, and puni&s;hing the &s;ame, as they &s;hall &s;ee occa&s;ion. And Ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and whole other Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of this Kingdom, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council, by me WILL PATERSON, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save 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,</HI> Anno <HI>DOM.</HI> 1688.</P>
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