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<HEAD><HI>ACT</HI> Of Privy Council, for di&s;covery of tho&s;e de&s;perat Rebels, who lately committed an Attack upon &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Forces, and re&s;cued one <HI>Hou&s;ton,</HI> a declared and notorious Traitor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the twenty &s;econd day of <HI>June</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council having notice of an Attack made upon a party of His Maje&s;ties Forces, who were conveying one <HI>Hou&s;ton,</HI> a declared Rebel, Pri&s;oner to the Tolbooth of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> by His Maje&s;ties &s;pecial Command; in who&s;e march, &s;everal of the &s;aids Forces were killed, and others de&s;peratly wounded: They having therefore thought fit, that full and exact Search, Inquiry and Tryal &s;hould be made in the &s;aid matter, both as to the Actors, Abaters, or Hounders out of the &s;aids de&s;perate Rebels, that they may be brought to condign puni&s;hment, and for preventing thelike villanies in time coming, Have directed Letters to the Sheriffs of <HI>Air, Lanerk, Renfrew,</HI> and <HI>Niths-dale,</HI> or their Deputs, to Call and Conveen the Nobility, Free-holders, Heretors, and Indulged-Mini&s;ters, to Meet and Conveen the twenty much day of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, at the Head-burgh of the &s;aid re&s;pective Shires, and Stewartry: As al&s;o, the Sheriff of the Shire of <HI>Wigtoun</HI> and <HI>Stewart</HI> of the <HI>Stewartry</HI> of <HI>Kirkcudbright,</HI> or their Deputs, to Call and Conveen the Nobility, Free-holders, Heretors, and Indulged-Mini&s;ters of the &s;aid Shire and Stewartry, to Meet and Conveen at the Head-Burghs thereof <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> upon the &s;ixth day of <HI>July</HI> next: Do therefore expre&s;ly Require and Command, the Noblemen, Heretors, Free-holders and Indulged-Mini&s;ters fore&s;aid, within the &s;aids Shires and Stewartries, to Meet and Conveen at the days and places re&s;pective above-written, and then, and there to give obedience to the &s;aid Letter, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril. And to the end the&s;e Pre&s;ents may be made known, to all per&s;ons concerned therein, The &s;aids Lords Ordain the Macers of Privy Council to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, to pa&s;s to all other places u&s;ual, and make publication hereof, that none may pretend ignorance.  Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council, by me </P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>COL. M^cKEN&YOGH;IE, Cls. Sti. Concilii.</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> 1688.</P>
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