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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>GOD SAVE THE KING</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For removing of Hor&s;es above the value forth of The <HI>Shyre,</HI> of <HI>Lanerk, Renfrew,</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovites,  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers or 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 The Lords of The Committy of our privy Council met in the we&s;t, By Commi&s;sion from our privy Council, Having in pursueance of the Commi&s;&s;ion and in&s;tructions given to them, emitted an act upon the tuenty eight of <HI>January</HI> La&s;t Requyring the Shireff principall of the Shyre of <HI>Lanerk,</HI> The baillie of the Regality of <HI>Glasgow;</HI> and the Shireff deput of the Shyre of <HI>Renfrew,</HI> (in regard of the ab&s;ence of the Shireff principall furth of the Kingdom,) To conveen the haill Heretors, Lyfrentars, Conjunctfiars and others in the &s;aids two Shyres and Regalitie And to offer the Band (appoynted by our privy Council) To be Signed by them oblidgeing them there men Tenents, Servants, and Cotters: for the &s;ecuritie of the peace and quyet of the Countrey and pre&s;erveing the &s;ame from di&s;orders hereafter; betwixt and the day therin prefixed, And they having returned an account that the greate&s;t part of the &s;aid Heri|tors and others for&s;aids had refu&s;ed to &s;ub&s;crive the &s;aid Band; And Wee finding it very unfit that any per&s;on (of what qualitie &s;oever) within the&s;e bounds who have refu&s;ed the &s;aid Band &s;hould have or keep any Hor&s;es or Meers, but Such as may be nece&s;s|are for Ploughing, and Labouring of the ground. Do therefore with advice of the &s;aids Lords of the Committy of our privy Coun|cil hereby require and command all Heretors, Fewars, Lyfrentars, and Land-Lords within the &s;aid Shyre of <HI>Lanerk,</HI> Regality of <HI>Gla&s;gow</HI> and Shyre of <HI>Renfrew,</HI> or Juri&s;dictions within the &s;ame (who have not given the &s;aid Band) To put out of there po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on, and furth of the &s;aid bounds, all Hor&s;es and meers belonging to them, above the value of Fifty pounds Scots betwixt and the nynth day of <HI>April</HI> nixt And doe di&s;charge them, and every one of them, to have or keep any &s;uch Hor&s;es or meers thereafter, above the &s;aid value without Speciall Licence from the Lords of our privy Council, or there Committy under the paine of forfaulting of the&s;e Hor&s;es and Meers, And payment to the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of our The&s;aurie for our u&s;e, or any that &s;hal be appoynted be them of the &s;oume of An Hundreth pounds Scots for each Hor&s;e or meer above the value for&s;aid that the &s;aids per|&s;ons or any of them shall have or keep after the &s;aid day. As al&s;o we ordaine all Tenents, Cottars, or Servants within the &s;aids bounds be|twixt and the fir&s;t day of <HI>May</HI> nixt, To put out of there po&s;&s;e&s;sion and furth of the Shyres and Juri&s;dictions for&s;aids, any hor&s;es or meers belonging to them and not to keep any above the &s;aid value without &s;peciall Licence, as &s;aid is, under the paine of forfaulting the &s;aids hor&s;es and meers and paying of the penaltie above writen. OUR WILL is Herefore And we charge you &s;traitlie and Com|mand, That incontinent the&s;e our Letters &s;ein, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Lanerk, Ranfrew, Gla&s;gow,</HI> And other places need|full, and thereat in our Name and Authority by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pretend ig|norance. The which to do we commit to you conjunctly and &s;everallie our full power, be their Our Letters delivering them be you duely execute and indor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> <DATE>the twenty &s;even day, of <HI>March,</HI> 1678. and of our Reigne, the threttie <HI>Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Commi&s;&s;ionis Hugh Stevenson. Cl.</HI> Com:</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King,</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>GLASGOW,</HI> Printed By <HI>Robert Sanders,</HI> Printer to the City and Univer&s;ity. By warrant of the Committy of Council 1678.</P>
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