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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION For procuring obedience to ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY. Edinburgh,</HI> the eleventh day of <HI>October,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;ix.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, and 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 by the fir&s;t Act of the third Se&s;sion of Our late Parliament, Entituled, <HI>Act again&s;t &s;eparation and di&s;|obedience to Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Authority,</HI> it is recommended to the Lords of Our Privy Council to take &s;peedy and effectual cour&s;e that the &s;aid Act, injoyning obedience to the Government of the Church, as it is now &s;etled by Law, receive due and ready obedience from all Subjects; with power to them to decern and inflict &s;uch cen&s;ures, penalties and corporal puni&s;hments, as they &s;hall think fit, upon the contra|veeners, and direct all execution nece&s;&s;ary, for making the &s;ame effectual, and to do every other thing needful for procuring obedience to the &s;aid Act, and putting the &s;ame to punctual execution, conform to the tenor and intent thereof. And by divers other Acts of Parliament and Council, made again&s;t Papi&s;ts, Quakers, and other di&s;affected per&s;ons, they are commanded, under great pains and penalties, to frequent the Ordinances, in hearing Sermon and partaking of the Sacraments, and all other acts of publick Wor&s;hip, at their own Paroch-churches, and not to keep any private Meetings or Conventicles: Neverthele&s;s, the &s;aids Acts have not received that vigorous execution and obedience in &s;ome parts of the Kingdom, which might have been given, if Ma&s;ters of Families, Heretors and Land&s;-lords in the Countrey, and Magi&s;trates within Burghs-royal, had been careful and zealous in their &s;tations in procuring obedience from their Servants, Tennents and Inhabitants over whom they have power and juri&s;diction; So that it is more then high time to prevent the increa&s;e and &s;preading of the&s;e di&s;orders, which by evil example, might poy&s;on and infect the&s;e that are yet found in their Principles and well-affected to Our Government. OVR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you &s;traitly and commands, that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> remanent head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and other places needful, and there, by open Proclamation, in Our Name and Authority, command and charge all Ma&s;ters of Families that they cau&s;e their Dome&s;tick-&s;ervants, Grieves, Cham|berlains,
<PB REF="2"> and others entertained by them, to give obedience to Our Laws fore&s;aids and Acts of Council; and particularly that they frequent the publick Wor&s;hip and Ordinances at their own Paroch-churches, and participate of the Sacra|ments, and ab&s;tain from all Conventicles and private Meetings, and that they retain none in their &s;ervice but &s;uch as they will be an&s;werable for; and in ca&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f their di&s;obedience, that they remove them out of their &s;ervice immediatly after intimation thereof by the Mini&s;ter of the Paroch: As al&s;o, that all Heretors, Land&s;-lords and Life-renters, who have granted any Tacks or Rentals to their <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nnents, which are yet &s;tanding unexpired, cau&s;e their Tennents and Rentallers give &s;ufficient bond and &s;urety for obeying the &s;aids Acts of Parliament and Council, and &s;pecially for frequenting publick Wor&s;hip and Ordinances, as &s;aid is, and ab&s;taining from private Meetings; and if need be, that they rai&s;e Letters under the Signet of Our Privy Council, and charge them, for that effect, upon &s;ix dayes, and in ca&s;e of di&s;obedience, to denounce them to Our Horn and regi&s;trate the &s;ame; for which end, warrand is given to direct Letters in their name again&s;t all and &s;undry their Tennents and Rentallers: And We do declare, that We will give and be&s;tow the E&s;cheats falling to Vs by the &s;aids Hornings, upon the Land&s;-lords and Setters of the&s;e Tacks and Rentals, in &s;o far as may be extended thereto; recommending hereby to Our The&s;aurer-principal and The&s;aurer-depute, and others of Our Exchequer, to grant the &s;ame accordingly: And in ca&s;e the Tennents be removeable and refu&s;e to give obedience, that they warn and pur&s;ue them to remove, and obtain Decreets of ejection again&s;t them; and that no Heretor, Land&s;-lord or Life-renter, &s;et their Lands hereafter to any per&s;on, by Word or Writ, but to &s;uch as they will be an&s;werable for, as &s;aid is; and that they take &s;urety from them by provi&s;ions and obliegements to be in&s;ert in their Tacks, or otherwayes by Bond apart, in ca&s;e there be no Writ, that the &s;aids Tack&s;-men, Rentallers and all others their Hindes, Cottars and Servants, who &s;hall live under them upon the &s;aids Lands, &s;hall give obedience in manner fore&s;aid; otherwayes, that their Tacks, Rentals and whole Intere&s;t, Right and Po&s;&s;e&s;sion &s;hall be vow and expire, <HI>ip&s;o facto,</HI> as if they had never been granted, and that without any Declarator or farther Proce&s;s, and then as now, and now as then, that they &s;hall renounce all Right that they &s;hall have thereto, and &s;hall remove them&s;elves without any warning; and in ca&s;e of fail&yogh;ie, the Land&s;-lords and others are to charge and denounce them in manner fore&s;aid. As likewayes, that all Magi&s;trates of Royal Burroughs take &s;pecial care and notice and be an&s;werable, that their Burge&s;&s;es and Inhabitants be obedient to the fore&s;aids Acts of Parliament and Council, and that they cau&s;e charge &s;uch of them as they &s;hall think fit and are &s;u&s;pected, to give Bond and Surety, as &s;aid is; and for the Magi&s;trates own relief, in ca&s;e they contraveen, and if they fail&yogh;ie, to denounce them in manner fore&s;aid: With certification, that all Ma&s;ters of Families, Land&s;-lords and Magi|&s;trates of Burghs, who &s;hall not give punctual obedience in manner above-written, that they &s;hall be lyable to the &s;ame pains and penalties due to the Contraveeners, but prejudice alwayes of proceeding again&s;t the Contraveeners them&s;elves, and inflicting the &s;aids pains, and all other pains contained in any Act of Parliament or Council heretofore made again&s;t Papi&s;ts, Quakers and per&s;ons di&s;obedient: Certifying al&s;o all concerned, that the Lords of Our Privy Council will not only take &s;pecial care to &s;ecure the publick Peace, but al&s;o to di&s;cover all &s;ecret attempts and de&s;igns to di&s;turb the &s;ame, and to puni&s;h all per&s;ons that &s;hall be found guilty, according to the quality of their offence. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed and publi&s;hed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1666.</P>
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