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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Anent carrying of ARMS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, and to all and &s;undry Our Lieges and Subjects whom the&s;e pre&s;ents do or may concern, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as We con&s;idering, that &s;everal per|&s;ons who did fall under Our Act and Proclamation, of the date the twenty fifth day of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t; Intituled, <HI>Act for bringing in of Arms out of &s;ome We&s;terne Shires,</HI> have given &s;ufficient te&s;timony of their Loyalty and Obedience to Our Laws, by taking the Oath of <HI>Allegiance,</HI> and &s;ub&s;cribing the <HI>Declaration,</HI> or by carrying of Arms for Vs and Our Authority again&s;t tho&s;e in the late Rebellion; And thereby have de&s;erved the &s;ame allowance for carrying of Arms, as others Our good Subjects, without any hazard of being lyable to any pains or penalties. Therefore We, with advice of the Lords of Our Council, do declare all &s;uch per&s;ons who are qualified as &s;aid is, to be free of all re|&s;traints, fines and penalties contained in the &s;aid Proclamation, as to the carrying of Arms; So that as to the&s;e per&s;ons, the &s;aid Act is &s;o far void and null, and no wayes obligatory again&s;t them, as if the &s;ame had never been made; and that by vertue thereof, they &s;hall never be troubled nor called in que&s;tion as Contraveeners of the &s;aid Act, before any Iudicatory what&s;oever. Likeas, the &s;aid per&s;ons have as full liberty to carry their Arms, as any others Our good Subjects, provided alwayes that the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall no wayes be derogatory to that part of the &s;aid Proclamation, anent the &s;ecuring of the Per&s;ons, Families and Goods of Mini&s;ters from injuries and violence, but that the &s;ame &s;hall &s;tand and abide in full force to all intents and purpo&s;es, any thing in the con|trair hereof notwith&s;tanding. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needfull, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the ninth day of <HI>October,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;even, and of Our Reign the nineteenth year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. S^t^i^. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1667.</P>
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