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<HEAD><HI>LETTERS</HI> Of Inter-communing again&s;t the Rebels in the <HI>Ba&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of Our Privy Council, 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>That where upon the twelfth day of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, Lieutenant Collonel <HI>Graham,</HI> and <HI>Michael Middletoun</HI> two of the Rebels in the <HI>Bap, James, John,</HI> and <HI>William Middletouns</HI> Brethren to the &s;aid <HI>Michael, Duncan M^cqueen, Thomas Hepburn, John Turine,</HI> Mr.  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word">  <HI>Henry&s;on, John M^cclain,  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word">  Morrein</HI> an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man,  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Nicol&s;on, John Glade&s;tones, Gawin John&s;toun,</HI> Lieutenant <HI>John Halket,</HI> and <HI>John Halket</HI> Seaman, two <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Seamen, two Hoboyes that belonged to the Earl of <HI>Le|ven,</HI> Collonel <HI>Grahames</HI> Servant, and three or four more Servants, were orderly de|nunced Our Rebels, and put to Our Horn, by vertue of a particular Act and Order of the Lords of Our Privy Council, u&s;ed and execute at the in&s;tance of Sir <HI>James Stuart</HI> Our Advocat for Our Intere&s;t, again&s;t them for not delivering up them&s;elves to Our Mercy, and the &s;aid I&s;land of the <HI>Ba&s;s</HI> for Our Service, whereto they were Charged by an Herauld with his Coat di&s;played with a Trumpet, under the pain of High Trea&s;on, as the &s;aid Act of the date fore&s;aid, with the Executions thereof due|ly Regi&s;trat at length bears: At the which Proce&s;s of Horning, the forenamed Per|&s;ons Rebels, do &s;till ly and continue, taking no regard thereof, nor of Our Autho|rity and Laws; and are incouraged to continue in Rebellion by the Recept, Supply, and Intercommoning which they have with &s;everal of their Friends and Acquaintances, to the high Contempt of Us, Our Authority and Laws. Likeas, the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council, by their Act of the day and date hereof, have Ordained the&s;e Our Letters of Intercommoning to be direct again&s;t the &s;aids Rebels, and to be Pub|li&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es under-written, as the &s;amine at more length bears. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incon|tinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the &s;everal Burghs and Towns upon both &s;ides of the Water of <HI>Forth,</HI> and other places needful, and there|at, in Our Name and Authority, Command all and &s;undry Our Leidges and Sub|jects, that they, nor none of them, Pre&s;ume nor take upon Hand, to Re&s;et, Sup|ply, or Intercommon with any of the &s;aids per&s;ons Our Rebels, for the Cau&s;es fore|&s;aids, nor furni&s;h them with Meat, Drink, Hou&s;e, Harbour, Victual, or any other thing u&s;eful, or comfortable to them; nor have Intelligence with them, by Word, Writ, Me&s;&s;age, or any other manner of way, under the Pain to be repute and e&s;teem|ed Art and Part with them in the fore&s;aids Crimes, and Pur&s;ued therefore with all rigour, to the terrour of others. Requiring hereby all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies of Regalities, and their Deputs, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, to Apprehend and Commit to Pri&s;on, any of the Per&s;ons above-written Our Rebels, when they &s;hall be found within any of their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, according to Ju&s;tice, as ye will an&s;wer to Us thereupon. The which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally, Our full Power, by the&s;e Our Letters, delivering them by you duly execute and indor&s;at again to the bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the thirteenth day of <HI>May,</HI> and of Our Reign, the fifth Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concili. In Supplementum Signeti. <HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anna Dom.</HI> 1693.</P>
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