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<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION<LB>
Anent Beggers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of <HI>GOD,</HI> 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. Me&s;&s;en|gers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;muchas, the Intent and De&s;ign of Our Proclamation, of the Date the eleventh day of <HI>August,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety two Years; Requiring all Beggers within this Kingdom, forthwith to repair to their &s;everal Paroches, with all diligence, hath been much di&s;appointed and fru&s;trate by the uncertainty of the Paroches where the &s;aids re&s;pective Beggers have been born; and for want of &s;uitable Provi&s;ion, made by the Heretors and Magi&s;trates of the re&s;pective Paroches, where the &s;aids Beggers have been born, or had their la&s;t &s;even years Re&s;idence: For Remeed whereof, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, &s;trictly Require and Command, all the Beggers within this Kingdom, immediately to repair to the &s;everal Paroches where they were born, and where the Paroch or place of their Birth is not certain, or di&s;tinctly known; that they repair to the Paroches where they la&s;t re&s;ided for the &s;pace of &s;even years together, and to keep the ordinary high-ways to the &s;everal Paroches of their Birth, or la&s;t &s;even years Re&s;idence, and &s;o &s;oon as they come to the &s;aids re&s;pective Paroches, to pre&s;ent them&s;elves to the Heretors and Elders; and where Paroches are Vacant, and have no Elders, to the Heretors alone; Whom We with Advice for&s;aid Require and Command, to make the Provi&s;ions nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;aids Beggers, and to li&s;t their Names among&s;t the Poor of the Paroch, that they may be Lodged and Intertained ac|cordingly: With Certification to all who &s;hall be found begging after the &s;econd <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> of <HI>September</HI> next, they &s;hall be &s;eazed as Vagabounds, Impri&s;oned, and fed with Bread and Water for a Month, or till they be &s;ent home to the re&s;pective Paroch of their Birth, or la&s;t &s;even years Re&s;idence, in manner mentioned in our &s;aid former Proclamation. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Magi&s;trates of our Burghs Royal, to meet, and &s;tent them&s;elves conform to &s;uch Order and Cu&s;tom u&s;ed and wont in laying on Stents, Annuities, or other publick Burdens, in the re&s;pective Burghs, as may be mo&s;t effectual to reach all the Inhabitants: and the Heretors of the &s;everal vacant Paroches, likewi&s;e to meet and Stent them&s;elves, for the Maintenance of their &s;aid re&s;pective Poor, and to appoint the In-gathering, Up-lifting, and applying of the &s;ame for the u&s;es fore&s;aids: Sicklike, and in the &s;ame manner, as the Heretors and Elders are appointed by our &s;aid former Proclamation; and all the Mini&s;ters and Heretors are hereby required to give timeous Intimation to the Sheriff of the Shire, if any Paroch or per&s;on &s;hall fail in performance of this Chri&s;tian Duty, in hail or in part; and the Sheriff or Sheriff-deput, are hereby required to call the Delinquents before them, without any delay; and if guilty to Fine them in double of the <HI>Quota,</HI> which the Mini&s;ter or Heretors &s;hall atte&s;t to be wanting, and to cau&s;e poynd for the &s;ame immedi|atly. And further, for preventing of any que&s;tion that may ari&s;e betwixt the Heretors and Kirk-Se&s;&s;ion, in the &s;everal Paroches of this Kingdom, about the <HI>Quota</HI> of the Collections at the Church-doors, and otherwi&s;e to be made by the &s;aid Se&s;&s;ion, to be payed in to the Heretors for the end fore&s;aid: We do hereby with Advice fore&s;aid, determine the &s;ame to be the half of the &s;aid Collections, and Or|daines the &s;aid Kirk-Se&s;&s;ion, to pay in the &s;ame from time to time to the &s;aids Heretors, or any to be by them appointed accordingly. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Declare and Ordain Our &s;aid former Proclamation to &s;tand in full force and vigour, in the hail Heads, Points, and Articles thereof, and Ordains the &s;ame to be put to Execution with all Diligence, in &s;o far as the &s;ame is not hereby altered or innovat. And to the effect, Our VVill and Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known. OUR VVILL IS, and VVe charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontenent the&s;e our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the whole remanent Head-burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make open Proclamation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend Ignorance, and Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the twenty ninth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of Our Reign the fifth year, 1693.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplimentum Signeti.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT.</HI>
Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave King <HI>VVilliam</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>Anno Dom.</HI> 1693.</P>
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