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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> Reviving and Renning a former Proclamation <HI>again&s;t Slanderers</HI> and <HI>Lee&s;ing-makers.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_JAMES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To 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>Whereas We judge it a matter of great Importance to Our Service, that Our late Proclamation <HI>Again&s;t Lee&s;ing-makers</HI> &amp;c. dated the 17 of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, and &s;ubjoyned to this Our Proclamation, &s;hould be publi&s;hed in the mo&s;t effectual method for rendring the &s;ame known to the Subjects of this Our Kingdom, &s;o as none of them may hereafter pretend Ignorance; We therefore with Advice of Our Privy Council, Require the &s;everal Bi&s;hops of this Our Kingdom, to Injoyn and Command all and &s;undry the Mini&s;ters within their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es, to read publickly Our &s;aid Proclamation <HI>again&s;t Lee&s;ing makers,</HI> &amp;c. in their re&s;pective Churches, (which is to be performed by the Mini&s;ters them&s;elves, and not by their Readers, or Clerks) immediatly after ending their Sermons, upon the Lords-day, and that Four times in the Year at lea&s;t, to wit, the Fri&s;t Lords-day of every Three Moneths, Commencing the fir&s;t reading thereof upon the Lords|day being the twenty fourth of <HI>October</HI> next en&s;uing for this Year, and upon the fir&s;t Lords-day of <HI>October</HI> yearly thereafter, and &s;o forth to continue yearly, the fir&s;t Lords-day of every Three Moneths con&s;tantly in time coming, to wit, the &s;aid fir&s;t Lords|day of <HI>October</HI> for the year 1687; after this Year, the fir&s;t Lords-day of <HI>January, April, July</HI> and <HI>October,</HI> until the &s;ame &s;hall be di&s;charged by Us, And that Our Plea&s;ure in the premi&s;&s;es may be known, Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Command, that incontinent, the&s;e Our Lettters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and all other Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and there in Our Royal Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, and of Our &s;aid other Proclamation hereunto &s;ubjoyned, that none may pretend Ignorance thereof, but that all Our Leidges may give due and pun|ctual Obedience thereto, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t Peril: And further, We do hereby &s;trictly Require and Command all Our Sheriffs, immediatly after the&s;e Pre&s;ents come to their Hands, to cau&s;e publi&s;h the &s;ame in manner above-&s;et-down, under &s;uch Pains and Penalties, as We or Our privy Council &s;hall think &s;it to inflict upon them for contempt and neglect of their Duty.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Sixteenth day of <HI>September 1686.</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;econd Year</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>WILL PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Follows the tenor of the above-&s;aid <HI>Proclamation</HI> bereunto appointed to be &s;ubjoyned.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>JAMES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith;</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, 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>Whereas We are Informed, That divers Mini&s;ters, and others, to promote their Seditious De&s;igns, do take upon them in Sermons, and other Di&s;cour&s;es, To Allarm the Peo|ple, and to rai&s;e di&s;like of Our Per&s;on and Government in their Hearts, Defaming and Slandering Our De&s;igns, or at lea&s;t, medling in Our Affairs; All which are highly puni&s;hable, and the puni&s;hments Declared by Our Laws and Acts of Parliament; E&s;pecially by the &s;eventh <HI>Act</HI> of the eighth Parl. of King <HI>James</HI> the Sixth, Our Royal Grand-Father, (of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory) <HI>Cap.</HI> 134 Intituled, <HI>Anent Slanderers of the King, His Progenitors, E&s;tate and Realm</HI>; And of which, in &s;o far as <HI>relates to the&s;e Affairs, The tenor follows</HI>: Fora&s;much as it is under&s;tood to Our Severaign Lord, and his three E&s;tates A&s;&s;embled in this pre&s;ent Parliament, What great harm and inconvenient has fallen in this Realm, chiefly &s;ince the beginning of the Civil Troubles, occurred in the time of His Highne&s;s Minority, through the wicked and licentious, publick and privat Speeches, and antrue Calamnies of divers His Subjects, to the Di&s;dein, Contempt and Reproach of His Maje&s;ty, His Council and Proceedings, and to the di&s;honour and prejudice of His Highne&s;s, His Parents, Progenitors and E&s;tate: Stirring up His Highne&s;s Subjects thereby to Mi&s;liking, Sedition, Unquietne&s;s, and to ca&s;t off their due obedience to His Maje&s;ty, to their evident peril, tin&s;el and de&s;truction; His Highne&s;s continuing always in Love and Clemency toward all His good Subjects, and mo&s;ts willing to &s;eek the &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of them all, Which wilfully, needle&s;s and upon plain malice, after His Highne&s;s Mercy and Pardon, oft-times before granted, has procured to them&s;elves by their I rea&s;onable Deeds, to be cut off as corrupt Members of this Common-well: I herefore it is Statute and Ordained by our Soveraign Lord, and His three E&s;tates in this pre&s;ent Parliament, That none of His Subjects (of what&s;oever Function, Degree, or Quality in time coming) &s;hall pre&s;ume to take upon hand privatly, or pub|lickly in Sermons, Declamations, or familiar Conferences, to utter any fal&s;e, &s;landerous, or untrue Speeches, to the di&s;dain, reproach, and contemp<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> of His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> His Council and Proceedings; or to the di&s;honour, hurt or prejudice of His Higne&s;s, His Parents and Progenetors, or so meddle in the Affairs of His Highne&s;s, and His E&s;tate pre&s;ens, bygone, and in time coming, under the pains contained in the Acts of Parliament, again&s;t makers and tellers f Lee&s;ings: Certifying them that &s;hall be tried Con|traveeners thereof, or that hea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ick &s;landerous Speeches, and reports not the &s;ame with diligence, the &s;aid pains &s;hall be executed again&s;t them with all rigor, in example of others. And to the end that &s;o nece&s;&s;ary and laudable a Law may receive due and punctual obedience; We therefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do here|by Declare, that the Contraveeners hereof any manner of way, &s;hall be examplarly puni&s;hed with all rigor, conform to the pre&s;cript of the &s;aid Statute in all points. And that Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be made publick and known, Our Will is, And We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, That incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;etters &s;een ye pa&s;s to the. Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and all the other Mercat Cro&s;ses of the head Burghs of the Shires of his Kingdom, And there, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of Our Royal Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, that all Our Liedges may have notice thereof, and giveobedience thereto, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Seventeeth day of <HI>June</HI> 1686. And of Our Reign the &s;econd Year</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>COL. M^cKENZIE,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> Anne DOM. 1686.</P>
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