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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, Again&s;t Papi&s;ts.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the Twentieth day of <HI>March,</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Meeting of E&s;tates of this Kingdom, Con&s;idering the Danger and Hazard the Religion, Peace, and Quiet of the Kingdom is in, by the Growth, and Increa&s;e of <HI>Popery,</HI> and <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> of late, Occa&s;ioned by the Imploying them in Places of greate&s;t Tru&s;t within the Kingdom; And continuing them in Places, and Offices Civil and Military, and allowing them to Exerci&s;e the &s;ame als freely in all re&s;pects, as Prote&s;tants, again&s;t the &s;tanding Laws of the Kingdom. Have thought fit to Di&s;charge, and hereby Di&s;charges, all Papi&s;ts from Exerci|&s;ing any Civil or Military Offices within this Kingdom, and from Exerci&s;ing as Sheriffs of Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries, Bailies of Regalities, Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ce, Collonels, Lieutenant-Collonels, Captains of Hor&s;e, and all other Officers in the Militia, or carrying Arms therein, under the Pains and Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament. And for the further Security of the Publict Peace and Quiet, they Require and Command all Papi&s;ts within the Kingdom, of what&s;oever Rank or Condition, to deliver up their Arms (excepting Gentlemen, their ordinary wearing Swords) to the Sheriffs, Stewarts, Lords, or Bailies of Regalities, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, within who&s;e Ju|ri&s;diction they live, <HI>viz.</HI> Tho&s;e on the South &s;ide of the Water of <HI>Esk,</HI> within &s;ix days after Publication hereof, at the Mercat Cro&s;s of the Head-Burgh of the Shire: And the&s;e on the North-&s;ide of the &s;aid Water, within ten days after the &s;ame. Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall be found to have any Arms after the days fore&s;aid <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;,</HI> They &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t with all rigour, for their Contempt and Di&s;obedience: And Ordains and Requires the &s;aids Sheriffs, and othe Magi&s;irats for&s;aid, or in ca&s;e of their negligence, the Collonels or Lieutenant-Collonels of the Militia Foot, or Captains of Hor&s;e, to &s;earch for, and &s;eize upon any Arms which they &s;hall be Informed to be kept up undelivered, belonging to Papi&s;ts, in any Hou&s;es or Places &s;u&s;pected, and to &s;ecure the &s;ame, and to return an exact Account of their diligence, betwixt and the dayes following, <HI>viz.</HI> The&s;e on this &s;ide of <HI>Esk,</HI> betwixt and the tenth day of <HI>April</HI> next, and the&s;e be-north the &s;ame, betwixt and the twentieth day of the &s;ame Moneth of <HI>April,</HI> as they will be an&s;werable on their highe&s;t Peril. And the &s;aid E&s;tates do Command and Charge all Papi&s;ts, not being Inhabitants of the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> or any place adjacent thereto, to remove ten Miles from the &s;aid Town, or at lea&s;t, to their re&s;pective Dwelling-Hou&s;es, within fourty eight hours after publication hereof, under all highe&s;t pains; And Grants Order and Warrand to Heraulds, Macers, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Sheriffs in that part, to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">burgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the &s;everal Head-Burghs of the Shires, and make publica|tion hereof in the u&s;ual manner, that none may pretend ignorance.  Extracted out of the Records of the Meeting of E&s;tates, by me</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>RO. MACKEN&YOGH;IE,</HI> Cls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>EDINBURGH, Printed in the Year 1689.</P>
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