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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Declaring Mr. <HI>Richard Cameron,</HI> and others, Rebels and Traitors, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_CHARLES, by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> defender of the Faith,</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Our Lyon King at Armes, and his Brethren, Heraulds, Macers, 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>Fora&s;much, as Mr. <HI>Richard Cameron, Cameron</HI> his brother, Mr. <HI>Thomas Douglas,</HI> Mr. <HI>Donald Cargill,</HI> and others their accomplices&punc; Have now at la&s;t &s;haken off all re&s;pect to Our Laws, and their allegeance it &s;elf to Us their undoubted Soveraign, and have ente|red into expre&s;s and open Combinations and Covenants, wherein they mo&s;t Sacrilegiou&s;ly do by a &s;olemn Oath, In|gage them&s;elves to di&s;own Us and Our Authority, and declare it not only lawfull, but a Chri&s;tian duty upon all Our Subjects to ri&s;e in Arms again&s;t Us, and to murther &s;uch as are in any Tru&s;t or Imployment under Us, declaring Us an U&s;urper, and that none &s;hould obey them who <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">re in Authority under Us, but &s;uch as would obey the Devil and his Vicegerents, and that they will cha&s;e and &s;et up Magi&s;trates who &s;hall govern them according to the Judicial Law of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and not according to the Laws made by Us or any of Our Predece&s;sors: Which Covenant, with &s;everal mo&s;t Impious, Scandalous, and Seditious Pamphlets, were taken from the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Donald Cargil,</HI> (one of their
P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">achers) at the <HI>Queens-Ferry</HI> upon the third day of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant. Likeas, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Richard Cameron,</HI> and his brother, and Mr. <HI>Thomas Douglas,</HI> accompani|ed with &s;everal Ruffians, and particularly <HI>Iohn Vallang,</HI> brother in Law to <HI>Robert Park<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> one of the Bailiffs of <HI>Sanquhar, Daniel Mackmitchel</HI> in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">gfoot, Thomas Campbel</HI> &s;on to <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word">, <HI>Campbel</HI> late of <HI>Dalblair</HI> in <HI>Auchinleck</HI> Paroch, <HI>Iohn M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">adie</HI> brother to the Miller at <HI>Cubs-Milne</HI> in the &s;ame Paroch, <HI>Iohn Fowller,</HI> &s;ometimes &s;ervant to the decea&s;t <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Lind&s;ay</HI> of <HI>Covingtown, Patrick Gemill</HI> &s;on in Law to <HI>Charles Logan,</HI> Me&s;senger at <HI>Cumnock-</HI>maines, <HI>James Stewart</HI> &s;on to <HI>Archibald Stewart</HI> at <HI>Cal&s;ey-end,</HI> near to the Earl of <HI>Galloway's</HI> Hou&s;e, <HI>Alexander Gordown</HI> called of <HI>Kil&s;ture, Francis John&s;toun</HI> Merchant in <HI>Clid&s;dale, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> Creichtown,</HI> &s;on to <HI>Robert Creichtown</HI> of <HI>Achtitinch</HI> now in <HI>Water-head,</HI> and others to the number of twenty one per&s;ons, did upon the twenty two of <HI>June,</HI> enter within the Burgh of <HI>Sanquhar,</HI> with drawn Swords and Pi&s;tols in their hands, and after a &s;olemn proce&s;&s;ion through the Town, did draw up at the cro&s;s, and publi&s;hed and affixed upon the Cro&s;s and other publick places thereof, a mo&s;t Trea&s;onable and unparralelled Paper, di&s;owning Us to be their King, and defaming Us with the very &s;ame names and de&s;ignations u&s;ed by the U&s;urpers in their greate&s;t rage after they had murthered the King, our Royal and ble&s;sed Father of Eternal Memory, and overturned all the fundamental Laws and Rights belonging to Us and Our Subjects, who&s;e principles and Foot-&s;teps they exactly renew and follow; The reading and affixing of which Proclamation by the&s;e Traitors and Rebels being clearly proved to Our Privy Council by witne&s;ses upon Oath; And it being notour and undeniable, that the&s;e Traitors, to the number of &s;eventy, or thereby, continue in Armes committing all manner of Outrages and In&s;olencies. We have therefore, with advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit, as u&s;e is in &s;uch ca&s;es, to declare the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Richard Cameron, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> Cameron</HI> his brother, Mr. <HI>Thomas Dow|glas,</HI> Mr. <HI>Donald Cargill, Iohn Vallang, Daniel Mackmitchel, Thomas Campbel, John Mudy, Patrick Gemill, James Stewart, Alexander Gordown, Francis John|&s;town</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Creichtown,</HI> open and notorious Traitors and Rebels again&s;t Us and Our Authority, impowering and requiring all Our good Subjects, to treat them as &s;uch; And particularly, We hereby require and command all Our good Subjects, as they will be an&s;werable upon their Allegeance, to to do their outmo&s;t diligence to di&s;cover the &s;aids Traitors, and to give timous Intimation with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed, in ca&s;e they be not able to &s;eize and ap|prehend them them&s;elves, to the neare&s;t Officer of Our &s;tanding Forces, (if any be within twelve Miles) and if none be within the &s;aid di&s;tance, to the next Magi&s;trate, commanding all per&s;ons to concur with Our Forces for apprehending the &s;aid Traitors. And to the effect, the harbourers and re&s;setters, or tho&s;e who neglect to di&s;cover them, may be known and puni&s;hed, We do require the hail Heretors, or their Bailiffs or Chamberlands in ca&s;e of the Heretors ab&s;ence, to cau&s;e call and cite before them in a Court, all per&s;ons living upon their re&s;pective Lands, Men or Women above the age of &s;ixteen years, in all the Paroches underwritten, <HI>viz. Carsfern, Balmaclellan, Dalry, Kells, Barr</HI> in <HI>Carrick,</HI> the <HI>Moor Kirk</HI> of <HI>Kyle, Galstown, Lowdon-Tindergarth, Streven, Le&s;mehage, Sanquher, Irongray, Glencairn, Cumnock, Monigaff, and Penningham,</HI> upon the &s;econd and la&s;t Tuedayes of <HI>July</HI> and <HI>August</HI> next: And to take the Oaths of all the &s;aids per&s;ons living upon the re&s;pective Lands whether any of the&s;e Traitors fore&s;aid were in that Paroch; and where and when; and left they may pretend not to know the &s;aids Traitors, that they di&s;cover upon Oath any skulking or lurking per&s;ons which they have known to have been in that Paroch after the Publication hereof in the re&s;pective Shires, and the Heretors or their Bailiffs and Chamberlands in their ab|&s;ence, to give an account of their diligence in Writing, within eight dayes after each Dyet fore&s;aid, to the Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailiffs of Regalities, Magi|&s;trats of Burghs, and &s;hall adjoyn thereto the following Declaration upon Oath.</P>
<P><Q><HI>I <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> do &s;olemnly &s;wear by the Eternal God, that I have truly and faithfully examined upon Oath, the whole Per&s;ons; Men and Women living upon my Lands, who compeared, who are above the age of &s;ixteen Years, whereof I am Heretor, Bailiff, or Chamberlain, within the Paroch of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> and that I cau&s;ed my Officers give Execution upon Oath, that he did cite at the &s;aids Per&s;ons to the fore&s;aids Diets, and have given as account of the Per&s;ons who compeared not, or compearing, refu&s;ed to give Oath.</HI></Q> And in ca&s;e the &s;aids Traitors &s;hould leave and di&s;haunt the above<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">med Paroches, and repair to other P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">chs or places, that immediatly upon notice from the Leiutenant General, or any authori&s;ed by him to the Sheriffs and other Magi&s;trates of the re&s;pective Burghs, where from time to time they re&s;ort, the &s;aids Magi&s;trats are ordained to make intimation to the Hereors of their Bailiffs, or their Chamberlains in their ab&s;ence, to the end they may make the &s;ame enquiry after the &s;ame way and method, and to return an account of their diligence within two Moneths after &s;uch Intimation from the Leintenant General as afore&s;aid; with certification to &s;uch as compear not &amp; Depone, &s;hall be holden and repute as connivers at and concealers, of the &s;aids Traitors; and that the Heretors, or in their ab&s;eace their Balilffs &amp; Chamberlains who &s;hall not return their accounts to the &s;aid re&s;pective Magi&s;trats as afore&s;aid or their Deputs, and the faid Magi&s;trats who &s;hall not return their accounts to Our Council the fir&s;t Council day in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> for their diligence in <HI>July,</HI> and the fir&s;t Council day of <HI>September</HI> for their diligence in <HI>August,</HI> &s;hall be proceeded a|gain&s;t with all rigor, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">s and concealers of the &s;aids Traitors. And further, We do hereby require and command all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailiffs of Regalities, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs where the &s;aids Traitors u&s;e to haunt or re&s;ort, to rai&s;e &s;uch per&s;ons in their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, as they &s;hall find nece&s;&s;ar for that Service, for whom they will be an&s;werable; and that the Sheriffs and other Magi&s;trats fore&s;aids, require the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Militia, in their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions: And to &s;earch for take and apprehend the &s;aids Traitors in their re&s;pective bounds, and in ca&s;e they flye forth thereof, to adverti&s;e the Neighbouring, Sheriffs, and other Magi&s;trats who are appointed to do the like diligence con|form to the 144. <HI>Act</HI> 12. <HI>Par.</HI> K. <HI>Ja.</HI> 6. And if in pur&s;ute of the &s;aids Traitors they re&s;i&s;ting to be taken, any of Our &s;aids Magi&s;trats, or other Our good Subjects &s;hall happen to kill or mutilat them, or any of them. We do hereby declare that they nor none a&s;&s;i&s;ting them &s;hall ever be called in que&s;tion, or pur&s;ued Civilly or Criminally therefore in time coming, but that the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;hall be as sufficient for their exoneration, as if they had Our &s;pecial Re|mi&s;&s;ion, and that their doing thereof &s;hall be repute good and acceptable &s;ervice done to Us. And for the better encouragement of &s;uch as &s;hall apprehend and bring in the &s;aids Traitors dead or alive, the Apprehender of Mr. <HI>Richard Cameron,</HI> &s;hall, as a reward, have five thou&s;and Merks; and for Mr. <HI>Thomas Dowglas, M. Donald Cargil,</HI> and for the &s;aid <HI><GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> Cameron,</HI> brother to M. <HI>Richard,</HI> who re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d and a&s;&s;ist the &s;aid Traiterous Declaration at <HI>Sanquhar,</HI> three thou|&s;and Merks for each of them, and one thou&s;and Merks for each one of the re&s;t of the Traitors abovementioned, to be in&s;tantly payed to them by the Commi&s;&s;oners of our The&s;auary. And ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the remnant head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom on the &s;outh &s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> and other places needful, by the Sheriffs of the re&s;pe|ctive Shires fore&s;aid, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the last day of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty and of Our Reign the thirty two Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii, WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cl. Sti. Concil</SIGNED><LB>
God Save 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 Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1680.</P>
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