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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>BY THE COMMISSIONERS For Vi&s;iting the UNIVERSITIES, COLLEDGES, and SCHOOLES of Learning in SCOTLAND.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas by our former Proclamation, bearing date the &s;econd day of <HI>Au|gu&s;t,</HI> 1653. All Mini&s;ters, and others are prohibited to Pray for, or, Preach up the Intere&s;t of the pretended King of <HI>Scotland;</HI> And, after &s;o long waiting with patience, we hoped at la&s;t to have &s;een the peaceable fruits of obedience to the pre&s;ent Government; But in &s;tead thereof, finding that &s;e|verall Mini&s;ters in this Nation, continue to keep the Intere&s;t of <HI>Charles Stuart</HI> alive in the hearts of the people, by putting them in minde of him in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ir daily publick Prayers and Preaching, (whom God hath &s;ignally rejected from having any authority over the Subjects of this Common wealth) whereby the hands of Ma|lignants have been &s;trengthened, expence and trouble to this Commonwealth much increa&s;ed, many peaceable &s;pirits in danger to be di&s;-compo&s;ed, and their hearts drawn off from this pre&s;ent Government: VVe do therefore hereby (in the name of his Highne&s;s the <HI>Lord Protector</HI> of this Common-wealth) Prohibit all, and every per&s;on in this Nation, from, and after the day of the Publication hereof, to pay, or cau&s;e to be paid any manner of Stipend, Maintenance, or Arears thereof to any &s;uch Mini&s;ter as hath already, or &s;hall hereafter, by praying for the pretended King contravene and contemn our afore&s;aid Proclamation: And of this we require all manner of per&s;ons to take notice, as they will avoide the Cen&s;ure of Contemnours of the pre&s;ent Authority, or would not incur &s;uch penalty as the Commi&s;sioners &s;hall think fit. And, to the end that none may pretend ignorance hereof, VVe do hereby require all Sheriffs in this Nation, to cau&s;e this our Order to be forth|with Publi&s;hed and Proclaimed within the chief Mercat-Towns, or Burroughs within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, and that care be taken that it be &s;ent to the &s;e|verall pari&s;hes and Burroughs, to be there publickly affixed on the dores of their Churches, and Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under our hands at</HI> Dalkieth <DATE>the 26. <HI>of</HI> March, 1655.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>George Monck. E. Mo&s;ley. Hen. Goodere. Ed. Syler.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Edinburgh, Anno Dom.</HI> 1655</P>
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