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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140715.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>BY HIS HIGHNES COUNCILL IN SCOTLAND, For the GOVERNMENT thereof: A DECLARATION, for putting in Execution the Laws in force again&s;t Je&s;uites, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, and Traficking-Papi&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the common De&s;ign and Practice of Ie&s;uites, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, and Trafic|king Papi&s;ts, to &s;educe the People of <HI>Scotland</HI> from the true Religion publickly profe&s;t in this Nation; And al&s;o to withdraw them from their due obedience to their Su|pream Magi&s;trate, and to &s;tir up Sedition and Ho&s;tility within this Country, hath cau&s;ed divers good Laws to be made again&s;t Ie&s;uites, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, and Tra|ficking Papi&s;ts, which neverthele&s;s, for want of due execution, have been rendered ineffectual in reference to the good ends thereby intended; which hath encouraged and emboldened many Ie|&s;uites, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, and Traficking Papi&s;ts, to re&s;ort into this Nation, and to continue therein, in order to their carrying on the fore-mentioned De&s;ign; Which the &s;aid Council (with trouble and grief) taking notice of, They, in di&s;charge of their duty, do hereby Declare, That &s;uch Ie&s;uites, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, and Traficking-Papi&s;ts who &s;hall after the Twentieth day of <HI>April</HI> next en&s;uing, in the year <HI>1656.</HI> be found in any part of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or the I&s;les thereunto belonging, and apprehended, and be thereof duly convicted, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t according to the Laws of this Nation: And the &s;aid Council require all whom it doth, or &s;hall concern, That they carefully put in Execution the &s;aid Laws and Statutes, again&s;t all &s;uch Ie&s;uites, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, and Traficking-Papi&s;ts, and every of them re&s;pectively.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Edinburgh</HI>
<DATE>the One and twentieth day of <HI>March, 1655/6.</HI></DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Signed in the Name, and by Order of the Council. <HI>BROGHILL,</HI> Pre&s;ident.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Friday the 21. day of <HI>March,</HI> 1655/6.</DATE> At his Highne&s;s Council in EDINBURGH,</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered, That the above Declaration be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>EMANUEL DOWNING,</HI> Cl. of the Council.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> in <HI>Hart&s;</HI>-Clo&s;e, over again&s;t the Trone-Church, 1656.</P>
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