A proclamation for securing the peace of the High-Lands

A proclamation for securing the peace of the High-Lands

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DIEV ET MON DROIT

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

A PROCLAMATION, For Securing the Peace of the High-lands.

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JAMES by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith;

To the Macers of Our Privy Council, or Meſſengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and ſeverally, ſpecially Conſtitute, Greeting:

Foraſmuch as we having by Our late Proclamamation of the twentieth Day of July laſt by-paſt, renewed a Commiſſion granted by Our Deareſt and Royal Brother of ever Bleſſed Memory, of the date the ninth day of Auguſt, 1682. years, to the Commiſſioners therein mentioned, and for the Diſtricts therein ſpecified, for ſeeing to the Peace of the Highlands, And whereas we are informed, that notwithſtanding of the ſaid Commiſſion, and Our ſaid Proclamation, Thieves, Sorners and Robbers, do continue ſtill to infeſt, Rob, ſpoil and trouble Our People there, And being reſolved that they ſhould be brought to Condign Punniſhment, both for bygones, and in time coming: We with advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby Require and Command Our Commſſioners for the Diſtrict of Caithneſs and Sutherland, to meet at Lochnaver the firſt day of October next; and theſe for the Diſtrict of the Shires of Roſs, Invernes, Cromarty, Nairn and Elgin, to meet at the head of Lochneſs the ſaid firſt day of October next; Theſe for the Diſtrict of the Shires of Bamff, Aberdeen, Kincardin and Forfar, to meet at Kincardin of Neil, the twenty ſecond day of September Inſtant; and theſe of the Diſtrict of the Shires of Perth, Stirling, Dumbartoun and Argile, to meet at the Kirk of Balquhidder, the ſaid twentieth ſecond day of September Inſtant: And then and there to affix and hold Courts, Call and conveen before them reſpectively, all Perſons ſuſpect, or that ſhall be ſuſpect guilty of any of the Wrongs, Thefts, Robberies, Depredations, or any other Crimes mentioned in the ſaid Commiſſion, and Our ſaid late Proclamation, and to proceed againſt and punniſh them according to our Laws, and as is fully mentioned in the ſaid Commiſſion and Proclamation; Declaring hereby, that the Perſons guilty of the ſaids Crimes, are not to be understood to be comprehended within our late Act of Indemnity, as to reſtoring of private Damages, Loſſes and Injuries; but that Our ſaids Commiſſioners, may proceed againſt and Punniſh them as ſaid is: And further, we hereby Impower and Authorize Our ſaids Commiſſioners, in their Diſtricts reſpective (after the ſaid Firſt day of meeting) To appoint their own Dyets, and places of meeting thereafter, from time to time, as they ſhall find moſt convenient for Our Service, and the Peace of the Highlands, and therein to Do, and Act every manner of way, conform to the ſaid Commiſſion, and Our Prolcamation following thereupon, and the Laws, and Acts of Parliament of this Our Realm, Promitten to hold firm and ſtable, &c. And We hereby Require and Command all Our Sheriffs, and Our other Magiſtrats within the ſaids Diſtricts reſpective, to be concurring and aſſiſting to Our ſaids Commiſſioners in the Premiſſes, as they will anſwer at their higehſt Peril. And that Our Pleaſure herein may be known, Our Will is, and We Charge you ſtrictly and Command, that incontinent theſe Our Letters ſeen, ye paſs to Our Mercat-Croſs of Edinburgh, and Mercat-Croſſes of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of Caithneſs, Sutherland, Inverneſs, Cromarty, Nairn, Elgin Bamff, Aberdeen, Kincardin, Forfar, Perth, Dumbartoun, Stirling, Argile Terbet, and other places needfull, and there, in Our Royal Name and Authority, make Publication of Our Pleaſure in the Premiſſes; And We hereby Require the Sheriffs, and other Magiſtrats of the reſpective Shires foreſaids, to cauſe this Our Proclamation to be read and affixed at the ſeveral Paroch-kirk-doors upon the Firſt Lords Day, after the ſame comes to their hands, and after Divine Worhip, beſides their cauſing publiſh the ſame at the Mercat Croſſes aforeſaid, as they will be anſwerable.

Given under Our Signet, at Edingburgh, the Third day of September, 1685. And of Our Reign the Firſt Year.

Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. WILL. PATERSON, Cls. Sti. Concilii

GOD Save the KING.

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Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderſon, Printer to His moſt Sacred Majeſty, Anno DOM, 1685.

This may be Re-Printed by George Croom, at the Blue-Ball in Thomes-ſtreet, over againſt Baynard's Caſtle.

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A proclamation for securing the peace of the High-Lands

England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)

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1685

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