A proclamation requiring all heretors and free-holders, and militia of the Kingdom of Scotland to be in a readiness to come out in their best arms and provided (upon advertisement) for His Majesties service

A proclamation requiring all heretors and free-holders, and militia of the Kingdom of Scotland to be in a readiness to come out in their best arms and provided (upon advertisement) for His Majesties service

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DIEV ET MON DROIT

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

A PROCLAMATION Requiring all the Heretors and Free-holders, and Militia of the Kingdom of Scotland to be in a readineſs to come out in their beſt Arms and provided (upon Advertiſement) for His Majeſties Service.

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

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

Foraſmuch as we being reſolved that in the preſent exigence of Affairs, all Our Subjects, and particularly Heretors and Free-holders, and Our Militia, ſhould be in a readineſs, in Defence of Us and Our Government, Do therefore, with Advice of Our Privy Coucil, hereby peremptorily Require and Command all Heretors and Freeholders within this Our Realm, above one hundred pounds Scots valued yearly Rent, to be in a Readineſs, ſufficiently Armed and Provided to come out on Horſe-back, with their Followers and Servants, and with twenty Dayes Proviſion, to attend Our Army, on twenty four hours Advertiſement, and to March and obey ſuch Orders as they ſhall recieve from Our Council, or one of Our general Officers, and herein they are not to fail, as they will Anſwer at their higheſt Peril, And under the Pains and Certifications appointed by the Laws of this Kingdom, againſt Abſents from Our Hoſt: and that neither the ſaid Heretors and Free-holders, nor theſe concerned in the Out-reik of Our Militia, may pretend excuſe, either as to the want of Arms or Amunition or ſuch Warlike Proviſions, We hereby allow them to be readily furniſhed therewith, forth of the Magazine of Our Caſtle of Edinburgh, and Our other Magazines, at the ordinary Rates; Declaring, that all ſuch as ſhall not be ſufficiently Armed and provided as ſaid is, that they ſhall be holden and repute as Abſents from Our Hoſt, and be proceeded againſt and puniſhed accordingly; And We, but prejudice of the generality aforeſaid, being reſolved that the Hereitors and Free-holders of the Shiers underwritten, in place of the Militia Horſe ſhould come out, under the Command of the perſons following, viz. Theſe of the Shires of Roſs, Southerland and Caithneſs, under the Command of the Earl of Caithneſs; Theſe of the Earl of Seafort, and Lovats part of Inverneſs Shire, under the Command of the Lord Lovat's Tutors or Factors: Theſe of the Shires of Elgine, Nairn, and the other part of Inverneſs Shire, under the Command of the Lord Duffus: Theſe of the Shire of Aberdene, not being Mariſchals part, and the Shire of Bamff, Under the Command of the Duke of Gordon: Theſe of the Shire of Kinnardin and Mariſchals part of Aberdene, under the Command of the Earl of Kintor, or the Lord Inverary his Son: Theſe of the Shire of Perth under the Command of the Lord Marqueſs of Athol, Lord Privy-Seal, (who is alſo conform to a Commiſſion of Lieutenency, for the Shires of Argile, and Tarbot under Our Royal Hand, Dated at White-hall the fourth Inſtant, to Call out all the ſencible Men in the Shires of Perth, Argile and Tarbot, to his aſſiſtance, in proſecution thereof:) Theſe of the Shire of Forfar, under the Command of the Earl of Southesk, or the Lord Carnagy his Son: Theſe of the Shires of Fife and Kinroffe, under the Command of Sir Charles Halket of Pitſirrin: Theſe of the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan, under the Command of William Livingſton of Kilſyth: Theſe of the Shire of Roxburgh, under the Command of the Earl of Lothain: Theſe of the Shire of Linlithgow, under the Command ot the Earl of Linlithgow: Theſe of the Shire of Peebles, under the Command of the Laird of Drumelzier: Theſe of the Shire of Mid-Lothian, under the Command of the Earl of Lauderdale: Theſe of the Shire of Eaſt-Lothian under the Command of the Lord Yeſter: And theſe of the Shire of Berwick, under the Command of the Laird of Langtoun Elder: As alſo, that the Militia Regiments of Foot, of the Shires under-written, ſhould come out under the Command of their Collonels Reſpective, viz. The Militia Regiment of the Shire of Forfar, under the Cammand of the Earl of Strathmore: That Malitia Regiment of the Shire of Perth, belonging to the Lord Chancellor, under the Command of his Lieutenant Collonel: Theſe of the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan, under Command of the Lord Elphingſtoun: The Militia Regiments of the Shires of Linlithgow and Peebles, under Command of the Duke Hamilton: The Malitia Regiment of the Shire of Berwick, under the Command of the Earl of Home: The Militia Regiment of the Shire of Mid-Lothian, under the Command of the Lord Collingtoun: The Militia Regiment of the Shire of Eaſt-Lothian, under the Command of the Earl of Wintoun: And the Regiment of the Town of Edinburgh, under the Command of the Lord Provoſt of Edenburgh. We hereby require and Command the ſaid Heretors and Free-holders, and Malitia Regiments forſaid, to be in a readineſs to Rendezvous, or March as they ſhall be Required by their ſaid Commanders, or Collonels reſpective, The Militia being to Rendezvouz at the ordinary place for the firſt Diet upon the nineteenth of May inſtant, and the Heretors and Free-holders, as ſhall be appointed by their Commanders, they being alwayes Armed and provided in manner, and under Cirtifications above-written. And that this our Pleaſure may be known: Our Will is, and We Charge you ſtrictly and Command, that incontinent, theſe Our Letters ſeen, ye paſs to the Mercat Croſs of Edinburgh, and all other Mercat Croſſes of the Head Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there by open Proclamation, in Our Name and Authority, make publication of the Promiſſes, that all perſons concerned may have notice thereof, and give due and exact Obedience thereto.

Given under our Signet at Edinburgh, the eleventh day of May, 1685. And of Our Reign, the firſt year.

Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. COL. MACKENZIE, Cls. Sti. Concilii.

GOD ſave the KING.

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Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderſon, Printer to the Kings moſt Sacred Majeſty, Anno DOM. 1685. And Reprinted at London, by George Croom, at the Sign of the Blue-Ball in Thames-ſtreet, over againſt Baynard's-Caſtle.

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A proclamation requiring all heretors and free-holders, and militia of the Kingdom of Scotland to be in a readiness to come out in their best arms and provided (upon advertisement) for His Majesties service

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

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1685

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Wing S1981

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— A proclamation requiring all heretors and free-holders, and militia of the Kingdom of Scotland to be in a readiness to come out in their best arms and provided (upon advertisement) for His Majesties service, England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II).

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Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ... ;. by George Croom ...,. Edinburgh :, reprinted at London :: 1685.. (Reproductions of originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and Bodleian Library.) (Broadside.) (At end of text:" Given under our signet at Edinburgh, the eleventh day of May, 1685.") (Signed: Col. Mackenzie.) (Item at reel 962:9 identified as Wing J368C (number cancelled).)

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