JAMES by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, To Our Lyon, King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Purſevants, Meſſengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and ſeverally, ſpecially conſtitute, Greeting: Foraſmuch, As We being obliged by the vaſt Preparations of the States of Holland, to put this Our Antient Kingdom in a condition of Defence, as well for the Securing of Our Own Honour, as the Protecting the Lives and Eſtates of all Our Leidge People; Therefore, We with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do hereby peremptorly Require and Command, the whole Heretors, Liferenters, and Wodſetters, and the Factors and Chamberlains of ſuch as are Minors, out of the Kingdom, or otherwiſe neceſſarily abſent, To Conveen with their beſt Horſes and Arms, and to be Rendezvouzed, under the Command, and at the reſpective Places and Diets aftermentioned, viz. The Shire of Nithiſdale and Stewartry of Annandale, at the Town of Dumfreis, the fifteenth of October inſtant, under the Command of the Duke of Queensberry; The Shire of Wigtoun, the ſaid Day at Dumfreis, under the Command of the Earl of Galloway, and in his abſence the Laird of Logan; the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Viſcount of Kenmure, or the Laird of Lagg; The Bailliary of Cunninghame, the ſaid Day at Glaſgow, under the Command of the Lord Montgomery; The Bailliaries of Kile and Carrict, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Earl of Caſſils; The Shire of Renfrew, at the ſaid Town, the twelfth day of October inſtant, under the Command of the Earl of Dundonald; The Shire of Lanerk, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Duke of Hamilton, and in his abſence, Lord John Hamilton his Son; The Shire of Dumbartoun, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Earl of Glencairn; The Shire of Tiviotdale, at Edinburgh, the tenth Day of October inſtant, under the Command of the Earl of Lothian and the Lord Newbottle; The Shire of Berwick, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of Sir Archibald Cockburn of Lantoun Barronet; The Shires of Forrest and Peebles, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Laird of Drumelzier; The Shire of Eaſt-Lothian, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Lord Yeſter; The Shire of Mid-Lothian, the ſaid Day and Place, under the Command of the Earl of Lauderdale; The Shires of Weſt-Lothian, Stirling and Clackmannan, at Stirling, the ſaid tenth day inſtant, under the Command of the Earl of Mar; The Shires of Fife and Kinroſs, the ſaid Day, at the Town of Burnt-Iſland, under the Command of the Earl of Belcarras; The Weſtern Diviſion of Perth-ſhire, at Stirling, the foreſaid tenth inſtant, under the Command of David Viſcount of Stormonth; The Eaſtern diviſion of that Shire, the foreſaid day and place, under the Command of the Lord Murray: The Shire of Forfar, at the Burgh of Strivling, the twelfth inſtant, under the Command of the Earl of Southesk: The Shire of Merns, at the Burgh of Perth, the fifteenth inſtant, under the Command of the Lord Keith: Mariſhals part of Aberdene, at Brichen or Forfar, the fifteenth inſtant, under the Command of the Earl of Kintore: The reſt of the Shire of Aberdene, with the Shire of Bamff, the ſaid day and place, under the Command of the Duke of Gordon: All betwixt Spey and Neſs, at the Burgh of Brichen, the twentieth ſecond inſtant under the Command of the Lord Duffus: The Shires of Roſs and Caithneſs, at the Burgh of Elgin, the twenty fourth inſtant, under the Command of the Maſter of Tarbat: And hereby Requires and Commands the Earl of Caithneſs to Levy two hundreth Foot, out of the Shire of Caithneſs, in place of the Militia of the ſaid Shire, ſufficiently Armed and provided with fourteen days Loan, which is to be proportionably laid on by the Commiſſioners of Supply of the ſaid Shire, upon all perſons lyable in Outreik of the Militia, and with theſe to march to the head of Lochneſs, betwixt and the twenty ninth inſtant: As likewiſe, Requires and Commands the Lord Doun, forthwith to Rendezvous the Foot-Militia, betwixt Spey and Neſs, and to make a Detatchment of the third part thereof, provided with fourteen days Loan, which is to be impoſed and proportioned upon theſe lyable in manner above-expreſt, and with theſe to march to Lochneſs, betwixt and the twenty ninth inſtant. As likewiſe, Requires the Lord Strathnaver to Levy two hundreth men in place of the Militia of Sutherland, and to March forthwith to the head of Lochneſs, with fourteen days Loan, which is to be laid on and proportioned on the ſaid Shire, in manner above-mentioned; And this beſides and without prejudice to the proportions of Men, formerly Ordered by Our Council, to be Rendezvouzed, and Levied by thoſe of Our Nobility and Gentry, having intereſt in Our Highlands; with Certification to ſuch as ſhall fail herein, they ſhall be puniſhed as abſents from Our Hoſt, conform to Our Laws and Acts of Parliament. And Ordains all the ſaids Commanders, and all under their reſpective Commands, to remain at the reſpective above-mentioned places, till further Order from Our Council. And for the ſecurity of all perſons concerned in this Our Service, We Do hereby by vertue of Our Royal Prerogative, Diſcharge all perſonal Execution for any civil Cauſe or Debt, againſt any perſon, who comes out to Our Hoſt, in obedience to this Our Royal Command, and that during their attending the ſame: And to the end Our Pleaſure in the Premiſſes may be made publick and 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 whole remnant Mercat-Croſſes of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there, in Our Royal Name and Authority, make open Proclamation of the Premiſſes, that all perſons concerned may have notice thereof, and give punctual and exact obedience thereto, as they will be anſwerable at their higheſt peril.