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By the KING A PROCLAMATION, For quieting the Post-Master General, his Deputies and Assigns in the Exe­cution of his Office.

JAMES R.

WHereas Our dearly beloved Brother the late King was pleased by His Proclamations to signifie His Pleasure for exempting from bearing Offices and quartering of Souldiers His Post-Master General and all Inn-keepers, Victuallers and other Persons, who were actually Post-Masters, Masters of the Letter Office or Pacquet-Boats, and Employed by the Post-Master General or his Deputy in the Grand Letter Office in London; We purposing to continue the said Priviledges and Exemp­tions, which We conceive to be for Our Service, are graciously pleased, and do accordingly hereby Declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That no Souldier, Horse, Foot, or Dragoons be Quartered in the House of any Inn-keeper, Victualler, or other person, who is or shall be actually a Post-Master, Master of the Letter Office or Pacquet-Boats, and Employed by Our Post-Master General for the time being, or his Deputy, or some other Person or Persons Commissionated by Us for the Management of the Office or Place of Post-Master General, by Vertue of some Deputation or Commission from Our Post-Master General or his Deputy, or such other Person, who shall be therein Employed by Us. And that if any such. Souldiers be already Quartered upon any such Person as aforesaid they be forthwith Removed from his House to some other place. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That Our Post-Master General for the time being, his Deputies, Servants, and Assigns shall be from henceforth Freed and Exempted and Discharged off and from Serving upon all Juries, In­quests, Musters or any other publick Employments or Attendances that may any way Impede, Retard, or Pre­judice the Execution of his or their Duty and Service in the said Office, and from all Pains and Penalties, which he, they, or any of them might or may incur for or by reason of his or their Omission or Refusal to perform the said Employments or any of them. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That all our officers both Civil and Military do take Notice here of and Conform thereunto accordingly.

Given at Our Court at Windsor the Seventh day of September 1685. In the first Year of Our Reign.

GOD save the KING.

Edinburgh, Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1685.

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