Forasmuch as there can nothing tend more to overturn the Prote­stant Religion, Liberty and Property of the Kingdom in general, nor of every particular person, than the being exposed to the Arbitrary In­sults of Licentious Tumults, who being guided only by blinded Rage, are ready to make a Prey of any whose Estates, or Persons can satisfie their Revenge, or Avarice; Therefore the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Considering the late Execrable Tumults, raised within this City, and the formidable Effects thereof, not only within this City, but that it has spread it self over the Countrey, Have thought fit to Discharge all Tumultuary Meet­ings within this City, or Suburbs, under the highest pains that Law can allow; And as by former Proclamations, so now again, Command and Impower the Magistrats of this City to take all Effectual Courses for Repressing these Tumults, Assuring them, that if they fail there­in, they will Transfer the Judicatures to some other Town, that will be[?] more Loyal and Obedient to Law, and that they will Interpole with His Majesty, that not only the Town and Magistrats shall be punished, but that all their Deaconries shall be Dissolved and their Colledge closed up; And that for the future, all who shall be found guilty, shall be Excepted from Acts of Indemnity; And lest Strangers should (under the presence of Business) come in to this City, to disturb the same, by the assistance of the saids Tumults; We Do in a most special manner Require and Impower them, to take up Lists of such as enter into the City, and to look exactly unto their behaviour, and to put them under Caution, if they think fit: As also, to prevent Tumults in other Burghs, they Command and Require the Magistrats to put the Laws in Execution, against all such as Convocate themselves illegally, or offer to Invade or Rob privat Houses, and they Impower all Sheriffs, Baillies of Regalities, Baillies of Bailȝiaries, or their Deputs, to prevent and dissipat all such Convocations within their respective jurisdictions, And to Convocat all Heretors and others, who are hereby Ordered to assist them, to the Effect foresaid, under all highest pain. And Ordain these Presents to be forthwith Published at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.