PROCLAMATION.
Prorogating the Dyet, for in bringing and prescribing the Method of Stateing of the Accompts of Arrears due by the Forces to the Countrey.
Forasmuch as, by sundry former Proclamations Emitted by Vs, with Advice of Our Privy Council, certain days were prefixed to Our Subjects, for bringing the the several Accompts Due by Our Forces within this Kingdom to them, Stated and verified in manner mentioned in the saids Proclamations: and We being resolved that none of Our good Subjects should be cut short, and desappointed of the Payment, of Vhat is justly resting to them by any of Our Forces, by their not having given in their Accompts to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, before the days prefixed in the former Proclamations: Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to Prorogat the time for Verifying, and giving in of the saids Accompts to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, until the fifteenth day of March next to come, and do yet Allow, and Ordain the Landlords, and others, to whom there are any Accompts resting by Our Forces, before the first Day of February, One thousand six hundred Ninety one years; To repair to the Commissioners of Assessment, or any who of them, within the respective Shires where the saids Accompts are resting, and there State & Verifie by writ, Oath or Witnesses, how many Souldiers were quartered on the saids Landlords, or other Persons Creditors, That they advanced of Meat, or Drink to the Souldiers themselves, or Forrage to their Horses, or what they advanced of Meat,, Drink, Meal, or Malt to Our Garisons: or what Sums of Mony, either to Our Forces, or Garisons for their Subsistance, preceeding the said first Day of February, One thousand six hundred Ninety and one: And We with Advice foresaid, Ordain the saids Landlords, or other Persons Creditors, to give their Oaths, that no part of what they Claim as Due by Our Forces, is payed to them, and require them to instruct their Accompts fully and clearly before the saids Commissioners, by condescending particularly upon the time, when the Accompts Were furnished. and also upon the Company, or at least the Regiment, or Troop, to Whom the Souldiers, or Troopers did belong, and to insert all the Articles Due by every Regiment, in a Paragraph, or separate Accompt by itself though the same was upon the English Establishment, whose Arrears and Debts to the Countrey, are to be Stated in Accompts, differently from these upon the Scots Establishment; And We with Advice foresaid, require and Command all and sundry Our good Subjects, to whom any Debts are Due by Our Forces, and Garisons, for the Causes above-written preceeding the Day above-mentioned, to transmit the same with the Verifications thereof, and report of the Commissioners of Supply thereupon, clearly and distinctly instructed, and Verified in manner above exprest, to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, betwixt and the said fifteenth Day of March next to come, to the Effect, that when ever the foresaids Accompts upon the Scots Establishment, hereby ordered to be brought in, shall be revised and approven, by the Lords of Our Privy Council, to whom We earnestly recommend, to dispatch the same with all Diligence possible: Then the Lords of Our Theasury are with all one convenience, to give precepts to the Shires, and Burghs and other Creditors in the saids Accompts, upon the Receiver of Our Crown-Rents, for Payment to them, of the respective Sums that shall be found Due by the Lords of Our Privy Council, in manner foresaid, out of the Lack Duty of the Pole-mony, appointed to be payed to him at Candlesmass and Whitsundy next, and Our said Receiver is to make punctual Payment of the saids precepts, after the foresaids Terms, as he shall be ordered by the saids Lords of Our Treasury:and that the Debts of these upon the English Establishment being so Stated, and distinctly cleared, may be transmitted to Vs; that We in Our Royal wisdom may order such course to be taken for satisfying the same; as We shall think just. OWR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you strictly, and Command, that Incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and remnant Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, And Ordains these presents to be Printed.
GOD Save King William.
Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Most Excellent Majesty, Anno DOM. 1695.