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act_n	council_n	parliament_n	privy_a	2,717	5	9.7040	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32359	A proclamation against the resetting of tenents or servants without testificats	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1678 (1678)	Wing C3224; ESTC R26599	2,183	1

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION Againsthe Resetting of Tenents or Servants without Testificats CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Our Lyon King at Arms his Brethren Heraulds Macers of Council Pursevants or Messengers of Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constute Greetings Forasmuch as We have for the preservation of the Protestant Religion as it is now established by the Laws of thi● Our ancient Kingdom taken care that all unlawfull Meetings upon pretence of Religion may be restrained by which many of the Commons of that Our Kingdom have been for several years withdrawen from their Paroch Churches and been thereby deprived of the appointed means for their establishment in the true Fear of God and the Duty they ow to Us and Our Government and have b●n seduced to keep seditious Field-Conventicles in a tumultuous way and other Disorderly Meetings where they may and do actually hear declared T●●●●nours Intercommuned and Vagrant Preachers and any who without licence or authority do impiously asume the holy Orders of the Church and ●ake it their business to diffuse amongst the unwarry and credulous multitude seditious and false doctrines and pernicious principles which are destructiv● to all Order and Constitution of Societies by which these who frequent those Meetings are observed to be corrupted and poysoned with an open and o●stinate contempt of all authority Civil or Ecclesiastick and to be led into most irregular prastices which are inconsistent with all Order and Government ●●d are not to be allowed in any Protestant or Christian Church For remeding of which growing evils and vindicating Our Authority and Laws fr●● such gross violations and affronts We have commanded a Band to be subscribed whereby Heretors Life●enters and Masters are obliged for their ●enents Servants and others living upon their Lands and they for themselves for obeying such Laws as may secure against schisme and separation and 〈…〉 the same be eluded and the Heretors Liferenters and Masters prejudged by the Tenents Servants and others foresaids deserting such as t●ke the said Band nor least the saids Tenents Servants or others may be encouraged not to take the same upon expectation that after they are removed by their Masters or run away from their Masters for not taking the Band or for going to Conventicles withd●awing from publick Ordinances or upon any other account provided against by the Masters Band they may or will be sheltered others We therefore with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council do hereby Require and Command That no Tenents Servants or other ●oresaids whatsoever within this Kingdom be resett upon another mans ground or in his service without a Testificate from the Heretor Master or from the Ministere of the Paroch where they live that they have lived orderly in manner foresaid Declaring hereby That whatsoever Heretors Lif 〈…〉 enters or Master shall receive any such Tenents or Servants or others foresaids without such a Testificate they shall be lyable to such Fines as Our Privy Councill shall think fit to inflict suitable to their Guilt both for repairing the Dammage done to the Heretor Liferenter or Master and for unishing their Conterant of this Our Proclamation And to the effect Our pleasure in the premisses may he made known to all persons concerned OUR WILL is herefore and we charge you strictly and command That incontenent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and other places needfull and thereat in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation with all Solemnities requisite make Publication of the Premisses that none of Our Leiges may pretend ignorance thereof And Ordain these presents and the Band and Act of Councill underwritten to be printed and subjoyned hereunto The which to do We committt to you conjunctly and severally Our full power by those Our Letters delivering them by you duely execute and indorsed again tothe Bearer Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the eleventh day of February 1678. and of Our Reigne the thirtieth Year Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilli Al. Gibsone Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save the KING Followeth the Tenor of the Band mentioned in the foresaid Proclamation I under subscribing do faithfully bind and oblige me that I my Wife Bairns and Servants respectively shall no wayes be present at any Conventicles and disorderly Meetings in time coming but shall live orderly in obedience to the Law under the Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament made thereanent As also I binde and oblige me that my whole Tenents and Cottars respectively their Wives Bairns and Servants shal likewise refrain and abstain from the saids Conventicles and other illegal Meetings not authorized by the Law And that they shall live orderly in obedience to the Law And further the I nor they shall not resett supply or commune with forfeited Persons intercommuned Ministers or vagrant Preachers but shal do our outmost endeavour to aprehend their persons And in case my saids Tenents Cottars and their foresaids shal contraveen I shal take and apprehend any person or persons guilty thereof and present them to the Judge ordinar● that they may be fined or imprisoned therefore as is provided in the Acts of Parliament made thereanent otherwayes I shal remove them and their families from off my ground and if I shal failȝie herein I shal be lyable to such penalties as the saids Delinquents have incurred by the law Consenting to the Registration hereof in the Books of His Majesties Privy Councill or Books of any other Judges competent That Letters and executorials may be direct hereupon in form as effeirs And constitutes my Procurators Edinburgh the eleventh day of February 1678. THE Lords of his Majesties Privy Councill do declare that the Heretors Liserenters and Masters Who have subscribed or shall hereafter subscribe the Band above written Obliging them for their Tenents and others therein specified shall be onely lyable for the penalties by the delinquencies of their Tenents and others foresaids in case the Tenets and others for whom they are bound shall bepursued and convict within year and day after the committing of the Delinquencies without prejudice to pursue the Tenents or others foresaids themselves at any time thereafter as accords Extracted by me Al. Gibsone Cls. Sti Concilii EDINBURGH Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King 's most Sacred Majestie 1678.