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A92660 A proclamation anent recruits, levies, deserters and passes; Proclamations. 1696-02-13 Scotland. Privy Council.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1696 (1696) Wing S1648; ESTC R230225 1,402 1

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A PROCLAMATION Anent Recruits Levies Deserters and Passes WILLIAM by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Macers of Our Priv● Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially Constitute Greeting Forasmuch as It is requisite and necessary That during this present War which so much concerns the Defence and Security of the Protestant Religion and of Our Kingdoms Rules and Orders be set down for Recruits Levies and Deserters whereby frequent Disorders and Oppressions may be prevented and unfit men may not be Engaged and none may be Troubled upon the head of Desertion but such as are truly Deserters Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council Conform to the Thirty third Act Fifth Session of this Our Current Parliament Entituled Act for the Levies Do Hereby Appoint and Ordain that no Officer either at Home or from Abroad offer to Take on or Press any Free Leidge to be a Souldier unless the Man be Taken on by Agreement owned by him in presence of the Judge of the Bounds And if any Officer shall Contraveen this Order and Press or Compel any Man contrair to the Rule hereby Established that it shall be reckoned Oppression and the Transgressor punished by the Fyne of a Months Pay and further by Imprisonment or Breaking and Casheering as the saids Lords of Our Privy Council shall think sit And further We with Advice foresaid Do strictly Prohibit and Discharge all Our Officers which have come for Recruits from Flanders to Seize upon any persons as Deserters but such as have Deserted from Our Scots Regiments in Flanders since they were there and none others And allows the Officers of Our Forces in this Our ancient Kingdom to Seize upon none upon the head of Desertion but such as have Deserted from one or other of the saids Regiments of which they are at present Officers And Discharge any person to be Seized upon on pretence of Desertion before our Accession to the Crown And for preventing any Mistake anent Passes given to such as have been Souldiers We with Advice foresaid Do herby Appoint and Ordain That no Pass be sustained for any Souldier from Our Forces in Flanders or out of this Kingdom unless the same be Subscribed at least by the Collonel of the Regiment to which he belonged And that no Pass be sustained for any of the Souldiers of the standing Regiments of this Kingdom unless the same be Subscribed by the Collonel of the Regiment or by one of the Field-Officers Commander of the Regiment for the time to which he belonged and Declares that the Passes Signed in manner foresaid shall free the persons in whose favours they are granted And further We with Advice foresaid Do hereby Ratify and Revive all former Acts and Proclamations made anent Recruits Levies or Deserters except in so far as the samen are hereby Innovat or Altered Our Will is Herefore and we Charge you strictly and Command That in Continent thir Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Our ●ingdom and There in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make Intima●●●●●hereof that none may pretend ignorance And Ordains Our Sollicitor to Transmit ●rinted Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires of this Kingdom to be sent ●y them to the Ministers of the several Paroches within their respective Shires and Appoints the Ministers of the Paroches to cause Intimat these Proclamations in their Paroch Churches where they are Ministers immediately at the Dissolution of the Congregation and that either from the Pulpit or at the Church-Doors And Ordains these Presents to be Printed and Published Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Thirteenth day of February and of Our Reign the Seventh year 1696. Pe● Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii DA. MONCREIFF Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD Save the King Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors o● ●ndrew Anderson Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Maj●●●● 1696.