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Proclamation for making up men deficient in the last levies.
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Scotland. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)
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1694
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Wing S1879; ESTC R226041
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HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE PROCLAMATION For making up Men deficient in the last Levies WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of Great Brittain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Macers of Our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that Part Conjunctly and Severally specially Constitute Greeting FOR AS MUCH AS in Prosecution of the seventh Act of the fourth Session of this Our current Parliament cheerfully offering to Us a present Levy of two thousand nine hundred and seventy nine Foot to be Levyed off the several Shires and Burghs of this Kingdom effeiring to the Proportions and Numbers set down in the foresaid Act. The Lords of Our Privy Council conform to the Power given to them in the foresaid Act of Parliament by their Instructions to the Commissioners of Supply within the several Shires of this Kingdom of the Date the eighth day of February last by past appointed the saids Commissioners furthwith to make exact Lists of the Heretors and Lands lyable in the said Levy that so it might be perfectly known who were lyable And in case any men were to be put out by Fractions and that they could not agree who should furnish the body of the man the saids Commissioners should order the Fractions to meet at a certain day and place and there determine it by an equal Lot effeiring to their respective Numbers of Men or the quantities of their respective Valuations as the use was in every Shire so that every Lotter was to have as many Lots as he had Numbers of Men or quantities of valued Rent sufficient for the Outreik of a man And in case any of the saids Fractions should not meet or should refuse to Lot the saids Commissioners were authorized to appoint such as they should think fit to meet and Lot for them And in case the person upon whom the Lot fell to put out a man for himself and his Fraction should fail in furnishing the man or should furnish an insufficient man then the Tennents and Possessors of the Lands and Ground belonging to the saids persons who should have put out the man should be lyable and the person upon whom the Lot did fall and who failÈied to put out the man in manner foresaid should be decerned in the Sum of two hundred Merks To which Act of Parliament and Instructions foresaid We expected punctual and exact Complyance and Obedience Yet not only a great many outreicked and furnished to serve as Souldiers in the said new Levy are rejected and sent home as Insufficient but likewise many lyable to outreick and furnish men for the said Levy are deficient and altogether wanting in sending out the Numbers of men wherein they are lyable conform to the said Act of Parliament and Instructions foresaids and thereby have Incurred the Penalties contained in the saids Instructions by and attour their being lyable for the persons of the men whom they were to have outreiked conform to the said Act of Parliament and Instructions Therefore and for the more effectual providing the said men and compleating the number of Souldiers offered to Us by the foresaid Act of Parliament and exacting the Penalties Constitute in the foresaids Instructions We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council peremptorly Require and Command the Sheriff of the several Shires and their Deputs Stewarts of Sewartries Baillies of Regalities and their respective Deputs and Magistrats of Burghs Royal within this Our antient Kingdom as they wil be answerable each of them within their own respective Jurisdictions presently upon sight hereof to call for a List of the deficient men within their respective Bounds and of the Persons who should have put out the same and upon recept thereof where no Lotting hath been made for Fractions that he immediatly cast Lots amongst the saids Fractions who shall put out the man one or more and then shall pass to the Ground of his Lands upon whom the Lot shall happen to fall and there immedialy pitch upon take and apprehend a sufficient man out of his said men able to serve Us as a Souldier and commit them Prisoners to the Prison of the head Burgh of the Shire there to be keeped at four shillig Scots per diem upon the Expenses of the Officer who is to receive him upon advertisement from the Sheriff or other Judge foresaid who causes apprehend and commit him to the said Prison and which Allowance is to be refounded to the said Officer by the Pay of the said Souldier which is to be allowed to him for the said person from the day of his being committed as if he had been Listed and Inrolled as a Souldier in Our Service and in like manner shall apprehend sufficient men upon the Ground of the Lands of these who are deficient according to the numbers they have not put out and are lyable to whether by the Rule of the Militia specified in the Act of Parliament or other ways and deliver them to the next Commanding Officers in manner and to the end above mentioned and likewise that they cause exact the Penallies mentioned in the saids Instructions from all who have incurred the same by and attour the apprehending and delivering the man in manner foresaid OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We Charge you strictly and Command that in continent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat-Crosses of the Remanent Burghs of the whole Shires of this Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority make publick Intimation of the Premisses that none may pretend Ignorance Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the second day of August and of Our Reign the sixth Year 1694. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii GILB ELLIOT Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties 1694.