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A92690 A proclamation, for calling out heretors and fencible men, to attend the King's host; Proclamations. 1692-05-09 Scotland. Privy Council. 1692 (1692) Wing S1851; ESTC R229998 4,418 4

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A PROCLAMATION For Calling out Heretors and Fencible Men to attend the KING'S Host WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Our Lyon King at Arms his Brethren Heraulds Macers of Our Privy Council Pursevants Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as We with Advice of Our Privy Council have thought fit for putting the Countrey in a posture of Defence against an Invasion of French and Irish Papists threatned to this Our Antient Kingdom whereby it may become the Seat of a Bloody War to appoint all the Fencible Persons betwixt sixty and sixteen in the Shires under-written being nearest to the places where the said Invasion is apprehended to be designed to be in readiness when advertised with their best Horses Arms and Provisions to attend Our Host for Resisting the said horrid Invasion and have named several Officers to Command the Heretors and Fencible Men who are not Heretors And by Letters direct from Our Privy Council for that effect have impowered the the said Officers named with consent of the Commissioners to name the other Inferior Officers not already Nominat by Our Privy Council in the saids several Letters and to Intimat a place of Rendezvouz for the saids Heretors to Rendezvouz at when advertised and particular places within each Paroch for Fencible Men who are not Heretors to Assemble and Rendezvouz at when required And it being convenient the saids Heretors and other Fencible Men should be Rendezvouzed and Mustered by their Officers at the saids places at some fit day before it be necessary to Call them out to Action to the end their Number Arms and other Provisions requisit may be the better known Therefore We with Advice of Our Privy Council peremptorly Require and Command all Heretors Wodsetters and Liferenters betwixt sixty and sixteen who are Fencible Men within the Shires and Stewartrie following with their best Horses and Arms to Rendezvouz under the Command of the Officers who are or shall be appointed and that upon the Days and at the Places respective aftermentioned viz. The Heretors of the Shire of Edinburgh at the Links of Leith the thirty first Day of May The Heretors of the Shire of Haddingtoun at Beenstoun Muir the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Berwick at Fogo-Muir the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Roxburgh on the Muir upon the South-side of Ancrum-Bridge the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Selkirk at Selkirk the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Peebles at Peebles the said Day The Heretors of the Shires of Strivling and Clackmannan at Strivling the said Day The Shires of Fife and Kinross at Edensmuir the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Linlithgow at Linlithgow-Bridge the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Lanerk at Hamiltoun the said thirty first Day The Heretors of the Shire of Air at Air the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Argile at Inveraray the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Dumbartoun at Dumbartoun the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Renfrew at Renfrew-Muir the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Dumfreis at Dumfries the said Day The Heretors of the Shire of Wigtoun and Stewartry of Kirkoudbright at Glenluce the said Day all at ten Hours in the forenoon And sicklike We with Advice foresaid peremptorly Require and Command all the Fencible Persons within the saids Shires and Stewartrie not being Heretors to Rendezvouz under their several Captains at the Chief Town or Paroch Kirk within each Captains bounds upon the nineteenth Day of May instant with their best Arms And We hereby ordain the Commanders of the saids Heretors and Captains of the saids Fencible Men who are not Heretors to make Lists of the persons who shall appear at the saids several Rendezvouzes an● th● saids Commanders of the Heretors to make Report to Our Council of the condition of the Horse and Arms of such H●retors as do appear with all possible D●ligence and at furthest within eight Days thereafter together with a List of such Heretors as appear not at the saids Rendezvouzes from the Clerks to the Commissioners of Supply out of the Books and Rolls of Assessment for the saids respective Shires and Stewartrie which the Clerks are hereby Ordained to give them gratis and that they take Tryal what Arms the saids absents have or Horses above the value of an hundred Merks Scots And We Ordain the saids Captains of the Fencible Men who are not Heretors betwixt and the Day foresaid to make Report to Our Privy Council of the number of Persons and their Names who shall appear at their several Rendezvouzes and the nearest estimat they can make what greater number might have been expected if all the Fencible men not Heretors had attended the saids Rendezvo●zes and of the co●dition of their Arms and whether they have any other or better Arms. And We Considering that by the 28 Act of the 2d Session of Our current Parliament Our Privy Council is Authorized to put the Oath of Allegiance and the Assurance subjoined to the said Act to every Subject of this Realm as they shall see cause Declaring such as shall refuse to Subscribe the same shall be repute D●saffected to Our Government and be deprived of any Offices Benefices and Jurisdictions which they enjoy and shall be obliged to give such Security for their good behaviour and that they shall Act nothing against Our Government as Our Council shall think fit providing it extend no further than Bond Caution or personal Imprisonment securing of Horses and Arms or Garrisoning of Houses And seing there can be no greater occasion to call for such Security and Assurance to Us. and Our Government from Our several Subjects and particularly the persons intrusted by Us with the Command of the Heretors or Fencible Men And the saids Heretors and Fencible Men themselves within the several Shires and Stewartrie above-named than the present threatned Invasion and the securing the Peace and Quiet of the Countrey at such a time from all Treasonable Mischiefs which may be Intented or Designed by persons Disaffected to Us and Our Government Therefore VVe with Advice of Our Privy Council Appoint and Require all the Officers already Named by Our Privy Council to Command the saids Heretors and Fenc●ble Men betwix and the seventeenth Day of May current to Swear and Subscribe the Oath of Allegiance and Sign the Assurance in presence of the Commissioners of Supply of the saids res●e●ive Shires or any two of them or to Instruct before them that they have already Sworn and Signed the same which is to be Reported by the Commissioners to Our Privy Council with a List of the Inferiour Officers to be Named with Consent of Our saids Commissioners within eight Days after at furthest And albeit VVe Have Resol●e● to put no distinguishing Character upon
any of Our Subjects without evident Grou●ds of Suspition that they will comply with this abominable Design of Invasion whereby Religion Liberty and Property may be betrayed into the hands of the most Bigot Barbarous and Cruel Papists Therefore and for the Discov●ry of the saids Disaffected Persons VVe with Advice foresaid hereby Require and Command the whole Heretors VVodsetters and Liserenters who are Fencible Men within the saids several Shires and Stewartry to attend upon and meet with the Justices of Peace within the same or any two of them upon one or other of the Days and at the Dyets under-written or to such particular Day and Dyet as the saids Justices of Peace shall Require any of them who does not attend the Dyets of the first VVeek after-mentioned And sickhke That the saids Justices of Peace do meet and attend at the Head-Burgh of the Respective Shires and Stewartry from ten to twelve in the Forenoon and from two to four in the a●ternoon with the Clerk of Supply to serve them for the time each Wednesday and Thursday of every Week until the Rendezvouz of the saids Heretors at the Days above set down to propose to all the Heretors Wodsetters and Liferenters who are Fencible Men within their several Jurisdictions the Ingagement unde-written whereof the Tenor is hereto subjoyned and to make return of the Subscriptions of such as do wi●lingly Subscribe the same to Our Privy Council with all possible Diligence after the said Day that it may be known of whom the said Oath of Allegiance and Bond of Assurance should be required conform to and under the Certifications in the foresaid Act of Parliament And We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the saids Justices of Peace to Tender and Administrat the Oath of Allegiance and Assurance to all such of the saids Heretors Wodsetters and Liferenters within their Respective Bounds as shall not voluntarly Subscribe the said Ingagement And in like manner VVe with Advice foresaid peremptorly Command and Charge under the pain of Rebellion and being put to Our Horn and to be further pursued and punished as per●●● disaffected to Our Government all the Fencible Heretors Liferenters and Wodsetters betwixt sixty and sixteen who shall not appear before the Justices of Peace at the Dyets foresaid or appearing shall not Subscribe the said Engagement and each one of them to deliver upon Oath their Horses above the price of an Hundred Merks with their Furniture and Arms into the hands of the Justices of Peace of the saids several Shires and Stewartry to be Secured by them for the publick Service And the saids Justices of Peace are hereby Authorized and Required to give and put the saids Horses with their Furniture in the custody and keeping of Stablers Hostlers or In keepers or in the custody of other persons who shall undertake to keep and be answerable for themat the ordinary Rates to be payed by their Owners and shall restore the same again with the Furniture and Arms to the proper Owners thereof when the present Danger is Declared by Proclamation to be over and that in the mean time the saids Horses shall be imployed for no other use but for publick Service in case of an Invasion or Insurrection And We with Advice fores●id Declare That what Damnage or Detriment shall befal the saids Horses Furniture and Arms through the fault of the saids Keepers or their Ryders to whom they shall be committed shall be satisfied and paid to the respective Owners With Power nevertheless to the saids Stablers Hostlers or others Keepers of the saids Horses to pursue and call for the price of what Entertainment they shall have advanced for the saids Horses from their respective Owners at the ordinar Rates when and in what manner soever they think fit and convenient And because it may contribute much to Our Service in the Premisses that there be Justices of Peace appointed in the saids Shires where they are wanting Therefore We with Advice foresaid conform to the Act of Parliament made thereanent Declare Appoint and Authorize the Commissioners of Supply of the respective Shires foresaids who have or shall qualifie themselves according to Law to be Justices of Peace in the saids Shires with power to them to do and perform every thing which to the said Office and Trust is competent and known to belong and pertain by the several Laws and Acts of Parliament made thereanent and Instructions ●herein set down OUR WILL IS Herefore and We Charge you straitly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and to the remanent Mercat-Crosses of the whole Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartry above-named and there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make publication of the Premisses that none pretend Ignorance And Ordains these Presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the ninth day of May. And of Our Reign the fourth year 1692. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii In Supplimentum Signeti GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD Save King William and Queen Mary Follows the Tenor of the Ingagement WE _____ Bind and Oblige us upon our Honour and the Faith of a Christian that we shall live peaceably under the Government of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary King and Queen of this Realm and shall Act Consult or Contrive nothing in prejudice thereof nor concur with nor Assist any Invasion or Insurrection in Britain by Counsel Contribution of Money Horses Arms Ammunition or any other Warlike Force and shall not Converse with Entertain Harbour Reset or Conceal any of the saids Invaders or their Partakers Associats or Accomplices whatever they shall profess or pretend to be their Cause or Design by the presence or Command of the late King James or any other ways Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1692.