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A92704 A proclamation, for the calling out the levy of one thousand men, for the year 1697. William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Scotland. Privy Council. 1696 (1696) Wing S1929; ESTC R213097 4,122 4

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A PROCLAMATION For the Calling out the Levy of One Thousand Men for the Year 1697. WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD King of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constiute Greeting Forasmuch as by the Twenty third Act of the last Session of this current Parliament It is Statute and Ordained That for the Service of this present War and Recruiting of Our Regiments either at Home or Abroad there shall be Furnished to Us the Number of One Thousand Men yearly when We shall Require them to be Proportioned and Levied conform to the Proportions contained in the Act of Parliament one thousand six hundred and sixty three Intituled An Humble Tender to His Sacred Majesty of the Duty and Loyalty of His Ancient Kingdom of Scotland as to the Twenty thousand Foot therein-mentioned which Thousand Men by the foresaid Act are appointed to be Furnished and Levied in this manner viz. That the Commissioners of Supply for the respective Bounds where the saids Proportions shall fall or any Five of them as the Quorum appointed to that effect by the foresaid Act or the Sheriffs and their Deputs or the Lords and Baillies of Regalities or Stewarts and their Deputs the Magistrats of Burghs first design and cause be given the idle loose and vagabond persons lyable by former Acts of Parliament to be seized by Sheriffs to make up the foresaid Number and the remainder of the said Proportions are to be put furth according to the former Rules in use for subdividing the same within each Shire And by the foresaid Act of Parliament Heretors are Impowered to design and make choice of such young Fencible Men living within their respective Bounds and not having Wife or Children and who earn their Living by daily Wages or Termly Hire as shal satisfie for their part of the said Levy or other wise the Tennents and Fencible-Men shall have their option to offer and pay down for each of the said Men that may fall to be put out by them the Sum of Twenty four pound Scots so that the District shall either deliver a good Man effectually or pay the said Twenty four pounds And furder the saids Heretors conform to the foresaid Act of Parliament are hereby Impowered to secure the person or persons designed or chosen as said is and for the encouragement of the foresaids persons so to be designed and made choice of it is further Statute and Ordained by the foresaid Act that each of them shall before Delivery have Twenty pounds Scots payed to him in ready Money by the Officer who receives him at the sight of one of the saids Commissioners as also that their being put furth and engaged as said is shall not oblige them longer to be and continue Souldiers than for the space of three years and the first of November next after the Ish of the saids three years from the time of their Engagement And We Considering that the present Exigence of Our Service doth require the foresaid Number of One Thousand Men to be Furnished and Levied for this present Year with all dispatch and expedition Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council Require and Commend the Commissioners of Supply of the several Shires Stewartries and Burghs within this Kingdom upon this side of Tay to meet at the Head-Burghs of their respective Shires and Stewartries upon the seventh day of Januarie next to come one thousand six hundred ninety seven the Commissioners of Supply for all the rest of this Kingdom at the Head-burghs of their respective Shires Stewartries upon the fourteenth day of the said Month with Certification to such of them not other ways imployed in our publick Service who shal not meet they shal be lyable each of them to the Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament made anent the Militia and there to Proceed Design and have in readiness in manner and conform to the Twenty third Act last Session of this current Parliament and Method therein set down the particular Number of Men respective after-mentioned or Twenty four pounds Scots for each Man to be delivered to the Officers to be sent by Order of our Priyy Council or of Collonel George Hamilton Colonel to one of our Regiments in Flanders at the respective Head-Burghs upon payment of Twenty pounds Scots to every Man who shall be delivered of the said One Thousand Men in manner above-mentioned upon the days after set down viz. These for the Shires of Edinburgh Berwick Had●ingtoun Roxburgh Selkirk Peebles Linlithgow Drumfries Wigtown and Stewartrie of Kirkeudbright Air Renfrew Lanerk Stirling Cla●kmannan Fife Kinross and these of the Shires of Argile Bute and Dumbartoun with these for the Town of Edinburgh Leith and Cannongate at the respective Head-burghs thereof upon the Fifteenth day of the said Month of Jannuary next and these for the Shires of Perth Forfar Kincardin and Marishal's part of Aberdeen Bamf and the rest of Aberdeen-Shire with these for the Shires of Elgin Nairn and this side of Ness the Earl of Seaforth and Lord Lovats Division of Inverness the Shires of Southerland Caithness and the rest of Inverness with the Stewartrie of Orkney and Zetland upon the twenty second day of the said Month And We with Advice foresaid Require the said Collonel George Hamilton timeously to dispatch and send such Officers or others as he shall think fit sufficiently impowered with an Order and Warrand under his Hand to the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries before-mentioned to receive thereat the Proportions of Men wherein the saids respective Shires Stewartries and Burghs are lyable and to make payment of the Twenty pounds Scots to each Person who shall be delivered to them as a Souldier in manner foresaid or otherways to receive and get payment of the said Twenty four pound Scots for every undelivered Person and grant Receipt of the samen And which thousand Men or twenty four pounds Scots for each undelivered Man are to be delivered to and received by the saids Officers at the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom in manner and by the Proportions after mentioned viz. That there be delivered for the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk at the Head-Burghs thereof the Number of Sixty six Men For the Shire of Benvick at the Head-Burgh thereof the Number of Fourty Men. For the Shire of Haddingtoun Fourty Men. For the Shire of Peebles Thirteen Men. For the Shire of Edinburgh Fourty Men. For the Shire of Dumfried Fourty Men. For the Shire of Wigtoun Fifteen Men. For the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright Twenty five Men. For the Shires of Air and Renfrew Sixty six Men. For the Shire of Lanerk Fifty Men. For the Shire of Linlithgow seventeen Men. By the Town of Edinburgh Leith and Cannongate Fourty Men. By the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan Thirty four Men. By Fife and