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B05453 A proclamation, against field-conventicles Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1619-1685 : Charles II) 1681 (1681) Wing S1588; ESTC R183326 1,851 1

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C R 〈…〉 A PROCLAMATION against Field-Conventicles CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To _____ Our Lyon King at Armes and his Brethren Herauld Macers of Our Privy Council Pursevants Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as Field-Conventicles which were in Our Laws by the universal consent of all the Representatives of this Our Kingdom declared to be the Rendezvouses of Rebellion are now found by the undenyable experience of all sober men to have bred up the unwarry Commons unto a most atheistical giddiness to the owning of those murdering principles which are a reproach to the Protestant Religion and inconsistent with the security of every private man and to the contemning of their own Master and Landlords We therefore with advice of Our Privy Council Resolving to secure not only Our Government and such of Our Subjects as live peaceably under it but even to restore these very Masters and Landlords to their just Rights over these their Tenants and Servants which they so justly lost by suffering them to frequent Field-Conventicles in which they were so debauched in their duty to them Do hereby Command and Ordain that how soon soever any Field-Conventicle or other Conventicles understood to be Field-Conventicles by construction of Law shall be kept the Heretor in whose Lands or House the same is kept whether the Lands belong to them in Propperty or Commonty if they be present or their Baliffs or Factors if they be absent or their Tutors or Curators and their Baliffs or Factors if they by Minors shall immediately advertise the Sheriff of the Shire Lords of Regality Stewart of the Stewartry Bailiff or Bailirie and the Magistrates of the Burghs within whose Jurisdiction the said Field-Conventicle was kept within three dayes after the same is kept certifying them if they fall to give the said Advertisement they shall be fined in the fourth part of their valued yearly Rent Upon which Information the said Sheriffs and other Magistrates foresaids shall be oblieged and are hereby commanded and required to order the Heretors of the Paroch to meet and to take trial who were at or in accession to the said Conventicle And to the end they may be the better able to proceed in the said trial the the saids Heretors are hereby Impowered to Examine upon Oath such as they shall suspect or who shall be best able to give Information therein and to return to the Sheriff or other Magistrates foresaids the trial so taken by them and that with all possible expedition and which trial the said Sheriffs and Magistrates or ther Deputes are hereby required immediately to cite before them those contained in the said return or any others whom they have reason to suspect to have been at the saids Conventicles and to fine such of them as compear and amerciat such as are absent as accords of the Law upon which Sentences Hornings and Captions being raised under the Signer of Our Privy Council by the saids Sheriffs and the other Officers foresaid to whom the half of the s●ids fines and amerciam 〈◊〉 s are for their pains and expenses hereby declared to belong the Heretors and Masters of the saids Rebels are hereby oblidged to concur with the Sheriff or other Officers their Deputs or others whom they shall name to the poinding the saids Rebels Goods apprehending their Persons and that under the pain of being lyable to the fine and penal●i●s inposed upon the Delinquents Likeas the saids Sheriffs and others foresaids are hereby required to give an account of their diligence in the Premisses to Our Privy Council upon the first Council of July and December yearly under the pains contained in the eighteenth Act of the third Session of Our second Parliament all which shall be with or prejudice to Us and Our Officers of State in Our Name to raise pursuits before the Lords of Our Privy Council against such who have been present at Field-Conventicles though without Arms for an Arbitrary punishment or to insist before Our Criminal Court against such who have been thereat in Arms for underlying the Crime of Treason conform to the fifth Act of the first Session of Our first Parliament and Our Proclamation dated the thirdenth day of May one thousand six hundred seventy and nine years And to the effect Our Pleasure in the Premisses may be made known Our Will is and We charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and Mercat Crosses of the Head Burghs of the several Shires within this Kingdom and other places needful and therein Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make Publication of the Promisses that none pretend ignorance according to Justice as ye will answer to Us thereupon the which to do We commit to you cojounctly and severally Our full Power by thir Our Letters delivering them by you duly execute and ind●●●… again to she bearer And ordains these Presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the eight day of April One thousand six hundred eighty and one And of Our Eaign the threity three Years Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii WIL. PATERSON Cl. Sti. Concilii GOD save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1681.