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B05585 A proclamation discharging the importing, vending, dispersing, or keeping seditious books and pamphlets Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) 1688 (1688) Wing S1770; ESTC R183452 1,295 2

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J R A PROCLAMATION Discharging the Importing Vending Dispersing or Keeping Seditious Books and Pamphlets IAMES 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 constitute Greeting Forasmuch as we being informed that there are many Impious and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets printed in Holland and elsewhere Inciting Our Subjects to Murder and Assassination as well as Rebellion to the great reproach of the Christian-Religion and the ruine of all Humane Society in which also Our Government and the Actions of Our Royal Predecessors and Our own are represented as Cruel Barbarous and Tyrannical and all such as have Served and Obeyed Us are railed at as Enemies to GOD and their Native Country Notwithstanding of the great Care We have always taken to Tollerate all different Perswasions and the Clemency We have shown in Pardoning the greatest Criminals which Books are brought Home into this Kingdom and Vended and Spread here and we being most desirous on this as on all other Occasions to prevent any of Our Subjects being brought into a Snare We have thought fit hereby to Intimat and make Known that if any of Our Subjects shall hereafter bring Home Vend or Sell Disperse or Lend any of the Books underwritten viz. All Translations of Buchanan de Jure Regni Lex Rex Jus Populi Nephtali The Cup of cold Water The Scots Mist The Appologetical Relation Mene Techel The Hynd let loose The treasonable Proclamations issued out at Sanquhar and these issued out by the late Duke of Monmouth and the late Earl of Argile or any other Books that are or shall be hereafter Written or Printed defending these Treasonable and Seditious Principles they shall be lyable as if they were Authors of the saids Books and all other Our Subjects are hereby Commanded to bring in any of the saids Books they have and deliver them in to any Privy Counsellor Sheriff Baillie of Regality or Bailliaries or their Deputs or any Magistrats of Burrows to be transmitted by them to the Clerks of Our Privy Council to the end the same may be destroyed with Certification that whoever except Privy Counsellors shall be found to have any of the saids Books and not to have delivered them up shall be Fyned for Our Vse in such a Penalty as Our Council shall appoint for each of the saids Books that he or they have not delivered up And appoints the saids Books and Pamphlets to be brought in betwixt and the Dyets following viz. these in the Town of Edinburgh and Suburbs thereof betwixt and the first Tuesday of September next to come and all others within this Kingdom betwixt and the first Tuesday of November next to come And to the end Our Royal Pleasure in the Premisses may be made publick and 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 whole remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom and other places needful and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication of Our Royal Pleasure in the Premisses And recommends to the Most Reverend the Arch-Bishops and Right Reverend Bishops to cause read this Our Royal Proclamation in all the Pulpits of this Kingdom upon some convenient Lords Day in the Forenoon immediatly after Divine Service that none pretend Ignorance Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Fifteenth day of August One thousand six hundred eighty eight Years And of Our Reign the Fourth Year Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii WILL. PATERSON Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD SAVE THE KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1688.