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B03871 By the King. A proclamation containing his Majesties gracious indemnity England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701. 1685 (1685) Wing J321; ESTC R179589 1,632 1

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〈…〉 HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION Containing His Majesties gracious Indemnity JAMES R. JAMES the Seventh by the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all and sundry Our good Subjects whom these Presents do or may concern Greeting We taking into Our Royal Consideration that notwithstanding the Prudence Justice and unparallelled Clemency which did ever accompany the Government of Our most Dear and most entirely beloved Brother King Charles the Second of ever blessed Memory Several Wicked and Seditious Subjects did break out into open Rebellions and Conspiracies against His Sacred Person and Government And albeit GOD did on all occasions manifest His Wrath against them and their Enterprises So as their Designs were Defeated and several of their persons brought to condign and just punishment yet some few of them were either so malicious or foolish as to be ensnared by others to persevere in their Hellish Principles and Practices both in Defiance of all Law and Justice and in open contempt of the Reiterated Pardons published and offered by His said late Majesty And now Our Royal Prudence and the Care of Our People obliging Us to take full Information of the chief Movers and most active Instruments in these pernicious Commotions Before We Determine Our Royal Pleasure concerning them which We hope to attain in a very short time yet as a Demonstration of Our Innate Clemency which also has shin'd in the whole Line of Our Royal Race and of Our Resolution to imitate the glorious Example of our said Dearest Royal Brother We have Resolved to Pardon Likeas We do hereby Pardon Indemnifie and Forgive all Our Subjects in Our Ancient Kingdom of Scotland under and below the degree of Heretors Liferenters Wodsetters Burgesses of Burghs-Royal and vagrant Preachers of all Rebellions Treasons Seditions Insurrections Reset Intercommuning Fire-raising Robberies Slaughters Free quarters Leasing-making Concealing of Treason and of all Crimes in general Committed by them or any one of them by Word Writ or Deed against Our Government and the Laws of Our Kingdom in any time preceeding the Date of this Our Royal Proclamation Declaring hereby all and every one of them Free and Secure from all Punishments or Trouble for the san●●…●ither in their Persons or Goods in all time coming Excepting only as to such Fines for which already Sentences are pronounced And likewise excepting from this Our gracious Pardon all those who are guilty of the Assassination of James late Arch-Bishop of Saint-Andrews Person Minister at Carsfarn Thomas Kennoway and Duncan Stuart And We do hereby Declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure That this Act o Indemnity and Pardon shall be extended to all who are at present declared Fugitives Providing these Fugitives make Addrisse within twenty dayes after the Publication hereof to Our Privy Council Our Justice Court or any of Our Sheriffs in Our said Kingdom Testifying their acceptance of this Our Pardon by taking the Oath of Allegiance or otherwise finding Caution to Transport themselves out of Our three Dominions of Scotland England and Ireland before the twentieth day of May next ensuing the Date of these Presents and to live Peaceably after the said Publication until they shall Transport themselves and never to return to any Part or Place of Our said Dominions without a Licence from Us or Our Privy Council aforesaid under pain of Death And We do Command That this Our Pardon and Indemnity be apply'd and understood in the most ample Sense and Meaning whereof the Words are capable and that no person included therein be Troubled or Molested for any Cause aforesaid in Judgement or outwith the same in any time hereafter And lastly To the end all our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Pleasure We do hereby Command Our Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds Mecers Pursevants and Messengers at Arms to make timeous Proclamation hereof at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh Given at Our Court at White-halt the twenty Sixth of February 1684 5 And of Our Reign the first Year By His Majesties Command JO. DRUVMMOND EDINBURGH the 2 day of March 1685. THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Ordains His Majesties gracious Indemnity above-written to be published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh with the usual and accustomed Solemnities and thereafter Ordains the same to the Printed and Published at the whole Mercat Crosses of the Head Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom and other places needful by the several Sheriffs and others concern'd and Recommends to the Arch-bishops and Bishops to cause their several Ministers Read from the Pulpit on a Lords Day after Divine Service His Majesties said gracious Indemnity that all Persons concerned may have notice of the same COL McKENZIE Cls. Sti. Concilit