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A50770 The method of turning the militia of Scotland into a standing army as it is ordered by His Majesties Privy Council there. Scotland. Privy Council. 1680 (1680) Wing M1948; ESTC R1191 4,997 4

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for the Militia Horse or Foot shall be able bodies of Men fit for the service and that they be such as the Muster-master shall approve of and who shall take the Military Oaths appointed by Act of Council each Rendezvous day and such Oaths as are contained in the Articles of War XI The Heretors of your Shire are to pay their proportion of fourty eight pound Scots to the Trumpeter with the other shires who are joyned with them in constituting the Troop As also Your shire is to pay twelve pound Scots to every Drummer who serves in the Companies within your Shire conform to the Act of Parliament XII And since His Majesty has under his Royal Hand given Commissions to Majors Leiutenants and Ensigns of Foot and to the Lieutenants of Horse and has declared it his Pleasure that the Leiutenants of Horse and Foot shall choose their own Corporals and Sergeants Therefore you are to give your concurrence to them in their respective stations XIII You are to appoint two of your number per vices to attend the first day of each Rendezvous within your Shire and one of your number to attend the general Rendezvous of your Regiment or Troop when they come together it being necessar that there be one Commissioner present for every Shire out of which the Regiment or Troop is taken to the effect they may give order for fining and punishing the Absents and for proceeding against all Deficients and for performance of every thing else incumbent to them conform to the Acts of Parliament and Council made thereanent as well in every Company of Foot and Squad of Horse as when the whole Regiment and Troop are together XIV These two Commissioners with the concurrence of the Commanding Officer present for the time of the Foot-Company or Squadron of Horse or Corporalship and of the Major of Foot and Lieutenant of Horse or other Commanding-officer present when the Regiment of Foot or Troop of Horse is together are carefully to cause poynd every Deficient and other Transgressors conform to the Acts of Parliament and Council anent the Militia Hereby requiring the saids Commissioners to do exact diligence herein as they will be answerable at their outmost peril And certifying these Commissioners who shall be absent or being present shall neglect their duty hereby and by Act of Parliament intrusted to them shall be proceeded against as Contemners of his Majesties Authority and Service and neglecters of the publick Peace of the Kingdom XV. The Commissioners of the Militia on the South side of the North Water of Esk in the several Shires of the Kingdom are appointed to have their first meeting at the head Burgh of the Shire upon the fifteen day of July next and the Militia thereof to have their first Rendezvous upon the thirteenth of August thereafter And the Commissioners benorth the said Water are to have their first meeting upon the tenth of August and the Militia thereof to have their first Rendezvous upon the 24. of Aug. And the Commissioners on the south side of the said Water are to give an account what they do at their first meeting to the Council upon the first Council day of August and to give the second account of the condition of their first Rendezvous against the first Council day in September And these benorth the said water are to give an account what they do at their first meeting the first Council day in September and the second account of the condition of the first Rendezvous the first Council day in October next XVI The Commissioners of the Militia of the several Shires at their first meeting are to appoint the place of the first Rendezvous in every Shire and to acquaint the person of Quality afternamed who is appointed to be present thereat XVII The Persons of Quality afternamed are appointed to conveen the Commissioners of the Militia to their first meeting and to be present thereat and to go to the several shires and see the first Rendezvous keeped and give an account thereof to the Council XVIII His Majesties Privy Council have appointed and appoints that in the shires of Ross Sutherland Caithness and Orkney which had not formerly a Militia settled therein the Justices of Peace and Commissioners of Excise be Commissioners of the Militia Extracted by me WILL. PATERSON Cl. Sti. Concilii Additional Instructions for the Militia Edinburgh the Eighth day of July 1680. I. THE Lords of His Majesties Privy Council considering that by the first Article of the late Instructions the Heretors and Liferenters are ordered to Stent the number of Horse and Foot in the usual way do Declare That albeit according to the Act of Parliament the Heretors and Liferenters be liable thereto yet they are to have their relief from the Tenants whose proper Burden it is to furnish the Bodies of the Footmen and their Arms and Pay during the days of the Rendezvous and the Heretors may accordingly force any of their Tenants or Servants who are fittest the rest of the Tenants contributing for their several Proportions in the way formerly accustomed either by Paroches or otherwise according as has been used in the respective Shires II. As to the third and fourth Articles of the said Instructions whereby it is appointed that no Soldier Horse or Foot be changed for another and that no Horse once received and listed be changed without consent of the Lieutenant it is ordered that no such change be made without express consent of the Lieutenant and two Commissioners of the Militia III. As to the sixth Article of the Instructions where it is appointed that Rendezvous be kept eight days every two Months for the space of ten Months It is Ordained that the first Rendezvous shall meet for this year as is formerly appointed viz. upon the 13th and 24th of August respective and to continue together for eight days and the next Rendezvous to begin the first Wednesday of October and to continue together sixteen days and for the subsequent Years it is appointed that the first Rendezvous shall begin the first Wednesday of June and to continue for sixteen days and the next Rendezvous to be upon the first Wednesday of October and to continue then likewise for sixteen days and so forth to continue yearly thereafter which two Rendezvouses compleats the 32 days payable by the Countrey IV. As to the Ninth Article It is appointed that the Militia Horse be worth Ten Pound Sterling Conform to the Act of Parliament and be 58 inches high at least that the Horse be sufficient size fit for service V. It is hereby declared That these that are liable in the Fraction shall pay to the Leaders of Horse and Outreikers of Foot their proportional parts of what is due for the Pay both of Horse and Foot during the whole time they stay at the Rendezvouses VI. Whereas since the Act of Parliament in the Year 1663 Establishing the Militia by which there are 800 Foot and 88 Horse appointed for the Shire of Dumfreis there is a late Act of Parliament disjoining the Militia of the five Kirks of Eskdale from the said Shire and uniting the same to the Militia of Roxburgh whose proportion of the great Militia is One hundreth Foot and ten Horse the Lords of Council Ordain the proportion of the New Model'd Militia of these two Shires to be regular accordingly Extracted by me Will. Paterson Cl. Sti. Concilii FINIS Reprinted at London according to the Copy printed at Edinburgh for John Gay in Fleet-street and William English in Chancery lane 1680.