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A92692 A proclamation for discovering who robbed the packquit; Proclamations. 1692-08-15 Scotland. Privy Council. 1692 (1692) Wing S1869; ESTC R229999 1,348 1

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A PROCLAMATION For Discovering who Robbed the Packquit WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders 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 albeit by the Third Act of the Third Session of Our current Parliament the Robbing or Seising the common Post Male or Packquit or any other Express to or from this Kingdom to the Kingdom of England or the Kingdom of Ireland is Declared to be a notorious kind of Robberie and shal be punished with Death and Confiscation of Moveables Yet nevertheless some Persons of Pernicious and Disloyal Principles in manifest Contempt of the said Act of Parliament have of late made it their Business to Robb and take away the said ordinary Packquit and particularly upon Saturday last the thirteenth Instant a person mounted on Horse-back with a Sword about him and another Person on Foot with a Pistol in his hand did Invade and fall upon the Post-boy upon the High-way from Haddingtoun to Edinburgh near that place thereof called Jocks-Lodge about Ten hours of the Night and violently Robbed and Carried away from the said Post-boy the Packquit or common Male from England to this Kingdom with the Horse whereon the Boy rode being a Sorrel-Naig and thereby did their outmost Endeavours to Intercept Our Royal Commands to Our Privy Council of this Kingdom and to hinder that Communication which is absolutely requisit for the right Administration of Our Government and the support of Trade and Commerse amongst Our good Subjects And We being earnestly desirous that the persons guilty of such horrid Villany and Crimes as well as any accessory thereto should be discovered and apprehended Therefore for the more effectual Discovery and Apprehending of the saids Persons guilty of or accessory to the Seising upon or Robbing of the said Male or Packquit upon Saturday last We with Advice of Our Privy Council Assure and Declare that by and attour the refounding what Charges and Expences shall be laid out by any of Our Leidges or what Damage shall be sustained by them in Discovering and Apprehending the saids Criminals there shall be duely payed to them by the Lor●s of Our Theasury the Sum of Fifty Pounds Sterling as a Reward for their Discovery and the Sum of an hundred Pounds Money foresaid to any who shall Take and Apprehend the Persons guilty of the Crime above-mentioned or any of them and deliver them Prisoners to the next Sheriff or Magistrat of Burgh-royal And for the more effectual Discovery of the said Crime We with Advice foresaid not only Pardon Indemnifie and Remit the said Crime of Seizing and Robbing the Packquit to any one of the Persons concerned therein or accessory and privy thereto who shall come in and make the first Discovery thereof to any of Our Privy Council betwixt and the Twenty second day of August current but also assure to them or any of them the said Reward of Fifty Pounds Sterling And further We with Advice foresaid Declare these presents shall be a sufficient Pardon and Indemnity to all and every one of Our good Subjects for all Slaughter Wounds or Mutilation that shall be done or committed by them upon any of the saids Criminals and their Associats in the taking and apprehending of them and bringing them to condign Punishment OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We charge you Strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-crosses of Edinburgh Haddingtoun and Linlithgow and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof by open Proclamation that none pretend Ignorance And Ordains these presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Fifteenth day of August and of Our Reign the fourth Year 1692. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii In Supplementum Signeti DA. MONCREIFF Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD Save King VVilliam and Queen Mary