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B05298 Act anent persons travelling to England or Ireland without passes. At Edinburgh the twenty sixth day of January 1694 years. Scotland. Privy Council. 1694 (1694) Wing S1394; ESTC R182971 1,046 1

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ACT Anent Persons Travelling to England or Ireland without Passes At Edinburgh the Twenty Sixth Day of January 1694 years THE Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council understanding that now when Levies are appointed to be made for Their Majesties Service in the present War so necessary for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion and the Preservation of Their Majesties Kingdoms these most proper for the said Levies may possibly to decline the same retire out of the Kingdom to England or Ireland Do therefore Require and strictly Command all Collectors of Their Majesties Customs Surveyers Clerks Waiters at the several Ports and all others Their Majesties Officers Civil or Military who may be concerned that they suffer no Vessel great or small to Sail for Ireland at any time after Publication hereof at the said Ports on the West Seas untill the first day of May next to come without a sufficient Pass from one of Their Majesties Privy Council or the Sheriff or Sheriff-Deput or two of the Commissioners of Supply or Justice of Peace of the Shire within which the saids Ports do ly which persons impowered to give the saids Passes are hereby also impowered and Required to take Caution of the Master and Skippers of the saids Ships that they shall carry no person out of this Kingdom for Ireland during the space foresaid without lawful Passes under the pain of one hundred Merks toties quoties for each person so carryed out by him As also the hail forenamed Persons with all Collectors Surveyers Clerks and Waiters upon the Borders betwixt Scotland and England are hereby Commanded that they suffer no person to go for England or Ireland without Passes from one of Their Majesties Privy Council or from the Sheriff or Sheriff-Deput or two of the Commissioners of Supply or Justices of the Peace of the Shire where the saids persons did last Reside and that as the hail foresaids persons will be answerable at their peril And furder the saids Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council do hereby prohibit all such persons who are fit and in use to be put forth in Foot-levies to remove out of the Shire where they dwell after the date hereof until the present Levy ordered by Proclamation be compleated without Passes from the Heretor of the Ground where they live or his Chamberlain in his absence Certifying those that presume to do in the contrair that they shall be summarly seized where they may be apprehended And it is hereby declared that the Seazers and Apprehenders of the said Fleers shall have Right and Liberty to give them up to serve for such as they may be obliged to put forth in the said Levy And Ordains these presents to be Printed and to be published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh and at the Sea-ports of the West-Seas and hail other Head-burghs of this Kingdom Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their Most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1694.