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B05178 Act discharging pedlars pack-man, and common posts, to travel without passes, sederunt his Grace the Duke of Hamiltoun, the Lord Lundin Secretarie of State, the Lord Colingtoun Justice Clerk, Glasgow the 25th day of October. 1684. Scotland. Convention of Estates.; Hamilton, William Douglas, Duke of, 1635-1694. 1684 (1684) Wing S1076A; ESTC R183881 839 1

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C R In DEFENC● DIEV ET MON DROIT God SAVE THE KING HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ACT Discharging Pedlars Pack-man and common Posts to travel without Passes Sederunt HIS Grace The DUKE Of HAMILTOUN The LORD LUNDIN Secretarie of State The LORD COLINGTOUN Justice Clerk Glasgow the 25th Day of October 1684. THe Lords Commissioners of his Majesties privy Council considering that several seditious and disaffected persons who travell through the Country as pedlars and packman or common Posts have made it their business these divers years bygone to carry false and seditious news and to sell and disperse transonable lybels and pamphlets and to convocat some of his Majesties giddy and unstable Subjects to house and field Conventicles those nourseries of Schisme and rendavouses of rebellion whereby the peace and unity of the Church has been almost distroyed and the goverment it self indangered Wherefore the saids Lords doe hereby in his Majesties Royal name and authority strictly prohibit and discharge all persons whatsomever under the notion of pedlars packman or common Posts to travel throw any parts of the Shyres of Lanerk Stirling Ranfrew and Dumbartoun or Jurisdictiones whither of Royalty or Regality within the samen the pedlars or packman without a Pass from one of our privy Councellors Shireffs beallies of Regalities or their deputts magistrats of Royal brughs and all common posts to carry any Letters or missives without license from the general post-master with certification to them or any of them that if they shall presume or take upon hand to travel without the saids Passes they shal be persewed as vagabounds and soruers and as dispersers of seditious lybels and pamphlets and doe hereby require and command all Shireffs beallies of Regalities and there deputts Justice of peace and magistrats of brughs Royal to apprehend the persons of the saids pedlars or common Posts who have not the said Passes or license as said is and Imprison there persons till they find Caution not to Contraveen herein hereafter under the penalty of five Hundreth merks and to answer before the Lords of his Majesties privy Council when ever they shall he called for for there contempt and disobedience And ordains these presents to be printed and published at the mercat-cross of Glasgow and heal other mercat-erosses within the four Shyres that none pretend ignorance Extract By me SIR WILLIAM PATERSON Knight Clerk to his Majesties most honourable privy Council GOD SAVE THE KING GLASGOW Printed by Robert Sanders One of His Majesties Printers 1684.