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B05538 A proclamation, appointing masters for preserving the game. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1692 (1692) Wing S1701; ESTC R183413 4,684 1

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The Masters of our Game are ordained to require all Heretors and others To throw down all Cruives and Ȝairs set on fresh waters without expresse Infeftments of Salmond Fishing betwixt and the first day of July thereafter under the Pain of an hundred Pound Scots to be uplifted off these who refuse And the Sherriffs and their Deputs are appointed to give speedy Justice therefore when desired by the Masters of the Game or their Deputs And the several Sherriffs and their Deputs Stewarts of Stewartries Bailȝies of Regalities and their Deputs and Magistrats of the next adjacent Burrows are ordained to concurr with the Masters of the Game for throwing down of the saids Cruives Criels Netts and Engines when they shall be required And if the saids Judges shall be found negligent that the foresaid Penalty be uplifted off themselves according to the 68th Act Par. 9th of Queen Mary And albeit that the Masters of the Game were appointed to have put the saids Laws to full and due execution conform to the power and warrand granted to them yet the same hath hitherto been altogether slighted and neglected And we being most desirous to follow the Laudable example of our Royal Ancestors who in their Reigns have made so many good Laws for preserving the Game And to the end the samen may receive the more vigorous execution We with advice of our Privy Counsel do hereby revive all the former Laws and Acts of Parliament made for preserving the Game And Commissionat the Persons Following to be Masters of Game within the respective Bounds after specified viz. The Earl of Lothian for the Shire of Edinburgh and Town thereof the Earl of Linlithgow for the shire of Linlithgow and Bathgate The Earl of Tweddale Lord high Chancellor for the shire of Haddingtoun The Earl of Callander for the shire of Stirling The Earl of Mar for the Shire of Clackmannan The Earl of Melvil Lord Privy Seal for the Shire of Fife The Master of Burlich for the Shire of Kinross The Lord Ruthven for the shire of Perth Be-west Tay And the Lord Kinaird for that shire on the east side of Tay The Marques of Athol for the Stewartries of Strathern Monteeth and Ballwhidder The Earl of Srathmore for the Shire of Forfar The Earl of Marishal for the Shire of Kincardine and for all below Mormouth-hill and the Water of Eugie in Bamff-shire Sir James Ogilvie of Church-hill for all the rest of Bamff-shire The Earl of Kintore for all betwixt Crathus Bannachie and the Sea in Aberdene-shire The Master of Forles in all above that in the said Shire The Lord Duffus for all from Spey to Ness high and low comprehending Elgin Nairn and Inverness-shire to Loch-ness Lord Lovat from Ness to Conon high and low excluding Cromarty-shire The Viscount of Tarbatt Lord Clerk-Register from Conon to Portnaculter and Okell Water and on the West from Lochew Cuiliscuack including Cromarty-shire The Earl of Sutherland for Sutherland excepting Assine which is in the last Division The Earl of Broad-Albine for the Shire of Caithness The Stewart of Orkney for Orkney The Earl of Argyle for the Shires of Argyle and Bute The Lord Polwart for the Shire of Berwick The Earl of Roxburgh for the Shire of Teviotdale The Duke of Hamilton for the Shire of Lanerk The Lord Montgomery for Cunninghame The Earl of Cassils for Carrick The Master of Cathcart for Kyle within the Shire of Air The Lord William Dowglass for the Shire of Peebles The Earl of Glencairn for the Shire of Renfrew The Laird of Luss for the Shire of Dumbarton The Viscount of Stair for the Shire of Wigtoun The Earl of Galloway for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright The Duke of Queensbersy for the Shire of Dumfreis and James Murray of Philiphaugh one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice for the Shire of Selkirk Hereby Impowering and Warranting them to put the standing Laws in execution in so far as concerns the preserving of Forrests Wild-foul and Fishing especially the Laws and Ordinances above-specified And We require all our Judges ordinar in their respective Bounds and Jurisdictions to give speedy Justice thereupon in favours of the saids Masters of Our Game or their Deputs when they delate or pursue Delinquents before them as they will be answerable upon their Duties and Offices And all Sheriffs Mayors and other Officers and Fiscals of their respective Courts are ordained to Cite Delinquents before these Courts as they shall be informed thereof and Witnesses to prove the samine and to prosecute the samine until final Sentence be pronounced against them and thereafter see these Sentences put to due and lawful execution the expences whereof is to be payed out of the first and readiest of the Fines of the Delinquents so uplifted at the sight of the respective Masters of Game under the pain of Deprivation and further Censure in case of neglect as Our Council shall find cause And for further enabling Our saids Masters of Game We impower them to appoint Deputs one or moe for whom they are to be answerable as well for their Diligence as Fidelity and that their saids Deputs themselves nor none by their connivance take upon them to contraveen this Proclamation and destroy the Game And to encourage them in so good service to Us and Our People We hereby allow Our parts of all Fines and Unlaws due to Us by Our Laws for the Crimes relating to Forrests Game and Fishing in favours of the saids Masters of Our Game within their respective Bounds and during the time We shall think fit to imploy them in the said service withal Certifying them that if they be remiss or negligent in their duty they are to be discharged of their Offices and Fined by Our Privy Council as they shall find cause And We declare Our said Commission to continue and endure for the space of seven years after the date hereof and until We or Our Privy Council think fit to recall the same OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We Charge you straitly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and other Mercat-Crosses of the head Burghs of the several Shires of this Kingdom and other places needful and there by open Proclamation make Publication of the Premisses that none pretend ignorance Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Ninth day of August and of Our Reign the Fourth Year 1692 Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii in Supplementum Signeti DA. MONCRIEF Cls. Sti. Concilii Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1692.