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A92704 A proclamation, for the calling out the levy of one thousand men, for the year 1697. William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Scotland. Privy Council. 1696 (1696) Wing S1929; ESTC R213097 4,122 4

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Kinross Eighty Men. By the Shires of Argyle Dumbartoun and Bute Fourty Men As also there is to be delivered in manner foresaid by the Shire of Perth Eighty Men. By the Shire of Forfar Fifty Men. By the Shire of Kincardin and Marishals Part of Aberdene Fourty Men. By the Shire of Bamf and rest of Aberdeen Shire Fifty three Men. By the Shires of Nairn Elgin and this side of Ness Fifty Men. By the Earl of Seaforths and Lord Lovats Division of Inverness Thirty four Men. By the Shires of Sutherland Caithness and the rest of Inverness Fifty three Men. And by the Stewartries of Orkney and Zetland Thirty four Men or twenty four Pounds Scots respective for each undelivered Man in manner above-mentioned And We with Advice foresaid authorize and appoint the several persons after-named to judge and determine upon all Differences and Debates that may arise betwixt the Commissioners of the several Shires and Burghs and the Officers that shal be sent to them anent the Sufficiency and Insufficiency of the men to be Outreiked in this present Levie viz. Sir John Pringle of S●itchel the Laird of Grubet younger and the Sheriff-deput of Roxburgh for the said Shire Sir James Murray of Philiphaugh one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice or his Depute for the shire of Selkirk Sir John Hume of Blacader Sir John Swintoun of that Ilk or the Sheriff-deput of the Shire of Bervick with either of them for the said Shire the Earle of Lauderdale with either of the Sheriff-deputs of Edinburgh for the Shire thereof the Lord Provost of Edinburgh with Sir William Austruther of that Ilk one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice for the Town of Edinburgh the Lairds of Preston-grange and Bean●●oun or either of them with the Sheriff deput of Haddingtoun for the said Shire Lawson of Ca 〈…〉 muir with the Sheriff-depute of Peebles for the said Shire Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closburn and Johnstoun of Elchesh●●ls for the Shire of Drumfries Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw and the Laird of Garthland for the Shire of Wigton the Lairds of Rusco and Machrimore for the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright the Lairds of Rowalland Kilbirnie Cai●letoun and John Mure Provost of Air and the Sheriff-deput of Air for the Shire of Air the Lairds of Craigens Glanderstoun and Gald well and the Sheriff-deput of Renfrew for the said Shire Sir Alexander Monro of Bear-crofts and William Cunninghame of Boquhane for the Shire of Stirling Rollo of Woodside for the Shire of Clackmannan Hamilton of Udstoun Sheriff-deput Andrew Hay of Craignethen for the Overward of Lanerk Shire Hamilton of Barncleugh Hamilton of Aikenhead for the Netherward thereof the Lairds of Livingstoun Dudingstoun Pardivan for the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow Sir Charles Halket of Pitfirren Sir James Mcgill of Rankellior the Lairds of Randifoord Auchtermarnie Readie Hay younger of Naughtoun and the Sheriff-Deput of Fyf for the Shire of Fyf The Master of Burghly for the Shire of Kinross the Lord Ruthven Sir Colin Campbel of Aberuchle one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice the Lairds of Megnish Culforgie Dumbarnie younger And the Sheriff-Deput of Perth for the Shire of Perth Fullertoun of Kinnaber and Miln of Balwillo for the Shire of Forfar Irving of Kincousie and the Sheriff-Deput of Kincardin for the said Shire And Marschals part of Aberdeen the Laird of Craigivar Alexander Duff of Braco the Laird of Munimusk younger the Laird of Birkenboog and Sheriff-Deput of Bamff for the rest of Aberdeen-Shire and Bamff The Lairds of Brodie Lethim and Culloden Dumbar of Grange and the Sheriff-Deput of Inver●ess for Elgin Nairn and this side of Ness Sir Alexander Mckenzie of Coull Mckenzie of Redcastle the Laird of Collodon and Frazar of Rerick for the Earl of Seaforth and the Lord Lovats Division of Inverness the Laird of Balnagoon Sir Adam Gordon of Dalfollie and the Sheriff-Deput of Southerland the Laird of Hempriggs Sinclair of Brimes younger for the rest of Inverness and Shires of Southerland and Caithness The Land of Ardkinglass Sir John Campbel of Carrick for the Shire of Argyle and the Sheriff-Deput of the said Shire Claud Hamilton of Barns Colquhoun of Craigtoun for Shire of Dumbarton The Laird of Kelburn or his Deput for the Shire of Bute James Beakie of Tankerness and the Laird of Grahameshall for Orkney and Zetland And to the Effect Our Pleasure in the Premisses may be known OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We Charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat-Crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make Intimation of the Premisses that none pretend Ignorance Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Sixteenth day of December and of Our Reign the eighth year 1696. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Excellent Majesty 1696.
A PROCLAMATION For the Calling out the Levy of One Thousand Men for the Year 1697. WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD King of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constiute Greeting Forasmuch as by the Twenty third Act of the last Session of this current Parliament It is Statute and Ordained That for the Service of this present War and Recruiting of Our Regiments either at Home or Abroad there shall be Furnished to Us the Number of One Thousand Men yearly when We shall Require them to be Proportioned and Levied conform to the Proportions contained in the Act of Parliament one thousand six hundred and sixty three Intituled An Humble Tender to His Sacred Majesty of the Duty and Loyalty of His Ancient Kingdom of Scotland as to the Twenty thousand Foot therein-mentioned which Thousand Men by the foresaid Act are appointed to be Furnished and Levied in this manner viz. That the Commissioners of Supply for the respective Bounds where the saids Proportions shall fall or any Five of them as the Quorum appointed to that effect by the foresaid Act or the Sheriffs and their Deputs or the Lords and Baillies of Regalities or Stewarts and their Deputs the Magistrats of Burghs first design and cause be given the idle loose and vagabond persons lyable by former Acts of Parliament to be seized by Sheriffs to make up the foresaid Number and the remainder of the said Proportions are to be put furth according to the former Rules in use for subdividing the same within each Shire And by the foresaid Act of Parliament Heretors are Impowered to design and make choice of such young Fencible Men living within their respective Bounds and not having Wife or Children and who earn their Living by daily Wages or Termly Hire as shal satisfie for their part of the said Levy or other wise the Tennents and Fencible-Men shall have their option to offer and pay down for each of the said Men that may fall to be put out by them the Sum of Twenty four pound Scots so that the District shall either deliver a good Man effectually or pay the said Twenty four pounds And furder the saids Heretors conform to the foresaid Act of Parliament are hereby Impowered to secure the person or persons designed or chosen as said is and for the encouragement of the foresaids persons so to be designed and made choice of it is further Statute and Ordained by the foresaid Act that each of them shall before Delivery have Twenty pounds Scots payed to him in ready Money by the Officer who receives him at the sight of one of the saids Commissioners as also that their being put furth and engaged as said is shall not oblige them longer to be and continue Souldiers than for the space of three years and the first of November next after the Ish of the saids three years from the time of their Engagement And We Considering that the present Exigence of Our Service doth require the foresaid Number of One Thousand Men to be Furnished and Levied for this present Year with all dispatch and expedition Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council Require and Commend the Commissioners of Supply of the several Shires Stewartries and Burghs within this Kingdom upon this side of Tay to meet at the Head-Burghs of their respective Shires and Stewartries upon the seventh day of Januarie next to come one thousand six hundred ninety seven the Commissioners of Supply for all the rest of this Kingdom at the Head-burghs of their respective Shires Stewartries upon the fourteenth day of the said Month with Certification to such of them not other ways imployed in our publick Service who shal not meet they shal be lyable each of them to the Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament made anent the Militia and there to Proceed Design and have in readiness in manner and conform to the Twenty third Act last Session of this current Parliament and Method therein set down the particular Number of Men respective after-mentioned or Twenty four pounds Scots for each Man to be delivered to the Officers to be sent by Order of our Priyy Council or of Collonel George Hamilton Colonel to one of our Regiments in Flanders at the respective Head-Burghs upon payment of Twenty pounds Scots to every Man who shall be delivered of the said One Thousand Men in manner above-mentioned upon the days after set down viz. These for the Shires of Edinburgh Berwick Had●ingtoun Roxburgh Selkirk Peebles Linlithgow Drumfries Wigtown and Stewartrie of Kirkeudbright Air Renfrew Lanerk Stirling Cla●kmannan Fife Kinross and these of the Shires of Argile Bute and Dumbartoun with these for the Town of Edinburgh Leith and Cannongate at the respective Head-burghs thereof upon the Fifteenth day of the said Month of Jannuary next and these for the Shires of Perth Forfar Kincardin and Marishal's part of Aberdeen Bamf and the rest of Aberdeen-Shire with these for the Shires of Elgin Nairn and this side of Ness the Earl of Seaforth and Lord Lovats Division of Inverness the Shires of Southerland Caithness and the rest of Inverness with the Stewartrie of Orkney and Zetland upon the twenty second day of the said Month And We with Advice foresaid Require the said Collonel George Hamilton timeously to dispatch and send such Officers or others as he shall think fit sufficiently impowered with an Order and Warrand under his Hand to the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries before-mentioned to receive thereat the Proportions of Men wherein the saids respective Shires Stewartries and Burghs are lyable and to make payment of the Twenty pounds Scots to each Person who shall be delivered to them as a Souldier in manner foresaid or otherways to receive and get payment of the said Twenty four pound Scots for every undelivered Person and grant Receipt of the samen And which thousand Men or twenty four pounds Scots for each undelivered Man are to be delivered to and received by the saids Officers at the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom in manner and by the Proportions after mentioned viz. That there be delivered for the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk at the Head-Burghs thereof the Number of Sixty six Men For the Shire of Benvick at the Head-Burgh thereof the Number of Fourty Men. For the Shire of Haddingtoun Fourty Men. For the Shire of Peebles Thirteen Men. For the Shire of Edinburgh Fourty Men. For the Shire of Dumfried Fourty Men. For the Shire of Wigtoun Fifteen Men. For the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright Twenty five Men. For the Shires of Air and Renfrew Sixty six Men. For the Shire of Lanerk Fifty Men. For the Shire of Linlithgow seventeen Men. By the Town of Edinburgh Leith and Cannongate Fourty Men. By the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan Thirty four Men. By Fife and