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B05342
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An act of Privy Council ordering probation and information to be sent in with publick prisoners
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Scotland. Privy Council.
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1688
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Wing S1466; ESTC R183031
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I 7 R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ACT OF PRIVY COUNCIL Ordering Probation and Information to be sent in with publick prisoners Edinburgh the twentieth day of March. 1688. THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to prevent the great prejudice that may arise to His Majesties Service by the not sending in probation with the Prisoners who are sent in to His Majesties Prisons and particularly those of Edinburgh and Cannogate whereby His Majesties Advocat cannot know the grounds whereupon they are to be pursued or how to find a probation as also the extraordinary prejudices that daily arise to His Majesties subjects by being imprisoned through Malice Ignorance or Mis-information Do therefore hereby ordain all Officers of the Army Magistrats or others who send in prisoners to send in to His Majesties Advocat or the Clerks of the Council as sufficient Information of their Crimes with a full account of the Depositions of such Witnesses or other Probation as can be had against them warranting the Keepers of the Prisons to receive none into their Prisons unless Information or Probation be sent in as said is to be verified to the saids Keepers by the saids Clerks excepting alwise such as are sent in Prisoners by order from a Privy Counselor To whom it is hereby Recommended to send also an Account to His Majesties Advocat of their Crime and Probation with their first conveniencie and His Majesties Advocat is hereby required to represent to the Privy Council the Grounds and Warrands of the said Imprisonment the very next Council day after the Prisoners are incarcerated as said is to the end they may be either set at Liberty or punished And to the effect these presents may be published and known The saids Lords Ordain the Macers of Council to pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and there by sound of Trumpet make Publication of the same that none pretend ignorance Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council by me Mr. Colin MckenÈie Clerk of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council Col. MckenÈie Cls Sti Concilii GOD save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1688