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B05521 A proclamation anent the ministers. At Edinburgh, the sixth day of August, one thousand six hundred and eighty nine years. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1689 (1689) Wing S1671; ESTC R233617 1,084 1

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A PROCLAMATION Anent the Ministers At Edinburgh the Sixth Day of August One thousand six hundred and eighty nine years WHereas the Meeting of the Estates of this Kingdom by their Proclamation dated at Edinburgh the thirteenth day of April of this instant year of God one thousand six hundred eighty nine did Command and Require all the Ministers of the Gospel within the Kingdom of Scotland publickly to Pray for King VVilliam and Queen Mary as King and Queen of this Realm and to read that Proclamation from their Pulpits upon the several Lords Days therein exprest as also the Estates of the Kingdom did Prohibite and Discharge any Injury to be offered by any Person whatsoever to any Minister of the Gospel either in Churches or Meeting-Houses who were then viz. on the 13th of April last in Possession and Exercise of their Ministry either in Churches or Meeting-Houses they behaving themselves dutifully under the present Government And it being most just and reasonable that the foresaid Proclamation be fully Performed and Obeyed as most necessary for the Security of the Peace of the Kingdom and that such Ministers who gave Obedience should be Secure under the Protection of the Law and that the Pain of Deprivation be Inflicted upon all those Ministers who have Disobeyed the Proclamation Therefore the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council in their Majesties Name and Authority Do strictly Command and Charge that none of the Leidges take on Hand to do any Violence or Injury to any of the Ministers of the Gospel whether they be Preaching in Churches or Meeting-Houses and that all such as were in Possession and Exercise of their Ministry upon the 13th Day of April last be allowed to Continue undisturbed and that such Ministers as have been Removed Dispossessed or Restrained without a Legal Sentence in the Exercise of their Ministry since the 13th day of April last shall be Allowed to Return and Exercise their Ministry without Disturbance And Ordains the Sheriffs and their Deputs Stewards Baillies and other Magistrats within their respective Bounds to give their Assistance for making the Premisses effectual As also that such Ministers who have not read the Proclamation and prayed for King VVilliam and Queen Mary according to the Tenor thereof may be Deprived of their Benefice and Restrained to Officiat in their Churches The Lords of His Majesties Privy Council do Invite and Allow the Parochioners and Hearers of such Ministers as have neglected and slighted the reading of the Proclamation and praying for King VVilliam and Queen Mary to Cite such Ministers before the Privy Council and grants Warrand for Citing and Adducing Witnesses to prove the same that such Ministers as have Disobeyed may by a Legal Sentence be Deprived of their Benefices and that none of the Leidges at their own hand without a Legal Sentence and Warrand presume to meddle in this matter And Ordains these Presents to be Printed and Published by Macers of Privy Council and Messengers at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and other places needful that none may pretend Ignorance Extracted by me GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson By Order of His Majesties Privy Council 1689.