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DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
ACT of Council,  
For burning the Solemn League & Covenant, and several other Traitorous Libels.  
At Halyrude-house, the 14th. day of January, 1681/2.  
FOrasmuch, As albeit by the seventh Act of the Sessions of His Majesty's first Parliament, and the second Act of the second Sessions of that same Parliament; that Oath and Combination commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant, is condemned as Treasonable, and taking and renewing thereof by any of the Subjects, is declared to be High-Treason: Yet in the Year 1666. and since, several desperate and incorrigible Traitors, have taken upon them to Renew and Swear the said Covenant, to emit and publish several Treasonable and scandalous Libels, founded thereupon, as particularly those Treasonable Declarations published at Rutherglen and Sanquhair, the Libel called Cargil's Covenant, and the late Declaration published at Lanerk upon the twelfth of this instant, Entitled The Act and Apologetic Declaration of the true Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland, His Royal Highness His Majesty's High Commissioner, and Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, to Evidence the great abhorrence they have of these Treasonable Libels, do Ordain, that upon Wednesday next, being Market-day, the said Treasonable Libels, viz. The Solemn League and Covenant, The Rutherglen and Sanquhair Declarations, The Libel called Cargil ' s Covenant, and the late Treasonable Declaration at Lanerk, be publicly burnt at the Cross of Edinburgh, by the hand of the common Hangman. And Ordains the Provost, Bailiffs, and Council of Edinburgh, to be present, and to see the same solemnly done the said day, betwixt Eleven and Twelve a clock in the Forenoon, and to report an account of their Obedience to the Council, the next Council day thereafter. And that these Presents be Printed and Published. Extracted by me.  
WILL. PATERSON, Cl. Sti. Concilii. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

Edenbrough Printed by the Heirs of Andrew Anderson, 1682.