A PROCLAMATION, Concerning the Students in the College of Edinburgh.  
CHARLES', by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To _____ Our Lion King at Arms, and his Brethren Heralds, Macers, Pursuivants, and Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that Part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, Greeting;  
Forasmuch as the Lords of Our Privy Council being informed, that several disloyal and malicious Persons, frequenting Our good Town of Edinburgh, have instigated the Students of the College therein, to enter in Bonds and Combinations, and Convocate in Tumults (knowing that how spacious soever the pretexts be, yet these tend to Sediton, as Sedition doth to open Rebellion) There was Order taken that the Peace of that Place should secured: And it being made appear, by the Declarations and Confessions of the Masters, and severals of the Students, that the Students did enter into Bonds and Combinations, to which, among other things, contrary to the Laws of this Kingdom, they did oblige themselves to adhere to one another, if they were called in question therefore, and in confidence of that Seditious Combination, they did upon the Twenty-Fifth of December last, assemble in a Tumultuary way, and assault and affront several Persons, and to strengthen their Combination, did associate themselves with Prentices, and introduce a new way of Tumultuating, by putting up blue Ribbans, as Signs and Cognisances, not only to difference them from others, but likewise for Convocating themselves, in pursuance of those Seditious and Tumultuous Designs, (a practice and preparative not to be endured in any well Governed Kingdom) For which, being (justly) reproved, they did some few days thereafter, run up and down the Streets in Tumults, disquieting the Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes, and threatening the Provost of that of Our City, with the burning of his house of Priest-field, and other injuries; and accordingly, within some few days thereafter, the House of Priest-field was (to the horror and astonishment of sober Men) burned down, by throwing in Fire-balls, and other Combustible Matter, as appears by most convincing proofs, lying in the Records of Privy Council, which are also notour enough to convince, even those, who from the same disloyal Principles, that prompted them to attempt those Boys, continue with a villainous confidence, sutiable to their malicious porjects, to ascribe the said burning to accidental Causes: Upon all which, the Lords of Our Privy Council, convinced by these proofs, and considering how disloyal and mutinous Persons did, in the last Age, bring on all their dreadful Rebellion, from such beginnings, and that some who studiously imitate their proceedings, have of late, in this Our Kingdom, used their utmost endeavours, to incline all Societies to such Disorders (though without success) Have by an Act of the date hereof, Ordered the Gates of the Schools of that College to be shut up, till they should be fully informed of the Root, and progress of these Disorders, and satisfied by the submission and punishment of the Offenders. We therefore, with advice of Our Privy Council, to prevent any further Seditious Tumults and Disorders from these Students; do Command them, and each of them, to retire Fifteen Miles at least from that our City of Edinburgh, within Twenty-Four hours after the Publication hereof, and not to come within the limits foresaid, without express leave from our Privy Council, and that under the pain of being punished as Sidecious Persons, and contemners of our Authority, discharging here by their Parents, Tutors, and all others within the bounds foresaid, to resset or entertain them after the time foresaid, without finding Caution to the Clerks of Council, for their good Behaviour. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you straight and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Marcat Cross of Edinburgh, and thereat by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premises, that none pretend ignorance. The which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and severally, Our full Power, by these Our Letters, delivering them by you duly Execute and indorsat again to the Bearer.  
Given under Our Signet, at Edinburgh, the Twentieth-One of January, One Thousand-Six-Hundred, Eighty and One, and of Our Reign, the Thirty Two Year. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. PAT. MENZIES. Cl. Sti. Concilij.  
GOD save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his Sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1681.  
And Reprinted at London, January 29th, following.