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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
A PROCLAMATION, For Securing the Peace of the Highlands.  
JAMES by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To the Macers of Our Privy Council, or Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially Constitute, Greeting:  
Forasmuch as we having by Our late Proclamamation of the twentieth Day of July last bypast, renewed a Commission granted by Our Dearest and Royal Brother of ever Blessed Memory, of the date the ninth day of August, 1682. years, to the Commissioners therein mentioned, and for the Districts therein specified, for seeing to the Peace of the Highlands, And whereas we are informed, that notwithstanding of the said Commission, and Our said Proclamation, Thiefs, Sorners and Robbers, do continue still to infest, Rob, spoil and trouble Our People there, And being resolved that they should be brought to Condign Punishment, both for bygones, and in time coming: We with advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby Require and Command Our Commssioners for the District of Caithness and Sutherland, to meet at Lochnaver the first day of October next; and these for the District of the Shires of Ross, Invernes, Cromarty, Nairn and Elgin, to meet at the head of Lochness the said first day of October next; These for the District of the Shires of Bamff, Aberdeen, Kincardin and Forfar, to meet at Kincardin of Neil, the twenty second day of September Instant; and these of the District of the Shires of Perth, Stirling, Dumbartoun and Argile, to meet at the Kirk of Balquhidder, the said twentieth second day of September Instant: And then and there to affix and hold Courts, Call and conveen before them respectively, all Persons suspect, or that shall be suspect guilty of any of the Wrongs, Thefts, Robberies, Depredations, or any other Crimes mentioned in the said Commission, and Our said late Proclamation, and to proceed against and punish them according to our Laws, and as is fully mentioned in the said Commission and Proclamation; Declaring hereby, that the Persons guilty of the said's Crimes, are not to be understood to be comprehended within our late Act of Indemnity, as to restoring of private Damages, Losses and Injuries; but that Our said's Commissioners, may proceed against and Punish them as said is: And further, we hereby Empower and Authorise Our said's Commissioners, in their Districts respective (after the said First day of meeting) To appoint their own Diets, and places of meeting thereafter, from time to time, as they shall find most convenient for Our Service, and the Peace of the Highlands, and therein to Do, and Act every manner of way, conform to the said Commission, and Our Prolcamation following thereupon, and the Laws, and Acts of Parliament of this Our Realm, Promitten to hold firm and stable, etc. And We hereby Require and Command all Our Sheriffs, and Our other Magistrates within the said's Districts respective, to be concurring and assisting to Our said's Commissioners in the Premises, as they will answer at their higehst Peril. And that Our Pleasure herein may be known, Our Will is, and We Charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to Our Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of Caithness, Sutherland, Inverness, Cromarty, Nairn, Elgin Bamff, Aberdeen, Kincardin, Forfar, Perth, Dumbartoun, Stirling, Argile Terbet, and other places needful, and there, in Our Royal Name and Authority, make Publication of Our Pleasure in the Premises; And We hereby Require the Sheriffs, and other Magistrates of the respective Shires foresaids, to cause this Our Proclamation to be read and affixed at the several Paroch-kirk-doors upon the First Lords Day, after the same comes to their hands, and after Divine Worhip, besides their causing publish the same at the Mercat Crosses aforesaid, as they will be answerable.  
Given under Our Signet, at Edingburgh, the Third day of September, 1685. And of Our Reign the First Year. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. WILL. PATERSON, Cls. Sti. Concilii 
 GOD Save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno DOM, 1685.  
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