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A PROCLAMATION Requiring all the Members of Parliament to wait on, and attend His Majesty's High Commissioner at the Palace of Holy-rood-house, the 23. of April, 1685.  


Present in COUNCIL His Orace the Duke of Queensberry, etc. His MAJESTY'S High COMMISSIONER.  
The Lord High Chancellor.  
The Lord Archbishop of St. Andrews.  
The Lord Archbishop of Glasgow.  
The Marquis of Athol, L. Privy Seal.  
The Lord Marquis of Dowglass.  
The Earl of Errol.  
The Earl of Linlithgow, Lord Justice. General.  
The Earl of Southesk.  
The Earl of Panmure.  
The Earl of Balcarras.  
The Earl of Kintore.  
The Lord Livingston.  
The Lord Kinniaird.  
The L. Precedent of the Session.  
The L. Register.  
The L. Advocate.  
The L. Justice Clerk.  
The L. Castle Hill.  
Drumelzier.  
Abbotshall.  
Gos●foord.    
James 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 of Our Privy Council, Pursuivants, and Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally, specially Constitute, Greeting:  
Forasmuch, as We having by Our Royal Proclamation, dated at Our Court at White-Hall, the Sixteenth day of February last, upon divers weighty Considerations of great Importance to Our Service, and to the Peace and Tranquillity of this our Ancient Kingdom: Thought sit to call a Parliament, to meet at Our City of Edinburgh upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 day of April, than next ensuing: And which Diet of Meeting was thereafter by Our Royal Proclamation of the twentieth and second of March last, Continued and Adjourned from the said Ninth, to the twentieth and third day of the said Month of April Instant; and We being resolved that all the Members of the said Parliament should according to their Allegiance and Duty, attend and keep the said Meeting of Parliament, upon the said twentieth third Instant, and upon that day by eight a Clock in the Morning wait upon our High Commissioner, from Our Palace of Holy-rood house to Our Parliament-house, in his Riding up and down from, and to, Our said Palace, and keep and attend the whole Dyer's and Meetings of Our said Parliament, during the Sitting thereof. We therefore with the Advice of our Privy Council, Do hereby Require and Command all the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and all Commissioners of Shires and Burrows, to wait upon, and attend Our High Commissioner, though said day of the Meeting of our Parliament, by eight a Clock in the Morning Precisely, and to Ride according to their Ranks and Orders, from our said Palace to Our Parliament-house, and from thence down again to Our said Palace; and to keep and attend all the Diets and Meetings of our said Parliament, during the Sitting thereof; Certifying such as (without a Lawful Excuse, timely represented and admitted by our High Commissioner) shall be absent, they shall be liable unto, and incur the Pains and Penalties following, contained in an Act of the first Session, of the first Parliament of Our Dearest Brother, of ever Blessed Memory; Dated the thirteenth day of May, 1662. viz: Each Archbishop, Bishop and Noble Man, the sum of twelve hundred Pounds Scots: Each Commssioner of Shires the sum of six hundred Pounds Scots: And each Commissioner of Burrows, the Sum of two hundred pounds' Scots, to be paid to Our Cashkeeper, for Our Use: At whose Instance, all Execution necessary is hereby ordered to pass for Payment thereof: Which Penalties conform to the said Act of Parliament, are declared to be by and attour, and without Prejudice of what other Censure Our Parliament shall think sit to inflict for foe high Contempt and Neglect of Our Authority. And We further Declare, that such Members of Our, Parliament as shall not accompany our High Commissioner on Horseback decently with Footmantles, from Our said Palace, to Our said Parliament-House, and from thence down again to Our said Palace, shall be reputed for Absents, and incur the same Pains and Penalties, as if they were Absent, which are to be Inflicted and Exacted with all Rigour, conform to the thirty fourth Act of the eleventh Parliament of Our Royal Grandfather King James the Sixth of ever Blessed Memory. And further, Woe hereby Require and Command all Persons who have received Commissions from our several Shires and Burrows for being Members of our said Parliament, to enter and give in the same to Our Clerk of Register, the day immediately preceding the said Sitting of Our Parliament, betwixt ten and twelve a Clock in tho Forenoon, (or sooner) to be by him considered and Marked, as they will answer the contrary oh their Peril. And to the effect our pleasure in the Premises may be timeously known to all Persons concerned, Our will is, and We Charge you strictly and command, that in continent these our Letters seen, you pass to though Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and other Places needful, and there by open Proclamation, make Publication of Our Pleasure in the Premises, that all Persons concerned may have notice thereof, and give exact and peremtor Obedience thereto.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the fourteenth day of April, 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 the Kings most Sacred Majesty, Ann DOM, 1685. And Reprinted at London, by George Croom, at the Sign of the Blue Ball in Thames-street, over against Baynard's-Castle.