royal blazon or coat of arms A PROCLAMATION, For the Calling out the Levy of One Thousand Men, for the Year 1697.  
WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith: To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constiute, Greeting. Forasmuch, as by the Twenty third Act of the last Session of this current Parliament, It is Statute and Ordained, That for the Service of this present War, and Recruiting of Our Regiments, either at Home or Abroad, there shall be Furnished to Us the Number of One Thousand Men yearly, when We shall Require them, to be Proportioned and Levied, conform to the Proportions contained in the Act of Parliament, one thousand six hundred and sixty three, Entitled, An Humble Tender to His Sacred Majesty of the Duty and Loyalty of His Ancient Kingdom of Scotland, as to the Twenty thousand Foot therein-mentioned; which Thousand Men, by the foresaid Act, are appointed to be Furnished and Levied in this manner, viz. That the Commissioners of Supply for the respective Bounds where the said's Proportions shall fall, or any Five of them as the Quorum, appointed to that effect by the foresaid Act, or the Sheriffs and their Deputs, or the Lords and Bailies of Regalities, or Stewarts and their Deputs, the Magistrates of burgh's, first design and cause be given, the idle, lose and vagabond persons liable by former Acts of Parliament, to be seized by Sheriffs to make up the foresaid Number, and the remainder of the said Proportions are to be put forth according to the former Rules in use for subdividing the same within each Shire▪ And by the foresaid Act of Parliament, Heretors are Impowered to design and make choice of such young Fencible Men living within their respective Bounds, and not having Wife or Children, and who earn their Living by daily Wages or Termly Hire, as shall satisfy for their part of the said Levy, or other wise the Tenants and Fencible-Men shall have their option to offer and pay down for each of the said Men that may fall to be put out by them, the Sum of Twenty four pound Scots, so that the District shall either deliver a good Man effectually, or pay the said Twenty four pounds: And further, the said's Heretors (conform to the foresaid Act of Parliament) are hereby Impowered to secure the person or persons designed, or chosen as said is; and for the encouragement of the foresaids persons so to be designed and made choice of, it is further Statute and Ordained by the foresaid Act, that each of them shall before Delivery, have Twenty pounds Scots paid to him in ready Money by the Officer who receives him, at the sight of one of the said's Commissioners; as also, that their being put forth and engaged as said is, shall not oblige them longer to be and continue Soldiers than for the space of three years, and the first of November next after the Is of the said's three years from the time of their Engagement. And We Considering, that the present Exigence of Our Service, doth require the foresaid Number of One Thousand Men, to be Furnished and Levied for this present Year with all dispatch and expedition: Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council, Require and Commend the Commissioners of Supply of the several Shires, Stewartries and burgh's within this Kingdom, upon this side of Tay, to meet at the Head-Burghs of their respective Shires and Stewartries upon the seventh day of Januarie next to come one thousand six hundred ninety seven, & the Commissioners of Supply for all the rest of this Kingdom, at the Head-burghs of their respective Shires & Stewartries, upon the fourteenth day of the said Month with Certification to such of them not other ways employed in our public Service who shall not meet, they shall be liable each of them to the Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament made anent the Militia and there to Proceed, Design, and have in readiness, in manner, and conform to the Twenty third Act last Session of this current Parliament, and Method therein set down the particular Number of Men respective , or Twenty four pounds Scots for each Man to be delivered to the Officers to be sent by Order of our Priyy Council, or of Colonel George Hamilton Colonel to one of our Regiments in Flanders, at the respective Head-Burghs, upon payment of Twenty pounds Scots to every Man who shall be delivered of the said One Thousand Men, in manner , upon the days after set down. viz. These for the Shires of Edinburgh Berwick, Had●ingtoun, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Linlithgow, Drumfries, Wigtown and Stewartrie of Kirkeudbright, Air, Renfrew, Lanerk, Stirling, Cla●kmannan, Fife, Kinross, and these of the Shires of Argile, Bute and Dumbartoun, with these for the Town of Edinburgh, Leith and Cannongate, at the respective Head-burghs thereof, upon the Fifteenth day of the said Month of Jannuary next, and these for the Shires of Perth, Forfar, Kincardin, and Marishal's part of Aberdeen, Bamf, and the rest of Aberdeen-Shire, with these for the Shires of Elgin, Nairn, and this side of Ness, the Earl of Seaforth and Lord Lovats Division of Inverness, the Shires of Southerland, Caithness, and the rest of Inverness, with the Stewartrie of Orkney and Zetland, upon the twenty second day of the said Month: And We with Advice foresaid, Require the said Colonel George Hamilton timeously to dispatch and send such Officers, or others as he shall think fit, sufficiently impowered with an Order and Warrant under his Hand, to the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries' , to receive thereat the Proportions of Men wherein the said's respective Shires, Stewartries and burgh's are liable, and to make payment of the Twenty pounds Scots to each Person who shall be delivered to them as a Soldier in manner foresaid, or otherways to receive and get payment of the said Twenty four pound Scots for every undelivered Person, and grant Receipt of the samen; And which thousand Men, or twenty four pounds Scots for each undelivered Man, are to be delivered to, and received by the saids Officers at the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom in manner, and by the Proportions after mentioned viz. That there be delivered for the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk at the Head-Burghs thereof, the Number of Sixty six Men; For the, Shire of Benvick at the Head-Burgh thereof, the Number of Forty Men. For the Shire of Haddingtoun Forty Men. For the Shire of Peebles Thirteen Men. For the Shire of Edinburgh Forty Men. For the Shire of Dumfried Forty Men. For the Shire of Wigtoun Fifteen Men. For the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright Twenty five Men. For the Shires of Air and Renfrew Sixty six Men. For the Shire of Lanerk Fifty Men. For the Shire of Linlithgow seventeen Men. By the Town of Edinburgh, Leith and Cannongate, Forty Men. By the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan Thirty four Men. By Fife and Kinross Eighty Men. By the Shires of Argyle, Dumbartoun and Bute, Forty Men: As also there is to be delivered in manner foresaid by the Shire of Perth Eighty Men. By the Shire of Forfar Fifty Men. By the Shire of Kincardin and Marishals Part of Aberdene Forty Men. By the Shire of Bamf, and rest of Aberdeen Shire, Fifty three Men. By the Shires of Nairn. Elgin, and this side of Ness, Fifty Men. By the Earl of Seaforths, and Lord Lovats Division of Inverness, Thirty four Men. By the Shires of Sutherland, Caithness, and the rest of Inverness, Fifty three Men. And by the Stewartries of Orkney and Zetland, Thirty four Men, or twenty four Pounds Scots respective, for each undelivered Man in manner . And We with Advice foresaid, authorise and appoint the several persons after-named, to judge and determine upon all Differences and Debates that may arise betwixt the Commissioners of the several Shires and burgh's, and the Officers that shall be sent to them anent the Sufficiency and Insufficiency of the men to be Outreiked in this present Levy, viz. Sir John Pringle of S●itchel the Laird of Grubet younger, and the Sheriff-deput of Roxburgh for the said Shire, Sir James Murray of Philiphaugh, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, or his Depute for the shire of Selkirk, Sir John Hume of Blacader, Sir John Swintoun of that Ilk; or the Sheriff-deput of the Shire of Bervick, with either of them for the said Shire, the Earl of Lauderdale with either of the Sheriff-deputs of Edinburgh for the Shire thereof, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, with Sir William Austruther of that Ilk one of the Senators of the College of Justice for the Town of Edinburgh, the Lairds of Prestongrange and Bean●●oun, or either of them, with the Sheriff deput of Haddingtoun for the said Shire Lawson of Ca 〈…〉 muir with the Sheriff-depute of Pebbles for the said Shire, Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closburn, and Johnstoun of Elchesh●●ls for the Shire of Drumfries, Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw and the Laird of Garthland for the Shire of Wigton the Lairds of Rusco and Machrimore for the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright, the Lairds of Rowalland, Kilbirnie, Cai●letoun, and John Mure Provost of Air, and the Sheriff-deput of Air for the Shire of Air, the Lairds of Craigens Glanderstoun, and Galled well, and the Sheriff-deput of Renfrew for the said Shire, Sir Alexander Monro of Bear-crofts, and William Cunninghame of Boquhane for the Shire of Stirling Rollo of Woodside for the Shire of Clackmannan Hamilton of Udstoun Sheriff-deput, & Andrew Hay of Craignethen for the Overward of Lanerk Shire Hamilton of Barncleugh, & Hamilton of Aikenhead for the Netherward thereof, the Lairds of Livingstoun, Dudingstoun, & Pardivan for the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow, Sir Charles Halket of Pitfirren, Sir James Mcgill of Rankellior, the Lairds of Randifoord, Auchtermarnie, Ready, Hay younger of Naughtoun, and the Sheriff-Deput of Fyf, for the Shire, of Fyf; The Master of Burghly for the Shire of Kinross, the Lord Ruthven, Sir Colin Campbel of Aberuchle one of the Senators of the College of Justice, the Lairds of Megnish, Culforgie, Dumbarnie younger; And the Sheriff-Deput of Perth, for the Shire of Perth; Fullertoun of Kinnaber, and Miln of Balwillo, for the Shire of Forfar; Irving of Kincousie, and the Sheriff-Deput of Kincardin for the said Shire; And Marschals part of Aberdeen, the Laird of Craigivar, Alexander Duff of Braco, the Laird of Munimusk younger, the Laird of Birkenboog, and Sheriff-Deput of Bamff for the rest of Aberdeen-Shire and Bamff; The Lairds of Brodie, Lethim and Culloden, Dumbar of Grange, and the Sheriff-Deput of Inver●ess for Elgin, Nairn, and this side of Ness; Sir Alexander Mckenzie of Coull, Mckenzie of Redcastle, the Laird of Collodon, and Frazar of Rerick, for the Earl, of Seaforth, and the Lord Lovats, Division of Inverness, the Laird of Balnagoon, Sir Adam Gordon of Dalfollie, and the Sheriff-Deput of Southerland, the Laird of Hempriggs, Sinclair of Brimes younger; for the rest of Inverness, and Shires of Southerland and Caithness; The Land of Ardkinglass, Sir John Campbel of Carrick, for the Shire of Argyle and the Sheriff-Deput of the said Shire, Claud Hamilton of Barns; Colquhoun of Craigtoun for Shire of Dumbarton; The Laird of Kelburn or his Deput for the Shire of Bute; James Beakie of Tankerness, and the Laird of Grahameshall for Orkney and Zetland: And to the Effect Our Pleasure in the Premises may be known. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and to the Mercat-Crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation of the Premises, that none pretend Ignorance.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Sixteenth day of December, and of Our Reign the eighth year 1696. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Excellent Majesty, 1696.