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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
A PROCLAMATION, Offering a Reward to such as shall discover and apprehended any of these persons guilty of a late horrid villainy and assasination made upon the foreshown mayor of Edinburgh, and others.  
CHARLES by the grace of God, King of Great britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To our Lovits, 〈◇〉 Macers, or Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally, specially constitute Greeting;  
Forasmuch as notwithstanding of Our tenderness and clemency to all Our Subjects, which hath extended even to those who have not cared to comform themselves to Our Laws, yet severals pretending to be of the Protestant profession, have not only disgraced, and endeavoured to ruin the true reformed Religion, established in this Our Kingdom, and overturned the Principles of all Society and Government by a bloody and distracted false Zeal, which hath prompted them to open Rebellion, to the Printing of Jesuitical murdering tenants, and the deforcing and invading such as are clothed with Our Authority: but also have proceeded to such extravagant and inhuman practices, as tend to the destruction of Mankind itself. Amongst many instances whereof, some villainous murtherers, did lately lay a design to kill, and assasinat the Town mayor of Edinburgh; for whom they having sent, upon pretext to disipat a Conventicle, they did discharge many Shots at him, and other Soldiers who assisted him, and thereafter wounded him and them mortally in several places of their bodies, threatening to kill him if he would not swear never to put Our Laws in execution: Which affront being done publicly to Our Authority, in the Capital City of Our Kingdom, the very day of the meeting of Our Council, and being a practise laid down to terrify all such as serve Us, and to involve all in a confusion, which they most earnestly wish. Therefore We, with advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby invite all such as can make any discovery of that designed horrid villainy and assasination; and assure all such as can make any discovery, even such as have had accession thereto, of Our full Indemnity, and of the sum of one thousand marks to him who shall be the discoverer of any in accession thereto, so as they may be apprehended, but especially of Mr. John Kae, son to the deceased Mr. Adam Kae, late Minister at Borg,( who is proved to have been the ringleader of these miscreants, and who was formerly apprehended in the like fanatic Tumult, and outrageously cried to stob the Town mayor) as also 〈◇〉 Turnbul, Tennent to Broomhall, and 〈◇〉 Turnbuls, his two Sons, Michael Cameron, Son to Allen Cameron, and 〈◇〉 Crawfoord, Sister to Captain James Crawfoord who lodged these Assasinats, and is fled with them. Our Will is herefore, and We charge you straitly, that incontinent their Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat across of Edinburgh, and other places needful, and thereat in Our Name and Authority, make publication of the premises. And ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the 12. day of March, 1679, And of Our Reign the threttieth one Year. Per actum dominorum Secreti Concilij, Tho. Hay, Cls. St. Clij.  
GOD save the KING.   

Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, 1679