English coat of arms, circa 1685 
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
dieu ET MON DROIT   
ACT Concerning Citations in Processes for Treason.  
EDINBURGH, May 1. 1685.  
OUR sovereign LORD, with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament, Do hereby ratify and Approve the former Custom used by His Majesties Commissioners of Justiciary, in Proceeding against Pannals already in Prison, and Indicted for Treason upon Twenty Four Hours; but for the future His Majesty allows such Pannals to be Cited on forty Eight Hours; and if the Pannals represent such Defences to the Commissioners of Justiciary within that Time as may need an Exculpation: His Majesty, with Advice foresaid, Allows the saids Commissioners to delay the trial till the Days elapse, on which the Exculpation is to be raised.   

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