C R  
In DEFENC●  
DIEV ET MON DROIT  
God SAVE THE KING.  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
ACT, Discharging Pedlars Pack-man, and common Posts, to travel without Passes,  
Sederunt HIS Grace The DUKE Of HAMILTOUN, The LORD LUNDIN Secretary of State, The LORD COLINGTOUN Justice Clerk,  
Glasgow the 25th Day of October. 1684.  
THe Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's privy Council, considering that several seditious and disaffected persons, who travel through the Country; as pedlars, and packman, or common Posts, have made it their business these divers years bygone, to carry false and seditious news, and to sell and disperse transonable lybels and pamphlets, and to convocat some of his Majesty's giddy and unstable Subjects to house and field Conventicles: those nourseries of Schism and rendavouses of rebellion, whereby the peace and unity of the Church, has been almost destroyed, and the government itself endangered. Wherefore the said's Lords do hereby in his Majesty's Royal name and authority strictly prohibit and discharge all persons whatsomever, under the notion of pedlars, packman, or common Posts, to travel throw any parts of the Shires of Lanerk, Stirling, Ranfrew and Dumbartoun, or Jurisdictiones whither of Royalty or Regality within the samen, the pedlars, or packman, without a Pass from one of our privy Councillors, Shireffs, beallies of Regalities, or their deputts, magistrates of Royal brughs and all common posts, to carry any Letters or missives, without licence from the general postmaster: with certification to them or any of them, that if they shall presume or take upon hand to travel without the said's Passes, they shall be persewed as vagabounds and soruers, and as dispersers of seditious lybels and pamphlets; and do hereby require and command all Shireffs, beallies of Regalities and there deputts, Justice of peace, and magistrates of brughs Royal, to apprehend the persons of the said's pedlars, or common Posts, who have not the said Passes or licence as said is, and Imprison there persons till they find Caution not to Contraveen herein hereafter, under the penalty of five Hundreth marks, and to answer before the Lords of his Majesty's privy Council when ever they shall he called for, for there contempt and disobedience.  
And ordains these presents to be printed and published at the mercat-cross of Glasgow, and heal other mercat-erosses within the four Shires, that none pretend ignorance.  
Extract By me SIR WILLIAM PATERSON, Knight, Clerk, to his Majesty's most honourable privy Council. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING,   

GLASGOW, Printed by Robert Sanders, One of His Majesty's Printers. 1684.