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EDINBURGH, The seventeenth of November, one thousand six hundred and sixty four.  
FOrasmuch as it is notour, that divers Ministers, who have gone off their Charges, or are outed by Law, do ordinarily repair to Edinburgh, and other burgh's and Places, expressly forbidden by Acts of Council, and do there, in open contempt of His Majesty's Authority and Acts of Parliament and Council, hold their meetings and keep seditions correspondences, and use contrivances for seducing and debauching the Subjects from the duty and obedience they own to the Laws and Authority established, to the scandal of Religion, and endangering of the publich Peace and Quiet. Therefore, the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council ordains a Macer to pass to the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh, and in His Majesty's Name and Authority, to command and charge, all those persons who have been removed from the charge of the Ministry since the first of January, one thousand six hundred and sixty one, to remove themselves out of the Burgh of Edinburgh, within forty eight hours after publication hereof; and not to repair or abide therein, or in other places prohibited by Act of Council, dated the thirteenth of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty three, unless they ask and obtain licence, to go about their lawful business, from the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, or from the Bishop of the Diocese: With certification, that if after publication hereof, they be found to repair unto, or abide in Edinburgh or other forbidden places foresaids, they shall be seized upon and put in sure firmance, until they receive the punishment provided by Law against the movers of sedition. And ordains these presents to be printed and published, that none pretend ignorance.  
Pet. Wedderburne, Cl. S ti Concilii.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1664.