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C R  〈…〉 A PROCLAMATION, against Field-Conventicles.  
CHARLES', by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To _____ Our Lion King at Arms, and his Brethren Herald, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pursuivants, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute Greeting:  
Forasmuch as Field-Conventicles, which were in Our Laws, by the universal consent of all the Representatives of this Our Kingdom, declared to be the Rendezvouses of Rebellion; are now found, by the undeniable experience of all sober men, to have bred up the unwarry Commons unto a most atheistical giddiness, to the owning of those murdering principles, which are a reproach to the Protestant Religion, and inconsistent with the security of every private man, and to the contemning of their own Master and Landlords; We therefore, with advice of Our Privy Council, Resolving to secure, not only Our Government, and such of Our Subjects, as live peaceably under it, but even to restore these very Masters and Landlords to their just Rights, over these their Tenants and Servants, which they so justly lost by suffering them to frequent Field-Conventicles, in which they were so debauched in their duty to them; Do hereby Command and Ordain, that how soon soever any Field-Conventicle, or other Conventicles, understood to be Field-Conventicles by construction of Law, shall be kept, the Heretor in whose Lands or House the same is kept, whether the Lands belong to them in Propperty or Commonty, if they be present, or their Baliffs or Factors if they be absent, or their Tutors or Curators, and their Baliffs or Factors if they by Minors, shall immediately advertise the Sheriff of the Shire, Lords of Regality, Stewart of the Stewartry, Bailiff or Bailirie, and the Magistrates of the burgh's, within whose Jurisdiction the said Field-Conventicle was kept, within three days after the same is kept; certifying them, if they fall to give the said Advertisement, they shall be fined in the fourth part of their valued yearly Rent; Upon which Information, the said Sheriffs and other Magistrates foresaids, shall be obliged, and are hereby commanded and required, to order the Heretors of the Paroch to meet, and to take trial who were at, or in accession to the said Conventicle. And to the end, they may be the better able to proceed in the said trial, the the said's Heretors are hereby Impowered to Examine upon Oath, such as they shall suspect, or who shall be best able to give Information therein, and to return to the Sheriff, or other Magistrates foresaids, the trial so taken by them, and that with all possible expedition; and which trial, the said Sheriffs and Magistrates, or there Deputes, are hereby required immediately to cite before them, those contained in the said return, or any others whom they have reason to suspect to have been at the said's Conventicles, and to fine such of them as compear, and amerciat such as are absent, as accords of the Law: upon which Sentences, Hornings and Captions being raised, under the Signer of Our Privy Council, by the saids Sheriffs, and the other Officers foresaid, (to whom the half of the said's fines and amerciam 〈◊〉 s, are for their pains and expenses, hereby declared to belong) the Heretors and Masters of the said's Rebels, are hereby obliged to concur with the Sheriff or other Officers, their Deputs or others whom they shall name, to the poinding the said's Rebels Goods, apprehending their Persons, and that under the pain of being liable to the fine, and penalties inposed upon the Delinquents. Likeas, the said's Sheriffs and others foresaids, are hereby required to give an account of their diligence in the Premises, to Our Privy Council, upon the first Council of July and December yearly, under the pains contained in the eighteenth Act of the third Session of Our second Parliament; all which shall be with or prejudice to Us; and Our Officers of State in Our Name, to raise pursuits before the Lords of Our Privy Council against such who have been present at Field-Conventicles (though without Arms) for an Arbitrary punishment, or to insist before Our Criminal Court, against such who have been thereat in Arms, for underliing the Crime of Treason, conform to the fifth Act of the first Session of Our first Parliament, and Our Proclamation, dated the thirdenth day of May, one thousand six hundred seventy and nine years. And to the effect, Our Pleasure in the Premises may be made known; Our Will is, and We charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent, these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and Mercat Crosses of the Head burgh's of the several Shires within this Kingdom, and other places needful, and therein Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Promises, that none pretend ignorance, according to Justice, as ye will answer to Us thereupon; the which to do, We commit to you cojounctly and severally, Our full Power, by their Our Letters, delivering them by you duly execute, and ind●●●… again to she bearer. And ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the eight day of April, One thousand six hundred eighty and one, And of Our Eaign, the threity three Years. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. WIL PATERSON. Cl. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, 1681.