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A PROCLAMATION, 
 Anent Soldiers Deserting, or Marrying without Certificats.  
WILLIAM and MARY, By the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith; To Macers of Our Privy Council, or Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that Part, conjunctly and severally, specially Constitute, Greeting;  
Forasmuch as, albeit all Soldier's Listed, and Engaged in Our Service, aught to be entirely reserved for that use, and no ways Enticed or Seduced to desert the same: yet of late, Several of Our Liege's, either through Ignorance, or Disaffection to Our Service, have given too great Encouragement to the Soldiers under Our Pay, to Desert, by Enticing and Seducing them thereto, or by Resetting, Concealing and Entertaining them, when they had Deserted, and Relinquished Our Service: As also several Ministers having of late taken upon them, to Join in Marriage Persons Employed in Our Service as Soldiers, without certain Knowledge of their being Single Persons, and not Married to any other Woman at the time; Wherethrough not only great Prejudice, and Discouragement is done to Our Officers, under whom they Serve, but also great occasion of Scandal is given, and dishonour done to God, and disgrace to the Protestant Religion; For Remeed of all which, We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, peremptorily Prohibit and Discharge all and sundry Our Subjects within this Kingdom, to Entice, Persuade, or Seduce any of the Soldiers in Our Service, and under Our Pay, to Desert or Leave their said Service, or to Shelter, Conceal, Harbour or Entertain any Soldier, who Deserts or Leaves the same, without having a Pass, Sealed, and Signed by the Captain, and Commanding Officer for the time, of the Regiment, in which the said Soldier, or Soldiers last Served; Certifying all Our Liege's, who shall hereafter come in the contrair hereof, and against whom it shall be made appear, and proven, that any Soldier Resett, Concealed or Entertained by them, hath Deserted Our Service, and that it was known at the time to the Resetter of the said Soldier, or Soldiers, or Enticer of them to Desert, that they were not Dismissed from Our Service by a lawful Pass, Signed and Sealed in manner foresaid, they, and each one of them shall be liable in the Sum of Ten Pound Sterling Money to the Captain of the Company, under whom any of the said's Soldiers Serve, to be discerned to them by the Ordinar Magistrate of the Place, where the said Resetter, Entiser, or Concealer lives, and that by and attour the Soldiers being liable to a Military Punishment conform to the Articles of War. As also we with Advice foresaid, do strictly Prohibit and Discharge all Ministers, and others within this Our Ancient Kingdom, to Join in Marriage, any Soldier under Our Pay, and Service, with any Woman whatsomever, without first Proclamation of their Banns on three several Sundays, at the Paroch Churches where the Woman lives, and the Soldier quarters for the time: And that no Proclamation of Banns shall be granted to any Soldier, for Marriage, without a Testificar subscribed and sealed by the Captain, and Commanding Officer of the Regiment, wherein the said's Soldiers Serves for the time, be first delivered to the Ministers of the Churches where the Proclamation is to be made, and Recorded in the Session Books thereof, bearing, that the said Soldier to be Proclaimed, is a single Person; with Certification to any Minister, or others, who shall Contraveen the Premises, that they shall be committed to Prison, for the space of three Months, and be otherways punished conform to the Laws of the Land, as the Merit and Circumstances of their Transgression shall deserve. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you strictly, and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and to the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication hereof, that none pretend Ignorance, and Ordains Our Solicitor to send Printed Copies hereof, to the Sheriffs of the several Shires, and Stewartries, whom We Ordain to see the same Published at the Mercat-Crosses, and Stewartries, on a Market-day, and also at the several Paroch-Churches, and Meeting-Houses within their respective Jurisdictions, upon the Lordsday, immediately after Divine Service, as they will be answerable, and Ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the Sixteenth day of September, and of Our Reign the Fourth Year, 1692. Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti. GILB. eliot Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 God save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their Most Excellent Majesties. 1692.