A PROCLAMATION, 
 Anent the Baggage-Horse.  
Edinburgh, the sixth of August, 1689.  
THe Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council Considering, that in obedience to their Act of the Seventeenth day of July last bypast, several Leaders of Horse within the Shires of Fife, Kinross, Edinburgh, Striviling and Clackmannan, and the Magistrates of the respective Burghs within the same, have not sent out their several proportions of the Baggage-Horse, for conveying of Provisions to the Army, through whose default and disobedience, several Leaders, and other persons, have had more than their proportion of Horses pressed, and taken from them; And to the end, that such as have not given a just obedience to the Councils Commands, may not go unpunished; And that these who have had more than their proportion Pressed out, may be Redressed, and that such of the Horses sent out, and their Graith which hath been seized upon, bought up, and detained by others than the true Owners thereof, may be restored. The Lords of Privy Council, Do, in His Majesty's Name and Authority, Require and Command the Sheriff-Deputs of the Shires , to make a strict Enquiry anent these who have been deficient in sending out their proportion of the Baggage Horse, and to conveen and find them liable for the penalty contained in the former Act, and to exact and uplift their several Fines to be forthcoming towards the relief of others, who have had their Horses Pressed out upon the late Expedition; And they Do, in Name and Authority foresaid, Require and Command, all and sundry persons within the Shires , and Towns thereof, who have seized upon, bought up, or found straggling, any Horses, whether Graithed, or not, since the 25 day of July last, that they give an account thereof to the Sheriff-Deputs of the respective Shires, and Magistrates of the several Burghs, and deliver the same over to them, to be made forthcoming for the use of their Owners, betwixt and the first day of September next to come, with Certification to such as shall not give an account of, and deliver the said's Horses to the said's Sheriff-Deputs, or Magistrates of Burghs, that they shall be proceeded against, and punished as guilty of Theft. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed, and Published by Macers of Privy Council, at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needful, that none may pretend Ignorance.  
Extracted by me GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 God Save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, by Order of His Majesty's Privy Council, 1689.