A PROCLAMATION  
Declaring Mr. Richard Cameron, and others, Rebels and Traitors, etc.  
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, Heralds, Macers, Pursuivants and Messengers at Arms, our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly, and severally, specially constitute Greeting;  
Forasmuch, as Mr. Richard Cameron, Cameron his brother, Mr. Thomas Douglas, Mr. Donald cargil, and others their accomplices▪ Have now at last shaken off all respect to Our Laws, and their allegiance itself to Us their undoubted Sovereign, and have entered into express and open Combinations and Covenants, wherein they most Sacrilegiously do by a solemn Oath, Engage themselves to disown Us and Our Authority, and declare it not only lawful, but a Christian duty upon all Our Subjects to rise in Arms against Us, and to murder such as are in any Trust or Employment under Us, declaring Us an Usurper, and that none should obey them who ●re in Authority under Us, but such as would obey the Devil and his Vicegerents, and that they will chase and set up Magistrates who shall govern them according to the Judicial Law of Moses, and not according to the Laws made by Us or any of Our Predecessors: Which Covenant, with several most Impious, Scandalous, and Seditious Pamphlets, were taken from the said Mr. Donald Cargil, (one of their P●●achers) at the Queens-Ferry upon the third day of June instant. Likeas, the said Mr. Richard Cameron, and his brother, and Mr. Thomas Douglas, accompanied with several Ruffians, and particularly john Vallang, brother in Law to Robert Park● one of the Bailiffs of Sanquhar, Daniel Mackmitchel in … gfoot, Thomas Campbel son to _____, Campbel late of Dalblair in Auchinleck Paroch, john Malady brother to the Miller at Cubs-Milne in the same Paroch, john Fowller, sometimes servant to the deceased 〈◊〉 Lindsay of Covingtown, Patrick Gemill son in Law to Charles Logan, Messenger at Cumnock-maines, James Stewart son to Archibald Stewart at Calsey-end, near to the Earl of Galloway's House, Alexander Gordown called of Kilsture, Francis Johnstoun Merchant in Clidsdale, _____ Creichtown, son to Robert Creichtown of Achtitinch now in Water-head, and others to the number of twenty one persons, did upon the twenty two of June, enter within the Burgh of Sanquhar, with drawn Swords and Pistols in their hands, and after a solemn procession through the Town, did draw up at the cross, and published and affixed upon the Cross and other public places thereof, a most Treasonable and unparralelled Paper, disowning Us to be their King, and defaming Us with the very same names and designations used by the Usurpers in their greatest rage after they had murdered the King, our Royal and blessed Father of Eternal Memory, and overturned all the fundamental Laws and Rights belonging to Us and Our Subjects, whose principles and Footsteps they exactly renew and follow; The reading and affixing of which Proclamation by these Traitors and Rebels being clearly proved to Our Privy Council by witnesses upon Oath; And it being notour and undeniable, that these Traitors, to the number of seventy, or thereby, continue in Arms committing all manner of Outrages and Insolences. We have therefore, with advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit, as use is in such cases, to declare the said Mr. Richard Cameron, _____ Cameron his brother, Mr. Thomas Dowglas, Mr. Donald cargil, john Vallang, Daniel Mackmitchel, Thomas Campbel, John Mudy, Patrick Gemill, James Stewart, Alexander Gordown, Francis Johnstown and 〈◊〉 Creichtown, open and notorious Traitors and Rebels against Us and Our Authority, impowering and requiring all Our good Subjects, to treat them as such; And particularly, We hereby require and command all Our good Subjects, as they will be answerable upon their Allegiance, to to do their outmost diligence to discover the said's Traitors, and to give timous Intimation with all possible speed, in case they be not able to seize and apprehend them themselves, to the nearest Officer of Our standing Forces, (if any be within twelve Miles) and if none be within the said distance, to the next Magistrate, commanding all persons to concur with Our Forces for apprehending the said Traitors. And to the effect, the harbourers and ressetters, or those who neglect to discover them, may be known and punished, We do require the hail Heretors, or their Bailiffs or Chamberlands in case of the Heretors' absence, to cause call and cite before them in a Court, all persons living upon their respective Lands, Men or Women above the age of sixteen years, in all the parochs underwritten, viz. Carsfern, Balmaclellan, Dalry, Kells, Barr in Carrick, the Moor Kirk of Kyle, Galstown, Lowdon-Tindergarth, Streven, Lesmehage, Sanquher, Irongray, Glencairn, Cumnock, Monigaff, and Penningham, upon the second and last Tuedayes of July and August next: And to take the Oaths of all the said's persons living upon the respective Lands whether any of these Traitors foresaid were in that Paroch; and where and when; and left they may pretend not to know the said's Traitors, that they discover upon Oath any skulking or lurking persons which they have known to have been in that Paroch after the Publication hereof in the respective Shires, and the Heretors or their Bailiffs and Chamberlands in their absence, to give an account of their diligence in Writing, within eight days after each Diet foresaid, to the Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailiffs of Regalities, Magistrates of burgh's, and shall adjoin thereto the following Declaration upon Oath.  
I _____ do solemnly swear by the Eternal God, that I have truly and faithfully examined upon Oath, the whole Persons; Men and Women living upon my Lands, who compeared, who are above the age of sixteen Years, whereof I am Heretor, Bailiff, or Chamberlain, within the Paroch of _____ and that I caused my Officers give Execution upon Oath, that he did cite at the said's Persons to the foresaids Diets, and have given as account of the Persons who compeared not, or compearing, refused to give Oath. And in case the said's Traitors should leave and dishaunt the abovenamed parochs, and repair to other P●●●chs or places, that immediately upon notice from the Lieutenant General, or any authorised by him to the Sheriffs and other Magistrates of the respective burgh's, where from time to time they resort, the said's Magistrates are ordained to make intimation to the Hereors of their Bailiffs, or their Chamberlains in their absence, to the end they may make the same enquiry after the same way and method, and to return an account of their diligence within two Months after such Intimation from the Leintenant General as aforesaid; with certification to such as compear not & Depone, shall be holden and repute as connivers at and concealers, of the said's Traitors; and that the Heretors, or in their abseace their Balilffs & Chamberlains who shall not return their accounts to the said respective Magistrates as aforesaid or their Deputs, and the faid Magistrates who shall not return their accounts to Our Council the first Council day in August, for their diligence in July, and the first Council day of September for their diligence in August, shall be proceeded against with all rigour, a● … s and concealers of the said's Traitors. And further, We do hereby require and command all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailiffs of Regalities, and Magistrates of burgh's where the said's Traitors use to haunt or resort, to raise such persons in their respective Jurisdictions, as they shall find  for that Service, for whom they will be answerable; and that the Sheriffs and other Magistrates foresaids, require the assistance of the Commissioners of the Militia, in their respective Jurisdictions: And to search for take and apprehend the said's Traitors in their respective bounds, and in case they fly forth thereof, to advertise the Neighbouring, Sheriffs, and other Magistrates who are appointed to do the like diligence conform to the 144. Act 12. Par. K. Ja. 6. And if in pursuit of the said's Traitors they resisting to be taken, any of Our said's Magistrates, or other Our good Subjects shall happen to kill or mutilat them, or any of them. We do hereby declare that they nor none assisting them shall ever be called in question, or pursued Civilly or Criminally therefore in time coming, but that these Presents shall be as sufficient for their exoneration, as if they had Our special Remission, and that their doing thereof shall be repute good and acceptable service done to Us. And for the better encouragement of such as shall apprehend and bring in the saids Traitors dead or alive, the Apprehender of Mr. Richard Cameron, shall, as a reward, have five thousand Marks; and for Mr. Thomas Dowglas, M. Donald Cargil, and for the said _____ Cameron, brother to M. Richard, who re●d and assist the said Traitorous Declaration at Sanquhar, three thousand Marks for each of them, and one thousand Marks for each one of the rest of the Traitors abovementioned, to be instantly paid to them by the Commissioners of our Thesavary. And ordains these Presents to be Printed, and published at the Mercat Crosses of Edinburgh, and Mercat Crosses of the remnant head burgh's of the several Shires of this Kingdom on the south side of the Water of Tay, and other places needful, by the Sheriffs of the respective Shires foresaid, that none pretend ignorance.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the last day of June, One thousand six hundred and eighty and of Our Reign the thirty two Year. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii, WILL. PATERSON, Cl. Sti. Council 
 God Save the King.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1680.