PROCLAMATION For Completing the Levy for the thousand Men, for the Year 1697. And in case of deficiency to poinded the Leaders.  
WILLIAM By the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith: To Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms; Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and severally; specially Constitute Greeting; Forasmuch, as We by Our Proclamation, of the Date the sixteenth day of December last by past, did Require and Command the Commissioners of Supply within the several Shires of this Kingdom, to have Met upon the Days, and at the Places mentioned in the said Proclamation; And there and then to have Designed and had in Readiness in manner, and Conform to the twenty third Act last Session of this current Parliament; and Method therein set down; The respective Numbers of Men particularly mentioned in the foresaid Proclamation, or Twenty four Pound Scots for each Man not delivered to, or received by the Officers sent by Order of Our Privy Council, or of Colonel George Hamilton Colonel to one of Our Regiments of Foot in Flanders, at the head burgh's of the several Shires and Stewartries of this Kingdom, at the Days particularly mentioned in the foresaid Proclamation: And albeit Officers did attend at the head burgh's of the said's respective Shires and Stewartries at the Time and upon the Days prefixed in Our former Proclamation, to have received the Men from the said's respective Shires and Stewartries which they were to Furnish for this year, or Twenty four Pounds for each undelivered Man, conform to the foresaid Act of Parliament: Nevertheless in many Shires, neither Men nor Money were delivered, to the great Detriment of Our Service; and Disappointment of Our Officers, who thereby were to make the Recruits necessary for Our Troops in Flanders, and to the great Expense of the said's Officers and their needless Attendance; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Require and Command the Commissioners of Supply, of all the Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, to Meet, and timeously design Leaders for the respective Proportions of Men to be Furnished by their said's Shires or Stewartries; and which Leaders so designed for all the Shires and Stewartries upon this side of Tay, We with Advice foresaid, Require and Command to Provide and have in Readiness the respective Numbers of Men, which they as Leaders are appointed to Furnish; or Twenty four pounds' Scots for each undelivered Man; Which Men or Money foresaid, are to be delivered or paid in by them, at the head burgh's of the respective Shires or Stewartries, to such Officers or others as shall be sent by the Lords of Our Privy Council, or the said Colonel George Hamilton, sufficiently Impowered by written Orders and Warrants upon the Twentieth day of this Instant Month of February. And the respective Leaders for all the rest of the Kingdom, to deliver or pay their Men or Money, at the respective head burgh's of their Shires or Stewartries, to the Persons to be sent and Impowered in manner foresaid, upon the First day of March next to come; with Certification to the said's Commissioners, who shall not design Leaders within their respective Bounds, they shall be liable to the Penalties for their Failyour therein, mentioned in the Acts of Parliament made anent the Militia. And We with Advice foresaid, Certify, Declare and Decern, that such of the Leaders who shall fail to deliver the Men, or pay the Money to the Persons so to be sent and Impowered in manner foresaid, at the Places, and upon the Days respective abovementioned, they shall be liable to the said's Persons Impowered to receive the same, in the Sum of One hundred pounds' Scots for each Man that shall not be delivered, or the said Sum of Twenty four pounds' Scots in Money paid for him, in manner foresaid; which hundreth Pounds is presently to be Exacted and Raised from the respective deficient Leaders in manner specified, and appointed for Deficiency in the Outreicks to the Militia, by the second Act, second Parliament King Charles the Second: Conform whereunto, We with Advice foresaid, Authorise and Empower the Commissioners of Supply, or any two of them, after Trial taken, that the respective Leaders, or any of them have been Deficient in the delivery of their Men, or Payments foresaids, to give Order and Warrant to any Person whom they shall think fit, (whom We hereby make and Constitute Our Sheriff in that part to that effect allenarly) to poinded and Destrinȝie, the readiest Goods and Gear of the said's deficient Leaders, wherever the same may be found; apprise and make Sale thereof towards the payment of the said hundred Pounds for each undelivered Man to be specified in the said Warrant, and the Charges and Expenses of the poinding and apprising, (these Charges always not exceeding the Sum of ten pounds' Scots Money for each hundred Pounds,) for which the poinding shall be used, with power to our said Sheriff in that part, by virtue of that Order, to poinded the Goods, without necessity of carrying the same to the Paroch-Church, or Mercat-Cross of the Head-Burgh of the Shire, or Stewartry to be apprised, and to do and act in the Execution of the said Order, sicklike as a Messenger at Arms may do by the Law, in Execution of Letters of poinding and apprising given under our Signet: Providing always, that the Goods poinded be Valued and apprised by two honest Sworn Men, whose Oaths, the said Sheriff in that part, is Authorized to take for that effect. And Declares that it shall be leisum to the Party, from whom the Goods shall be poinded, to redeem the same within six days after the poinding, by payment of the Sums for which the poinding shall be used, Expenses of the poinding foresaid, and forty Shilling Scots Money for each day during the not Redemption. And in case the Goods be not redeemed within the space foresaid, Declares, that it shall be lawful to the said Person, Officer, or other, to whose Behoove the Goods are poinded, to retain the Goods, or sell the same, he satisfying the Party, from whom the Goods were poinded, of the superplus Price, if any be, after Deduction of the third of the Sum to which they were apprised, and forty Shilling Scots for ilk day during the space the Party had power to redeem: And Declares the said Warrant, Signed by two of the said's Commissioners, to have the Force and Strength of a Decreet; and that there is no necessity of any Precept, or Charge to follow thereon; but that the poinding and apprising so used, by virtue of the said Warrant is and shall be as lawful and valid, as if all the Solemnities requisite and usual in Poyndings, were observed conform to the foresaid Act concerning the Militia, in all Points according to which, the Numbers of Men to be Outreiked for Our Service in this present year, were to be furnished. 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 remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance. And We hereby Ordain Our Solicitor to Transmit Copies hereof to the several Clerks to the Commissioners of Supply of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom. And We Require and Command them to give Advertisement in Writing, to the several Leaders within their Bounds, of the days prefixed for Delivery of their said Men, or the said twenty four pounds' Scots, and of the Certification and Penalty above-set-down, in case of failyie, with the Execution to follow hereupon, for exacting thereof, as they will be Answerable. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed and Published.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the tenth Day of February, And of Our Reign the eight Year, 1697. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD Save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Excellent Majesty, Anno DOM. 1697.