A PROCLAMATION, For taking the Oath of Allegiance. At Edinburgh, the second day of September, One thousand six hundred eighty nine years. Present in Council, E. Crafurd P. M. Douglas. E. Southerland. E. Annandale. L. Ross. L. Ruthven. Sir Hugh Campbel of Calder. Sir Patrick Hume of Polwart. Sir James Murray of Blackbarrony. James Brodie of that jik. Sir John Hall L. Provost of Edinburgh. THe Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council Considering, That Their Majesty's King William and Queen Mary, with Advice and Consent of the Estates o●Parliament, Have Statute and Ordained, that the Oath of Allegiance should be Sworn and Subscribed, not only by all the Members and Clerks of Parliament, but also by all other persons presently in public Trust, Civil, or Military, or who shall be hereafter called to any public Trust within the Kingdom; Therefore the said's Lords of His Majestics Privy Council, Do Ordain and Appoint, all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailies of Royalties, and Regalities, and their Clerks, Commissars, their Deputs, Clerks and Fiscals, Justices of Peace, all present Magistrates, Deans of Gilled, Counsellors, and Clerks of Burghs Royal, and of Regality, and such as shall succeed them in Office, in presence of the Sheriffs of the respective Shires, or Stewarts of the Stewartries, within which the said's Burghs lies, or their Deputs where any are, and where no Sheriffs, or Stewarts, or their Deputs are, in presence of any Counsellor, or Member of parliament, the Admiral-Deputs, Judges of the high Court of Admiralty, and all particular Admiral-Deputs within the Kingdom, and the Clerks of the respective Courts, and all other persons who presently are, or hereafter shall happen to be in public Trust within this Kingdom, to publicly Swear and Subscribe the Oath of Allegiance hereunto subjoined, betwixt and the twenty fourth day of September instant, which is to be Recorded in the Registers of the respective Courts, and Extracts thereof under the Clerks hands, to be reported to the Clerks of His Majesty's Privy Council, betwixt and the fifteenth day of November thereafter, with Certification to them if they failyie therein, the former Acts of Parliament made anent swearing the Oath of Allegiance, and penalties therein-con●●ined shall be impartially Execute against, and insticted upon the refusers. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed, and Published by Macers, or Messengers at Arms, at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii. God save King William and Queen Mary. Follows the Oath of Allegiance. I Do sincerely Promise and Swear, That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, So help me GOD. Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, by Order of Secret Council, Anno Dom. 1689.