PROCLAMATION, Indemnifying Deserters, and declaring what Passes will be sufficient.  
WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender 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, We have allowed and Ordained, that all Deserters from Our Regiments in Flanders, since their being there, be seized as Deserters by Our Officers, lately come from Flanders for Recruits; As also, that such of these Deserters who engaged in any of Our Regiments abiding in Scotland, be delivered to the said's Officers, to be transported again to Flanders; And lest the foresaids Deserters may apprehend that they may still be liable to punishment as Deserters; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby fully Pardon and Indemnify all such of the said's Deserters as shall happen to be transported to Flanders in manner foresaid for their said Desertion, remitting to the said's Deserters their foresaid Crime of Desertion, as fully and freely in all respects, as if the said Crime had never been committed and incurred, but that all other Deserters may be duly punished, and none may presume for hereafter to Desert on any pretence. We further hereby with Advice foresaid, Ratify and Revive all former Proclamations against Deserters, ordaining the same to be put to execution against all Deserters not hereby pardoned, or presently engaged in Our Service, with all rigour; And that for hereafter no question may be moved about Passes, We hereby with Advice foresaid, Ordain all Colonels of the Regiments in Our Service, to intimat to their inferior Officers, that none of them presume to give a Pass to any Soldier under their Command, unless the said inferior Officer be a Field Officer, and in absence of the said's Colonels out of the Kingdom: Declaring, likeas it is hereby Declared, That all Passes to be hereafter given contrair to the present Order, shall be void and of no effect to the persons bearers and users thereof: 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 of this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority make publication hereof, that none may pretend ignorance. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the twenty sixth day of February, and of Our Reign the sixth year, 1695. 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. 1695.