A PROCLAMATION, Obliging Heritors and Masters, for their Tenants and Servants.  
CHARLES, by the Grace of GOD, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To Our Lion King at Arms or his brethren Heralds, Macers of Council, Pursuivants, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, Greeting;  
Forasmuch, as notwithstanding of the many good Laws and Acts, made in Our Parliaments and Privy Council, for securing the Protestant Religion, the Order and Unity of the Church, and the Tranquillity and Peace of the Kingdom, many do obstinately continue, through ignorant prejudice, or dissaffection, to withdraw from the public Worship, and to frequent House and Field. Conventicles, which We have so often declared to be the Nurseries of Schism, and Rendezvouses of Rebellion, tending to debauch Our Subjects from that Reverence due to Religion and that obedience they own to Our Authority; And Considering, that these Offenders take encouragement from their supposing a Remisseness in the due and vigorous Execution of Our good and wholesome Laws and Acts provided against them: Therefore, We, with advice of the Lords of our Privy Council, in pursuance of Our late Proclamation, dated the eighteenth day of June, 1674. years, commanding all Heretors, Landlords, and Liferenters, to require their Rentallers and Tenants, to subscribe the Bond thereto subjoined; and of the seventh Act of the second Session of our second parliament, whereby all Our Subjects were discharged to separate or withdraw from the established Meetings for Divine Worship, Declaring, That every person who should absent themselves, without a reasonable Cause, to be allowed or disallowed by the Judges and Magistrates therein mentioned, should, if they had any Land in heritage, Liferent, or proper Wod-set, pay the fifth part of his or her valued yearly Rend every Tennent six pounds, every Cottar or Servant, forty shilling; As also, of the sixth Act of the same Parliament, all Our Subjects were prohibited to cause baptise their Children by any, save their own Paroch Minister, or such as are authorized by the established Government of the Church, etc. Declaring that the Parent offender, should pay the fourth part of his valued Rent, if an Heretor, Liferenter, or proper Wodsetter; fifty pound, if a Tennen twenty pound, if a Cottar; half a years fee, if a servant. As also, of the thirty fourth Act of the first Session of our first Parliament, discharging a our Subjects to procure themselves to be married by Jesuits, Priests, deposed or suspended Ministers, or any others not authorized by Law: Each Nobleman, under he peralty of one thousand pounds; each Baron, one thousand marks; each Gentleman and Bargess, five hundred pounds; and each other person, of one hundred marks scots: And in pursuance of the other Laws and Acts thereanent provided, Do with advice foresaid hereby require and Command all Masters of Families, to cause the Chamberlains, Grieves, Domestic servants, and others entertained by them, give due and exact obedience to the foresaids Acts; and in case of their disobedience, to remove them out of their service, under the pains and penalties contained in the saids Acts: Like as, We strictly require and command all Heretors, Liferenters, Wed setters, and Landlords, to require their Rentallers and Tenants, to subscribe the Bond hereunto subjoined, authorising them hereby to raise Letters to charge them for that effect, upon six days, and to denounce and registrate them to Our Horn; if they be Tenants who have Tacks; and if they be movable Tenants, that they shall upon their disobedience, recover Decreets of Removal and Ejection against them. Also We do hereby discharge the said's Heretors, Liferenters, Landlords, etc. to set their Lands hereafter to any person, by word or write, without inserting the foresaid Surety in their Tacks, and taking Bonds apart, in case there be no written Tacks, that their said's Tacksmen, Ren●…ers, and others, their Hinds, Cottars and others, woe shall live under them in the saids Lands, shall give obedience in manner foresaid: And in case of their disobedience, that their Rights, Tacks, and Possessions, shall be void and null ipso facto, without any Declarator to pass thereupon. It is likewise hereby declared, that if any Cottars or Servants, for whom the Rentallers or Tenants stand bound, shall be found guilty, by transgressing the fore saids Laws and Acts, the respective Masters shall have their Relief off the saids Contraveeners. And it is further declared, that all Masters of Families, Landlords; and Heretors, who shall not give punctual obedience, they shall be liable in the same pains and penalties due by the Contraveeners; but prejudice always of proceeding against the Contraveeners, and inflicting upon them the pains contained in the saids Acts of Parliament; and seeing the single and Liferent Escheat, of such as live within Regalities, belong to the respective Lords thereof, We no ways intending to prejudge the civil Rights of Our Subjects, do allow them to have the benefit thereof, according to Law: But with advice foresaid, do strictly charge and command them to use exact diligence against the Contraveeners of the foresaids Laws, within their respective Jurisdictions; with certification, that if they prosecute them not without collusion, within thirty days after their Delinquence, We will call them before Our Council and punish them for the neglect of their duty. It is hereby declared, that this presents shall no ways deerogate to the former Proclamation, obliging Heretors and others for their Tenants, Cottars, and others, but that the same shall stand, and continue in full force, strength, and effect, to all intents and purposes. And that these presents may be notified to all concerned, 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 other places needful, and there, with all due Solemnity, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication thereof: And for the better Execution of these presents, We require the several Sheriffs, and their Deputes, with all possible diligence, to cause read and publish the same upon a Sabbath day, at the several Paroch Kirks, within the bounds of their Sheriffdomes, albeit some of these parochs may belong to other Jurisdictions, intimating to the Heretors and others foresaids, that they cause their Tenants subscribe these Bonds, and report the same to the respective Sheriffs or their Deputes, who are ordered to return to Our Privy Council an account of the diligence within the Bounds reported to them by the Heretors and others foresaids, within the spaces following, viz. The Sheriffs of the Sheriffdomes of Edinburgh, Haddingtoun, Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Lanerk, Linlithgow, Stirling, Dumbarton, Renfrew, Pearth, and Forfar, betwixt and the second Thursday of November next, and the Sheriffs of the remanent Sheriffdoms within this Kingdom, betwixt and the second thursday of December thereafter. And ordains these presents to be printed and published, that none pretend ignorance. According to Justice, as ye will answer to Us thereupon. The which to do, We commit to you conjunctly and severally, Our full power by these our Letters, delivering them by you duly execute and endorsed again to the Bearer.  
Given under our Signet at Edinburgh, the second day of August, 1677, and of Our Reign, the twenty ninth year. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. Al. Gibson, Cl. S ti. Concilii:  
GOD Save the King.   

Follows the Tenor of the Bond.  
I do hereby bind and oblige me, that I, my Wife, Children in my family, Cottars, and servants, shall not withdraw from Public Divine Worship, in our respective Paroch Churches, but shall attend the public Ordinances there, at the ordinary Diets thereof, under the pains and penalties contained in the seventh Act of the second Session of His Majestie's second Parliament; Which is sx pound scots for every Tennent, and forty shilling scots for every Cottar or servant: As also, that neither I nor they shall contraveen the sixti Act of that same second Session of Parliament, in having any children of ours baptised with any save our own Paroch Ministers or others lawfully authorized, conform to the said Act, under the penalty of fifty Pound scots, for every Tennent, and twenty pound for every Cottar, toties quoties. And that neither I nor they shall be married by Ministers not lawfully authorized, contrary to the thirty fourth Act of the first Session of His Majestie's first Parliament, under the penalty of one hundred marks, toties quoties. And that I, my Wife, and my children in my Family, Cottars, and servants, shall not be present at any Conventicles, either in houses or in the fields, under the penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament and former Proclamation of Council. Consenting, for the more security. these presents be insert and registrate in the Books of Privy Council, that Letters and Executorials may be direct hereupon, in form as effeirs. And constitutes, My Procurators, & C.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Most Sacred Majesty, 1677.