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A PROCLAMATION, Ordaining all Persons in Public Trust to sign the Certificate and Assurance.  
WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith; To Our Lovits, Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially Constitute, Greeting;  
Whereas by an Act of the second Session of Our Current Parliament of this Our Ancient Kingdom of Scotland, We with Advice and Consent of Our Estates of Parliament, Have Enacted, Statuted and Ordained, That all Persons, who in Law are obliged to Swear and Take the Oath of Allegiance to Us, shall also Subscribe the Certificate and Assurance mentioned in, and Subjoined to the said Act of Parliament, under the Certification therein contained; And We Judging it Just and Reasonable, That the said Act of Parliament should be put to Execution, and receive due Obedience, To the effect it may appear, what Persons are of Integrity, and Dutifully Affected to Us, and Our Government, and that such as are otherways inclined, may be discovered; We therefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Ordain and Appoint, all the Sheriffs, Commiss●●●●●●, Stewarts, Bailies of Royalties, Bailliaries and Regalities, to Sign and Subscribe the said Certificate and Assurance hereunto Subjoined, in presence of one of the Lords, or others of Our Privy Council, being within, or near to their Jurisdiction for the time, and failyying thereof, in presence of one of the Commissioners of Our Current Parliament, who have Taken, or shall first take the same themselves, or in presence of a meeting of the Commissioners of Supply; and all Magistrates of burgh's within their own Fenced Courts, and the Deputs, Clerks, and Clerk-Deputs, and Fiscals of the whole Courts abovenamed, and Justices of Peace, and all others in Trust and Office, who by Law are obliged to take the Oath of Allegiance within this Kingdom, in presence of any of the persons abovenamed, or the Sheriffs, or their Deputs, and that betwixt and the days following, viz. These on this side of the Water of Tay, and Shire of Forfar, betwixt and the twenty day of August current; and all be-north the famine, betwixt and the first day of September, and these in Orknay and Zetland, betwixt and the twenty ninth day of September next to come; and to Record the same in their respective Books, and to Transmit to the Clerks of Our Council, Extracts thereof under their Clerks hands, betwixt and the days following, viz. These on this side of the Water of Tay, and Shire of Forfar, betwixt and the first of September next; and these be-north the same, except Orknay and Zetland, betwixt and the tenth day of September, and these in Orknay and Zetland, betwixt and the fifth day of November next to come, under the Certification contained in the foresaid Act of Parliament. And to the effect Our Pleasure in the Premises may be known, Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you straight and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass, and in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make publication of the Premises, at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and at the whole Mercat-Crosses of the Head-burgs of the Shires and Stewartries, and also at the Mercat-Crosses of the whole Burghs-Royal, of the Bailliaries and Regalities within this Kingdom, that none may pretend ignorance. And appoints the Sheriffs of the several Shires, to cause Publish the Premises, at all the Mercat-Crosses of the burgh's Royal, Bailliaries and Regalities. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet, at Edinburgh, the fourth day of August, 1690. And of Our Reign, the second Year. Per actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. D A: MONCREIFF, Cls. Sti. Concilli.  
Follows the Certificate and Assurance.  
I Do in the Sincerity of my Heart, Assert, Acknowledge and Declare, That Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, are the only Lawful Undoubted Sovereigns, King and Queen of Scotland, als well the Jure as de facto, and in the Exercise of the Government; And therefore I do Sincerely and Faithfully Promise and Engage, That I will with Heart and Hand, Life and Goods, Maintain and Defend Their Majesty's Title and Government, against the late King James, his Adherents, and all others Enemies, who either by open, or secret Attempts, shall Disturb, or Disquiet Their Majesties in the Exercise thereof.  
God Save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1690.