A PROCLAMATION. Ordering the Payment of provisions for the Forces, and Redressing Abuses Committed by them.  
WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of God, King, and Queen of great Britain, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith. To Macers of our Privy Counci1, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and Severally, Specially Constitute, Greeting.  
For as much as by divers Laws and Acts of Parliament, made by our Royal Predecessors, all free quartering of Soldiers in Transient or Local Quarters, and all Localities for furnishing or Carrying Corn, Straw; Hay, or Grass to Soldier's Horses, is expressly Prohibited and Discharged, and by an Establishment under Our Royal Hand, There being Measures laid down, and Fonds appropriate for the exact and punctual Payment of the standing Forces and Garrisons within this Our Ancient Kingdom, and a Commissary appointed for making due and Regular Provisions of Corn, Straw, and Grass, for the Horses and Dragoons presently under Our Pay, and in Our Service within this Our Ancient Kingdom, by ready Money, or otherwise as be can best Bargain with any of Our lieges for their Corn, Straw, and Grass. Whereby the abuses heretofore done and committed upon any of Our lieges, by the Illegal exacting Locality or free Quarter, may be Remeeded and Prevented, and all Mans-meat, and Horse-meat furnished to any Officers or Soldiers in our Service within this Our Ancient Kingdom, duly paid. And we considering how necessary it is, that all Our Good Subjects should know by whom, and in what manner they are to be paid for all provisions of Corn, Straw, and Grass for Horses, and Meat and Drink to be furnished to Our Officers and Soldiers, by them or any of them; and that all Officers and Soldiers within this Our said Ancient Kingdom may Govern and Regular themselves, and the Troops under their Command accordingly, as they will be Answerable. We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Require and Command the Commissary General, appointed and received by the Lords of Our Thesaurie, to make Due and Timous Provisions of Oats, Straw, and Grass, for all Horse and Dragoons at present under Our Pay, and in Our Service within this Our Ancient Kingdom, in their Respective, Transient, and Local Quarter: And that the same may be the more orderly and effectually done, we Require and command all Our Officers, who command the said's Troops, to give timely Notice to the said Commssary of their Removal to and from Local Quarters, and of the Rout appointed for their March in Transient Quarters, that provisions may be ready accordingly. And in case any parties be called to March, upon sudden Commands, which may not be fit to Impart to the Commissary: Then We with advice foresaid, strictly Charge and Require the Commanders of the several. Parties, to buy with Ready Money the Oats, Straw, and Grass, necessary for their Horses, as any other of Our lieges is in use to do, and what he shall depurse or expend thereon: We hereby Require and Command our said Commssary to refound and repay the same. And we with Advice of our Privy Council, do hereby expressly Require and Command Our Commissary General by himself, or Fit Persons employed and entrusted by him to attend at the Magazines which shall be provided for Our Troops at their Respective Quarters, two Hours each Day. viz. Betwixt ten and twelve in the Fore noon, at lest to attend the two Hours  upon one or more days of each week, such as shall be particularly agreed upon betwixt the Commissary and the Officers, to the effect the provisions may be given out by the Commissary, and received by the Officers or Soldiers timously, and without disorder or Confusion, and hereby all Officers and Soldiers are peremptorly Prohibited and Discharged to offer any Injury or Abuse to our said Commissary, or his Deputs, as they will be answerable at their highest Peril. And sicklike, We with advice foresaid, peremptorly Require and Command the Officer Commanding in Chief, in any place of Local or Transient Quarters, to see the hall Meat and Drink furnished to the Soldiers and Officers under his Command, by the Landlords of their Quarters, exactly and completely paid at the ordinary Rates of the Country: And in Case there shall be any exaction or discharge of free Quarters Extorted, or abatements exacted below the ordinary Rates, or any other abuse Committed; We, with advice foresaid, Require and Command the Commanding Officer there for the time, to make payment by ready Money for the whole Soldiers and Officers on the place, in their Local Quarters, once every Week are Farthest, and Trasinent Quarters before Removal, if they stay a shorter time than a Week, under the pain of Casheiring and breaking the said Commanding Officer, upon complaint of his Transgresling the Premises, to be made by the party Injured to our privy Council, or to the Sheriff or his Depute, bailie of Regality, or his Depute, Stewart of the Stewartrie, or his Depute, or any two Commissioners of Supply of the Bounds and Shire, where the said's Abuse, and Injuries are done and Committed, whom, or either of whom, We with advice foresaid, Require and Command to receive the said Complaints, and transmit the same to the Clerks of Our Privy Council, within ten days after any such Complaints shall be made to them, under the pain of being liable to repair the party Injured themselves: And which Complaints, We with advice foresaid, appoint to be pursued by Our Advocate, and Solicitor upon the public Charge. And in case any private Party shall think fit to pursue the same themselves, We hereby Require and Command the Expenses that shall be laid out by them, in prosecution thereof, to be Repaid and Reimbursed to them by the Lords of Our treasury, also well as the Expenses to be laid out by Our Solicitor, all which are to be retained and deduced by the saids Lords of Our Thesaurie, out of the Officers pay against whom the said Complaint is made and verified, And in csse any Inferior Officer in Transient or Local Quarters, shall transgress any of the premises; We hereby Require and Command the Commanding Officer, upon Complaint made to him, and Proven, instantly to pay the Complainer what shall be due to him. And if the Person complained on be an uncommissionar Office, the said Commander is instantly to break and Cashier him, and if he be a Commissionar Officer, who shall to Transgress; We with Advice foresaid, Require the said Commanding Officer to suspend him in the mean time, and immediately to Represeni the same to our Privy Council, that they may give Orders for breaking and Cashiering the Officer transgressing, providing the Complaints for not payment of Local Quarters, or Commiting any of the Abuses foresaid therein be made to the said Commanding Officer, within Eight days after. Weeks Quarters are Resting, or any other Abuses Committed, and in Transient Quarters, before the party's Removal, with Certification, if payment be not craved, or Complaints made within the time foresaid, the Commanding Officer shall be free, but prejudice to the Landlords and others to seek their payment and Reparation from the Persons Debtors therein, or Committers thereof, by all other Legal means, and it shall be sufficient evidence that the Commanding Officer has been complained to, and Required to make payment of Provisions furnished to Soldiers, Men and Horses under his Command, or redress abuses Committed by them, if the same be made to him in presence of a Mgistrate within Burgh, a Justice of Peace or two Witnesses. And We, With advice foresaid, do declare, that no Discharges shall be sufficient for exonering the Soludiers and Officers; and Instructing the Payment of their Quarters, unless they be Subscribed by the Master of the Ground, or his Chamberlain or the Officer of the Ground before two Witnesses or a Magistrate within Burgh. And for preventing of a Common Abuse done and Committed upon Our lieges, by Soldiers and Officers, in their Marches, Pressing and Seizing upon Horses for their own private Use and Service. We with Advice foresaid, do strictly Prohibit and Discharge all pressing or Seizing upon Horses by any Officer of Soldier for their own Particular and private Service, under the pain of a Months pay to be retained (upon Complaint to be made and instructed as aforesaid) off the Officer who Commands, and where Horses are necessary for carrying Artillery, Ammunition, or Provision, or any other use of the Army in the Towns, or in the Country, that the same be employed and made use of, by order of the Commander of the Party, and of the Magistrates of burgh's jointly, if the Horses be furnished within Burgh: And by the said Commander, and any one of the Commissioners of Supply within the Shire where the Horses are furnished and made use of in Landwart. And We with Advice foresaid, conform to the third Act, Parliament 1681, ordain that there be paid for each day that the said Horses shall Travel, three Shillings Scots for each two Miles to the Man and Hoary, and each day that they do not Travel, Six Shillings Scots to the Man, and as much for the Horse, the Man being obliged to provide himself and the Horse, which shall be paid by the Magistrates of the Burgh, if the Horses be taken within a Town, or if in the Country, by the Collector of the Supply in the Shire, who are to be repaid thereof, Or to have the same allowed to them by the receiver General. And that the Horses necessary to be made use of, and Employed for the Service and Use of our Forces above expressed, may be the more Regularly and Equally proportioned and provided: We with advice foresaid, Require and Command the Magistrates within Burgh, and Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of Peace in Landwart, to cause provide from time to time a competent Number of Horses, within their respective Bounds, for the Service of Our Forces, and the Uses foresaids, as they will be Answerabie at their Peril. And we with Advice foresaid; Prohibit and Discharge any Officer or Soldier to Safe upon, or Press any Horses without the concourle of the Persons , or to detain them longer than one Days March at farthest: But to Restore and give Back the said's Horses Employed in manner foresaid in good Case, under the pain of a Months pay to be retained in manner foresaid, off the Officer who shall be found to contraveen the Premises, besides the payment of the price of the Horse to the furnisher, as the same shall be instructed before the Bailies within Burgh, Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailies of Regalities, or Deputs, or Justices of Peace in the Country: And to the end Our Royal Pleasure in the Premises may be made public and known. OUR WILL IS, And we Charge you strictly, and Command, that incontinent, these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and all other Mercat crosses of the Head burgh's of this Kingdom, als well Royalty as Regality, and Stewartries and other places needful, and there in our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premises: And sicklike, that all our Forces, as well as our Liedges, may have notice hereof, We do Require and Command these Presents to be publicly Read at the head of every Troop, and Company of our standing Forces, that none may pretend Ignorance.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the Fourteenth day of February, and of Our Reign the fourth Year. 1693. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD Save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno DOM. 1693.