C R  HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown  
LETTERS OF INTERCOMMUNING Against Mr. James Rennick, a seditious, vagabond and pretended Preacher.  
CHARLES, 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 Mr. James Rennick, a seditious, vagabond and pretended Preacher, being lawfully Summoned to have compeared before the Lords Commissioners of Our Justiciary, upon the nineteenth day of September instant, to have answered and underlien the Law, for his being in the late Rebellion at Bothwel-Bridge, in the Year 1679. keeping and preaching at Field-Conventicles in arms, several times since, and particularly at Black-loch, Woolf-hole-craig and Greenock, and several other places within this Kingdom, for maintaining and asserting several Treasonable and Rebellious principles against Us and Our authority and Government, whereby some of Our unwarry Subjects have been infected with, and debauched into the same wicked unnatural and seditious principles with himself, as is at more length libeled; and he the said Mr. James Rennick having been oftimes called, and failed to compear before the saids Commissioners of Justiciary, they by their Decreet and Sentence of the said nineteenth of September instant, have decerned and adjudged the said Mr. James Rennick, to be an Out-law and Fugitive from Our Laws, as is at more length contained in the said Decreet, and Letters of Denunciatio●, y execute, and Registrate against him, comform to the Act of Parliament: and to the effect the said Mr. James Rennick may have no Reset, supply, Corresponding, or Intercommuning with any of Our Subjects, and that any who shall so do, may be liable to the penalty of Law. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent, these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat across of Edinburgh, and whole remanent Mercat Crosses of the head Burghs of this Our Realm, and other places needful, and there, in Our Name and authority, Command and Charge all and sundry Our Lieges and Subjects, that they, nor none of them presume nor take upon hand, to Reset, supply, or intercommune with the said Mr. James Rennick, Rebel foresaid, nor furnish him with Meat, Drink, House, Harbour, Victual, nor no other thing useful, nor comfortable to him, or to have intelligence with him, by Word, Writ, or Message, or any other manner of way whatsomever, under the pain to be repute and esteemed art and part with him in the Crimes foresaid, and pursued therefore withall rigor, to the terror of others; and We hereby Require all Our Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailliffs of Regalities, and Bailliries, and their Deputs, and magistrates of Royal Burghs, and all Our other good Subjects, to apprehended and commit to prison the person of the said Mr. James Rennick, wherever they can find or apprehended him, 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 twentieth day of September, One thousand six hundred and eighty four, and of Our Reign, the thirtieth and six Year. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. WILL. PATERSON, Cl. Sti. Concilij. 
 GOD save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most Sacred Majesty, anno DOM. 1684.