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A58722 A proclamation concerning circuit courts, &c. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1679 (1679) Wing S1718; ESTC R6556 3,671 1

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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION Concerning Circuit Courts c. CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To our Lovits Heraulds Macers Pursevants or Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as by our Proclamation of the twenty seventh day of July last we have indempnified and pardoned with the Exceptions therein specified all such as were ingaged in the Rebellion 1666. or the late Rebellion in this present year 1679. providing they appear before such as our Privy Council shall nominate betwixt and the days exprest in the said Proclamation and enact themselves in manner therein mentioned And as it is our Royal Intention that the said pardon and indemnity shall be effectual to all such persons as shall accept the benefit thereof so it is our express Will and pleasure that such persons as shall not enact themselves betwixt and the days exprest in the said Proclamation be proceeded with the utmost severity the Law does allow As also it being most just and necessary for vindicating the Honour and Reputation of this our antient Kingdom that the persons guilty of that horrid Assassination and Murther of the late Bishop of St. Andrews which we will never forget may be brought to condign punishment and all legal courses taken for that effect Therefore We with Advice of our Privy Council do ordain Justice airs or Circuit Courts to be holden by the Commissioners of our Justitiary at the places and upon the days after mentioned viz. At the Town of Stirling the first day of October next for the Shires of Stirling Dumbartoun Clackmannon Perth besouth the River of E●rn and the Stewartry of Monteith At the Town of Glasgow the eighth day of October for the Shires of Lanerk and Renfrew At the Town of Air the fifteenth day of October for the Shire of Air and Jurisdiction within the same At the Town of Dumfriese the twenty two day of October for the Shires of Dumfriese and Wigtoun the Stewartries of Kirkcudburgh and Annandale At the Town of Cowper in Fife upon the first day of the said Month of October for the Shires of Fife and Kinross At the Town of Edinburgh the eighth day of October for the Shires of Edinburgh Haddinteun and Linlithgow At Jedburh the fifteenth day of October for the Shires of Roxburgh Selkirk Peebles Berwick and Bailiry of Lauderdail With power to the saids Commissioners to divide themselves in two Circuit Courts to the effect aforesaid In which Courts the saids Commissioners are to proceed against the persons who were ingaged in the said Rebellion and have not accepted or shall not except the benefit of our Indemnity by enacting themselves in the Terms of our Gracious Proclamation within the Dyets therein mentioned and particularly against the Murderers of the late Arch-bishop of St. Andrews and that the saids Commissioners issue Citations against all the saids Rebels and specially against the saids Murderers containing a particular description of these Murderers Which Citations are to be execute at the Mercat Cross of the Head Burgh of the Shires where these persons dwells or formerly dwelt or where they ordinarily haunt or resort to the effect that none may supply harbour commune or correspond with the said Murderers nor with any other of the Rebels before these other Rebels not accessary to that horrid Murder enact themselves conform to our Act of Indemnity And in case any person shall contraveen they shall be proceeded against with all rigor as accessary to the said Rebellion and Assassination And furder We with advice aforesaid do ordain the Heretors and Masters of the ground where any of the Re-bels have their dwelling and residence to present to the said Justice airs the persons of these Rebels who shall not before the dyets contained in our Act of Indemnity enact themselves not to bear Arms against us or our Authority with power to them to apprehend their persons And in case of their refusal to enact themselves as aforesaid to send them to the next prison there to be detained and kept in safe firmance until the enact themselves as aforesaid within the said Dyets and thereupon be dismist or otherwise to detain and present them to the Justice airs And in case the saids Masters do not apprehend them by reason of their being fugitive or latent that after the saids Dyets they remove them their Wives Bairns and Servants off their Ground un erth Certifications contained in the Acts of Parliament And the Clerks of the Justice Court are hereby ordained to go before the saids dyets in due time and take up a portuous Roll of the Names and Designations of the saids Rebels already known and contained in our Proclamation or that shall be declared upon Oath to have been in the Rebellion or to have harboured the Rebels before enacting themselves as said is or the Murderers of the late Arch-bishop of St. Andrews or have been at Field Conventicles since our last P●oclamation of the twenty ninth of June last or that since the said day have threatned abused or robbed the Orthodox Clergy and that they cause i e the persons guilty of the saids Crimes to the saids Justice airs and that they take information upon Oath of the Lands Sums and Moveables belonging to the Rebels and that they cau●e a●●est Rents of their Lands Sums and moveables and put upon Inventor and bond in the custody of their Masters and in case their Masters refuse in the Custody of some other sufficient person to be made forthcoming in case they shall be condemned guilty of the said Rebellion and that they return an exact account thereof and of their diligence to our Coucil at their next dyet being the eighteenth day of Septemb●r next And We with advice aforesaid do hereby require the saids Commissioners of our Justiciary to proceed against such of the saids Murderers as were in the Rebellion though in absence and that it be a part of their Sentence to be hanged in Effigie in all the Shiers of Scotland that they may be more easily discovered and apprehended that none be deceived in harbouring of them or communing with them under false Names and Designations And for the encouragement of any person or persons to apprehend the said Murderers We do hereby give assurance to any who shall apprehend them and present them to our Council dead or alive or shall so discover them as that thereby they be apprehended they shall be indemnified and rewarded in the sum of ten thousand Merks Scots Mony and in case of the concourse of moe persons by discovering or joyning in the apprehending of them the said sum shall be divided amongst them and in case any of the saids Murderers be apprehended and taken or discovered so that thereby they may be taken by any persons excepted in our Acts of Indemnity they shall
also be indemnified notwithstanding they fall within the exception and a pardon shall be past for them under our Great Seal and in Case they apprehend John Balfour of Kinloch and David Haxstoun of Rathill●t dead or alive they shall not only have their pardon but also the reward aforesaid Our Will is thefore and we charge you straitly and Command that incontinent these our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh as also to the Mercat Croses of the Head Burghs of the Sheriffdoms Haddington Linlithgow Perth Roxburgh Selkirk Berwick Peebles Dumfrie●e Stirling Dumbart●n Clackmannan Lanerk Renfrew Air Wigtoun Fife Stewartry of Kircudburgh and other places needfull and thereby open Proclamation make publication of the said Circuits to all our Leidges and Subjects where through none pretend ignorance of the same that the said Circuit Courts are to be holden upon the days and at the Burghs and places respective above written and that ye command and charge all Dukes Marquesses Arch bishops Earls Lords Spiritual and Temporal Barons and others of our Free-holders who hold Lands of us in chief and owe suit and presence within the several Bounds Shires and Precincts belonging to the saids respective Circuit Courts to compear before the saids Commissioners at the saids Courts upon and at the days and places foresaid with continuation of days to do whatever in Law is incumbent and ought to be done by them in that behalf As also that ye Command all and sundry the saids Dukes Marquesses Earls Lords Spiritual and Temporal as also Lords of Regalites Stewarts Barons Sheriffs Justices of Peace Bailies Cham-berlains Magistrates and Ministers of our Laws and all subordinate Judges within our Sheriffdoms above written and whole Leidges of the same that they and every one of them give all due espect to our Commissioners and Justices foresaids and such special assistance as to their Offices and Duty appertains and as is incumbent to them by the Laws and Acts of Parlament of this our Ancient Kingdom as they and every one of them will answer upon the contrary and under all highest pain and charge that after may follow and particularly that ye Command our Sheriffs that they cause sufficient and legal men compear before our saids Commissioners at the forsaid dyets and such dyets and places as the said Commissioners shall appoint for Assizes and Witnesses as they shall be cited to that effect As also that the said Sheriffs and Free holders within the said Shires and Bounds meet our said Justices st their entry into the fame and convoy them into the same and accompany them during their remaining there ay and while they be received by our next Sheriff and his Deputs into the next Shire And We ordain these Presents to be Printed Given under our Signet at Edinburgh the fourteenth day of August one thousand six hundred seventy and nine years And of our Reign the thretty one year Al. Gibson Cl. Sti. Concilii God save the King Here follows the Names of those appointed to take Bond from the Rebels in the several Shires following viz. For the Shire of Edinburgh The Lord Collington Haddingtoun The Earl of Wintoun Linlithgow The Earl of Linlithgow Perth The Marquess of Montross Roxburgh The Earl of Rexburgh Selkirk The Laird of Hayning Lanerk The Earl of Cornwath Dumfreise The Earl of Queensberry Air. The Earl of Glencairn Dumbartoun The Earl of Wigtoun Fife and Kinross The Lord Chancellor Wigtoun The Laird of Burghtoun Stewartry of Kigkcudburgh The Earl of Nithisdale Peebles Sir Will. Murray of Stenhop Stirling The Earl of Mar. Renfrew The Lord Ross Berwick The Earl of Home EDINBVRGH Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to his most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1679.