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B05451 A proclamation, against deserters, and resetting of them. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1694 (1694) Wing S1586; ESTC R226040 2,218 2

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A PROCLAMATION Against Deserters and Resetting of them WILIAM 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 Council Messengers at Arms Our sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as in obedience to the Orders Direct by Us to the Commander in Chief of Our Forces within this Kingdom and the Collonels and other Officers of the several Regiments appointed by Us to be Transported for Flanders The saids Collonels have their Regiments compleat and in good condition ready to be Embarqued for Our Service in Flanders And We Considering that all Souldiers Listed and Engaged in Our Service ought to be intirely reserved for that use and no ways encouraged inticed or seduced to Desert the same nor reset harboured and sheltered when they Desert or forsake the said Service or leave the same otherways than by allowance and a Pass granted by their Superior Officers conform to the Rules of Military Discipline And that it is both the Interest of Our Service and Honour of this Our antient Kingdom That the Regiments now to be Embarqued should be full and compleat Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council peremptorily Prohibit and Discharge all and sundry Our Subjects within this Kingdom whether Officers or Soldiers or other persons whatsomever to intise perswade or seduce any of the Souldiers in Our Service and under Our Pay and particularly in the Regiments under the Command of the Lord Strathnaver Sir James Lesly Collonel Buchan and Collonel _____ Hamilton or any of them now ready to be Embarqued and Transported to Flanders To Desert or leave Our said Service or to shelter conceal harbour reset and intertain any Soldier who Deserts or unduly leaves Our said Service And particularly any of the saids Regiments Or who has Deserted left or run away from the same since the first Day of November last without having a Pass signed and subscribed by the Captain and Commanding Officer of the Regiment for the time in which the said Souldier or Souldiers last served Certifying all who shall come in the contrair hereof that they and each of them shall be lyable for each Souldier intised deserting or reset as said is in the sum of an hundred pounds Scots to be decerned to be payed to the Captain under whom the said Souldier Served by the ordinary Magistrat of the place where the Transgressor lives and that by and attour the delivering up to the said Captain the person of the Deserter or furnishing another sufficient Souldier in his stead And for the more effectual Observance of the Premisses We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the Collonels and other Officers of the respective Regiments who are to stay and remain within this Kingdom to deliver up to the Collonels and other Officers of the Regiments to be Transported for Flanders all Deserters since the first of November last from any of the saids Regiments to be Transported who are or have been in Service or Retained in the Regiments that are to stay at Home and that before Imbarquing of the saids Regiments to be Transported under the pain foresaid And further that the Officers of the saids Regiments to stay at Home with the Assistance and Concurrence of any Magistrat of the Bounds and no otherways seize and apprehend all concealed Deserters of these Regiments whom they can discover and give account of them to the Commander in Chief of Our Forces To the effect that they may be sent abroad to the respective Regiments to which they belong And to the effect that not only the Forces to stay at home but all Our Leidges may know their hazard in the Premisses We with Advice foresaid Prohibit and Discharge any person who hath been in Our Service to be received as a Tennent by any Heretor or Servant to any Master of Family or harboured by any person or any Deserter of the Regiments to go abroad since the first of November last to be received Souldier in any Regiment or Company which stays at home who shall not have a Pass signed and subscribed in manner foresaid As also that no Stranger though not a Deserter be received at any time betwixt and the fifteenth of May next by any Heretor or Master of Family to reside with him without a sufficient Testimonial from the Sheriff or his Deputs or a Justice of Peace or other Magistrats of the Bounds from whence they last came Certifying all and every one who contrary hereto shall receive reset or conceal any Soldier known to him to be a Deserter or Stranger without Pass or Testimonial foresaid betwixt and the said fifteenth Day of May that they shall be lyable in the penalty above-mentioned to be decerned to be payed in manner above-exprest And lastly for the more effectual reclaiming of such as have Deserted to return to their Service We with Advice foresaid Do fully Pardon and Indemnifie all and every one of the saids Deserters of the saids Regiments to be Transported to Flanders who shall return to their Duty and Service and render themselves either to the saids Officers before the saids Regiments shall be Embarqued or to the Commander in Chief of Our Forces betwixt and the first Day of May next to come Certifying all such as shall despise or neglect this Our Gracious Offer that if thereafter apprehended they shall be punished without Mercy And this Proclamation to continue and endure until the fifteenth Day of May next to come and no longer but prejudice of former Proclamations emitted against Deserters and the Officers their Right to them by vertue thereof OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We Charge you straitly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Crosse of Edinburgh and to the remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires of this our antient Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make intimation of the Premisses And Ordains these Presents to be Printed and Published at and affixed upon the Doors of all the Paroch-Churches within this Kingdom Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the fourth day of April And of Our Reign the fifth Year 1694. Per actum Dominorum Seareti Concilii GILB ELIOT Cis. Sti. Concilii GOD Save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to their most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1694.