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By the king. A proclamation. Containing his Majesties gracious pardon and indemnity; Proclamations. 1679-07-27.
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Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
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By the King A PROCLAMATION Containing His Majesties gracious Pardon and Indemnity CHARLES R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all and sundry Our good Subjects whom these presents do or may concern Greeting The just Resentments We have of thâ— rebellious courses taken by some in that Our Ancient Kingdom of Scotland by poisoning Our People with Principles inconsistent with true Piety and all humane Society as well as with Our Royal Government and of the humorous Factions of others who under pretext of re-presenting Grievances 〈◊〉 Us have most unjustly both in Scotland and England Defamed Our Judicatures of Scotland aâ—d thereby weakened Our Authority therein represented All which did not hinder Us from endeavouring to quiet the one by Our late Proclamation and the other by a publick Hearing and Debate And being most desirous to cover all the Imperfections of Our Subjects and to remove the Fears and Jealousies whence they proceed We have therefore by Our Royal Authority and the undoubted Prerogative of Our Crown thought fit with the advice of our Privy Council to Indemnifie Remit and Pardon with the Exceptions after specified all such as have been at Field or House-conventicles all such as are guilty of irregular administration of the Sacraments and other Schismatick Disorders all such as have been ingaged in the Rebellion 1666. Or the late Rebellion this present Year of God 1679 All such as have Spoken Written Printed Published or dispersed any traiterous Speeches infamous Lâ—bels or Pasquils all such as have mis-represented any of Our Judicatures Servants or Subjects or have advised any thing contrary to Our Laws all such as have maleversed in any Publick Station or Trust and generally all such as are lyable to any pursuit for any Cause or Occasion relating to any publick Administration by Contrivances Actings Oppositions or otherways preceeding the date hereof Declaring the generality of these Presents to be as effectual to all intents and purposes as if every Circumstance of every the foresaid Delinquencies or Mis-demeanours were particularly and specially here inserted and as if every of the Persons that might be challenged and pursued for the same had a Remission under Our great Seal or an Act of Indemnity past in his Favours Discharging any of Our Officers or Subjects to pursue any Person or Persons upon any such accounts either ad vindictam publicam vel privatam or to upbraid them therewith And Comanding all Our Judges to interpret this Our Remission and Indemnity with all possible latitude and â—avor as they will be answerable to Us upon their highest perils Excepting such as are already forefaulted by our Parliaments or Our Criminal Court fined by Our Privy Council and such who being fined by Inferiour Judicatures have payed or transacted for their fines in so far as concerns their respected fines so imposed Excepting also all such Heretors and Ministers who have been in the late Rebellion or were contrivers thereof and such Heretors as have contributed thereto by Levies of Men and Money and excepting likewise such as obeyed not Our and Our Councils Proclamation in assisting Our Host to be pursued for that their Delinquency according to Law and such persons as have threatned or abused any of the Orthodox Clergy or any of Our good Subjects for assisting Us in suppressing the late Rebellion and that since Our Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of June last past Which Indemnity We do grant to those who were ingaged in the late Rebellion provided that they shall appear before such as our Privy Council shal nominate betwixt and the dyets following viz. these that are within this Kingdom betwixt and the eighteenth day of September and these that are furth thereof betwixt and the thirteenth of November next to come and enact themselves never to carry Arms against Us or our Authority and with express condition that if ever they shall be at any Field conventicle or shall do any violence to any of Our Orthodox Clergy this Our Indemnity shall not be useful to such Transgressors any manner of way as it shall not be to any for private Crimes such as Murders Assassinations Thefts Adulteries the fines and denunciations thereof and such like as never use to be comprehended under general Acts of Indemnity and particularly the Execrable Murther of the late Arch-bishop of St. Andrews Nor to such as were appointed to be carryed to the Plantations by our Letter dated the twenty ninth day of June last tho their lives be by this Our Royal Proclamation also secured unto them in manner and upon the conditions above-mentioned But lest the hope of Impunity shou'd embolden the malicious to future disorders We do hereby Command Our Privy Council and all Our other Judicatoures to pursue and punish with all the severity that Law can allow all such as shall hereafter threaten or abuse the Orthodox Clergy murmure against Our Judicatures or Officers as shall make publish print or disperse Lybels or Pasquils these being the Fore-runners of all Rebellions and which by defaming Authority do disappoint all its just and necessary Methods And to the end all our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Pleasure We do hereby Command Our Lyon King at Armes and his Brethren Heraulds Macers Pursevants and Messengers at Arms to make timous Intimation hereof at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and other Places needful Given at Our Court at Windsor-Castle the Twenty-seventh day of July one thousand six hundred seventy and nine And of our Reign the Threttieth-one Year By His MAJESTIES Command LAUDERDALE GOD save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1679. And Re-printed at Londoâ—