Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714 > Ireland -- Scotland

1692: 4 William & Maby
Nos 2945-51
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The heretors, ministers, and elders of every parish are to
meet on the second Tuesday in September, make lists of the
poor, estimate the cost of their maintenance, and throw
half of it on the heretors, the other on the householders.
They are to appoint two overseers yearly to collect and
distribute it, and an officer to bring in the maintenance and
expel vagabonds, whose fee is to be stented on the parish.
The heretors are to provide the homeless poor with houses
at the expense of the parish. A fine of ,£200 Scots monthly
on the parish failing, one-third to the informer. Mortifica¬
tions for the parish poor not to be diminished. A second
meeting on the first Tuesday in February, and then on the
first Tuesday in August and so annually twice a year. The
ministers to inform the sheriifs if this duty is neglected.
Poor able to work to be set to work in some manufactory.
Children under 15 may be apprenticed to any person who
will teach them to work till they are 30 for educating, meat,
and cloaths. Manufactories to have the same privilege, and
not only for beggars but for all poor children, even if their
parents are alive, provided they sanction it. Masters may
correct these apprentices, life and torture excepted. Fine
for resetting. Servants may be loosed on account of severity
if sheriff allows on payment of compensation for unfinished
time. Vagabonds to return to their parishes. Beggars to
be apprehended and sent from parish to parish by convoy.
Fines for giving more than bread and water to a beggar
after second Tuesday in September. Correction-houses to
be immediately erected in Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundie,
Aberdeen, Innerness, Glasgow, Jedburgh, Dumfreis, and
Cowper in Fife. These to be proclaimed and printed.
Sig. 109. e. 6 (107) cropped. Adv. Pamph. 1 (134);
Procl. II (74). NO 2945.
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Arms 242 Greeting: cast Printed.
Another edition of No. 2945, q.v.
Adv. Pamph. 19 (26) cropped. Ed. Un. Df. 1. 14 (60).
lir° 2946.
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12 AUGUST.-[BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL.]
A Proclamation Anent the Hearth-money.
Edinburgh : 12 August 169.2.^>?;fe, S:i5 3
Edinburgh : Heir of A. A.: 1692.
4 pp. fo. Roman letter. Gilb. Eliot.
Appointing commissioners to receive from the sub-collectors
a complete list of the hearths in their district with the
owners' names, and thereupon have a survey made, return¬
ing corrected lists to the Privy Council, before second
Thursday in November. These to be proclaimed.
Sig. 109. e. 6 (107). Adv. Pamph. 1 (139); Procl. II (77).
N° 2947.
15 AUGUST.—[BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL.]
A Proclamation For Discovering who Robbed the
Packquit.
Edinburgh: 15 August 1692.^^0 J-^i^
Edinburgh : Heir of A. A.: 1692.
1 f. Roman letter. Da. Moncreiff.
Arms 245 Defen- Contempt be
Though by third of third Session robbing the packet is
death, yet some have done it, notably on Saturday last,
13th inst., when two persons fell on the post-boy from
Haddington to Edinburgh, near Jocks Lodge, at 10 p.m.,
and took away the mail and the sorrel nag the boy was
riding. £50 sterling reward for their discovery, and £100
sterling for their apprehension or either of them. £50 and
pardon to first accomplice confessing before 22 August.
This to be proclaimed at Edinburgh, Haddington, and
Linlithgow.
B.L. Sig. 109. e. 6 (110). Adv. Pamph. 1 (136);
Procl. II (78). NO 2948.
16 SEPTEMBER.-[BY THE PRIVY COUN¬
CIL.] A Proclamation, Anent Souldiers Deserting,
or Marrying without Certificats. jn/-^-
Edinburgh: 16 September 1692.4^^^^^ J^-^^
Edinburgh : Heir of A. A. : 1692.
1 f. Roman letter. Gilb. Elliot.
Headpiece Great or answer-
All soldiers engaged should be entirely reserved for
service. No one is to persuade them to leave it or con¬
ceal them or harbour any soldier without a pass, on pain of
a fine of <£10 sterling to the captain of the company. No
ministers to marry a soldier on service without publishing
banns three times, in the woman's parish church and that
of the soldier's quarters, and without a certificate signed by
his captain that he is a single man, on pain of imprisonment
for the minister, &c. These to be proclaimed, printed, and
published.
Sig. 109. e. 6(111). Adv. Pamph. 1 (136); Procl. II (79).
E.T.C. (97). N"° 2949.
3 NOVEMBER. — [BY THE PRIVY COUN-"^
CIL.] A Proclamation, Adjourning the Parliament ,
from the sixteenth day of November, 1692, to the
seventeenth day of January, 1693.
Edinburgh : 3 November 1692./^6<^-. 3.ZSG
Edinburgh : Heir of A. A. : 1692.
1 f. Roman letter. Da. Moncrieff.
Arms 242 Queen Forasmuch Janu-
Cites proclamation 26 July, No. 2942, q.v., adjourning
Parliament to 16 Nov. It is further adjourned to 17 Jan.
1693. These to be printed and proclaimed.
Sig. 109. e. 6 (112). Adv. Pamph. 1 (138) ; Proch II (80).
N° 2950.
3 NOVEMBER. — [BY THE PRIVY COUN-
CIL.] A Proclamation, Appointing a Solemn and
Publick Thanksgiving.
Edinburgh : 3 November 1692. /l/2^U^ 3^^'J
Edinburgh : Heir of A. A. : 1692.
1 f. Roman letter.
Gilb. Eliot.
of ally Govern-
The ministers of the synods of Lothian and Tweeddale
have addressed the Privy Council for a day of thanksgiving.
10 Nov. in Edinburgh and suburbs (Leith, Cannongate, and
West Kirk), and 24 Nov. for the rest of the kingdom is
appointed. These to be printed, read in all pulpits the
Lord's day before the said days, and proclaimed.
Sig. 109. e. 6 (113). Adv. Pamph. 1 (137), 19 (27);
Procl. II (81). Reg. V (29). N° 2951.
16 DECEMBER. —[BY THE PRIVY COUN- ^
CIL.] A Proclamation, For Apprehending Ensign
and Serjeant Campbels, and Regulating the Levy of
Recruits.
Edinburgh : [16] December 1692^5^ , • ^^SS
Edinburgh : Heir of A. A.: 1692. ^ '"'
1 f. Roman letter.
Arms 242 Faith.
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Da. Moncreife.
Pj-e-
Ensign Campbel, in Col, D'Offerrill's regiment, and Serj.
Eobert Campbel his brother, murdered Thomas Picket,
servant to William Bryce, waiter in Brughtoun on
] 2 December current, on pretence he was a deserter from
that regiment. They are to be apprehended and no one is
to shelter or conceal them. All deserters to be given up to
the next magistrates, on pain of £10 sterling fine to be paid
to the captain. No person to be forced to engage without
their free consent, proved by two civilian witnesses. Fine
£10 sterling. In search for deserters no doors to be
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