A
PROCLAMATION
For
Calling
out
the
Heretors
,
and
others
in
the
Shires
of
Perth
and
Forfar
,
and
others
beyond
the
Water
of
Tay.
At
Edinburgh
,
the
sixteenth
day
of
July
,
one
thousand
six
hundred
and
eighty
nineyears
.
WHereas
his
Grace
the
Lord
high
Commissioner
,
and
the
Lords
of
His
Majesties
Privy
Council
,
are
sufficiently
Informed
,
That
there
are
some
numbers
of
Irish
Papists
and
others
,
Shipped
at
Craig-Fergus
,
in
three
Men
of
War
,
and
that
they
have
past
the
Mule
of
Kintire
,
and
Sailed
betwixt
Isla
and
Jura
,
and
are
probably
before
this
time
Landed
in
some
place
of
the
Isles
,
or
Highlands
,
about
Innerlochie
;
Therefore
the
Lord
high
Commissioner
,
and
the
Lords
of
His
Majesties
Privy
Council
,
Have
thought
sit
,
in
His
Majes
:
ties
Name
and
Authority
,
to
Certifie
the
Liedges
anent
the
Invasion
,
and
Descent
of
these
Barbarous
and
Bloody
People
,
who
will
certainly
joyn
with
the
Viscount
of
Dundee
,
and
other
Rebels
that
are
in
Arms
with
him
;
And
Do
Require
the
Leidges
,
That
none
of
them
take
in
hand
to
Correspond
with
,
Reset
,
Supply
,
or
any
wayes
Assist
these
Rebels
and
Papists
,
but
on
the
contrary
,
all
Sheriffs
,
Baillies
of
Regalities
,
or
Bailliaries
,
Stewarts
,
and
all
other
Magistrats
whatsomever
within
the
Sheriffdom
of
Perth
and
Forfar
,
and
all
others
upon
the
North
side
of
the
Water
of
Tay
,
are
hereby
expresly
Required
and
Commanded
,
to
attend
General-major
Mccay
,
Commander
in
Chief
of
His
Majesties
Forces
in
this
present
Expedition
,
for
Reducing
of
these
Rebels
and
Invaders
,
and
that
they
Receive
and
Obey
his
Orders
from
time
to
time
,
either
in
Conveening
the
Heretors
and
other
Inhabitants
of
the
Respective
Shires
in
Arms
to
His
Majesties
Host
,
at
what
times
or
places
he
shall
think
sit
to
Appoint
;
or
in
furnishing
Provisions
,
Baggage-Horses
,
and
what
else
may
be
necessary
for
His
Majesties
Service
in
this
Expedition
,
as
they
shall
be
advertised
by
the
said
General-major
Mccay
,
or
his
Order
:
Requiring
likewayes
the
Heretors
and
Inhabitants
of
the
several
Shires
to
obey
punctually
the
Orders
,
that
shall
be
given
to
them
by
the
respective
Sheriffs
,
Stewarts
,
Baillies
and
Magistrats
,
to
the
Effect
foresaid
:
And
his
Grace
the
Lord
high
Commissioner
,
and
Lords
of
Privy
Council
Do
Certifie
,
That
if
any
of
the
Magistrats
or
Inhabitants
of
these
Shires
of
Perth
,
Forfar
,
and
others
beyond
Tay
,
shall
be
negligent
or
refractory
in
Conveening
in
Arms
,
when
required
in
manner
foresaid
,
or
giving
their
assistance
for
the
maintainance
of
His
Majesties
Troops
,
furnishing
of
Horses
,
or
the
carrying
and
transporting
of
their
Ammunition
,
Provision
,
and
Baggage
at
this
time
,
when
the
Countrey
is
Invaded
by
Barbarous
Papists
,
joyned
with
Intestine
Rebels
,
that
they
shall
be
proceeded
against
to
the
outmost
extremity
of
Law.
And
Ordain
these
Presents
to
be
Published
at
the
Mercat-Cross
of
Edinburgh
,
and
at
the
Mercat-Crosses
of
Perth
,
Forfar
,
and
other
Mercat-Crosses
needful
beyond
the
Water
of
Tay.
Extracted
by
me
GILB
.
ELIOT
,
Cls.
Sti.
Concilii
.
GOD
Save
King
William
and
Queen
Mary
.