By the King. James R. James the Seventh, 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. Whereas it hath pleased God this day to call out of this life, from the possession of an earthly diadem, to the fruition of an eternal crown of glory, His late Majesty our royal and most dearly beloved brother Charles the Second ... Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03881 of text R226237 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing J405). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B03881 Wing J405 ESTC R226237 52528840 ocm 52528840 178821 2240896968

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03881) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 178821) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2771:23) By the King. James R. James the Seventh, 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. Whereas it hath pleased God this day to call out of this life, from the possession of an earthly diadem, to the fruition of an eternal crown of glory, His late Majesty our royal and most dearly beloved brother Charles the Second ... Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) James II, King of England, 1633-1701. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1685. Title from caption and first lines of text. Imprint from colophon. Royal coat of arms at head of text; initial letter. Dated at end: Given under Our royal hand, at Our Court at White-hall, the sixth day of February 1684/5. And of Our Reign the first year. With an order to print given at Edinburgh, the 10th of February, 1685. Declaring that all officers of state, privy councillors, magistrates, and other officers continue in office until new commissions are issued. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Scotland -- History -- 1660-1688 -- Sources. Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo By the King. James R. James the Seventh, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all our goo Scotland. Sovereign 1685 1 309 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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By the King . JAMES R. JAMES the Seventh , 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 .

Whereas it hath pleased GOD this day to call out of this Life , form the possession of an Earthly Diadem , to the fruition of an Eternal Crown of Glory , His late Majesty Our Royal and most dearly beloved Brother Charles the Second ; We have thought fit to publish Our Royal Pleasure , That all Our Officers of State , Privy Counsellors , Magistrats , and all other Officers whatsoever , both Civil and Military within Our Ancient Kingdom of Scotland , do , and they and every one of them respectively , are hereby Authorized and Required to Act in all things conform to the late Commissions and Instructions they had from His said late Majesty of blessed Memory , until new Commissions from Vs can be prepared and sent down to them . And for their so doing , This shall be to them , and every one of them respectively , a full Warrand .

Given under Our Royal Hand , at Our Court at White-hall , the sixth day of February1684/5. And of Our Reign the first Year . By His Majesties Command , Jo. Drummond .
Edinburgh , the 10th of February , 1685.

OR dered by His Majesties Privy Council of Scotland , that this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published .

Extracted by me Colin Mckenzie , Cls. Sti. Concilij .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , Anno DOM. 1685.