THE Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council understanding , that now when Levies are appointed to be made for Their Majesties Service , in the present War , so necessary for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion , and the Preservation of Their Majesties Kingdoms , these most proper for the said Levies , may possibly : ( to decline the same , ) retire out of the Kingdom to England or Ireland ; Do therefore Require , and strictly Command all Collectors of Their Majesties Customs , Surveyers , Clerks , Waiters at the several Ports , and all others Their Majesties Officers , Civil or Military who may be concerned , that they suffer no Vessel great or small to Sail for Ireland , at any time after Publication hereof , at the said Ports on the West Seas , untill the first day of May next to come , without a sufficient Pass from one of Their Majesties Privy Council , or the Sheriff or Sheriff-Deput , or two of the Commissioners of Supply , or Justice of Peace of the Shire , within which the saids Ports do ly ; which persons impowered to give the saids Passes , are hereby also impowered , and Required to take Caution of the Master and Skippers of the saids Ships , that they shall carry no person out of this Kingdom for Ireland , during the space foresaid , without lawful Passes , under the pain of one hundred Merks toties quoties , for each person so carryed out by him : As also , the hail forenamed Persons , with all Collectors , Surveyers , Clerks , and Waiters upon the Borders betwixt Scotland and England , are hereby Commanded , that they suffer no person to go for England or Ireland , without Passes from one of Their Majesties Privy Council , or from the Sheriff , or Sheriff-Deput , or two of the Commissioners of Supply , or Justices of the Peace of the Shire where the saids persons did last Reside , and that as the hail foresaids persons will be answerable at their peril . And furder , the saids Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council , do hereby prohibit all such persons who are fit , and in use to be put forth in Foot-levies , to remove out of the Shire where they dwell , after the date hereof , until the present Levy ordered by Proclamation be compleated , without Passes from the Heretor of the Ground where they live , or his Chamberlain in his absence ; Certifying those that presume to do in the contrair , that they shall be summarly seized where they may be apprehended . And it is hereby declared , that the Seazers and Apprehenders of the said Fleers , shall have Right and Liberty to give them up to serve for such as they may be obliged to put forth in the said Levy . And Ordains these presents to be Printed , and to be published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh , and at the Sea-ports of the West-Seas , and hail other Head-burghs of this Kingdom .