THE Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council having received Information from their Clerks , that there are brought to their hands at this place , or sent in to them by way of Missive , subscribed by Persons undersigned , and whom they know not : Notes , or Lists of several Persons , said to have taken the benefit of their Majesties Act of Indemnity , and to have Sworn , and Signed the Oath of Allegiance , in the Terms of the said Act ; but that the Oaths with the Original Subscriptions of these Persons in the Terms of the Indemnity are not transmitted to the saids Clerks : And the saids Lords considering how much it does concern their Majesties Interest , and the Security of the Government , that the Persons taking the benefit of the said Act of Indemnity be certainly knowen , and that the Oaths , with the Original Subscriptions signed by them , be in the precise Words of the Oath of Allegiance insert in the Act of Parliament , and that the same be Sworn and Signed before the Persons , and in the express Terms mentioned in the said Act of Indemnity : Therefore the saids Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council , do hereby Require and Ordain the Sheriffs Principals of the several Shires of this Kingdom , their Deputs and Clerks , to transmit to the Clerks of Privy Council , not only the Lists of the Persons who have taken the benefit of the said Indemnity , but likewise the Oaths already Sworn and Signed by the Takers thereof , with their Original Subscriptions , and that before the Persons , and in the precise Terms mentioned in the said Act , betwixt and the twenty fifth day of January instant , for such as are on this side of the River of Tay , and the tenth day of February next , for those on the other side thereof ; and that as they will be Answerable at their highest Perril . And appoints Their Majesties Solicitor timously to Transmit Copies hereof , to the Sheriff-Clerks of the several Shires within this Kingdom . And Ordains these presents to be Printed .