A
PROCLAMATION
,
Anent
the
Baggage-Horse
.
Edinburgh
,
the
sixth
of
August
,
1689.
THe
Lords
of
His
Majesties
Privy
Council
Considering
,
that
in
obedience
to
their
Act
of
the
Seventeenth
day
of
July
last
by-past
,
several
Leaders
of
Horse
within
the
Shires
of
Fife
,
Kinross
,
Edinburgh
,
Striviling
and
Clackmannan
,
and
the
Magistrats
of
the
respective
Burghs
within
the
same
,
have
not
sent
out
their
several
proportions
of
the
Baggage-Horse
,
for
conveying
of
Provisions
to
the
Army
,
through
whose
default
and
disobedience
,
several
Leaders
,
and
other
persons
,
have
had
more
than
their
proportion
of
Horses
prest
,
and
taken
from
them
;
And
to
the
end
,
that
such
as
have
not
given
a
just
obedience
to
the
Councils
Commands
,
may
not
go
unpunished
;
And
that
these
who
have
had
more
than
their
proportion
Prest
out
,
may
be
Redressed
,
and
that
such
of
the
Horses
sent
out
,
and
their
Graith
which
hath
been
seized
upon
,
bought
up
,
and
detained
by
others
than
the
true
Owners
thereof
,
may
be
restored
.
The
Lords
of
Privy
Council
,
Do
,
in
His
Majesties
Name
and
Authority
,
Require
and
Command
the
Sheriff-Deputs
of
the
Shires
above-mentioned
,
to
make
a
strict
Enquiry
anent
these
who
have
been
deficient
in
sending
out
their
proportion
of
the
Baggage
Horse
,
and
to
conveen
and
find
them
lyable
for
the
penalty
contained
in
the
former
Act
,
and
to
exact
and
uplift
their
several
Fines
to
be
forth-coming
towards
the
relief
of
others
,
who
have
had
their
Horses
Prest
out
upon
the
late
Expedition
;
And
they
Do
,
in
Name
and
Authority
foresaid
,
Require
and
Command
,
all
and
sundry
persons
within
the
Shires
above-mentioned
,
and
Towns
thereof
,
who
have
seized
upon
,
bought
up
,
or
found
stragling
,
any
Horses
,
whether
Graithed
,
or
not
,
since
the
25
day
of
July
last
,
that
they
give
an
account
thereof
to
the
Sheriff-Deputs
of
the
respective
Shires
,
and
Magistrats
of
the
several
Burghs
,
and
deliver
the
same
over
to
them
,
to
be
made
forth-coming
for
the
use
of
their
Owners
,
betwixt
and
the
first
day
of
September
next
to
come
,
with
Certification
to
such
as
shall
not
give
an
accompt
of
,
and
deliver
the
saids
Horses
to
the
saids
Sheriff-Deputs
,
or
Magistrats
of
Burghs
,
that
they
shall
be
proceeded
against
,
and
punished
as
guilty
of
Theft
.
And
Ordains
these
Presents
to
be
Printed
,
and
Published
by
Macers
of
Privy
Council
,
at
the
Mercat-Cross
of
Edinburgh
,
and
other
places
needful
,
that
none
may
pretend
Ignorance
.
Extracted
by
me
GILB
.
ELIOT
,
Cls.
Sti.
Concilii
.
God
Save
King
William
and
Queen
Mary
.