Forasmuch , as it is informed , that Patrick Grahame younger of Inchbraco hath lately killed John Master of Rollo , without any occasion or provocation ; and after the committing thereof , hath withdrawn and fled from underlying the Law . Therefore We , with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council , have thought fit to certifie all our Leidges , of this inhumane Slaughter , and to require all Magistrats , and all Our other Officers , Civil and Military , with all Our other Leidges , to do their outmost to apprehend the said Patrick Grahame , that he may be brought to condign punishment ; Indemnifying hereby any person from the hazard of Slaughter , or any other Act of Violence which they may be necessitat to commit against the said Patrick Grahame , or any who shall joyn with him , in his resisting to be apprehended . And further , We do promise and assure the Sum of Eighteen hundred Merks Scots to any person or persons who shall Seiz and apprehend the said Patrick Grahame , and deliver him to any of Our Magistrats , or Officers of Our Army , to be by them safely keeped , in order to his Tryal ; discharging hereby all Our Leidges to shelter , harbour , or any ways assist or supply the said Patrick Grahame , upon their highest peril . OUR WILL IS HEREFORE , and We Charge you strictly , and Commands that incontinent , these Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several-Shires within this Kingdom , and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof , that none may pretend ignorance . And ordains these presents to be Printed and Published .