WHereas , there are many printed Copies of a most treasonable and seditious Pamphlet , Entituled , Naphtali ; Or , wrestlings of the Church of Scotland , lately imported , vended and dispersed within this Kingdom , of purpose to seduce the Subjects from their loyalty , alleagiance and obedience , and to strengthen the dis-affected in their rebellions Principles and Practises ; the said Pamphlet , upon examination , being found to be full of treasonable and seditious calumnies , and lyes , traducing the Kings Sacred Majesty , His Government , the proceedings of the late Parliament , Secret Council and other Judicatories , and those entrusted under His Sacred Majesty with the Government of the Kingdom , both in Church and State , to the great scandal of the Protestant Religion , and the disturbance of the peace of the Kingdom , thereby to raise new sedition and troubles , and to involve the Kingdom again in an unnatural and bloody war . The printing of which Pamphlet , vending and dispersing thereof , being contrair to the laudable Laws and several Acts of Parliament made against the same ; Therefore , and to vindicat the Honour of this Kingdom from such treasonable and false aspersions , in detestation of such abominable Practises , The Lords of His Majesties Privy Council ordain , that upon the fourteenth day of December instant , the said Pamphlet be publickly burnt in the high-street of Edinburgh , near to the Mercat-cross thereof , by the hand of the Hangman ; And that all havers of any of the saids Pamphlets , residing besouth the water of Tay , shall bring in and deliver the same to the Sheriffs of the respective Shires or their Deputes , to be transmitted to the Clerk of the Privy Council by them , betwixt and the twelfth day of January next ; and benorth the said water betwixt and the first day of February thereafter : With certification , that if thereafter , any person of whatsoever degree , quality or set they shall be of , shall have any of the saids printed Copies in their custody or possession , that they shall be lyable in payment of the sum of two thousand pounds Scots money , to be exacted without any favour or defalcation . And farther , if they or any other person shall be found hereafter to be contriver , abbettor or assister to the making up , printing , publishing or dispersing of the said seditious Pamphlet , that they shall be proceeded against as Authors , Printers , Importers , Venders and Dispersers of seditious and infamous Libels , and all pains and penalties made against them shall be inflicted without mercy . And ordains the Magistrates of the Town of Edinburgh to cause burn one of the Copies of the said Pamphlet in manner foresaid : and that these presents be forthwith printed , and published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh and other places needful , that none pretend ignorance .