Letters of intercommuning against Mr. James Rennick, a seditious vagabond and pretended preacher. Charles, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, to Macers of our Privy Council, or messengers at arms, our sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, greeting : forasmuch as Mr. James Rennick, a seditious, vagabond and pretended preacher, being lawfullie summoned to have compeared before the Lords Commissioners of our justiciary, upon the ninteenth day of September ... Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09972 of text R183075 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09972 Wing S1512 ESTC R183075 ocm 69648895

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 eng Rennick, James -- Trials, litigation, etc. Sedition -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Treason -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- History -- 1660-1688. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Letters of intercommuning against Mr. James Rennick, a seditious, vagabond and pretended preacher. Scotland. Privy Council. 1684 1 696 2 0 0 0 0 0 28.74 C The rate of 28.74 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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LETTERS OF INTERCOMMUNING Against Mr. James Rennick , a seditious , vagabond and pretended Preacher . CHARLES , by the Grace of GOD , King of Great-Britain , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , To 〈…〉 Macers of Our Privy Council , or Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , Greeting :

Forasmuch as Mr. James Rennick , a seditious , vagabond and pretended Preacher , being lawfullie Summoned to have compeared before the Lords Commissioners of Our Justiciary , upon the ninteenth day of September instant , to have answered and underlien the Law , for his being in the late Rebellion at Bothwel-Bridge , in the Year 1679. keeping and preaching at Field-Conventicles in arms , several times since , and particularly at Black-loch , Woolf-hole-craig and Greenock , and several other places within this Kingdom , for maintaining and asserting several Treasonable and Rebellious principles against Us and Our authority and Government , whereby some of Our unwarry Subjects have been infected with , and debauched into the same wicked unnatural and seditious principles with himself , as is at more length libelled ; and he the said Mr. James Rennick having been oftimes called , and failed to compear before the saids Commissioners of Justiciary , they by their Decreet and Sentence of the said nineteenth of September instant , have decerned and adjudged the said Mr. James Rennick , to be an Out-law and Fugitive from Our Laws , as is at more length contained in the said Decreet , and Letters of Denunciatio● , y execute , and Registrate against him , conform to the Act of Parliament : and to the effect the said Mr. James Rennick may have no Reset , Supplie , Corresponding , or Intercommuning with any of Our Subjects , and that any who shall so do , may be liable to the penaltie of Law . Our Will is herefore , and We Charge you strictlie and Command , that incontinent , these Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , and whole remanent Mercat Crosses of the head Burghs of this Our Realm , and other places needful , and there , in Our Name and authoritie , Command and Charge all and sundrie Our Lieges and Subjects , that they , nor none of them presume nor take upon hand , to Reset , Supplie , or intercommune with the said Mr. James Rennick , Rebel foresaid , nor furnish him with Meat , Drink , House , Harbour , Victual , nor no other thing useful , nor comfortable to him , or to have intelligence with him , by Word , Writ , or Message , or any other manner of way whatsomever , under the pain to be repute and esteemed art and part with him in the Crimes foresaid , and pursued therefore withall rigor , to the terror of others ; and We hereby Require all Our Sheriffs , Stewarts , Bailliffs of Regalities , and Bailliries , and their Deputs , and Magistrats of Royal Burghs , and all Our other good Subjects , to apprehend and commit to prison the person of the said Mr. James Rennick , wherever they can find or apprehend him , according to justice , as ye will answer to Us thereupon , the which to do , We commit to you , conjunctly and severally Our full power , by these Our Letters , delivering them by you , duly execut , and indorsed again to the bearer .

Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh , the twentieth day of September , One thousand six hundred and eighty four , and of Our Reign , the thirtieth and six Year . Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij . WILL . PATERSON , Cl. Sti . Concilij . GOD save the KING .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to his most Sacred Majesty , anno DOM . 1684.