By the King, a proclamation. James R. James the Seventh, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all and sundry our good subjects, whom these presents do or may concern, greeting. Since our accession to the throne of our royal ancestors, our chiefest care has been to procure the security, peace and happiness of our subjects, ... Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B25024 of text R228242 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. 14KB 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 B25024 Wing J256 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 21.h.3[31] ESTC R228242 ocm99887716

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688 -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the King, a proclamation. : James R. James the Seventh, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) 1688 1 2256 3 0 0 0 0 0 13.3 C The rate of 13.3 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-05 Sampled and proofread 2014-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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By the KING , A PROCLAMATION . Confirming his c of Liberty of Conscience in Scotland . 28. May .1688 . JAMES R. JAMES the Seventh , by the Grace of God , King of Scotland , England , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , &c. To all and sundry Our good Subjects , whom these Presents do or may Concern , Greeting .

Since Our Accession to the Throne of Our Royal Ancestors , Our chiefest Care has been to procure the Security , Peace and Happiness of Our Subjects , by all the ways Our Paternal Care of Our People could suggest to vs , especially by removing the Pressures of Penal Laws , in matters of meer Religion , and forbidding all differencing Oaths and Tests , whose unreasonable Weight hung heavy on vs and our People , Precluding both from Our Native-freedom and Birth-right : And this We did by Our Royal Declaration of the Date the 12th . of February , 1687. In which Declaration , We were pleased , for the great and weighty Causes and Considerations therein mentioned , and by vertue of Our Soveraign Authority , Prerogative Royal , and Absolute Power , so plainly acknowledged by several Acts of Parliament , and especially by the 2d . Act of Our First Parliame●● To Give and Grant Our Royal Toleration to all the Professors of the Christian Religion therein named , and with and under certain Conditions , Restrictions , and Limitations , judged by vs for the Time to be necessary . Requiring and expecting , that all Our good Subjects would give their Assistance and Concourse thereunto , on all Occasions , in their respective Capacities ; Suspending , Disabling and stopping all Penal Laws , Acts of Parliament , Customs or Constitutions , made or executed against Dissenters for matters of meer Religion . And further , We did Cass , Annul and Discharge , all Oaths whatsoever , by which any were Disabled from holding Places or Offices , or enjoying their Hereditary Rights and Priviledges ; Discharging the same to be thence-forward given or taken , without our special Warrand ; Stopping , Disabling and Dispensing , as well with all Laws enjoyning the said Oaths and Tests , as with the other Penal Laws therein mentioned ; and Declaring , that it never was Our Principle , nor would We suffer Violence to be offered to any mans Conscience , or Force to be used against any man , on the account of his Perswasion ; And thar We would employ indifferently all Our Subjects , of all Perswasions , so as none should méet with any Discouragement on the account of his Religion , but be Advanced and Estéemed by vs , according to their several Capacities and Qualifications , so long as We should find Charity and Vnity maintained : And if any Animosities should Arise , that then We would show the severest Effects of Our Royal Displeasure against the Beginners or Fomenters thereof , seeing thereby Our Subjects might be deprived of that general Ease and Satisfaction that We did intend to all of them , whose Happiness , Prosperity , Wealth and Safety were so much in Our Royal Care , that We would leave nothing undone that might procure these Blessings for them . We did likewise Declare , that We were resolved to maintain our Arch-bishops and Bishops of the Protestant Religion , with all the inferior Clergy , in the full and frée Possession of their Rights and Priviledges , as they now enjoy them , and all Our Protestant Subjects , in the frée Exercise of their Religion ; As likewise , the Possessors of Church or Abbay-Lands , in their full Right of their Possessions , according to Law , in that Ease already provided ; Likewise , Granting Our Indemnity , with such Exceptions , as in the foresaid Proclamation is more fully expressed . Thereafter , We thought fit to Explain and Enlarge the same , by Our second Declaration , bearing date at Windsor , the 28 day of June last by past , of which the Tenor follows .

JAMES the Seventh , by the Grace of GOD , King of Scotland , England , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , &c. To all and sundry Our good Subjects whom these Presents do or may Concern , Greeting .

Whereas by Our Royal Proclamation of the date the 12 day , of February 1686. We were graciously pleased for the Causes , on the Terms therein mentioned to grant Our Royal Toleration to the Professors of the Christian Religion therein named ; With and under certain Restrictions and Limitations ; All which are in the said Proclamation more at length expressed : We now taking into Our Royal Consideration the sinistruous Interpretations , which either have , or may be made of some Restrictions , therein mentioned ; Have thought fit by this Our Royal Proclamation , further to declare , that We will Protect Our Arch-Bishops , and Bishops , and all Our Subjects of the Protestant Religion , in the free Exercise of their Protestant Religion , as it is by Law Established , and in the Quiet and full Enjoyment of all their Possessions , without any Molestation or Disturbance whatsoever . And We do likewise by Our Soveraign Authority , Prerogative Royal and Absolute Power , Suspend , Stop and Disable , all Penal and Sanguinary Laws , made against any for Non-conformity to the Religion Established by Law , in that Our Antient Kingdom , or for Exercising their respective Worships , Religions , Rites and Ceremonies ; All which Laws are hereby Stopt , Suspended and Disabled to all Intents and Purposes . And to the end that by the Liberty thereby granted , the Peace and Security of Our Government in the Practice thereof , may not be Endangered , We have thought fit , and We do hereby straitly Charge and Command all Our Loving Subjects , that as we do freely give them leave to Meet and Serve God after their own Way and Manner , be it in private Houses , Chappels , or Places purposely Hired or Built for that use , so that they take care that nothing be Preached or Taught among them which may any ways tend to Alienate the Hearts of Our People from Us , or Our Government , and that their Meetings be peaceably , openly and publickly held , and all Persons freely admitted to them , and that they do signifie and make known to some one or more of the next Privy Counsellors , Sheriffs , Stewards , Bailies , Justices of the Peace , or Magistrates of Burghs-Royal , what Place or Places they set apart for these uses , with the Names of the Preachers .

And that all Our Subjects may enjoy such their Religious Assemblies with greater Assurance and Protection , We have thought fit , and do hereby Command , That no Disturbance of any kind be made or given unto them , under pain of Our Royal Displeasure , and to be further proceeded against , with the outmost Severity ; Provided always , that their Meetings be in Houses or Places provided for the purpose , and not in the open Fields , for which , now after this Our Royal Grace and Favour shown ( which surpasses the Hopes , and equals the very Wishes of the most zealously concerned , ) there is not the least shadow of Excuse left ; Which meetings in Fields ; We do hereby strictly Prohibite and Forbid , against all which We do leave Our Laws and Acts of Parliament in full force and vigour , notwithstanding the Premisses ; And do further Command , all Our Judges , Magistrates , and Officers of Our Forces , to prosecute such as shall be guilty of the saids Field-Conventicles or assemblies , with the outmost Rigour , as they would avoid Our Highest Displeasure ; For We are confident , none will ( after these Liberties and Freedoms We have given to all , without reserve , to serve GOD in their own way ) presume to meet in these Assemblies , except such as make a pretence of Religion , to cover their Treasonable Designs , against Our Royal Person , and the Peace of our Government . And Lastly , to the end all Our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Pleasure , We do hereby Command Our Lyon King at Arms , and his brethren Heraulds , Macers , Pursevants and Messengers at Arms , to make timeous Proclamation thereof at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh ; And besides the Printing and Publishing of this Our Royal Proclamation , It is Our express Will and Pleasure , that the same be past under Our Great Seal of that Our Kingdom per saltum , without passing any other Seal or Register . In order whereunto , these shall be to the Directors o● Our Chancery and their Deputes , for Writing the same , and to Our Chancellor , for causing Our Great Seal aforesaid to be Appended thereunto , a sufficient Warrand .

Given at Our Court at Windsor the 28. day of June . 1687. And of Our Reign the Third Year .

And in pursuance of Our Royal Intentions therein expressed , We have Dissolved all Our Iudicatures of Privy Council , Session , Exchequer , Iusticiary , and Magistracy of Our Burgh-Royal , that by their Acceptations of new Commissions on the terms of Our Royal Pleasure as above-expressed , We might Convince the World of the Iustice of Our Procedure , as the Vniversal thanks of Our People has manifested their Ioy , for so unexpected , unhoped for Blessings , terminating at once their Persecutions , and fréeing Our Self from the bad Consequences thereof , too manifest in by-past Reigns , to be forgotten in this ; And yet there are still some Enemies to vs , and to their own Peace , who labour to lessen the Happiness Our People enjoy , by Fears and Iealousies , that it will not be lasting ; But We will let them , and all the World know , that Our Care , shall be more indefatigable , to Prevent and Defeat their Malice , than they shall be to Contrive or Act the same . And therefore , We have again thought fit to Declare our Royal Intentions , to Stand to , and Maintain Our first Declaration , of the date the 12 of February 1687 , in so far as it is above-repeated , and as it is Explained and Enlarged by Our second of the date the 28 of June , according to the true Meaning and Import of the same . And if any shall be so bold as to refuse their due Concurrence with , or Obedience to vs in these Points , they shall find the weight o● Our Royal Displeasure , so as to terrifie others from the like Vndutifulness to Our Royal Authority , whilst on the other part , such as Dutifully Obey and Act as become them , shall Enjoy the Comfort of Our Royal Protection and Favour . And to the end all Our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Pleasure , We do hereby Command Our Lyon King at Arms , and his Brethren Heraulds , Macers , Pursevants , and Messengers at Arms , to make timeous Proclamation thereof at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh . For all which , This shall be to all Persons respectively , who may be therein any way Concerned , a sufficient Warrand .

Given under Our Royal Hand and Signet at Our Court at Whitehall the 7th day of May 1688. and of Our Reign the Fourth Year . By His Majesties Command , MELFORT . GOD SAVE THE KING . Edinburgh May 15. 1688.

Present in Council . The Earl of Perth Lord high Chancellor The Lord Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews The Lord Arch-Bishop of Glasgow The Lord Marquess of Athol Privy Seal The Earl of Linlithgow The Earl of Strathmore The Earl of Lauderdale The Earl of Traquair The Earl of Belcarras The Lord Viscount of Tarbat The Master of Balmerino The Lord President of Session The Lord Advocat The Lord Justice Clerk The Lord Castlehil General Major Grahame of Claverhouse The Laird of Niddrie .

THe above written Proclamation from His most Sacred Majesty , being Read in His Privy Council of Scotland , was ( in pursuance of His Majesties Royal Commands ) Ordered to be Published the Morrow , at the ordinary time , with all due Solemnities . Extracted forth of the Records of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council by me

WILL PATERSON , Cls. Sti . Consilii .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty : And Reprinted at London by George Croom , at the Blew Ball in Thames-street , 1688. With Allowance .