Edinburgh, the 16 day of June, one thousand six hundred seventy and four years. Act assuring a reward to any who shall apprehend some rebels and others. Scotland. Privy Council. 1674 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B05306 Wing S1405 ESTC R182981 53981721 ocm 53981721 180348 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05306) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180348) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2826:36) Edinburgh, the 16 day of June, one thousand six hundred seventy and four years. Act assuring a reward to any who shall apprehend some rebels and others. Scotland. Privy Council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by his Majestie's printers, Edinburgh : anno Dom. 1674. Caption title. Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. Signed at end: Tho. Hay, Cls. Sti. Concilii. Imperfect: creased with slight loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Covenanters -- Scotland -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- History -- 1660-1688 -- Sources. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Megan Marion Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Megan Marion Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion EDINBURGH , The 16. day of June , One thousand six hundred seventy and four Years . ACT Assuring a reward to any who shall apprehend some Rebels and others . FOrasmuch as the keeping of Field-Conventicles , and the intruding upon , and invading of Pulpits , are most unlawful and disorderly practices , tending to the disturbance of the Peace , and to the affront of His Majesties Authority , and notwithstanding the Laws and Acts of Parliament prohibiting the same , under high pains therein mentioned , the Ring-leaders , Promoters , and other persons guilty of the said disorders , are emboldned to commit the same , presuming that they will not be discovered and brought to trial and punishment : Therefore the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council for the encouragement of all His Majesties good Subjects to discover and apprehend all such persons as is after-mentioned , do hereby offer , declare , and give assurance , that if any person , being of His Majesties standing Forces , or of the Militia , or any other His Majesties Subjects , shall seiz upon , and apprehend any person or persons , who since His Majesties late gracious Proclamation of the 24. of March last , hath Convocated any number of persons to Field-Conventicles , or at any 〈…〉 persons thereto , or shall apprehend any Heretors or others being at Field-Conventicles , while the saids persons are present at , or coming from the same , so that the saids persons apprehended shall be brought to a trial , and shall be found guilty and convict of the said offences , that the apprehenders of such persons shall have the gift of the Fines of the saids persons given to them : And incase any person or persons be cited for the saids crimes and offences , and after certification is granted against them for their contumacy and not appearing , shall be apprehended , the apprehenders of such persons shall have the gift of their Escheats , and benefit arising from the said certifications . And whoever of the standing Forces , Militia , or others His Majesties good Subjects , shall apprehend any Minister or other person Preaching at any Field-Conventicle , or who hath Preached since the said Proclamation , or shall at any time hereafter Preach at Field-Conventicles , or any of them . And whatsoever person or persons shall apprehend and seiz upon any Outed Minister who are not licenced by the Council , or any other person not authorized nor tolerat by the Bishop of the Diocess , who since the time foresaid have invaded , or shall invade any Pulpit or Pulpits , the person or persons apprehending any of the Ministers or other persons foresaid guilty of Preaching at Field-Conventicles , or invading of Pulpits , shall for their reward have payed to them the sum of an thousand Merks : And for the persons after-named , viz. Mr , John Welsh , Mr. Gabriel Sempil , and Mr. Samuel Arnot , the apprehenders shall have the sum of 2000 Merks payed to them . And His Majesties Subjects are not only warranted to seiz upon , and apprehend the saids disorderly persons in manner foresaid ; But it further declared by the saids Lords of Council , that upon consideration of the condition of the persons who shall be apprehended according as they have been more stickling and active in the said disorders , and the pains and diligence of the apprehenders and other circumstances , they will also consider what further reward shall be given to them for their service . And ordains these presents to be Printed , that none pretend ignorance . Tho. Hay , Cl s. S ti . Concilii . EDINBURGH , Printed by His Majestie 's Printers : Anno DOM. 1674.