A proclamation anent recruits, levies, deserters and passes Proclamations. 1696-02-13 Scotland. Privy Council. 1696 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A92660 Wing S1648 ESTC R230225 99895951 99895951 153560 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. A92660) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153560) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2370:25) A proclamation anent recruits, levies, deserters and passes Proclamations. 1696-02-13 Scotland. Privy Council. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the Kings most excellent Majest[ies], Edinburgh : 1696. Dated at end: Edinburgh, the thirteenth day of February, and of Our Reign the seventh year, 1696. Steele notation: Ireland, ing be. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.. 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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WILLIAM by the Grace of God , King of Great-Britain , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , To Macers of Our Priv● Council , Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially Constitute ; Greeting . Forasmuch as , It is requisite and necessary , That during this present War , which so much concerns the Defence and Security of the Protestant Religion , and of Our Kingdoms , Rules and Orders be set down for Recruits , Levies and Deserters , whereby frequent Disorders and Oppressions may be prevented , and unfit men may not be Engaged , and none may be Troubled upon the head of Desertion , but such as are truly Deserters : Therefore , We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council , Conform to the Thirty third Act Fifth Session of this Our Current Parliament , Entituled Act for the Levies : Do Hereby Appoint and Ordain , that no Officer , either at Home or from Abroad , offer to Take on , or Press any Free Leidge to be a Souldier , unless the Man be Taken on by Agreement , owned by him in presence of the Judge of the Bounds . And if any Officer shall Contraveen this Order , and Press or Compel any Man contrair to the Rule hereby Established , that it shall be reckoned Oppression , and the Transgressor punished by the Fyne of a Months Pay , and further by Imprisonment , or Breaking and Casheering , as the saids Lords of Our Privy Council shall think sit . And further , We with Advice foresaid , Do strictly Prohibit and Discharge all Our Officers which have come for Recruits from Flanders , to Seize upon any persons as Deserters , but such as have Deserted from Our Scots Regiments in Flanders since they were there , and none others : And allows the Officers of Our Forces in this Our ancient Kingdom , to Seize upon none upon the head of Desertion , but such as have Deserted from one or other of the saids Regiments , of which they are at present Officers : And Discharge any person to be Seized upon , on pretence of Desertion before our Accession to the Crown . And for preventing any Mistake anent Passes , given to such as have been Souldiers : We with Advice foresaid , Do herby Appoint and Ordain , That no Pass be sustained for any Souldier from Our Forces in Flanders , or out of this Kingdom , unless the same be Subscribed at least by the Collonel of the Regiment , to which he belonged . And that no Pass be sustained for any of the Souldiers of the standing Regiments of this Kingdom , unless the same be Subscribed by the Collonel of the Regiment , or by one of the Field-Officers , Commander of the Regiment for the time , to which he belonged ; and Declares , that the Passes Signed in manner foresaid , shall free the persons in whose favours they are granted . And further , We with Advice foresaid , Do hereby Ratify and Revive , all former Acts and Proclamations , made anent Recruits , Levies , or Deserters , except in so far , as the samen are hereby Innovat or Altered . Our Will is Herefore , and we Charge you strictly , and Command , That in Continent thir Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Our ●ingdom , and There in Our Name and Authority , by open Proclamation , make Intima●●●●●hereof , that none may pretend ignorance . And Ordains Our Sollicitor to Transmit ●rinted Copies hereof , to the Sheriffs of the several Shires of this Kingdom , to be sent ●y them , to the Ministers of the several Paroches within their respective Shires : and Appoints the Ministers of the Paroches , to cause Intimat these Proclamations in their Paroch Churches where they are Ministers , immediately at the Dissolution of the Congregation , and that either from the Pulpit , or at the Church-Doors . And Ordains these Presents to be Printed and Published . Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh , the Thirteenth day of February , and of Our Reign the Seventh year , 1696. Pe● Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii . DA. MONCREIFF Cls. Sti. Concilii . GOD Save the King. Edinburgh , Printed by the Heirs and Successors o● ●ndrew Anderson , Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Maj●●●● 1696.