Proclamation indemnifying deserters, who shall return betwixt and the first day of January next to come. Scotland. Privy Council. 1696 Approx. 3 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). B05707 Wing S1941 ESTC R183565 52529315 ocm 52529315 179102 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. B05707) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179102) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:91) Proclamation indemnifying deserters, who shall return betwixt and the first day of January next to come. Scotland. Privy Council. Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1696. Caption title. Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. Intentional blank spaces in text. Dated: Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the twelfth day of November, and of Our Reign the eighth year, 1696. Signed: Gilb. Eliot Cls. Sti. Concilii. 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. EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines. 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 Military deserters -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-10 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-12 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion PROCLAMATION , Indemnifying Deserters , who shall return betwixt and the First Day of January next to come . WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD , King of Great-Britain , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , to _____ Macers of Our Privy Council , Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , Greeting ; Forasmuch as We are informed , that several Souldiers belonging to Our Forces within this Our Ancient Kingdom , have Deserted ; And We being desirous rather to reclaim Transgressours by Clemency , than to punish them with the outmost Severity ; Therefore We , with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council , have thought fit to Require , and do hereby Require all Souldiers that have Deserted , to return to their Colours , and to Our Service , betwixt and the First day of January next to come , promising to Indemnifie , likeas We do hereby fully Indemnifie for their by past deserting , all that shall return in manner foresaid ; But on the other hand , certifying such as shall not return betwixt and the day foresaid , that both they and their Resetters shall be prosecute with the outmost severity , conform to the Laws and Proclamations emitted against them . And farder , We do hereby Impower and Require all Officers whatsomever , belonging to Our Forces , either at home or abroad , to seize and apprehend after the day foresaid , all such Deserters as shall not accept of this Our gracious offer , to the effect they may be condignly punished , as said is . Our Will is herefore , and We Charge you strictly , and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and to the Mercat-Crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom , and there in Our Name and Authority , by open Proclamation , make Publication of the Premisses , that none pretend ignorance ; And Ordains these presents to be Printed . Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh , the Twelfth day of November , and of Our Reign the Eighth Year , 1696. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii . GILB . ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii . Edinburgh , Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Excellent Majesty , Anno DOM. 1696.