Forasmuch, as, We are well Informed of a cruel Murder Committed by Ensign Campbel in Collonel D'Offerrills Regiment and Sierjeant Rober Campbel his Brother & their Accomplices, under Silence & Cloud of Night, upon Thomas Picket, Servent to William Bryce Weaver in Brughtown, while he was living peaceably in the Dwelling-house of the said William Bryce his Master, upon the twelfth day of December Current without any Just Cause, or Occasion, falsly pretending the said Thomas Picket was a Deserter from that Regiment; And We being delirous, that the Committers of so hain­ous a Murder, should be brought to consign Punishment: Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby Require and Command, all our Magistrats, Officers, Souldiers and other our Lieges, to-do their outmost Endeavour and Diligence, to apprehend the [...] Ensign Campbel, and his said Brother, and deliver them Prisoners to the Magistrats of any of our Burghs, to be by them keeped in safe Custody, untill they be brought to Trial, and suffer Condign Punishment for the said Crime: Indemnifying hereby all Persons from all Hazard of Slaughter, Mutilation, or any other Acts of Vio­lence which they may Commit against the said Ensign and Sergeant Campbels, or any persons with them, in apprehending the saids Ensign & Serjeant Campbels, And We with Advice foresaid, Do hereby peremptorily Inhibit & Discharge all and every our Leiges whatsomever, to Shelter; Barbour, Conceal, or any way Aslift or Supply the said Ensign Campbel or his Brother, upon their highest Peril. And for remeading the Inconveniences which arise from Irregular and Disorderly Levying of Souldiers, or Seasing of Deserters on the one hand, and for Securing our Officers of such Souldiers, as they shall orderly Conduce And take on, and recovering Deserters on the other hand: We with Advice foresaid strictly Prihibit and Discharge, all Inhabitances within this Kingdom to Shelter, or Reset any Deserters, and Require and Command all our Lieges, to Secure any Deserters already Reset by there, and to deliver them to the next Justice of Peace, or Commissoner of Assessment, to be committed by them, or either of them, to the next Parison, untill the Matter be Tried, either by the Sheriff of the Shire, or his Deputs, or by some Justice of Peace in the place, or Magistrat of the Burgh where the Party is Secured, and the Person so com­mitted be either Absolved or Delivered to his Officer, or some other Person to his belove, under the pain of ten Pound of Sterling to be payed by the Reset­ter not observing the Premisses, to the Officer of the Deserter, the Resetter always knowing him to be Deserter: and if any Officer shall orderly Conduce and take on any Person to be a Souldier for our Service, whosover shall Reset or Conceal him thereafter, shall Incur the like Penalty to be payed in manner foresaid. And siklike, We with Advice foresaid, strictly Prohibite and Discharge, all Officers and Souldiers to Sease upon or force any Person to En­gage as Souldiers, but by the free Choise and Consent of the Person taken on, which is to be proven either by two Witnesser (not being Souldiers) or by the Oath of the Party taken on, under the like penalty of ten pound Sterling to be payed by the said Officers or Souldiers to the Person injured: And fur­ther, We with Advice foresaid, strictly Forbid and Discharge all Officers, Souldiers and others imployed to taken on Souldiers, to break open doors as any time, or to Invade or Beset any House, under Silence and Cloud of Night, upon pretence of Searching for, or Apprehending any Person as Deserters, or Souldiers taken on by them without a written Order, from, or as least the concurrence of the Sheriff of the Shire, or Justice of Peace in Landward, or Ma­gistrat within Burgh, or the Heretor of the Ground where any Souldier of Deserter taken on is Reset, under the pain of ten pound Sterling Money foresaid, to be payed be the Contraveener of any part of the Premisses, to the parties Injured: And We with Advice foresaid, Required and Command all Magistrates of Burghs and Landward, to receive the Coraplaints to be made to them, by any Person or Persons or Force and Violence, or any Irregular Means made Use of in Seasing upon the Compliners, either at Deserters, or to make up Recruits, and to do Justice therein with all Expendition, as accords. And siklike that they grant summar Deligence to any Officer, Souldier, or other who shall desire the same, to Sease upon Deserters: And to order all Prison-Keepers within their Respective Bounds, to receive and Secure such as shall be Seased upon, and such as shall be orderly on, and engaged to be Souldiers: the Officers who Seases upon and delivers them into Custody, always Obliging themselves to Sustain and lintertrain the saids Persons, during their continuance in Pri­son. And further, there all our Troop may be the more speedily Recruited for the necessar Defence of Religion. And all that is dear to us or our People. We with Advice foresaid, Required all Sheriffs, Baillie of Regalities, Stewards of Stewarties, and their Deputs, Justices of Peace, and Magistrats of Burgh within this Kingdom, to give ready Concurrence for Stafing and and Secaring all Vagabonds, Sorvers, and other idle Perssons, who being able of Limb and Lien, do refuse to Work, or do not give a Resonble Account how they Earn their Living, before our saids Judges, to the Effect they may be delivered to any of the Officers at persent making Recruits: And by them be Employed in our Service as Souldiers, the saids Persons being always apprehended by an Order from one or other of our saids Judges, and Rumination being taken by them, that the saids Persons are of the Condition and Qualifications foresaid: And appoints them to be Secured and Entertained as is above Appointed, Conform to many good Laws made by our Royal Predecessors, for Free­ing the Countrey of such Barthensom and idel Persons: And that our pleasure in the Premisses may be known. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you strictly, and Command, that incontinent these our Letters sean, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and Mercat-Crosses of the whole reminent Burghs in this Kingdom, and other places needful. And there in Our Name and Authority by upon Proclamation, make Publication of the Pre­mise, that none may pretend Ignorence. And ordains these Presents to be Printed.