THE Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council understanding, that now when Levies are appointed to be made for Their Majesties Service, in the present War, so necessary for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion, and the Preservation of Their Majesties Kingdoms, these most proper for the said Levies, may possibly: (to de­cline the same,) retire out of the Kingdom to England or Ireland; Do therefore Require, and strictly Command all Collectors of Their Majesties Customs, Sur­veyers, Clerks, Waiters at the several Ports, and all others Their Majesties Offi­cers, Civil or Military who may be concerned, that they suffer no Vessel great or small to Sail for Ireland, at any time after Publication hereof, at the said Ports on the West Seas, untill the first day of May next to come, without a suf­ficient Pass from one of Their Majesties Privy Council, or the Sheriff or Sheriff-Deput, or two of the Commissioners of Supply, or Justice of Peace of the Shire, within which the saids Ports do ly; which persons impowered to give the saids Passes, are hereby also impowered, and Required to take Caution of the Master and Skippers of the saids Ships, that they shall carry no person out of this King­dom for Ireland, during the space foresaid, without lawful Passes, under the pain of one hundred Merks toties quoties, for each person so carryed out by him: As also, the hail forenamed Persons, with all Collectors, Surveyers, Clerks, and Waiters upon the Borders betwixt Scotland and England, are hereby Commanded, that they suffer no person to go for England or Ireland, without Passes from one of Their Majesties Privy Council, or from the Sheriff, or Sheriff-Deput, or two of the Commissioners of Supply, or Justices of the Peace of the Shire where the saids persons did last Reside, and that as the hail foresaids persons will be answerable at their peril. And furder, the saids Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council, do hereby prohibit all such persons who are fit, and in use to be put forth in Foot-levies, to remove out of the Shire where they dwell, after the date hereof, until the present Levy ordered by Proclama­tion be compleated, without Passes from the Heretor of the Ground where they live, or his Chamberlain in his absence; Certifying those that presume to do in the contrair, that they shall be summarly seized where they may be apprehended. And it is hereby declared, that the Seazers and Apprehenders of the said Fleers, shall have Right and Liberty to give them up to serve for such as they may be ob­liged to put forth in the said Levy. And Ordains these presents to be Printed, and to be published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh, and at the Sea-ports of the West-Seas, and hail other Head-burghs of this Kingdom.

GOD save King William and Queen Mary.