Act, 28 December 1693, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the Fourteinth day off Januarij J^aj vj^c nyntie three years

A1693/1/28

A1693/1/28¹

Letter: royal

Letter from the Councill to the King anent the schem of the militia

The Following Letter from the Councill to the Kings Majestie anent the scheme of the militia being read votted and approven wes signed and ordered to be recorded whereof the tenor followes.
May it please your Majestie – Albeit by a former Letter wee represented to your Majestie that there are defects in the present establishment of the militia that without a parliament Can hardly be fully amended yet the present posture of things at home and abroad Requyreing us in duety to mynd your Majesties service and the Kingdomes security and defence alse much as is possible for us wee have thought fitt not only to emitt a proclamation Comanding all the Nobility and Gentrie in the Kingdome whether heretors wodsetters or Lyfrenters to be in readyness upon Fourty eight houres advertisement with sufficient horse and armes to attend your Majesties standard when they shall be requyred But Lykewayes to frame a moddell of the half of the foot militia such as our present Lawes doe allow And to transmitt the same to your Majestie To be aither Instantly called out and sett on foot By your Majestyes Royall Command or that your Majestie may take any other effectuall course that yow may Judge expedient This Modell we have sent to your Majesties secretary To be presented at your Leasure And what your majestie shall be pleased to² order³ therein or in any thing else relateing to your service shall be most readily and exactly obeyed by may it please your Majestie Your majesties most Loyall most faithfull and most obedient Subjects and servants Sic Subscribitur Tweeddale Cancel: Douglas Linlithgow Lothiane Breadalbaine Tarbat Beilhaven William Master of Forbes James Stewart John Lauder William Anstruther Archibald Murray Patrick Murray daitted at Edinburgh the 14. Januarij 1693.