Warrant, 18 June 1706, Edinburgh

Procedure: committee formed, 28 December 1706, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the Eighteinth day of June Jaj vijc and six years

A1706/6/231

Warrant

Warrand and Instructions to the pairtie of the force sent to Hawick

The Lords of her Majesties privie Councell haveing upon a representation made to them by the Shirreff of Teviotdale, how that Companies of Lawless vagabonds and Sorners, Infest the said Shyre by breaking of houses, robbing and away takeing honest mens goods, and have dared to resist by armes, and unto blood such as have been sent to suppress and sease them, Thought fitt to order a pairtie of her Majesties forces under the Comand of […] to goe and ly at the town of Hawick and ther to be assistant to the said shirreff when requyred by him to goe and pass upon these lawless vagabounds and Sorners, when and wher they Shall be found to be breaking the peace and Infefting the Countrey by violence and other deeds of oppression, Doe heirby declaire for the warrand and Security of the said pairtie and Souldiers that shall be imployed as said is, That when and as off as upon the requisition of the said Shirreff; They Shall goe in greater or lesser pairties to the Suppressing and Seasing of the forsaid vagabounds and Sorners, In ther lawless and wicked practices They Shall happen to be by them opposed and resisted in hostile maner, Then it Shall be lawfull to the forsaid Shirreff or pairties greater or lesser to use all maner of force by subdueing and apprehending the forsaid lawless vagabounds and Sotners, And that if upon the said violent resistance made by them to her Majesties forces authorised and imployed as said is, any battery, blood, mutillation or slaughter shall follow against these lawless and wicked men, The said Shirreff, her Majesties forces both Commanders and Souldiers, and ther assistants, shall be Indemnified and never questioned for the Same, And that the forsaid force used in maner and for the end forsaid for Suppressing and Seasing of the said wicked persons, and all that may happen theron, Shall be repute good Service to her Majestie, and the peace and quyet of her Government. Sic Subscribitur Montrose P. Buchan. Forfar. Dunmore. Cromartie. Haddo. James Murray. James Steuart. Robert Dundas. Gilbert Eliot.

Att Edinburgh the Eighteinth day of June Jaj vijc and six years

A1706/6/231

Warrant

Warrand and Instructions to the pairtie of the force sent to Hawick

The Lords of her Majesties privie Councell haveing upon a representation made to them by the Shirreff of Teviotdale, how that Companies of Lawless vagabonds and Sorners, Infest the said Shyre by breaking of houses, robbing and away takeing honest mens goods, and have dared to resist by armes, and unto blood such as have been sent to suppress and sease them, Thought fitt to order a pairtie of her Majesties forces under the Comand of […] to goe and ly at the town of Hawick and ther to be assistant to the said shirreff when requyred by him to goe and pass upon these lawless vagabounds and Sorners, when and wher they Shall be found to be breaking the peace and Infefting the Countrey by violence and other deeds of oppression, Doe heirby declaire for the warrand and Security of the said pairtie and Souldiers that shall be imployed as said is, That when and as off as upon the requisition of the said Shirreff; They Shall goe in greater or lesser pairties to the Suppressing and Seasing of the forsaid vagabounds and Sorners, In ther lawless and wicked practices They Shall happen to be by them opposed and resisted in hostile maner, Then it Shall be lawfull to the forsaid Shirreff or pairties greater or lesser to use all maner of force by subdueing and apprehending the forsaid lawless vagabounds and Sotners, And that if upon the said violent resistance made by them to her Majesties forces authorised and imployed as said is, any battery, blood, mutillation or slaughter shall follow against these lawless and wicked men, The said Shirreff, her Majesties forces both Commanders and Souldiers, and ther assistants, shall be Indemnified and never questioned for the Same, And that the forsaid force used in maner and for the end forsaid for Suppressing and Seasing of the said wicked persons, and all that may happen theron, Shall be repute good Service to her Majestie, and the peace and quyet of her Government. Sic Subscribitur Montrose P. Buchan. Forfar. Dunmore. Cromartie. Haddo. James Murray. James Steuart. Robert Dundas. Gilbert Eliot.

1. NRS, PC1/53, 475.

1. NRS, PC1/53, 475.