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Proclamation for furnishing horses and other necessaries for the transport of the cannon and baggage of the army†
At Edinburgh, 19 August 1641
The which day our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, considering how necessary it is that horses, carts, traisses†, baskets, sacks and other needful equipment convenient for transporting and carrying of bread, drink and other provisions for the army, as also for transporting of the cannon, artillery, ammunition and baggage of the said army, be in readiness upon all advertisement at all occasions for the effect foresaid, therefore our sovereign lord and estates of parliament foresaid do hereby, in his highness's name and authority, command and charge that all horses, carts, traisses, baskets, sacks and other equipment necessary for transport and carriage of bread, drink and other provisions for the army and for transporting of the cannon, artillery, ammunition and baggage thereof foresaid be in readiness to come in such numbers to such places and with such equipment as the commissioners, or any of them, shall appoint; and that upon 12 hours' advertisement to be given by the said commissioners to the said owners for that effect under all highest pain that after may follow. And ordains public proclamation to be made hereof that none pretend ignorance relating to this.
Alexander Gibson
Upon 20 August 1641, I, James Currie, Islay herald, passed to the market cross of Edinburgh and by open proclamation and sound of trumpets proclaimed the within written [...]† before the witnesses William Mar and David Ferguson, trumpeters, and Lewis Goodhall, indweller in Edinburgh. And for further verification of this my execution, subscribed by my hand, my stamp is affixed.
James Currie, Islay herald