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And moreover, in respect that a good number of persons in the former justice courts found sureties that they should compear the third day of the next circuit court or sooner on 15 days' warning when and where it should please our sovereign lord, and underlie the law for all crimes that could be laid to their charge thereafter, and that they should abstain from theft, reset of theft and masterful oppression in time coming, each person under the pain of £100 so often as they failed, therefore ordains and commands the justice clerk and his deputes that the names which have found the said surety with their sureties to be published and proclaimed at the said market crosses of the head burghs, within the marches near England and parts nearest the highlands, and to warn and admonish all his lieges whom they offended to give in their complaints and indictments to the justice clerk and his deputes in due time, that they and their sureties may be arrested and charged and assizes duly summoned. Certifying them if they fail, that their damages and want of redress of their goods shall be imputed to their own default and negligence.