Advertisement. Whereas it has been found by experience, that the army's being followed by great numbers of idle or ill designing people, is attended with very great inconvenience to it, and may prove fatal to themselves; and whereas the attendance of such great numbers upon the army, is not only a great incumbrance, but consumes very much of not only a great incumbrance, but consumes very much of the provisions and forage, which may be necessary to support the army; these are therefore to give notice, that whoever shall presume to come within one mile of the army, after its march from Edinburgh, without being duly furnished with a pass, from the Right Honourable the Lord Justice Clerk, his Excellency General Hawley, or one of the general officers, they shall be punished, and must blame themselves, it they be fired upon, excepting such as bring provisions and forage to the army, who are to be paid ready money for what they bring, to whom all protection is to be given; and excepting those also, whose information may be useful to the army..
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1745]
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Scotland. Army
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