Charles Prince of Wales &c Regent
Of Scotland England France and Ireland
and the Dominions thereunto belonging
To the Provost Magistrates and
Council of the Town of Stirling.
Intending to take possession of our Town of Stir:
:ling: We hereby require and command you to give our
Forces peaceable entry into and possession of the said
Town, and to receive us as the Representative of
Our Royal Father James the eight by the Grace of
God King of Scotland England France and Ireland
And the Dominions thereunto belonging: And as we
have a list of all the persons now in Arms in the said
Town, you are expressly required to deliver up to
us all their Arms, and likewise all Canon Arms and
Military Stores presently in the said Town: Assur:
:ing you hereby that if you refuse or delay to receive
us, or to deliver up the Arms and Military Stores, as
aforesaid, and thereby oblige us to use that force which
Providence has put in our hands, after our discharging
of one Canon against the said Town, no articles of
Capitulation or protestation shall be given to any of
the Inhabitants for their persons goods and effects. And
as the Town is now blocaded on all sides, if any person therein
therein now in Arms shall be apprehended without
the Walls of the Town they shall be carried to imme:
:diate execution. An answer to this is to be re:
:turned to our Quarter here by two o’Clock afternoon
this day. Given at Bannockburn this Sixth day
of January 1746
Charles P R
