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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Concerning the Payment of the Watch-Money by the Citizens of Edinbrugh.</HEAD>
<P>_FORASMUCH, as the Magi&s;trates and Council of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> for the Ea&s;e and Conveniency of the Neighbours and Inhabitants of this City, has rai&s;ed an Company of Foot Souldiers' by vertue of a Commi&s;&s;ion from the Kings mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty for Guarding thereof, and which Company is now actually upon Duty; And &s;eeing in order to their Payment, there has been great pains and care taken by them to make a Li&s;t of the whole Inhabitants lyable to Watching: and a certain &s;mall Sum weekly to be payed by the per&s;ons contained in the &s;aid Li&s;t, which are now put in the hands of the Con&s;tables, to be Collected by them within their re&s;pective Bounds; and whereupon, there is an Act of the Town Council made, the twelfth day of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, which is likewi&s;e approven by the Kings Maje&s;ty. And the &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d Magi&s;trates and Council con&s;idering, That the &s;aids Souldiers has been &s;om time upon Service, and that it will take likewayes &s;ometime for the Con&s;tables to Ingather and Collect the &s;aid Watch-mony, and to the effect that the Inhabitants lyable in paym<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">nt thereof, may have timeous warning to pay in to the &s;aids Con&s;tables their re&s;pective Proportions. Therefore, the &s;aids Magi&s;trates, did ordain, one of the Officers of the &s;aid Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> To command and charge, in Our Soveraign Lords Name, and in name and behalf of the Lord Provo&s;t, Baliffs, and Council of this Burgh, that each of the Inhabitants and Neighbours within the &s;ame, contained in the re&s;pective Li&s;ts, whereof, the Con&s;tables has an Authentick double &s;ub&s;cribed by the Magi&s;trates, that they pay in to the re&s;pective Con&s;tables within their Bounds, a Months Watch-&s;ilver, which begins from the 24th of <HI>August</HI> la&s;t, (upon which day the &s;aid Company entered upon Duty) and that at, or before the &s;eventh day of <HI>September</HI> In&s;tant, and Monthly thereafter in time coming upon the fir&s;t lawful day of each Month: Certifying all &s;uch per&s;ons who&s;e Names are contained in the &s;aids Li&s;ts, and who doe not make punctual payment of their re&s;pective Proportions, and that Month|ly, as &s;aid is, that they &s;hall be poinded to the double value of their &s;aids Months Proportion; Declaring, that the Poinds taken for payment of the &s;aids Watch-mony, &s;hall not be re&s;tored unle&s;s Redeemed upon Payment the very next day after the poinding: As likewi&s;e, with Certification, that tho&s;e per&s;ons who &s;hall be refractory in pay|ment of their &s;aid Watch-mony, that they &s;hall be lookt upon and holden as Contemners of Authority, and accor|dingly &s;hall be puni&s;hed in their per&s;ons. And to the effect the Con&s;tables may attend carefully upon their Duty in receiving of the &s;aid Watch-mony, they are hereby di&s;charged from going forth of this Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">gh unle&s;s they lay down &s;ome &s;olid Way for Payment in their ab&s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, of the Proportions of Watch-mony payable by the Inhabitan<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">s within their re&s;pective Bounds: Certifying the &s;aids Con&s;tables who doe in the contrair, that their Hou&s;es &s;hall be poinded to the double value of the Watch-mony contained in their Li&s;ts. And ordains this pre&s;ent Proclamation to be Intimat at the Mercat Cro&s;s of this City by &s;ound of Trumpet, and the &s;amine to be printed, that none may pretend Ignorance</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE><HI>September 1&s;t.</HI> 1632.</DATE></DATELINE>
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God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, Anno Dom. 1682.</P>
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