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</FIGURE> A PROCLAMATION, <HI>Again&s;t Penny-Weddings.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_JAMES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> Fora&s;much, as by the fourteenth <HI>Act</HI> of the Third <HI>Parliament,</HI> held in the Reign of Our deare&s;t Royal Brother of ever glorious Memory, Entituled, <HI>Act Re&s;training the exorbi|tant Expence of Marriages,</HI> &amp;c. upon the con&s;iderations therein-mentioned, the keeping of Penny-Weddings is Prohibited and Di&s;charged, under and with the Certifications and Qualifi|fications thereby expre&s;ly provided. And whereas<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, notwith&s;tanding of the &s;aid Act and Prohi|bition, divers per&s;ons, Vintners and others, have, and &s;till continue to contraveen &s;o nece&s;&s;ary and u&s;eful a Law, to the great contempt of Our Authority, expen&s;e, and abu&s;e of Our Leidges, contrair to the de&s;ign and intent thereof. Therefore, We with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Ordain the &s;aid Act of Parliament to be put in full and vigorous execution again&s;t the Contraveeners, conform to the tenor thereof in all points. And to the end that all per&s;ons may be fully certiorate of this Our Royal Plea&s;ure, We hereby Ordain the &s;aid Act of Parliament to be of new printed, and &s;ubjoyned hereto, and publi&s;hed in manner under-written. And therefore, Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and all the other Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and there in Our Royal Name and Authority, by open Procla|mation make publication of Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, and al&s;o read the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament hereunto &s;ubjoyned, that none may pretend Ignorance, under the Pains and Certifications therein-mentioned.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;ixth day of</HI> December, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty &s;even. And of Our Reign the third year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> WILL. PATERSON, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Follows the Tenor of the above-mentioned Act of Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">ACT Re&s;training the exorbitant expence of Marriages, Bapti&s;ms, and Burials.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>September 13. 1681.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_OUR SOVERAIGN LORD, Con&s;idering the great hurt and prejudice, ari&s;ing to this Kingdom, by the &s;uperfluous expence be&s;towed at Marriages, Bapti&s;ms, and Burials. For repre&s;&s;ing of which abu&s;e in time coming, His <HI>Majesty</HI> with Advice and Con&s;ent of His E&s;tates of Parliament, Does Statute and Ordain, That Marriages, Bapti&s;ms, and Burials, &s;hall be &s;olemnized, and gone about, in &s;ober, and decent manner. And that at Marriages, be&s;ides the married per&s;ons, their Parents, Children, Brothers, and Si&s;ters, and the Family wherein they live, There &s;hall not be pre&s;ent at any Contract of Marriage, or In-fare, or meet upon occa&s;ion thereof, above four Friends on either &s;ide, with their ordinary dome&s;tick Servants, and that neither Bride-groom, nor Bride, nor their Parents, or Relations, Tutors, or Cura|tors for them, and to their u&s;e, &s;hall make above two changes of Raiment at that time, or upon that occa&s;ion. Certifying &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall contraveen, if they be Landed per&s;ons, They &s;hall be lyable in the fourth part of their yearly valued Rent, and tho&s;e who are not Landed Per&s;ons, in the fourth part of their Moveables, Burge&s;&s;es according to their Condition and Means, not exceed|ing five hundred Merks <HI>Scots,</HI> and mean Crafts-men and Servants, not exceeding one hundred Merks: And if there &s;hall be any greater number of per&s;ons than afore&s;aid, in any Hou&s;e, or Inn, within Burgh, or Suburbs thereof, or within two Miles of the &s;ame, where Penny-Weddings are made, That the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e, &s;hall be Fined in the Sum of five hundred Merks <HI>Scots.</HI> And it is Statute and Ordained, That at Bapti&s;ms, upon that occa&s;ion, be&s;ides the Parents, Children, Brothers, and Si&s;ters, and tho&s;e of the Family, there &s;hall not be pre&s;ent above four Witne&s;&s;es. And Further, His <HI>Majesty,</HI> with Con&s;ent fore&s;aid, Statutes and Ordains, That there &s;hall not be invited to Burials, any greater number of per&s;ons than tho&s;e following, <HI>viz.</HI> To the Burial of Noblemen, and Bi&s;hops, and their Wives, not above one hundred Noblemen and Gentlemen: To the Burial of a Baron of Quali|ty, not above Sixty, and other Landed Gentlemen, not above Thirty. And that the Mourners at the Burials of Noblemen; and Bi&s;hops, and their Ladies, do not exceed Thirty, and at the Burials of Privy-Coun&s;ellors, Lords of Se&s;&s;ion, Barons, Provo&s;ts of Burghs, and their Wives, the number of Mourners do not exceed Twenty four, And at the Burials of all other Landed Gentlemen, and Citizens within Burgh, they do not exceed the number of Twelve. And Prohibits, and Di&s;charges the u&s;ing, or carrying of any Pencils, Banners, and other Honours, at Burials, except only the eight Branches to be upon the Pale, or upon the Coffin, where there is no Pale, under the fore&s;aids penalties <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;,</HI> in ca&s;e they contraveen. And it is Statute, and Ordained, That there be no Mourning Cloaks u&s;ed at Burials, nor at any other time, under the pain of One hundred pounds <HI>Scots.</HI></P>
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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 <HI>Majesty,</HI> 1687.</P>
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