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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For the more effectual In-bringing of the Hearth-Money.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY,</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith, To Our Lovits  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Priyy Coun|cil, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much, as We with Advice of Our Privy Council, by Our Proclamation of the date, the twelfth day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, for the more Effectual and Orderly Collecting, Up-lifting and In-bringing of the Hearth-Money, humbly offer|ed to Us by our E&s;tates of Parliament; conform to the &s;econd Act of the third <HI>Se&s;sion</HI> of Our current Parliament: Have in pro&s;ecution of the Power given to the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council, by an Act of Our &s;aid Parliament, of the date the tenth day of <HI>September,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninty years. Impowering them to give &s;uch Orders for Collecting and In-bringing of the &s;aid Hearth-mony, as they &s;hall judge fit. Ordained Li&s;ts to be given in to Mr. <HI>James Melvill</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ingray,</HI> Receiver and Collector of all the Hearth-mony within this Kingdom, his Sub-Collectors, and Deputs, of all Hearths, Kilns and others mentioned in the &s;aid Proclamation, in manner, and under the Certifications therein &s;pecified. And now the&s;e Li&s;ts being for the mo&s;t part given in: We, with Advice fore&s;aid, do hereby Require and Command all Per&s;ons what&s;omever, lyable in payment of the &s;aid Hearth-mony, to make payment of the &s;ame, to the &s;aid Mr. <HI>James Melvill</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;singray,</HI> and his Sub-Collectors, and Deputs, betwixt and the tenth day of <HI>May</HI> next to come, With Certification to &s;uch as &s;hall fail&yogh;ie in punctual payment, that Letters of Horning and Poynding &s;hall be direct forth again&s;t them, at the in&s;tance of the &s;aid General-Collector and Receiver, his Sub-Collectors and Deputs, or they &s;hall be allowed to Quarter upon the &s;aids Deficients, not exceeding one Souldier for each three Hearths, for the more &s;peedy In-bringing of the &s;aid Hearth-mony. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you &s;traitly an 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 to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the whole remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority, by open Procla|mation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance, as ye will an&s;wer to Us. The which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and &s;everally Our full Power, by the&s;e Pre&s;ents, delivering them by you, duly execute, and indor&s;ed again to the bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Twentie day of <HI>April,</HI> And of Our Reign the third Year, 1691.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilij. GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Secreti Concilij.</HI></SIGNED>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King <HI>WILLIAM</HI> and Queen <HI>MARY.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent <HI>Maje&s;ties, Anno Dom,.</HI> 1691.</P>
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