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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For Rouping the Re&s;ts of the Hearth-money.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith;</SIGNED> <SALUTE> <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> To Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;enger&s; at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the E&s;tates of Parliament of this Our antient Kingdom, by their Act of the date the Tenth Day of <HI>September</HI> One Thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety Years, made an humble Tender and Offer to Us, of fourteen &s;hilling <HI>Scots</HI> for every Hearth within this Kingdom, payable at the Term of <HI>Candlema&s;s,</HI> One Thou&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety one Years, by the Inhabitants Dwelling in the Hou&s;es where the &s;aids Hearths are, without exception or exemption of any, except the Hearths of Ho&s;pitals, and of poor people, who were upon the Charity of the Pari&s;h; and where any Hou&s;es were not Inhabited, that the &s;aid Hearth-Money &s;hould be payed by the Heretor, Liferenter, or proper Wod&s;etter, to whom the &s;ame for the time did belong: And albeit We by Our Commi&s;&s;ion under Our Royal Hand, Named a Collector, with power to him to con&s;titute and appoint Sub-Collectors, for the In-bringing, Uplifting and Receiving of the fore&s;aid Hearth-money; and with Advice of Our Privy Council, Did Emit and Publi&s;h divers Proclamations, Acts and Orders, for the better helping and a&s;si&s;ting Our &s;aid Collector and his Deputs, in the Execution of their &s;aids Commi&s;sions; Neverthele&s;s a great part of the Money that would have a|ri&s;en from the Hearths of this Kingdom, is yet deficient, and not uplifted or Collected from the per&s;ons lyable in payment thereof, to the great prejudice of Our Service, and fru&s;trating the intent of the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament. And We Con|&s;idering that what re&s;ts unpayed of the fore&s;aid Hearth-money, freely offered to Us by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, may be mo&s;t effectually uplifted, and profitably brought in, for the intere&s;t of Our Service, and &s;atisfaction of the inten|tion of Our E&s;tates of Parliament in their fore&s;aid offer, by way of publick Roup, in favours of the Per&s;ons who &s;hall offer mo&s;t for the &s;ame: THEREFORE WE, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby make publick Intimation to all Our Leidges, that what is re&s;ting unpayed of the Hearth-money, offered to Us by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, is to be publickly Rouped by the Lords of Our The&s;aury and Exchequer, at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> in the <HI>Exche|quer-Hou&s;e,</HI> upon the Twenty fifth Day of <HI>July</HI> in&s;tant, betwixt Four and Six Hours in the Afternoon, and that who &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ll bid mo&s;t for the &s;ame, &s;hall be preferred, and have Commi&s;sion or Right granted to them for uplifting and Collecting there|of. As al&s;o, That the Articles and Conditions of the &s;aid Roup, are lying in the Hands of the Clerks of Our The&s;aury and Ex|chequer, to be &s;een by all concerned before the &s;aid Roup, and thereafter to be publi&s;hed both for the Security of Our Leidges again&s;t exactions, and better Direction of the &s;aid Fermorer, in uplifting and Collecting of the &s;ame. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, 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 to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, and there in our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make publick Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none pre|tend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Twelfth day of <HI>July.</HI> And of Our Reign, the &s;ixth Year, <HI>1694</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
<HI>GOD</HI> Save King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1694.</P>
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