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<DATE>2008-03-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>To His GRACE, HIS MAJESTY's HIGH COMMISSIONER. And the Honourable ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT The PETITION of &s;everal NOBLES and BARRONS concerned in Burghs of Regality and Barrony, and other Inhabi|tants within this Kingdom.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly Sheweth</OPENER>
<P>THAT there being an Act offered to your Grace and Lord&s;hips, for Explaining the Import of the Words in the Act of Parliament 1693 (anent Communication of Trade) <HI>Di&s;charging all Per&s;ons what&s;omever to exerci&s;e any kind of Trade</HI>; which we humbly con|ceive did not extend to the Trading in the Native Commodities of the Kingdom, or to Handycrafts-men following their &s;everal Imployments, or to Retailing Forreign Commodities bought from Burge&s;&s;es of Royal Burghs; The &s;aids Priviledges being &s;ecured to us by former Laws, no ways Abto|gat or Re&s;cinded. When the &s;aid Act was moved, after &s;ome little Debate it was laid a&s;ide and delayed. And &s;eing the Explaining of the &s;aids Words is a Matter of Univer&s;al Concern to this Kingdom,</P>
<P REND="italic">May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace and Lord&s;hips to Call for the &s;aid Act, which lyes in the Clerk's Hand, and to Explain and declare your Meaning by the for&s;aid Words; that the Leidges may be determined thereanent, and freed from the Expen&s;es of further Quibbling thereupon.</P>
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