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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> For the better Inbringing of the Hearth-Money.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><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> De|fenders of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;eve|rally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as by the &s;econd <HI>Act</HI> of the third <HI>Se&s;&s;ion</HI> of Our Current Parlia|ment, Our E&s;tates of Parliament Have humbly Offered to Us, Fourteen Shilling Scots for every Hearth within this King|dom, payable at <HI>Candlema&s;s</HI> la&s;t, by the Inhabitants dwelling in the Hou&s;es where the &s;aids Hearths are, without excepti|on or exemption of any, except the Hearths of Ho&s;pitals and of Poor People, who are upon the Charity of the Paroch; and where any Hou&s;es are 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 doth belong, to be applyed for the u&s;es and ends in the fore&s;aid Act of Par|liament contained. Likeas We, and Our E&s;tates of Parliament, by another Act of the date, the tenth day of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t, have remitted to, and impowered the Lords of Our Privy Council, to give &s;uch Orders for Collecting, and In|bringing of the &s;aid Hearth-money, as they &s;hould judge fit. For the better Inbringing whereof, We by Our Commi&s;&s;ion, under Our Royal Hand, have Nominated and Appointed <HI>James Melvill</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ingray,</HI> Receiver and Collector of all the Hearth-money within this Kingdom, with Power to him to Con&s;titute and Appoint Sub-Collectors, and Receivers under him in every Shire or Paroch, for whom he is to be an&s;werable: Therefore, and for the more effectual and orderly Col|lecting, Uplifting, and Inbringing of the &s;ame, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Covncil, Do hereby Command and Ordain, all Heretors, Liferenters, and proper Wod&s;etters, by them&s;elves, their Tutors or Curators, or Chamberlains and Factors, to give in to the &s;aid <HI>James Melvill,</HI> or to his Sub-Collectors and Deputs, within the &s;everal Shires and paroches, upon Intimation of their Commi&s;&s;ions at the &s;everal Paroch Churches, or Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the re&s;pective Shires on a Mercat day, or any other manner of way they &s;hall think fit, true and exact Li&s;ts, Sub&s;cribed with their hands, of all Hearths in the Hou&s;es or Lodgings po&s;&s;e&s;t by them, and in the wa&s;te Hou&s;es belonging to them not po&s;&s;e&s;t, and of all Smiddies, Kilns for drying of Corn, Ovens, Furnaces for Brewing, Salt-Pans, Soap and Gla&s;s-Works, po&s;&s;e&s;t by them, or &s;tanding wa&s;te within their Ground and E&s;tate: And &s;icklike, Ordains all the Inhabitants, Tennents and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors in this King|dom, to give in to the &s;aid Collector, or his Sub-Collectors and Deputs fore&s;aids, upon Intimation of their Commi&s;&s;ions, in manner above-mentioned, true and exact Li&s;ts of all the Hearths in the Hou&s;es po&s;&s;e&s;t by them, and of all Smiddies, Kilns for drying of Corn, Ovens, Furnaces for Brewing, Salt-Pans, Soap, and Gla&s;s-works po&s;&s;e&s;t by them, excepting alwayes Ho&s;pitals and poor people, who are upon the Charity of the Paroch; VVith Certification to the &s;aids Heretors, and other Inhabitants, if they fail&yogh;ie to give up the &s;aids Li&s;ts, or give up fal&s;e and &s;hort Li&s;ts, they &s;hall be Cited and Proce&s;&s;ed before the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council, and proceeded again&s;t with all rigor therefore: But prejudice always to the &s;aid <HI>James Melvill,</HI> and his Sub-Collectors fore&s;aids, to u&s;e all other Legal Methods for di&s;covering of the true number of the Hearths of this Kingdom, and Collecting and uplifting thereof: And Ordains all Magi&s;trats, and Mini&s;ters of the Laws, to be A&s;&s;i&s;tant, and give their Concurrence to them, for that effect. And VVe, with Advice fore&s;aid, Do hereby Com|mand and Require, the &s;aid <HI>James Melvill,</HI> Collector fore&s;aid, and his &s;aids Sub-Collectors, and Deputs, to report and give in the &s;aids Li&s;ts, to the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of Our The&s;aury upon Oath, when they &s;hall be called or required there|to; To the effect the &s;aid Hearth-Money may be uplifted, and Employed for the ends and u&s;es in Our &s;aid Act of Parlia|ment appointed. Our VVill is herefore, and VVe Charge you &s;traitly 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 whole remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority, by open proclamation, make Publication of the Pre|mi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend ignorance, as ye will an&s;wer to Us thereupon, the which to do, We commit to you, con|junctly 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 Twelfth day of <HI>February,</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;econd Year, 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED>
<HI>GOD &s;ave King</HI> William <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</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 Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1691.</P>
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