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<OPENER><DATELINE>Apud Edinburgum <DATE>undecimo Maii <HI>1643.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOr&s;ameikle as the Lords of Privie Councell, Commi&s;&s;ioners for con&s;erving the peace, and Com|mi&s;&s;ioners for the common burdens, taking to their con&s;ideration the nece&s;&s;ities of the Scotti&s;h Army in Ireland, which for want of pay, victuall, and cloathes, is not able longer to &s;ub&s;i&s;t, And ha|ving according to their bound dutie re&s;olved to provide &s;ome &s;upply for their pre&s;ent maintenance, did therefore by their act of the fourth of March la&s;t determine that the &s;um of twenty thou&s;and pound &s;terling, &amp; as much more as &s;hould be voluntarily offered by his Maje&s;ties good &s;ubjects be|twixt and the fir&s;t day of May in&s;tant, &s;hould be pre&s;ently borrowed to that effect, upon the conditi|ons and &s;ecuritie contained in the &s;aid Act: And now con&s;idering that in re&s;pect of the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of time many of His Maje&s;ties goods Subjects who will willingly put to their helping hand to this re|ligious and nece&s;&s;ary work, could not have timous adverti&s;ement to provide what they are to lend, and that the whole moneyes already given is onely able to furni&s;h &s;ome meale to the &s;ouldiers, without which they had either &s;tarved or disbanded ere now. Therefore the &s;aids Lords of Pri|vie Councell, and Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Commi&s;&s;ions fore&s;aids, doe hereby declare, that what <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ummes of money &s;halbe yet lent for the u&s;e fore&s;aid, betwixt and the tenth of July next to come, &s;hall be thankfully payed to the len|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ers, their heires, executors, and a&s;&s;ignes, betwixt and the fir&s;t of Augu&s;t next; together with the ordinary annuall rent, from the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">me of the lending of the &s;ame, &s;o long as the whole or any part thereof &s;hall remaine unpaid, and that conform to the tenour of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ore&s;aid Act of the fourth of March, which is holden as here repeated; and that the lenders &s;hall upon deliverie of their money have Tickets of receipt, and Acts of Coun&s;ell in manner contained in the &s;aid Act. And als declares, that as any &s;ummes of money, due <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">r to be due to the Armie, &s;hall come from the Parliament of England, or otherwayes what&s;oever, that the &s;ame &s;hall be imployed <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">or payment of the advancers proportionally, according to the &s;ummes lent by them. And therefore the &s;aids Lords of Privie Councell, with con&s;ent fore&s;aid, doe now, as of before, de&s;ire every one of His Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects, who will contribute their a&s;&s;i&s;tance <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">erein, that they will be plea&s;ed &s;peedily to advance &s;uch &s;ummes as they &s;hall think &s;it upon a&s;&s;urance and &s;ecurity in manner fore&s;aid: And ordains thir pre&s;ents to be regi&s;trate in the books of Councell and Commi&s;&s;ions fore&s;aids, and to have the force of an Act of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1+ letters">ids Judicatories jointly and &s;everally, and to be printed together with the former Act of the fourth of March.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Arch. Primero&s;e Cler.S.Con&s;.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at Edinburgh by <HI>EVAN TYLER</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie, Anno <HI>1643.</HI></P>
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