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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION,</HI> Anent Production of the Tacks of the Teinds of the Bi&s;hopricks.</HEAD>
<P>_FORASMUCH as His Sacred Maje&s;ty, by His Letter of the Date the 24 day of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, Did &s;ignifie to the Lords Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of His The&s;aury, that it was His Royal Plea&s;ure they &s;hould Farm the Bi&s;hops Rents by way of Roup, and that to one or more Per&s;ons, as might be mo&s;t for His Maje&s;ties Advantage: And did al&s;o Declare His Gracious Inclination for the Ea&s;e of His People, that a Sum &s;hould be Agreed upon, to be Payed at the Renewing of the Tacks of Teinds of the &s;aid Bi&s;hopricks, and that the fir&s;t Offer thereof &s;hould be made to the Heretors. And &s;eing that before the Roup go on, it is nece&s;&s;ary to know if the Tacks thereof formerly Set by the Bi&s;hops be Ex|pired or not. Therefore the &s;aids Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of Their Maje&s;ties The|&s;aury with Advice and Con&s;ent of the Lords of Exchequer, have thought fit to Delay the &s;ame, until the Fir&s;t Day of <HI>November</HI> next to come; to the effect that all Heretors and others, who have Tacks of Teinds from the &s;aids Bi&s;hops, may Produce them to the Clerks of Exchequer, betwixt and the Fir&s;t Day of <HI>October</HI> en&s;uing, and whereunto they are hereby Required. Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall Failzie therein, that the Collectors or Tack&s;men of the Bi&s;hoprick Rents, will proceed to uplift the &s;aids Per&s;ons their Teiths <HI>ip&s;a corpora,</HI> or Pur&s;ue for the Value there|of. And that none may pretend Ignorance, Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Prin|ted and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and the other Head-burghs of the re&s;pective Shires of this Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Third Day of <HI>Augu&s;t, 1694</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Extractum de Libris Scaccarii, per me THO. MONCREIFF.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave King <HI>VVilliam</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, 1694.</P>
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