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<P> HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
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<HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For bringing in the Li&s;ts, and Determining Debates about the Pole-Money.</HEAD>
<P>_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; To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjuctly and &s;e|verally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as, albeit by the Ninth Act of the Fourth Se&s;&s;ion of this Our currant Parliament, The Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the &s;everal Shires, and Magi&s;trats of the &s;everal Burghs-Royal of this Kingdom, are appointed and Ordained to meet at the re&s;pective places, mentioned in the &s;aid Act, and upon the particular Days of the Month of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t, and take up Rolls and Li&s;ts of all the Poleable Per&s;ons within their re|&s;pective Bounds, containing the Names, Qualities and Degrees of the &s;everal per&s;ons, and value of the E&s;tates belonging to them, conform to the &s;aid Act. And We by Our Proclamation of the Date the Second Day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, Required and Commanded the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Our Supply, to go diligently about the making up of the &s;aids Li&s;ts, and Impowered them to Con|de&s;cend upon, and de&s;ign an Heretor above an hundred pound <HI>scots</HI> of valued Rent, at lea&s;t, in each Paroch where no Commi&s;&s;ioner or Magi&s;trat lives, who being to de&s;igned, &s;hould proceed and make up the Rolls, and &s;tate the Pole-money within, the &s;aid Paroch, and report the Li&s;ts &s;o made up, to the Clerk of the Commi&s;&s;ioners or Supply, who was to Tran&s;mit the &s;ame with the Li&s;ts made up by the Commi&s;&s;ioners them&s;elves of the &s;everal Parochs within which they Dwell, to the Office of the Pole-money, kept at <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> betwixt and the Day appointed by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament: Yet in many Shires within this Kingdom, the &s;aids Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, have either not at all met, or where they have met, did not Nominat per&s;ons in the &s;everal Parochs, to make up the Rolls, and &s;tate the Pole-money; or where, per&s;ons have been Nominat within the &s;everal Parochs, they have been negligent, and failed in performance of what is Injoyned and Required of them by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament anent the Pole-money, and Our former Proclamation following thereon: Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Coun|cil peremptorly Require and Command the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply within the &s;everal Shires, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, of this Our antient Kingdom, to meet and make up Li&s;ts and Rolls of the Poleable per&s;ons within the &s;everal Parochs where they Dwell, and to Nominat and Appoint one Heretor, within every Paroch, of an hundred Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> of valued Rent at lea&s;t, who being &s;o de&s;igned, We hereby Require and Command them to make up the Li&s;ts and Rolls of the Poleable per&s;ons within their &s;everal bounds, containing the Names. Qualities and Degrees of the &s;everal Per&s;ons, and the value of the E&s;tates belonging to them, and Tran&s;mit the &s;ame to the clerks of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, who are to &s;end them to the Pole-money-office at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> conform to the former Proclamation made thereanent. And We with Advice fore&s;aid Require and Command the &s;aids &s;everal Commi&s;&s;ioners, and particular Heretors de&s;igned within each paroch by them, to attendat the Paroch Church within their re&s;pective Bounds, upon &s;uch a Day in the Forenoon, as &s;hall be intimate to them by the Farmers of the Pole-money, and to the Inhabitants within the &s;aid Pa|roch, at the Church Door thereof, upon the <HI>Sunday</HI> after Divine Service, preceeding the &s;aid Day, and there to Judge and Deter|mine all Debates and Controver&s;ies that &s;hall ari&s;e betwixt any of Our Leidges within the &s;aid Paroch, and the Farmers of Our Pole-money, or their Sub-farmers or Collectors, anent the &s;aid Pole-money, Li&s;ts thereof, Qualities or Degrees of the &s;everal per&s;ons within the &s;aid Paroch, and value of the E&s;tates belonging to them, who&s;e Sentences therein &s;hall be &s;u&s;&s;icient Warrand and Rule, according whereunto they are to Collect and Levy the &s;aid Pole money, Certifying the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs, who &s;hall either fail to meet, or being met, fail to de&s;ign Heretors of the &s;everal Parochs, for making up the &s;aids Rolls and Li&s;ts, and the &s;aids Heretors being &s;o de&s;igned, and particular Commi&s;&s;ioners within the Parochs where they Dwell <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> who &s;hall not duly make up the Rolls and Li&s;ts; and deliver the &s;ame to the Clerk of Supply, in manner fore&s;aid, and who &s;hall not punctually attend at the re&s;pective Paroch Churches, to Judge and Determine in the Ca&s;es above-expre&s;t, upon intimation given, in manner above-mentioned: Our Letters of Horning &s;hall be directed again&s;t them, and each of them, at the in&s;tance of any of the Farmers of the Pole-money, their Sub-tacktmen, or Collectors Charging them thereto, under the pain of five pounds <HI>Scots, toties quoties,</HI> to be payed to the Charger And We hereby Require the Clerks of Our Privy Council, to Grant to them the fore&s;aid Letters of Horn|ing in common form to that effect. And for the more ea&s;ie &s;tating the &s;aid Pole-money, and upli&s;ting thereof, We with Advice of Our Privy Council, and conform to the power granted to them by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, hereby Require and Command all He|retors, or at lea&s;t their Tutors, Factors and Chamberlains, to give in to the &s;aid re&s;pective Commi&s;&s;ioner, or Heretor de&s;igned for the Paroch in which they Dwell, within the time contained in the &s;aid Act of Parliament, the number and Names of all Tennents who have taken Lands or Hou&s;es immediatly of the Heretors and Proprietars, and all Tennents in Lands or Hou&s;es to give in, in manner fore|&s;aid, the number and names of their Sub-tennents and Cottars, under the pain of Twelve &s;hilling <HI>Scots</HI> for each Tutor, Factor or Chamberlain, and &s;ix &s;hilling <HI>Scots</HI> for each Tennent &s;ailing in the Premi&s;&s;s, to be applyed to the u&s;e of Our &s;aids Farmers, their Sub|tack&s;men or Collectors, by and attour the &s;aid Pole-money, wherein they are re&s;pective lyable. 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 the remanent Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the Head-burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Praclamation, make Intimation of the Prem&s;&s;es, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Sixth Day of <HI>September.</HI> And of Our Reign the Sixth Year <HI>1694</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succ&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer Theie mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1694.</P>
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