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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBVRGH, <DATE>6. April 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOr&s;ameikle, as the Prove&s;t, Bailies, and Coun&s;el of this Burgh being conveened in Coun&s;el, finding that the good Town hath been, and is greatly abu&s;ed by &s;trangers, vagabonds, unfree Per&s;ons, and ma&s;terle&s;&s;e People, both Men and Women, who take up their re&s;idence and dwel|ling within this Burgh, and harbours and re&s;ets all manner of wicked and ungodly Per&s;ons, whereby the Town is defiled with all kinde of Vice, the Kirk overburthened with their maintenance, and the monethly Contributions and Collecti|ons appointed for the Towns Poor, are imployed and con&s;u|med upon them. For remedy whereof, It is &s;tatute and ordain|ed, that no Land-lord or Heritour within this Burgh, &s;et their Hou&s;es to &s;uch unlawfull per&s;ons, nor admit of &s;uch tennents to re&s;ide therein, nor receive any &s;trangers what&s;omever with|out a famous Te&s;timoniall of their hone&s;t conver&s;ation to bee approven be the Magi&s;trat, or Kirk Se&s;&s;ion where they remain. And that the late Incomers, and Strangers who are evidently known to have neither means nor lawfull Calling whereby to live, be timeou&s;ly warned be their Land-lords, to remove forth of this Burgh, &amp; return to the places of their former re&s;idence, whether they be Men or Women, under &s;uch pains and pe|nalties as the Magi&s;trat &s;hall think fit to injoyn for their con|tempt and di&s;&s;obedience. And ordains thir pre&s;ents to be pub|li&s;hed thorow this burgh be touk of Drum, and affixed in the publict mercat places, that none pretend Ignorance of the &s;ame.</P>
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