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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Paying in the Pole-Money.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der 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;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute Greeting,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For as much as, the Pole-Money Granted to Us by the Act of Parliament One Thou&s;and Six Hundred Ninety Five, doeth &s;till for the Greater part remain Unpayed, not with &s;tanding of all the Dili|gence that hath hitherto been u&s;ed for Uplifting and Inbringing of the &s;ame, And it being Unju&s;t and unrea&s;onable that the&s;e Equally Bound, and who have not Payed, &s;hould not Pay as others have done; And becau&s;e the Term of <HI>Martinma&s;s</HI> next is Appointed by the <HI>&s;aid Act</HI> of Parliament to be the la&s;t Term for Production of Di&s;charges. Therefore, We with Advice and Con&s;ent of the Lords of Our Pri|vy Council, in Pro&s;ecution of the &s;aid Act of Parliament, for the better Ingathering of what Remains of the &s;aid Pole, and to take off all Pretence of Exemption from &s;uch as have hitherto Fail&yogh;ied to make Due Payment after the &s;aid Term of <HI>Martinma&s;s</HI> next &s;hall be Come and by-pa&s;t, Do hereby Command, and Charge all that have not already made Payment of the Pole-Money due by them re&s;pective, to make Payment of the &s;ame to the Collectors of their re&s;pective Paroches or Shires, or others to be appointed for that Effect betwixt &amp; the Fifteenth Day of <HI>October</HI> next to come: Like as, for their better Encouragement, We have thought fit to Di&s;charge, and do hereby Di&s;charge all &s;uch as &s;hall make Payment of the Pole betwixt and the fore&s;aid Day, of the Doubles and Quadruples already by them Incurred, and &s;till Re&s;ting Unpayed, Certifying them withall, that if after &s;o much For bearance on Our part, and Contumacy on their Part; They &s;hall of new, Fail&yogh;ie to make Payment betwixt and the fore&s;aid Day, They &s;hall In|curr the fore&s;aid Doubles and Quadruples in manner &s;et down in the Act of Parliament, Sicklike, as if the fore&s;aid Day had been the preci&s;e Day of Payment fixed by the &s;aid Act, which Doubles and Qua|druples &s;hall, in ca&s;e of Fail&yogh;ie fore&s;aid be Exacted with all Rigour. And in regard, the fore&s;aid Clau&s;e in the Act of Parliament Declaring none to be holden to Produce their Di&s;charges of Receipts of the &s;aid Pole, after the &s;aid Term of <HI>Martinma&s;s</HI> was manife&s;tly provided in Favours, and for Relief of &s;uch as &s;hould make Due payment, but no ways to Exempt any who Contemning the Diligence u&s;ed a|gain&s;t them, &s;hould Fail&yogh;ie in payment as &s;aid is : Therefore, it is farther hereby Declared, that who-&s;oever <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 word"> Lyable to pay their Pole, &s;hall not make due Payment thereof betwixt and the fore&s;aid Day hereby appointed &s;hall be Reckoned as a Contemner of Diligence, and &s;till under the Cour&s;e thereof, and Lyable to the &s;ame, not with &s;tanding of any Pretence that may be made upon the fore&s;aid Clau&s;e of the Act of Parliament wherein &s;uch Fail&yogh;iers are no ways concerned, but Prejudice always to all who have already made due Payment, and who &s;hall In&s;truct the &s;ame, either by Receipts, or the Colle|ctors Books, or Oaths; of the Bene&s;ite of the fore&s;aid Clau&s;e, and their perpetual Liberation. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, And We Charge you Strictly, 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 remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom; And there in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof that none may pretend Ignorance; And We Ordain Our Solici|tor so Di&s;patch Coppies hereof, to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewarts of Stewartries, and their Deputs or Clerks, to be by them Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs upon Re|ceipt thereof, and immediately Tran&s;mitted by them to the &s;everal Paroch-Churches within the re|&s;pective Shires and Stewartries fore&s;aids, to be Publi&s;hed at the &s;aids Churches. And Ordains the&s;e Pre|&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Thirteenth Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of our Reign the Eight year. <HI>1696</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorium Secreti Concilii. <HI>D A. MONCRIEFF.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilli.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the King.</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 His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM,</HI> 1696.</P>
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