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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION,
Again&s;t Regrating of Victual, and Fore&s;tallers, and for Regulating the Mercats.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To
Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms,
Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everaly &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting; Forasmuch as, By &s;everal Acts of Parliament, the keep|ing
of Victual to a Dearth is &s;trictly prohibited, and particularly, It is Statute by the Acts <HI>James 2d.</HI> Parliament Sixt <HI>Cap.</HI> Twenty
two and twenty three, that for the e&s;chewing of Dearth, Sheriffs, Bailiefs and other Officers, both to Burgh and to Land, enquire
what Per&s;ons buyes Victual, and holds it to a Dearth, and that the &s;aid Sheriffs and Officers make &s;uch known. That in ca&s;e they
hold more Victual then will &s;u&s;tain them and their Menzie to New Corn, they may be puni&s;hed and demeaned as Occorers and U&s;urers, and the Victual
E&s;cheated to Us, and that the &s;ame be pre&s;ented to Mercats, and Sold as the price goes. And by the Acts <HI>Ja. 2d.</HI> Par. <HI>9th. Cap.</HI> Thirtie eight and
thirtie ninth. It is Ordained, That no manner of Victual &s;hall be holden in Girnels by any man to a Dearth, but allenarly what is needful for their
own Per&s;ons and the Su&s;tentation of their Hou&s;holds, and that the &s;aids Per&s;ons pre&s;ent all that they have more to the Mercat, under the pain of E&s;cheat
thereof. As likewaayes, the Cryme of Fore-&s;talling is forbidden by &s;everal Acts and Statutes, and particularly, by the Act <HI>Ja. 6. Par. 12. Cap.</HI> one hundred and
fourty eight, it is Declared, That who buyes any Merchandi&s;e, or Victual coming to Fair or Mercat, or makes any Contract, or Promi&s;e for buying of
the &s;ame, before the &s;aid Merchand&s;e or Victual &s;hall be in the Fair or Mercat place ready to be &s;old, or &s;hall make any Motion by Word, Write or Me&s;&s;age
for rai&s;ing of the Prices, or dearer Selling of the &s;aid Merchandi&s;e and Victual: Or, who &s;hal di&s;wade any from coming, and bringing the fore&s;aid Mer|chandi&s;e
or Victual to Fair or Mercat, &s;hal be e&s;teemed and judged a Fore&s;taller; And it is Ordained, That all &s;uch Fore&s;tallers may be pur&s;ued before
the Ju&s;tices or Magi&s;trates of Burghs, and that without a &s;pecial Lybel, but only upon Fore&s;talling in general, and the Per&s;ons Convict, to be Fyned
for the fir&s;t Fault in fourty pounds, and for the &s;econd in an hundreth Merks, and for the third to incurr the tin&s;el of Moveables. And &s;eing, through the
not due ob&s;ervance, and Execution of the fore&s;aid Acts, the Calamity of the Countrey, by the pre&s;ent Scarcity and Dearth, is greatly increa&s;ed, there|fore,
We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council have thought fit to revive the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">d Ordains them to be put to &s;trict Execution; And
for that effect, to impower and require all Sheriffs of Shyres, Stewarts <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
Burghs: As likewi&s;e, all Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, and Ju&s;tices of Peace, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span"> made, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
contrair to the fore&s;aids Laws, and to Command and Charge the keepers up of the &s;aid victual, in Girnels, or otherwayes co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
to bring and expo&s;e the &s;ame for Sale, in Open and Ordinary Mercats, or otherwayes to open their Girnels, or other Hou&s;es where <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
and there Sell the &s;ame, as the &s;aid Sheriffs, Stewarts of Stewartries, Lords and Baillies of Regalities, and their Deputs and Magi&s;trates <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
two of the &s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, or Ju&s;tices of Peace &s;hal find the Ordinary Price to rule in the Countrey, for the time. With<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
if they fa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">lz<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">e therein, they &s;hal be proceeded again&s;t, and the pains of the fore&s;aids Acts of Parliament execute upon them, with all rigo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
the mean time, the Victual Girnelled and unlawfully keeped up, as &s;aid is, Arre&s;ted and Seque&s;trat by the fore&s;aid Sheriff and others, as E&s;ch<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
further, We with Advice fore&s;aid, prohibite and di&s;charge any Per&s;on what&s;omever, to buy Meal in publick Mercats, but only for private u&s;e, a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
wayes to be &s;old again by whole Sale, or Retail. And likewayes to buy any other Grain in publick Mercat, to be &s;old again in whole Sale, or Retail<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
the &s;ame kind as it is bought, but either for the private and particular u&s;e of the buyer or to be fir&s;t made in Malt, or ground in Flower and Meal before
the Sale of the &s;amen. As al&s;o We, with Advice fore&s;aid, peremptorily di&s;charge and forbid all per&s;ons what&s;omever buying Oats or Peas whether in
publick Mercats, or otherwayes, to Sell the &s;ame, either in whole Sale, or Retaile, unle&s;s they be fir&s;t made in Meal, except what Oats are or &s;hal be
bought and Retailed by the Commi&s;&s;aries of Our Army, for the Provi&s;ion of the Hor&s;es and Dragoons, pre&s;ently imployed in Our Service, and what are
or &s;hal be bought and Retailed by Stablers and Inn keepers, within their own Hou&s;es, with Certification, that &s;uch as &s;hal Contraveen the premi&s;&s;es in
any &s;ort, may be Conveened and Pur&s;ued at the In&s;tance of any per&s;on what&s;omever, before any of the Magi&s;trates; or Ju&s;tices of Peace, or other Judges
above named, where the Contravention is committed, and upon Conviction are to be Fyned, and made lyable in the Sum of ten pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each
B<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ll or Meal, or other Victual Sold or Retailed, contrair to this pre&s;ent Procla<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ation, and decerned to pay the one half to the Informer, and the other
half to the Judge before whom the Contraveener &s;hal be pur&s;ued and Convicted. Declaring, neverthele&s;s, that it &s;hal be Lei&s;um and Lawful to tran&s;port
Oats bought benorth the River of Tay from that &s;ide thereof, to the &s;outh &s;ide of the &s;ame, and to Sell the &s;aids Oats either by whole Sale or Retaile, at any Place,
or Mercat upon the South&s;ide of the &s;aid River, for private u&s;e, or to be made in Meal allennarly without being &s;ubject and Lyable to the Certification<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">,
and penalties above-expre&s;t. And La&s;tly. We with Advice fore&s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1+ letters">mm<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">nd and Charge all Magi&s;trates of Burghs, and other Officers of the Law
to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">, that all Mercats and Fairs be duely Regulate conform to the Laws, without Extortion and to cau&s;e put the fore&s;aid Acts of Parliament
anent For&s;tallers and Regraters, with this pre&s;ent Proclamation, to d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">e and vigorous Execution, Certifying the &s;aids Sheriffs, Magi&s;trates and other
Judges above-named, who &s;hal faile in their duty anent the Premi&s;&s;e, that upon Information given to the Lords of Our P<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ivy Council, they &s;hal be
therefore &s;everely and examplarly puni&s;hed, OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that Incontin|ent
thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Remanent Mercat Cro&s;ses of the whole head Burgh of the &s;everal Shyres,
and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and thereat in Our Name and Authority make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend Ignorance.
And Ordains Our Sollicitor to tran&s;mit Coppies hereof to the Sheriffs <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">d Stewarts of the &s;everal Shyres and Stewartries, or their Clerks, to the effect
the fame may published at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es and thereafter, be tran<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">mitted to the Mini&s;ters in the &s;everal Paroch Churches within their re&s;pective
bounds and Appoints the &s;aids Mini&s;ters to cau&s;e Intimat the &s;ame at their &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">eral Paroch Churches, at any time betwixt and the fir&s;t of <HI>December</HI>
next, for all Paroches on this &s;ide of the River of <HI>Tay,</HI> and betwixt: fifteenth day of the &s;aid Month for all Paroches on the other &s;ide of
the &s;aid River. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
<P><HI>Given under Our Si<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></P>
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