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<HEAD>ACT Ordaining the Ab&s;ent Members to Attend the Meeting of the E&s;tates.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>The Twenty One Day of <HI>May,</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Meeting of the E&s;tates taking into their Con&s;i|deration, That by the Laws of this King|dom, all Noblemen, and Commi&s;&s;ioners Elected for Shires and Burghs, are holden to give their Pre&s;ence in Parlia|ments, Conventions, and Meetings of the E&s;tates, and to Attend the Dyets thereof, under certain Pains and Penal|ties; and that by a Proclamation of the <HI>12th</HI> of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, All Noblemen, and Commi&s;&s;ioners from Shires and Burghs were Required to Repair to this Town, and Attend the Dyets of the Meeting of the E&s;tates, under the Pain of Impri&s;onment: And the E&s;tates having thereafter Ad|journed their Meeting unto this Day, and now being Met, and finding &s;everal Members to be Ab&s;ent; Therefore the E&s;tates Do Ordain and Require, all Noblemen, and Com|mi&s;&s;ioners for Shires and Burghs, as well the&s;e who former|ly were Pre&s;ent, as the&s;e who never came to the Meeting, to Repair to this Town, betwixt and the <HI>28th</HI> day of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, and to Attend the Dyets of the Meeting of E&s;tates, and not to be Ab&s;ent therefrom, without Leave from the E&s;tates; Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall not give Obedience, that they &s;hall not only be Impri&s;oned, and lyable to the Fynes Impo&s;ed by Acts of Parliament for Ab&s;ents, but they &s;hall al&s;o be holden as Di&s;-affected to the Government, and Pro|ceeded again&s;t accordingly. And grants Warrand to He|raulds, Macers, or Pur&s;evants, to pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to make Publication of the&s;e Pre|&s;ents, that none may pretend Ignorance. Extracted forth of the Records of the Meeting of the E&s;tates, by me</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>AL. GIBSON, Cls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> by Order of the Conven|tion of E&s;tates, Anno <HI>Dom.</HI> 1689.</P>
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