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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> Anent the Stenting Unfree-Traders.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith: 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>Fora&s;much, as in lieu of the Acts of Parliament again&s;t Unfree-Taders, and to prevent the Pains that they either had, or might have incurred, <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> the Royal Burrows, and then the E&s;tates of Parliament, did Offer a free Communication of Trade to the Burghs of Barony, Regality, and others, they paying the Compo&s;itions that &s;hould be Agreed to betwixt them and Mr. <HI>John Buchan,</HI> who &s;tands Engaged to Relieve the &s;aids Burghs Royal of Ten Pounds of the Hundred Pounds of their Taxt-Roll, which being only the Tenth Part of the Burden of the &s;aids Royal Burghs, would be very incon&s;iderable among&s;t the whole Burghs of Barony and Regality, and other Unfree-Traders of the Kingdom: Notwith&s;tanding whereof, many of the Unfree-Burghs and Traders, pretending, that the Proportions laid on them are Unequal, have not payed in the &s;ame; For Remedy whereof, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>John Buchan</HI> being de&s;irous that the&s;e Proportions may be laid on with all po&s;&s;ible Equality, and that the &s;aids Unfree-Traders may be Relieved of the Pains of Law, either already Incurred, or which they might Incur, hath Applyed to the Lords of Our privy Council, that due Intimation may be made to all concerned of the Ea&s;e, that he is willing to grant to all Unfree-Traders: And We Con&s;idering, that the making the &s;aid Project effectual, will likewi&s;e tend to the Promoting of Trade in general throughout the King|dom; Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of our privy Council, have thought fit that a Proclamation be Emitted in Our Name and Au|thority, Intimating to the haill Shires of the Kingdom the fore&s;aid Benefit now Offered, and for Ordaining the re&s;pective Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply and Exci&s;e within the &s;aids Shires, to Meet at their Head-Burghs, at the Days after-mentioned, to hear and con&s;ider the &s;aid Mr. <HI>John Buchan</HI>'s Offers, and to Agree to the &s;ame, as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e for Liberty of Trade, and Relief of their Unfree-Traders; and if they &s;hall Agree, to accept his Offers, to divide the &s;aids re&s;pective <HI>Quota</HI>'s of the fore&s;aid Ten Pounds, upon the Burghs of Barony and Regality, and other Unfree-Traders within their Bounds, to the effect that the &s;aids Burghs of Barony and Regality, and other Unfree-Traders may freely accept of, and acquie&s;ce to the &s;aid Divi&s;ion, and agree to make Payment accordingly, as they &s;hall think fit, with this Certification allanerly, that if the &s;aids Offers &s;hall not take effect in the Method here prop&s;ed, the &s;aids haill Unfree-Traders who have not already Agreed with the &s;aid Mr. <HI>John Buchan,</HI> &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, conform to the Acts of Parliament again&s;t Unfree-Traders, and the Pains thereof exacted upon them with all rigour. <HI>Our Will is herefore,</HI> 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 remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head-Burghs within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es; and als that ye in Our Name and Authority, Command and Charge the fore&s;aids Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply and Exci&s;e, to Meet at their re&s;pective Head-Burghs: The&s;e upon the South-&s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> upon the Fir&s;t Day of <HI>April;</HI> and the&s;e upon the North-&s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> upon the Twentieth Day of the famine Month, to con&s;ider and hear the &s;aid Mr. <HI>John Buchan</HI> his Offers, and to Agree to the &s;ame, as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e for Liberty of Trade, and Relief of their Unfree-Traders; and if they &s;hall Agree to accept his Offers, to divide the &s;aids re&s;pective <HI>Quota</HI>'s of the fore&s;aid Ten Pounds, upon the Burghs of Barony and Regality, and other Unfree-Traders within their Bounds, to the effect that the &s;aids Burghs of Barony and Regality, and other Unfree-Traders, may freely accept of and acquie&s;ce to the &s;aid Divi&s;ion, and Agree to make Payment accordingly, as they &s;hall think fit; with this Certification, that if the &s;aids Offers &s;hall not take effect in the Method here propo&s;ed, the &s;aids haill Unfree-Traders who have not already Agreed with the &s;aid Mr. <HI>John Buchan,</HI> &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, conform to the Acts of Parliament again&s;t Unfree-Traders, and the Pains thereof exacted upon them with all rigour. Likeas, We hereby Require and peremptorly Command, all inferior Magi&s;trats within the Kingdom, that they admini&s;trat Ju&s;tice &s;peedily and impartially to the &s;aid Mr. <HI>John Buchan,</HI> again&s;t the haill fore&s;aids Unfree-Traders, who &s;hall refu&s;e to accept of the Offer hereby made to them, as they will be An&s;werable on their highe&s;t peril. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Eighteenth Day of <HI>February.</HI> And of Our Reign the Eighth Year 1697.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB> God &s;ave 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 the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1697.</P>
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