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<HEAD>ACT Di&s;charging the vending of any Goods brought from <HI>O&s;tend,</HI> or any other Town or Port of the <HI>Spani&s;h Neatherlands,</HI> till they abide their fourty dayes tryal.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the fourteenth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty &s;ix.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council being informed, that the Plague of Pe&s;tilence is now broken out in the Town of <HI>O&s;tend,</HI> and other Towns and Places of the <HI>Spani&s;h Neatherlands;</HI> And that by rea&s;on of the Wars with <HI>Holland,</HI> there is now more occa&s;ion of Trade with the &s;aids Towns then heretofore, &s;o that the conti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">nce thereof, without any re&s;traint, may indanger this Kingdom, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> by importing Forreign Ware and Commodities, may bring in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">fection; from which it hath plea&s;ed GOD in His infinite mercy heretofore to pre&s;erve this Kingdom. Therefore, they, by the&s;e pre&s;ents, di&s;charge all Merchants, Traffickers, and other per&s;ons what&s;oever, who &s;hall bring any Wares or Commodities from <HI>O&s;tend,</HI> or any other Port or Place of the <HI>Spani&s;h Neatherlands</HI> into this Kingdom, to unload any of the Ships or Ve&s;&s;els wherein there Goods are imported, untill fir&s;t they acquaint the Sheriffs, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, or others His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Officers of the Shires or Burghs where they &s;hall happen fir&s;t to come, where they did loaden their Goods, and that they receive orders for their fourty dayes tryal, and in what places they &s;hall handle their Wares and Commodi|ties during that time, under the pain of confi&s;cation of their Ships and Goods, and puni&s;h|ment of their Per&s;ons, according to the quality and merit of their offence, in manner con|tained in a former Act of Council, dated the twelfth day of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t. And commands and charges all Sheriffs, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, and others His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Officers within their re&s;pective bounds, upon all occa&s;ions that &s;hall require the &s;ame, to meet and conveen, and give order for &s;uch Guards, Watches, Hou&s;es, Over&s;eers and Places as they &s;hall think mo&s;t convenient, for putting this Act in execution, and for doing every other thing that &s;hall be nece&s;&s;ary for that effect: With certification, if they fall&yogh;ie, they &s;hall be puni&s;hed in their per&s;ons and goods, to the error of others, and that the Cu&s;to|mers and others where Entries are made, take notice hereof, and acquaint all Magi&s;trates concerned to put this Act in execution, as they will be an&s;werable upon their highe&s;t peril: And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to &s;tand in force till the fir&s;t day of <HI>December</HI> next to come, and longer during the Councils plea&s;ure, and untill they di&s;charge the &s;ame. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Peer and Shore of <HI>Lieth,</HI> and other Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of all Sea-ports where there is any Commerce, by Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Armes, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1666.</P>
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