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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE>The 20 Day of February 1689 Years.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<P>INTIMATION By the Town-Clerk of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> to the whole Bur|ge&s;&s;es of the &s;aid Burgh, concerning the Election of their Commi&s;&s;ioners to the Meeting of the E&s;tates of this Kingdom, which is to be Holden <DATE>the 14<HI>th</HI> Day of <HI>March</HI> 1689 Years.</DATE></P>
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<P>WHereas by an Letter from his Highne&s;s the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> given at <HI>St. James's</HI> the 5th day of <HI>February</HI> in the year of our Lord 1688/9, direct to the Town-Clerk of <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> Requiring him upon the Receipt of His Highne&s;s Letter to make publick Intimation of the famine on the fir&s;t Mercat Day at the Cro&s;s of the Royal Burgh of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> in the u&s;ual manner; and to appoint a Day, to be at lea&s;t Five Days after the &s;aid Intimation, for the whole Burge&s;&s;es to Meet and Chu&s;e their Commi&s;&s;ioners for the &s;aid Meeting of the E&s;tates at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> the 14th Day of <HI>March</HI> next, and that a Copy of His Highne&s;s Letter, and of the Clerks Intimation, containing the Day of Election, be left Affixt on the &s;aid Cro&s;s, the Burge&s;&s;es and Commi&s;&s;ioners being Prote&s;tants, without any other Exception or Limitation, and that the &s;aid Clerk report his Diligence therein to the &s;aid Meeting, as is fully contained in His Highne&s;s Letter. In Obedience, and in Pur&s;uance of the Order of His Highne&s;s Letter, The&s;e are to make publick Intimation to the whole Burge&s;&s;es of the Royal-Burgh of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> being Prote&s;tants, that they Meet and Conveen within the Parlia|ment-Hou&s;e, upon the Twenty Eight Day of <HI>February</HI> in&s;tant, at Eight of the Clock of the Morning, for Electing and Choo&s;ing their Commi&s;&s;ioners to the &s;aid Meeting of the E&s;tates; And likewi&s;e as previous to the more order|ly carrying on of the &s;aid Election, and for preventing Confu&s;ion, and that none may have Vote in the &s;ame but &s;uch as are Prote&s;tants, and has Intere&s;t by being Burge&s;&s;es; Therefore the&s;e are to make publick Intimation, that all Prote&s;tant Burge&s;&s;es of the &s;aid Burgh, produce their Burge&s;s-Tickets to the Clerk in the Town-Council-Hou&s;e of the &s;aid Burgh, where they &s;hall be attended dayly by him and his Servants, from Eight of the Clock in the Mor|ning till Six of the Clock at Night, and that from and betwixt the Twenty and the Twenty Seventh of this in&s;tant Month of <HI>February,</HI> to the effect a Roll of their Names and De&s;ignations may be taken up by way of Alphabet, that every Burges may be called according to the &s;aid Rolls upon the fore&s;aid Day of Election.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>J A. ROCHEID</HI> Cls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>_WHEREAS the Lords and Gentlemen of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> met at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> at Our de&s;ire, to Advi&s;e Us what is to be done, for Securing the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Re&s;to|ring the Laws and Liberties of that Kingdom, according to Our Decla|rations, have de&s;ired Us, for the attaining the&s;e Ends, to call a Meeting of the E&s;tates, to be holden at <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> in <HI>March</HI> next.</P>
<P>WE being De&s;irous to do every Thing that may Tend to the Publick Good and Happine&s;s of that King|dom, have Re&s;olved to call the &s;aid Meeting again&s;t the Fourteenth Day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>March</HI> next; and do therefore in pur&s;uance, and according to the Tenor of the &s;aid Advice, Require you upon the Receipt of this Our Letter, to make Publick Intimation of the &s;ame on the fir&s;t Mercat Day at the Cro&s;s of the Royal Bur|rough of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> in the u&s;ual manner, and to appoint a Day, to be at lea&s;t Five Days after the &s;aid Intimation for the whole Burge&s;&s;es to meet and chu&s;e their Com|mi&s;&s;ioners for the &s;aid Meeting of the E&s;tates at <HI>Edin|burgh</HI> the &s;aid Fourteenth Day of <HI>March,</HI> a Copy of this Our Letter and of your Intimation, containing the Day of Election to be left affixt on the &s;aid Cro&s;s. The Burge&s;&s;es and Commi&s;&s;ioners being Prote&s;tants, with|out any other Exception or Limitation. And that you Report your Diligence herein to the Convention.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at St. <HI>James's</HI> <DATE>the fifth day of <HI>Feb.</HI> in the Year of Our Lord 1688/9.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>W. H. Prince of Orange.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To the Town-Clerk of the Town of <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></TRAILER>
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