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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>ACT</HI> For Burying in <HI>Scots</HI> Linen, <HI>June</HI> 14. 1686.</HEAD>
<P>OUR SOVERAIGN LORD, For the Encouragement of Linen-Manufa|ctures in this Kingdom, and prevention of the Exportation of the Moneys there|of, by Importing of Linen, Doth, with Advice and Con&s;ent of His E&s;tates of Parliament, Statute and Ordain, That hereafter no Corps of any per&s;on what|&s;oever, &s;hall be Buried in any Shirt, Sheet, or any thing el&s;e, except in plain Linen, or Cloth of Hards, made and Spun within the Kingdom, without Lace or Point; Di&s;charg|ing from henceforth the making u&s;e of Holland, or other Linen. Cloth made in other King|doms, all Silk, Hair, or Woolen, Gold or Silver, or any other Stuff what&s;oever, than what is made of Flax or Hards, Spun and wrought within the Kingdom, as &s;aid is, and that under the pain and penalty of 300 pounds Scots, <HI>toties quoties,</HI> for a Noble-man, and 200 pounds for each other per&s;on, whereof the one half to the Di&s;coverer, and the other half to the Poor of the Pari&s;h, where the &s;aids Corps &s;hall be &s;o Interred: And for the better Di&s;covering of the Contraveeners, It is hereby further Statute and Ordained, That every Mini&s;ter within the Kingdom, &s;hall keep a Book, containing an exact Account and Regi&s;ter of all Per&s;ons, buried within their &s;aid Pari&s;h; As al&s;o, that &s;ome one or more of the Relations of the per&s;on Decea&s;ed, or other credible per&s;on (Tennents in the Coun|trey and Cottars being always excepted) &s;hall within eight days after &s;uch Interment, bring a Certificat upon Oath in Writing, Witne&s;&s;ed by two famous per&s;ons to the Mini|&s;ter, Declaring, that the &s;aid pea&s;on was Woond or Wrapt in manner herein-pre&s;cribed; Which Certificats are to be Recorded by the Mini&s;ter or Reader of the Pari&s;h <HI>gratis,</HI> with|out exacting any Money therefore. And if no Relation of the party buried, or other per&s;on &s;hall bring &s;uch &s;uch a Certificat, within the &s;aid time of eight days, that then and in that ca&s;e, the Goods and Gear of the party Decea&s;t, &s;hall be, and are hereby Declar|ed, to be lyable to the fore&s;aid Forefaulture, to be pur&s;ued at the In&s;tance of the Mini|&s;ter of the &s;aid Pari&s;h, before any Judge competent; and in ca&s;e the parties prove litigi|ous by Advocating, or Su&s;pending the &s;aid Sentence; The &s;aids Judges are hereby Au|thorized and Impowered to modifie Expen&s;es, as they &s;hall find cau&s;e: And if &s;uch per&s;ons died <HI>in familia,</HI> the Father and Mother, or other Relations, in who&s;e Family they die, are hereby Declared lyable for the &s;aid Fine: And it is hereby Statute and Ordained, that if the Mini&s;ter in who&s;e Pari&s;h any &s;uch Corps &s;hall be &s;o Interred, prove negligent in pur&s;uing the Contraveeners within &s;ix Moneths after the &s;aid Burial, he is hereby De|clared lyable for the &s;aid Fine, the one half to the Poor, and the other half to the Di&s;|coverer, to be divided in manner fore&s;aid. As al&s;o, His <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> with Advice fore&s;aid, Statutes and Ordains, That no Wooden Coffin &s;hall exceed an hundred merks Scots, as the highe&s;t rate for per&s;ons of the greate&s;t quality, and &s;o proportionally for others of meaner quality, under the pain of two hundred merks Scots for the Contravention.</P>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> 1687.</P>
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