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<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To the Provo&s;t and Bailyes of Our Burgh of <ADD REND="onBlank">Northbervik....</ADD> And to Our Lovits,  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Me&s;&s;engers, Our Sheriffs, in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally &s;pecially con|&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as Our Convention of E&s;tates, holden at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the fourth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty five years, taking to their con&s;ideration, the great ble&s;&s;ings this Our ancient Kingdom doth enjoy, under Our Royal Government, being thereby delivered from all the mi&s;eries and bondage that doth accompany the Iron Rod of an in&s;olent U&s;urpation, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of all the liberties and priviledges of a free People, living under Our Royal Scepter, and that by a full and free exerci&s;e of their Religion, with all &s;utable encouragements thereunto, by an equal and due admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice, and peaceable and &s;ecure enjoyment of their Laws, Rights and Properties: Find them&s;elves obliged in con|&s;cience, honour and gratitude, to embrace every occa&s;ion, whereby they may witne&s;s to the World their ju&s;t re&s;entments thereof, and their readine&s;s to contribute their Lives, for the maintaining and advancing of Our Royal Authority, Power and Greatne&s;s; under the Protection whereof, the Peace, Freedom and Intere&s;t of this Our Kingdom, and Subjects thereof, can only be &s;ecured. And un|der&s;tanding, that We are now engaged in a War, with the Inhabitants of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> for the maintenance of Our Honour, and the Peace and Trade of Our Kingdom; and that thereby a new opportunity is offered to them, to make good their Profe&s;&s;ions of their zeal and affection to Our &s;ervice: Therefore, the &s;aids E&s;tates of Our Kingdom, in a due &s;en&s;e of Our Honour and Intere&s;t, and of their own duty, Do, with humble, loy<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters"> and cheerful <UNCLEAR>Hearts</UNCLEAR>, for them&s;elves and in Name of the whole Kingdom, whom they do re|pre&s;ent, make humble and free tender to Us of a Taxation, which is to be impo&s;ed, collected and payed at the five terms following, <HI>viz.</HI> For the Barrons and Freeholders parts of the &s;ame Taxation, fourty &s;hillings money yearly to be uplifted off every pound Land of old extent, within this Our Kingdom, pertaining to Dukes, Marque&s;&s;es, Earles, Vi&s;counts, Lords, Barrons, Freeholders and Fewers of Our Proper-lands, holden by them immediatly of Us; Excepting the Shires of <HI>Lanerk, Air, Renfrew, Dumbartoun, Bute, Argyle, Wigtoun, Dumfri&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Peebles,</HI> with the Stewartries and Baileries lying within the &s;ame, who by rea&s;on of their high Retours, are to be taxt only to two Merks upon ilk Pound-land of old extent, in manner mentioned in Our &s;aid Act of Convention, and to be payed by them at each one of the five Termes following, <HI>viz.</HI> At Whit&s;unday next to come, 1666. years, as for the fir&s;t Term. At Whit&s;unday, 1667. as for the &s;econd. At Whit&s;unday, 1668. as for the third. At Whit&s;unday, 1669. as for the fourth. And at Whit&s;unday, 1670. as for the fifth and la&s;t Term. And for In-bringing of the <ADD REND="onBlank">fyft</ADD> Termes payment of Our Burghs part of the &s;ame Taxation, Our other Letters are directed, charging the Provo&s;ts and Bailyes of ilk Burgh, to make payment of the Taxt and Stent thereof, To <ADD REND="onBlank">our <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> Cusigne and Coun&s;ellor <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> of &mdash; Hamilton <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></ADD> Our Collector General, appointed by Us for receiving the &s;ame, his Deputes and Officers in his Name, having his Power to receive the &s;ame, at the &s;aid Fea&s;t and Term of Whit&s;unday, 1660; under the pain of Rebellion, and putting of them to Our Horn, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> For who&s;e relief,</P>
<P>_OUR WILL IS, And we charge you &s;traitly and commands, that incontient, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s, and in Our Name and Authority, command and charge, the Provo&s;t, Bailyes and Council of Our &s;aid Burgh of  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  to conveen and elect certain per&s;ons, to &s;tent their Neighbour; and the &s;aid election being made, That ye charge the per&s;ons elected, to accept the charge upon them; In &s;etting down of the &s;aid Stent upon the Burge&s;&s;es and Inhabitants of Our &s;aid Burgh, and &s;o to make and &s;et down an Stent Roll thereupon, as effeires, within twenty four hours after they be char|ged by you thereto, under the pain of Rebellion, and putting of them to Our Horn; And if they, fail&yogh;ie, to denounce and e&s;cheat, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And &s;icklike, the &s;aid Stent Roll being made and &s;et down as &s;aid is, That ye, in Our &s;aid Name and Authority, command and charge the Burge&s;&s;es, Indwellers and Inhabitants within Our &s;aid Burgh, to make payment of their part of the &s;aid Stent to you Our &s;aid Provo&s;t and Bailyes, conform to the Taxt Roll to be given out thereupon, within three dayes next after they be charged by you thereto, under the pain of Rebellion, and putting of them to Our Horn. And if they fail&yogh;ie, the &s;aids three dayes being by|pa&s;t, that ye incontinent thereafter denounce the di&s;obeyers Our Rebels, and put them to Our Horn, and e&s;cheat and in-bring all their moveable Goods to Our u&s;e, for their contemption. And if need be, that ye Our &s;aid Provo&s;t and Bailyes poynd and di&s;t|rein&yogh;ie therefore, as ye &s;hall think mo&s;t fit, according to Ju&s;tice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fourth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of Our Reign, the &s;eventeenth year, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty five years.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Per Actum Conventionis. <ADD>Thomas Hay<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters"></ADD></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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