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<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the twenty one day of <HI>December,</HI> 1676.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<P>In&s;tructions given by His Maje&s;ties Privy Councill, to the per&s;ons appointed by them, to be <UNCLEAR>common</UNCLEAR> Ta&s;ters of Ale and Drinking-beer within the City of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and <HI>Suburbs</HI> thereof, <HI>Cannon-gate, Leith,</HI> and the Burghs royal in the Shires of <HI>Edin|burgh, Linlithgow, Haddingtoun,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<P>_IT is ordered, That the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> who are appointed for each Balies re&s;pective quarter, in the the City of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> &s;hall change their Quarter each moneth: The&s;e who are appointed for the elde&s;t Baylies Quarter the fir&s;t moneth, &s;hall be for the younge&s;t Baylies Quarter the next; and the&s;e appointed for the third Baylies, &s;hall be for the &s;econd Baylies the next moneth: And &s;o forth by turns monethly, which the Magi&s;trates are to &s;ee done accordingly.</P>
<P>All Brewers are di&s;charged to give out any Ale or Drinking-beer out of any of their Breweries, untill the &s;ame be ta&s;ted by one of the ordinar Ta&s;ters, who are ordered to ta&s;te every Brow&s;t after <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;ame is tunned, and before it go to the Tap&s;ter, and the like to be done for &s;uch Drink as &s;hall be both browen and tapped by any particular per&s;on, be|fore they &s;hall tap any thereof. And the Ta&s;ters for <HI>Edinburgh, Leith,</HI> and <HI>Cannon-gate,</HI> are ordered weekly to give up the names of the contraveeners, to the Clerks of the Council, to be communicate to the Committee; and the Ta&s;ters of the re&s;t of the Burghs to give the &s;ame up to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Exci&s;e of the Shire.</P>
<P>It is ordered that the &s;everal Brewers give up a li&s;t to the Ta&s;ters of the Tap&s;ters to whom they &s;ell their drink in their re&s;pective bounds weekly, that the Ta&s;ters may know what Tap&s;ters &s;ells the &s;ame, and the Ta&s;ters are ordered to ta&s;te the Ale in the &s;everal hou&s;es of the Tap&s;ters at lea&s;t twice a week; and the Tap&s;ters are to give up to the Ta&s;ters the Brewrs names from whom they receive their Drink: And in ca&s;e, either the Brewer or Tap|&s;ter refu&s;e, the Ta&s;ters are appointed to give up their names as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>It is ordered that the Ta&s;ters take particular notice at what price each Brewer and Tap|&s;ter &s;ells their Ale and Drinking-beer, and give a particular accounpt as afore&s;aid weekly of the names of &s;uch Brewers and Tap&s;ters as they &s;hall finde do brew and tap Ale and Drink|ing beer, which is not &s;ufficient, and &s;ells the &s;ame at higher rates than is allowed by the Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tion.</P>
<P>The Ta&s;ters appointed for the <HI>West-port, Potteraw, Plea&s;ants,</HI> and <HI>Teard-heads</HI> of <HI>Leith,</HI> are  <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to ta&s;te the Ale and Drinking-beer of all Brewers, not only, the&s;e that vent <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> brewes there, and vents the &s;ame in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> as al&s;o of the Brewers of <HI>Gorgie Milne, Dalry, Dam-head, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">, Water of Leith, Dean, Colt-bridge, Gorgie-town, Merchi&s;ton, Cannon-milnes,</HI> <UNCLEAR>and all</UNCLEAR> other places within a mile and a half of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> except <HI>Duddingstoun,</HI> and <HI>Restal|rig.</HI> That the Ta&s;ters in the <HI>Teard-heads</HI> of <HI>Leith</HI> do he like, as to the Brewers and Brewries in the part of the Shire, that either vents their Drink them&s;elves, or imports the &s;ame to the town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> or any other place within a mile of <HI>Leith,</HI> and the Ta&s;ters in <HI>Re&s;talrig</HI> and <HI>Dudding&s;toun</HI> are to do the like in their bounds as to what is con&s;umed in the place, or imported an afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>The Ta&s;ters &s;worn and received for the bounds fore&s;aids are to continue in that &s;ervice from the fir&s;t day of <HI>January,</HI> 1677. to the fir&s;t day of <HI>January,</HI> 1678. In which tru&s;t they are required to be exact and diligent, as they will be an&s;werable.</P>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinbrugh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1676.</P>
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