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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB N="1" REF="1">
<HEAD>Unto his Grace His Maje&s;ties high Commi&s;&s;ioner, ane Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, <HI>The PETITION of George Mackenzie</HI> Sub-tacksman of the Addi|tional and Annexed-Exci&s;e of the Northern Shires.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat where your Petioner having unhappily engaged him&s;elf in <HI>July</HI> 1695, in a Tack of the Additional and Annexed Exci&s;e for the &s;everal Shires benorth <HI>Tay,</HI> for which he was bound by his Tack to pay 19423 <HI>lib. &s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>After &s;ub&s;cribing of his Tack, he immediatly went North to appoint Collectors in the &s;everal Towns and Shires, and to regulat the Brewers; But &s;hortly after there happning a great Scarcity in the Northern Countries, Brewing was for the mo&s;t part given up, &s;o that is was not po&s;&s;ible to make up the Tack-duty.</P>
<P>Your Petitioner fore&s;eeing the &s;ad and calamitus Condition, and the apparent Famine in the&s;e places, and finding that there was not the lea&s;t po&s;&s;ibility for him to make good his Tack; He made Application fir&s;t to the principal Tack&s;men, and then to the Lords of The&s;aury, who after con&s;ideration of what he had repre&s;ented, gave him a Sift of Execu|tion, as to one half of his Tack-duty.</P>
<P>Thereafter the &s;ad and deplorable Condition of the&s;e Countries increa&s;ing, the Coun|try Brewers were &s;o far from continuing to Brew, that there was not Bear to be had to make Meal of to keep in their Lives, &s;o notwith&s;tanding of all the Trouble, Fatigue and Expen&s;e your Petitioner was brought to, it was not po&s;&s;ible for him to make one half of his Tack-duty, and yet to &s;ave him&s;elf and his Cautioners &s;o far as he was able, he has payed in what he has collected, and near one thou&s;and pound <HI>&s;terling</HI> more of his own proper Stock, which goes very near to ruine him, but he yet lying under the Obligation of his Tack to pay 9000 <HI>lib, &s;terling,</HI> which he never received, he is nece&s;&s;itat humbly to Addre&s;s the Honourable and High Court of Parliament in this matter.</P>
<P>By his Tack it is declared, that if the Accidents of Plague, Famine or War, &s;hould fall out, his Tack &s;hould fall, and from thence-furth be mull: That there was Famine in the&s;e places is but too noture, but that the Truth might the more fully appear, there were De|clarations &s;igned by &s;everal Noblemen and Gentlemen in the re&s;pective Shires, which were pre&s;ented to the Lords of The&s;aury, and which are hereto &s;ubjoyned, as a farder evidence of the condition of that Countrey.</P>
<P>What was formerly repre&s;ented to the Lords of The&s;aury, was found by them to be true and after the Petitioner had made Application to his Maje&s;ty by his Officers of State. His Maje&s;ty was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to recommend the Lords of The&s;aury, to make Inquiry anent the true State and Condition of the Countrey, and to make a Report thereof to his Maje&s;ty, which accordingly they did, and found that what your Petitioner had for|merly repre&s;ented, was true in every Circum&s;tance.</P>
<P>The Petitioner was &s;o far from pretending benefit by his Tack, that he has payed near one thou&s;and pound <HI>&s;terling</HI> more than ever he made of it, and the principal Tack&s;man do very well know, that albeit his Collection was in the time of the greate&s;t Scar&s;ity and Dearth, yet he has payed 1500 <HI>lib. &s;ter.</HI> more for the Five Pennies than they can now make effectual in all the&s;e Shires for the &s;ix pennies, when there is le&s;s Scar&s;ity and cheaper Victual.</P>
<P>By all which it may evidently appear to his Grace, and honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, that the great Lo&s;s and Damnage the petioner has &s;u&s;tained, aro&s;e from the Dearth and Fa|mine
<PB N="2" REF="2">which immediatly followed his Tack, and which was <HI>Ca&s;us fortuitus, &amp; vis divina,</HI> and could not be fore&s;een, &s;o that he could not re&s;i&s;t divine Providence in this matter. And it w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r a Hard&s;hip above whatever His Maje&s;ty or his Mini&s;ters did, to take the &s;mall Stock of the sub-tack&s;man, who in Zeal to His Maje&s;ties Service, has advanced on his own Credit con&s;iderably more as he has gotten in, and is content to lo&s;e it; And it is humbly hoped, that your Grace and honourable E&s;tates of parliament, in Ju&s;tice and Mercy will con&s;ider his Circum&s;tances, and &s;ince none, far le&s;s a gracious Prince &s;hould reap profite by a poor his Circum&s;tances, and &s;ince none, far le&s;s a gracious Prince &s;hould reap profite by a poor mans Stock who keeps not one Farthing of the Kings, but willingly and faithfully &s;erves him for nothing.</P>
<P><HI>May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace and honourable Estates of Parliament, to con|&s;ider the premi&s;&s;es, and &s;eing your petitioner relyed much upon the Quality of his Tack and that his taking In&s;truments again&s;t the principal Tacksman, and proving the Con|dition of the Countrey by &s;o pregnant Evidences, was &s;ufficient to exoner him; That therefore your Grace and Lord&s;hips would be plea&s;ed to declare his Tack a Collection, with this Qualty, that albeit his Collection be le&s;s than the Sum of</HI> 10423 lib. &s;terling, <HI>which he has already payed, yet the petitioner is to repeat no part thereof, but the declar|ing of his Tack a Collection, is only to this effect, that Inquiry may be made if his Col|lection (his nece&s;&s;ar Charges being deduced; exceeds the Sum already pa&s;ed; Or o|therwi&s;e, if your Grace and Honourable E&s;tates of parliament think it not convenient to o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Tack that you would be plea&s;ed to exoner him of the</HI> 9000 lib. &s;ter. <HI>for which he has got &s;o frequent Si&s;ts, and which is the ju&s;t proportion, conform to the late Re|port from the Exchequer to His Maje&s;ty.</HI> And your Petitioner &s;hall ever pray.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="declaration">
<HEAD><HI>DECLARATION</HI> In Favours of the <HI>BREWERS</HI> and <HI>TACKSMEN</HI> of the <HI>EXCISE,</HI> with the Tenor of the <HI>Repre&s;entation</HI> given in by the Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Magi&s;trats of the <HI>North Shires,</HI> concerning the Dearth and Famine in their Shires and Towns, with the Rea&s;ons why the Brewers have given up, and the Exci&s;e cannot be made Effectual; <HI>Viz.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE the Noblemen, Barons and Heretors of the Shires of <HI>Angus, Merns, Aber|deen, Bamff,</HI> and <HI>Be North;</HI> Con&s;idering that <HI>George Mackenzie</HI> Subtack&s;|man of the Annexed and Additional Exci&s;e, has &s;everal Proce&s;&s;es depend|ing before the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply and Exci&s;e, again&s;t &s;everal of our Tennents who have been in u&s;e of brewing upon our Ground, for their giving over that Trade of Brewing at this time: <HI>Do therefore</HI> Te&s;tifie and Declare, That there was an ab&s;olute ne|ce&s;&s;ity for their giving over, by rea&s;on of the want of Malt and Bear, and the Dearth there|of this year; the price of the Malt and Bear giving with us 12 of 13 <HI>lib. Scots</HI> to <HI>Martinmas</HI> next, which is more than triple value of former years, being occa&s;ioned by the la&s;t years bad Cropt, and the unnatural Storms of Rain which fell out in Harve&s;t la&s;t, and our Ten|nents being in Arrear to us the full half part of their Rent in &s;everal places, &s;o that by the&s;e Calamities the Brewers have given over, and generally quite broke, and the few that does Brew are not able to pay the fore&s;aid price for the &s;aid Malt and Bear, with the double Ex|ci&s;e; &s;o that for this Sea&s;on there is no hope of Brewing, and the &s;carcity and badne&s;s of the la&s;t years Cropt, has occa&s;ioned not only Dearth, but Famine to all the Poor, who are dy|ing in &s;everal parts for Want, and a great part of the Land is not &s;owen for want of Seed, &s;o that we are nece&s;&s;itat to di&s;charge Brewing in &s;everal places: And to Order the making the Meal of Bear, and to keep up the famine for the u&s;e of the Poor, that are in a &s;tarving Condition. The like Scarcity and Want not being &s;een for many Ages. This We in all Humility, Repre&s;ent to the Right Honourable the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Thea&s;aury and Exchequer, praying them to con&s;ider the Condition of the Brewers and Tack&s;men, and to forbid their Farmers to mole&s;t the &s;aid Brewers on their de&s;i&s;ting from Brewing, by rea|&s;on of the fore&s;aids &s;ad Calamities, and to Di&s;charge any Trouble to be given them on that account, that the Poor may have Bread, and not Starve, which even this will hardly pre|vent.</P>
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<HEAD>The Names and De&s;ignations of the <HI>Sub&s;cribers,</HI> as follows, <HI>viz.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>For</HI> Aberdeen-&s;hire.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>EArl of</HI> Errol,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Kintore,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord</HI> Pit&s;ligo,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Thomas Burnet <HI>of</HI> Lyes,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> John Forbes <HI>of</HI> Craigievar,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Samuel Forbes <HI>of</HI> Foyeran,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andrew Frazer <HI>of</HI> Kinmundie <HI>Sheriff-Deput,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>James Gordon <HI>of</HI> Seatoun,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Ro&s;s <HI>of</HI> Auchlo&s;&s;en,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John &V;dney <HI>of that Ilk,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Roderick Forbes <HI>of</HI> Brux,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Keith <HI>of</HI> Creichy,</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Moor <HI>of</HI> Stonywood,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John &V;dney <HI>of</HI> Newtyle.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>For the Town of <HI>Aberdeen.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Robert Cruck&s;hank <HI>of</HI> Banchry, <HI>provo&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Bamff-Shire.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>EArl of</HI> Finlator,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>the Lord</HI> Boyne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Abernethy <HI>of</HI> Birkenbog,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Ogilvie <HI>of</HI> Foirgland,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Bumbar <HI>of</HI> Durn,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Gairden <HI>of</HI> Troup,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;lie <HI>of</HI> Burdsbank,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Hay <HI>of</HI> Arnbath.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>Angus</HI> and <HI>Kincardine-&s;hires.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>DAvid Grahame <HI>of</HI> Fintrey,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hercules Scot <HI>of</HI> Brothertoun,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr.</HI> Robert Burnet <HI>of</HI> Glenbervie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Scot <HI>of</HI> Logie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Barclay <HI>of</HI> Balmagequand.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>Town</HI> and <HI>Shire</HI> of <HI>Inverne&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>GEorge Cuthbert <HI>of</HI> Castlehill,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Robert&s;on <HI>of</HI> Inches,</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Mackinto&s;h <HI>of</HI> Termitt,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Angus Mackinto&s;h <HI>of</HI> Kelachie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Duff <HI>of</HI> Diple,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hugh Frazer <HI>of</HI> Belladrum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Baillie <HI>of</HI> Dr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nzeain,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Baillie <HI>Commi&s;&s;ar of</HI> Inverne&s;s,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Grant <HI>of</HI> Corimonie.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Machpher&s;on <HI>of</HI> Clunie,</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Mr.</HI> Daniel Pol&s;on <HI>of</HI> Kinmyle, <HI>Sheriff-deput</HI> of <HI>Inverne&s;s,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>William Frazer <HI>of</HI> Erchert,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Frazer <HI>of</HI> <GAP DESC="blank"></ITEM>
<ITEM>James Baillie <HI>of</HI> <GAP DESC="blank"></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Cumming <HI>of</HI> Dal&s;hanie</HEAD>
<ITEM>Hugh Robert&s;on, <HI>Provo&s;t,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>James Macklain <HI>Baillie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Duff <HI>of</HI> Drummor <HI>Baillie.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Cullen Town</HEAD>
<ITEM>JOhn Baird <HI>Baillie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Patrick Sanders Baillie</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Murray <HI>Clerk</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>John Lorimer <HI>Coun&s;ellor</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>William Strachan <HI>Coun&s;ellor</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>William Wall<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ce <HI>Councellor.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Bamff Town</HEAD>
<ITEM>ALexander Le&s;ly <HI>of</HI> Kinninvie <HI>Provo&s;t,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Walter Stuart <HI>late Provo&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Sanders <HI>Baillie</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Wallace <HI>Baillie</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>James Ogilvie <HI>Baillie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>George Leith <HI>late Baillie</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>William Scot <HI>Dean of Guild,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>James perik <HI>The&s;aurer</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<DIV2 TYPE="addition">
<HEAD>The Declaration of North <HI>Inverne&s;s, Ro&s;s</HI> and <HI>Cromarty,</HI> has this Addition, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>LIkewi&s;e, We declare, that by rea&s;on of the badne&s;s of the la&s;t years Cropt, there is &s;uch Scar&s;ity of Beer and Malt here, that there is a great Dearth and Famine a|mong&s;t our Commons, and in &s;everal places, the Land is not Sowen for want of Seed, and all this Summer they could hardly get Beer to buy to make Meal thereof, and we are nece&s;&s;itate to buy up Beer wherever we can get it, and furni&s;h them, to make Meal thereof, for the u&s;e of the poor that are in a Starving Condition. This we in all humility repre&s;ent to the Right Honourable the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties The&s;aury and Exchequer, to con&s;ider the Condition of the Tack&s;men and Brewers, and to allow the Brewers their de&s;i&s;ting that the Poor and Commons may have Bread and not Starve, which we are afraid of, if GOD in his Infinit Mercy prevent it not.</P>
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<ITEM>SIR <HI>John Monro</HI> of <HI>Foulis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Alexander Mackenzie</HI> of <HI>Coul</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hugh Monro</HI> Younger of <HI>Foulis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David Monro</HI> of <HI>Kiltearn,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David Monro</HI> of <HI>Teaninich</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Monro</HI> of <HI>Teanerd,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Mouro</HI> of <HI>Culrain,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Beaton</HI> of <HI>Calwaskea,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Donald Bayne</HI> of <HI>Tulloch,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Forre&s;ter</HI> of <HI>Culnald,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Colin Mabkenzie</HI> Elder of <HI>Redca&s;tle.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rod. Mackenzie</HI> Younger of <HI>Redca&s;tle</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rod. Mackenzie</HI> of <HI>Culcovie.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Maskenzie</HI> younger of <HI>Dachmaluag:</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David Monro</HI> of <HI>Dalmoir,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Ro&s;s</HI> of <HI>Achnaloch,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Ro&s;s</HI> of <HI>Aldy,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Ro&s;s</HI> of <HI>Pitherry,</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Cromarty Shire</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Kenneth Mackenzie</HI> of <HI>Cromarty</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Clunies</HI> of <HI>Neil&s;toun</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander &V;rquhart</HI> of <HI>Newhall</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John &V;rquhart</HI> of <HI>Craighou&s;e</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Burgh of <HI>Tayne</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Walter Ro&s;s</HI> Provo&s;t of <HI>Tayne</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Ro&s;s</HI> late Provo&s;t of <HI>Tayne</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Hay</HI> Baillie of <HI>Tayne,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Burgh of <HI>Fortro&s;s</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Forbes</HI> Balilie of <HI>Fortro&s;s.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<HEAD>The Declaration by the Shire of <HI>Cathne&s;s</HI> has this Addition, viz.</HEAD>
<P>WE the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supplie, and other Heritors of the Shire of <HI>Caithne&s;e,</HI> un|der&s;ub&s;cribing, Do hereby Te&s;tifie and Declare, that the Scarcity of Victual, and e&s;pecially of Bear in the &s;aid Shire, for the Crops 1695. and 1696. is, and has been &s;uch, that none living among us have &s;een or felt a greater Famine, and that many have &s;tarved for want of Bread; So that the Exci&s;e cannot make near the half of what formerly it did, by rea&s;on of the fore&s;aid Famine.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>George Sinclair</HI> of <HI>Clyth</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David Sinclair</HI> of <HI>Fre&s;wick,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Sinclair</HI> of <HI>Bleb&s;ter</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Sinclair</HI> of <HI>For&s;e</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Suther and</HI> of <HI>Gees</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Cunninghame</HI> of <HI>Rea&s;bo</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Sinclair</HI> of <HI>Stirkock,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Murray</HI> of <HI>Claden.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Patrick Murrray</HI> of <HI>Scots-Cadel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander William&s;on</HI> of <HI>Bor&s;eskirk.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Burgh of <HI>THORSO</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Rorie&s;on</HI> Baillie of <HI>Thor&s;o</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Swan&s;on</HI> Baillie of <HI>Thor&s;o</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Burgh of <HI>WEEK,</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>James Doul</HI> Baille of <HI>Week</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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