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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> For In-bringing the Accompt of all the Hearths in this Kingdom.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Fait<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 letter"></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits, Macers of our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas the E&s;tates of Parliament of our Antient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by their <HI>Act</HI> of the date the tenth day of <HI>Se<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">|tember</HI> Current, upon the particular Con&s;iderations therein-expre&s;t; And in Lieu and Recompen&s;e of the &s;ixth part of the Annualren<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Annuities for one year, granted to Us by an Act of the &s;econd Se&s;&s;ion of Our Parliament: Have made an humble Tender and Offe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 letter"> to Us, of Three Moneths Supply payable at the Term of Martinma&s;s next, and the Sum of Fourteen Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> for every Hearth with in this 0ur Kingdom, to be payed at <HI>Candlma&s;s</HI> next to come, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and nintie one, by the Inhabitants dwelling in the Hou&s;e where the &s;aids Hearths are, without exception or exemption of any, except the Hearths of Ho&s;pitals and poor People, who are upon the Charity of the Paroch; And where any Hou&s;es are not Inhabited, that the &s;aid Hearth-money &s;hall be payed by the Heretors or propper Wod&s;etters to whom the &s;am<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> for the time doth belong: And by which Act it is Declared, that the Hearth-money, and the three Moneths Supply thereby given to Us, &s;hall in the fir&s;t place be Applyed for payment of the Sums due to the &s;everal Shires and Burghs of this Our Antient Kingdom, Furni&s;hed, Advanced or Payed by them to Our Forces, the &s;amen being in&s;tructed and liquidat, according to the rule pre&s;cribed by the third Act of the Parliament one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eightie one; And likewi&s;e for payment of the bygone Arriers due to Our Army. And We Re&s;olving, that the fore&s;aid Impo&s;ition of Fourteen Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> granted to Us for every Hearth within Our Kingdom, al&s;well as the &s;aid Three Moneths Supply, &s;hall in the fir&s;t place be applyed to the Effect above-written. And Con&s;idering, that by an other Act of the Third Se&s;&s;ion of Our Current Parliament, of the date the &s;aid tenth day of <HI>September</HI> in&s;tant, The Lords of our Privy Council, are Impowered to give &s;uch Orders for Collecting and Ingathering of the &s;aid Hearth-Money granted to Us by the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, as they &s;hall judge &s;it; Therefore, We with Advice of Our Privy Council, hereby peremptorly Command and Require, the Magi&s;trats of our Burghs Royal, on this &s;ide of the water of <HI>Tay,</HI> betwixt and the fifteenth day of <HI>October</HI> next, and the&s;e beyond the &s;ame<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> betwixt and the Twenty day of the &s;aid Moneth of <HI>October</HI> next, to meet in their &s;everal Burghs, and make a true and exact Tryal and Inquiry what num|ber of Hou&s;es and Tenements, Milns, Smiddies, Kills for drying of Grain, Ovens, Furnaces for Brewing, Salt-pan<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">ap, and Gla&s;s-works are within their re&s;pective Jurisdictions and Liberties, as well the&s;e Inhabited, as the&s;e which are Wa&s;te, and who are the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">he hou&s;es, and others for&s;aids In|habited, and who are the owners of &s;uch as are wa&s;te, (excepting always Ho&s;pitals, and the hou&s;es of poor People, w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">e upon the Charity of the &s;ever<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Burghs) and what number of Hearths are in each Hou&s;e, Lodging or Tenement and others fore&s;aids, and what the total Number of the&s;e Hearths do<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> mount to, and tran&s;mit an Duplicat thereof under their Hands to the Clerks of our Privy Council, conform to the &s;aid Act Parliament, betwixt and the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> following, <HI>viz.</HI> the Burrows on this &s;ide of the water <HI>Tay</HI> betwixt and the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> next, &amp; the&s;e beyond the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> betwixt &amp; the tenth day <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 word"> the &s;aid moneth. And We with Advice of the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council, Do in like manner &s;trictly Require and Command, all the Heretor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Liferenters, and proper Wod&s;etters, and the Tutors or Curators of &s;uch of them as are Minors, and the Factors and Chamberlains of &s;uch as live n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> on the place, or are ab&s;ent forth of this Our Realm, in the &s;everal Paroches on this &s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> to meet at the Paroch-Kirk of the &s;aid re&s;pective Paroches, at any time betwixt and the twenty day of <HI>October</HI> next to come; and the Heretors, and others fore&s;aids beyond the &s;aid Wa|ter of <HI>Tay,</HI> to meet at the Paroch Kirk of the &s;aids Parocbes <HI>re&s;pective,</HI> at any time betwixt and the twenty fifth day of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">id Moneth of <HI>October</HI> next and to make true and exact Li&s;ts, what number of Hearths are in the &s;everal Hou&s;es and others fore&s;aids of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span">longing to the Heretors Liferenters and proper Wod&s;etters them&s;elves, and how many Hearths are in the &s;everal Roums, Steids and Hou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> each Heretor, &s;et to<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> their Tennents, Sub-tennents, Cottars and others, or wa&s;te and un-inhabited within their Ground, and the names <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> who are the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, and Proprietars thereof, (excepting always Ho&s;pitals, and the Hou&s;es of poor people, who are upon the Charity of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span">ch in manner fore&s;aid) and what is the total number of the Hearths as afore&s;aid of the re&s;pective Paroches; And We appoint all, or the major <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span">em who &s;hall be pre&s;ent, to &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;aid Accompt, and Tran&s;mit the &s;ame to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, or their Clerks, within the re&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">es and Stewartries, whom We hereby appoint to meet at the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires or Stewartries, where the Stewartries lyes nor <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> any <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> dayes, after the re&s;pective la&s;t dyets appointed for Meeting of the Heretors, and there to examine out of what <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> take the mo&s;t effectual and &s;peedy cour&s;e for making full and true Li&s;ts of all the Hearths above &s;pecified within the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> the Li&s;ts to be reported to them, whether by appointing particular per&s;ons for making up the exact Li&s;ts of the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> think &s;it. And We Ordain the Clerks of the &s;aid, Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, carefully to Tran&s;mit the &s;aids w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> Council, betwixt and the dayes following, To wit, The&s;e on this &s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> betwixt and the fifth <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> the&s;e beyond the famine, betwixt and the fifteenth day of the &s;aid Moneth of <HI>November.</HI> And We do hereby Decl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> Liferenters or proper Wod&s;etters, or others fore&s;aids, who &s;hall meet the &s;aids days, albeit there be but one of them, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> effect above-written. And We Command the Magi&s;trats of Our Burrows-Royal, and the Heretors, Liferenters an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;aids of the Landward Paroches, to give exact and punctual obedience to Our Commands in the Premi&s;&s;es, as the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> perril; With Certification to &s;uch who &s;hall contemn or neglect the famine, they &s;hall be Charged to the effect above <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> on; and in ca&s;e they &s;hall prove Contumacious and Di&s;obedient, that they &s;hall be Denounced Our Rebels, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> be inbrought to Our u&s;e. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you &s;traitly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> Our Name and Authority make publication hereof. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Ordain the Sheriffs and Stewar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> Stewartries, and where there are no Sheriffs or Stewart-Clerks, the Clerks to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, to ca<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries, and tran&s;mit a Copy thereof to each one of the Royal Burrows, and to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span">ri&s;dictions, to be publickly read the Sabbath following, after the Forenoons Sermon, in the Church or Meeting-hou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"> otherways, in ca&s;e there be no Preaching, in the Paroch, to one of the Heretors thereof, that he may make Intimation <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span">retors, Liferenters and proper Wod&s;etters, and others fore&s;aids within the Paroch, who &s;hall be obliged to meet and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span">der the former Certification.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, <DATE>the 29th day of <HI>September.</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;econ<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Do<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<HI>GILB</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 span"></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave King <HI>VVilliam</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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