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<HEAD>ANSWERS FOR THE BREWARS Within the TOWN of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and <HI>Suburbs,</HI> And the Priviledge of the Shire of <HI>Mid-Lothian:</HI> To the Rea&s;ons offered to Their Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Right Honourable the E&s;tates of Parliament, by the Magi&s;trates of <HI>E|dinburgh,</HI> in Relation to an Impo&s;ition of Two Pennies upon the Pynt of Ale, now Craved by them for the &s;pace of thirty Years, upon pretence of Payment of the Towns Debts.</HEAD>
<P>THe Paper offered in behalf of the Good Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> craves an Impo&s;ition of two Pennies upon the Pint of Ale and Beer, to be ei|ther Brown or Inbrought and Vended within the Town and Suburbs and Liberties thereof: To be granted to the Magi&s;trates for payment of the Towns Debts, over and above the annexed Exci&s;e of two Merks upon the Boll, and the Additional Exci&s;e of three Pennies upon the Pint impo&s;ed by this pre&s;ent Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, and that for the &s;pace of thirty years, for the rea|&s;ons contained in the &s;aid printed Paper.</P>
<P>Before the Brewars make any particular An&s;wer to the rea&s;ons contained in the &s;aid printed Paper, They humbly offer to my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner's Grace, and to the Right Honourable the E&s;tates of Parliament be way of preamble the Con&s;iderations following.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> In als far as thir Rea&s;ons are U&s;hered in with an Narrative of the great Debts, the Good Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> lyes pre&s;ently under. It is humbly repre|&s;ented in behalf of the Brewars of the Shire and Others. That as they are not
<PB N="2" REF="2">to enquire in the private concerns of the Good Town, or how by the Mi&s;man|nagement of the Succe&s;&s;ive Magi&s;trates of the Burgh, the Debts thereof have &s;welled to &s;uch an con&s;iderable &s;um as is narrated in the Rea&s;ons, &s;o it is hoped the High Court of Parliament will not think it rea&s;onable that the Towns Debts &s;hould be payed and &s;atisfied out of &s;uch an Fond, as will be an un&s;upportable burden upon the &s;aids Brewers, and upon the whole Leidges re&s;orting to <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> and an direct Incroachment upon that Freedom and Liberty as to which in the Trade of Brewing and Immunities thereof, for enjoyment of the &s;ame, They are humbly to expect from the Ju&s;tice of the Parliament, a full and free Security and protection; and wherein all the Leidges re&s;iding in <HI>Edin|burgh</HI> (with them) are equally concerned.</P>
<P><HI>Secundo,</HI> The Good Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> upon the pretence of payment of their Debts, have &s;ince the year 1661. obtained &s;everal Gifts from their Ma|je&s;ties for the time, of two pennies upon the pint of Ale and Beer, and which in the fir&s;t in&s;tance and thereafter, were oppo&s;ed by the Lords of Se&s;&s;ion, Mem|bers of the Colledge of Ju&s;tice, and Heretors of the Shire: And who, not|with&s;tanding, and (becau&s;e the&s;e Gifts were then craved for &s;ome few years to the end fore&s;aid) did for &s;ome time Connive at the &s;ame. But finding that this was de&s;igned as an perpetual Servitude upon the Countrey, and their being an gift of this nature obtained in the year 1666 for eleven years after the expiring of an former that had been granted in <HI>Anno</HI> 1660. And this meeting with oppo|&s;ition from the Colledge of Ju&s;tice and the Heretors; The Affair was &s;ettled by Tran&s;action, and there was an &s;olemn Contract entered into in <HI>January</HI> 1670. betwixt them and the Good Town, whereby the &s;aid Gift for eleven years was re&s;tricted to fix: And upon expiring whereof, the Magi&s;trates for the time, did bind and oblige them&s;elves and their Succe&s;&s;ors, not to &s;eek or procure any &s;uch Gift or Impo&s;ition, for the future, upon account of the Towns Debts, that &s;hould remain un&s;atisfied, after expiring of the Gift &s;ware&s;tricted, and in ca&s;e any &s;uch happen to be in time coming procured, the &s;ame by the &s;amen Contract <HI>per ver|ba de pre&s;enti,</HI> now as then and then as now, was declared Void and Null: So that the Acquie&s;cence of the Colledge of Ju&s;tice and the Heretors of the Shire to this Gift, being in the Terms fore&s;aid, was to be under&s;tood as an Bar or Land, mark to &s;ecure again&s;t the obtaining of all &s;uch Gifts in time coming: And the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> can no more pretend to be free of the &s;aid Contract, than they can be of any Debt they are due by Bond: And howbeit the Good Town by their power with, and influence upon the Mini&s;ters of State, during the late Reigns, have obtained an Continuation of this Exaction; yet that being directly contrair to an Final, Legal and Determining Settlement, in relation to the point in controver&s;ie, can be no Rule to perpetuat this Burden any longer, fir&s;t upon the Brewars, and con&s;equently, in the &s;econd place, upon the Colledge of Ju|&s;tice and Heritors, who entered in the &s;aid Tran&s;action, and upon the Inhabitants of the Burgh; and in effect upon the whole Leidges re&s;orting to <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> who are concerned in this Matter, either by Selling of Bear, Buying of Ale, or both,</P>
<P><HI>Tertio,</HI> The obtaining an Gift of this nature by an particular Clau&s;e in the Claim of Right, is declared to be contrair to the known Laws, Statutes and Free|doms of this Realm: And albeit it will be pretended for the Magi&s;trates, That this was looked upon as an Grievance, as being done without Authority of Par|liament; yet it is Humbly Conceived the de&s;ign of the Law was adapted with a Reguard to the liberty of the Subject, and con&s;equently that there is <HI>par ratio</HI> now as of before: And therefore it being <HI>res judicata</HI> upon the Matter by the Parliament, as a Redre&s;s to the Grievances of the late Times, it is hoped the
<PB N="3" REF="2">Magi&s;trates will not crave a Revivance of &s;uch an Impo&s;ition now, which in the former Government was found an mo&s;t un&s;upportable Burden, by mo&s;t of the Burge&s;&s;es of the Burghs of the Kingdom: And when the &s;ame Addre&s;s was offe|red in the <HI>2d</HI> Se&s;&s;ion of the current Parliament, the &s;ame was by a Solemn Vote of Parliament Rejected and thrown out of Doors.</P>
<P><HI>Quarto,</HI> It is Humbly offered to my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner, His Grace, and E&s;tates of Parliament, That as the Impo&s;ing of &s;uch an Burden upon the Brew|ars, will be very unea&s;ie to them and to the Inhabitants of the Burgh, and all o|thers who&s;e Priviledges allow them to &s;tand in oppo&s;ition to any &s;uch Gift; &s;o with all Submi&s;&s;ion, it may unevitably prove prejudicial to His Maje&s;ties Intere&s;t, becau&s;e there being now an additional Excy&s;e impo&s;ed by Act of Parliament, Which, with the Fomer, will be about four Merks and an half upon the Boll of Malt, the granting of any New Gift to the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> in addition thereto, will lay many confiderable Brewars a&s;ide as unable to continue in the exerci&s;e of that Trade, where there is &s;o great an Advance in the fir&s;t In&s;tance to the Tax men, and &s;uch eminent danger in the Retale, &s;eing this Addition would make the Impo&s;ition upon every Boll of Malt to ari&s;e near to Five Pound <HI>Scots;</HI> and which throw mo&s;t places of the Kingdom will adequate the intrin&s;ick value of the Bear, and &s;o far probably low the price thereof, as the mo&s;t of the Here|tors of the Kingdom might &s;en&s;ibly feel the prejudice there fra ari&s;ing, which is of an univer&s;al Concern to Their Maje&s;ties and the hail Leidges, the &s;ale of Bear being the greate&s;t part of the Rent of the Nation, and the product thereof in the Matter of Excy&s;e, being the chiefe&s;t Perqui&s;ite of the Crown, in relation to the Intere&s;t of the Government.</P>
<P><HI>Quinto,</HI> As the granting of &s;uch an Gift would by an natural Con&s;equence in all probability lay a Foundation to the Inconveniencies abovementioned; &s;o be|&s;ides all tho&s;e it would upon the Matter turn the Brewing in <HI>Edinburgh</HI> to an Monopolie in Favours of a few Brewars, who it &s;eems join and concur with the Good Town in this Application, and thereby make Ale good and bad at their plea&s;ure, there being no &s;uch &s;ecurity in the Matter of Brewing as an univer&s;al Freedom in that Trade, and whereby every one is a Check to another for the bet|ter Con&s;umption and Retale of Ale; whereas if an Monopolie of this Trade &s;hall be &s;ettled among&s;t a few Brewars, the Wi&s;dom of the High Court of Parliament from former Experience may ea&s;ily judge what will be the Con&s;equence thereof.</P>
<P>This being premi&s;ed for the Brewars, and for which they Crave my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner, His Grace, and High Court of Parliament, humbly pardon for &s;o long an Preamble in an Matter of &s;o great Import, and wherein they are &s;o nearly concerned, they do in the next place with all due Submi&s;&s;ion, as to the Rea&s;ons offered in behalf of the Good Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> make the particular An&s;wers following.</P>
<P>As to the fir&s;t, In Relation to the Debts owing be the Town in the year 1633 and how the &s;ame was increa&s;&s;ed by their Expen&s;es at the Coronation of King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t, and what they farther advanced for his Relief in the year 1648 and in the year 1650 at the return of King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>2d,</HI> It is An&s;wered, That with all Submi&s;&s;ion the making of an In&s;inuation of this nature, now after the &s;pace of 50 years and more, is to run too far backward by a reviving of the Ca|lamities of the&s;e Times: And if every on that was thereby damnified, were to expect an &s;uitable Reparation, where this might land at, is left to the Parliaments Con&s;ideration; And as Pre&s;cription is the great Security of the Leidges in the natural po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their Property, &s;o by that &s;ame parity, long taciturnity and acquie&s;cence ought to Bury in Oblivion all the Tran&s;actions of the&s;e Times.</P>
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<P>As to the Second. In Relation to what the Town &s;uffered in the late U&s;urpa|tion before the year 1660 by Building the Citidale of <HI>Leith</HI> the former An&s;wer is opponed, and it too great a &s;tretch for the Good Town to Run &s;o far back|ward in the pro&s;ecution of their pre&s;ent Pretentions, without Di&s;puting the Ve|racity of what is a&s;&s;erted for them, lea&s;t that may lay down an inconvenient preparative for many &s;uch Addre&s;&s;es of this nature.</P>
<P>As to the Third, In Relation to the Gift of the Citidale of <HI>Leith,</HI> In Favours of the Duke of <HI>Lauderdale,</HI> and to the Towns purcha&s;e thereof from him: It's An&s;wered, That it is but too notour that all the&s;e Tran&s;actions were the natural Con&s;equences of &s;tate intrigues carried on by an prevailing party of the Magi|&s;tracy for the time for propagating their own private ends: And it will not be proper for the pre&s;ent Magi&s;trats to dip further upon this marter. And thereby to di&s;cover the management of their Predece&s;&s;ors, which is often Lyable to be mi&s;con&s;tructed, where private intere&s;t is at the bottom, and where the di&s;covery makes nothing to the pre&s;ent purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>As to the Fourth, In Relation to the fir&s;t Gift granted by King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>2d.</HI> upon an Narrative of an former, that had been granted during the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> U&s;ur|pation, and Relating to an &s;econd Gift that had been granted for defraying the Expen&s;es of bringing in the Water: And that thereby the Towns Debts &s;till re|mained un&s;atisfied; It's An&s;wered with all Submi&s;&s;ion this Rea&s;on containes its own Ditty in its bo&s;ome. For 1. It acknowledges that the Good Town had an Impo&s;ition of an plack of the pint during the fore&s;aid U&s;urpation; and con&s;equently had &s;ufficiently wherewith to defray all the Burdens and Expen&s;es they were put to, by that Government. 2. The Renovation of the&s;e Gifts for &s;o many years, being (as is acknowledged) for payment of the Towns Debt, does Argue ill Conduct in the management, where the Debts &s;till increa&s;ed, e&s;pecially &s;eeing it is but too notour that the Inhabitants of the Burgh, payed con&s;iderably upon the Account of the inbringing of the Water: But this is only informative repre&s;ented, there being no Shadow of Relevancy in this Rea&s;on.</P>
<P>As to the Fifth, In Relation to the Tran&s;action betwixt the Town and the Earls of <HI>Argyle, Errol, Mar&s;hal,</HI> and <HI>Strathmore,</HI> concerning an Debt due by them to <HI>Heriots</HI> Ho&s;pital; and to an Impo&s;ition they got for twelve years after expireing of an former in liew of this Debt: And that this before it expired, proved ineffectual as being illegally laid on. It's An&s;wered for the Brewars, that if this Rea&s;on come to be canva&s;&s;ed at the Bottom, it will be of als little weight as the former, it being but too well known that the Tran&s;action with the&s;e Noblemen, was the voluntar Actings of the Magi&s;trates for the time, upon their own private De&s;igns, and by the influence of the Mini&s;ters of State that had then the management of publick Affairs; And &s;o are not now to be obtruded in Relation to this pre&s;ent concern, from any di&s;&s;appointment that the&s;e Actings met with: And wherein the Brewars are not in the lea&s;t concerned, nor in any Di&s;charge given in by the Good Town to the&s;e Earls, there having been neither Force nor Law upon the then Magi&s;trates to have done the &s;ame. And as to all the&s;e Mi&s;mannagements the Town have Recour&s;e in Law again&s;t the Actors thereof.</P>
<P>As to the Sixth, In Relation to the bringing in of the Water and of the Mainte|nance and upholding of the Wells, the former An&s;wer is opponed; and it is known that the Inhabitants of the Burgh are annually &s;tented, in order to the &s;up|port of all the private concerns thereof, and which makes nothing to the pre&s;ent point.</P>
<P>As to the Seventh, which narrates the Towns pre&s;ent Debt, the Expen&s;es of repairing the Peer at <HI>Leith,</HI> and keeping the Towns Guards, the Brewars Re|peits
<PB N="5" REF="3">their former An&s;wers, in Relation to the defraying the Towns Debts, that a farther Addition of Exci&s;e upon the Brewars which will unevitably Ruine their Trade and be a Burden upon the whole Leidges, is not (with all Submi&s;&s;ion) a proper Ford or fit Remedie for this Di&s;ea&s;e. <HI>2do.</HI> It is very well known that the Exactions of the Town upon the Account of their Harbour; is more nor &s;uffi|cient to defray the Expen&s;es of the Reparations thereof: And the &s;ame An&s;wer is Repeated to the Expen&s;es of the Guard, which is maintained upon the Charge of the Inhabitants, and which the Magi&s;trates upon enquiry will not deny, but <HI>utcunque</HI> the&s;e being extrin&s;ick Digre&s;&s;iens to the pre&s;ent point in Contro|ver&s;y, do not merit the Parliaments Con&s;ideration; nor that the Brewars in their An&s;wers &s;hall take notice thereof.</P>
<P>As to the Eight, Wherein the Magi&s;trats a&s;&s;ert their Zeal to the pre&s;ent Go|vernment, and the great advancements they have made to the publik upon that Account, at lea&s;t that the &s;ame was done out of the private Fortunes of the&s;e who were Magi&s;trates &s;ince the late Revolution, It's An&s;wered that it's hoped the drawer of this Rea&s;ons, in his evincing the Loallity of the Magi&s;trats which had it's ari&s;e from an free offer of their own, will not make this a Fundation for laying on an Impo&s;ition upon the Brewars, which were a derogation to that airly appearance they made in their Loyalty towards the pre&s;ent Government, if there doing thereof was on pro&s;pect to be reimbur&s;ed at the Expences of third parties, who, as occa&s;ion offers, will be equally ready with them, to &s;erve the intere&s;t of the pre&s;ent Government: And it &s;trange how &s;uch an inference as this, can be brought in to the High Court of Parliament, as an new Ground for laying on an new Impo&s;ition upon the Brewars which they are not able to bear, And thereby the Magi&s;trats Zeal for the Government to be &s;upported at the Ex|pences of them and the whole Leidges.</P>
<P>As to the Ninth, In Relation to the Towns Debts, and that without this Im|po&s;ition, the Magi&s;trats will not be enabled to pay the &s;ame, and will be forced to give over ther Offices: It An&s;wered for the Brewars that without dipping up|pon the &s;ecret concerns of the Town, it is humbly conceived that the Reparati|on of the&s;e Breaches is not to be expected to be made upon the private Expences of of the Countrey Brewars, nor out of any Fond that there Trade is not able to bear: And if the Calamities of the Burghs of the Kingdom by &s;uch an prepara|tive, as this &s;hould be a Fundation of an new Impo&s;ition upon third parties that have no Dependance upon the Burgh, the Con&s;equence may prove very dan|gerous: And the preventing whereof with Reguard to the Intere&s;t of the Nati|on, is humbly offered to the Serious Con&s;ideration of the High Court of Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>As to the Tenth, In Relation to the late Impo&s;ition upon Cloath and Wine by the Parliament, with an Regard to the Exigencies of the Burgh; And that the &s;ame does not An&s;wer the de&s;ignes of the Parliament, It is An&s;wered that the Argument urged from this Rea&s;on is Retorted, for if the Parliament out of their prudence thought fit, to take off the Impo&s;ition upon Ale laid on and Gifted in behalf of the Town, as being then under&s;tood to the Parliament as a Grievance, and in liew thereof, to give them an additional Excy&s;e upon Wine and Cloath, it is a &s;trange Inference, that if this Fond do not an&s;wer the de&s;ign, that the Town &s;hould crave the Parliament &s;hould return to the doing of that which they con&s;i|der as an Error in the former Government, or at the lea&s;t to have been illegally Impo&s;ed, &s;eing the rectifying thereof was &s;till with an regard to the advantage of the people, which its hoped will &s;till convince the High Court of Parliament that the Demands of the Good Town in relation to the Brewars will prove &s;uch an un&s;upportable Burden, as that my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner his Grace and E&s;&s;a es of
<PB N="6" REF="4">Parliament will never yield thereto: And whatever Fond &s;hall be thought <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> for &s;upport of the Intere&s;t of the Town, this of all, with due Submi&s;&s;ion, &s;eeme to be the mo&s;t improper as tending not only to the utter Ruine of Brewars and an heavy Impo&s;ition upon the whole Leidges re&s;orting the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> but to the great prejudice of Their Maje&s;ties Excy&s;e, and that of mo&s;t of the Heretors of the Kingdom who are and may be concerned in the Con&s;umpt of Bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P>As to the <HI>Elveenth,</HI> In relation to the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI>'s being the chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> Metropolis of the Kingdom and the Seat of all the Judicatories. It is An&s;wered That as the fir&s;t is not denied, &s;o <HI>quoad</HI> the Second it &s;eems to be no good Argu|ment for what is now Craved: For it's too notour that the great Support of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> does chieflly ari&s;e from its being the Seat of the Judicato|ries of the Nation, and that therefore it is a bad Argument to draw &s;uch an Con|&s;equence as this, that their Supporters &s;hould be further burdened.</P>
<P>As to the <HI>Twelth,</HI> That the Brewars in <HI>Edinburgh</HI> do concurr by an Con&s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> under their Hands, and that no prejudice can ari&s;e to the Heretors by this ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Impo&s;ition It is An&s;wered, <HI>1mo.</HI> It is denied that there is any general Con&s;ent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Brewars of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> but on the contrair mo&s;t of them concur with the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> the Shire, in oppo&s;ition to what is now craved in behalf of the Good Town. 20 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> any &s;uch Con&s;ent has been impetrate, it is upon de&s;ign by a few of the Brewa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> who are to become Tacksmen to the Good Town, if this ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Impo&s;ition were granted, and would thereby ruine that Trade as to all othe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> by inhauncing the &s;ame &s;olely to them&s;elves: And as an evidence thereof upo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> enquiry, it will be found that they have preconcerted the Affair with the Goo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Town towards the carrying on of this de&s;ign; and are to have an extraordinary advantage in the &s;et thereof; and &s;o to make this an argument to influence <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> Parliament in the pre&s;ent Claim of the Good Town is &s;omewhat extraordinary and in behalf of the other Brewars is remitted to my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> Grace and Honourable E&s;tates their &s;erious Confideration.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, As to the endurance of this Impo&s;ition for 30 years, the former <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> are Opponed: And albeit for &s;atisfying my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> and the High Court of Parliament; the Brewars have offered particular An|&s;wers to the fore&s;aids Rea&s;ons; yet the &s;ame is in adherence to the General An|&s;wers premi&s;ed and which they humbly intreat in an matter of this moment And in an Ca&s;e &s;o circum&s;tantiat may be &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered, and if any diffi|culty occcur in the premi&s;es; that my Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner his Grace and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> Honourable E&s;tates will allow the Brewars an Hearing in plain Parliament e&s;pecially feeing that what is now craved by the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> as an Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters"> upon both the Town and Country Brewars, will be upwards of 60000 <HI>lib. Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t</HI> yearly, which in thirty years time ari&s;es to Eighten hundreth thou&s;and pound <HI>Scots,</HI> be&s;ides the great Incomes the Town has, by their ordinary Reven<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">es and therefore &s;uch an exorbitant Grant will prove an un&s;upportable burden <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> the Brewars, the Inhabitants of the Burgh Heretors of the Shite, and all other repairing to the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> &s;o of how dangerous Con&s;equences might be as to the Intere&s;t of all the Leidges. is &s;eriou&s;ly remitted, as afore&s;aid to the Con&s;ideration of the High Court of Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER>In re&s;pect whereof,</CLOSER>
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