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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE>The &s;eventh day of <HI>December,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred &s;ixty five.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS, by the Act of Convention of the E&s;tates of this Kingdom, holden at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the fourth day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, for granting a Taxation of His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> of fourty &s;hillings upon ilk Pound-land of old extent; it was &s;tatute and or|dained, that the twenty fifth day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t &s;hould be the day of meeting, for all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Abbots, Priors, Lords of Erection and all other Kirk-men, to conveen with their Va&s;&s;als, for &s;etting down of Taxt-rolls of relief, as in the &s;aid Act of Conven|tion, of the date abovewritten, at more length is contained. And the Lords of His <HI>Maj&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, being informed, that there are many who have neglected the fir&s;t day of meeting; alledging that it was long before the &s;aid Act was publi&s;hed, and was not proclaimed at the head Burroughs of this Kingdom; Have therefore appointed the fourteenth day of <HI>March</HI> next to come, to be the preci&s;e day, for all the&s;e that have neglected the keeping of the twenty fifth of <HI>October,</HI> for conveening, and &s;etting down their Taxt-rolls of relief, after the form and tenor of the &s;aid Act of Convention. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;ses of the head Burroughs of this King|dom, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1665.</P>
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