Letter: royal, 20 April 1697, Edinburgh

Act, 6 October 1697, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the tuenty day of Aprile Jaj vic nyntie seven years

A1697/4/301

Letter: royal

Letter To the King anent alterations in the Militia

The Letter underwryten from the Councill to the King Anent some alterations in the Militia being againe read was signed and ordered to be recorded Folloues the tenor of the Letter
May it please your Majestie
After the nottice and orders we receaved from your Majestie in December Last upon the report of a designed Invasion We Gave ane account of the diligence we used for having the Militia in such readines as that season would allow But now that the summer approacheth And your Majestie Requires us to Continow our care for the peace and security of the Kingdom We have thought fitt to revise the proposalls for modelling the Militia sent to and approven by your Majestie about a year agoe And to make such alterations as at this tyme seem necessary to Render the Militia more effectuall The account wherof is heiruith transmitted The points that more especiallie need your Majesties approbation are the pay of six shilling each muster day appointed to the Captains for their better Incouragement As well as the pay formerly Given to the majors Leivtennants and Ensignes a yearly Fee of fourty shillings to a Gun smith for every regiment For the better preserving your majesties armes and the Charges of transporting these armes from the magazines to the severall Companies all to be payed out of the Supply with the Changes we shall be necessitat to make of some of the superior officers In all which we wait your Majesties pleasure And in the mean tyme we are to Issue out a proclamation to have both the officers and men in readiness That what your Majestie shall farder order in this matter may be punctuallie obeyed as is the duety of May It please your Majestie Your Majesties most Loyall most faithfull and most obedient subjects and servants sic subscribitur Poluarth cancelar Lauderdale Annandale Forfar John Hamilton James Steuart J Hamilton W Anstruther John Maxwell Archbald Mure.

Att Edinburgh the tuenty day of Aprile Jaj vic nyntie seven years

A1697/4/301

Letter: royal

Letter To the King anent alterations in the Militia

The Letter underwryten from the Councill to the King Anent some alterations in the Militia being againe read was signed and ordered to be recorded Folloues the tenor of the Letter
May it please your Majestie
After the nottice and orders we receaved from your Majestie in December Last upon the report of a designed Invasion We Gave ane account of the diligence we used for having the Militia in such readines as that season would allow But now that the summer approacheth And your Majestie Requires us to Continow our care for the peace and security of the Kingdom We have thought fitt to revise the proposalls for modelling the Militia sent to and approven by your Majestie about a year agoe And to make such alterations as at this tyme seem necessary to Render the Militia more effectuall The account wherof is heiruith transmitted The points that more especiallie need your Majesties approbation are the pay of six shilling each muster day appointed to the Captains for their better Incouragement As well as the pay formerly Given to the majors Leivtennants and Ensignes a yearly Fee of fourty shillings to a Gun smith for every regiment For the better preserving your majesties armes and the Charges of transporting these armes from the magazines to the severall Companies all to be payed out of the Supply with the Changes we shall be necessitat to make of some of the superior officers In all which we wait your Majesties pleasure And in the mean tyme we are to Issue out a proclamation to have both the officers and men in readiness That what your Majestie shall farder order in this matter may be punctuallie obeyed as is the duety of May It please your Majestie Your Majesties most Loyall most faithfull and most obedient subjects and servants sic subscribitur Poluarth cancelar Lauderdale Annandale Forfar John Hamilton James Steuart J Hamilton W Anstruther John Maxwell Archbald Mure.

1. NRS, PC1/51, 181-2.

1. NRS, PC1/51, 181-2.