Procedure, 17 December 1696, Edinburgh

Procedure: petition, 31 December 1696, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the seventeenth day of December Jaj vic nyntie six years

A1696/12/631

Procedure

Anent Commissioners of militia of Edinburgh shires expenses

The Earle of Lauderdale represented that the Commissioners of the Militia for the shire of Edinburgh would be att Considerable expences in Meeting expeding Dispatches for Bringing out the present Militia which he proposed might be alloued out of the present Cess of the Shire To which the Councill gave noe ansuer The Militia having been out off before and this expence never heard of or Craved.

Att Edinburgh the seventeenth day of December Jaj vic nyntie six years

A1696/12/631

Procedure

Anent Commissioners of militia of Edinburgh shires expenses

The Earle of Lauderdale represented that the Commissioners of the Militia for the shire of Edinburgh would be att Considerable expences in Meeting expeding Dispatches for Bringing out the present Militia which he proposed might be alloued out of the present Cess of the Shire To which the Councill gave noe ansuer The Militia having been out off before and this expence never heard of or Craved.

1. NRS, PC1/51, 73.

1. NRS, PC1/51, 73.