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Procedure, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Association by the Toune and Colledge of Glasgow

Association signed by the magistrats Toun Councell and other Inhabitants of Glasgow To the number of about Fyve hundred and seventie persons with another Coppie of the Association subscryved by the Chancelor Director principall Dean of Facultie professors of Theologie and philosophie students and others Belonging to the university of Glasgow to the number of above tuo hundred and sixtie persons were presented to the Councell by John Anderson of Dowhill provost of Glasgow and ordered to be Laid up among the rest

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Association by the Toune and Colledge of Glasgow

Association signed by the magistrats Toun Councell and other Inhabitants of Glasgow To the number of about Fyve hundred and seventie persons with another Coppie of the Association subscryved by the Chancelor Director principall Dean of Facultie professors of Theologie and philosophie students and others Belonging to the university of Glasgow to the number of above tuo hundred and sixtie persons were presented to the Councell by John Anderson of Dowhill provost of Glasgow and ordered to be Laid up among the rest

1. NRS, PC1/50, 522-3.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 522-3.

Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Act Mr Androw Burnet

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell By Mr Andrew Burnet Late Minister at Aberdeen Sheuing That wher by sentence of the Current Parliament in the Last session upon the first of Jully Jaj vjc nynty five The petitioner was depryved of his benefice and Discharged the exercise of his ministeriall functione uithin this kingdome and Imprisoned untill he Enacted himself not to Goe to the other syde of Forth after the first of August Last bypast To which sentence the petitioner hath given full obedience and hath Lived with his family at Edinburgh these nyne months bygone as became a Deutifull subject without giving any Ground of offence aither to Church or state But his suddaine removall from the north obleidging him to Leave all his affairs ther in confusion and any mean of subsistance he hath for his family being scarce sufficient to mantaine them att Edinburgh the one halfe of the year he is redacted to Great straits and difficulties And therfore Humblie Craving their Lordships uould Consider the premisses And seing the petitioner hath ouned his Majesties Government even since his accession to the throne And never designed to have given the Least offence to any Concerned therin And is willing to Enact himself under the highest paines not to Give the Least disturbance to Church or state But to Live in his privat statione as Becomes That therfore their Lordships would allow him to Live with his family in the north or to goe thither as his necessary occasions requyre For Looking after the small means of subsistance for his family as the said petitione bears The Saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered this petitione given in to them by the said Mr Androw Burnet They heirby Recommend to Sir James Steuart his Majesties Advocat to Consider the sentence or Act of parliament pronunced against the petitioner with pouer to his Lordship to allow the petitioner to Goe north for some tyme to doe his affairs In caise he shall find the same to be Consistent with the said sentence of parliament

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Act Mr Androw Burnet

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell By Mr Andrew Burnet Late Minister at Aberdeen Sheuing That wher by sentence of the Current Parliament in the Last session upon the first of Jully Jaj vjc nynty five The petitioner was depryved of his benefice and Discharged the exercise of his ministeriall functione uithin this kingdome and Imprisoned untill he Enacted himself not to Goe to the other syde of Forth after the first of August Last bypast To which sentence the petitioner hath given full obedience and hath Lived with his family at Edinburgh these nyne months bygone as became a Deutifull subject without giving any Ground of offence aither to Church or state But his suddaine removall from the north obleidging him to Leave all his affairs ther in confusion and any mean of subsistance he hath for his family being scarce sufficient to mantaine them att Edinburgh the one halfe of the year he is redacted to Great straits and difficulties And therfore Humblie Craving their Lordships uould Consider the premisses And seing the petitioner hath ouned his Majesties Government even since his accession to the throne And never designed to have given the Least offence to any Concerned therin And is willing to Enact himself under the highest paines not to Give the Least disturbance to Church or state But to Live in his privat statione as Becomes That therfore their Lordships would allow him to Live with his family in the north or to goe thither as his necessary occasions requyre For Looking after the small means of subsistance for his family as the said petitione bears The Saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered this petitione given in to them by the said Mr Androw Burnet They heirby Recommend to Sir James Steuart his Majesties Advocat to Consider the sentence or Act of parliament pronunced against the petitioner with pouer to his Lordship to allow the petitioner to Goe north for some tyme to doe his affairs In caise he shall find the same to be Consistent with the said sentence of parliament

1. NRS, PC1/50, 521-2.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 521-2.

Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Liberation Rayan and Monro

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell By Hugh Rian and Mr Robert Monroe prisoners in the tolbooth of the Cannongate Sheuing That wheras the petitioners being apprehended by the officers of Collonell Hill Governor of Fortwilliam in Inverlochie were Confyned uithin that garrisone for severall weeks And by the said Collonell Hill his orders Conveyed to this prisone wher they were Committed by order of Major Generall Livingstoun And have remained here since the Eleventh day of march Last In a Condition to be Compassionat In regaird of their bad health occasioned through the want of wholsome air and other necessaries they were accustomed to in the north And Collonell Hill alleadged to the petitioners that they were Called hither by the Councell and Advocat as persons that troubled the peace of the Government yet since nothing hes or Can be made appear against the petitioners They having Lived severall years in this kingdome peacably not doing anything that had the Least tendency to the Disturbance of the Government And therfore Humbly Craving their Lordships to order the petitioners Liberatione upon their Enacting themselves to Continow still peacably But if it be their Lordships pleasure to send them off this Kingdome only the petitioners Humbly Intreat their Lordships to allow them a Competent tyme out of prisone to prepare themselves for their transportation rather then dye in prisone which will unavoydablie follow on the on if not on both if they be detained Longer in prisone As also to free them from paying the prisone Dues In regaird they are Indigent persons as the said petition Bears The Saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered the above petitione They heirby Give order and warrand to the Baillies of the Cannongate and Keeper of their tolbooth To sett the petitioners at Libertie furth therof In respect they have enacted themselves in the books of his Majesties privie Councell that they shall depairt furth of his Majesties Dominions and shall saile with the first shipps which shall Goe from this kingdome to Holland or to any other place belonging to his Majesties allayes And that they shall Return testificats to the Councell of their Landing and the places at which they shall be Landed att

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Liberation Rayan and Monro

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell By Hugh Rian and Mr Robert Monroe prisoners in the tolbooth of the Cannongate Sheuing That wheras the petitioners being apprehended by the officers of Collonell Hill Governor of Fortwilliam in Inverlochie were Confyned uithin that garrisone for severall weeks And by the said Collonell Hill his orders Conveyed to this prisone wher they were Committed by order of Major Generall Livingstoun And have remained here since the Eleventh day of march Last In a Condition to be Compassionat In regaird of their bad health occasioned through the want of wholsome air and other necessaries they were accustomed to in the north And Collonell Hill alleadged to the petitioners that they were Called hither by the Councell and Advocat as persons that troubled the peace of the Government yet since nothing hes or Can be made appear against the petitioners They having Lived severall years in this kingdome peacably not doing anything that had the Least tendency to the Disturbance of the Government And therfore Humbly Craving their Lordships to order the petitioners Liberatione upon their Enacting themselves to Continow still peacably But if it be their Lordships pleasure to send them off this Kingdome only the petitioners Humbly Intreat their Lordships to allow them a Competent tyme out of prisone to prepare themselves for their transportation rather then dye in prisone which will unavoydablie follow on the on if not on both if they be detained Longer in prisone As also to free them from paying the prisone Dues In regaird they are Indigent persons as the said petition Bears The Saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered the above petitione They heirby Give order and warrand to the Baillies of the Cannongate and Keeper of their tolbooth To sett the petitioners at Libertie furth therof In respect they have enacted themselves in the books of his Majesties privie Councell that they shall depairt furth of his Majesties Dominions and shall saile with the first shipps which shall Goe from this kingdome to Holland or to any other place belonging to his Majesties allayes And that they shall Return testificats to the Councell of their Landing and the places at which they shall be Landed att

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520-1.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520-1.

Procedure, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Procedure

[Lord Polwarth signed Association]

The Lord Poluarth did signe the Association begun to be signed by the Councell upon the tenth of Aprile Last

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[Lord Polwarth signed Association]

The Lord Poluarth did signe the Association begun to be signed by the Councell upon the tenth of Aprile Last

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520.

Order, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Order

Recommendation to The Lord Advocat anent disaffected persons at Dumblaine

Sir James Steuart his Majesties Advocat Having read to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell the examinations of severall persons about the behaviour of some Disaffected to his Majesties government about Dumblane taken before Leivtennant Collonell Areskine Governor of the Castle of Stirling They heirby Recommend to Sir James Steuart his majesties advocat, to raise proces against all or any of the saids persons before the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell or the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary as his Lordship shall find most Convenient and suitable to their Crymes

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Recommendation to The Lord Advocat anent disaffected persons at Dumblaine

Sir James Steuart his Majesties Advocat Having read to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell the examinations of severall persons about the behaviour of some Disaffected to his Majesties government about Dumblane taken before Leivtennant Collonell Areskine Governor of the Castle of Stirling They heirby Recommend to Sir James Steuart his majesties advocat, to raise proces against all or any of the saids persons before the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell or the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary as his Lordship shall find most Convenient and suitable to their Crymes

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520.

Procedure, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Procedure

Exoneratione In favoures of the Magistrats of Edinburgh Anent tuo persons souldiers

Sir Robert Cheyslie Lord provost of Edinburgh Having acquanted the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell That […] one of the souldiers for recruits who was transported from the castle of Edinburgh to the tolbooth of Leith Is since his coming to the said tolbooth removed by death and that […] another of the saids souldiers Is become Lame and not fitt for service And therupon being Left by the officers Is sett free from prisone to begg for his Livelyhood The saids Lords Doe heirby approve of what the Magistrats of Edinburgh hes done in this matter And Doe heirby Declare them and the keeper of the tolbooth of Leith to be free of any thing which may be Laid to their charge upon account of the saids tuo souldiers any manner of way

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Exoneratione In favoures of the Magistrats of Edinburgh Anent tuo persons souldiers

Sir Robert Cheyslie Lord provost of Edinburgh Having acquanted the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell That […] one of the souldiers for recruits who was transported from the castle of Edinburgh to the tolbooth of Leith Is since his coming to the said tolbooth removed by death and that […] another of the saids souldiers Is become Lame and not fitt for service And therupon being Left by the officers Is sett free from prisone to begg for his Livelyhood The saids Lords Doe heirby approve of what the Magistrats of Edinburgh hes done in this matter And Doe heirby Declare them and the keeper of the tolbooth of Leith to be free of any thing which may be Laid to their charge upon account of the saids tuo souldiers any manner of way

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520.

Warrant, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Warrand to the Magistrats of Edinburgh to roup horses seased from persons not qualified

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Doe heirby Give order and warrand to the Magistrats of Edinburgh to Roup the horses in their toune or in the stables within the same and priviledges therof seased from persons not qualified according to Law And to Cause make Intimation of this Roupe upon the first horse merkat day Immediatly follouing the Intimatione at the rates of above ane hundreth merks scotts a peice at Leist And to Returne and give in the pryces of such of the saids horses as shall be sold to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Thesaurie Immediatly after the selling therof The stablers who mantained the saids horses being first satisfied and payed of their expences For Intertaining the saids Horses

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Warrand to the Magistrats of Edinburgh to roup horses seased from persons not qualified

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Doe heirby Give order and warrand to the Magistrats of Edinburgh to Roup the horses in their toune or in the stables within the same and priviledges therof seased from persons not qualified according to Law And to Cause make Intimation of this Roupe upon the first horse merkat day Immediatly follouing the Intimatione at the rates of above ane hundreth merks scotts a peice at Leist And to Returne and give in the pryces of such of the saids horses as shall be sold to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Thesaurie Immediatly after the selling therof The stablers who mantained the saids horses being first satisfied and payed of their expences For Intertaining the saids Horses

1. NRS, PC1/50, 519.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 519.

Commission by the Council, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Commission by the Council

Additionall Commission Anent Janet Weddrow

Sir James Steuart his Majesties Advocat Having represented to the Lords of his Majesties privy Counsell That they have already Granted a Commission for trying of Janet Widdrow in Paslay tolbooth Anent witchcraft and the malifices done by her Craved that their Lordships would Grant warrand for extending that Commission for trying of the persons dilated by the said Janet Widdrow And the saids Lords perceaving by a note now given in by the said Lord Advocat subscribed under his hand That it is now Informed that the said Janet Widdrow Doeth Fyll and put out severall others And that ther are some persons in these bounds against whom ther are probable and pregnant Grounds of suspicion Therfore The saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Doe heirby extend the pouer granted by them to the persons mentioned in the said former act and Commission which is of the Date the third day of March Jaj vjc nyntie six years instant to the tryall also of these other persons fylled and putt out as said is and of such against whom ther are pregnant and probable Grounds of suspicion And ordaines the persons to whom the said Commission is granted before putting of any sentence to execution against any of the persons forsaids to be tryed before them To make report of their haill procedure in this matter to the saids Lords of privie Councell To the effect that the caices and Conditions of all the forsaids persons may be Laid before their Lordships And Discharges the persons Commissioners named in the said Commission to putt their sentence to executione against any of the persons who shall be tryed before them untill they make their said report and obtaine particular orders and warrands from the saids Lords against whom their said sentence is to be putt to executione for executing therof

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Commission by the Council

Additionall Commission Anent Janet Weddrow

Sir James Steuart his Majesties Advocat Having represented to the Lords of his Majesties privy Counsell That they have already Granted a Commission for trying of Janet Widdrow in Paslay tolbooth Anent witchcraft and the malifices done by her Craved that their Lordships would Grant warrand for extending that Commission for trying of the persons dilated by the said Janet Widdrow And the saids Lords perceaving by a note now given in by the said Lord Advocat subscribed under his hand That it is now Informed that the said Janet Widdrow Doeth Fyll and put out severall others And that ther are some persons in these bounds against whom ther are probable and pregnant Grounds of suspicion Therfore The saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Doe heirby extend the pouer granted by them to the persons mentioned in the said former act and Commission which is of the Date the third day of March Jaj vjc nyntie six years instant to the tryall also of these other persons fylled and putt out as said is and of such against whom ther are pregnant and probable Grounds of suspicion And ordaines the persons to whom the said Commission is granted before putting of any sentence to execution against any of the persons forsaids to be tryed before them To make report of their haill procedure in this matter to the saids Lords of privie Councell To the effect that the caices and Conditions of all the forsaids persons may be Laid before their Lordships And Discharges the persons Commissioners named in the said Commission to putt their sentence to executione against any of the persons who shall be tryed before them untill they make their said report and obtaine particular orders and warrands from the saids Lords against whom their said sentence is to be putt to executione for executing therof

1. NRS, PC1/50, 518-19.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 518-19.

Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Act anent the Mint

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered the Report of a Committie of their oune Number wherof the tenor Folloues Edinburgh the sixth day of May Jaj vjc nyntie six The Committie Anent the Mint Sederunt The Earle of Lauderdale Lord Poluarth Lord Advocat and Laird of Blackbarrony Lord Poluarth Elected preses The Committie Having Considered the petition of the merchants As also the ansuers and representation made by the master and officers of the Mint Doe humbly present their opinion as folloues primo That for the better Ingathering of the Imposition granted by the Act of parliament Jaj vjc Eightie six for the support of a free Coynage The Tacksmen and Collectors of the Customes appointed to up Lift the same by the forsaid Act be ordained to give in their abbreviats quarterly and to fitt their equies Conforme to the forsaid Act of parliament under the paine of Deprivatione or such other pains as the Lords of Councell shall see Just Secundo That all merchants and others whither they have given in particular petitions or not have the benefite of the Act of Councell the tenth of December Last That is that they advancing the expence of the Coinadge in the termes of the forsaid Act may have their Bullion Coined according to the order prescribed by the Act of parliament And what the Lords of Councell shall farder ordaine in that matter Tertio that in respect the quantities of Bullion now brought in to the Mint are farr greater then these supposed and specified in the forsaid act of parliament which are only six thousand pounds scotts to be given out uithin Fifteen dayes or if a Greater soume uithin tuenty dayes wheras now the quantaties of Bullion offered Come to severall thousand pounds sterling And particularly Mr Murray hath six Thousand pounds starling which Cannot possiblie be returned in tuo months tyme Besyds that the Act of parliament obleidges the master of the Mint to receave all Bullion offered And to Coyne and give out the same according to the date of the offers wherby it may happen that tuo offering in one day yet the second offerer may be postponed for severall months Therfore the Committie is of opinione That the Lords of Councell according to the pouer given them by the said Act of parliament may and should order that all that offer bullion in one week should be reckoned in this manner viz that the First offerer should have six Thousand pounds scotts first Coined and returned And then the second and then the third and so furth And then to returne to the First offerer and the rest for what remains of their bullion And to dispatch them in Lyke manner uithin the space of Ten dayes for each six thousand pounds scotts Conform to the said Act of parliament Quarto That Because the coining of small species as Five and Ten shilling scotts peices Is double expence and paines And they were alwayes in use to be Coined of the Chizells and Fractions of the Journalls That in this manner ther may be a sufficient quantaty of them had to serve the Countrey Therfore ther should be noe Intire Journall of the said small species But that it is Enugh that the tenth pairt of Every Journall be Coined in the said small species which tenth pairt is estimat to be the equivalent of the said Chizell and fractions Quinto That Because it is a visible trouble to Troue Every five shilling scotts peice And that it is the use of the Touer of London that small peices be Troued by so many in the pound wherin ther Cannot be any prejudice That therafter ther be a reckoning made how many of the said five shilling peices doe make a pound as is done already by the Act of parliament And that they be Troued and given out by the pound weight accordingly sexto that seing Cobbs pass by weight And heirin doe Differ from the other species of Current Coine that pass not by weight And that all Cobbs have been formerly alloued to be Bullion That therfor all Cobbs weight or not be still alloued And declared to be Bullion as formerly or if this Cannot be granted that then Light Cobbs aither in specie or in Lignetts may be taken in upon the merchants oath He suearing that the Cobbs in specie are Light or the Lignets only made of Light Cobbs seing that is ane excessive Labour to weight every particular Cobb And Commonly they are all found to be Light And septimo that the Lords of Councell uould be pleased to Give effectuall orders for payment to Mr Clerk of his Tuo hundred pounds sterling seing he refuises to give dyes uithout which ther Can be nae Coining untill he be payed. Then say sic subscribitur Poluarth P The Saids Lords Having Considered the above report as said is Made to them by a Committie of their oune Number anent the affairs of his majesties Mint They heirby approve of the said Report And as to the first article therof ordaine and appoint the Tacksmen and Collectors to give in their abbreviats and fitt their equies as is mentioned in that article And that under the paine of deprivation And as to the sixth article The saids Lords Determine the alternative And declare all Cobbs weight or not to be Bullion And as to the Last article of the Report anent the money to be payed to Mr Clerk The Councell Gives noe Interloquitor theron In respect The Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Thesaurie Have declared that they have already ordered the soume therin contained to be payed And ordaines the rest of the articles of the said report to take effect and to be putt to executione Conform to the tenor of the said report And Declares the same to have the effect of a decreit or sentence of Councill

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Act anent the Mint

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered the Report of a Committie of their oune Number wherof the tenor Folloues Edinburgh the sixth day of May Jaj vjc nyntie six The Committie Anent the Mint Sederunt The Earle of Lauderdale Lord Poluarth Lord Advocat and Laird of Blackbarrony Lord Poluarth Elected preses The Committie Having Considered the petition of the merchants As also the ansuers and representation made by the master and officers of the Mint Doe humbly present their opinion as folloues primo That for the better Ingathering of the Imposition granted by the Act of parliament Jaj vjc Eightie six for the support of a free Coynage The Tacksmen and Collectors of the Customes appointed to up Lift the same by the forsaid Act be ordained to give in their abbreviats quarterly and to fitt their equies Conforme to the forsaid Act of parliament under the paine of Deprivatione or such other pains as the Lords of Councell shall see Just Secundo That all merchants and others whither they have given in particular petitions or not have the benefite of the Act of Councell the tenth of December Last That is that they advancing the expence of the Coinadge in the termes of the forsaid Act may have their Bullion Coined according to the order prescribed by the Act of parliament And what the Lords of Councell shall farder ordaine in that matter Tertio that in respect the quantities of Bullion now brought in to the Mint are farr greater then these supposed and specified in the forsaid act of parliament which are only six thousand pounds scotts to be given out uithin Fifteen dayes or if a Greater soume uithin tuenty dayes wheras now the quantaties of Bullion offered Come to severall thousand pounds sterling And particularly Mr Murray hath six Thousand pounds starling which Cannot possiblie be returned in tuo months tyme Besyds that the Act of parliament obleidges the master of the Mint to receave all Bullion offered And to Coyne and give out the same according to the date of the offers wherby it may happen that tuo offering in one day yet the second offerer may be postponed for severall months Therfore the Committie is of opinione That the Lords of Councell according to the pouer given them by the said Act of parliament may and should order that all that offer bullion in one week should be reckoned in this manner viz that the First offerer should have six Thousand pounds scotts first Coined and returned And then the second and then the third and so furth And then to returne to the First offerer and the rest for what remains of their bullion And to dispatch them in Lyke manner uithin the space of Ten dayes for each six thousand pounds scotts Conform to the said Act of parliament Quarto That Because the coining of small species as Five and Ten shilling scotts peices Is double expence and paines And they were alwayes in use to be Coined of the Chizells and Fractions of the Journalls That in this manner ther may be a sufficient quantaty of them had to serve the Countrey Therfore ther should be noe Intire Journall of the said small species But that it is Enugh that the tenth pairt of Every Journall be Coined in the said small species which tenth pairt is estimat to be the equivalent of the said Chizell and fractions Quinto That Because it is a visible trouble to Troue Every five shilling scotts peice And that it is the use of the Touer of London that small peices be Troued by so many in the pound wherin ther Cannot be any prejudice That therafter ther be a reckoning made how many of the said five shilling peices doe make a pound as is done already by the Act of parliament And that they be Troued and given out by the pound weight accordingly sexto that seing Cobbs pass by weight And heirin doe Differ from the other species of Current Coine that pass not by weight And that all Cobbs have been formerly alloued to be Bullion That therfor all Cobbs weight or not be still alloued And declared to be Bullion as formerly or if this Cannot be granted that then Light Cobbs aither in specie or in Lignetts may be taken in upon the merchants oath He suearing that the Cobbs in specie are Light or the Lignets only made of Light Cobbs seing that is ane excessive Labour to weight every particular Cobb And Commonly they are all found to be Light And septimo that the Lords of Councell uould be pleased to Give effectuall orders for payment to Mr Clerk of his Tuo hundred pounds sterling seing he refuises to give dyes uithout which ther Can be nae Coining untill he be payed. Then say sic subscribitur Poluarth P The Saids Lords Having Considered the above report as said is Made to them by a Committie of their oune Number anent the affairs of his majesties Mint They heirby approve of the said Report And as to the first article therof ordaine and appoint the Tacksmen and Collectors to give in their abbreviats and fitt their equies as is mentioned in that article And that under the paine of deprivation And as to the sixth article The saids Lords Determine the alternative And declare all Cobbs weight or not to be Bullion And as to the Last article of the Report anent the money to be payed to Mr Clerk The Councell Gives noe Interloquitor theron In respect The Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Thesaurie Have declared that they have already ordered the soume therin contained to be payed And ordaines the rest of the articles of the said report to take effect and to be putt to executione Conform to the tenor of the said report And Declares the same to have the effect of a decreit or sentence of Councill

1. NRS, PC1/50, 516-18.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 516-18.

Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Act appointing some houses wher vagrant ministers preach to be shutt up.

The Lords of his majesties privie Councell Having Considered the report of a Committie of their oune Number anent severall houses wher vagrant Ministers use to preach They heirby appoint and ordaine the places of Tranent Muntainhall and Dalkeith wher vagrant and uncertaine persons Come and presume to preach and exercise other pairts of the Ministeriall functione to be shutt up And appoints the shirreffs principall and their deputes and other magistrats of the places forsaids to shutt up the saids places as they will be ansuerable

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

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Act appointing some houses wher vagrant ministers preach to be shutt up.

The Lords of his majesties privie Councell Having Considered the report of a Committie of their oune Number anent severall houses wher vagrant Ministers use to preach They heirby appoint and ordaine the places of Tranent Muntainhall and Dalkeith wher vagrant and uncertaine persons Come and presume to preach and exercise other pairts of the Ministeriall functione to be shutt up And appoints the shirreffs principall and their deputes and other magistrats of the places forsaids to shutt up the saids places as they will be ansuerable

1. NRS, PC1/50, 516.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 516.