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B05252	Laws and acts past in the second [i.e. third] session of the first Parliament, of our most high and dread soveraign, Charles the second, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith. Holden at Edinburgh, from the eighteenth of June, 1663. to the ninth of October thereafter, on which day the Parliament was dissolved; by a noble lord, John Earl of Rothes, Lord Lefly and Bambreith ... / with special advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament.; Laws, etc.	Scotland.; Rothes, John Leslie, Earl of, 1630?-1681.; Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1663 (1663)	Wing S1273A; ESTC R183990	41,021	57

moveables And His Majesty with advice foresaid doth hereby authorize and require the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to be carefull to see this Act put to due execution and for that end to call before them all such persons as after admonition of the Minister in presence of two sufficient witnesses and by him so attested shall be given up to the Council as transgressors of this Act in with-drawing from their Paroch Churches as aforesaid and the same after hearing of the parties being duly found to decern and inflict the censures and penalties above-mentioned and such other coporal punishment as they shall think fit and direct all execution necessary for making the same effectual and to do every other thing they shall find necessary for procuring obedience to this Act and putting the same to punctual execution conform to the tenor and intent thereof II. Additional ACT concerning the Declaration to be signed by all persons in publick Trust FOrasmuch as by an Act past in the second Session of this Parliament on the fifth of September last concerning the Declaration to be taken by all persons in publick Trust It is remitted to His Majesties Commissioner to take such course as he should think fit how these who are presently in Office may subscribe the Declaration And the King's Majesty being resolved that all in publick Trust should without further delay sign the same But considering that in this vacand time many of the Courts of Justice do not sit so as some longer time must be allowed unto them Therefore the King's Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament Statutes and Ordains all persons who enjoy or possess any publick Trust or Office within this Kingdom as Officers of State Members of Parliament Privy Councellors Lords of the Session Commissioners in Exchequer all Members of the Colledge of Justice Sheriffs Stewarts Bailies of Regalities Commissaries Justices of Peace and their respective Deputes and Clerks and all who enjoy any other publick Charge Office or Trust within the Kingdom to subscribe the Declaration hereunto subjoyned in presence of the several Courts they relate to betwixt and the eleventh of November next to come or sooner as they shall have occasion or be required thereto by His Majesties Council Discharging hereby all such of them who shall not sign the same as said is to exerce any publick Trust or Office within the Kingdom after the said eleventh of November And that a speedy account may be returned hereof It is hereby Ordained that the Sheriffs in the several Shires be carefull in requiring due obedience to this Act and that they and all others concerned therein make report thereof to His Majesties Council betwixt and the first of January next to come And seing the election of the Magistrates and Council of Burghs will occur about Michaelmass next and that some disaffected persons in Burghs having none or small advantages by their Magistracy may upon account of this Declaration refuse to accept any Charge or Trust It is therefore by His Majesty with advice foresaid Statute That at the next ensuing election of Magistrates within Burgh all such persons who shall continue in or be of new elected to be Magistrates Clerks or of the Council of Burghs shall at such their elections if they be present or otherwise how soon thereafter they shall be required thereto by those who did elect them sign the Declaration aforesaid Declaring hereby all who shall refuse or delay the same to be from thenceforth not only incapable of and to have forfaulted the priviledges of a Magistrate but also all the priviledges of Merchandizing Trading and others belonging to a Burgess And that the several Burghs make report of their proceedings therein to His Majesties Council betwixt and the foresaid eleventh of November as they will be answerable upon their duty and alleagiance And for such as shall hereafter be admitted to any publick Trust or Office they are to sign the Declaration in the maner and under the certifications exprest in the former Act of Parliament of the fifth of September And His Majesty doth hereby recommend to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to be carefull that these Acts be put to due execution and receive obedience conform to the tenor thereof I Do sincerely affirm and declare that I judge it unlawfull to Subjects upon pretence of Reformation or other pretence whatsoever to enter into Leagues and Covenants or to take up Armes against the King or these Commissionate by Him and that all these Gatherings Convocations Petitions Protestations and erecting and keeping of Council-tables that were used in the beginning and for carrying on of the late troubles were unlawfull and seditious And particularly that these Oaths whereof the one was commonly called The National Covenant as it was sworn and explained in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty eight and thereafter and the other entituled A Solemen League and Covenant were and are in themselves unlawfull Oaths and were taken by and imposed upon the Subjects of this Kingdom against the fundemental Laws and Liberties of the same And that there lyeth no obligation upon me or any of the Subjects from the saids Oaths or either of them to endeavour any change or alteration of the Government either in Church or State as it is now established by the Laws of the Kingdom III. ACT against Protections THe King 's most Excellent Majesty being carefull that the benefit of the Law in the administrations of Justice be free to all His Majesties good Subjects And considering the prejudices many have formerly sustained in the stopping of the course of Justice by the too frequent granting of Protections against personal execution Therefore and for preventing of the like for the future His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament Doth Ratifie Approve and Renew all former Acts of Parliament made against the granting of Protections And Dischargeth the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Session and Exchequer to grant Protections to any persons against personal execution certifying such as shall grant the same they shall be liable for the debt against which they grant the Protection and all execution shall pass against the havers thereof as if the same had not been granted It is alwayes hereby Declared That notwithstanding hereof it shall be free to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Lords of Session and Exchequer and to the Justice-general and his Deputes when any person or persons are summoned and appointed to appear personally before them to give order now as they have been in use formerly to do for suspending personal execution against the persons so summoned and appointed to appear for such few dayes as they may come to give their appearance and during their necessar stay and some few dayes for their return and that according as the saids respective Judges shall find reason upon the particular applications to be made thereupon IV. ACT for the establishment

diets of meeting from time to time and the Committee to take care that the sums thus allotted shall be put into a Stock and setled upon Land or otherwayes by advice of the respective Bishops who are Chancellors of the saids Universities and Ordains the Annual-rent of the said Stock to be proportioned to the Masters and Professors of each University as the Visitors thereof shall appoint And further His Majesty and Estates foresaid do Ordain that Stipends and all Benefices of Kirks that shall vaik after the first day of February in this following year of God one thousand six hundred and sixty four for the space of seven years next there-after shall be up lifed by Collector thereof and imployed by him in the maner and according to the proportions above-specified for encreasing of the Stock of each University Declaring that the fifty two Act of the first Session of this Parliament Concerning the disposal of vacand Stipends shall be of no force during the space of the years foresaid And Ordains Letters of Horning and Poinding and all other execution necessary to be directed at the instance of the saids Bishops or any to be appointed by them and at the instance of the said Collector for the more speedy in-bringing of the sums respective above-mentioned Further His Majesty and the Estates of Parliament do recommend to the Lords of the Privy Council to entertain and promote any voluntary offer or contribution for the ends aforesaid to be made by Noble-men or Gentelemen for a work so worthy of the publick wisdom piety and honour of this Kingdom It is alwayes Declared that this Act shall be without prejudice of Acts past in this Parliament for allowing the vacand Stipends of the Diocess of Isles and Argyl for breeding of young Schollars the sum being regulate by the Committee above-named and that this Act shall be no preparative for laying on any burdens on the Clergy hereafter without their own consent XXIV ACT regulating the proportions of Excise in the several Shires and Burghs THe Estates of Parliament taking to their consideration the grievances represented to them by several Shires and Burghs anent the excessive proportions of Excise laid upon them by the late Act of Parliament and what great burthen the Land-rent of the saids Shires and Burghs lyes under for making up the saids proportions and the great ease which several other Shires have in their proportions And it being just and reasonable that all publick impositions of that nature should be equally distributed upon those lyable in payment thereof Therefore the King's Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statutes and Ordains that the several Shires and Burghs of this Kingdom shall for the moneths of November and December next one thousand six hundred and sixty three and January one thousand six hundred and sixty four years and in all time thereafter be lyable in the monethly payment of the respective proportions under-written viz. The Shire of Edinburgh principal in the sum of two thousand one hundred and fourty pounds Scots money The Town of Edinburgh in the sum of two thousand nine hundred thirty two pounds The Shire of Haddingtoun in the sum of one thousand two hundred fourscore and eleven pounds The Shire of Berwick in the sum of six hundred and ten pounds sixteen shillings The Shire of Roxburgh in the sum of seven hundred threescore twelve pounds sixteen shillings The Shire of Selkirk in the sum of one hundred fourty seven pounds ten shillings The Shire of Peebles in the sum of one hundred thirty seven pounds ten shillings The Shire of Lanerick in the sum of nine hundred threescore eight pounds eight shillings The Town of Glasgow in the sum of one thousand threescore sixteen pounds four shillings The Shire of Dumfriese in the sum of six hundred fifty six pounds The Shire of Wigtoun and Kirkcudburgh in the sum of seven hundred thirty two pounds twelve shillings whereof the Stewartry of Kirkcudburgh is to pay the sum of four hundred threescore one pounds and the Shire of Wigtoun the sum of two hundred threescore eleven pounds twelve shillings The Shire of Air in the sum of one thousand six hundred thirty nine pounds sixteen shillings The Shire of Dumbartoun in the sum of two hundred fifty four pounds The Shire of Bute in the sum of fifty seven pounds The Shire of Renfrew in the sum of four hundred fifty seven pounds four shillings The Shire of Stirling in the sum of nine hundred and threescore pounds eight shillings The Shire of Linlithgow in the sum of seven hundred fourscore nineteen pounds four shillings The Shire of Perth in the sum of two thousand three hundred threescore fourteen pounds sixteen shillings The Shire of Kincardin in the sum of three hundred threescore three pounds twelve shillings The Shire of Aberdeen in the sum of two thousand four hundred and eighteen pounds nineteen shillings The Shire of Bamff in the sum of four hundred fourty seven pounds three shillings The Shire of Innerness in the sum of seven hundred fourscore fourteen pounds eight shillings The Shires of Elgin and Nairn in the sum of five hundred fourscore sixteen pounds four shillings The Shire of Cromarty in the sum of twenty four pounds The Shire of Argyl in the sum of four hundred fourty three pounds sixteen shillings The Shire of Fife and Kinross in the sum of three thousand six hundred and eight pounds eight shillings The Shire of Forfar in the sum of one thousand twenty four pounds four shillings The Town of Dundee in the sum of seven hundred and eighteen pounds four shillings The Shire of Sutherland in the sum of threescore twelve pounds twelve shillings The Shire of Caithness in the sum of one hundred fifty three pounds four shillings The Shire of Orknay and Zetland in the sum of two hundred fourty three pounds sixteen shillings The Shire of Clackmannan in the sum of two hundred and six pounds two shillings And the Shire of Ross in the sum of two hundred and four pounds money foresaid Any thing in the said Act of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding which is hereby Declared to be of no force or effect as to the proportions of the said Excise after the said first day of November next XXV An humble Tender to His Sacred Majesty of the duty and loyalty of His ancient Kingdom of Scotland FOrasmuch as the Estates of Parliament upon consideration of the great blessings this Kingdom enjoyeth under the protection of His Majesties Authority and the administrations of His Royal Government being thereby not only delivered from their former troubles and all the evils which attend such usurpations but being fully restored to and possest of all the liberties and priviledges of a free people Have by their several addresses to His Sacred Majesty made offer of their lives and fortunes and all that is dearest to them for the advancement of His Royal Honour Authority and Greatness And this

LAWS and ACTS Past in the second SESSION of the first PARLIAMENT Of our most High and Dread SOVERAIGN CHARLES THE SECOND By the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Holden at Edinburgh from the eighteenth of June 1663. to the ninth of October thereafter on which day the Parliament was dissolved By a Noble Lord John Earl of Rothes Lord Lesly and Bambreith His MAJESTIES Commissioner for holding of the same by vertue of a COMMISSION under His MAjESTIES Great Seal of this Kingdom With the special Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAjESTY Anno Dom. 1663. CUM PRIVILEGIO HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LAWS and ACTS past in the third Session of the first PARLIAMENT of our most High and Dread Soveraign CHARLES the Second by the grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Begun at Edinburgh upon the eighteenth of June 1663. and continued to the ninth of October thereafter I. ACT against separation and disobedience to Ecclesiastical Authority FOrasmuch as the King's Majesty considering the prejudices which did ensue to the Church and Protestant Religion to the Prerogative of the Crown to the Authority of Parliament to the Liberties of the Subject and to the publick Laws and Peace of the Kingdom by the invasions made upon Episcopal Government during the late troubles And finding that Government to be the Church-government most agreeable to the Word of GOD most convenient and effectual for preservation of Truth Order and Unity and most suteable to Monarchy and to the Peace and Quiet of the State Hath therefore with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament by several Acts past in the second Session of this Parliament restored the Church to it 's ancient and right Government by Archbishops and Bishops and hath redintigrated the estate of Bishops to the exercise of their Episcopal Function and to all the Priviledges Dignities Jurisdictions and Possessions due and formerly belonging thereunto And in further order to the settlement of the Church and bringing the Ministers to a due acknowledgment of and complyance with the Government thereof thus established by Law His Majesty with advice foresaid hath also Statute and Ordained That all these Ministers who entered to the Cure of any Paroch without Right or Presentations from the lawfull Patrons in and since the year one thousand six hundred and fourty nine and should not betwixt and the twentieth of September last obtain Presentations from their several Patrons and Collation from the Bishop of the Diocess where they lived should have no right to the uplifting the Rents of any Benefice or Stipend for the year one thousand six hundred and sixty two but that their Places Benefices and Kirks should be ipso jure vacand And that what ever Ministers should without a lawfull excuse to be admitted by their Ordinary absent themselves from the diocesian Assembly or who should not concur in all the Acts of the Church-discipline as they should be thereunto required by the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocess should be for the first fault suspended from their Office and Benefice till the next diocesian Meeting and if they amend not should be deprived and the Church and Benefice to be provided as in other cases of vacancies And the King's Majesty having resolved to conserve and maintain the Church in the present State and Government thereof by Archbishops and Bishops and others bearing office therein and not to endure nor give way or connivance to any variation therein in the least Doth therefore with advice and consent of His Estates conveened in this third Session of His Parliament Ratifie and Approve the aforementioned Acts and all other Acts and Laws made in the two former Sessions of Parliament in order to the settling of Episcopal Dignity Jurisdiction and Authority within this Kingdom and Ordains them to stand in full force as publick Laws of the Kingdom and to be put to further execution in all points conform to the tenor thereof And in pursuance of His Majesties Royal resolution herein His Majesty with advice aforesaid doth recommend to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to take speedy and effectual course that these Acts receive ready and due obedience from all His Majesties Subjects And for that end that they call before them all such Ministers who having entered in or since the year one thousand six hundred and fourty nine and have not as yet obtained Presentations and Collations as aforesaid yet dared to preach in contempt of the Law and to punish them as seditious persons and contemners of the Royal Authority As also that they be carefull that such Ministers who keep not the diocesian Meetings and concur not with the Bishops in the Acts of Church-discipline being for the same suspended or deprived as said is be accordingly after deprivation removed from their Benefices Glebs and Manses and if any of them shall notwithstanding offer to retain the possession of their Benefices or Manses that they take present course to see them dispossest and if they shall thereafter presume to exercise their Ministry that they be punished as seditious persons and such as contemn the Authority of Church and State And as His Majesty doth expect from all His good and dutifull Subjects a due acknowledgment of and hearty complyance with His Majesties Government Ecclesiasticall and Civil as it is now established by Law within this Kingdom and that in order thereunto they will give their chearful concurrence countenance and assistance to such Ministers as by publick Authority are or shall be admitted in their several Paroches and attend all the ordinary Meetings for divine Worship in the same So His Majesty doth Declare That He will and doth account a with-drawing from and not keeping and joyning in these Meetings to be seditious and of dangerous example and consequence And therefore and for preventing the same for the future His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament doth hereby Statute Ordain and Declare That all and every such person or persons who shall hereafter ordinarily and willfully withdraw and absent themselves from the ordinary Meetings of divine Worship in their own Paroch Church on the Lords-day whether upon account of Popery or other disaffection to the present Government of the Church shall thereby incur the pains and penalties under-written viz. Each Nobleman Gentleman and Heretor the loss of a fourth part of ilk years Rent in which they shall be accused and convicted and every Yeoman Tennent or Farmer the loss of such a proportion of their free moveables after the payment of their Rents due to their Master and Land-lord as His Majesties Council shall think fit not exceeding a fourth part thereof and every Burgess to lose the liberty of Merchandizing Trading and all other Priviledges within Burgh and fourth part of their

then they shall forfeit the fifth part of their moveables and be incapable the Merchant of all trading and the Skipper of having any charge of any Ship within this Kingdom in all time coming Provided alwayes that the taking of the Oaths above-mentioned shall be without prejudice of search for or seisure of any exported money And if any Gold or Silver coyned or un-coyned shall after publication hereof be discovered carrying out of the Kingdom by any person who hath taken the said Oath the same not only to be confiscat but the person or persons owners thereof to be proceeded against as perjured persons and further lyable to six moneths imprisonment As also it is hereby Declared that notwithstanding of the said Oaths if it shall at any time thereafter be legally proven money hath been carried out of the Kingdom by the persons takers of the said Oath the saids persons shall be proceeded against as perjured persons and by and attour be fined in the value of the money exported and whatsoever money shall be discovered or seized upon the one half thereof to be for His Majesties use and the other half to the informer And the Lord Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute are hereby required to appoint sufficient honest men to be found at the respective Ports of this Kingdom or Royal Burghs next adjacent thereto for taking of the saids Oaths And that they take Bond with sufficient caution from each of the persons so appointed under the pain of six thousand pounds Scots that they shall not suffer any Merchant or Skipper to use trade or merchandize with any Forraign Kingdom or Nation before they have taken the said Oaths and shall do their utmost endeavours for discovery and seizure of all money carryed out of the Kingdom And that if it shall be informed to them that any money hath been carryed out of the Kingdom they shall give speedy and timeous notice of their information to the said Lord Thesaurer or Thesaurer-depute the one half of the foresaid sum of six thousand pounds in case of failzie to be for His Majesties use and the other half to be given to the delator and to be further liable to six moneths imprisonment for breach of their trust And sicklike the said Lord Thesaurer principal and Thesaurer-depute are hereby required to cause the Farmerers and Collectors of the Custom and keepers of the Cocquet to take an Oath that the saids Farmerers and Collectors of the Custom shall use their utmost endeavours for the discovery and seizure of all money carrying out of the Kingdom by Sea or Land either by Merchant Skipper or by any person of whatsoever quality or degree except as is above excepted and that they shall not give warrand to any Skipper to receive a Cocquet unless they have received both from the Skipper and Merchants in the Ship extracts of the respective Oaths as said is and that the keepers of the Cocquets shall give no Cocquet unless they have likewise received extracts of the Oaths above-mentioned both from Skipper and Merchants and both Customers and keepers of the Cocquet to give Bond with sufficient Caution under such sums of money as the said Lord Thesaurer principal and Thesaurer-depute shall think fit for fulfilling of the premisses And in case the saids Farmerers Collectors and keepers of the Cocquet or either of them shall refuse to compear or compearing refuse or delay to take the Oath and give their Bond as aforesaid then their Tack Commission Gift or any other Title by which they enjoy their Places and Charges to be void and null and they to be further lyable to such censures as the said Lord Thesaurer principal and Thesaurer-depute shall think fit for their contumacy And if it shall be made appear to the said Lord Thesaurer principal and Thesaurer-depute that any of the Farmerers or Collectors of Custom or keepers of Cocquet shall transgress the Oath and Bond above-mentioned in any part then their Tack Commission Gift or any other Title by which they enjoy their saids Places to be void and null and they to have incurred the sums and penalties contained in their respective Bonds the one half thereof to be given to the informer or delator and to be further proceeded against as perjured persons Discharging hereby all granting of Licences for exporting of money except to such persons allanerly as shall make faith in Exchequer or these appointed by the Lord Thesaurer or Thesaurer-depute and give sufficient Bond that the money which they are to carry out is to be bestowed upon Timber in Norway or in order for bringing in of Victual in time of extream dearth and that they shall return in specie what part of the money shall not be so bestowed XI ACT for encouragement of Tillage and Pasturage OUR Soveraign Lord considering how necessar it is for the encouragement of the tillage of this Country which is subject to so much toil and expence though the improvement thereof be most advantagious to the whole Kingdom That liberty be granted for the exportation of Corns after the Natives are sufficiently provided for Therefore the King's Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament Statutes and Declares That it shall be lawful to export Corns of all sorts when they are under the prices following at the Ports or respective places of exportation viz. ilk Boll of Wheat under twelve pounds the Boll Beir and Barley under eight pounds the Boll Oates and Pease under eight merks the Boll notwithstanding of any former Acts Laws or Practice to the contrary they paying the usual Custom and Bullion as formerly with this provision That when the Lords of His Majesties Secret Council shall judge it necessar for the good of the Kingdom and preventing of dearth they may discharge the exportation of Victual of all sorts for so long time as they shall think fit As also for improvement of the Pasturage of this Kingdom and for encouragement of the breeders of the Bestial thereof It is Statute and Ordained with advice and consent foresaid that the exportation by Sea of all sorts of Bestial either Nolt Sheep or Swine and barrelled Fleshes of all sort shall be free of Custom Bullion and all other impositions for the space of nineteen years next after the date hereof XII ACT for a new Imposition upon English Commodities THe Estates of Parliament considering how much it concerns the credit and wealth of the Kingdom that our own native Commodities be manufactured amongst our selves and that the endeavours of such persons as are setting up Manufacturies and Trades have been and are much retarded by the importation of such forraign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom Therefore and for their due encouragement the King's Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statutes and Ordains That from and after the first day of September next twelve pounds Scots upon ilk ell of broad English Cloath six pounds upon ilk ell of York-shire

and all narrow Cloath two pounds eight shillings upon ilk ell of Searge thirty shillings upon ilk ell of Castilians forty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat twenty four pounds upon ilk Demy-beaver and Vigon and three pounds upon the peece of ilk common Hat thirty six pounds upon the dozen of worstead Stockings twenty four pounds upon the dozen of Stag-gloves and twelve pounds upon the dozen of single Stags Cordivans Kid or Shiverings and twenty four shillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported either for sale or private use into this Kingdom from England all Scots money Be exacted levied and collected and fourscore per cent upon all other sorts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from England and not particulary named in this Act and upon all the growth and Manufactury of that Kingdom though imported from any other place and that over and above all other impositions put upon the same already And to the effect this present Act may be the more exactly put to execution It is Statute and Ordained That all Goods imported from England or of the growth and manufactury of England not above particularly exprest shall be valued after sighting by two skilfull honest men upon oath to be nominate by the Dean of Gild or his Assessors or Magistrates of the Burgh or next adjacent Burgh to the Custom-office where the saids Goods are entered or by the oath of the party to whom the saids Goods belongs and accordingly pay the said fourscore per cent And the Lords Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute and Lords of His Majesties Exchequer are hereby required to take an Oath and Bond with sufficient Caution from the Farmers or Collectors of the saids impositions that they shall exactly collect the same without any abatement thereof directly or indirectly and that they shall not suffer any of the saids Goods to pass or be conveyed away un-entred and that under the penalty of the worth of the saids Goods if the contrary shall be made appear the one half thereof to His Majesties use and the other half to the informer and under the pain of forfaulting their Tacks and Commissions and being declared incapable to farm or collect in any time hereafter any Custom Excise or other Imposition whatsoever within this Kingdom And if any of the foresaids Goods or Commodities shall be informed and made appear to be brought in or shall be seized upon not being entered in the Custom-office or any other Office appointed for that effect then the same to be wholly confiscat the one half to His Majesties use and the other half to the first informer or seizer thereof XIII ACT imposing a Custom upon Corn imported from Ireland into this Kingdom THe Estates of Parliament considering what great sums of money are carryed out of the Kingdom by persons importers of Corn hither from Ireland who having sold their Corns export the money without battering any of the Commodities of this Kingdom whereby the whole Nation particularly those near adjacent parts of the Kingdom are much impoverished of money And that it is just and reasonable that the said Corns should bear Custom toward the increase of His Majesties Revenue proportionably with other imported Commodities especially when the Corns of this Kingdom are sold at easie rates Therefore the King's Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Doth hereby impose three pounds Scots of Custom upon ilk boll Linlithgow measure of Corn imported into this Kigdom from Ireland after the first day of Seplember next and appoints thirty shillings Scots to be raised upon ilk boll already imported and not yet retailed conform to an Act of the Committee of Estates made there-anent in anno one thousand six hundred and sixty But least the more indigent sort of people might be prejudged by highting the prices of the saids Corns in time of dearth under pretence of the said Custom Therefore the King's Majesty with advice and consent foresaid doth hereby give power to the Lords of His Privy Council to remit and discharge the exacting of the said Custom when they shall find the prices of the Victual of this Kingdom Meal and Barley respective to exceed eight pounds the boll And appoints the Lords of His Exchequer to cause put this Act to full execution and cause the foresaid Custom be exactly levied with power to them to allow such fies to the Collectors thereof as they shall think fit XIV ACT for in-bringing of His Majesties Rents FOrasmuch as His Majesty and Estates of Parliament taking to their consideration the great contempt and neglect of the several Fewers and others lyable in payment of His Majesties Rents where-through notwithstanding of the diligence and endeavours of His Majesties Thesaurer principal Thesaurer-depute and others his Majesties Officers appointed for the management of His Majesties Revenue the same are not payed or otherwise so unseasonably payed that it proves a great hindrance and prejudice to His Majesties Affairs And finding several Acts of Parliament made for the timeous and seasonable payment of His Majesties Rents as well constituting the time and sitting of Exchequer to the effect that the persons lyable in payment might know both the time place and persons where when and to whom they should compt and make payment of the saids Duties as also such censures and penalties as might induce them to due obedience thereto Particularly the sixty third Act Par. eleventh holden by His Majesties Grandfather of blessed memory in anno one thousand five hundred and eighty seven Ordaining the Exchequer to sit down the first day of July yearly and to continue to the last day of August thereafter requiring not only the Thesaurer Comptroller Collector their Deputes and other Officers to be present and give their attendance during the said time but also all persons lyable in payment who ought to make compt in Exchequer to be charged by Precepts to compear thereat under the pain of fourty pounds to be uplifted by the Thesaurer Ordaining Letters of Horning to be directed against them for payment thereof and that the saids persons do attend for making of the saids accompts to the close thereof and in case of disobedience to the said Precept that they be charged of new at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh and in case of their disobedience to the said Charge to be denounced Rebels at the said Cross which denounciation is declared to be as sufficient as if the same were at the head Burgh of the Shire where the person liveth and that the Horning be registrat in the Thesaurers Books or Sheriff Books of Edinburgh And sicklike by the sixty fifth Act of the said Parliament All Chamberlains and other Receivers of His Majesties Rents as well heretable as moveable are ordained to find caution to the Thesaurer in Edinburgh for making compt at the ordinar time of Exchequer and payment within twenty dayes after the terme And also by the eighty Act of the said Parliament it is Ordained that Letters be directed

Kingdom being still more and more sensible of this their happiness by the often and renewed expressions of His Majesties grace and favour and of His tenderness and care of their perservation in the peaceable and secure enjoyment of their Religion Laws Liberties and Properties Do find themselves the more oblieged to renew the expressions of their duty and loyalty to His Majesty And therefore the Estates of Parliament of this His Majesties ancient Kingdom of Scotland do in name and behalf of all His Majesties good Subjects within the same by these presents renew the dutifull tender of their lives and fortunes for the promoving of His Majesties Service and the advancement of His Royal Authority And as they do chearfully recognosce His Majesties Royal Prerogative and undoubted Right of the sole power of raising arming and commanding of His Subjects So in a further acknowledgement of their duty they do make humble and hearty offer to His Majesty of twenty thousand Foot-men and two thousand Horse-men sufficiently armed and furnished with fourty dayes provision to be raised from the several Shires of the Kingdom according to the proportions following viz. From the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk one thousand three hundred thirty three Foot and one hundred fourty eight Horse From the Shire of Berwick eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the Shire of Edinburgh eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the Shire of Haddingtoun eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the Shire of Peebles two hundred sixty six Foot and twenty nine Horse From the Shire of Linlithgow three hundred thirty three Foot and fourty two Horse From the Burgh of Edinburgh Lieth and Canongate eight hundred Foot From the Shire of Dumfries eight hundred Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shire of Wigtoun eight hundred Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Air and Renfrew one thousand three hundred thirty three Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shire of Lanerick one thousand Foot and one hundred fourty eight Horse From the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan six hundred sixty six Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Fife and Kinross one thousand six hundred Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shire of Perth one thousand six hundred Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shire of Forfar one thousand Foot and one hundred and three Horse From the Shire of Kincardin and Marshals part of Aberdeen eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the rest of Aberdeen and Shire of Bamff one thousand sixty six Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shires of Elgin Nairn and this side of Ness one thousand Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Earl of Seafort and Lord Lovat their division of Innerness six hundred sixty six Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Sutherland and Caithness and the rest of Innerness one thousand sixty six Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Argyl Dumbartoun and Bute eight hundred Foot From the Shire of Orknay six hundred sixty six Foot Which Forces are to be in readiness as they shall be called for by His Majesty to march to any part of His Dominions of Scotland England or Irland for suppressing of any forreign invasion intestine trouble or insurrection or for any other service wherein His Majesties Honour Authority or Greatness may be concerned And for the better prosecution hereof the Estates of Parliament do humbly entreat His Majesty may be graciously pleased to give Commissions to such persons to be general Officers Colonels Lieutenant colonels Majors and Rute-masters as His Majesty in His Royal judgment shall think sit and for the other Officers or any other thing fitting to be done for perfecting of the Levies and carrying on of this business they do humbly recommend to His Majesty to give His direction therein to His Privy Council who are hereby impowered with Commission and Authority for the ordering disposing and sole managing of this Affair in such a way as this dutifull offer of the Parliament of His Majesty may be made most effectual and according to the instructions and commands they shall receive from His Majesty And the Estates of Parliament do Declare that if His Majesty shall have further use of their service this Kingdom will be ready every man betwixt sixty and sixteen to joyn and hazard their lives and fortunes as they shall be called for by His Majesty for the safety and preservation of His sacred Person Authority and Government XXVI ACT asserting His Majesties Prerogative in the ordering and disposal of Trade with forraigners THe Estates of Parliament considering that during the late troubles divers invasions were made upon the Royal Prerogatives of the Crown and that in a just abhorrence thereof and in a due sense of the happiness they enjoy under His Majesties Government they are oblieged in all occasions to vindicate and assert the same in the several branches thereof And since the ordering and disposal of Trade with forraign Countries and the laying of restraints and impositions upon forraign imported Merchandizes is by the Law of Nations acknowledged to be proper to and inherent in the persons of all free Princes as an undoubted Prerogative of the Crown They therefore in a dutifull and humble recognizance of His Majesties Prerogative-royal do Declare That the ordering and disposal of Trade with forraign Nations and the laying of restraints and impositions upon forraign imported Commodities doth belong to His Majesty and His Successours as an undoubted Priviledge and Prerogative of the Crown and that by vertue thereof they may lay such impositions and restraints upon imported forraign Commodities and so order and dispose upon the Trade of them as they shall judge fit for the good of the Kingdom Likeas the King's Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament doth hereby Rescind and Annull all Acts Statutes Constitutions and Customs to the contrary and Declares the same void and null in all time coming XXVII COMMISSION for the plantation of Kirks and valuation of Teinds THe King 's most Excellent Majesty being desirous to prosecute the work of valuation of Teinds and plantation of Kirks in reference to His own interest for the annuity and the universal good of His people especially for the incouragement of the Ministers of the Gospel Doth with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Ratifie and Approve the nineteenth Act of the Parliament holden at Edinburgh by His Royal Father of blessed memory in anno one thousand six hundred and thirty three entituled Commission for valuation of Teinds in the whole heads clauses and conditions thereof except in so far as there hath been any alterations made therein by Acts and Commissions made and granted by His Majesty since the date of the said Act or granted by any pretended Parliaments since and which are Ratified Salved or Reserved by this present Parliament and which alterations are