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B05694 A proclamation, for the better inbringing of the hearth-money Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1691 (1691) Wing S1926; ESTC R183551 1,667 1

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DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION For the better Inbringing of the Hearth-Money WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Macers of Our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as by the second Act of the third Session of Our Current Parliament Our Estates of Parliament Have humbly Offered to Us Fourteen Shilling Scots for every Hearth within this Kingdom payable at Candlemass last by the Inhabitants dwelling in the Houses where the saids Hearths are without exception or exemption of any except the Hearths of Hospitals and of Poor People who are upon the Charity of the Paroch and where any Houses are not Inhabited that the said Hearth-Money should be payed by the Heretor Liferenter or proper Wodsetter to whom the same for the time doth belong to be applyed for the uses and ends in the foresaid Act of Parliament contained Likeas We and Our Estates of Parliament by another Act of the date the tenth day of September last by-past have remitted to and impowered the Lords of Our Privy Council to give such Orders for Collecting and Inbringing of the said Hearth-money as they should judge fit For the better Inbringing whereof We by Our Commission under Our Royal Hand have Nominated and Appointed James Melvill of Cassingray Receiver and Collector of all the Hearth-money within this Kingdom with Power to him to Constitute and Appoint Sub-Collectors and Receivers under him in every Shire or Paroch for whom he is to be answerable Therefore and for the more effectual and orderly Collecting Uplifting and Inbringing of the same We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Covncil Do hereby Command and Ordain all Heretors Liferenters and proper Wodsetters by themselves their Tutors or Curators or Chamberlains and Factors to give in to the said James Melvill or to his Sub-Collectors and Deputs within the several Shires and paroches upon Intimation of their Commissions at the several Paroch Churches or Mercat-Crosses of the respective Shires on a Mercat day or any other manner of way they shall think fit true and exact Lists Subscribed with their hands of all Hearths in the Houses or Lodgings possest by them and in the waste Houses belonging to them not possest and of all Smiddies Kilns for drying of Corn Ovens Furnaces for Brewing Salt-Pans Soap and Glass-Works possest by them or standing waste within their Ground and Estate And sicklike Ordains all the Inhabitants Tennents and Possessors in this Kingdom to give in to the said Collector or his Sub-Collectors and Deputs foresaids upon Intimation of their Commissions in manner above-mentioned true and exact Lists of all the Hearths in the Houses possest by them and of all Smiddies Kilns for drying of Corn Ovens Furnaces for Brewing Salt-Pans Soap and Glass-works possest by them excepting alwayes Hospitals and poor people who are upon the Charity of the Paroch VVith Certification to the saids Heretors and other Inhabitants if they failȝie to give up the saids Lists or give up false and short Lists they shall be Cited and Processed before the saids Lords of Our Privy Council and proceeded against with all rigor therefore But prejudice always to the said James Melvill and his Sub-Collectors foresaids to use all other Legal Methods for discovering of the true number of the Hearths of this Kingdom and Collecting and uplifting thereof And Ordains all Magistrats and Ministers of the Laws to be Assistant and give their Concurrence to them for that effect And VVe with Advice foresaid Do hereby Command and Require the said James Melvill Collector foresaid and his saids Sub-Collectors and Deputs to report and give in the saids Lists to the Lords Commissioners of Our Thesaury upon Oath when they shall be called or required thereto To the effect the said Hearth-Money may be uplifted and Employed for the ends and uses in Our said Act of Parliament appointed Our VVill is herefore and VVe Charge you straitly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat-Crosses of the whole remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires within this Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority by open proclamation make Publication of the Premisses that none may pretend ignorance as ye will answer to Us thereupon the which to do We commit to you conjunctly and severally Our full Power by these Presents delivering them by you duly execute and indorsed again to the bearer Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Twelfth day of February And of Our Reign the second Year 1691. Per actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties Anno Dom. 1691.