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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05390	Edinburgh, the last day of January, 1673. The lords of His Majesties Privy Council considering, that by the tenth act of the third session of the second Parliament, entituled, Act concerning apparel, they are impowered to take such course, as they shall think fit, to make the said act effectual ...	Scotland. Privy Council.	1673 (1673)	Wing S1519B; ESTC R183083	2,401	12

C R HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE EDINBURGH The last day of January 1673. THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council considering that by the tenth Act of the third Session of the second Parliament Entituled Act concerning Apparel they are impowered to take such course as they shall think fit to make the said Act effectual And they being fully resolved to see the said Act put in execution have thought fit to cause the said Act of Parliament to be printed apart and published at the head Burghs of the several Shires of this Kingdom that all His Majesties Subjects may have timous notice thereof and give obedience thereto and that no person pretend ignorance of the same Of which Act of Parliament the Tenor follows Al. Gibson Cl. S ti Concilii ACT Concerning APPARELL Edinburgh 26. of July 1672. OUr Soveraign Lord considering the great prejudice which this Kingdom doth sustain by the sumptuousness and prodigality which all sorts of Persons use in their Apparell without regard to or distinction of their several degrees and qualities considerable summes of money being 〈◊〉 upon that occasion unnecessarily exported out of the Kingdom and the Native Commodities and Manufactories thereof being thereby neglected and not improven for the use and advantage of the Inhabitants For remeld whereof His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Statutes and Ordains that none of His Majesties Subjects of this Kingdom of whatsoever degree condition or quality shall after the first day of June One thousand six hundered threescore thirteen Years wear any Clothes or Apparell wherein there is any Gold or Silver or wear any Gold or silver Laces of whatsoever kind Buttons Ribbands Tracings Fringes or Louping made of Gold or Silver Or have any Imbroide●ing of Gold or Silver upon their Apparell Sword belts or any other manner of way Excepting alwayes Buttons Buckles and Hilts of Swords of Gold-smithwork which the Privileged Persons after-exprest are allowed to wear and no others And that none wear any Flowred Stuffs Stripped Stuffs or Brocado's of Silk or have any Silk-lace Gimp-lace or any other kind of Lace or Imbroidering of Silk upon their wearing Clothes And that no person presume to import into this Kingdom or make or sell therein any of the Commodities above-exprest after the date hereof Certifying such as shall contraveen that they shall be lyable in the pains following viz. The Importer Maker and Seller shall be fyned in One thousand pounds Scots by and attour the Confiscation of the Goods so imported made or sold And the Wearer thereof in Five hundered merks Scots totiès quotiès by and attour the Confiscation of the Clothes And it is hereby Declared that the Importer of such prohibited Goods shall not have Action for the price thereof against the Merchant for whose use the same were imported Nor the Seller thereof against the Buyer albeit Bands be given for the same if it can be made appear that the Bands were given for that cause Excepting alwayes from this present Act Comedians as to the Clothes which they make use of upon the Stage Heraulds as to their Coats and His Majesties Trumpetters And also excepting Pages and Lacqueys of the priviledged Persons afternamed as to Silk-laces and Pasments allanerly which they are hereby allowed to wear upon their Livery-clothes And His Majesty with advice foresaid Doth Statute and Ordain that none of His Subjects shall after the fi●st of June next wear any Clothing or Apparell of Velvet Sattin or other Stuffs of Silk or wear any Beaver-hats under the pain of Five hundered merks to be payed by the Contraveener totiès quotiès Except Noblemen Prelates His Majesties Counsellors Lords of Session and such Barons Knights or Gentlemen who have of yearly valued Rent Two thousand pounds Scots money And the Provosts of the principal Burrows within this Kingdom Or these that have been Provosts and such also as shall befor the time or have been Provosts Baillies Dean of Gild or Theasurer within the Town of Edinburgh Excepting also Rectors of Universities and the Wives of the saids Priviledged Persons their eldest Sons and eldest Daughters unmarried and all the Children of Noblemen And that none wear any Ribbands or Louping made of Silk upon their Apparell or any white Lace or Po●nt made of Threed under the pain of Five hundered merks Scots totiès quotiès Excepting the Priviledged Persons aforesaid who are hereby allowed to wear plain Taffety-ribbands upon their Apparell and to wear white Lace or Point made of Three upon their Linnings only And all Persons whatsoever are hereby prohibited to wear Feathers except Souldiers under the pain aforesaid But prejudice alwayes to all ranks of Persons except those of the Yeomanry to wear plain Taffety Ribbands upon such parts of their Apparell where they may have occasion of the same for Tyes and to Women to wear Hoods and Skarfs of Taffety And but prejudice to domestick servants to wear their Masters or Mistrisses old Clothes allowed to them by this Act. And for the better effectuating hereof His Majesty with advice foresaid Ordains all Collectors of Assessment and Excise and their Sub-collectors Farmorers and Collectors of Customes and Waiters in Burgh or Land at every Term to give up upon Oath to the Commissioners of Excise in the several Shires and Burghs and to the General Collectors of the Customs and Excise Lists of all those whom they have seen and observed to transgress this Act And it is hereby Declared that the one half of the penalties aforesaid shall belong to themselves and the other half shall be collected by them for His Majesties use Trial being first taken and the Persons found guilty by the Commissioners of Assessment or Excise Justices of Peace or other ordinary Magistrate of the place And such Contraveeners as they shall not give information of that the one half of their Fynes shall belong to any other person who shall discover them And in case the said Collectors of Assessment and Excise Farmorers and Collectors of Customs or Waiters shall failzie to give up the saids Lists as aforesaid They shall thereby lose their places and be incapable of that Service for ever It is alwayes provided that no persons contraveening this Act shall be liable to the saids penalties unless their names be given up within the space of three months after their incurring thereof But prejudice alwayes to any other person who shall discover the Contraveeners in manner foresaid of the one half of the penalties whensoever they shall discover them Likeas the Commissioners of His Majesties Justiciary are hereby required to give Order at their Circuit Courts to take up Dittays against the Transgressors of this Act and to proceed against them by fyning them in the summs abovementioned and to exact the same Likeas His Majesty with advice foresaid Doth hereby Authorize and Impower the Lords of His Privy Council to take such further course for making this Act effectual as They shall think fit EDINBURGH Printed by His MAjESTIES Printers Anno Dom. 1673.