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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05251	King William's first Parliament. Sess. 6. in Scotland. Act anent the aliment of poor prisoners. October the 9th, 1696.	Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Scotland. Parliament.	1700 (1700)	Wing S1247D; ESTC R223252	1,276	1

King William's First Parliament Sess 6. IN SCOTLAND Act Anent the Aliment of poor Prisoners October the 9th 1696. OUR Soveraign Lord Considering that generally the Burghs of this Kingdom Havers of Prisoners are troubled and overcharg'd with Prisoners thrust into their Prisons who have nothing to maintain themselves but must of necessity either starve or be a burden upon the Burgh doth therefore and for Remedy thereof with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Statute and Ordain that where any person is made or shall be made prisoner for any Civil Debt or Cause and shall be found or become so poor as that he cannot Aliment himself then and in that Case it shall be Leasume to the Magistrates of the Burgh where the prison is to which the said prisoner is committed upon the Complaint of the said prisoner and his making Faith in their presence that he hath not wherewith to Aliment himself to intimate the same to the Creditors one or more at whose instance the said prisoner was committed or is detained and to require him or them either to provide and give security for an Aliment to them not under 3 s. per diem or else to consent to his Liberation which if the said Creditors refuse or delay to do within the space of ten days thereafter then it shall be Leasume to the said Magistrates to set the said poor indigent prisoner at Liberty without hazard of being liable for the Debt and cause of the Imprisonment or to any other censure whatsoever Provided always that if any other Creditor at whose Instance he is made or detained prisoner give security to Aliment the said Indigent Debtor he shall still be keeped prisoner as before As also that prisoners for Criminal Causes be in the same State as formerly ADVERTISEMENT ELIXIR Febrifugium Martis so well approved in curing the Plague Pestilence and Malignant Fevers Bitings of Vipers Serpents and Rattle-Snakes Venerial Pocky Tinges and all Inveterate and deadly Poysons whatsoever whose Malignant Ferments it Allais and Extinguishes in a moment as hath been proved in many Extraordinary Cases in Human Bodies As particularly upon a Man in Stocks-Market bitten by a Viper March the 29th 1698. and a Woman in St. Giles's Poysoned by Arsenick the same Year And by several Experiments made upon Dogs for the satisfaction of the Curious In all which it never fail'd to answer the end proposed It likewise speedily cures confirm'd Rheumatisms Hectick Fevers Consumptions and Cholicks As a Succedaneum in Cases that require Purging this Elixir is brought into the Substance of a Powder by Salt of Lymons a Dose or two of which Cathartick Acid prevents Acute Fevers and secures the Patient against the return of those Multifarious Distempers and in all Cronical Diseases as Hypocondriack and Scorbutick affects being taken according to the Printed Directions they work a perfect Cure and Establish a Sanative Constitution Sooner Cheaper and more Safely than any other Medicine yet divulged This Medicine is the Peculiar Secret and Acquisition of Mr. Stringer Chymist and is to be Sold at Half a Crown a Bottle one of which Cures any sort of Poison or Malignant Fever and the Cathartick Powder at Twelve Pence the single Box or half a Crown an Ounce The Mineral Affairs of this Kingdom Requiring his attendance he has not oportunity to Practise Physick therefore has placed these to be Sold at Mr. Byfeilds Joyner at the Sign of the Clock in Lothbury behind the Royal-Exchange at Mr. Joseph Dudleys at the Kings Head in Dorset-Gardens near Fleet-street at Mr. Joseph Raven Book-seller in Lincols-Inn at Mrs. Bradburys a Chandlers-Shop in Villers-street in York-Buildings in the Strand at Mrs. Harris's Shop in King-street near Westminster-Abby London Printed by Fr. Wilkins near Fleet-street 1700.