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A92475 Act anent the maintenance of the armie for nine moneths, and for retention of one and a half of the anualrent [sic] of eight of the hundred Scotland. Convention of Estates. 1647 (1647) Wing S1048B; ESTC R203706 20,624 20

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the ane and a halfe for the hundreth during the time prescribed by this Act Or shall not grant the retention foresaid Shall bee conveened and censured as ane usurer notwithstanding of any such paction by word or Writ And sicklike It is Declared Statute and Ordained That no retention of this present Maintenance shall be granted for any Debts Cause or Occasion whatsomer and that no exemption other nor is abovewritten for burnt or wasted Lands as is formerly exprest shall be granted from this present Act and Ordinance to any Person or Persons Except onely for Lands Rents Anualrents and other duties mortified to Colledges Schooles Hospitalls Ministers and Schoolemasters Stipends and for upholding Kirks and Bridges But that all other Heritors Liferenters Taksmen Titulars Proper-Wodsetters Pensioners Conjunctfiers Ladytercers and others subject to the valuation within Shires and Burghs shall bee lyable to their proportionable part of this Maintenance conforme to the Act already made hereanent in this Session of Parliament of the date the tenth day of December last by past And that the Lands and Teinds shall pay as they lye locally in Shires or Burghs Conforme to the Act of convention for the Loane and Taxt and former Act of Maintenance And lastly Where there is any wrong done in valuation The saids Estates appoints the valuers of each Shire or Quorum thereof or of so many as are on life and not censurable by the Act of Parliament anent the Classes To meet and rectifie the same at any time and place as they shall appoint Declaring alwayes That this warrand for a new valuation shall be no hinderance nor diminution to the Maintenance presently imposed and where there is not a full Quorum the valuers on life and not censurable That the number bee supplied by the Parliament or Committee of Estates And for the Burrows part it shall be rectified and changed according as their Taxt roll shall bee altered there being no diminution of the totall summe And further It is ordained That no suspension bee granted without consignation as is appointed by the Act of Maintenance of the 27 of Februar 1645. And that all Heritours within Burghs and Pendicles and Liberties thereof including for Edinburgh Pendicles thereof the Houses Tenements and Yeards in Leith Cannnogate and Pleasance Whereof the Town is either Proprietors or Superiors and for the other Burrows all that hath beene in use to bee Taxt with them Shall contribute with them for payment of the Maintenance conform to thir two clauses of the said Act which are holden as insert and repeated in this present Act But prejudice of the Lords of Session their Priviledges conforme to the former Acts of Maintenance And ordaines this present Act to bee Printed As also Ordaines the foresaid Act of the convention of Estates anent the Loane and Taxt to bee reprinted Alex. Gibsone Cler. Regist Act of the Convention of Estates Holden at Edinburgh the fifteenth of August 1643. for the Loane and Taxt FOrsameikle as the Kings Majestie and Estates of this Realm in the late Parliament taking to their Consideration the Rebellion in Ireland and danger upon that occasion threatned against the Protestant Religion Did thereupon and out of their affection to the Kingdome of England make offer to the said Kingdom of a supply of ten thousand men from this Kingdome for suppressing of that Rebellion To be entertained by the Parliament of England according to the Capitulation made thereanent by the Commissioners sent from the Parliament of this Kingdome With instructions sent from the Lords of Privie Councell thereof And accordingly the said supply being put over upon the great Charges of this King dome such have been the great necessities and wants of that Army as well Officers as Souldiers not only through default of their ordinary pay but also off victuall in the sparest measure and all other necessaries That the Lords of Privie Councell unto whom the care of that army was entrusted by the Parliament and who did accordingly undertake for the same Have been put to great trouble and charges both by engaging themselves and with them also the Commissioners for the peace and common burdens As also by their joint invitation of the well-affected subjects of this kingdome to contribute sums of money for entertainment of that Army and payment of the arreares thereof which they are obliged to pay with the ordinary anuall rent And howsoever considerable sums have been by their painfull ondevours received Notwithstanding such have been the pressing miseries of that Army in regard of the unhappy distractions in England disabling the Parliament thereof according to their obligement to entertian them as they have exprest in their severall Declarations sent to the Lords of His Majesties Privie Councel And such have been the difficulties occurring to the saids Lords of Privie Councell Commissioners of Peace and common burdens touching the farther entertainment of that Army which they found unpossible for them any longer to undergo as they were moved from their affection to this Majesties service and sense of the distresse of their brethren For this and other the like extreme exigency nearly importing the good of this Kingdom to call this Convention of Estates by whose authority they might more warrantably proceed in matters of so great importance And the saids Estates having accordingly taken to their consideration the condition of the said Army and the whole course and procedure concerning the same as is before exprest Therefore and for divers other considerations moving the saids Estates they have thought fit statute and ordained Like as by thir presents they statute and ordaine The summe of twelve hundred thousand marks Scots money together with the sum of one hundred thousand marks money foresaid as allowance for charges of ingathering of the same to Collectors Clerks and others necessary members and for allowance of exemptions for mortifications and the Lord Chancellour and fifteen ordinary Lords of the Session persons exeemed as is after specified To be uplifted by way of Loane out of the severall Sherifdomes and Burrows of this Kingdome in manner as is after divided viz. The saids Burrowes one sixth part of the principall summe extending to 200000. marks and the severall Sherifdomes of this Kingdome to pay the remanent of the saids sums conform to a particular roll made and set down thereanent and subscribed in presence of the saids Estates by the Lord Chancellour to remain in Record in the bookes of Convention and Collection Which whole sums of money to be lent as said is as well to Burgh as landward shall be delivered to the Collectors and others having power from the saids Estates betwixt the date hereof and the second day of February next to come 1644. yeares And because the summes of money presently to be lent are not to be ingathered aff the shires as taxations have been or by the divisions of Temporalities and Spiritualities But rather is thought fit that the same may be uplifted out of