[1641/8/222]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Our sovereign lord and estates presently convened, understanding there are diverse abuses committed by the customs officers and receivers of entries of ships and by the keepers of the cocket in sometimes exacting from masters of ships greater sums of money than is due to them, and sometimes absenting themselves to the great prejudice of the merchants' estate and to the hazard of the loss of their voyage, therefore, our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the said estates, ordains that there be no greater price exacted for entering their ships and goods than the sum of 23s 4d, and for the said cocket than the sum of 40s, and that the keepers of the said cocket attend by themselves or their servants diligently and readily to answer and give out cockets to all merchants and masters of ships under pain of losing their places whensoever they shall be found either to exact more than the said sum above-written or shall occasion to the said merchants or masters more delay than is needful for writing of the same.
[1641/8/223]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, considering that parks and plantings are great ornamentation and much profitable to the kingdom, and that the demolishing and downcasting of the dykes of either and spoiling of the ground and planting enclosed within the same by those who are evil affected to policy is a great discouragement to many who are virtuously disposed to enclosing and planting, therefore, his majesty, with consent of the said estates, discharges all hawkers, hunters, travellers and other persons whatsoever to whom the same enclosing and planting do not belong from demolishing, downcasting, climbing or in any way wronging any of the dykes foresaid, parks and planting within the same under the pain of £5 on every occasion, which fine his majesty and estates foresaid declare to pertain to the owners of the said parks or plantings, they or their servants discovering the culprits. And if any other discover them, the one half to appertain to the discoverer and the other to the heritor, with power to the discoverer to pursue the contravener before the ordinary judge. And if it shall happen the heritor's own tenant to contravene the act foresaid, with power to the heritors to fine them at their own pleasure, the penalty and fine not exceeding the pain foresaid.
[1641/8/224]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament find that it is necessary and expedient for the good of the public that the transporting of eggs out of this kingdom be restrained, in respect it brings not any considerable monies into the country in no way comparable to the loss, considering that the diet of poor labouring people and servants, who eat only bread and drink water, if eggs were restrained, might be bettered by getting eggs to his meat at an easy rate, or of his own, the breed of chickens, hens and capons would be in far greater abundance, so that they might sell at two pence, a groat and sixpence where they are now two groats, twelve pennies and eighteen pence, and where the eggs sell now at forty pennies sometimes, a groat might be sold for twelve pennies or eighteen pence, and where they give 5s 6d where the salt is made, they might sell their dearest for a tuppence, therefore to grant a restraint under the pain of confiscation of the eggs and £100 on every occasion to be incurred by the party transporter to be proved by witness or oath of party.
[1641/8/225]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The which day the supplication given in to the king's majesty and estates of parliament by James, earl of Montrose, Archibald, lord Napier, Sir George Stirling of Keir and Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall, knights, craving enlargement and liberty out of the castle of Edinburgh, where they are committed by warrant from the committee of estates of parliament, with the other supplication likewise given in to the king and parliament by Sir Robert Spottiswood and Sir John Hay knights, desiring also their enlargement and liberty out of the said castle of Edinburgh, where they remain incarcerated by warrant from the estates of parliament, together also with the supplication of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart for his liberty out of the said castle where he is incarcerated by warrant from the said committee of estates, being read and taken to consideration by the king's majesty and estates of parliament, his majesty and estates of parliament foresaid ordain the said James, earl of Montrose, Archibald, lord Napier, the lairds of Keir and Blackhall, Sir Robert Spottiswood, Sir John Hay, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Stewart and every one of them to be put to liberty out of the said castle of Edinburgh, where they are committed and incarcerated by warrant respectively foresaid, they and every one of them finding sufficient caution to behave themselves in such a quiet manner as may conduce most for the well and peace of the kingdom and according to the acts of parliament, wherein if they fail, the favour granted to them by the king and parliament to be null. And also the said supplicants and each one of them finding likewise caution to appear before the commissioners appointed by the king and parliament for trying the incendiaries and plotters, or quorum of the said commissioners contained in the commission granted thereupon, whensoever and at such time or times as the supplicants above-named or any of them shall be required to appear before the said commissioners or quorum thereof. And as for those incendiaries who are cited to the parliament and are out of the country, in case any of them shall return to this kingdom, his majesty and estates of parliament declare that those that shall return shall be obliged to find the like caution with the like certification as the supplicants above-named are ordained to find, which caution so to be found be those persons returning his majesty and estates ordain to be received by the lords of his highness's privy council; and declare that upon the finding of the said caution, those persons shall have liberty of their persons, and declare that this act for the caution mentioned therein shall only stand obligatory against the cautioners during the time of the foresaid commission appointed for the foresaid trial, which endures only to 1 March next only.