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Forasmuch as among the many and unparallel'd blessings wherwith it hath pleased the Almightie God to visite these kingdomes in the returne of his majestie to the exercise of his royall government, it is the great happines of this kingdome that the ordinary judicatories, the fountanes and seats of justice, are by his majestie established according to their antient and well grounded constitutions; and the estates of parliament, considering how much it doth import the advancement of his majesties' service, the honour of the kingdome and the good of the subjects, that the senators of the colledge of justice (who are the supreame judges under his majestie in all civill causes) should be provyded to a compitent allowance, towards their charge and expences in their attendance on this their publict administration; and understanding that by the calling doun of the annualrents from ten to sex of the hundreth, and by the disability of some debitors, and by laying aside the tuentie pennie of sentence silver (which is conceaved to be ane unequall burden and greivance to such as most sute the benefite of the law and so are lyable therto befor they can have repetition of it or recoverie of their just debts) the present yeerly allowance to each of them will not exceid one hundreth punds sterline, which being so meane and unsuteable to the honour and reputation of that imployment and to equity and justice as to the persones called be his majestie to serve therin; thairfor the estates of parliament have thoght fit to grant, lykas they do heirby make a frie offer and grant of a taxation, of tuelve thousand pund sterline towards the makeing up of a stock whairof the annualrent is to be imployed for the use aforsaid, and to be payd by the shires and burghs of the kingdome, the one halff thairof in the moneth of November nextocome and the other halff in the moneth of May therafter in the yeer 1662, and to be raised in the same maner [as] the present or last impositions are and have been payd. And in order heirunto the king's majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, doth heirby statute and ordaine the said sume of tuelff thousand pund sterline to be payd by the shires and burghes of the kingdome in maner and for the use aforsaid, the one halff thairof in the moneth of November and the other halff in the moneth of May nextocome, and that the same be brought in and delivered to any whom the senators of the colledge of justice shall appoint to receave the same, and whose discharge, upon the recept thairof in whole or in parte, shall accordingly be a sufficient exoneration to the shires and burghs and all others whom it effeirs, and the saids moneths of November and May respective being past, ordaines letters of horneing and poinding and all execution necesser to be directed at his or their instances against the shires or burghes of the kingdome and their collectors, and tuentie dayes being expyred after either of the saids moneths respective, ordaines quartering to be upon deficient shyres and burghs, and that all who command the forces within the kingdome give orders and be assisting heirunto accordingly.
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The estates of parliament, considering the meannesse of the present allowance of the ordinar lords of session, which, be the calling doun of the annualrents and takeing aff the sentence silver (which wes a most unequall and heavie burden) will bot amount to one hundreth pund sterline to each of them, and being sensible how much it concernes his majesties' service and the honour of the kingdome that the supreame judges thairof be provydit with some competent allowance for defraying in some measure thair charges and expence in thair attendance for thair administration of justice, have therfor, notwithstanding of all the former burdings and sufferings this kingdome hath groaned under this tyme past, freely made offer of tuelve thousand pund sterline to be raised aff the kingdome, to be secured for that end and the rent thairof to be employed yeerly as a parte of the allowance of the judges, and doe humbly recommend to his majesties' commissioner to represent the condition of this bussinesse to his majestie and to sollicite that his majestie may be pleased towards the makeing up of the yeerly allowance of each of the lords of the session to be tuo hundreth pund sterline, to grant ane yeerly annuitie of ten thousand pund Scots out his majesties' exchequer, to be payed in the same maner with the allowance formerly granted be his majestie for that end.
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Our soverane lord, with advice of the estates of parliament, now presently conveened by his majesties' speciall authority, considering how much the penurie and scarcity of his majestes' coyne heer in Scotland is occasioned by the meannesse and smallnes of the proportion of the bullion at first imposed never heirtofore considerably augmented, notwithstanding his majesties' customes have been severall tymes augmented, enacts, statuts and ordaines that all commodities lyable in payment of bullion shall pay according to the rates mentioned in the alphabet of bullion after following, as the same is now augmented and condiscendit upon, which alphabet of bullion his majestie, with advice forsaid, ordaines to be printed and published. And to prevent all abuse and prejudice to the said mint that may occur and fall out by the customers exacting of his majesties' and his predicessors' their oune coyne from the merchants exporters of the commodities lyable in payment of the quantities of bullion as is aforesaid, or els exacting so much per ounce of the said merchant exporter to the great prejudice and utter destruction of the said mint, his majestie, with advice forsaid, statutes and ordaines that everie fermorer or customer within this his majesties' kingdome shall, by the advice and concurrence of the severall clerks of cockquet, cause all and everie merchant (whether native or forraner) exporter of the commodities lyable in payment of the quantities of bullion, set doun in the aforsaid alphabet of bullion condiscended upon and agreed to as the same is now augmented and ordained to be printed and published, find sicker, surety and caution or give pledges that he may ansuer for that bullion equivalent in proportion to the quantitie of goods exported be delyvered to the officers of his majesties' mint (and that of forrane bullion) either plate or brunt silver tuelve dinneir fyne, and being baser to be considered be weight and reckoning, and the said surety or pledges to be taken befor the said merchant receave his cockquet, transire or other warrand whatsoever for exporting the saids goods lyable in payment of the quantities of bullion, as is aforesaid, and prohibites and discharges all and everie of the saids customers and clerks of cockquet within this kingdome to exact or receave any of his majesties' or his predicessours' coyns or any other satisfaction whatsoever except the said forrane bullion at the fynness aforsaid, and that not only under the paine of deprivation of their offices, bot also of punishing of their persones and fyning of them in their goods by the appointment and at the discretion of the lords of his majesties' secreit councill; and to the effect any such collusion or transaction may be discovered, his majestie, with advice forsaid, statutes and ordaines that each persone dilateing or discovering any such collusion or transaction, as is aforsaid, shall receave and have payd to him the thrid parte of the value of the bullion that wes due to have been payed by the merchant exporter, but prejudice of the certification forsaid. As also, it is statute and ordained that the saids customers thair accompts be controlled upon the quantitie of bullion delyvered to the saids officers of his majesties' mint according to their letters of recept therof; and what rests not delyvered, that the customers be ansuerable therfore, and that the saids customers grant a convenient tyme for homebringing of the said bullion correspondent to the distance of the port at which the goods exported are to be delyvered, the longest time not exceiding seven moneths. And in lykmaner it is statute and ordained that the alphabet of bullion, as the same is now established and appointed to be printed and published, be of full force from the date of thir presents, and that all commodities exported after the said day be lyable to the severall proportions of bullion thairin contained, notwithstanding of any act or acts made or to be made in this present parliament in favours of any manufactories, companies of fishing or trade or other acts whatsoever which are heirby declared not to imped the payment of bullion augmented in maner forsaid.
Follous the A B C of bullion as it is now established be our soverane lord and estates of parliament
| Bullion | |
| Silver tuelve denerrs fyne | |
| A | |
| Ashes, potashes, wood or soap ashes, the last | four ounces |
| Aquavitae, the barrell containing ten gallons | tuo ounces |
| Allum, ilk tuo hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Anniz seids, ilk hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Aples, ilk tuo bolls or ilk four barrells | tuo ounces |
| B | |
| Barrell staves, the thousand | tuo ounces |
| Bear, everie four bolls halff boll | tuo ounces |
| Beiff, ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| Beans, everie four bolls halff boll | tuo ounces |
| Bear, called drinking bear the tun | four ounces |
| Bell mettall, the hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Bullets, four thousand | tuo ounces |
| Birdlyme, ilk three hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Brass, ilk tuo hundreth weight or barrell | tuo ounces |
| Bridles, the grosse or tuelffe dozen | tuo ounces |
| Brazile, ilk tuo hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Butter: good ilk tuo barrells | tuo ounces |
| - - - corrupt or Orknay butter ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| Bridle bits, the grosse or tuelve duzen | tuo ounces |
| Baikes, ilk fyve hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Boots, ilk threttie pair | tuo ounces |
| Buckram, ilk hundreth ells | tuo ounces |
| Bark, ilk eight bolls | tuo ounces |
| C | |
| Cables, ilk fyve hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Cable-yearn, ilk thousand weight | tuo ounces |
| Caird called: new wollen cairds, ilk sex dozen | tuo ounces |
| - - - old woollen cairds, ilk tuelve dozen | tou ounces |
| - - - stock cairds, everie four dozen | tuo ounces |
| Cards called playing cards, everie three grosse or 36 dozen | tuo ounces |
| Cheise, ilk fyve hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Coalls, everie four chalders | tuo ounces |
| Cordages tarred or untarred, ilk fyve hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Corballs of oak, ilk tuentie pieces | tuo ounces |
| Copper, ilk thousand weight | four ounces |
| Cloath of all sorts, lining and wollen, ilk hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| Cushons called sewed cushons of all sorts, ilk tuelff dozen | tuo ounces |
| Cambrick, ilk hundreth ells | four ounces |
| Coperas, ilk hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| D | |
| Dealls of all sorts, the hundred | tuo ounces |
| Dornick, ilk hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| E | |
| Egges, ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| F | |
| Flocks, the thousand weight | tuo ounces |
| Fustians, ilk three pieces | tuo ounces |
| Feathers for beds, ilk three hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Flower, ilk four bolls | tuo ounces |
| G | |
| Glew, ilk fyve hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Gloves, ilk sex grosse | tuo ounces |
| Grograins of Scots makeing, ilk four peices | tuo ounces |
| Galls, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Girdles, ilk hundred three ounces† | three ounces |
| Ginger, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Glasses, called drinking glasses and glasse bottles, ilk tuelve dozen | one ounce |
| Glasse, called window glass, ilk three chists | tuo ounces |
| H | |
| Hemp seid, ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Hemp of all sorts, ilk eight hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Herring: white herrings, ilk sex barrels | tuo ounces |
| - - - red herrings, ilk fyve thousand | tuo ounces |
| Halberts ungilt, ilk three dozen | tuo ounces |
| Hides of all sorts, ilk three dacker | tuo ounces |
| Hose, bonnets and socks of woole made fyne in Leithwynd, Dundie and othe places in this kingdome, ilk fyve hundred pair | tuo ounces |
| Honie, ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| Horns: buck hornes, ilk fyve hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - hart hornes, ilk three hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - oxen hornes, ilk tuo thousand | tuo ounces |
| - - - ram or sheip hornes, ilk fyve thousand | tuo ounces |
| Horses or mears, ilk tuo thairof | tuo ounces |
| Horses taills, ilk three hundred | tuo ounces |
| Hooks, ilk tuo grosse | tuo ounces |
| Hopes, ilk hundred weight | one ounce |
| [Halfe lang skins, ilk ten daker | tuo ounces |
| Hard wair, ilk hundreth weight | one ounce]† |
| Horse shoon, ilk hundred gang | tuo ounces |
| I | |
| Jeists: of oak, ilk tuentie peices | tuo ounces |
| - - - of fir, fourtie pieces | tuo ounces |
| Jedburgh staves, ilk hundred | tuo ounces |
| Iron: ilk fiftie stone weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - ilk three ship pound | tuo ounces |
| - - - ilk last | eight ounces |
| [Iron pots, ilk three dozen | tuo ounces |
| Iron-ordinance, ilk four hundreth weight | tuo ounces |
| Indigo, ilk hundreth weight | three ounces]† |
| K | |
| Kettles, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Killing: ilk hundred and ane halff | tuo ounces |
| - - - ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Knappell of all sorts, ilk fyve hundred | tuo ounces |
| Kyne, ilk four of them | tuo ounces |
| Knives, ilk tuenty dozen | one ounce |
| Kombes of all sorts, ilk hundred dozen | tuo ounces |
| L | |
| Lambs, ilk thirtie | tuo ounces |
| Leid, ilk tuo thousand weight [or] fodder | tuo ounces |
| Leid-ore, ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Leather called: wilde leather, ilk three dacker | tuo ounces |
| - - - white leather, ilk four hundred skins | tuo ounces |
| - - - leather points, ilk ten grosse | tuo ounces |
| Lining cloath of all sorts, ilk hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| Lint seid, ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| Lint of all sorts, ilk eight hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Ling: ilk hundred and threescore | tuo ounces |
| - - - ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Liquorise, ilk hundred weight | one ounce |
| Lobsters, ilk tuo hundred | one ounce |
| Lint wheels, ilk tuelve dozen | tuo ounces |
| Leamons, ilk barrell of the measure of ten gallons | one ounce |
| M | |
| Madder: cropt madder and all other ball madder, ilk tuo hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - fat madder, ilk three hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Malt, everie four bolls halff boll | tuo ounces |
| Meall, everie sex bolls | tuo ounces |
| Masts of all sorts, ilk dozen | tuo ounces |
| Mittons, called woven mittons, ilk thousand pair | tuo ounces |
| N | |
| Naills of all sorts, ilk tuentie thousand | tuo ounces |
| Nuts, ilk eight barrells | tuo ounces |
| Neidles of all sorts, ilk tuentie grosse, the groce containing 12 dozen | one ounce |
| Night caps, ilk threttie dozen | one ounce |
| New lit, ilk hundred weight, | tuo ounces |
| O | |
| Oars of all sorts, three hundred containing sex score | tuo ounces |
| Oats, everie sex bolls | tuo ounces |
| Oxen, ilk three of them | tuo ounces |
| Oyle, ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Orchyeard lit, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Onyeons and onyeon heads, ilk four barrells | tuo ounces |
| Oisters, ilk tuentie thousand | one ounce |
| P | |
| Pans of brasse, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Pans of yron, ilk fyve hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Passments: of silk of all sorts, ilk four pund | tuo ounces |
| - - - of worsted or threid, ilk tuentie groce, the groce containing tuelve dozen ells | tuo ounces |
| Pease, everie sex bolls | tuo ounces |
| Penner and inkhornes, ilk tuo groce | tuo ounces |
| Pewter, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Pistolls, ilk eight pair | tuo ounces |
| Pitch great or small bind, ilk four barrell | tuo ounces |
| Points: of silk, ilk four groce | tuo ounces |
| - - - of leather, ilk ten groce | tuo ounces |
| - - - of threid, ilk threescore groce | tuo ounces |
| Pots of brasse, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Pots of yron, ilk three dozen | tuo ounces |
| Powder, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Pyp staves, ilk hundred two ounces† | tuo ounces |
| Purses of leather, ilk four groce | tou ounces |
| Plaiding, ilk hundred ell | tuo ounces |
| Pepper, ilk hundred† | tuo ounces |
| Paper, ilk fourty reams | tuo ounces |
| Plaids, called weareing plaids, ilk hundred ells | four ounces |
| Phingrim, being a sort of plaiding, ilk hundred ells | three ounces |
| Pruns, ilk tuo hundred weight | one ounce |
| Pleuch socks and culters, ilk hundred | tuo ounces |
| Pellet skines, ilk tuo hundred | one ounce |
| R | |
| Ribbands: of silk, ilk four pund weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - of worsted, ilk ten groce | tuo ounces |
| Roset, ilk three hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Rye and rye meall, ilk sex bolls | tuo ounces |
| Rasines, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces† |
| Rae skines, ilk hundred | tuo ounces |
| Runds of cloath, ilk three thousand ells | one ounce |
| S | |
| Saill canvas, ilk tuo hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| Sack cloath, ilk tuo hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| Sadles covered, ilk tuentie four | tuo ounces |
| Sadlestocks, ilk threttie | tuo ounces |
| Soap, ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Salt, ilk three chalders | tuo ounces |
| Salmond, ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| Salt peter, ilk tuo hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Sayes: of Scots makeing, ilk fiftie ells | tuo ounces |
| - - - of Flanders makeing, ilk fourty ells | tuo ounces |
| Searges of Scots makeing, ilk fiftie ells | tuo ounces |
| Sheep, ilk tuentie of them | tuo ounces |
| Silk of all sorts, ilk four pund weight | tuo ounces |
| Skins: calff skins, ilk three dacker | tuo ounces |
| - - - clipped skines, ilk fiftein score | tuo ounces |
| - - - cuning skines, ilk tuo thousand | tuo ounces |
| - - - fulmert skines called sitchoes, ten dacker | tuo ounces |
| - - - futfells and skaldings, ilk thousand | tuo ounces |
| - - - goat skines, ilk three hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - kid skines, ilk thousand | tuo ounces |
| - - - lambskines, ilk tuo thousand | tuo ounces |
| - - - lentron ware, ilk thousand | tuo ounces |
| - - - mariken skines made in Scotland, ilk hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - mertrick skines, ilk dacker | tuo ounces |
| - - - otterskines, ilk tuo dozen | tuo ounces |
| - - - shorling skines, ilk tuo hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - sealch skines, ilk tuentie dacker | tuo ounces |
| - - - tod skins, ilk halff hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - veall skines, ilk four dacker | tuo ounces |
| - - - woollskines, ilk fiftein score | tuo ounces |
| - - - woolff skines, ilk tuo dacker | tuo ounces |
| Sparrs: rooff spars, ilk hundred | tuo ounces |
| - - - roff sparrs of oak, ilk tuentie | tuo ounces |
| - - - wicker spars, ilk thousand | tuo ounces |
| Shilling, everie sex bolls | tuo ounces |
| Stirrop yrons, ilk ten dozen | tuo ounces |
| Stirrop lethers, ilk tuentie dozen | tuo ounces |
| Sword blaids, ilk three score | tuo ounces |
| Swords mounted, ilk tuentie | tuo ounces |
| Sword belts of lether, ilk tuelve dozen | tuo ounces |
| Swyne, ilk ten of them | tuo ounces |
| Sugar of all sorts, ilk sextie pund weight | tuo ounces |
| Sythes, ilk thre score of them | tuo ounces |
| Seathes: ilk fyve hundreth therof | tuo ounces |
| - - - ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Shoos, ilk hundred pair | tuo ounces |
| Starch, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Slyreland, ilk hundreth ells | three ounces |
| Shewed beds, the peice | tuo ounces |
| Sulfur, ilk hundred weight | one ounce |
| T | |
| Takle, ilk fyve hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Tallow called Narves tallow, ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Scots tallow, ilk three barrells | tuo ounces |
| Tar of great and small bind, ilk sex barrells | tuo ounces |
| Tyking for beds, ilk hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| Tows, ilk fyve hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| Trumps, ilk fyve hundred | one ounce |
| Tobacco, ilk hundred weight | one ounce |
| Tobacco pyps, ilk fourty grosse | one ounce |
| V | |
| Veals, ilk ten of them | tuo ounces |
| Vinegar: of wine, ilk tuo tuns | tuo ounces |
| - - - of bear or ale, ilk three tuns | tuo ounces |
| W | |
| Wadmoll, ilk tuo hundred ells | tuo ounces |
| Wainscot of all sorts, ilk threttie of them | tuo ounces |
| Wax, ilk last or fourtein ship punds | four ounces |
| Wheat, everie four bolls [and] halff boll | tuo ounces |
| Whaleshot, ilk tuo barrells | tuo ounces |
| Worstead yearne for shewing, ilk tuenty pund | tuo ounces |
| Wooll, ilk sex stone weight | tuo ounces |
| Wines, ilk tun | tuo ounces |
| Wine sellers, ilk tuentie of them | tuo ounces |
| Whingers or durks, ilk sextie of them | one ounce |
| Y | |
| Yearn: cable yearne, ilk eight hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - cotton yearne, ilk sextie pund weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - Irish yearne, ilk three hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - raw lining yearn, Dutch or Frensh, ilk sextie pund | tuo ounces |
| - - - Scots yearne, ilk fiftie pund weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - spruce or Muscovea yearn, ilk tuo hundred weight | tuo ounces |
| - - - woollen or bay yearn, ilk hundred weight | tuo ounces |
[Clerk's note]
Memorandum. Ther is tuo acts, one for coyning of three thousand stone weight of turners and the other for a stock to the conyiehouse of this dayes' date which are registrat upon the 12 of July following.†
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Oure soverane lord, considering that all the lawdable lawes and statuts made be his majesties' ancestors anent manufactories for inriching of his majesties' antient kingdome, putting of poore children, ydle persons and vagabounds to work for the mantenance and releiff of the cuntrie of the burden of such unproffitable persones, have been hitherto rendered ineffectuall, and that many good spirites, haveing aimed at the publict good, have for want of sufficient stocks, councill and assistance been crushed by such undertakeings, doe conceave it necessar to create and erect companies and societies for manufactories, that what wes above the capacity of single persones may be caried on by the joynt assistance, councill and means of many; and therfor, his majestie, with advice and consent of his estats of parliament, doth establish particular societies and companies in the persones of such as shall enter themselffs in the said societies within any shire or burgh one or moe of this kingdome, and after their decease in the persons of their successors (it being alwayes declared heirby that not any of them shall be represented but by one persone allenerlie) or any other who shall list and enter themselffs therin betuixt and the [...] day of [...] as the first moderne societies and companies for makeing of lining cloath, worstead, stockings, searges, baises, sayes, cottons, sempeternums, castilians, perpetuanaes and all other wollen stuffs and cloath; and for their encouragement and good of his hienes['s] kingdome, his majestie, with advice and consent forsaid, prohibites and discharges any of his majesties' leidges to carie and transport into Spain, Portugall, Biscay, Russia, France or any place beyond seas, any lining cloath, bases, says, cottons, sempeternums, castilians, perpetuanaes or any other wollen stuffs or cloths except they be frie and of one of the societies forsaid. And it is heirby declared that all materialls imported for the use of the said manufactories, and that all the saids stuffs or cloaths exported by the said companie, shall be frie of all custome, excise or any other imposition whatsoever for the space of nyntein yeers after the [...] day of [...], all other merchants not frie in one or other of the saids companies paying the usuall customes, excise or any other impositions for any of the saids commodities exported by them. As also, his majestie, with advice forsaid, for the good and encouradgement of those who shall enter themselffs in the saids companies doth discharge the saids companies respective, wherever the same shall be erected, to receave any within the same except these who shall contribute and bring in to make up a stock to the saids manufactories the sume of fyve hundreth merks Scots, and doth grant libertie to the saids members of the saids societies respective to choise and elect a certane number of their oune incorporation and societie to be a councill for makeing of lawes for the better regulateing and ordering of the said company and manufactorie and things belonging therto, provyding alwayes that no person elected have lesse of stock in the said companie or societie nor one thousand merks Scots money. And that this pious, charitable and proffitable designe may be no longer frustrat, nor poore childreen, vagabounds or idle persons continew to be burdensome to their cuntrie, it is statute and ordained that ther be in each paroche one or moe persons provided and appointed upon the charges and expences of the heritors thairof for instructing of the poore childreen, vagabounds and other idlers to fine and mix wooll, spin worstead and knit stockings; and for the more speedie perfecting of the lawdable designe and policie so much aimed at by his majesties' royal predicessors, and now prosecute by his majestie in his prudence and condescending care for the meanest of his subjects, it is statute and ordained that within [...] moneths after the dissolveing of this present parliament, the commissioners of shyres doe conveen the whole heritors within their respective shires for electing of some of the heritors within each paroche to sie this present act made effectuall, and persones appointed for instructing of the childreen and others forsaid to fyne and mixt wooll, knit stockings and spin worstead, and to sie a mantenance satled in everie paroche upon the saids instructors, and within the space of [...] next after the said first meiting that they convocat the persones elected within the severall paroches of the respective shires to take ane accompt of them and of their care and diligence in the matters aforesaid; and in caice they shall be fund to have failled, that the saids commissioners now attending this present parliament doe sie this present act put in execution after the tyme forsaid in all the saids paroches wher the saids persons elected shall be found to have been deficient, and ordaines magistrats of burghs to be carefull that the same be made effectuall within their burghes and liberties. And in caice all or any of the saids commissioners or magistrats aforesaid doe faill heirin after the forsaid tyme, his majestie, with advice and consent of the estates aforesaid, doth commit the care heirof to the lords of his majesties' secret councill that the lawes may be no longer frustrat nor the kingdome burdened with idle persones, vagabounds or poore childreen, and that manufactories may be promoved. And for the encourageing of skillfull artizans to come from abroad for traneing up the persones forsaids and workeing for the use of the saids companies, it is heirby declared that all such as shall be brought home and imployed for the saids companies shall be frie to set up and worke in burgh and landward wher the companies shall think fit without payeing any thing whatsoever to any persone or persones under whatsoever culour or pretext for their freedome, and shall be frie of taxes, publict burdings or exactions dureing their lifetyme, notwithstanding of any law, statute, priveledge or indulgence made or granted in the contrair be his majestie or any of his predicessours in favours of any committie or incorporation whatsoever, which are all heirby cassed, rescinded and declared voyd and null in so far as they may be conceaved to derogate from the priveledges and immunities granted by this present act in favours of tradsmen, natives or strangers belonging to or brought home by the saids companies for workeing in the saids manufactories. And to the end that the forsaids stuffs and cloaths may be more usefull at home and have the better vent abroad, his majestie, with advice forsaid, doth prohibite and discharge any weaver belonging to the saids companies or private tradsman to make any searges under the breadth of an ell and a naill, perpetuanaes and sempiternums under the breadth of three quarters and a halff, nor no wollen cloath under ane ell and ane halff broad, wnder the paine of tuentie punds to be payd by the weiver thairof, and the saids stuffs and cloaths to be confiscat, the one halff to his majesties' use and the other halffe to the use of the discoverers therof. Further his majestie, with advice forsaid, for encouragement of these who shall enter into the saids companies or manufactories, doth grant to ilk one of the saids companies all the priveledges and immunities that are or shall be heirafter by the king's majestie indulged to the companies or societies of fishers as if the same wer heirin exprest, wheranent his majestie with consent forsaid hath dispensed and heirby dispenses forever.
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Our soverane lord, conceaveing it necessary for the good and wellbeing of his majesties' subjects to project and endeavour the improvement of all the native commodities of this his majesties' antient kingdome, and to make lawes and ordinances for eveiting and preventing of all fraud and deceit used heirtofore in makeing sale of the saids commodities, and considering that it would tend more to the advantage of his majesties' subjects and promoveing of manufactories to restraine the libertie that merchants have taken to export lining yearn† then† suffer them to carie the same into other places and kingdomes; thairfor his majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, discharges any merchant or others whatsoever to transport out of this kingdome any lining yearne under the paine of confiscation of the same, the one halffe to his majesties' use and the other halff to the use of the attatcher and apprehender of the said yearn, and statuts and ordaines that all yearne be sold be weight, and that no reill be made use of within this kingdome under the measure and lenth of ten quarters, and that under paine of confiscation of any yearn brought to the mercat of a shorter reill, the one halff to his majesties' use, and the other halffe to the use of the dilaters and apprehenders of the said yearn. And also his majestie, considering that lining cloath is one of the most usefull commodities of the product of this kingdome wherby much money in antient tymes wes brought home, and that now, to the great prejudice of the said commoditie, the same is brought in contempt abroad and become hardlie vendible throw the deceatfull makeing, evill bleitching and unequall breidth thairof, thairfor his majestie, with advice and consent of the saids estats, doth discharge and prohibite all weavers to make any lining cloath of the price of ten shilling Scots the ell, or above, under the breadth of ane ell and tuo inches after the first day of November next to come, under the paine to be imprissoned for the space of fourtein dayes and of tuentie pund Scots to be payed for each fault to magistrats of burghs, shirreffs of shires, lords of regalities and barrons within their respective bounds, and of the confiscation of the same to the use of the attatchers and discoverers thairof; and statuts that all lining cloath be taken up by the selvage and not by the rig and so to be presented to the mercat, and that all lining cloath be bleitched without lyme, under the paine of tuentie punds for each fault to be payed to the magistrats forsaid within their respective bounds. And lastlie, it is heirby declared that all flax and lining yearne imported and all lining cloath exported by such as shall enter into the companies and manufactories for makeing of lining cloath, shall be free of custome and all other imposition for the space of fiftein yeers after the saids manufactories shall be established in the persons of such as shall enter themselffs in the saids companies betuixt and the first day of January next, conforme to ane other ordinance of parliament for eslablishing the said companies.
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Our soverane lord, considering that the wealth, safety and strenth of this his kingdome are very much concerned in the increase of shiping and encouradgement of trade and navigation, both which are much decayed if not wholly rwined by the late unhappie wars, and the sad effects that have followed therupon, and perceaveing the present low condition of trade and the small number of ships and seamen within this kingdome, hath thoght expedient, out of his princely zeale for the publict good, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament now presently conveened, to statute and ordaine and, by these presents, statuts and ordaines that from and after the [...] day of [...] and thenceforward no goods nor commodities whatsoever that are of forrane grouth, product or manufactorie which are to be broght into Scotland, or any of the yles therto belonging, shall be shiped or brought from any other place or places, cuntrie or cuntries, but only from those places wher the saids commodities doe grow are produced or made, or from the ports wher the saids goods and commodities commonly are or usually have been first shipped for transportation, and from no other place or cuntrie, and in no other ships or vessells, but such as doe truely and only belong to his said kingdome; and whairof the master and three fourt parts of the mariners are natives and inhabitants within the same, or at least in such ships and vessells as doe truely and only belong unto, and are of the build of these kingdomes or cuntries wher the saids commodities doe grow, are made or produced, and whairof the master and three fourt parts of the mariners are natives and inhabitants within the same. All which is to be verefied and attested under the seale of the city or place from whence they come, and oath of the parties to whom the said ships or vessells doe belong, wnder the paine of confiscation of all such goods as shall be imported from any other place or cuntrie or in any other ship or vessell contrair to the true intent and meaning of this act, as also of the ship in which they shall happin to be imported, with all her guns, furniture, takle, ammunition and appereling, the one halff to his majestie and the other halff to the use of those who shall discover the contraveeners of this present act, and persue for the same befor the lords of his majesties' exchequer. And further, it is statute and ordained by his majestie, with advice and consent forsaid, that all goods or commodities whatsoever produced or shipped as is abovexprest which from and after the said day and thenceforward shall be imported into this kingdome or any ilands therto belonging, in any ships or vessells that shall not truely and only belong to the natives and inhabitants thairof (except in English or Irish vessells, provyding alwayes that Scots vessells enjoy the lyke benefite of trade within the kingdomes and dominions of England and Ireland and no otherwayes) shall be lyable to double custome and pay accordinglie, whither the saids goods perteane to natives or aliens. And further, it is statute and ordained that from and after the said day and thenceforward all goods and commodities whatsoever belonging to aliens, exported or imported in whatsoever ships or vessells, whither forrane or Scotish, shall be lyable to double custome and pay accordingly. And it is further statute and ordained that from and after the said day and thence fordward, all goods or commodities whatsoever exported in any other ships or vessells then such as doe truely and only belong to the natives and inhabitants of this kingdome shall be lyable to double custome and pay accordingly, whither the saids goods apperteane to natives or aliens. And it is further enacted and ordained by his majestie, with advice and consent forsaid, that at and after the said day and thence fordward all ships and vessells belonging to this kingdome shall be navigated only by Scotismen duelling in Scotland, at least the master and three fourt parts of the seamen being such, wnder the paine of being esteemed forraigne vessells and paying double custome for all the goods and commodities imported or exported within the same. And for preventing of all fraud which may be used in the buying of forrane ships, it is statute and ordained by his majestie, with consent forsaid, that from and after the said day no ship whatsoever shall be deemed or passe as a ship belonging to Scotland, or enjoy the benefite of such a ship or vessell untill such tyme that he or they, clameing the same to be theirs, shall make appeare to the cheeff officer or officers of the customehous at Leith, he or they resideing in any place betuixt Berwick and Stirling on the southside of Forth, and to the cheiff officer or officers at Bruntilland, he or they resideing in any place betuixt Stirling and Fifeness upon the north side of Forth, and in caice of their aboade in more remote places, to the officer or officers of the port next to the place of his or their aboad, that he or they are not strangers, and shall have taken an oath before such officer or officers who are heirby authorized to administer the same, that such ship or vessell wes bona fide and without fraud bought by him or them for a valuable consideration, expressing the sume, tyme, place and persones from whom it wes bought, and who are his partners (if any he have), all which partners shall be lyable to take the said oath befor the cheiff officer or officers of the customes respective, as said is, and that no forraner directlie nor indirectly hath any parte, interest or share therin and that upon such oaths he or they shall receave a certificate, under the hand or seall of the said cheiff officer or officers of the port next the aboad of the persones so makeing oath, wherby such a ship may for the future passe and be deemed as a ship belonging to the said port and enjoy the priveledges of such a ship or vessell, and the said officer or officers shall keep a register of all such certificats as he or they shall so give, and returne a duplicate therof to the cheeff officers of the customes at Leith, for such as shall be granted in all the other ports of this kingdome, together with the names of the persone or persones from whom such ships wer bought, and the sume of money which wes payd for the same, as also the names of all such persones as are partners if any such be. And it is further enacted be his majestie, with consent forsaid, that if any officer of the customes shall from and after the said day allow to any forrane ship or vessell the priveledges due to a Scots ship till such certificat be by them produced, or such prooff and oath taken befor them, or such as they shall appoint to receave the same and to examine whither the master and three fourt parts of the mariners at least be natives and inhabitants within this kingdome, that for the first offence such officer or officers shall be put out of their offices or places. And it is further statute and ordained that no merchants belonging to this kingdome shall imploy any alien or persone not borne within this nation or naturalized or made a frie denizen therof, from and after the said day, as factor in any place beyond seas for the use and accompt of the merchants of this kingdome, wnder paine of a pecuniary mulct, to be payed by him or them that shall imploy him, which sume shall be imposed at the discretion of the councill of trade, the one halff thairof to his majestie and his successors and the other halff to him or them that shall informe and pursue for the same. It is alwayes heirby provydit that this act, nor any clause thairincontained, extend not to or be meaned to restraine or prohibite the importation of any of the commodities of Asia, Africa or America, as also of the commodities of Musco and Italie, from such ports and places and in such ships and vessells as may be gotten most conveniently wntill such time as the merchants of this kingdome have actuall trade to these respective places, and that the same be prohibited be act of parliament, privy councill or councill of trade. It is heirby declared that it shall be lawfull to import any sort of cornes in tyme of dearth from any place or places in any ship or vessell whatsoever, without being lyable to confiscation, double custome or any other penaltie contained in this present act, the dearth and necessity of import being alwayes cognosced and declared by a publict act of the privy councill or councill of trade.
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The king's majestie, considering how necesser it is that all former lawes for improveing of native commodities be revived, and understanding that the deacons and remanent tradsmen of the skinners have, upon their oune charges, brought from forrane places perfumers, makers and preparers of lether, by whose pains and arte the kingdome may be furnished with gloves at easier rates and able to furnish other nations abroad with made worke, doth therfor, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, ratifie and approve the 178 act of the 13th parliament of King James 6, of blessed memorie, dischargeing the exportation of skins and others thairincontained, and ordaines the same to be put to execution conforme to the tenor thairof in all points; and also considering how usefull goatskins, hart, deer and other wilde beasts' skins might be, if they wer prepared and improven by skinners within the kingdome, his majestie doth therfor, with advice forsaid, discharge all merchants, tradsmen and others to transport any calff skin, kid skin, hudderon or shorling skins or any goat skins, hart, buck, deer or any other wilde beasts' skins forth of the kingdome, under paine of confiscation of the same; and for the further encouragement of the skinner trade and manufactorie, licence is heirby given to export gloves made within the kingdome frie of all custome and excise for the space of nyntein yeers after the date heirof, reserveing alwayes to the lord thesaurer and commissioners of exchequer to give licences for exporting of skins as they shall find cause after one yeer from the date heiroff.
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Our soverane lord, considering the best and readiest means for improveing the benefite and advantages which propperlie belong unto him by the fishes which are or may be taken within the seas, channells, firths and loches adjacent and surrounding this his antient kingdome, and perceaveing the same may be of advantage many wayes, especially in that the said trade will not only be a nursery for seafairing men and a speedie occasion of building ships for his majesties' and his subjects' use both in peace and war, but likewise will set many poore and idle persones awork, and furnish the materialls of a great native export for the continuall enritching of his majesties' kingdomes by a sure fundation of trade and commerce; for which ends and that the said trade of fishing may be more effectually advanced and promoved within this his majesties' antient kingdome, his sacred majestie, with consent of his estates now conveened in this present parliament, hath erected and be the tenor heirof erects, creats and establishes particular societies and companies of his majesties' oune frie borne, naturalized inhabitants in Scotland, and of all others who shall be taken and enrolled in any of the same companies and societies and admitted to the priveledges thairof, and shall enter themselffs in the said societies within any shire or burgh of this said kingdome one or moe betuixt and the [...] day of [...], as the first moderne societies and companies to the effect afterspecified, constituteing and createing such persones who shall enter themselffs and their successors in a bodie and incorporation pollitick, to exerce the trade underwritten. And ordaines that none be accepted therin except he who shall enter the sume of fyve hundth merks Scots at least of stock in the said societie, and wills and grants that whosoever are of the forsaid societies or companies to be constitute their airs or assignayes, shall enjoy the yeerly benefite of the stock to be given by them in all tyme after the ingiveing thairof, but to have no power to uplift the stock, except by consent of the company or councill thairof afterspecified; granting and committing, lykas his majestie, be the tenor heirof, gives, grants and committs to the saids companies and societies to be constitute, and to all such whom they or their successours shall admit or receave therin, full power to take and fish herrings and white fish in all and sundrie seas, channells, firths, rivers, floods, laiks and lochs in this his majesties' said antient kingdome of Scotland and yles thervnto belonging, whersoever herring or white fishes are or may be taken, and to bring in and disburthen the saids herrings and other white fishes to all and sindrie ports, harbours [and] shoars and to lay the same on the land, and to pikle them with salt, and to dry and load the same in barrells and punshons, and for conservation of the saids herring and fishes, to build houses and litle cottages and other things necessarie for the use of the said fishing trade, in whatsoever places shall be convenient, upon the payment of the allowance underwritten unto the lord or master of the ground, or otherwise to sell, use and dispose upon the saids herrings and other fishes to the inhabitants, or to keep and conserve the same in their ships and boats, and to make and prepare them therin, and to cary and transport the same to forrane parts beyond seas in ships and other vessells belonging to them or his majesties' other subjects, and to sell, use and dispone therupon to such who shall be in freindship and amitie with his majestie and his successours. [Moreover] with power also to the saids companies and societies respective to elect and make choise of such of their oune number, as they shall think fit, for makeing and frameing of laws, statuts and rules for the right regulateing, manageing and carieing on of the said trade of fishing (the saids lawes being alwayes approven and allowed by the councill of trade) and to punish transgressours accordingly, and that none be admitted to be councellers of the saids societies, except such who shall enter of stock the sume of one thousand merks money forsaid, and that they be Scotsmen or naturalized strangers and residenters within the said kingdome; and to the which councill, so to be nominate and constitute, the said companies respective shall submit, and to all their acts, statuts and rules especially, but prejudice of the generalitie forsaid to the particular rules underwritten, to wit: first, that none, after the erecting and setling of the said companie or societie, may enter or come in but by consent of the companie or the councill thairof after the said [...] day of [...] next, except they be appointed to be enrolled and taken in by the councill of trade, to whom any persone, incaice of exclusion, may make his addresse. Secondlie, that the returne from forrane places upon this stock may be all sold in frie burghs and to frie burgesses within this kingdome by the saids companies or any of them or their factors, without any previous offer to the burgh, provyding they doe not retaill by selling lesse quantities nor fyve tun of wyne or the equivalent in value in other commodities, and if the import and returne shall be of lesse quantities then and in that cace these commodities shall only be sold in whole sale without any retaill whatsoever. Thridly, that no herring or white fish taken by Scotsmen in the said kingdome or yles therto belonging be sold fresh or salt to any but to natives, except by the companies respective; and that no stranger unnaturalized shall have libertie to make and prepare herrings or white fish upon the land or to make booths for that effect, under the paine of confiscation of what shall be seized upon, and the double thairof to be exacted of the seller, except they be frie of one of the companies forsaid. With power also to the said councill to use and have a seale and gadge for ilk companie respective wherwith all their barrells or punshions may be marked, and that ilk barrell of grein fish containe tuelve gallons, which is to be the ordinar gage betuixt buyer and seller. And also, to make use of and imploy all and sindrie tollbooths and warding places wher necessity requires for holding of courts, wardeing or punishing of trangressors, the burghs being alwayes frie of the charges of the prissoners, and further to depute such of their number as they shall think fit concerning all bussinesses and affairs, and to cognosce and determine in all questions and debates relateing to the trade of fishing, and to cause execute such decreits and sentences as shall be pronunced therupon, and for that effect to make choise of officers and servands and to administer oaths to them and amongst themselves for the goode of the trade and, if neid be, with power to the said councill to designe certane judges under them in convenient places to administer justice in the matter of the trade of fishing allenerlie. And our said soverane lord, being most willing to chirish and encourage the forsaids societies and companies in the said trade hath, out of his innate beneficence and royall bounty, ordained and by the tenor heirof decernes and ordains that salt, cordage, hemp, cork, pitch, tar, clapboard, knaple, skew hoops and holland nets imported for the trade of fishing forsaid by the forsaids companies respective, is and shall be frie of any custome or other imposition whatsoever, and that the herring and white fish taken, made or prepared therwith are and shall be frie of any maner of taxation or burden in the exportation of the same; and also that all strangers fishers who shall repair to this his majesties' antient kingdome, and will come and make their residence within the same, shall be naturalized by his majestie upon the desire and application of any of the saids councills, and shall be entered burgesses in any citie wher they shall reside, and shall be freed of all maner of taxation for the space of seven yeers next after their arryveall; and further his majestie hath released and discharged and, by the tenor heirof, simpliciter releases and discharges the teind herring and teind fish of all such herring and fish which shall be taken by the boats and fishers of the saids companies respective, or such as shall be hired by them, in all tyme heirafter, and also exoners and discharges the excise herring due to his majestie (except the herring of Dumbar) for all the dayes space, yeers and terms of nyne yeers next after the date heirof. And in lykmaner his majestie declares that all ale, beir, strong waters and other provisions for outreiking of any vessell for the saids fishings of the saids companies is and shall be free of all maner of impositions whatsomever, commanding heirby the lords and masters of the ground in all places through the said kingdome wher ther is loch or other fishings, not only to protect, mantaine and defend the said company and society and all masters of ships, fishers and others whatsoever goeing about the said trade and belonging to the respective companies of fishing, from all harme, trouble or damage whatsoever, or els to satisfie and refound their losses and damage which they shall sustaine vpon their land, but also that they nor none of them presume nor take upon hand to exact or levey any more from the saids fishers, merchants or their servants belonging to the saids companies for ground leave, but only tuelve shilling Scots for everie last, and that in full satisfaction of the Saturdayes' fishing or any maner of dues whatsoever. And for the greater encouragement of merchant fishers, masters of ships and other vessells and their servants to attend the said trade of fishing, his majestie, by his soverane authority and prerogative royall, not only by these presents declares the ships, boats and other vessells with their furniture provyded for, and in exercise of the said trade of fishing, nowayes to be arreistable by any creditor, bot that the same and those that shall serve therin shall not be pressed to any publict service without his majesties' particular command, and that the fishers, masters and servants in the saids vessells and makers of herring and whyte fish, dureing the whole tyme of the said fishing and their imployment therin, shall be frie from all actions, and nowayes conveenable befor any judge or judicatorie whatsoever for any cause or causes civill which may be intended against them; but also, by the tenor heirof, declares the saids fishers, masters and their servands abovewritten shall be frie of all captions, areistments or other attatchments on their persons, or against their materialls and instruments of fishing dureing the tyme and season of fishing, they being actually serveing therin allenerlie. And further, that none who shall be upon the councill or any of the societies of trade forsaid shall be lyable to sess, stents or taxations for what stock they have entered or shall enter in the saids companies or societies respective, or for the benefite and proffite ariseing therby in tyme comeing. And it is heirby declared that it shall be licent to any of the councill or societies of the said trade of fishing respective, for the good thairof, to duell and reside in any parte or place of this said kingdome albeit they be burgesses in any burgh royall, and not therby losse their freedome, notwithstanding of any act or acts in the contrare; and in lykmaner, it is heirby declared that no persone or persones shall have libertie to export herring or fish nor use or have the priveledges, liberties and immunities abovewritten but those that shall enter themselffs and be frie in one or other of the saids companies and societies. And finally, it is heirby statute and ordained that those in the severall shires and burghs of this kingdome who shall enter in the saids companies and societies, conforme to the tenor of this present act, shall give an accompt thairof to the parliament or his majesties' privy councill for the tyme within [...] after the erection thairof, that the same may be recorded ad futuram rei memoriam.
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Our soverane lord, considering how many great advantages this kingdome and the subjects thairof may have by the erecting, cherishing and mantaining of manufactories, therby keeping in the cuntrie great sumes of money dayly exported by bringing in such commodities as may be made at home and bringing in money for such commodities as may be made and wroght within the same and exported to forrane nations, besids that therby many poore people and idle persones and vagabounds will be set at work and intertained wherby vertew will be increased and idleset crubed and restrained, and that, upon this account and for this end, severall acts have been past by his majesties' royall predicessors in their parliaments, conventions and councills and especially the 113 act of the 7th parliament and the 250 and 252 acts of the 15th parliament of King James the 6, and acts of councill in the yeers 1600, 1601, 1612, 1614, 1616, 1620 [and] 1623 and acts of convention [of] 1625 and 1626 yeers; and his majestie, being resolved to prosecute what hath been formerly intendit and to give such new encouragements as is necessary for advanceing of manufactories, hath therfor thought fit, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, heirby to grant to all such persones as have or shall undertake to set up any manufactories the priveledges following viz. If any stranger shall come or be brought into this kingdome by natives to set up work and teach his arte in makeing cloath stuffs, stockings, soap or any other kynd of manufactorie, he shall enjoy the benefite of the law and all other priveledges that a native doth enjoy, with power to erect manufactories, either in burgh or landward as they shall think fit, and ther to duell and exerce their trade without any stop or trouble; and for their further encouragement declares all oyll, dying stuffs, forrane wooll, pottashes, or any other materialls whatsoever usefull for manufactories that shall be imported, to be frie of custome, excise and other publict dues, and that all cloath stuffs, stockings, or any other commodity to be made and exported by them be frie of custome and excise for nyntein yeers after January 1662 yeers; and if any stock shall be imployed for erecting or intertaining of any manufactories of any kind, the same is to be frie of all publict and private taxes whatsoever; lykas all customers, collectors, fermerers of customes or excise and others are heirby discharged to demand any custome, excise or any other imposition whatsoever for such materialls befor mentioned and belonging to manufactories, as they will be ansuerable. And inregaird of the great prejudice to the kingdome by exportation of wooll, and skins and wooll upon them, and of other native commodities and materialls fit for manufactories, thairfor his majestie, with advice forsaid, doth heirby discharge all and everie persone whatsoever, native or stranger, to export out of this kingdome any wooll or skins with wooll upon them, or skins of any kynd or any materialls usefull for manufactories, untill they be made in work or put to the best availl for the good of the kingdome, certifieing such as doe in the contrare they shall forfeit such wooll, skins and other materialls, or the just value therof, the one halff to his majestie and the other halff to the informer who shall discover, apprehend and prosecute the same before his majesties' exchequer, besides that the persones and estates of such contraveeners shall be lyable to such punishment and fyne for the same as his majesties' exchequer shall appoint. And also his majestie, with advice forsaid, discharges all regraters and forestallers of mercats of wooll, and that no merchant or persone whatsoever buy and keep up wooll to a dearth bot that they bring the same to be sold in open mercats, under the paines contained in the acts of parliament made against regraiters and forestallers. And inregaird ther is much deceat by wrapping up of wooll in the fleice, by putting stones, sand and other insufficient stuff in the same, it is heirby declared that all such wooll shall be confiscat, the one halff to his majesties' use and the other halffe to the use of those who shall apprehend, discover and persue the same. Lykas his majestie, for the farther encouragement of the saids manufactories, doth, with advice forsaid, discharge all quarterings or leveying of souldiers upon manufactories or the masters therof, and that no persone whatsoever intyse, resset or interteane any of the servants or apprentises of the manufactories without consent of their master, under the paines contained in the acts of parliament against coallhewers, salters and their resetters. And for the farther improveing of the saids manufactories, his majestie, with consent forsaid, doth heirby impower the masters, erectors or interteaners of manufactories to meit by themselffs for makeing of ordinances for the good and advancement of their trade, for the right ordering of their servants and for the sufficiency of their stuffs, cloath and others; and choise one of the most expert of their number for visiteing of their work, that a mark or seall may be put upon it distinguishing what is sufficient and what not. And because many things may occur heirafter which may be necessary for advancement of manufactories, thairfor his majestie, with consent forsaid, doth impower the lords of his majesties' privy councill or exchequer, or such as shall be appointed by his majestie dureing this present parliament or therafter, to consider such overtures as shall be offered for the good of manufactories, and to make such orders and grant such further liberties and priveledges to them as they shall think just. It is alwayes declared that it shall be frie and lawfull to his majesties' thesaurer and commissioners of exchequer, as they shall find cause, to grant licence for exporteing of wooll and skins, any thing in this act to the contrarie notwithstanding.
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The king's majestie, considering how much it concernes the honour of God that the Sabboth day be duelie observed, and all abuses thairof restrained, and that notwithstanding of severall acts of parliament made in that behalffe, particularlie the thrid act of the sext parliament of King James 6, of blessed memorie, the said day hath been much prophaned by salmond fishing, goeing of salt pans, milnes and kills, hireing of shearers and useing of merchandice on that day and otherwise, thairfor our soverane lord, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, ratifies and approves all former acts of parliament made for observation of the Sabboth day, and against the breakers thairof and, by these presents, inhibites and discharges all salmond fishing, going of salt pans, milnes or kills, all hireing of shearers, carieing of loads, keeping of mercats or useing any sorts of merchandice on the said day, and all other prophanation thairof whatsoever, under the paines and penalties following, viz the summe of tuentie pund Scots for the goeing of ilk salt pan, milne or kill on the said day to be payed by the heritors and possessours thairof, and the summe of ten punds for ilk sheirer and fisher of salmond on the said day, the one halff thairof to be payed by the hyrers and conducers, and the other halffe by the persones hyred, and the said sume of ten punds for everie other prophanation of the said day, and which fynes and penalties are to be uplifted and disposed of in maner contained in the act and instructions anent the justices of peace, and if the partie offender be not able to pay the penalties forsaid then to be exemplarly punisht in his bodie according to the merite of his fault.
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Our soverane lord, being desireous that all his subjects within this kingdome may leid a quyet and peaceable liffe under his government in all godlienesse and honestie, and in order therto, haveing resolved to curb and suppresse all sort of sin and wickednesse and especially these abhominable and so much abounding sins of drunknesse and all maner of cursing and sweareing, thairfor our said soverane lord ratifies and approves all acts of parliament made in former tymes against the saids crymes or either of them; and further declares that each persone who shall blaspheame, sweare or curse and whosoever shall drink into excesse, shall be lyable in the paines following according to the qualitie of the offenders viz. each nobleman tuentie pund Scots, each barron in tuentie merks, each gentleman heritor or burges in ten merks, each yeman in fourtie shillings, each servant in tuentie shillings, toties quoties; each minister in the fift parte of his yeer's stipend; and that the saids fyns and penalties be uplifted and disposed upon in maner contained in the act and instructions anent the justices of peace, and if the partie offender be not able to pay the penalties forsaid, then to be exemplarlie punished in his bodie according to the merite of his fault.
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Our soverane lord, considering the great charges that creditors are put to by compriseing of summs owing to their debitors be vertew of heretable bands, contracts and other writs beareing payment of annualrents, which in respect of the obleidgement for annualrent wer not in former times areistable, therfor the king's majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, finds and declares that all summs of money which are adebted be bonds, contracts and other personall obleidgements, wherupon no infeftments have followed, are and shall be areistable at the instance of any creditor, notwithstanding that the bonds, contracts and other obleidgements beare payment of annualrents. And the king's majestie, with advice and consent forsaid, declares that this shall nowayes change the nature of the saids sums, nor prejudge the air nor any other persone their rights to the same as being heretable, which are heirby declared to remaine in their oune nature unchangeable be this act prout de jure, except that only the same are areistable; and it is heirby expreslie provydit that all areistments and executions thairof since the 29 day of July 1644 yeers, used conforme to the tenor of this act, shall be als valeid and sufficient as if this present act had been of the said date, but prejudice alwayes to the creditors to comprise the said heretable sums if they shall choose rather to comprise then to areist.
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Our soverane lord, considering how many lawdable lawes have been made by his majesties' royall progenitors for parking and incloseing of ground and planting of wood and for preserveing of the same, and finding the greate prejudice hath followed upon the not due observance of notable and necesser lawes, and how expedient, fit and necesser it will be for the good of his majesties' antient kingdome, especially for shiping and building, that timber be planted, and how advantageous it is, for the incresse of cornes and cattell and the sowing of lint and hemp for manufactories, that parking and incloseings be made; doth therfor, with consent and advice of his estates of parliament, revive the nynt act of the fourt parliament of King James the first,† of blessed memorie, entituled, ane act for planting of woods, forrests and orchyeards, and all other acts made for that effect by his majestie or any other his royall predicessors, and ordaines the same to be put to execution in tyme comeing, conforme to the tenor thairof in all points; with this addition, lykeas his majestie, with advice of his saids estates of parliament, doth heirby statute and ordaine that everie heritor, lyverenter and wodsetter (according to the qualifications under written) within his said antient kingdome of Scotland worth one thousand punds of yeerly valued rent, shall inclose four aikers of land yeerly at least, and plant the same about with trees of oak, elme, ashe, plaine, sauch or other timber at three yeards distance, and that all other heritors of greater or lesse rent nor the said sume of one thousand pund money forsaid, doe plant, inclose and ditch yeerly moe or fewer aikers according to their respective rents for the space of ten yeers next ensueing; and that of such lands as the heritors shall think most fit for planting and capable for incloseing to be also planted, ditched or inclosed in maner forsaid; and that the saids heritors begin to plant, ditch and inclose the said ground at the feist of Michaelmes nextocome, and uphold the same in tyme comeing. And for the further encouragement of the saids heritors, wodsetters [and] liverentars to goe about the readie observance of the said act, libertie and power is granted to them, at the sight of the shirreffs, stewarts, lords of regalities, barrons and justices of peace in their respective bounds, to cast about the heigh wayes to their conveniency, provyding they doe not remove them above tuo hundreth ells upon their whole ground, excepting alwayes heirfrom burrow land† incorporat aikers, which are nowayes to be parked or inclosed wnlesse the heritors therof shall think it meit and expedient. And wher ther are liverenters upon lands, it is heirby declared that the same shall be done upon the equall charges and expences of the lyverentar and heritor. And in caice of propper wodsets, it is also heirby specially declared that the same shall be done by the wodsetter, and the charges thairof is and shall be added to the reversion and nowayes redeimable while they make payment therof, as well as of the summs for which the lands are wodset. And for the better encuragement of heritors and for preserveing of the said planting and inclosours, it is statute and ordained that whosoever shall cut or break any of the saids tries (not being the heritors themselffs) shall pay unto the heritors or persons wronged tuentie punds for everie trie or, if he be not able to pay the said tuenty punds, it shall be in the power of the partie therby wronged to make him worke sex weeks, giveing him meit and drink allenerlie. And further it is ordained that whosoever shall break doun the hedges or dyks of the saids parks or inclosours, or be fund within the same being a stranger, shall be holden and repute a breaker doun thairof and pay fyve pounds for everie fault or, if he be not able to pay the said fyve pounds, to work ten dayes to the ouner of the saids grounds for meit and drink, as said is. And for the greater encouragement of all persons who shall be vertuouslie inclyned to ditch, inclose or plant their ground in maner forsaid, his majestie, with consent abovespecified, hath declared and by thir presents declares, such parts and portions of their said ground as shall be so inclosed and planted, to be frie of all maner of land stents, taxations or impositions of whatsoever nature, or quarterings of horse in the saids inclosours for the space of nyntein yeers next after the date heirof, and that at the proportionateing of the saids burdens the same inclosours shall be exempted and made frie therof accordinglie. And also for the better preserveing of the saids inclosours, and of the trees and planting to be set about the same, it is statute and ordained that ilk heritor, tennent and cotter keep their cattell and goods out of their nighbours inclosours at all times that their trees planting and ditching be nowayes damnified nor prejudged, under the penaltie of fyve punds for ilk contravention toties quoties to be payed to the partie damnified. And further statuts and ordaines that wher inclosours fall to be upon the border of any person's inheritance, the next adjacent heritor shall be at equall paines and charges in building, ditching and planting that dyk which parteth their inheritance. And [also] recommends to all lords, shirreffs and baillies of regalities, stewarts of stewartries and justices of peace, baillies of burrowes and other judges whatsoever, to sie this act put in execution, and to grant processe at the instance of the partie damnified, and prejudged and to sie them repaired after the forme and tenor of this act abovewritten in all points.