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The king's majestie and estates of parliament, haveing heard a supplication presented unto them be David Erskine of Dun, mentioning that the bridge upon the water of Northesk, camonly called the Northwater bridge, built by the petitioners' predecessors, is now decayed and in many places therof become rwinous, and wants raills and ledges which, being ane common passage to and from the north of Scotland, ther is ane great necessity that the samen be repaired and upheld; humbly therfor, desyreing ane certane custome might be appointed and ordained to be collected and uplifted be the petitioner, and such as should be authorized by him, for repairing and upholding of the said bridge, as the supplication at lenth bears. Which being taken into consideration, the king's majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, statuts and ordains that for the space of tuentie yeers, after the date heirof, ane imposition of tuo pennies Scots on each foot persone carying burden, four pennies upon each carte, four pennies upon each horse carying load, four pennies upon each bull, ox or kow, four pennies upon each soume of sheip, tuo pennies upon each soume of lambs, and sex pennies upon each horse goeing to the mercat, off all persons, bestiall, loads and others forsaids that shall happen to croce the said Northwater bridge, be uplifted, collected and gathered therat by such persons as shall be appointed be the said laird of Dun for that effect, and to the end the said imposition may be truly collected and applyed for the use aforsaid, the king's majestie and estates of parliament doe recommend to the lairds of Balmain and Pittaro, younger, for the shire of Mairns, and to the lairds of Bonymoon and Clova, for Angus, to sie that the soums collected be imployed for repairing and upholding of the said bridge in maner abovementioned.
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Anent the supplication presented to the king's majestie and estates of parliament be Walter Cheislie of Dalry, shewing that ther is a way from some places in the west of his lands of Dalry, lying within tuo mylls of the west port of Edinburgh, which goes just be the gate of the petitioner's duelling house and betuixt the same and his great yeard, greatlie to his prejudice and disturbance, and which might be made with as much conveniency to his majesties' leidges, and more ease to the petitioner, by turneing of this way by the bak of the petitioner's houses and yeards doun towards ane place called the Whythous; humbly therfor, desireing that, be publict authority from his majestie and the parliament, this way may be changed as is aforsaid; which supplication, being first red and considered be the lords of the articles and therafter being red and considered in open parliament, the king's majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, give heirby full power and commission to the justices of peace of the shire of Edinburgh, or any seven of them, to consider the petitioner's desire and to view the present way by the petitioner's gate with the other way which he desires to be made in liew therof (and according as they shall think fit for the petitioner's ease, and without prejudice or inconveniency to his majesties' leidges) with power to them to stop the old way, and to appoint the new way desired at the bak of the petitioner's house and yeards doun towards the Whythouse, to be the way to be used in all tyme comeing, and that they cause make it passable and convenient for the passage of his majesties' leidges, and that they set doun their judgement and determinen heirin in writ, under ther hands, that the samen may be returned to be recorded in the books of parliament with this commission.†
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The king's majestie and estates of parliament, taking to consideration that the lands of Dun, within the shirreffdome of Forfar, perteaning heretablie to David Erskine of Dun, ly in a most convenient place of the shire wherat yeerlle fairs may be keept for the ease and benefite of his majesties' leidges duelling neir these bounds, for buying and selling of all sort of commodities, and wherunto all persons travelling from the north to the south of Scotland may have their bestiall and other commodities sold; thairfor, the king's majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, doe heirby give and grant to the said David Erskine of Dun, his airs and successors, ane frie yeerly fair to be holden and keept upon the mure of Dun, the second Wednesday after Witsonday yeerly, for buying and selling of horse, nolt, sheip, meill, malt and all sort of grane, cloath, lining and woollen, and all sort of merchant commodities; with power to the said David Erskine and his forsaids, or such as they shall appoint, to collect, intromet with, uplift and receave the tolls, customes and dewties belonging to the said yeerlie fair, and to enjoy all other freedomes, priveledges, liberties and immunities, siclyk and als freely as any other in the lyk cace hes done or may doe in tyme comeing.
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Our soverane lord and estates of parliament, considering that the taking and slaying of salmond fishes with nets, cruves or otherwayes, was altogether prohibited and forbidden by the antient laws and acts of parliament of this kingdome, from the latter Mary day till the feist of St Andrews in winter and that under the pains and penalties contained in the severall acts made theranent, which wer always inviolably observed, untill of late that some heretors of salmond fishings, pretending that they did obtaine warrand or commission from the last parliament, and be vertew therof, have changed and altered the dyets and tyme of fishing by slaying and takeing of salmond constantlie untill the last of September ilk yeer, and from thence forbearing untill the second of February therafter, which late practise is fund, by experience, to be very prejudiciall and destructive to the interest of fishing, in so much that the most parte of the fishes that are taken after the said latter Marie day are unclean fish and full of rowans, and so therby the fry of the fish and expectation of fishing for the ensueing yeer is very much prejudged, as also the saids unclean fishes spoiles others that are packit with them, and brings the mercat very low when they are sent abroad; for remeid wherof, our said soverane lord, and estates forsaid, does statute and ordaine that, from hence forward, it shall be lawfull only to slay salmond fishes in the rivers or waters of Dea, Don, Spey, Findorne, Ithan, Connon, Bewlie, Ness and Devorne untill the eight of September in ilk yeer, and from thence all slaying and takeing of them is forbidden untill the first of January therafter, and that under the pains and penalties mentioned in the former acts of parliament made theranent, which are heirby ratified, approven and confirmed in the haill heids, articles and conditions therof. And further, our said soverane lord and estates forsaids, casses, rescinds and anulls any act, warrand or commission that wes granted be the late parliament in prejudice and to the contrare heiroff, and declares the samen to be void and null in all tyme comeing, in so far as may concerne the tyme of fishing salmond upon the rivers and waters abovexprest, and for the better observance of the said tyme of fishing in the saids rivers and waters, his majestie and estates forsaids, ordains and appoints the shirreffs principall in the respective shirreffdomes and their deputs, and lykways those who have right or commission of justiciarie upon any of the saids rivers or waters within their respective bounds, and the respective provosts and baillies of the burghs of Pearth, Aberdein, Elgin and Forres as to such parts of any of the saids rivers as are nixt adjacent to them, to sie thir presents dewly observed and put in execution by all concerned and to punish the contraveeners according to the warrand [...] power given to them by former acts of parliament made theranent.
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Our soverane lord, considering that for severall yeers bygone books imported into this kingdome have not been lyable in payment of custome or excise, and that the exempting of them from these dueties for certane yeers to come may prove ane advantage to learning; doth, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, statute and declare that all licentiat books which shall be imported in tyme comeing, by any of his majesties' leidges for their oune privat use, shall be frie of payment of custome and excise, and lykways that all licentiat books to be imported into this kingdome by printers or stationers for seale, within the space of seven yeers after the date of this act, and all books printed within the kingdome which shall be exported furth therof be them, dureing the said space, shall be free, and are heirby exonered of the payment of custome and excise. And further, his majestie, with advice forsaid, for promoveing and advanceing the arte and manufactorie of printing within this kingdome, declars that all printing paper which shall be imported by printers or stationers dureing the said space of seven yeers, and made use of for printing, be free of custome and excise, paying always the proportion of bullion imposed therupon by ane other act of this present parliament, dischargeing heirby the collectors or taksmen of his majesties' customes or excise, and their deputs, to uplift or exact any custome or excise for books and printing paper imported, in maner for the uses and dureing the space forsaid.
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Our soverane lord and the estates of parliament, takeing to their consideration ane petition presented unto them be William and Anna, duke and dutches of Hamiltoun, for themselffs and in name and behalff of their haill vassalls and inhabitants of their lands and barronie of Kinneill, shewing that in all former times within the said barronie ther wes bot one kirk, called the kirk of Kinneill, untill the yeer of God 1634, at which tyme ther wes one kirk built at Borrowstounesse by the inhabitants of the same, for their oune accommodation, being halff a mylls distance from the said kirk of Kinneill, after which tyme, untill the yeer 1649, the said haill barronie remained but one pareche and had but one minister, who sumtymes preached at the kirk of Kinneill and other tymes at the kirk of Borroustounes, for the ease of the inhabitants therof, in the which year 1649 the said toun of Borrowstounes, being in a floorishing condition throw the increase of trade, and in hopes the same would continew, upon mortification of a small and inconsiderable stipend to the kirk of Borrowstounes for mantenance of the minister therof, and application to the power for the tyme, in absence of umqhile James, duke of Hamiltoun, father to the said dutches, while he wes prisoner in England for his majesties' service, did obtaine the said kirk of Borrowstounes, and some bounds adjacent therto, to be erected in ane kirk and paroche by itselff, seperat and distinct from the said paroche of Kinneill, wherof formerlie it wes ane parte, and seing that the remotest parte of the said barronie of Kinneill is not tuo miles distant from the said kirk of Borrowstounes, and that the communicants of the said paroche of Kinneill will not exceid three hundreth persons, and that the stipend mortified and payable by the inhabitants of the said toun of Borrowstounes, for mantenance of the minister therof, is not only so mean and inconsiderable of itselff as cannot competently mantain him, bot also, throw the decay of trade, and povertie of the inhabitants of the said toun, by whom the samen is lyable, could not yeerlie be collected and recovered without ane great deall of trouble and expences, the payers therof being so numerous and the quantitie in which it is payed being so litle, and albeit that the erection of the said kirke of Borrowstounes was for the tyme illegall as wanting lawfull authority, and done in the absence and without the consent of the said umqhile duke, haveing right to the superiority or propperty of all lands within the said barronie, and to the haill teinds therof, yet the said duke and dutches succeiding to him therintill, considering that the said kirk of Borrowstounes is situat in the most fit and convenient place within the said barronie for the ease and accommodation of the wholl inhabitants therof, and that the communicants of Kinneill wer so few and inconsiderable, and the stipend mortified for Borrowstounes so mean, wer willing and content that the said kirk of Borrowstounes should be declared to be now, and in all tyme comeing, the only kirk of the said haill barronie of Kinneill, wherunto the wholl inhabitants therof might resort and repair for heareing of the word preached and sacraments administrat, and als wer willing to apply the old stipend of the said kirk of Kinneill to the said kirk of Borrowstounes, and to provide for the minister therof ane manss and gleeb, equivalent to the old manss and gleeb of Kinneill, in leiw and place therof, at least suteable and agreeable to the laws of this land, which together with the stipend mortified and payable by the inhabitants of Borrowstounes to the kirk therof, would be ane sufficient and competent mantenance for the minister serveing the cure therat in all tyme comeing; and therfore, desireing that the said kirk of Borrowstounes might be ordained and appointed to be now, and in all tyme comeing, the only kirk of the said haill barronie of Kinneill, wherto the haill inhabitants therof should resort and repair for heareing of the word preached and the sacraments administrate, and that the old stipend of the said kirk and paroche of Kinneill might be due and payable to the minister of the said kirk of Borrowstounes for the tyme, and his successors serveing the cure therat, and ane sufficient manss and gleib provyded therto in leiw of the old manss and gleib of Kinneill, as said is, and that the same, with the stipend mortified and payable to the said kirk of Borrowstounes be the inhabitants therof, might be declared ane sufficient and competent mantenance for the minister serveing the cure therat, and that any former pretendit erections of the said kirk of Borrowstounes, for ane kirk and paroche by itselff distinct from the said kirk and paroch of Kinneill, might be annulled, except in so far as concerned or might be extendit to the mortification of the stipend forsaid to the said kirk of Borrowstounes, as in the said supplication at mair lenth is exprest. And our said soverane lord and the saids estates of parliament, haveing also considered the grounds and reasons wherupon the said petition proceids, and being satisfied therwith and finding the samen and desire forsaid most just and reasonable, thairfor, our said soverane lord, with advice and consent of the saids estates of parliament, hes decerned and ordained and heirby decernes and ordaines the said kirk of Borrowstounes to be, now and in all tyme comeing, the only kirk of the said haill barronie of Kinneill wherto the haill inhabitants therof shall resort and repair for heareing of the word preached and the sacraments administrat, and the old stipend of the said kirk and paroche of Kinneill to be due and payable to the minister of the said kirk of Borrowstounes for the tyme and his successors serveing the cure therat, and ane sufficient manss and gleeb to be provyded for them by the said duke and dutches equivalent to the manss and gleeb of Kinneill, at least suteable and agreeable to the laws of this land and that in leiw and place of the samen old manss and gleeb, and which is and shall be the only manss and gleib of the said new erected kirk and paroche of Borrowstounes, and that the said old stipend of Kinneill, with the forsaid new manss and gleeb to be provyded, together with the stipend alreadie mortified and payable to the said kirk of Borrowstounes by the inhabitants therof, is and shall be ane sufficient and competent mantenance for the minister serveing the cure therat. And our said soverane lord, with consent forsaid, hes annulled and heirby annulls any former pretendit erection of the said kirk of Borrowstounes in ane kirk and paroche by itselff, distinct from the said kirk and paroche of Kinneill, except in sua far as concerns the mortification of the forsaid stipend to the said kirk of Borrowstounes by the inhabitants therof, which notwithstanding is still to be dew and payable in maner forsaid.
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The king's majestie, considering that the toun of Borrowstounes, haveing formerlie granted to them four yeerly fairs to be holden at the said toun upon the respective dayes nominat for the same, and that it will be most usefull and advantageous for the good of his leidges resideing within the said toun of Borrowstounes, and places adjacent therto, that the fourt fair of the said toun be altered and changed from the eighteinth day of November upon which the samen wes formerlie keept; thairfor, the king's majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, doe heirby alter and change the said fourt fair that wes formerlie keept at Borrowstounes, from the said eighteinth day of November to the second Tuisday of July yeerly, in all tyme comeing, with power to Anna, dutches of Hamiltoun, her airs and successors, or such as they shall appoint, to collect, uplift and receave the tolls, customes and dewties belonging to the said fair, and to enjoy all freedomes, liberties, priveledges and immunities whatsumever, siclyk and als freely as they doe in any of their other fairs, or as any other may doe in the lyk cace.