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Our sovereign lord, considering how necessary it is for the encouragement of the tillage of this country, which is subject to so much toil and expense, though the improvement thereof be most advantageous to the whole kingdom, that liberty is granted for the exportation of corn, after the natives are sufficiently provided for; therefore the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his estates in parliament, statutes and declares that it shall be lawful to export corn of all sorts, when they are under the prices following, at the ports or respective places of exportation, namely, each boll of wheat under £12 the boll, bear and barley under £8 the boll, oats and peas under 8 merks the boll, notwithstanding of any former acts, laws or practice to the contrary, they paying the usual custom and bullion as formerly, with this provision: that when the lords of his majesty's secret council shall judge it necessary, for the good of the kingdom and preventing of dearth, they may discharge the exportation of victual of all sorts for so long time as they shall think fit. As also, for improvement of the pasturage of this kingdom and for encouragement of the breeders of the bestial thereof, it is statute and ordained, with advice and consent foresaid, that the exportation by sea of all sorts of bestial, either nolt, sheep or swine and barrelled butcher-meat of all sorts, shall be free of custom, bullion and all other impositions for the space of nineteen years next after the date hereof.
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Our sovereign lord, considering that since 1 January 1652, before the making of the sixty-second act of the first session of this parliament entitled, act for ordering the payment of debts between debtor and reditor, diverse persons having right by posterior comprisings to the legal reversion of the first comprising led of their debtors' estate have, according to the law then in force, redeemed or satisfied the first comprising, and acquired the right thereof for their own better security, least the legal reversion of the first comprising should have expired to their prejudice; and whereas, by a clause of the foresaid act of parliament, it is ordained that all comprisings led since the said 1 January 1652, within a year and a day of the first effectual comprising, shall come with equal pace together in manner and upon the provisions mentioned in the said act; which clause, as it is most just as to all comprisings led and standing unredeemed and unsatisfied by the subsequent comprisers having right to the legal reversion, so it were unjust to prejudice those who, for their own security, have redeemed or satisfied the first comprising, as said is, according to the law then standing. Therefore, his majesty, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, declares that, albeit the foresaid act was made in the past to regulate the diligence used by comprisings at the instance of the creditors, yet it was in no way their meaning to prejudice posterior comprisers, who in good faith, for their own security and for preventing the hazard of the expiration of the legal reversion of the first comprising, did redeem or satisfy the same; and therefore, it is statute and ordained that the said second comprisers shall in no way be prejudiced of the right of the foresaid first comprising redeemed and satisfied by them; declaring, nevertheless, that as to the second or posterior comprising standing in the parties' person who satisfied the first, the same shall only come in with the rest of the comprisers together, as it is provided by the foresaid act. As likewise, declaring that this act shall be in no way extended to any comprisings satisfied by the second comprisers since the making of the foresaid act of parliament, or to be satisfied in time coming.
[1663/6/57]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Anent the report given in by certain of the lords of the clergy, to whom it was committed to audit and fit Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, his accounts, making mention that they, having considered the said accounts, they find that his own intromissions, with the vacancies on this side of the river of Forth extends to the sum of £14,978, and that the said Mr John is, by payment made to several persons conforming to precepts drawn upon him by the parliament and privy council, and whereof he produced discharges from the respective parties, exhausted in the sum of £11,546 over and above his whole intromission, and that without any allowance for his pains and charges; and further, that the said Mr John had given commission to several persons collectors beyond Forth of whom he had taken sufficient security, but had intromitted with nothing himself of the vacancies within these bounds and that, therefore, it was their humble opinion that the said Mr John should assign all these subcollectors' bonds to the bishops of the respective diocese, to the end they may call the said collectors to account and, after trial of their intromission and real disbursements, with power to them to dispose of what shall be found resting owed to such persons in their respective diocese as have precepts from the parliament or privy council, according to their necessities, and for satisfying of Mr John Wilkie of the sum wherein he is superexpended, and of what shall be allowed for his pains and expenses of the vacancies of the year 1662 within the diocese of Glasgow not already disposed of shall be assigned to him, he being accountable for the surplus (if any be). The which report, being this day read in parliament, and the king's majesty being therewith well and ripely advised, does, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, appoint the said Mr John Wilkie to assign the several bishops to the bonds and sureties given to him by his subcollectors for the vacant stipends, each of them within their own diocese, with power to the bishops to call for and pursue the collectors thereupon, and what shall be found due by the collectors that they see it employed for payment of such precepts as are granted by the parliament or privy council to suffering ministers, their widows or children within their respective diocese; and seeing it is found by the said accounts that Mr John Wilkie is superexpended in the sum of £11,546 Scots, his majesty, with advice foresaid, does assign to him, for his payment of the same, the vacant stipends of the diocese of Glasgow (not already disposed of) for the year 1662; and in regard of his pains and expenses he has been at in this trust these three years bygone, modifies £300 sterling to him for his service, pains and expenses, which is also to be paid out of the vacant stipends of the said diocese of Glasgow for the crop of 1662, with power to him and his deputes, for whom he shall be answerable, to uplift the said vacant stipends of the diocese of Glasgow, and to call, follow and pursue therefore; and to that effect appoints letters of horning and others to be directed at his and their instance against all persons liable in payment thereof, the said Mr John always being accountable to the lords of his majesty's privy council for what he shall intromit with more than satisfies himself of the two foresaid sums, extending both to the sum of £15,146 Scots. And in case it shall be found by the council that, after exact diligence done by him, he shall not be paid of the foresaid sum of £15,146 out of the vacancies of the diocese of Glasgow crop foresaid, that then the council assign some other money to him out of any of the vacant stipends. Likewise, the king's majesty and estates of parliament discharges Mr John Wilkie of his said employment and exonerates him thereof, and approves of his former service therein.
[1663/6/58]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The estates of parliament, having heard a supplication presented to them in name of [David Fletcher], bishop of Argyll, showing that it is very necessary and expedient, and would conduce much for instructing the most part of the inhabitants of the shire of Argyll that understand not the Scots language, that some youth that have the Irish tongue, and whose inclination should be found qualified for letters, might be trained up at schools and colleges to the effect they may serve in the ministry within that bounds whereby the Gospel may be the more propagated and piety abound amongst them; humbly therefore, desiring that some competency may be allowed out of the vacant stipends for eight expectants and eight scholars to be entertained at schools and colleges, as the supplication bears. Which with the report of those who were appointed to consider the said supplication, being taken into consideration by the estates of parliament, and they therewith advised, the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, appoints eight expectants who have passed their courses of philosophy and eight scholars who are to be trained up at schools and colleges to be entertained out of the vacant stipends of the bishopric of Argyll, and modifies the sum of 200 merks yearly to every one of the said expectants, and 100 merks to every one of the said scholars yearly, and ordains the same to be paid to them out of the first and readiest of the said vacant stipends of the bishopric of Argyll, and recommends to the bishop of Argyll to see the same effectually done and that he take care to see those who shall have the benefit of this act take the oath of allegiance and give surety for following out their studies, and that they shall not apply themselves to other employments after they have received the public allowance foresaid.
[1663/6/59]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The estates of parliament, having heard a supplication presented to them in name of [Robert Wallace], bishop of the Isles, showing that it is very necessary and expedient, and would conduce much for the inhabitants of these parts, that some youth that have the Irish tongue, and whose inclination should be found qualified for letters, might be trained up at schools and colleges to the effect they may serve the ministry in those parts, whereby the Gospel may be the more propagated and piety abound amongst them; humbly therefore, desiring that some competency may be allowed out of the vacant stipends for six expectants and six scholars to be entertained at schools and colleges, as the supplication bears. Which with the report of those who were appointed to consider the same, being taken into consideration by the estates of parliament and they therewith advised, the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, appoints six expectants who have passed their course of philosophy and six scholars who are to be trained up at schools and colleges to be entertained out of the vacant stipends of the bishopric of the Isles, and modifies the sum of 200 merks yearly to every one of the said expectants and 100 merks to every one of the said scholars yearly, and ordains the same to be paid to them out of the first and readiest of the said vacant stipends within the bishopric of the Isles, and recommends to the bishop of the Isles to see the same effectually done and that he take care to see those who shall have the benefit of this act take the oath of allegiance and give surety for following out their studies, and that they shall not apply themselves to other employments after they have received the public allowance foresaid.
[1663/6/60]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The estates of parliament, having heard a supplication presented to them by Sir Robert Innes of Muirton, for himself and in name and behalf of the remaining heritors of the parish of Kinloss, showing that the said kirk being lately erected and disjoined from the parishes of Alves and Rafford, the whole free teinds within the same being exhausted to make up a stipend to the minister serving the cure thereat, so that there is nothing left for any other pious use within the said parish, the parishioners being numerous and very poor and far distant from any school, so that they cannot have one of their own for the reason above-mentioned, and seeing there will be one year's stipend vacant by the deposition of the last minister thereof; humbly therefore, desiring that the said year's vacant stipend might be appointed to be paid towards the erecting and founding of a school, as the supplication bears. Which being taken into consideration, the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, ordains the vacant stipend of the said kirk of Kinloss for the year 1663 to be employed for erecting and founding a school there, and appoints the said Sir Robert Innes of Muirton to see the same effectually done and, if need be, ordains letters to be directed at his instance against the heritors and others for payment of the said year's stipend for the use aforesaid.
[1663/6/61]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Forasmuch as the inhabitants and community of the town of Dalkeith, having supplicated the lord commissioner and estates of parliament for the reparation of the two bridges of Dalkeith upon the south and north waters of Esk on either side of the town, which bridges, being almost undermined by the great inundations of water in the year 1659, are since that time daily decaying and will shortly fall to the ground if they be not quickly repaired, and the king's majesty and estates of parliament, considering that these two bridges are most useful and necessary for strangers and all other passengers resorting that way from the southern parts of the kingdom to and again towards the city of Edinburgh, and that the inhabitants and community of the said town of Dalkeith are not able by themselves to repair and uphold them unless some supply is granted to them for that effect; therefore, the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, appoints and allows that for the space of fifteen years after the date hereof the impositions following of Scots money shall be raised off the commodities and others underwritten which shall pass the said bridges of Dalkeith, for repairing and upholding the same and calsays thereabouts, namely, for each millstone, 6s 8d Scots; for each cart load, 1s; for every horse load of coals, lime, victual and ale, 2d; for each horse load of other goods, 4d; for every sum of sheep or nolt, 4d, and for every horse going to the market, 8d Scots; with power to the magistrates, inhabitants and community of the said town of Dalkeith (who have given sufficient security for repairing, upholding and leaving the said bridges in good condition) or such as they shall appoint and entrust, to collect, intromit with and uplift the impositions above-written as is above-specified, and to apply the same for repairing and upholding of the said bridges and calsays.