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Act ratifying the act of parliament made of before concerning the excess of costly clothing

²Our sovereign lord, with advice of his three estates convened in this present parliament, ratifies, approves and, for his highness, perpetually confirms the act made by his majesty, with advice of his three estates, in his parliament held and begun at Edinburgh on 20 October 1581, against the excess of costly clothing, etc., expressly commanding his highness's treasurer and all others, his officers to whom it pertains, to inquire, search and try the contraveners of the said act and to cause them [...]lit and accused thereof, and they being convicted, to raise and uplift the pa[...]tenit in the said act off them with all rigour in example of others.