[1597/11/46]¹

Strang beggaris, vagaboundis and Egiptians suld be punished

Oure soverane lord and estaitis of parliament ratefeis and apprevis the actis of parliament maid ofbefoir aganis strang and idle beggaris, vagaboundis and Egiptianis with this aditioun: that strang beggaris and thair bairnis be imployit in commoun workis and thair service mentionat in the actis of parliament in the yeir of God ane thousand and fyve hundrethe sevintie nyne yeiris to be prorogat during thair lyftymes and in place of severall commissioun in landuart to be grantit be the king for executioun of the said act, the power thairof to be grantit to the particular sessioun of the kirk.