[A1630/7/38]¹

Regarding the Dunkirkers

Regarding the article given in by the burghs touching the decay of their trade and shipping occasioned by the Dunkirkers, and the estates having seen the roll given in by the burghs containing the number of the ships taken from them, the said estates find fit and ordain that his majesty shall be petitioned to consider the deplorable estate of the country upon the occasion foresaid, and that his majesty would be graciously pleased to provide some way and means how his majesty's subjects may be protected in their safe and peaceable trading.