The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 25 April 2024

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Act for proportioning the levies of horse according to the maintenance

The estates of parliament, considering how just and necessary it is for the good of the kingdom that all the levies and equipping of horse be proportioned upon the heritors and others liable for the said levies in an equal way in all time coming, therefore the said estates have ordained and ordain that the levies and equipping of horse in the several shires within this kingdom of Scotland shall be proportioned in all time coming upon the shires and upon the heritors and others liable in the said levies and for equipping horse within the said shires respectively in an equal way according to the maintenance payable by the said shires, heritors and others as said is.

  1. Not in manuscript, but from the printed collection of the acts, The acts done and past in the third session of the second Triennall Parliament of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the II, p.21.