Edinburgh, 6 April 1653. Forasmeikle as the provest, bailies, and councel of this burgh being conveened in counsel, finding that this good town hath been, and is greatly abused by strangers, vagabonds, unfree persons, and masterlesse people ... Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03003 of text R174856 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E164B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 B03003 Wing E164B ESTC R174856 53981647 ocm 53981647 180212 2240862370

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03003) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180212) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2820:18) Edinburgh, 6 April 1653. Forasmeikle as the provest, bailies, and councel of this burgh being conveened in counsel, finding that this good town hath been, and is greatly abused by strangers, vagabonds, unfree persons, and masterlesse people ... Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1653] Title from caption and first lines of text. Imprint suggested by Wing. Headpiece; initial letter. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Rogues and vagabonds -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Early works to 1800. Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Politics and government -- 17th century -- Sources. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. B03003 R174856 (Wing E164B). civilwar no Edinburgh, 6 April 1653. : Forasmeikle as the provest, bailies, and councel of this burgh being conveened in counsel, finding that this good Edinburgh 1653 1 281 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
EDINBVRGH , 6. April 1653.

FOrsameikle , as the Provest , Bailies , and Counsel of this Burgh being conveened in Counsel , finding that the good Town hath been , and is greatly abused by strangers , vagabonds , unfree Persons , and masterlesse People , both Men and Women , who take up their residence and dwelling within this Burgh , and harbours and resets all manner of wicked and ungodly Persons , whereby the Town is defiled with all kinde of Vice , the Kirk overburthened with their maintenance , and the monethly Contributions and Collections appointed for the Towns Poor , are imployed and consumed upon them . For remedy whereof , It is statute and ordained , that no Land-lord or Heritour within this Burgh , set their Houses to such unlawfull persons , nor admit of such tennents to reside therein , nor receive any strangers whatsomever without a famous Testimoniall of their honest conversation to bee approven be the Magistrat , or Kirk Session where they remain . And that the late Incomers , and Strangers who are evidently known to have neither means nor lawfull Calling whereby to live , be timeously warned be their Land-lords , to remove forth of this Burgh , & return to the places of their former residence , whether they be Men or Women , under such pains and penalties as the Magistrat shall think fit to injoyn for their contempt and dissobedience . And ordains thir presents to be published thorow this burgh be touk of Drum , and affixed in the publict mercat places , that none pretend Ignorance of the same .