These are to give notice, that the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in pursuance of the power and authority to them given by his Highnesse Council in Scotland for the government thereof, have resolved, that the excise of beer, ale, and aquavitæ in the several shires in Scotland (the burghs therein included) be let to farm upon the respective dayes following, at the office in Leith. Scotland. Commissioners of Excise. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05134 of text R183816 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S1002M). 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. 3 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 2018 B05134 Wing S1002M ESTC R183816 52614911 ocm 52614911 176077 2240858915

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THese are to give notice , That the Commissioners of Customs and Excise , in pursuance of the power and authority to them given by his Highnesse Council in SCOTLAND for the Government thereof , Have resolved , That the Excise of Beer , Ale , and Aquavitae in the several Shires in SCOTLAND ( the Burghs therein included ) be let to Farm upon the respective dayes following , at the Office in LEITH .

The Shires of Berwick Roxburgh Selkirk Pebles Haddington Upon the 22. Jan. 1656. 57. Mid-Lothian Linlithgow Sterling Fife & Kinross Clackmannon Upon the 24. Jan. Lanerick Renfrew Dumbarton Argile Bute Aire Dumfrieze Wigton and Kirkcudbright Upon the 26. Jan. Perth Forfar Kincardin Aberdeen Bamff Upon the 28. Jan. Elgin Nairn Cromerty Rosse Inverness Sutherland Caithness Orknay and Zethland Upon the 30. Jan.

ANd to the end all Persons that desire to treat with the Commissioners touching the farming of all , or any the Counties aforesaid , may make their repair to them at LEITH ; It is ordered , That Publication hereof be made in every County with all convenient speed .

LEITH the 29. December , 1656. E. William Welch , Cl. of the Commiss .