Act of Council, appointing the Burghs Royal to send in an accompt of their several setts and constitutions. Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05331 of text R183014 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S1444). 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 2018 B05331 Wing S1444 ESTC R183014 52615051 ocm 52615051 176158 2240896920

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ACT of Council , Appointing the Burghs Royal to send in an accompt of their several Setts and Constitutions . Edinburgh , the ninth day of February , 1682.

HIS Royal Highness , His Majesties high Commissioner , and Lords of His Majesties Privy Council , Do find it fit and necessar for His Majesties Service , that they have a particular and exact Accompt of the Constitution and Sett of the several Royal Burghs within the Kingdom , to the effect they may know of what number each Burgh consists , of either Merchants or Tradsmen , being Magistrates and Councellers : And therefore , Do hereby Require and Command the present Magistrates of the several Burghs Royal , to send in to the Agent of the Burrows , under their Clerks hand , a particular and exact Accompt of the several Setts and Constitutions of the Burghs , and of what number , either Merchants or Tradsmen , the Magistrates , Council and Electors of them , do consist : And Ordain the said Agent of the Burrows , to form the same in a Book , and give in the same to the Clerks of Council , with all possible diligence : And Appoints the said Agent to send Extracts , or Copies hereof to the several Burghs ; and the saids Magistrates to give obedience accordingly , with certification to them , if they failyie they shall be called before , pursued and punished by the Council for their Contempt ; and if need beis , Ordains these Presents to be Printed .

Ext. by me , WIL. PATERSON . Cls. Sti. Concilij . GOD SAVE THE KING .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , Anno DOM. 1682.