Act of the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council, in favours of the brewars in Edinburgh, and liberties thereof. Edinburgh the 7 day of September, 1693 years. Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05344 of text R183033 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S1468A). 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 B05344 Wing S1468A ESTC R183033 51617447 ocm 51617447 175364 2240900906

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B05344) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175364) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2730:34) Act of the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council, in favours of the brewars in Edinburgh, and liberties thereof. Edinburgh the 7 day of September, 1693 years. Scotland. Privy Council. Eliot, Gilbert, Sir, 1651-1718. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Reid, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1693. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Signed at foot of text: Gilb: Eliot. Clss: Sti. Cons. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Brewing industry -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Brewers -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Early works to 1800. Beer -- Prices -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Early works to 1800. eebo Act of the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council, in favours of the brewars in Edinburgh, and liberties thereof. Edinburgh the 7 day of September, 16 Scotland. Privy Council 1693 1 497 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. 2008-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ACT Of the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council , In Favours of the BREWARS in EDINBURGH , And Liberties thereof . Edinburgh the 7 day of September , 1693 Years .

ANENT the Petition given in to the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council be the Brewers within the Town of Edinburgh , and Liberties thereof , Shewing , That where over and above the Kings Excise of Two Merks per Boll , The Liquor of Ale and Beer are now furder Burdened per Pynt , with Three Pennies of Additional Excise to Their Majesties , and an Imposition of Two Pennies to the Town of Edinburgh , per Pynt ; For which Additional Burden , It is evident that the price of Ale and Beer ought to Rise proportionally , Likewise , De Facto , it is risen almost in all other parts through the Kingdom , except as to the Town of Edinburgh , and Liberties , where the difference that hinders this Rise , which is to Just and Natural , is that in other parts , the Brewer and Ventner are the same , and so hath the Liberty to make and take his price , whereas in Edinburgh , one Brews and another Vents , and both are at the Discretion of the Drinker , Whereby the Lords of Council may perceive , That their Authority and Regulation is needfull in this case to be interposed ; And seeing , to the Effect that the Petitioners may Brew sufficient Ale , as shall not be returned upon them , and be able to pay the foresaids Burdens : And above all , that the Heretor may have Vent , and a Reasonable and Just price for his Victual : It is necessary that the Petitioners be allowed to take at least a Plack or Four Pennies more on the pynt of Ale , to answer for the Five pennies of Excise , and Imposition which is a moderate Recompence : And therefore humbly supplicating , to the effect after mentioned , as the said petition bears . The Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council , Having considered this petition given in to them be the above Brewers , They , in respect , there are no Answers given in to this petition , as was appointed by a former Deliverance thereon ; Do hereby allow the Petitioners to take a plack or Four pennies more for the pynt of Ale , above the ordinary price from the Ventner ; And allows the Ventner to take the same Addition over and above his ordinary price . And Recommends to the Magistrates of Edinburgh to punish the Contraveeners of this Act , as they shall find Just . And Ordains thir Presents to be Printed , and publickly Sold. Extracted by me ,

GILB : ELIOT . Clss : Sti. Cons.

EDINBURGH , Printed by John Reid , Anno DOM. MDCXCIII .