To
His
GRACE
,
HIS
MAJESTY's
HIGH
COMMISSIONER
.
And
the
Honourable
ESTATES
OF
PARLIAMENT
The
PETITION
of
several
NOBLES
and
BARRONS
concerned
in
Burghs
of
Regality
and
Barrony
,
and
other
Inhabitants
within
this
Kingdom
.
Humbly
Sheweth
THAT
there
being
an
Act
offered
to
your
Grace
and
Lordships
,
for
Explaining
the
Import
of
the
Words
in
the
Act
of
Parliament
1693
(
anent
Communication
of
Trade
)
Discharging
all
Persons
whatsomever
to
exercise
any
kind
of
Trade
;
which
we
humbly
conceive
did
not
extend
to
the
Trading
in
the
Native
Commodities
of
the
Kingdom
,
or
to
Handycrafts-men
following
their
several
Imployments
,
or
to
Retailing
Forreign
Commodities
bought
from
Burgesses
of
Royal
Burghs
;
The
saids
Priviledges
being
secured
to
us
by
former
Laws
,
no
ways
Abtogat
or
Rescinded
.
When
the
said
Act
was
moved
,
after
some
little
Debate
it
was
laid
aside
and
delayed
.
And
seing
the
Explaining
of
the
saids
Words
is
a
Matter
of
Universal
Concern
to
this
Kingdom
,
May
it
therefore
please
your
Grace
and
Lordships
to
Call
for
the
said
Act
,
which
lyes
in
the
Clerk's
Hand
,
and
to
Explain
and
declare
your
Meaning
by
the
forsaid
Words
;
that
the
Leidges
may
be
determined
thereanent
,
and
freed
from
the
Expenses
of
further
Quibbling
thereupon
.