By the Auditor-General of the revenues of Scotland whereas upon application made unto the right honourable his highness council in Scotland, for the government thereof, by the magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, concerning some abuse, disproportion and difference lately discovered to have been from the 24 of February to the 28 day of April last ... Auditor General for Scotland. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43905 of text R183797 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43905 489263256 ocn 489263256 Wing S967A

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 eng Weights and measures -- Law and legislation -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo By the Auditor-General of the revenues of Scotland :whereas upon application made unto the right honourable his highness council in Scotland, for the [Scotland. Auditor-general] 1657 2 333 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. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
BY THE AUDITOR — GENERAL OF THE REVENUES of SCOTLAND .

Whereas upon Application made unto the Right Honorable His Highness Council in Scotland , for the Government thereof , by the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh , concerning some abuse , disproportion and difference lately discovered to have been from the 24. of February , to the 28. day of April last , in the great and small Weights used in the publick Weigh-house in Leith , whereupon some inconveniences have arisen , and prejudice also to divers Merchants , and others ; Upon Consideration whereof , his Highness said Council have thought it fit , that the Dammages susteined by particular persons by reason of the said Abuse , should be examined upon Oath , or any other legal way ; and to that end , have appointed me Commissioner in that behalf : Wherefore , to the intent that the tender care of his Highness said Council for the just relief and reparation of the Dammages occasioned as aforesaid , to any person or persons whatsoever , may not prove to them ineffectual , These are to give notice to all manner of persons concerned , who are any way damnified or prejudiced by the disproportion of the Weights , as abovesaid , that they are hereby desired , any time before the last day of this instant moneth , between the hours of Eight and Eleven in the morning , to exhibite before Me at my Habitation near the Abbey in Edinburgh , their Claims of Dammages susteined by them , with the Particulars how the same ariseth , together with their Instructions for clearing the same ; Whereby Report thereof may be made unto his Highness said Council at their next sitting .

Given under my Hand at Edinburgh this Twentieth day of May , 1657. JOHN THOMPSON .

EDINBURGH : Printed by Christopher Higgins , in Harts Close , over against the Trone-Church , 1657.