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B05468	Scotland. Privy Council.	A proclamation against regrating of victual, and fore-stallers, and allowing the importation of victual free of publick burden.	1698		.xml	application/xml	1950	62	55	2008-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Scott Lepisto Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Scott Lepisto Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A PROCLAMATION Against Regrating of Victual , and Fore-stallers , and allowing the Importation of Victual free of Publick Burden . Macers of Our Privy Council , Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting : Forasmuch as by several Acts of Parliament , the keeping of Victual to a dearth , is strictly prohibited ; and particularly , it is Statute by the Acts James the Second , Parliament Sixth , Caput Twenty two and Twenty three , that for the eschewing of Dearth , Sheriffs , Baillies , and other Officers , both to Burgh and to Land , inquire what persons buys Victual , and holds it to a Dearth , and that the saids Sheriffs and Officers make such known , that in case they hold more than will sustain them and their Meinȝie to new Corn , they may be punished and demeaned as Ockerers and Usurers , and the Victual escheated to Us , and that the same be presented to Mercats , and sold as the price goes : And by the Act James the Second , Parliament Ninth , Caput Thirty eighth and Thirty ninth , It is ordained that no manner of Victual be holden in Girnels by any man to a dearth , but allennarly what is needful for their own Persons , and sustentation of their Housholds ; and that the saids Persons present all that they have more to the Mercar , under the pain of Escheat thereof : And Searchers are appointed in Edinburgh and Leith to make the saids Acts effectual .	cache/B05468.xml	txt/B05468.txt
