Forasmuch as, by the [...]th Act of the fourth Session of this Our current Parliament, imposing the Pole-money, the Lords of Our Privy Councill are impowered to appoint [...]uch methods and Courses as they should judge fit, for stating and inbring­ing of the Pole-money aforesaid; And to decide and determine finally all questions and difficulties undetermined by the said Act, that may arise anent [...]e Pole-money therein-specified: Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of [...] Privy Councill, for the more speedy & easie Stating and Inbringing the fore­ [...]id Pole-money, in the particular cases aftermentioned, peremptorly Re­ [...]ire and Command all Masters of Families and House-holders, to give up [...]ll and true Lists under their Hand, of their whole Servants Prentices and [...]esidenters within their Families, together with a particular and exact Ac­ [...]ompt of their years Fee, due and payable to them at the Term of Martin­mass next to come, and that they deliver in the Lists so subscribed by them [...]o the Clerk of the Commissioners of Supply, who is hereby ordained to [...]smit the same to the Office of the Pole-money at Edinburgh, betwixt [...] the Day contained in the Act of Parliament, as they will be answerable. [...]d We, with Advice foresaid, Require and Command the saids Masters [...]d House-holders, and others who shall be lyable and due in any Fees to [...]eir Servants at the said Term of Martinmass next, to retain in their own [...]nds the twentieth part of the said Years Fee due to their Domestick Ser­ [...]nts, who are to remove out of their Service at Martinmass next, where the [...]id Fee is payable in Money, to be made forthcoming for the saids Ser­ [...]ts Pole-money. And further, We, with Advice foresaid, Require and Command the Commissioners of Supply, and Magistrats of Burghs within [...]heir severall Iurisdictions, at their first meeting, appointed by the foresaid Act of Parliament, to make up a List of all the vacant Churches within their [...]ounds, and to Design and Condescend upon an Heretor living within the [...]id Parish, lyable in payment of more then twelve pounds Scots of yearly S [...]ipend to the said Kirk, to be the person who shall pay the twelve pound of Pole-money, wherein the said vacant Kirk is lyable, and a Receipt thereof from the Farmers of the Pole-money, shall be a sufficient exoneration to him of the Sti­ [...]end of the said Kirk wherein he is lyable protanto; And We with Advice fore­s [...]id, Require and Command the Commissioners of Our Supply, and Magistrats within Burghs to go Diligently about the making up the Lists, and stating [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] the Pole-money within their severall Iurisdictions, conform to the Act of Par­liament, hereby Impowering and Authorising them to condescend upon and design an Heretor above an hundred pounds of valued Rent, at least in each Parish where no Commissioner lives, who being so designed and certified thereof by the Tacksmen of the Pole-money, their Sub-tacksmen or Collec­tors, We, with Advice foresaid Require and Command to proceed and make up the Lists, and state the Pole-money within the said Parish, and report the saids Lists to the Clerk of the Commissioners of Supply, who is to transmit the same, with the Lists made up by the Commissioners of Supply them­selves, to the Office of the Pole-money, kept at Edinburgh, betwixt and the Day appointed by the foresaid Act of Parliament: And the several Com­missioners themselves to make up the Lists of the severall Parishes within which they Dwell, and Transmit the same in manner foresaid. And We, with Advice foresaid, allow poynding of the persons lyable to Pole-money, conform to their several proportions within the Burgh of Edinburgh, and o­ther Royal. Burghs within this our Antient Kingdom, according to the Customs used within the several Burghs, in exacting and uplifting what falls under their Sient Rolls: And for the better Ingathering of the said Pole-money, and for preventing Tumults and Disorders, or any opposition that may be made in putting the Law in Execution for the said Pole-money; We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the Officers of our Forces to furnish small Parties to the Tacksmen of the said Pole-money, their Subtacksmen, or Collectors according as they shall be desired by them, in the Shires where the saids Forces ly [...], to give Assistance and Concurrance to them in the Ex­ecution appointed by Law for Ingathering the Pole-money, but no wayes to be imployed in Quartering upon any Person for the same. And seeing the Prosecution of the foresaid Act of Parliament, and this present Proclamation may be a fit occasion to take up Lists of what is Payed or Resting of the Hearth-money Imposed by Act of Parliament, One thousand six hundreth and ninety years. Therefore We with Advice foresaid, Require and Com­mand the Commissioners of Supply within the several Parishes where they Dwell, and the Heretors designed for making up the Lists of the Pole-mo­ney within the Parishes where they Dwell, to make up true and full Lists of all Sums of Money payed by any of Our Liedges for the Hearth-money, wherein they were lyable at the Term of Candlemass, One thousand six hun­dreth and ninty one years, by vertue of the Act of Parliament made there. anent, and presently to Transmit the same to the Clerks of the Commissioners of Supply, who are hereby Required to Transmit them to the Clerk of our The­saury and Exchequer, betwixt and the first Day of October next to come. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-cross of Ediburgh,) and to the Mercat-crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the whole Shires of this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make publick In­timation of the Premisses, that none may pretend Ignorance,