A proclamation concerning the payment of the watch-money by the citizens of Edinburgh Proclamations. 1682-09-01 Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. 1682 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A82889 Wing E164I ESTC R231985 99900082 99900082 133318 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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FORASMUCH , as the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh , for the Ease and Conveniency of the Neighbours and Inhabitants of this City , has raised an Company of Foot Souldiers ' by vertue of a Commission from the Kings most Sacred Majesty for Guarding thereof , and which Company is now actually upon Duty ; And seeing in order to their Payment , there has been great pains and care taken by them to make a List of the whole Inhabitants lyable to Watching : and a certain small Sum weekly to be payed by the persons contained in the said List , which are now put in the hands of the Constables , to be Collected by them within their respective Bounds ; and whereupon , there is an Act of the Town Council made , the twelfth day of July last by past , which is likewise approven by the Kings Majesty . And the sa●d Magistrates and Council considering , That the saids Souldiers has been som time upon Service , and that it will take likewayes sometime for the Constables to Ingather and Collect the said Watch-mony , and to the effect that the Inhabitants lyable in paym●nt thereof , may have timeous warning to pay in to the saids Constables their respective Proportions . Therefore , the saids Magistrates , did ordain , one of the Officers of the said Town of Edinburgh To command and charge , in Our Soveraign Lords Name , and in name and behalf of the Lord Provost , Baliffs , and Council of this Burgh , that each of the Inhabitants and Neighbours within the same , contained in the respective Lists , whereof , the Constables has an Authentick double subscribed by the Magistrates , that they pay in to the respective Constables within their Bounds , a Months Watch-silver , which begins from the 24th of August last , ( upon which day the said Company entered upon Duty ) and that at , or before the seventh day of September Instant , and Monthly thereafter in time coming upon the first lawful day of each Month : Certifying all such persons whose Names are contained in the saids Lists , and who doe not make punctual payment of their respective Proportions , and that Monthly , as said is , that they shall be poinded to the double value of their saids Months Proportion ; Declaring , that the Poinds taken for payment of the saids Watch-mony , shall not be restored unless Redeemed upon Payment the very next day after the poinding : As likewise , with Certification , that those persons who shall be refractory in payment of their said Watch-mony , that they shall be lookt upon and holden as Contemners of Authority , and accordingly shall be punished in their persons . And to the effect the Constables may attend carefully upon their Duty in receiving of the said Watch-mony , they are hereby discharged from going forth of this Bu●gh unless they lay down some solid Way for Payment in their absen●e , of the Proportions of Watch-mony payable by the Inhabitan●s within their respective Bounds : Certifying the saids Constables who doe in the contrair , that their Houses shall be poinded to the double value of the Watch-mony contained in their Lists . And ordains this present Proclamation to be Intimat at the Mercat Cross of this City by sound of Trumpet , and the samine to be printed , that none may pretend Ignorance Given at Edinburgh , September 1st . 1632. I. R. God save the King. Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , Anno Dom. 1682.