Act of the Commissioners of Supply of the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, anent the settlement of the prices of victual within the said shire, to the first day of September next. Edinburgh, April 28. 1699. Edinburgh (Scotland). Commissioners of Supply of the sheriffdom of Edinburgh. 1699 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B02994 Wing E160CA ESTC R176441 52528800 ocm 52528800 178766 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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Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-10 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion ACT OF THE Commissioners of Supply Of the SHERIFFDOM of EDINBURGH , Anent the Settlement of the Prices of Victual within the said Shire , to the First Day of September next . Edinburgh , April 28. 1699. THe COMMISSIONERS of Supply of the Sheriffdom of Edinburgh appointed by Act of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council , of the date the last Day of March last by past , for Stating and Settling the Prices of Victual within the said Shire , Having several times conveened at Edinburgh and Dalkeith ; And last of all being met and conveened this day : And having taken true and exact Tryal of the Prices of Victual , for five Weeks space preceeding the Date of the said Act , and duly considered the saids Prices : The saids COMMISSIONERS , by Vertue of the Power given and committed to them by the foresaid Act of Council , have Stated and Settled , and hereby STATES and SETTLES the highest Prices of the best Victual and Meal to be as follows , To wit The best Wheat Seventeen Pounds Scots per Boll . The best Oats Twelve Pounds per Boll . The best Barley Bear Thirteen Pounds Six Shilling Eight Pennies per Boll . The best Pease Thirteen Pounds per Boll . The best Oat Meal , by Weight , being Eight Stone , at Sixteen Shilling Six Pennies , per Half Stone , for the Peck . The best Bear Meal , at Eight Pounds per Boll , being Ten Shilling per Peck . The best Pease Meal , Nine Pounds Twelve Shilling Scots Money per Boll , being Twelve Shilling per Peck . And the foresaid Prices so Settled , are appointed by the said Act of Privy Council , to be the Feer and Settled Prices until the First Day of September next : And none are to presume to Sell at higher Rates , either in Mercats , Girnels , or otherwise , with the said Sheriff-dom , under the Certification of being Pursued as Usurers and Occurers , as the Act bears . And to the end the above written Prices may be published , the saids COMMISSIONERS Ordained , and ORDAINS thir Presents to be Printed , and their Clerk to send through Copies to all the Paroch Kirks of the Shire , to be Read the next LORDS Day after Divine Service ; As also , Doubles to be sent to the Baillies of Burghs within the Shire , to be by them Proclaimed at their Mercat-Crosses : And this present Settlement of the Prices of the said Victual and Meal to be Binding , and take Effect after the Publication and Intimation hereof . And ORDAINS thir Presents to be Recorded in the Sederunt Books of the saids COMMISSIOMERS . Sic Subscribitur John Clerk , I. P. C. Extracted furth of the Sederunt Books of the saids COMMISSIONERS , by RO. THOMSON their Clerk. EDINBVRGH , Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Excellent Majesty , 1699.