A proclamation for the ready in-bringing of the annexed and additional excise. Scotland. Privy Council. 1697 Approx. 13 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B05701 Wing S1936 ESTC R183559 52528995 ocm 52528995 179098 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. B05701) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179098) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:87) A proclamation for the ready in-bringing of the annexed and additional excise. Scotland. Privy Council. Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. [1697] Caption title. Initial letter. Intentional blank spaces in text. Dated: Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the third day of August and of Our Reign the ninth year, 1697. Signed: Gilb. Eliot, Cls. Sti. Concilii. Imperfect: cropped with loss of imprint date. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. 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Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A PROCLAMATION For the Ready In-bringing of the Annexed and Additional Excise . WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD , King of Great Britain , France , and Ireland , Defender of the Faith ; To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council , Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally specially constitute , Greeting ; Forasmuch as , By the second Act of the sixth Session of this Our current Parliament , The Lords of Our Privy Council are Authorized , and Impowered to prescribe such other Methods , and Orders , ( besides what is mentioned in the said Act ) as they should Judge necessary , for the better Up-lifting and In-bringing of the Additional Excise Imposed upon the respective Liquors specified in the said Act : And specially , for causing the same to be Raised , and Up-lifted upon the Liquor , and not upon the Malt. And We considering , how necessar it is , for the better In-bringing the Annexed and Additional Excise , and for Determining all Differences betwixt the Brewars and the Tacksmen of the said Annexed and Additional Excise , and their Sub-Tacksmen , and Collectors , from the first day of March one thousand six hundred and nyntie seven , to the first day of March , one thousand six hundred and ninty eight , during which space , the said Annexed and Additional Excise is now set in Tack , That all Entries of Liquors of whatsoever sort , Brown and Imported , lyable to the said Excise , be duely and timously made . Do therefore , With Advice of the Lords of Our ●rivy Council , Require and Command the Commissioners of Supply , of the several Shyres within this Kingdom , Qualified according to Law , and Residing whithin the Shyre : And who , by the said Act of Parliament , are appointed Commissioners of the said Annexed Excise , to meet at the Head-Burgh of the respective Shyres , the first Tuesday of September next to come , and at their said Meeting , to Settle and Appoint Places , within six Myles where the Brewers lives , where the publick Excise Offices shall be most conveniently keept for the Brewers to Enter , and give up the Quantities of the Liquors browen by them , Lyable in Payment of the said Excise . And appoints the saids Commissioners , immediately after designing places for the saids Offices , To cause make publick Intimation at all the church Doors , within the saids respective Shyres of the particular places , designed by them , for the several Excise Offices . With Certification to the saids Commissioners , or any of them , residing within the saids respective Shyres , who shall failȝie to meet the said first tuesday of September , nixt to come ; and to appoint , and design the particular places , for Excise Offices , in manner above exprest , Their Names shall be returned by their Clerk to the Lords of Our Privy Council : To the effect they may take such Course therewith , as they shall see Cause . And We , with Advice foresaid , Require and Command the saids Commissioners to meet the first tuesday of every Moneth thereafter , during the Continuance of the said Additional Excise , in manner , and for the ends prescribed , and set down in the foresaid Act of Parliament ; And We , with Advice foresaid , Require and Command the whole Brewers within the Bounds , alloted for the saids respective Excise Offices , to wait upon the saids respective Commissioners thereat , upon the first tuesday day of September above exprest , without any further Intimation , Charge or Citation to be given to them , by the saids Tacksmen , Sub-tacksmen , or Collectors of the said Annexed and Additional Excise , but the publication hereof , allen●rly : And there to give in , and make , And the saids Commissioners to receive from them full , and faithful Entries of all Liquors browen , or Retailed within the saids Bounds , Lyable in payment of the said Annexed and Additional Excise , since the first day of March last inclusive , to the said first tuesday of September , one thousand six hundred nyntie seven . And because the Brewers , and others Lyable to the said Excise , for want of timous Intimation , for the said Moneth of March , and thereafter , may pretend , that they cannot give their Oaths , if required , upon the precise Quantity of their Brewing , or Liquors Retailed by them , during the said space , They are therefore , here by allowed to give their Oaths in these Terms , That their said Brewing , or Retail , hath not exceeded such a Quantity , which is hereby held as sufficient , to make them Lyable for the same . Declaring hereby , and Certifying such Brewers and Retaillers , who shall not Compear , and attend the saids Commissioners , the first tuesday of every Moneth , for making the Entry of all Liquors Browen , or Retailed by them , Lyable to the said Excise , for the preceeding Months , they shall be holden as Confest , and Decreets given against them , for the Quantities of Liquors Lyble to the foresaid Annexed and Additional Excise , which shall be contained in the Claims , and Complaints to be given in by the Tacksmen , Sub-tacksmen , and Collectors against them . Providing , nevertheless , that if the saids Brewers , who shall failȝie , and be holden as Confest , shall at any time within three Moneths thereafter , Compear before any Two of the saids Commissioners , and having first made due Intimation to the Tacksmen make Faith as above , and Report a Certificat thereon , under their hands , they shal be Reponed against the said Certification , upon punctual payment of what they shall be found due ; And We with Advice foresaid , appoint and ordaine , that no Brewer within Brough of Royality , Barrony or Regality , Vend or Sell any part of their Browsts , until first they make Entry thereof at the Excise Office , within the Respective Burghs , and there obtain a Sufferance for the quantity Brown , which the keeper of the Office is to give gratis , and without delay ; and that in case of non-entry , or wrongous entry , the Brewer within Burgh to be lyable in the Sum of Ten Pounds Scots toties quoties ; And all Execution competent shall be made use of by Our Tacksmen , their Sub-Tacksmen , or Collectors against the respective Brewers for the same ; And which Entrys may be disproven before any Magistrat , Justice of Peace , or Commissioner of Excise by Witnesses , or Oath of Party , notwithstanding of any Survey made by the Surveyers , and Waiters ; And that all Brewers Barrels be for hereafter Marked with their own Name , and the Seal of the next Excise-Office , which Seal shall be Furnished to them gratis : As also , that no Person presume to Reset any Ale , or Drinking Beer in their Houses , in order to the Imbazling of the 〈◊〉 under the pain of Ten Pounds Scots toties quoties , to be payed to the foresaids Tacksmen , their Sub-Tacksmen or Collectors . And farder , that all Tapsters , and Vintners of Ale and drinking Beer , shall for hereafter , before they Tap , or Vend the same , take first a Licence from the nixt Excise-Office , and there give Bond and Caution , that they shall not Tapp nor Sell , for less Prices than these appointed by the Act of Parliament , under the Penaltie of ten pounds Scots toties quoties , it being always in the power of the Commissioners of Supplie and Excise , to modifie the saids Penalties , when Incurred as to all brewers not Living in Burghs of Royallity , Regality or Barrony : And in regard , the Excise of strong Waters , Aquavity , Brandy , and Forregin Beer and ale , is Ordered by the said Act of Parliament to be payed by the Retailers ; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council Require and Command , all brewers of Aquavity and Strong Waters , to make monthly Entries of the quantities of the saids Liquors Browen by them , and give in subscribed Lists to the nixt Excise-Office , of the Names of the Persons to whom they Sell their Aquavity , or strong Waters to be again Sold by Retail ; As likeways , that the Collectors , Clerks , or Surveyers at Sea ports , give up a true and particular Accompt to the saids Tacksmen , their Sub-Tacksmen , or Collectors of the said Excise of the Quantities of Foreign strong Waters , Brandy and foreign Beer and Ale Imported from time to time , and who is the Merchant Importer . As also , that the said Merchant Importer , and all other Persons who now pretend to Sell the foresaids Liquors in haill Sale conform to the late Act of Parliament : That is to say , above a Pint , be lyable and Obliged to give and Deliver subscrived Lists to the saids Tacksmen , or their Sub-Tacksmen Deputes , and Collectors of the Persons Names to whom they Sell the said Brandy , strong Waters , or Foreign Beer and Ale for Retail , and of the Quantities Sold to them , to the effect that the saids Retailers may be still lyable for the Excise thereof , And in case the saids Commissioners , or at lest Two of them shall fail , yet to Meet and Attend the saids respective Excise Offices upon the said first Tuesday of September nixt , or upon the first Tuesday of any subsequent Moneth during the continuance of the said Additional Excise ; The whole Division , and each of them residing , within the said Shire under the Certification foresaid ; and after Instruments taken against them , of their Failȝie to Meet and Attend as said is ; We with Advice foresaid require and Command , the Sheriffs and their Deputes , or such as the said Sheriff shall Substitute to each particular Dyet for that effect , allanerly to repair to the saids respective Offices , within Twenty four-Hours after they shall be desired by the Tacksmen , their Sub-Tacksmen , or Deputies , and Collectors of the said Annexed , or Additional Excise ; there Summarly to Judge upon what occurs within the Bounds of that Office in reference to the said Annexed or Additional Excise , Certifying the saids Sheriffs , their Deputes , or Substitutes , if they Faill , they shall be Punished as the Lords of Our Privy Council shall think sit : And further , We with Advice foresaid , Prohibit and Discharge any of the Commissioners of Supply , or other Inferior Judges , or Officers of the Law within this Our Realm , to stop or hinder , either Quartering , Poynding , or any other lawful Execution that shall be used by Our Tacksmen , their Sub-Tacksmen , Deputes and Collectors of the said Annexed , or Additional Excise , against the respective Brewers , and Retailers conform to the Entries that shall be made by them , or according to the Quantities of Liquors Retailed by them ; or whereupon they shall be holden as Confest , in manner , and before the Judges above-mentioned , except in the Case foresaid , under the pain of being , not only lyable for the Charges and Damnages Our saids Tacksmen , their Sub-Tacksmen and Collectors shall sustain and incurr there through ; But also , to such further pains as the Lords of Our Privy Council shall think sit . And lastly , It is hereby Declared , that all the Penal toties quoties above-mentioned , are to be understood not for every Delinquency , but allanerly for every Conviction , and for one single Transgression to be therein found . OUR WILL IS HEREFORE , and We Charge you strictly , and Command , that incontinent these Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and to the Mercat - 〈◊〉 of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom ; And there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation , make Intimation hereof that none ●●●tend Ignorance ; And Ordains Printed Coppies hereof to be sent to the Sheriffs of the several Shires , and Stewarts of the Stewartries within this Kingdom , whom , and their Clerks , We Ordain to see the samen Published , and Coppies thereof Affixed at the saids Mercat-Crosses , and Appoints them to send Doubles thereof to all the Ministers both in Churches and Meeting-Houses within their respective Jurisdictions ; that upon the LORDS Day immediately preceeding , the said first Tuesday of September nixt , the samen may be Intimate and Read in every Paroch-Church and Meeting-House ; And a Coppie of the same Affixt upon the most Publick Door thereof ; And Ordains these Presents to be Printed . Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh , the Third Day of August and of Our Reign the Ninth Year , 1697. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii . GILB . ELIOT , Cls. Sti. Concilii . GOD Save the King. Edinburgh , Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty , Anno 〈…〉