Act regulating the trade betwixt Burghs Royal and Burghs of Regality, Barrony and others. ... Act for settleing the communication of trade. September 1. 1698 ...
1698
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Title
Act regulating the trade betwixt Burghs Royal and Burghs of Regality, Barrony and others. ... Act for settleing the communication of trade. September 1. 1698 ...
Created/published
[Edinburgh] : [publisher not identified], [1698?]
Description
1 unnumbered page ; 33 cm
Corporate author
Scotland.
Associated name
Scotland. Parliament.
Note
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
Item Details
Call number
270697 (folio)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Printed letter on bifolium. Folio (18 x 32cm) [3]pp., verso with manuscript address panel penned to “The Right Honorable the magistrats and town council of Bamf,” postally-used with remains of red wax seal impressed, unbound as issued, some light dustiness along old folds, a few small areas of paper restoration to blank margins not touching printed text. Dated 15 October 1698 at Edinburgh, this printed letter sent out by John Buchan, agent for the Royal Burrows, is addressed in manuscript to the town council of Banff in Aberdeenshire. Buchan seems to have held a contract authorising him to collect taxation from “unfree-traders” in Scotland, presumably Scottish merchants that were not burgesses. Buchan’s letter, which must have been sent out to town councils across Scotland, includes requests that he be supplied with information on trade and taxation within the district of the receiving council: “you are to consider what the Royal Burgh or Royal Burrows their proportion is in the tax-roll within your district, and to compare their trade with that of the Burghs of Regality and Barony, and others in the same ... and to transmit their several quotas to me betwixt the 20th November next ...” The texts of two relevant Scottish acts are printed on the fist two pages of the bifolium. A rare example of an official seventeenth century postally-used circular letter. Not traced in ESTC – we have not been able to trace another copy." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9208, 2018-05-22, catalog 26, item 102.
Folger accession
270697