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 King CHARLES&II. 9 7 From the Shire of 'Dumfries, eight hundred Foot, and eighty eight Ho rfe. From the Shire of Wtgtoim, eight hundred Foot, and eighty eight Horfe. From the Shires of Air and Renfrew, one thoufand, three hundred, thirty three Foot, and one hundred, feventy, fix Horfe. From the Shire ofLanerlck, one thouiand Foot, and one hundred, fourty, eight Hoife. From the Shires of Stirling and'C lackmanndn, fix hundred fixty fix Foot, and eighty eight Horfe. From the Shires of Fife and Kinrofs, one thoufand, fix hundred Foot, and one hundred, feventy, fix Horfe. From the Shire oiPerth, one thoufand, fix hundred Foot, and one hu ndred, feventy, fix Horfe. From the Shire of Forfar, one thoufand Foot, and one hundred and three Horfe. From die Shire of Klncardln and Marjhals part of %_Aberdeen, eight hundred Foot, and feventy four Horfc, From the reft of Aberdeen and Shire of Bamjf, one thoufand, fixty fix Foot, and one hundred feventy fix Horfe. From the Shires of Elgin, Nairn, and this fide oi Nefs, one thoufand Foot, and eighty eight Horfe. From the Earl of Seafort and Lord Lovat, their divifion of Innernefs^ fix hundred, fixty fix Foot, and eighty eight Horfe. From the Shires of Sutherland and Calthnefs, and the reft of Innemefs, one thoufand, fixty fix Foot, and eighty eight Horfe. From the Shires of Argyl, Tiurnbartoun and Bute, eight hundred Foot. From the Shire of Orknay, fix hundred, fixty fix Foot, which Forces are to be in readinefs, as they fhall be called for by His Majefty, to march to any part of His Dominions of Scotland, England or Ireland, for fuppreffing of any forreign invafion, inteftine trouble or infurrecftion, or for any other fervice wherein His Majefties Honour , Authority or Greatnefs may be concerned. And for the better profecution hereof, the Eftates of Parliament do humbly entreat, His Majefty may be graciously pleafed to give Commffions to fuch perfons to be general Officers, Colonels, Lieutenant- collonels, Majors and Rute-mafters, as His Majefty, in His Royal judgment, fhall think fit; And for other Officers, or any other thing fitting to be done for perfecting of the Levies and carrying on of this bufinefs, they do humbly recommend to His Majefty, to give His direction therein to His Privy- Council, who are hereby impowcred with Commilfion and Authority, for the ordering, difpofing and fole managing of this Affair, in fuch a way, as this dutiful offer of the Parliament to His Majefty may be made moft effeftual, and according to the inftruftions and commands they fhall receive from His Majefty. And the Eftates of Parliament do Declare, that if His Majefty fhall have fur- ther ufe of their fervice, this Kingdom will be ready, every man betwixt fixty and fixteen, to joyri and hazard their lives and fortunes, as they fliall be called for by His Majefty, for the fafety and prefervation ofHisfacred Perfon, Authority and Government: XXVII i_A C T ajfertlng His Maje tiles Trerogat'rve in the ordering and difpfalof Trade with forralgners. THe Eftates of Parliament confidering, that during the late troubles, divers invafions were made upon the Royal Prerogatives of the Crown; And that in a juft abhorrence thereof, and in a due fenfe of the happinefs they enjoy under His Majefties Government, they are oblieged on all occafions to vindicate and affert the fame, in the feveral branches thereof: And fince the ordering and difpofal of Trade with forraign Countries, and the laying of reftraints and impofiti- ons upon forraign imported Marchandizes, is, by the Law of Nations, acknowledged to be proper to, and inherent in, the perforts of all free Princes, as an undoubted Prerogative of the Crown. They therefore, in a dutiful and humble recognizance of His Majefties Prerogative-royal , do De- clare, That the ordering and difpofal of Trade with forraign Nations, and the laying of reftraints and impofuions upon forraign iniported Commodities, doth belong to His Majefty and His Suc- ceflbrs, as an undoubted Priviledge and Prerogative of the Crown ; And that by vertue thereof, they may lay fuch impofitions and reftraints upon imported forraign Commodities, and fo order and difpofe upon the Trade of them, as they fliall judge fit for the good of the Kingdom. Like- as the King's Majefty, with advice and confent of His Eftates in Parliament, doth hereby Refcind and Annul all A&s, Statutes, Conftitutions and Cuftoms to die contrary; And Declares the fame void and null in all time coming. XXVIII. COMMISSION for plantation of Kirks and valuation ofTeinds, THe King's moft Excellent Majefty, being defirous to profecute the work of valuation of Teinds and plantation of Kirks, in reference to His own intereft for the annuity , and the univerlal good of His people, efpecially for the incouragment of the Minifters of the Gofpel ; Doth with advice and confent of His Eftates of Parliament, Ratifie and Approve the nineteenth Act of the Parliament, holden at Edinburgh by His Royal Father of bleffed memory, in anno, one thoufand, fix N hundred