of the publick justice to extirpate that sept of thieves";
which plainly intimates, that it was his Majesty's mind that they could
not be separated from the rest of these rebels, unless they still
refused his mercy by continuing in arms and refusing the allegiance, and
that, even in that case, they were only to be proceeded against in the
way of publick justice, and no other way.

FOOTNOTES:

[4] Of allegiance to King William.

[5] The Master of Stair.

[6] Probably fear.

[7] Ballachulish.

[8] Cattle.

THE BANK OF SCOTLAND (1695).

+Source.+--_The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland_, vol. ix., p.
495. (London: 1822.)

ACT FOR ERECTING A PUBLICK BANK.

Our Sovereign Lord considering how useful a Publick Bank may be in this
Kingdom according to the custom of other kingdoms and states, and that
the same can only be best set up and managed by persons in company with
a Joynt Stock, sufficiently endowed with these powers and authorities
and liberties necessary and usual in such cases, Hath therefore allowed,
and with the advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament allows, a
joynt stock amounting to the sum of twelve hundred thousand pounds money
to be raised by the Company hereby established for the carrying on and
managing of a publick bank. And further statutes and ordains, with
advice foresaid, that the persons under-named ... shall have power to
appoint a Book for subscriptions of persons, either natives or
foreigners, who shall be willing to subscribe and pay into the joynt
stock, Which subscriptions the foresaids persons or their quorum are
hereby authorized to receive in the foresaid book, which shall lie open
every tuesday or friday from nine to twelve in the forenoon, and from
three to six in the afternoon betwixt the first day of November next and
the first day of January next following, in the publick hall or chamber
to be appointed in the City of Edinburgh. And therein all persons shall
have liberty to subscribe for such sums of money as they shall think fit
to adventure in the said joynt stock, one thousand pound Scots being the
lowest sum, and twenty thousand pound Scots the highest. And the two
third parts of the saids stocks belonging always to persons residing in
Scotland. Likeas, each and every person at the time of his subscribing
shall pay into the hands of the fore-named persons, or any three of
them, ten of the hundred of the sums set down in their respective
subsc