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think most fitting for the honour of the nationand to nil
other publike or private meetings, as occasion offers; as also
that the merchants and factors are and shall be obliedged ac
cording to ancient acts to count and pay to the Lord Con
servator and minister theis dews, allowed them by the King
and Burrows, without fraud or guile, upon the penalty as
aforsaid.
11. And that no factor take another mans customer of his
hand either in buying or sellingupon the penaltie as aforsaid
toties quoties as they shall be complained upon to the Con
servator or deputy, and to stand to their further perrill.
XIV.
Acts of the Royall Burrows at their generall convention
begun and holden at Edinburgh the first Teusday off
July a0 1669, in favors of their stapell-port, setled
at Dordrecht.
The 17 act of the Roy all Burrows.
The same day statuts and ordaines for the better preser
vation of the Scots stapel, now setled at Dort, that no stapel-
commodities be transported to any port of the Seaventien
Provinces but to the toune of Dordt, and in particulare
dischairges and prohibits all merchands and skippers of this
kingdome to carie their stapelgoods to Zeelant or Rotterdam
whither the same be in coallships or other vessels, with cer
tification the same shall be escheat.
The 19 act of the Royall Burrows
The same day for the better distinguishing and putting
delference betwixt those goods, that are stapelgoods, and
those, that are not, the Convention statuts and ordains, that
the commodities and wares underwreaten shall be reckoned,
holden and repute stapellgoods in all tyme coming; viz furst
skins of all soarts, hyds of all soarts, wool playdingh and all
Gemeentearchief: Copieboek fol. 160 verso.
