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Updated: June 6, 2025
To prevent extravagance in dress parish taxes were "cessed" according to apparel "if he be unmarried, according to his own apparel; if he be married, according to his own and his wife's or either of their apparel." Statutes were also passed for encouraging agriculture and for settling church discipline according to the rules of the church of England.
Against excesse in apparell that every man be cessed in the churche for all publique contributions, if he be unmarried according to his owne apparrell, if he be married according to his owne and his wives, or either of their apparrell....
Sir James instantly dispatched orders to the cessed soldiers either to come to Dumfries or meet him on the way to Dalry, and commanded the thirteen or fourteen men in the town with him to come at nine next morning to his lodging for supplies. On the morning of Thursday the rebels arrived at Dumfries with 50 horse and 150 foot.
For all this attention each of these soldiers received from his unwilling landlord a certain sum of money per day three shillings sterling, according to Naphtali. And frequently they were forced to pay quartering money for more men than were in reality "cessed on them."
Sir James instantly despatched orders to the cessed soldiers either to come to Dumfries or meet him on the way to Dairy, and commanded the thirteen or fourteen men in the town with him to come at nine next morning to his lodging for supplies. On the morning of Thursday the rebels arrived at Dumfries with 50 horse and 150 foot.
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