Notes on Cummeutrees. 93 



B. 



The following- is an extract of the Act referred to, which is of 

 date 12th July, 1671 :— 



" The Estates of PaKliaiueut ha\iiig heard a supplication pre- 

 sented to them by Adam Newall, in behalf of some tenants and 

 people in Aunandale, who, by their industry and wholesome 

 labour, do from sand draw salt for the use of private families in 

 that bounds ; and who, in reg-ard to the painfuluess and singularity 

 of the work, have ever been free from public imposition or exaction, 

 until the year one thousand six hundred and fifty-six or thereby, 

 that the late usurper, contrary to all reason, equity, or former 

 practice, forced from them an exaction to their overthrow and 

 ruin, and thereby dispossessed them that they are in a starving- 

 condition. 



" Humbly therefore desiring that they may be freed from 

 that unwarrantable exaction, and also having heard and considered 

 the report from the Commissioners for trade and bills, with their 

 opinion thereaneut : the King's Majesty, with the advice and con- 

 sent of the Estates of Parliament, declares the said salters, winning 

 and making salt within Uie bounds specified, in manner above 

 written, to be free of any excise, and therefore discharges all 

 collectors, or others, from any uplifting or exacting the same in all 

 time coming." 



(J. 



" The Scotch coins have on the right side the following inscrip 

 tion : — Alexander Dei Gra + encircling the profile of a king's head 

 crowned with an inverted sword placed in front of the head. On 

 the reverse side there is in very distinct characters Rex Scotorum, 

 encircling a cross and. four stars, one in each angle of the cross. 

 On the right side of the English coins there is a front view of a 

 king's head crowned, which is encircled with the following letters, 

 Edw R. Angl Dns IVB + , and on the reverse a cross with twelve 

 balls, three forming a triangle in each angle of the cross. The 

 inscriptions round the cross on the English coins are various. On 

 some the words Civitas London are very distinct ; on others, Civitas 

 Cantor ; on others, Civitas Ebrocae ; on others, Civitas Dublinie ; 

 and on others, Civitas ^Yaterford, probably to specify the different 

 places of their coinage. The English and Scotch coins are nearly 

 of the same weight and size, and two pieces are scarcely ei^ual in 



