C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
ACT of Council, Appointing the burgh's Royal to send in an account of their several Sets and Constitutions.  
Edinburgh, the ninth day of February, 1682.  
HIS Royal Highness, His Majesty's high Commissioner, and Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, Do find it fit and  for His Majesty's Service, that they have a particular and exact Account of the Constitution and Sett of the several Royal burgh's within the Kingdom, to the effect they may know of what number each Burgh consists, of either Merchants or Tradesmen, being Magistrates and Councillors: And therefore, Do hereby Require and Command the present Magistrates of the several burgh's Royal, to send in to the Agent of the Burrows, under their Clerk's hand, a particular and exact Account of the several Sets and Constitutions of the burgh's, and of what number, either Merchants or Tradesmen, the Magistrates, Council and Electors of them, do consist: And Ordain the said Agent of the Burrows, to form the same in a Book, and give in the same to the Clerks of Council, with all possible diligence: And Appoints the said Agent to send Extracts, or Copies hereof to the several burgh's; and the said's Magistrates to give obedience accordingly, with certification to them, if they failyie they shall be called before, pursued and punished by the Council for their Contempt; and if need beiss, Ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Ext. by me, WIL PATERSON. Cls. Sti. Concilij. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno DOM. 1682.