monogram of 'W' (William) superimposed on' M' (Mary) 
DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
A PROCLAMATION, For the better Inbringing of the Hearthmoney.  
WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith; To Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, Greeting:  
Forasmuch as by the second Act of the third Session of Our Current Parliament, Our Estates of Parliament Have humbly Offered to Us, Fourteen Shilling Scots for every Hearth within this Kingdom, payable at Candlemass last, by the Inhabitants dwelling in the Houses where the said's Hearths are, without exception or exemption of any, except the Hearths of Hospitals and of Poor People, who are upon the Charity of the Paroch; and where any Houses are not Inhabited, that the said Hearthmoney should be paid by the Heretor, Liferenter, or proper Wodsetter, to whom the same for the time doth belong, to be applied for the uses and ends in the foresaid Act of Parliament contained. Likeas We, and Our Estates of Parliament, by another Act of the date, the tenth day of September last bypast, have remitted to, and impowered the Lords of Our Privy Council, to give such Orders for Collecting, and Inbringing of the said Hearthmoney, as they should judge fit. For the better Inbringing whereof, We by Our Commission, under Our Royal Hand, have Nominated and Appointed James Melvill of Cassingray, Receiver and Collector of all the Hearthmoney within this Kingdom, with Power to him to Constitute and Appoint Subcollectors, and Receivers under him in every Shire or Paroch, for whom he is to be answerable: Therefore, and for the more effectual and orderly Collecting, Uplifting, and Inbringing of the same, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Command and Ordain, all Heretors, Liferenters, and proper Wodsetters, by themselves, their Tutors or Curators, or Chamberlains and Factors, to give in to the said James Melvill, or to his Subcollectors and Deputs, within the several Shires and parochs, upon Intimation of their Commissions at the several Paroch Churches, or Mercat-Crosses of the respective Shires on a Mercat day, or any other manner of way they shall think fit, true and exact Lists, Subscribed with their hands, of all Hearths in the Houses or Lodgings possessed by them, and in the waste Houses belonging to them not possessed, and of all Smiddies, Kilns for drying of Corn, Ovens, Furnaces for Brewing, Salt-pans', Soap and Glass-Works, possessed by them, or standing waste within their Ground and Estate: And sicklike, Ordains all the Inhabitants, Tenants and Possessors in this Kingdom, to give in to the said Collector, or his Subcollectors and Deputs foresaids, upon Intimation of their Commissions, in manner abovementioned, true and exact Lists of all the Hearths in the Houses possessed by them, and of all Smiddies, Kilns for drying of Corn, Ovens, Furnaces for Brewing, Salt-pans', Soap, and Glass-works possessed by them, excepting always Hospitals and poor people, who are upon the Charity of the Paroch; With Certification to the said's Heretors, and other Inhabitants, if they failyie to give up the saids Lists, or give up false and short Lists, they shall be Cited and Processed before the saids Lords of Our Privy Council, and proceeded against with all rigour therefore: But prejudice always to the said James Melvill, and his Subcollectors foresaids, to use all other Legal Methods for discovering of the true number of the Hearths of this Kingdom, and Collecting and uplifting thereof: And Ordains all Magistrates, and Ministers of the Laws, to be Assistant, and give their Concurrence to them, for that effect. And We, with Advice foresaid, Do hereby Command and Require, the said James Melvill, Collector foresaid, and his said's Subcollectors, and Deputs, to report and give in the saids Lists, to the Lords Commissioners of Our Thesaury upon Oath, when they shall be called or required thereto; To the effect the said Hearthmoney may be uplifted, and Employed for the ends and uses in Our said Act of Parliament appointed. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you straight and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and to the Mercat-Crosses of the whole remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires within this Kingdom, and there, in Our Name and Authority, by open proclamation, make Publication of the Premises, that none may pretend ignorance, as ye will answer to Us thereupon, the which to do, We commit to you, conjunctly and severally Our full Power, by these Presents, delivering them by you, duly execute, and endorsed again to the bearer.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the Twelfth day of February, And of Our Reign the second Year, 1691. Per actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii. GOD save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1691.