To His GRACE, HIS MAJESTY's HIGH COMMISSIONER. And the Honourable ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT The PETITION of several NOBLES and BARONS concerned in burgh's of Regality and Barony, and other Inhabitants within this Kingdom.  
Humbly showeth  
THAT there being an Act offered to your Grace and Lordships, for Explaining the Import of the Words in the Act of Parliament 1693 (anent Communication of Trade) Discharging all Persons whatsomever to exercise any kind of Trade; which we humbly conceive did not extend to the Trading in the Native Commodities of the Kingdom, or to Handycraftsmen following their several Employments, or to Retailing Foreign Commodities bought from Burgesses of Royal burgh's; The said's Privileges being secured to us by former Laws, no ways Abtogat or Rescinded. When the said Act was moved, after some little Debate it was laid aside and delayed. And seeing the Explaining of the said's Words is a Matter of Universal Concern to this Kingdom,  
May it therefore please your Grace and Lordships to Call for the said Act, which lies in the Clerk's Hand, and to Explain and declare your Meaning by the forsaid Words; that the lieges may be determined thereanent, and freed from the Expenses of further Quibbling thereupon.