BY THE AUDITOR— GENERAL OF THE REVENUES of SCOTLAND.  
Whereas upon Application made unto the Right honourable His Highness Council in Scotland, for the Government thereof, by the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, concerning some abuse, disproportion and difference lately discovered to have been from the 24. of February, to the 28. day of April last, in the great and small Weights used in the public Weigh-house in Leith, whereupon some inconveniences have arisen, and prejudice also to divers Merchants, and others; Upon Consideration whereof, his Highness said Council have thought it fit, that the damages sustained by particular persons by reason of the said Abuse, should be examined upon Oath, or any other legal way; and to that end, have appointed me Commissioner in that behalf: Wherefore, to the intent that the tender care of his Highness said Council for the just relief and reparation of the damages occasioned as aforesaid, to any person or persons whatsoever, may not prove to them ineffectual, These are to give notice to all manner of persons concerned, who are any way damnified or prejudiced by the disproportion of the Weights, as abovesaid, that they are hereby desired, any time before the last day of this instant month, between the hours of Eight and Eleven in the morning, to exhibit before Me at my Habitation near the Abbey in Edinburgh, their Claims of damages sustained by them, with the Particulars how the same ariseth, together with their Instructions for clearing the same; Whereby Report thereof may be made unto his Highness said Council at their next sitting.  
Given under my Hand at Edinburgh this Twentieth day of May, 1657. JOHN THOMPSON.   

EDINBURGH: Printed by Christopher Higgins, in Harts Close, over against the Trone-Church, 1657.