Advertisement, ... At a general meeting of the inhabitants of the City of Edinburgh, they having appointed a commitee of thirty two persons out of their number to collect a certain sum, for payment of the tents and other particulars demanded from the city, for the army now in the neighbourhood, ...
[Edinburgh,
1745]
"The army now in the neighbourhood" is the Jacobite army.
Dated: Edinburgh, 2d October 1745.
ESTC
Scotland Edinburgh.