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[^CHARTERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE BURGH OF PEEBLES, 
WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE BURGH, 1165-1710.
ED. W. CHAMBERS. SCOTTISH BURGH RECORDS SOCIETY.
EDINBURGH 1872.

SAMPLE 1: PP. 206.21-228.3
SAMPLE 2: PP. 318.11-356.33^]

<S SAMPLE 1>
<P 206>
[}8 APRIL 1555.}]
   The quhilk day, Johne Dikesone protestit that he knew nocht  #
the tovn
evident and allegit chartour and desyrit to se the samin, the   #
quhilk the
baillies refusit, and that the denegatioun thairof till him     #
suld nocht hurt his
gift that he had purchest of the Quenis grace quhill he knew    #
thair allegit title
thai haif to the landis contenit in the said Johne gift, and    #
that the persut
of the Quenis rycht be na preiudice till his fredome ay and     #
quhill he se
thair rycht.
   To the samin ansuerit my lord provest, baillies and          #
communite, that thai
auch nocht to schaw na chartour nor euident to the said Johne   #
be ressone
that he wes party and na competent juge till thame, and als     #
that he hes
hurt his fredome be ressone that he hes purchest privat         #
writtingnis aganis
the tovn in hurt of thair commoun weill and incontrare the      #
fidelite of his
aith considering he wes ane sworne nychtbour.
<P 207>
   Alsua, the said Johne protestit that the allegeance maid be  #
my lord 
provest, baillies and counsale of Peblis, suld nocht hurt the   #
said Johne
fredome becaus the Quenis Graces precept that he hes obtenit is #
in generale
till all and sindry havand entres thairto and nocht in speciale #
to the tovne,
and that he is content to pretermit the Quenis tak sua the      #
tovne haif ane
rycht thairto, and that it is ignorant errour and nocht wilful, #
gif it be found
ony, and thairupone the said Johne askit instrument.
   The counsale chosing for commoun actiones setting forward:   #
[^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
   The counsale abone writting ordanis the baillies, accumpanit #
with
certane honest nychtbouris, pas and mak thair wechtis, baith    #
custum and
wobstaris, les and mair, equale; and to deliuer the samin to    #
John Wilsone,
and caus the brethir of the craft vse thame and na vtheris,     #
vnder the pane
of forfalting of thair fredome.
   Siclike, ordanis to atteiche the maltmen that duellis within #
the fredome
of burgh to the nixt court for to mak and gif ane multer aith   #
for the termes
bygane, and fynd souerte in tyme cuming to kepe the actis maid  #
of auld,
vnder the pane of forfalting of thair fredome, or ellis to      #
aggre with the tovne.
   The counsale ordanis ane of the baillies, accumpanit with    #
Robert Hopringill,
James Wilsone, John Wychtman, to ryde on Pasche Monunday to
set forward all besynes thai haif ado, as thair fair dayis,     #
Gledstanis besynes,
letteres of the landwart merchandice, breking of our commoun of #
Glentres be
Winkestoun, Eschelis, and trubling maid be Johne Stodert, and   #
all vtheris
that hes failyeit in vsing and breking of our said commoun.
   The counsale ordanis tua of ilk quarter breik the laif of    #
thair nychtbouris
duelland within the fredom of burgh to the pissance of thair    #
geir, viz.,
Robert Hoppringill, Patrik Gowane, for thair quarter; James     #
Wilsone, William
Bell, for thair quarter; Nicholl Yache, James Tuedy, for thair  #
quarter;
<P 208>
Thomas Tuedy, Johne Fresall, for thair quarter; James Thorbrand #
and 
Johne Wilsone, for the Auld Tovn.
   The counsale ordanis the portis and heid yaird dykis to be   #
biggit sufficientlie
incontinent.
   Siclike ordanis to get the copy of the petty custummis of    #
Edinburgh that
our custummis may be vsit thairby.
   The quhilk day, my lord provest is contentit with all        #
thingis done this
day be the baillies counsale and communite, and sall stand      #
thairby, conforme
till his aith maid quhen he wes admittit provest, in all        #
materis concernyng
commoun weill presentlie and in tyme tocum, and ratifijs all    #
thingis forsaid,
and thairupone the baillies counsale and communite askit act    #
and instrument.

[}22 APRIL 1555.}]
   The burro court of Peblis, haldyn in the tolbuth of Peblis,  #
the xxij day
of Aprile yere of God j=m= v=c= and lv yeris, be Rolland Scot   #
baillie of the said
burgh, the suttis callit, the court affirmit, the absentis in   #
ane merciament,
Andro Robesone, dempstare; Mongo Williamsone, Adam Gilleis,     #
officiaris;
and Sir Johne Allane, clerk.
   The outland burgessis absentis: [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
   The quhilk day, Patrik Thomsone, Alexander Kirk, Johne       #
Thomsone,
outland burgessis, wes warnit personalie in jugement to mak     #
residence 
within the fredome of burgh, conforme to thair aith maid        #
thairupone, betvix 
this and Witsonday, or ellis thai suld be dischargit of thair   #
fredome.
   The juge ordanit George Stodert, be his awne consent, to pay #
termelie to
Jonet Scot, relict of vmquhile maister Johne Hay, the annuell   #
of his hous
at the brig and on the Castelhill in tymes cuming efferand to   #
the deliuerance
<P 209>
of the actis maid afore the Thre Estatis of the brynt           #
annuellis, and
failyene that the said George Stodert pay nocht termelie the    #
said annuell,
sua that he failye thairintil thre termes, the said land sall   #
returne agane
frelie to the said Jonet and hir airis, conforme to the saising #
geving thairupone.
   (\Inquisitio\) : [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
   The quhilk day, William Kid producit the register of the     #
testamentis
within the jurisdictioun of Stobo, in the quhilk wes insert the #
testament of
vmquhile Walter Huntare of Polmude, quhair Johne Huntare wes    #
executour
lauchfullie constitut and nominat be the mouth of the said      #
vmquhile Walter,
as wes contenit in the said vmquhile Walter testament, (^ (\ex  #
data\) ^) xxiij (\die
mensis Julii anno Domini\) etc., xlix=o=, apone the quhilk      #
productioun the said
William askit instrument.
   Andro Alexander younger, prolocutour for Thomas Alexander    #
his broder,
tuk instrument that maister William Newdry, scoilmaister,       #
confessit that he
band Thome Alexander handis in way of correctioun as he allegit #
as his
awne disciple, and continewis the rest of the bill to the nixt  #
court.

[^A RECORD IN LATIN OMITTED.^]

<P 211>
[}4 MAY 1555.}]
   The burro curt of Peblis, haldin in the tolbuth of that ilk, #
be the provest,
baillies, counsale and communite of the said burgh ...
Assisa: [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   The quhilk day, James Stensone and Stene Greif ar chosing to #
collect and
gadder the multure of the commoun milnis quhill Lammes day at   #
xij houris
nixt heirefter followand, and to mak just compt and payment     #
thairof to the
provest baillies counsale and communite of the said burgh.
<P 212>
   William Dikesone of Winkestoun confessit in jugement that he #
wald
stand with the commoun weill of the tovne to fortify the samin  #
to his vter
power in all thingis, nochtwithstanding ony contrare part Johne #
Dikesone,
his sone, wald purches in contrare the tovne or thair liberte   #
and fredome.

[}6 MAY 1555.}]
   The burro curt of Peblis, haldyn in the tolbuth of that ilk, #
be Rowe
Scot baillie of Peblis ...
Assisa: [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   The quhilk day, Alexander Tait of Pirne, scheref deput of    #
Selkirk, replegit
Helene Brovntoun fourth of this court to the scheref court of   #
Selkirk to be
haldyn on the [\blank\] day of Maii instant and gaif his aith   #
to do justice,
and fand Thomas Tuedy souerte to do the samin in all actioun    #
and besynes
that William Cheisholme hes to say aganes hir, and the said     #
lard souirte to
releif him.
   The quhilk day, Robert Murro wes creat burges and mad his    #
aith as vse is,
and fand his hand and his land to do thai thingis that          #
concernit till his aith
for scotting lotting walkyng warding gud rewill keping, and to  #
pay his
burges siluer to my lord Robene Hude.
   Johne Stodert younger, prolocutour for his fader, confessit  #
in jugement
that he tuk fra Robert Andersone and Mertin Craufurd thair      #
spadis quha
wes vsand casting of tirvis at the counsale and communite       #
command on the
Sonysyde, as ane part and pertinentis of thair commonte, and    #
thairupone
the baillie and communite for the tyme askit instrument and act #
of court.
   The inqueist ordanis all dettis and restis of comptis to be  #
payit instantlie
as may be gotting in, baith of milnis, Caidmuir males, and      #
annuellis that is
awand, and all dettis quhatsumeuer, to set fordward the tovn    #
besynes be the
baillies and commissionariis direct thairto in Edinburgh, and   #
ordanis the
baillies to poynd thair gudis thairfor be thair officiaris.
<P 213>
   The inquest ordanis ane kepar to be put to the Venlaw, and   #
all cattell
scheip and nolt be dischargit thairof baith nycht and day,      #
except alanerly
hors and sowkkand stirkis, and that na gudis be layit thairon   #
nouther scheip
nor nolt vnder silence of nycht, vnder the pane of ane vnlaw;   #
and hes
ordanit Eduard Pount to be feyit and pay him for his lawbouris  #
auld vsit
and wont, quha acceptit the said Venlaw keping and fand Joke    #
Patersoun
sourte that na thing suld gang wrang nor na cornes eting bot    #
that he suld
mend on his awne expensis.
   The inqueist ordanis the nychtbouris to pas efter the rising #
of court and
vesy the feildis of Sonyside, quhilk is ane part and            #
pertinentis of thair commonte
of Glentres, quhilk pertenis to the liberte and fredome of      #
thair burgh
of Peblis instantlie, and to vse thair possessioun thairof vsit #
and wont, and
ordanis all nychtbouris that takis part thairintill to be       #
chargit be the officiaris
to pas with thair baillies counsale and communite to vesy the   #
samin,
vnder the pane of forfalting of thair fredome.

[}27 MAY 1555.}]
   The baillies counsale and communite ordanis ane man to be    #
conducit to
feid and pasture thair yeild nolt in thair commonte of Glentres #
als sone as
thai may, and mak him ane ressonable fee thairfore as he and    #
thay can
aggre.
   The burro court of Peblis, haldin in the tolbuth of that     #
ilk, be Rolland
Scot, baillie ...
   The quhilk day, Charles Geddes protestit for the copy of the #
erectioun
and fundatioun of the Geddes Ile, and the baillies said thai    #
wald avise
thairwith or thai gaif thair ansuer; and forthir the said       #
Charles desyris the
provest baillies counsale and communite to vphald repair and    #
big the Geddes
Ile conforme to thair euidentis maid thairapone, and assigne    #
ane certane day
to gif him ane ansuer.
   The quhilk day, William Dikesone of Winkestoun comperand in  #
jugement
disassentit fra all molestatioun or trubbling purchessing of    #
privat 
writtingnis aganes the baillies counsale and communite of the   #
burgh of
Peblis towart the gift of Quhithauch, Carcado Bank at the west  #
end of
Glentars, be Johne Dekesone his sone and apperand air, and      #
quhatsumeuery
thing the said Johne dois thairintill that he incure na skaith  #
thairthrow
<P 214>
nouthir in his body gudis nor heretage or fredome of the        #
burgh, and is
content to cum in the tovn will that thair be ane certane       #
newtrale men
leist suspect, to the nowmer of viij or ix persones, to         #
consider the merchis
betuix his heretaig of Winkestoun and the commonteis of         #
Glentars for
the weill of baith the partiis, and as beis concludit and       #
decernit be the
saidis viij or ix newtrale men to stand thairby in tymes        #
cuming as can be
sickerlie deuisit with men of law, and be the tennour heirof    #
cumis instantlie
in the tovn will.
   The haill inqueist ordanis Andro Kirkhope bill to be         #
fulfillit, and to gif
him saysing of xx futtis of the commoun ground to be ane yard   #
for ane
penny the fut of annuell yerelie, efter the rite of the burgh.
   The inquest ordanis the stallanges to be broking, auld vsit  #
and wont, and
ordanis ane certane of the honest men of all crauftis to breik  #
the samin.
   And ordanis the nychtbouris quhen thai rise furth of court   #
to vesy
William Bannerman and Thomas Hoppringill wallis pleable betuix  #
thame.
   The haill inquest ordanis the skoill maister to be conducit  #
for ane yere,
and to mak him payment of his wages bygane, and the baillies to #
caus him
be payit in tymes cuming half quarterlie, and to provide him    #
ane chalmer
quhair it may be gotting maist conuenient togidder with the     #
tolbuth to
teche his barneis in that redis and writting Ynglis.
   The inqueist ordanis the tane of the baillies, with the      #
clerk, pas doun to
Edinburgh on Thursday, and ane dossone of honest men to pas     #
done on
Saturday be viij houris on thair awne expensis, and to get in   #
all the money
thay may, baith of milnis dettis and vtheris restis, for thair  #
furnissing.
   The inqueist findis William Louch in the wrang in takyn of   #
Matho Bell 
quhingare quhen thai wer cumit fra thair play; and the maist    #
part of the
inqueist findis Andro Stewart in the wrang for stryking of      #
William Louch
quhen he tuk Matho Bell, howbeid that he wes reddand thame.
   Charles Geddes, baillie to my lord Yester, replegit James    #
Tuedy of Frude
furth of this court to his court of Oliuer Castell, and fand    #
Thomas Peblis
souerte that he suld haif justice in the said court the         #
[\blank\] day of Junii
nixt tocum, and maid his aith as vse is to do thame justice the #
said day,
and failyene thairof to cum agane to this court, and the said   #
Charles Geddes
and James Tuedy souerte to releif the said Thomas.    
<P 215>
   The depositiones of the provis betuix Cheisholme and         #
Thomsone: Alexander
Lauder, spousit, of the age of xl yeris or thairby, sworne and  #
admittit,
deponis that Patrik Thomsone said to William Cheisholme on his  #
baxstare
within the burgh of Peblis, in the yere nixt efter the tovne    #
wes brynt, that
he bad him say that he had sauld him thre oxin and ane cow and  #
he suld
warrand him the said nolt sua he wald say he had sould thame    #
till him, for
he had doung thame in our mony mennis heidis ellis, and kennis  #
na price thairof. 
   The quhilk day, James Robesone and James Wilsone,            #
commissionariis for
the toun, hes grantit and maid thair comptis of the gudis       #
ressauit be thaim
for to rais the greit and prive seill and our Souerane Lady     #
letteres and commissioun
anentis the commonteis, and the said commissionariis grantis    #
thaim
to haif debursit mair nor thai had in pose geving to thame be   #
the thesaurare
xxxiij s. x.d. the first tyme and xxxv s. at the last diet;     #
quhilk thai
wer superspendit the xvij day of May and to ansuer James        #
Wilsone wife, to
be ansuerit of malt in his absence for the said sovme quhill it #
be payit, and
als to ansuer Sir Johne Allane of xj lib. that he lent to thame #
to gif
maister Johne Hay and Sir Thomas Bathcat.

[}15 JULY 1555.}]
   The baillies hes tane vpone hand to pay the minister and     #
convent of the
Croce Kirk the sovme of xxvj s. of the restis of thair compone.
   The juges ordanis the thesaurare to pay Katherine Dikesone   #
the sovme
of [\blank\] for aill and breid tane fra hir at Tuede brig      #
mending, within
terme of law, and ordanis the said sovme be justle calculat and #
thairefter
payment to be maid.
   The deliuerance of the inqueist: - Item, it is statut and    #
ordanit that all
flescheouris bring thair flesche to the mercat croce on ather   #
syde of the gait
betuix the croce and Dene gutter, and that thai blaw nane       #
thairof nor yit
let it doune nor score it vnder the pane of viij s.
   Item, thai ordane all regratouris, as thai ar apprehendit,   #
or forstakers to
be pvnist conforme to the actis of parliament and panes         #
contenit thairintill.
   The haill inquest ordanis that na nychtbouris of the toun    #
solist nor caus
men of law to cum to procure ane aganes ane vther in tyme       #
cuming for
<P 216>
quhatsumeuery actioun, except it be on brevis raisit of         #
heritage alanerlie,
vnder the pane of forfalting of thair fredome for euir.
   The haill inquest ordanis the baillies to caus thair         #
officiaris gadder in the
restis of all males, annuellis, dettis, baith of Commoun        #
Struthir, Caidmure
males and milnis awand, that the samin may be reddy in the      #
thesaurare
hand to set fordwart commoun besynes thai haif ado in Edinburgh #
afore the
lordis, and ordanis the baillies with v or sax nychtbouris      #
euery tyme about
as the counsale thinkis expedient to be ordourit for addressing #
of thair
besynes.
   The haill inquest ordanis the provest baillies counsale and  #
communite to
be bound, vnder the forme of instrument to be subscriuit with   #
thair handis
that can writt and with thair handis led at the pen be the      #
notare vnder
writting that can nocht writt, to defend the caus and actioun   #
of thair commontie
dependand betuix the toun, my lord Mortoun and lord Borthik,    #
with
thair bodyis and gudis vnto the finale end and decisioun of the #
samin, and
ordanis this to be done with all diligence.
   The quhilk day, Johne Dikesone, be his awne consent, hes     #
dischargit
him of his fredome and liberte of the burgh of Peblis and       #
renuncit the
samin, and be the tennour heirof renuncis the samin and als the #
compromit
maid betuix him on that ane part and the provest baillies       #
counsale and
communite of the burgh of Peblis on that vther part for his     #
awne part
alanerlie in absence of his fader, becaus his men chosing for   #
his part hes
nocht tane the said mater apone thame.
   And the said day my lord provest baillies counsall and       #
communite ar
content to stand at the compromit maid betwix him and thame in  #
the
tolbuth of Edinburgh afore thair juges, and siclike at the      #
compomit maid in
the Croce Kirk nochtwithstanding the descharge of the said      #
[\compromit\] 
maid of before, and protestit that thair part of the compromit  #
mycht haif
proceis and letteres monitoriales raisit on the said Johne be   #
vertu of the
said contract subscriuit with his hand at the Croce Kirk the xj #
day of July.
   The said day, Johne Dikesone wes newlie creat burges,        #
nochtwithstanding
the dischargeing of his fredome of his awne consent, and maid   #
his aith as
vse is as he did of before.
<P 217>
[}29 JULY 1555.}]
   The inqueist findis Besse Watsone is in the wrang in         #
striking of Cristiane
Bell with ane stop on the heid quhilk raisit ane clour thairon, #
and findis na
blude; and thairupone Johne Wychtman askit instrument and       #
protestit for
the rolment of court, and inlikemaner John Lithquo protestit    #
for rolment of
court.
   The haill inquest fyndis Charle Thomsone in the wrang for    #
inuading of
Johne Mathosone wife in hir awne hous at vij houris at ewin,    #
and becaus he
was repugnant to gang to the tolbuth efter he wes chargit be    #
the officeris,
and ordanis the baillies to pvnis the samin induring thair will #
in exempill
of vtheris.
   And tuiching the cornes rubbing, referris the samin to the   #
actis maid of
auld.           

[}30 SEPTEMBER 1555.}]
   The burro and heid court of Peblis, haldyn in the Tolbuth of #
that ilk, be
ane nobill and potent lord Johne lord Hay of Yester, provest of #
the said
burgh; James Robesone and Rowe Scot baillies...
   Absentes of the outland burgessis; [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   The quhilk day, my provest was chosing as of before be the   #
baillies
counsale and communite, and maid his aith thairupone, conforme  #
to the
statutis and actis of the burro lawis.
<P 218>
   The quhilk day, Sir Johne Allane was creat clerk to vse the  #
office
thairof lelelie and trewlie ay and quhill he be dischargit.

[}14 OCTOBER 1555.}]
   The inquest ordanis the baillies and nychtbouris pas to the  #
kirk and
sycht the samin with witty men to se quhow it may be biggit,    #
and thairefter
to conduce ane workman for to se the samin.
   The inqueist ordanis the baillies gang vesy the briggis and  #
calsayis
thairof gif thai be sufficient vphalding be the dichtaris as    #
thai promist, and
to caus thame mend all failyeis sufficient, quhilkis beand      #
mendit to se gif
thai will vphald the samin, and failyene thairof to discharge   #
thame and
cheis vtheris in thair places.
   And als ordanis Andro Wychtman to caus fill vp the holis     #
with erd or
gravall quhair he tuk the clay till his kill bigging,           #
incontinent, becaus the
fludis ar cummand on hand.
   Item, the haill inquest ordanis tua vesitouris to be maid    #
and chosing 
perpetualie to vesy yeirlie in tyme cuming all properteis and   #
commonteis
pertenyng to the liberte and fredom of burgh at the streking of #
the plewis
yerelie, betuix Sanct Lucas day and Mertymes, and at harrowis   #
streking,
gif ony thairof be telit be nychtbouris adiacent, that the 
samin may be
resistit in tyme, and referris the chesing of the said          #
vesitouris to the
baillies; and to warn all thame that hes broking ony land in    #
common
gaittis or passages, baith Kirklandis, Kinglandis, Acomfeildis  #
and Briglandis,
incontinent herefter that the samin ly still in tyme cuming     #
conforme
to auld vsit and wont, as the auld merchis thairof standis,     #
vnder the
pane of dischargeing of all fremen, occupyaris of the saidis    #
landis, that
dissobeyis this statut of thair fredome and secluding of thame  #
fra all
counsale in tyme cuming.
   Item, ordanis tua wechis to be maid nychtlie at the baillies #
devise
quhill thai be forthir avisit, and ordanis thame till enter at  #
viij houris at
ewin and remane quhill iiij houris in the mornyng, vnder the    #
pane of viij s.
   Item, siclike thai ordane Johne Robesone and Eduard Dikesone #
to be aill 
cunnaris, and that all aill ourheid be maid gud and sufficient  #
aill for iiij d.
the pynt, vnder the pane of viij s. the first falt, deling of   #
the aill the
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secund falt, and stryking furth of the ers fut the thrid falt   #
and depriving of
brewing for ane yere.
   Item, ordanis all hempt and lynt to be removit furth of      #
Peblis Watter to
vther law placis for corrupting of the watter, vnder the pane   #
of eschaeting
of the samin to officeris, and that the officeris put away the  #
samin, vnder the
pane of depriving of thame of thair offices.
   Item, ordanis all merchandices vtouth the tovn and outland   #
burgessis to
be warnit to cum within burgh and mak thair change merchandice  #
and
residence, or ellis to be dischargit of thair fredome and       #
liberte in tyme
cuming fra the nixt heid court efter Sanct Mongo day nixt to    #
cum.
   Item, ordanis ane of the baillies, and the commoun clerk     #
with him, pas to
Edinburgh and caus rais ane precept to heir the actioun and     #
caus dependand
before the juges in Edinburgh to proceid, and to speik with     #
juges, membris
of court, Maister James M'Gill and James Patersoun, quhat is    #
done betuix
ws and my lord Mortoun.
   The counsale chosing for this yere and sworne: My lord       #
provest; [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
   The inqueist ordanis all actis and statutis maid of ald      #
anentis heidyardis
syde dykis, kaill, petis, tirvis, pulling of cornes and         #
pykaris, to be ordanit
be the auld actis maid of before.     
                 
[}30 OCTOBER 1555.}]
   Item, the inqueist ordanis four wechis to be nychtlie,       #
enterand at viij
houris, and remanand quhill iiij houris in the mornyng, vnder   #
the pane of
viij s., and thai till aduerteis the baillies quhen thai enter  #
and siclik quhen
thai gang to thair beddis.
   The inqueist ordanis the teling of Hammiltoun to be referrit #
to the
baillies, and thai to speik to my lord to se gif he will tak    #
ane pairt
thairof, for it is the haill communite desyre and mynde it be   #
telit.
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[}31 OCTOBER 1555.}]
   (\Electi pro molendinis\) : Dauid Robesone, William          #
Bannerman, Robert Hesilhope,
Arthure Johnkesone. [\Robesone and Johnkesone\]
thir tua ar chosing be the baillies and communite
to collect and gadder thair multuris of the tua commoun milnis, #
and
to ansuer the thesaurare thairof for the tyme ay as it is       #
gotting in, that he
may thairwith set commoun werkis and besynes forwart, as the    #
ordinance
and deliuerance of the counsale and communite thinkis maist     #
conuenient
and ganand for the commoun weill, for the winter quarter        #
begynnand at
Alhallo day quhill Candilmes nixt heirefter.

[}2 NOVEMBER 1555.}]
   The baillies and the haill communite of the burgh of Peblis  #
ordanis to
ansuer maister William Newdry, scoilmaister, of thre pundis of  #
money for
the termes bygane at Mertynmes nixt tocum, and half quarterlie  #
in tymes
cuming, as the rolment of court maid the xxvij day of Maii last #
bypast; and
thairfore oblissis him to remane and teche the scoill and       #
barneis sufficientlie
in tymes cuming, and gif it beis fundyng that he pas fra the    #
teching of the
barnes in the scoill four dayis without licence of the baillies #
and counsale
he sall tyne his fe restand, and siclike salbe dischargit of    #
his seruis incontinent
thairefter; and this present act to be sufficient warnyng       #
heirto in
tyme cuming with consent of baith the partiis.

[}9 NOVEMBER 1555.}]
   The compt of the commoun gudis of the burgh of Peblis, tane  #
be Johne
Wychtman, ane of the baillies of Peblis for the tyme, in        #
absence of my lord
provest and his colleg Robert Hoppringill, and the counsale and #
communite
of the said burgh warnit be opping proclamatioun to cum and     #
heir thair
thesaurare, Johne Dikesone, to mak his compt as vse is.  The    #
quhilk thesaurare
comperand in the tolbuth of Peblis before the said Johne        #
Wychtman, baillie
as said is, counsale and communite of the said burgh, the ix    #
day of Nouember
the yeir of God j=m=v=c= and lv yeris, the said thesaurare      #
chargit him with
v=xx=xvj li. iiij s. ix d. of the multuris of the tua commoun   #
milnis, and with
xiij li. v s. v d. of Caidmuir malles, and with xxxiiij s.      #
viij d. of annuellis and
burges siluer, and with viij s. vj d. of staulanges, and with   #
xij li. for the 
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small custumes: Summa of the haill charge is vij=xx=iij li.     #
xiij s. iiij d. and
discharges him with vij=xx=j li. xviij s.; sua he is restand to #
the provest baillies
counsale and communite xxxv s. quhilkis the said baillie        #
ordanis to be deliuerit
to Rolland Scot, thesaurare, quha wes electit thairto the said  #
day be
the baillies counsale and communite, togidder with the restis   #
of Caidmur
males, annuellis of Commoun Struthir and Johne Scot annuell.
   Item, the said day, Sir Johne Allane v li. that he payit to  #
Sir Thomas
Bathcat, quhilk the baillie borrowit fra him to set thair       #
besynes fordwart, is
nocht comptit, nor yit the xxxvij s. quhilk he gaif for dailis  #
in Leith to mend
the schete of the Rude Milne with, [\nor\] yit is payit till    #
him xij libris of
annuell of Sanct Johne altare of termes bygane, and ordouris to #
pay him
the samin of the reddiest of the commoun gudis and yerelie and  #
termelie in
all tymes to cum, and thairupone the said Johne desyrit act of  #
court.

[}2 DECEMBER 1555.}]
   Sir Johne Wilsone, vicare of Eddilstoun, collectour to       #
vmquhile Sir Thomas
Hay (^dirige^) , desyrit the baillies to caus poynd and strenye #
vmquhile Eduard
Patersone land lyand within the burgh of Peblis for xiiij s. of #
annuell quhilk is
infeft for doing yerelie of the said (^dirige^) and desyrit to  #
haif payment thairof
conforme to the actis maid be the Thre Estatis of the brint     #
annuellis, and
to haif the juges ansuer thairupoun, the quhilkis juges         #
ansuerit and said thai
wald consult heirapone betuix this and the heid court efter     #
Sanct Mongo
day and thairefter suld gif him ane ansuer of ratificatioun     #
of the samin, and
thairupone the said Sir Johne askit instrument.
   The haill inqueist ordanis in tyme cuming that gif ony       #
landis within the
fredome of burgh failyeis and fallis done waist that the samin  #
happyn to be
reconist, sua the said landis being reconist happynnis to be    #
analit, that the
saidis landis be ropit at the mercat croce thre courtis, and    #
thai till haif thame
that will gif maist thairfore, providing allwayis that the air  #
that hes maist
rycht thairto be first seruit, gevand als mekle thairfore as    #
ane vther; and
siclike ony commoun landis of the tovn to be obseruit in like   #
maner in tyme
cuming.

[}4 DECEMBER 1555.}]
   The pykaris tane vp be Robert Hoppringill and Johne Wychtman #
baillies,
in absence my lord provest, with avise of the haill communite:-
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   Isabell Mvre is ane commoun pykare of kaill, and was         #
apprehendit on
the thrid day of December instant vnder silence of nycht        #
takkand away
tirvis quhilk pertenit to Johne Murro in Ald Tovne, quhilk fand #
William
Lowith souerte that scho nocht do sic thingis in tymes cuming,  #
nor yit do
ony nychtbour skaith or hurt in tyme cuming, in ony of thair    #
gudis quhatsameuir, 
nor commit na pykery, vnder the pane of xx lib., to be payit    #
without
remissioun, and banissing of the tovn, and to be brynt on the   #
face with
ane irne the first falt, and the secund falt vnder the pane of  #
deid.
   Thomas Johnsone, for the takin of ane hen in ane winling of  #
stra furth
of Robert Hoppringill, and is reput and suspectit for ane       #
commoun [{pikare{] 
of caill, to that taking he wes apprehendit on the first day of #
December
instant with Patrik Gowane caill quhilk he tuk furth of his     #
yard, and
siclike his wife Merioun Moffet is ane commoun pikare of fulis, #
and Mertyn
Craufurd becom souerte for thame vnder the panes foirsaid.
   Cristian Fairle, suspectit for pyking of hennis and als for  #
takyn of ane
sark fra James Stewart quhilk he tuk of hir bak quhen scho wes  #
werand it.
   Robert Murdok, ane commoun pykare and draware of corne       #
stakkis, and
siclike Jonet Hendersone his wife suspectit for the pyking of   #
Johne Tod and
Mongo Williamsone dukis quha fand Rowe Scot, souerte...
   Katherine Andersone, for meill takyn furth of Johne Dikesone #
sellare in
(\anno\) etc. l=o= to the quantite of tua pekkis, quhen his gud #
moder wes at the
mes on the Sonday.
   Johne Walter, for the trystyng of Gilbert Young, seruand to  #
Johne Dikesone,
to sell his maister stray till him and he suld gif ane pynte    #
aill.

[}20 JANUARY 1555.}]
   The quhilk day, my lord provest baillies counsale and        #
communite of the
burgh of Peblis producit in jugement, be Mongo Williamsone and  #
Adam
Gilleis thair officiaris, ane precept dewlie execut and         #
indorsat apone the xxvj
day of the moneth of Nouember yere of God etc. lv=o=, makkand   #
mentioun
that it wes humlie menit and hevelie lamentit to the saidis     #
provest baillies
counsale and communite and vtheris nychtbouris and fremen of    #
the said burgh,
that the samin burgh wes infeft of auld be our Souerane Lady    #
and hir maist
nobill progenitouris and predecessouris in fre burgh regale,    #
with fre power
liberte and facultie within the samin to haif ane mercat day    #
wolklie on
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Tusday, with power to sell walx wyne wolling and lynning        #
claith, braid and
narrow, and all vtheris merchandice lesum, and to haif within   #
the samin burgh
baxstaris broistaris fischaris flescheouris prepararis of       #
fische and flesche, and all
vtheris craftismen belangand to ane burgh regale, and provest   #
baillies officiaris
within the said burgh for gouerning thairof till elect and      #
cheis, and to set the
burro rudis belangand to the said burgh for the weill thairof,  #
as the saidis
complenaris thinkis expedient, as at mair lenth is contenit in  #
thair infeftment
maid and geving to thame thairupone vnder our Souerane Lady     #
progenitouris
greit seill, makkand mentioun that the said burgh communite     #
thairof and thair
successouris ar infeft of auld of our said Souerane Lady maist  #
nobill progenitouris
of gude mynde, quham God assoilye, in all liberteis saisingnis  #
privelegis
and vtheris possessiones vsit be thame and thair predecessouris #
of before, etc.;
nochtwithstanding thair is certane thair burgessis and          #
nychtbouris, chosing
and electit be thame and thair predecessouris, that vses the    #
saidis liberteis
vtouth the liberte of the said burgh, and will nocht cum and    #
mak thair
change merchandice and residence within the said burgh conforme #
to thair
creatioun, and thairthrow vsurps our Souerane Lady lawis maid   #
thairupone
as foirstallaris, vsand pakking and peling, and euery landwart  #
tovn vtouth
the liberte of the said burgh within the sherefdome of Peblis   #
vsis dailie
change and merchandice, baith lynt tar irne woll hyde skyn beir #
malt meill,
and thairthrow abstractis the proffitis and change fra the said #
burgh to thair
hevy dampnage and skaith, quhairthrow our Souerane Lady         #
custummis ar
defraudit and our said burgh depauperat and heriit, that na dow #
nocht to
sustene the importabill taxationes raisit vpone thame be our    #
Souerane Lady
counsale, and the proffittis quhilkis suld cum to the burgessis #
and merchandices
of the said burgh remanis with the saidis outland burgessis and #
foirstallaris
as said is, in hie contemptioun of our Souerane Lady lawis and  
hurt of our said burgh and aganes the actis of burro lawis and  #
parliament
maid thairupone, and will nocht decist and ceis thairfra        #
without thai be
compellit; at the command of the quhilk precept the saidis      #
officeris passit
warnit chargeit lauchfully summond atechit and arreistit        #
[^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] outland 
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burgessis; [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] foirstallaris and          #
regrataris, at the
mercat croce be opping proclamatioun, the saidis persones to    #
compere within
the said burgh and mak thair merchandice change and residence   #
within xl=ti=
dayis nixt thairefter, and failyeand thairof to compere before  #
the provest
baillies counsale and communite, or ony tua of thame, in the    #
tolbuth of Peblis
the xx day of Januare nixt thairefter, to heir and se thame and #
euirilk ane
of thame be decreit of court to be forfaltit of thair liberte   #
and fredome in
tymis cuming and dischargeit to vse sic change and merchandice  #
thairefter
vnder the panes contenit in the statutis of burro lawis and     #
actis of parliament
maid thairupone; and the saidis foirstallaris and regratouris   #
to compere
and mak thair change and residence within the libertie and      #
fredome of
burgh within xl=ti= dayis nixt thairefter, and failyene thairof #
to compere afore
the saidis provest baillies counsale and communite in the       #
tolbuth of Peblis
the said xx day of Januare to heir and se thame and euirilk ane #
of thame to
be decernit be decreit of court to incure the panes contenit in #
the saidis
burro lawis and actis of parliament maid thairupone viz., vnder #
the pane of
eschaeting of thair gudis that beis apprehendit, with ony       #
forstalling pakking or
peling, outhir hyde woll skyn, tapping or selling of lint irne  #
tar beir malt
meill in tyme cuming, the tane half to our Souerane Lady vse,   #
the tothir
half to the saidis provest baillies counsale and communite,     #
efter the forme
and tennour of the saidis burro lawis and actis of parliament   #
maid thairvpoun,
with intimatioun as efferit, as at mair lenth is contenit in    #
the precept direct
thairupon; at the quhilk day the saidis persones [\being called #
failed to appear.\] [^THE REST OF THE EDITOR'S COMMENT          #
OMITTED^]
   The inqueist deliueris that all pykaris that hes bene        #
delatit of before to
luke the buikis and se quhat faltis thai ar delatit for, and    #
thai to be pvnist
with all rigour and banist the tovn for euir till gif occasioun #
till vtheris
that pykis of new till abstene, and to tak souerte for thame in #
tyme cuming
vnder the pane of scurgyng of thame throuch the tovn and        #
banissing of
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thame the samine, and thai that will nocht fynd souirte to be   #
brynt with
ane irne on the cheik and thairefter banist the tovn for euir,  #
and ordanis
the maister or lardis that ressauis sic pykaris to be thair     #
tennentis to pay in
tyme cuming the skaithis and dampnages done be thame to ony     #
nychtbour
that ar plentus thairof sua the samin be manifestlie knawin.
   The inquest ordanis to ansuer Robert Atzin, and ilk ane of   #
the officaris,
of ane ferlot of meill in this storme to help thair wiffis and  #
barnis, providing
allwayis that thai clame na possessioun thairof in tyme cuming. #
   The inqueist ordanis gif ewill meill and gud meill be found  #
in ane sek,
better in the mouth thairof nor the ers, to eschaet the samin   #
at the baillies
will; and ordanis thame to sell meill to the pure folkis in     #
pekkis, als weill
as to the riche, of siclike price as thai sell the boll, and na #
derrare, vnder
the pane of viij s.
   The inqueist ordanis that na burges be maid in tymes cuming  #
without
avise of the counsale.

[}30 JANUARY 1555.}]
   The baillies and communite of the burgh of Peblis is         #
contentit, all with 
ane consent, to accept William Hay, sone and apparand air to    #
vmquhile Johne
lord Hay of Yester, quhow sone he cum to perfite age and is of  #
knawlege to gif
thame ane gud counsale, in the provestrie of the burgh of       #
Peblis, yerele,
afore ony vtheris as thai fynd him geving for commoun weill,    #
conforme to the
actis of parliament and burro lawis maid thairupone; and in the #
menetyme
the said William, Mr. Thomas Hay his eme, provest of Bochanis   #
and thair
frendis, to stand gud afald and kyndelie freindis with the said #
communite
in all lefull besynes and actiones and to set the samin         #
forwart, and the communite
in like maner to serf the said William Hay as thai wer wont to  
vmquhile his fader, and till deput na president nor deput vnder #
him bot till
vse the communite in all thingis as his vmquhile fader vsit     #
thame, and the
saidis William and Mr. Thomas Hay his curatour discharges, be   #
vertu of
this writting, the gift purchest be the said William of the     #
said provestrie
vnder our Souerane Lady prive seill, and ordanis the samin      #
desert and to be
of nane effect in tyme cuming, and gif neid beis to gif the     #
copy of the said
gift to the saidis baillies counsale and communite, and the     #
said William to
hurt the saidis baillies counsale and communite in nane of      #
thair privileges
of commonteis vtherwayis nor Johne lord Hay of Yester his       #
vmquhile fader 
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did, and thairapone the said William baillies counsale and      #
communite, (\hinc
inde\) askit instrument and ordanit the extract heirof to be    #
geving to ather
of the partiis that requirit the samin.

[}1 FEBRUARY 1555.}]
   Andro Ra is admittit custummer quhill Candilmes day nixt to  #
cum, to
collect and gadder the small custummis of the burgh of Peblis   #
conforme to
the rite vse and consuetude of the burgh of Edinburgh, for the  #
quhilk he
sall content pay and deliuer to the baillies counsale and       #
communite of the
burgh of Peblis the sovme of xix merkis, viz., afore the        #
chakker xv dayis
xiiij merkis, and the rest at Candilmes nixt thairefter         #
following at the
ische of his tak, and fand James Wilsone, Johne Wilsone and     #
Johne
Cranstoun souerteis, coniunctlie and seueralie, for payment     #
thairof; and
the said Andro souerte for thair releif; and ordanis that na    #
wechtis be vsit
in the tovn to wey ony butter cheis woll or yarne except the    #
custum
wechtis alanerlie, and the said Andro sall vse him in the new   #
fair dayis as ane
honest man and tak custum be avise of the baillies and counsale #
for this yeir.    
      
[}5 FEBRUARY 1555.}]
   Sir Robert Hoip producit and deliuerit to the baillies and   #
communite, as
patrones to Sanct Christofer altare, ane chartour of xij merkis #
of annuell
geving be Robert Horsbruk of all and haill his landis of Harcas #
with the
pertinentis, lyand within the quhite barony of Eddilstoun and   #
scherefdome
of Peblis, haldand fre blanche, vnder his seill and             #
subscriptione manuale,
datit at Horsbruk the iiij day of Julii (\anno Domini\) , etc., #
lv=o=; and ane vther
chartour geving be Alexander Horsbruk of that ilk, of ten       #
merkis of
annuell, of all and haill his lands of Horsbruk with the        #
pertinentis, haldand
fre blanche, vnder his seill and subscriptioun manuale, datit   #
att Peblis the
ferd day of Nouember yere of God j=m=v=c= and lv yeris; and ane #
instrument 
of saising of the saidis xij merkis of annuell of Harcas, vnder #
the signe and
subscriptioun manuale of Sir Johne Thomsone, notare publict,    #
datit on the
ground of the samin, (\quinto Novembris anno Domini\), etc.,    #
lv=o=.
   The inqueist ordanis ane edict to be gotting fra the         #
provest, maister
Gilbert Wichtman, with consent of the patrones, to warne all    #
chaplanis mak
residence at thair altaris conform to thair fundatioun within   #
xlj dayis, and
failyeane thairof to heir the saidis altarages descernit vacand #
in the patrones
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handis and vtheris qualifiit men to be electit in thair places  #
that will
nocht compere, and in the mentyme to present thair rentalis     #
baith of waist
landis and plenist within viij dayis, and siclike to bring in   #
all thair vestmentis
and chalices and deliuer thame to be laid in the commoun kist
within xv dayis quhill the kirk be biggit.

[}8 FEBRUARY 1555.}]
   The inqueist ordanis that na tennentis be ressauit to duell  #
within the
liberte and fredome of burgh bot thai that ar reput and haldyn  #
honest, and
that thair maisteris will ansuer for thair skaithis done to ony #
nychtbour, and
ordanis the officeris to gang throuch the tovn and warne all    #
nychtbouris,
dour be dure, that thai set na houssis to suspect personis      #
vnder the pane
to be accusit as part takkaris with thame and vnder the pane of #
xl s. to be
payit to the commoun werk.
   And ony man that will in tyme cuming apprehend ony pykaris   #
sall present
the saidis pykaris to the baillies and in thair absentis to the #
officiaris,
and thai sall haif for thair reward of the thesaurare of the    #
commoun
gudis xl s. incontinent thairefter.

[}5 MARCH 1555.}]
   Thomas Tuedy, commissionare and baillie, producit ane power  #
of
baillierie vnder my lord Mortoun signet and subscriptioun       #
manuale, datit at
Edinburgh the xij day of Februare yere of God j=m= v=c= and lv  #
yeris, to replege
reduce and hame bring Johne Nesbeth [{and ten others{] to the   #
regalite of
Dalketh court to be haldin at [\blank\] within xv dayis, viz.,  #
Thursday
the xx day of Merche instant, and fand John Dikesone souirte    #
till enter to
justice, and gaif his coller aith, and failyeing that justice   #
be nocht done as
said is to cum agane to this court.
   The juges descernis and ordanis euery man, spirituale and    #
temporale,
that ar infeft of ony annuellis within the liberte and burgh of #
Peblis be
payit conforme to the actis of the brint annuellis maid be the  #
Thre Estatis
in tyme cuming, and compone for the tymes bygane, without ony   #
impediment
and obstacle; and ordanis the officiaris to pas with the        #
aunnaris of the
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annuellaris on the party expensis to poynd and strenye          #
thairfore, and in
speciale William Tait annuell, the lard Southous annuellis, and #
all vtheris
annuellis, and thairupone William Tait askit instrument.
[^OMISSION: 14 APRIL 1556 - 20 MARCH 1569^]


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[}3 APRIL 1570.}]
   The counsale ordanis that euery nychtbour compeir to the Hie #
Gait with
thair armour quhosone the swische strykis, vnder the paine of   #
thame that
absentis thame thairfra to be accusit hes ane partakkare and    #
assistaris of
thame that invadis the said tovne, and that the swische strike  #
nocht
without it be the tovne actioun, vnder the pane foirsaid.

[}6 APRIL 1570.}]
   The baillies counsale and communite ordanis the baillies,    #
accumpanit
with the nychtbouris and inhabitantis of the burgh of Peblis,   #
to assist
togidder and to be reddy with armour for stancheing of          #
cummeris, alsweill
bygane as to cum, in cace ony suddand tulye fall accidentlie    #
within the
liberte of burgh, vnder the pane of foirfalting of thair        #
fredome; and all
persones quha hes offendit to stand vnder arrestament, and      #
specialie
William Tuedy; and quhowsone ony of thame cum to the tovne to   #
be
wardit within the tolbuth quhill thai fynd cautioun to ansuer   #
afore jugeis
ordinaris as accordis of the law, and this failye to be tryit   #
at my lord
incuming in the cuntre.

[}12 APRIL 1570.}]
   The maist part of the counsale ordanis the baillies to write #
to my lord
provest anentis the trublance dependand amangnis nychtbouris    #
for avoyding
of cummeris in tymes cuming, and that ane addresseament be tane #
thairintill
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be my lord personalle present, that reformatioun may be maid as
accordis, conforme to our auld libertie and fredome of burgh,   #
that nychtbouris
thairafter may leif at quyetnes and rest in tymes cuming: and
ordanis ane writting to be maid with ane honest man and send to #
my lord
as commissionare to the tovne.
   The provest baillie and counsale ordanis the counsale to     #
convene and
sycht the passage quhair the wall of the tovne suld be set and  #
consider the
samin, that quhen the werk is begynnand that the interprisaris  #
thairof be
nocht cummerit in the setting fordward of the said wall, bot    #
that thai haif
fre passage without ony cummer, on the tovne expensis.

[}18 APRIL 1570.}]
   The baillies and maist pairt of the counsale, and Mertyn     #
Craufurd consent,
ar content to cheis newtrale men to satyfy the said Mertyn for  #
the
skaith sustenit be him in the setting of the wall of the tovne  #
within his heretage,
at the sycht of thir persones vnder writtin, schosing be        #
consent of baith
the partiis, viz.: the said Mertyn Craufurd is content of his   #
awne proper
confessioun that the baillies and counsale comprise his hous    #
instantlie as it
standis, tymber and wallis, and to satify him thairfore, or     #
ellis to mak him
als gude ane hous in thak wallis and tymber as accordis, and    #
forthir to
satify him for the rovme of the situatioun of the wall as       #
passis throuch his
heretage, conforme to the vse of the tovne efferand thairto,    #
and to satify all
vtheris havand entres in siclike caces; and thairvpone the      #
thesaurare
George Horsbruk askit instrument.
   The provest baillies counsale and communite of the burgh of  #
Peblis hes
constitut Dennys Elphingstoun of Henderstoun, James Tuedy,      #
George
Horsbruk and Johne Fresall, coniunctlie and seuerale,           #
procuratouris for the
tovne, counsale and communite thairof, anentis the commoun      #
welth and
walling of the tovne.

[}6 MAY 1570.}]
   The counsale ordanis the baillies to caus thair officiaris   #
charge Dauid
Creichtoun to remane in ward within the tolbuth vnto the tyme   #
he
deliueris all the scrowis that is in his hand kepand to the     #
commoun clerk,
that thai may be registrat in the court buikis.
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[}8 MAY 1570.}]
   The provest baillies counsale and communite of the burgh of  #
Peblis hes
statut and ordanit that [{na{] induellare within the burgh of   #
Peblis, nouther
fremen nor vtheris, tak away nor intromet with ony materialis   #
lyand at the
commoun werk and walling of the tovne, sic as sand lyme stanis  #
tubbis
standis bukkatis spadis schulis pikkis mattokkis gawillokkis    #
sand pokkis,
mandis or barrowis, or intend to win ony sand in Skynner Hewcht #
quhill
the commoun werk be endit, vnder the pane of forfalting of the  #
fremen of
thair libertie and banissing of the vnfremen the tovne.

[}20 JUNE 1570.}]
   The quhilk day, be the ordinance of the provest baillies     #
counsale and
communite of the burgh of Peblis, conforme to thair deliuerance #
of ane
bill direct thairupone of before, of the dait at Peblis the     #
xxviij day of
Aprile (\anno\) 1570, viz., Denis Elphingstoun of Henderstoun,  #
Mertyn Hay
baillie, Sir Johne Allane, Johne Stodert, James Tuedy,          #
Alexander Gowane,
chosing for Mertyn Craufurd; and Stene Robesone baillie, Patrik #
Newtoun,
George Horsbruk, William Lowys, and William Dikesone younger,   #
chosing
for the tovne: anentis the situatioun of the wall within ane    #
part of the said
Mertyn Craufurd heretage, the said sworne men ordanis and       #
decretis the
provest baillies counsale and communite to content pay and      #
deliuer to the
said Mertyn Craufurd for the skaithis sustenit be him this      #
present yere, for
the inlaik of the proffit of his taill and yard, ane boll beir; #
and Sir Johne
Allane and Thomas Lauder, interprisaris of the werk, for inlaik #
of this present
yere, to pay the said Mertyn half ane stane of lynt, and the    #
said provest
baillies and communite to releif the said Mertyn Craufurd his   #
airis
quhatsumeuer at the handis of Johne Tuedy student and vtheris,  #
prebendaris
of the Rude alter, of the yerelie payment of sex s. for the     #
situatioun of the
said wall within his said taill, and to mak the said Mertyn     #
annuell of his
forbuth fre, and to gif him sic securite for the yerelie        #
payment thairof as
afferis, and that nane molest nor cummer the interprisaris of   #
the said wall
of the situatioun thairof within thair boundis.  And to pay for #
ilk laid
lyme for the careche iiij s. vj d. the first yere, and the rest #
of the yeris
iiij s. alanerlie for ilk careche.
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[}14 JULY 1570.}]
   The haill counsale present for the tyme ordanis Stene        #
Robesone, baillie,
accumpanit with George Horsbruk thesaurare, and Andro           #
Alexander, pas
done to Edinburgh with the tovne commissioun the xvj day of     #
Julij for the
estabillissing of the regiment of the realme, conforme to the   #
clois missiue 
send to my lord provest baillies and communite of the burgh of  #
Peblis be my
lordis Lenox, Angus, Mortoun, Mar, Glencairn, Ruthven,          #
Glammis, Vchiltre
and Carthcart, datit at Striueling the xxiij day of Junii       #
(\anno\) 1570.
   Siclike, the counsale ordanis ane ansuer to be maid to       #
maister Robert
Inschaw, conforme to the contentis of his writting, etc.

[}1 AUGUST 1570.}]
   The counsale hes ordanit Mertyn Hay, baillie, William Bell,  #
James
Gowane, Patrik Vache, Johne Wod, Patrik Dikesone, Thomas        #
Dikesone,
Johne Wychtman, to ryde furth with my lord to the hoist to the  #
raid in
Lythquo, conforme to the proclamatioun, providing alwayis that  #
my lord
gif his obligatioun to releif the tovne harmeles at the         #
thesaurare handis.

[}25 AUGUST 1570.}]
   My lord provest baillies and counsale fyndis William         #
Dikesone wife in
the wrang in stryking of Blais Stewart with hir fauldit neif,   #
and ordanis
hir to ask the said Blais Stewart forgifnes, sayand sche hes    #
failyet.

[}2 OCTOBER 1570.}]
   The said day [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] ,
maist part
of the counsale, ordanit and be the tennour heirof ordanis the  #
charge and
letteres direct be the Kingis Maiestie his graces regent and    #
lordis of secreit
counsale anentis the chesing of thair provest baillies and      #
commoun officiaris,
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and compt rakkynning payment and deliuerance of thair commoun   #
gudis
and kirk graith, to be obeyit in forme and effect as efferis,   #
efter the tenour
of the saidis letteres, apone the quhilk obedience Denys        #
Elphinstoun in name
and behalf of the baillies and counsale foirsaid askit          #
instrument.
   The electis chosing this present yeir be my lord provest to
be baillies: [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   The said day Johne Horsbruk and Patrik Newtoun wes chosing   #
and
electit baillies be commoun wotis and maid thair aith as vse    #
is.
   The baillies and counsale hes electit William lord Hay of    #
Yester provest
for ane yeir, ald vsit and wont, and maid his aith as vse is,   #
conforme to the
act of parliament and burrolawis; and thairupone the said lord  #
askit
instrument.
   The said day, Peter Sheill, textour, wes ressauit in         #
jugement dekin
sworne and admittit, and thairupone the said Peter askit        #
instrument that
the samin wes done be consent of the haill craft.               
   The said day, James Tuedy, in name and behalf of the         #
counsale and communite,
and assisting of our Soverane Lord and his graces Regent        #
letteres and
charge direct anentis the chesing of provest baillies and       #
commoun officiaris,
[{protestit{] that William Dikesone and Johne Horsbruk wes      #
nocht abill to be
chosing as electis to be baillies in respect of our said        #
Souerane Lord and
his graces Regent letteres and charge, becaus thai war baith    #
culpable of ane
part of the gudis and kirk graith, allegeand thairthrow thai    #
dissobeyit the
said charge and letteres, and thairupone the said James askit   #
instrument.
   And the said Johne Horsbruk confessit in jugement ane part   #
of ane
chalice deliuerit to him be James Tuedy, thesaurare for the     #
tyme, and is
reddy to mak compt rakkyning and payment thairof, and William   #
Dikesone
denyis simpliciter intromissioun outhir with commoun gudis or   #
kirk graith
bot that quhilk he had payit, and protestit in cace outhir of   #
thame wer
electit baillie that our said Souerane Lord and his graces      #
regent letteres and
charge wes dissobeyit.
   To the quhilk ansueris James Tuedy that he gaif ony part of  #
chalice to
Johne Horsbruk bot that the said Johne Horsbruk, being baillie  #
for the
tyme, compellit him as ane subject, the said Johne beand        #
superiour becaus
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the said James wes kepare of ane of the keyis of thair commoun  #
kist, and
thairupone askit instrument.
   The said day, James Tuedy, in name and behalf of the maist   #
of the
counsale and communite, tuk instrument that my lord provest     #
dissobeyit
our Souerane Lord and his graces Regent and lordis of secreit   #
counsale 
letteres and charge, becaus his lordschip votit and electit     #
with Johne
Horsbruk and William Dikesone to be baillies, beand culpable    #
of ane part
of the commoun gudis and kirk graith.  And my lord Yester       #
provest
oblist him to ansuer to the king his graces regent and lordis   #
of secreit
counsale for the saidis Johne Horsbruk and William Dikesoun     #
and vtheris
quha he gaif in tecat to be electis and baillies, and to mak    #
compt
rakynning and payment for thair intromissioun, outhir with      #
commoun
gudis or kirk graith, safar as thai intromettit with.
   The quhilk day, Andro Alexander messinger producit thir      #
names vnder
writtin in jugement be vertu of our Souerane lord his graces    #
Regent and
lordis of secreit counsale charge and letteres, viz., Johne     #
Horsbruk, James
Tuedy, Johne Wychtman, Rolland Scot, Johne Dikesone redare,     #
William
Dikesone, Patrik Dikesone, and Johne Dikesone of Melvingland,   #
as intromettouris
ressauaris and desponaris of ane part of the common gudis and  
kirk graith, and that afore the electing and chesing of the     #
baillies, protestand
solemniter gif my lord votit or electit ony of the saidis       #
persones in
office by the effect and tennour of the saidis letteres for     #
dissobeydiance
thairof that he mycht haif place to indorse apone the said      #
dissobedience as
efferit to his office to the quhilk he wes sworne.

[}25 OCTOBER 1570.}]
   The haill inqueist ordanis all meill to be presentit to the  #
mercat croce,
and nane remane in houssis, and that nane be sauld quhill tua   #
efter novne,
nor nane be sauld efter sax houris, vnder the pane of deling of #
the samin,
and that ilk meill sell to the poor of ilk laid ij pekkis       #
meill, and that it be
als gud in the ers of the seke as in the mouth vnder the pane   #
foirsaid.

[}15 NOVEMBER 1570.}]
   Johne Horsbruk, ane of the baillies of Peblis, tuk           #
instrument that 
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Robert Dikesone of Ormistoun trublit the court sayand that gif  #
he gat
Alexander Williamsone gangand endland Tuedesyde he suld fetter  #
him as
ane theif.
   The counsale sworne and chosing for this present yere:       #
[^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]

[}18 NOVEMBER 1570.}]
   The baillies tuk instrument that thai requirit the honest    #
men of the
tovne to releif thame of the xvj li. that thai war awand to the #
chakkare
for the custummis bygane, for the quhilk thai war chargit to    #
pay or elis to
be put to the horne for the samin.
   The counsale and communite ordanis the baillies to tak of    #
the reddyest
of Sir Robert Hoip monei to pay the xvj lib. monei to the       #
chakkare for
the custummis bygane to releif the baillies fra the horne, and  #
mak Sir
Robert Hoip securite for the annuell thairof, safare as thai    #
tak, and gif him
saising thairof, viz., of Johne Scot and Johne Bullo, and to    #
roip the hillis
of Caidmuir betuix this and Witsonday to pay the releif of the  #
said sovme
of xvj lib. monei.

[}6 DECEMBER 1570.}]
   [\Of this date "the inqueist ordanis viij men to walk        #
nychtlie;" all the ports 
"to be sufficientlie stekit;" and "the heid dykis to be sychtit #
and biggit round
about the tovne, alsweill clois futtis as vtheris."\]
   Siclike, ordanis the stepill and knok to be ordourlie and    #
sufficientlie
kepit, vsit and wont, and to regne xij houris, vj houris, and   #
courfyre
nychtlie, and to pay Andro Frank his fe thairfore byganes as    #
tocum, ay and
quhill he be dischargit.

[}20 DECEMBER 1570.}]
   The baillies counsale and communite ordanis that thair be na #
playing at
the fute ball on the Hie Gait in tymes cuming, vnder the pane   #
of ilk
persone fyndand playand viij s. and cutting of the ball.
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[}15 JANUARY 1570.}]
   The haill inquest ordanis the baillies to pas throuch the    #
tovne and vesy
euerilk induellare within the burgh of Peblis and se quhat      #
bestiall thai 
haif to leif vpone or ony vtheris gudis or geir; and to pvnis   #
all pykaris of
caill, erbis, cornes, fewale, hennys, caponis, geis, or ony     #
vtheris gudis and
geir, and quha thai fynd culpabill thairintill to punys thame   #
conforme to
the auld actis and banys thame the tovne conforme to the auld   #
actis maid 
in vmquhile Robert Hoppringill and Andro Wychtman, baillies,    #
tymes.
   And siclike that thair be na scheip fund pasturand within    #
the burro ruddis
in yardis or cornes in tymes cuming, vnder the pane of          #
eschaeting of
the samin.
   And siclike ordanis quhatsumeuery personis, wemen, mennis    #
wiffis, or
vtheris persones quhatsumeuer, that is found flytand on the     #
Hie Gait in
tymes cuming to be put sax houris in the linkis without         #
fauouris.
   And the heid dykis to be biggit round about within viij      #
dayis efter the
lowyssing of the storme.

[}10 FEBRUARY 1570.}]
   The maist part of the communite of the burgh of Peblis is    #
contentit with 
maister Thomas Cranstoun writting tuiching his desyre to schaw  #
the Word
of God trewlie, and to send ane commissioun to him with the     #
lard of Henderstoun
and ane of the baillies.
   The baillies and communite ordanis fourty persones, honest   #
men, to furnys
xl s., euerilk persone to pay xij d., for to speik the Regent   #
grace to haif fauouris
to byde at hame fra the proclamatioun newlie ordanit for to be  #
in
Glasgw the xiiij day of this instant, and fynd remedy           #
thairfore, and to wit
beneuolent pay the samin.      

[}16 FEBRUARY 1570.}]
   The baillies counsale and communite hes ordanit Patrik       #
Newtoun, ane of
the baillies of Peblis, accumpanit with Johne Wychtman,         #
Gilbert Tuedy,
Thomas Hesilhope mercheand, William Dikesone, Andro Alexander,  #
ryde to 
the oist to Glasgw, conforme to the proclamatioun, and to see   #
gif they can
haif ane addres of my lord Regent grace or nocht, and           #
thairefter to aduertis
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with ane cursour quhidder thai get ane addressement or nocht,   #
and the said
aduertisment beand maid to the haill tovne, to take the nixt    #
best, and gif it
be found that thai get ane sufficient addres the rest of the    #
tovne to beir the 
said baillie and the saidis sax nychtbouris with him expensis.

[}14 MARCH 1570.}]
   The baillie and maist part of the communite beand present    #
for the tyme,
hes ordanit Maister Andro Cranstoun, be the admission of the    #
kirk, for instruction 
of the youth to tak the barneis of the tovne to instruct thame, #
and
appoyntis the tolbuthe to him to teche the barneis in quhill    #
Beltane nixtocum,
and quha plesis to put thair barneis till him for thair         #
instruction.
The said day Dauid Creichtoun grantit himself, of his awne      #
confessioun,
lauchfullie warnit fra the scoill, and that he suld remoif      #
thairfra at Beltane
nixtocum.

[}25 APRIL 1571.}]
   The haill inqueist ordanis the Vanelaw to be proclamit       #
waist seute and
hanyng quhill Witsonday nixtocum that the baillies tak ordour   #
thairintill,
vnder the pane of paying of viij s. for ilk sowme apprehendit   #
thairupone the
first falt, the secund xvj s., the thrid falt xxiiij s., and    #
the vnlawis thairof to
be applyit to the brig werk; and ordanis the baillies and       #
Thomas Lawder to
vesy the said brig werk and to consider quhat is necessar       #
thairfore, and the
samin to be modifiit vniuersalie amang the inhabitantis to be   #
payit gif the
said vnlawis will nocht satify the samin.
   The said inqueist ordanis the half of the tovne to walk      #
nychtlie quhill
Beltane ewin, and the haill toun to walk on Beltane ewin,       #
Beltane day at
ewin, and the morne efter Beltane day quhill thai se quhat stay #
may cum
in the cuntre for resisting of thevis.
   And as tuiching the out wachis, ordanis thame that hes nocht #
payit to
pay that thing sa far as is restand, and thairefter to mak ane  #
new taxt to
mak forthir wauching quhill forthir ordour be taken.
   Item, the said inqueist ordanis viij personis of them that   #
is ellis brokin
anentis the payment of the pulder and breik thame that brak the #
laif
efter Beltane, and in the mein tyme to gif to the gunneris ane  #
quarter of
pulder, and xx lib. to be broking to the brig werk and pulder.
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   Item, anentis the payment of the scoilmaister, ordanis the   #
provest and
baillies to set the hillis or ony vther wayis to the hieast     #
awaill to mak him
payment thairof for thair awne releif of the charge of the      #
kingis letteres
direct to thame thairupone.
   Item, ordanis the actis done of before be the tuelf men for  #
the situatioun
of the wall about the tovne to be obseruit and kepit, of the    #
dait the xviij
day of Aprill (\anno\) 1570 and xxx day of Junii (\anno         #
predicto\).
   Item, the inqueist is content that Maister Thomas Cranstoun, #
minister, be
payit of the thrid of the personage and vicarage of Mennare and #
Peblis as
efferis to the quantite and availl thairof.
   Item, the inqueist ordanit the appoynteament of the buttis   #
bigging to be
kepit be the contractaris and appoyntearis thairof.

[}24 MAY 1571.}]
   The quhilk day, comperit Johne Dikesone of Melvingland and   #
desyrit the
baillies and counsale to call in particularlie be thair precept #
the intromettouris
with the kirk geir and commoun geir to thair awne particulare   #
vse, quhilk
suld be restorit and geving agane bakwark to the commoun vse of #
the tovne,
and to be chargit vpoun four dayis warnyng, conforme to the vse #
of burgh,
quhairthrouch that taxationes nor stentis apone the poore.
   The baillies and counsale ordanis the officiaris to pas      #
throuch the tovne
on Witsonday ewin and desyre honest men sum to leid ane laid    #
of lyme to
the brig werk and sum sand and sum stanis, and thai that wil    #
nocht send
thair hors that we may knaw thair gud will thairto.
   The baillies tuk instrument that thai with awise of the      #
communite dischargit
thame of ony intromissioun with my lord Newbotle hoggis         #
quhilkis
wes red fra the thevis, and makkis thame fre to my lord         #
Newbotle seruandis,
William Ackin and William Allane, and thairupone the baillies   #
askit instrumentis.
This wes done in the Tolbuth of Peblis at ix houris forrow      #
novne
or thairby, before thir witnes: Denys Elphingstoun of           #
Henderstoun, James
Tuedy burges in Peblis, and Sir Johne Allane notare publict.
   The said day, in presens of the notare publict and witnes    #
vnder writting, 
William Allane, officiare foirsaid, in name and behalf of my    #
lord Newbotle,
desyrit Gilbert Hay to deliuer to him in name and behalf of the #
said lord
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Newbotle, quha ansuerit and said he had na intromissioun with   #
the saidis
hoggis bot causit the childrene quha wes reddaris thairof fra   #
the thevis to
hald thame and keip thame togidder to my lord vtilite and       #
proffit quhill the
said childrene wer satifiit for the redding of the same, and    #
thairupone 
William Allane, officiare foirsaid, askit instrument.  This wes #
done at the
said Gilbert Hay duelling place, at ten houris forro novne or   #
thairby, before
thir witnes: Arthure Jak, seruand to the chalmerlane of Glasgw, #
William
Tempill, Robert Rust, with vtheris diuers.
   
[}19 JUNE 1571.}]
   The inqueist findis Johne Bell dissobedient to the baillie   #
that wald nocht
obey the said baillies charge quhen he molestit and trublit the #
tovne, and
thairfore ordanis the said Johne Bell to compeir at the mercat  #
croce and ask
Patrik Newtoun baillie forgifnes, and to find caustioun to obey #
officiaris in
tymes cuming, vnder the pane of banissing the tovne and his     #
body to be
pvnist conforme to the lawis of the realme.
   And ordanis gif ony fremen within the libertie of burgh      #
dissobeyis the
baillies or ony vtheris officiaris to forfalt thair liberte and #
fredome, and vnfremen
or seruandis dissobeyand to be banisst the tovne for euir, and  #
this act
of ordinance to be vsit in all tymes cuming.
   The inqueist ordanis the baillies and counsale to vesy and   #
sycht quhair
Johne Patersone desyris the chep to be biggit and lat him haif  #
it be ane sufficient
rowme, nocht hurtand  the hie passage and kingis streit,        #
conforme to
the vse of the tovne and ordour of burro lawis.

[}27 JULY 1571.}]
   The baillies ordanis the officiaris to warne the             #
inhabitantis of the burgh
of Peblis to pay thair day werkkis awand be thame vnpaiit to    #
the brig werk,
vnder the pane of poynding of thair guddis vsit and wont, and   #
failyene
thairof committis Stene Robesone vphaldare of the said brig     #
werk to
poynd thairfore als weill in tymes cuming as for the byganis.
   The baillies and communite ordanis the quarter of the tovne  #
to walk
nychtlie, and to elect ane maist honest man of the said quarter #
quartermaister,
and to obey the officiaris as thai salbe commandit vnder the    #
pane
of ane vnlaw als oft as thai failye.
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[}12 SEPTEMBER 1571.}]
   The baillies and counsale ordanis Dauid Creichtoun,          #
scoilmaister, to be
ansuerit of x lib. of the xlvj li. ij s. viij d. taxt quhilk    #
wes collectit and gadderit
for the men of weir to gang to Leith, and that of the superplus #
of the
said sovme, and the rest thairof to be deliuerit to the         #
officiariis and Andro
Frank.

[}1 OCTOBER 1571.}]
   The quhilk day, Andro Alexander producit in jugement, afore  #
the
electing and chesing of the provest and baillies of the burgh   #
of Peblis, our
Souerane Lordis letteres chargeing William lord Hay of Yester   #
provest,
Johne Horsbruk, Patrik Newtoun, baillies of the said burgh,     #
makkand
mentioun:  Forsamekle as vmquhile our derrest cousing, James    #
erle of
Murray lord Abirnethy regent to ws our realme and liegis, quha  #
restis with
God, wrait to the provest and baillies of Peblis, nocht onlie   #
in the yere
of God j=m= v=c= lxviij yeris but also before the feist of      #
Michaelmes in the yeir
of God lxix yeris, anent the chesing of their baillies and      #
commoun officiaris
of the maist honest worthy and sufficient men within thair toun #
that war
nocht of factions nor hes nor had melling and intromissioun     #
with thair
commoun gude and kirk graith to thair privat vses, to the       #
effect that the
samin mycht haif bene employit to the bigging of ane wall about #
our said
burgh to resist the invasioun of thevis, quhairvnto our said    #
vmquhile cousing
wes willing to hald hand that the samin mycht be performit;     #
nochtwithstanding
our derrest gudschir Matho erle of Levinax lord Dernlie, our 
lauchfull tutour and now regent to ws our realme and liegis,    #
vnderstandis
that thair is na thing done be the saidis provest and baillies  #
to sa gud ane
actioun tending samekle to the commoun weill of our said burgh  #
and eais of
our Prince liegis within the samin, bot the saidis commoun gude #
and kirk
graith intromettit witht and desponit be sum particular         #
persones mair
regardand thair awne privat proffitt and commodite nor the      #
publict weill of
the samin burgh; for remeid quhairof our will is and we charge  #
yow straitlie
and commandis that, incontinent thir our letteres sene, ye pas  #
and in our
name and authorite command and charge the saidis provest and    #
baillies of
our said burgh of Peblis now present to tak compt and           #
rakkynning of the
persones intromettouris quhatsumeuer with the said commoun      #
gude and
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kirk graith, and thairefter caus ilk ane of thame for thair     #
awne part to
rander restore and deliuer the samin agane, so far as thai haif #
intromettit with,
to the saidis provest and baillies or to the collectour that    #
thai sall appoynt
for the resset thairof, to the effect that with the avise of    #
the counsale and
communite of our said burgh the samin may be applyit to the     #
commoun
weill thairof in bigging of ane wall thairabout, within sax     #
dayis nixt efter the
saidis provest and baillies be chargit be yow thairto, vnder    #
the pane of
rebellioun and putting of thame to our horne, or ellis that     #
thai vpone the
samin sax day compeir personalie afor our said derrast gudsire  #
and regent
and lordis of our secreit counsale at Edinburgh or quhair it    #
salhappin thame
to be for the tyme and schaw ane ressonabill caus quhy the same #
suld nocht
be done, with certificatioun to thame and thai failye, our      #
vtheris letteres salbe
direct simpliciter to put thame to our horne and all thair      #
moveable gudis
escheit and inbrocht till our vse for thair contemptioun,       #
according to justice,
as ye will ansuer to ws thairupone; the quhilk do we commit to  #
yow
coniunctlie and seueralie our haill power be thir our letteres, #
deliuering
thame be yow dewlie execut and indorsat agane to the berare.    #
Geving
vnder our signet, and subscriuit be our said derrast gudschir   #
and regent, at
Edinburgh the xj day of September and of our regne the ferd     #
yere. Efter
productioun of the quhilk charge and charge geving, the said    #
Andro
Alexander askit instrument that the saidis provest and          #
baillies of the said
burgh obeyit the saidis letteres and contentis thairof in all   #
tymes cuming,
and tak compt rakkyning as said is, and apply the samin to the  #
walling of
our said burgh, vnder the pane foirsaid.
   (\Electi pro balliuis fiendis\): [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   The said day James Wilsone and William Dikesone, be commoun  #
vot of
the provest baillies and communite of the said burgh, is        #
chosing baillies for
ane yere, and maid thair aithis as vse is for administratioun   #
of justice,
baith to poore and riche, and ressauit the wand thairof in      #
signe and takin
of the samin.     

[}5 DECEMBER 1571.}]
   The haill inqueist ordanis the interprisaris of the wall to  #
fall to the
werk the morne, and lift the dykis quhatsumeuer appoyntit, and  #
lay to the
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werk and compleit the samin as the rest is, safare as the       #
stanis will serf;
and that na man molest truble nor cummer thame thair seruandis  #
in
lifting of the saidis stanis and dikis as said is, vnder the    #
pane of viij s.
vnforgeving.
   Siclike, ordanis that ane of the baillies, accompanit with   #
four or five
honest men, pas throuch the mercat wolklie and inhibit that na  #
man,
regratand the mercat, by ony meill bot samekle as will sustene  #
the byaris
for viij dayis alanerlie, and that na meill be sauld afore tua  #
efter novne nor
efter sax, and that all meill be presentit to the mercat met    #
and sauld
thairintill and in nane vther place, and that the meill be als  #
gud in the sek
ers as in the mouth thairof, providing alwayis gif ony meill in #
tymes
cuming be apprehendit in houssis furth of the mercat the samin  #
sall pay to
the officiar apprehendare thairof ane firlot of meill and the   #
rest of the sek
to be delt to the poore folk, and that na nychtbour within the  #
tovne by
meill to ony landwart man that is ane cowpare of meill vnder    #
the pane of
viij s. vnforgeving.
   The inqueist ordanis the dissobeyaris and contempnaris of    #
the kirk to
be pvnist be the baillies as accordis, efter the vse and        #
consuetude of vther
reformit townis.

[}19 DECEMBER 1571.}]
   The baillies tuk apone hand to preif the contentis of our    #
Souerane
Lordis letteres producit be Dauid Creichtoun tuiching his       #
stipend contenand
the sovme of xx li. payit, viz., x lib. thairof be the baillies #
and ten
pundis be Stene Robesone, and that at my lord incuming in the   #
cuntre,
and als to preif that he wes lauchfullie dischargit fra the     #
instructioun of
the scoleris and scoill in Januare in (\anno Domini\) j=m= v=c= #
and thre score nyne 
yeris, and thairupone the baillies askit instrument.
   To the quhilk ansuerit Dauid Creichtoun that he wes nocht    #
lauchfullie
warnit be the said Mertyn Hay as baillie to remoif of his       #
office as is allegit,
becaus the said Mertyn being half member of court for the tyme  #
and
havand Stene Robesone his college and William lord of Yester as #
provest and
superiour onto thame, on tha wayis the said Mertyn culd         #
[{nocht{] mak intimatioun
of warnyng to the said Dauid without consent of the said        #
provest and
college forsaid counsale and communite of the said burgh, and   #
als gevand
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and nocht grantand ony warnyng wes maid the said Dauid act of   #
admissioun
and continewance thairof in his office is of ane latter dait,   #
and thairefter
being lauchfullie warnit xl dayis precedand the thrid day of    #
Maii
(\anno\) 1571, and desyrit interloquutour thairupone.
   The said day the interloquutour findis that the baillies may #
sit apone
spulye and wrang committit amangnis nychtbouris within thair    #
selffis as
weill as the scheref principale may within the schyre.

[}14 JANUARY 1571.}]
   The inqueist ordanis the baillies to put Johne Kirkwod of    #
the tovne,
and gif he dissobeyis to set ane birnyng irne on his cheik and  #
banis him
the tovne for euer.
   The inqueist ordanis the custum to be ropit be opping        #
proclamatioun on
Tuesday the mercat.

[}1 FEBRUARY 1571.}]
   The quhilk day, comperit Johne Dikesone, takkisman of the    #
burraige
custum of Peblis set to him be the baillies counsale and maist  #
part of the
communite for the tyme, quhilk tak as yit is nocht expirit, and #
als allegit
that the inqueist quha gaf command to roip and proclame the     #
same hes na
jurisdictioun nor power thairof, bot alanerlie all inqueistis   #
to pas apone
seruing of brevis gif ony war, and as tuiching custumis milnis  #
and hillis
and all commoun effaris auch to be ropit and set be avise of    #
the provest
baillies and counsale conforme to the ordour of this tovne to   #
the space of
xl yeris bygane or thairby, and to verify the said allegeance   #
he producit my
lord provest hand writt that he never consentit, and siclike    #
that na counsale
is chosing quhairthrouch na power thair is to seclude nor put   #
him thairfra
as is allegit.
   The said day Johne Dikesone producit his tak of the said     #
custum red in
jugement, in the quhilk tak thair wes certane dayis thairof to  #
ryn, viz.,
four dayis and that he aucht to be warnit be provest baillies   #
and counsale
and ordour of thame be quham he had the said tak of before or   #
he
removit.
   The said day, Johne Dikesone comperit, ane of the counsale   #
for the
tyme, and allegit thair is ane act maid be the provest baillies #
and counsale
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that na freman suld be maid in na tymes cuming vnto the tyme    #
thai maid
residence within the tovne yere and day, quhairthrouch thair    #
qualities and
conditionis mycht be knawing, and siclike nocht to be admittit  #
afore compositioun 
be maid be the provest baillies and counsale for the tyme, and  
gif the baillies will breck the samin that it suld nocht        #
pervert the ordour in
this tyme, and desyris the names of the interloquutour gif thai #
pervert the
said ordour.

[}6 FEBRUARY 1571.}]
   The burro court of Peblis, halding in the tolbuth of that    #
ilk, be James
Wilsone and William Dikesone baillies, set for commoun effaris, #
and
specialie for the setting of the custum, the vj day of Februare #
(\anno\) 1571,
the suttis callit, the court affirmit, the absentis in ane      #
amerciament; Johne
Mathosone, dempstare; Adam Gilleis, Patrik Williamsone,         #
officiaris; etc.
   (\Assisa\) : [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   Johne Dikesone, takkisman of the custum, baillies counsale   #
and communite
of the burgh of Peblis hes chosing this inqueist abone writting #
as
newtrale and vnsuspect persones be baith partiis to tak ordour  #
anentis the
roping and setting of the custum for the commoun weill to maist #
hieast
availl, and thairupone the baillies requirit instrument.
   The haill inqueist all in ane voce, except Andro Frank,      #
fyndis it necessare
that the custum be ropit to the maist availl for the commoun    #
weill,
conforme to the actis maid thairupone of before, and thai that  #
will gif maist
thairfore to be hard and thair tak to begyn on Candilmes ewin,  #
viz., the first
day of Februare.
   The haill inqueist ordanis the baillies to sycht thair       #
evidentis infeftementis
and rentalis of the small benefices within the burgh of Peblis, #
and
beand awisit thairwith to gif maister Thomas Cranstoun minister #
and
maister Andro Cranstoun his sone ane resolut ansuer of thair    #
billis tuiching
thair stipendis.
   The baillies counsale and communte of the burgh of Peblis,   #
beand convenit
counsalie togidder for to rope thair custum to the availl and   #
maist
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hieast price for the commoun weill, hes all in ane voce set the #
said custum
to Mertyn Hay, burges of Peblis, for ane yere, enterand thairto #
at the first
day of Februare, and to brook and jois the same peceabillie and #
lift all and
sindry small custumis and proffittis pertenand thairto, and     #
sall pay thairfore
fourty five merkis gude and vsuale money of Scotland .... to    #
the
baillies of Peblis to pay the chakkare with; and als the said   #
Mertyn sall
vphald the metlummis, viz., firlottis, pekkis and wey balkis    #
sufficientlie and
deliuer thame sufficient at the ische of the said yere tak.
   Maister Andro Cranstoun tuk instrument in cace he get nocht  #
ane
resolute ansuer betuix this and the nixt court he dischargit    #
him of the
seruis of the scoill.

[}1 MARCH 1571.}]
   The quhilk day, the baillie convenit the haill inhabitantis  #
of the burgh
of Peblis, and publist and red oppinglie in jugement our        #
Souerane Lord his
Regent graces and lordis of secreit counsale, akknawlegeing the #
King as our
Souerane onlie, his regent lieutennent and dewtifull subiectis, #
conforme to
the contentis of his graces act, of the quhilk the tennour      #
followis: (\Apud 
Leyth penultimo Februarii anno Domini j=m=v=c=lxxj=o=\). The    #
quhilk day, in
presens of my lord regent grace and lordis of secreit counsale, #
comperit
Johne Dikesone of Winkestoun, William Dikesone his brother,     #
baillie of
the toun of Peblis, Adam Bell, Johne Wod and Thomas Hesilhope   #
burgessis
thairof, for thame selffis and in name and behalf of the        #
remanent
inhabitantis of the samin, for quham thai ar presentlie content #
and
takis in hand to ansuer for, vpone the obseruatioun of the      #
conditionis
following, that is to say that thai euery ane of thame sall     #
acknawlege
as thai do presentlie the kingis Maiestie for thair onlie       #
Souerane, that thai
sall serue and obey his hienes his regent and authorite as      #
becummis
dewtifull subjectis, and siclike that thai sall nocht resset    #
supple nor intercommoun
with Thomas Ker sumtyme of Pharnyhirst knycht, Thomas Ker
sumtyme of Caveris, James Ormistoun sumtyme of that ilk,        #
maister Johne
Moscrope aduocat, or ony vtheris declarit tratouris and         #
notorious rebellis
aganis our said Souerane Lord and his authorite, bot sall ryis  #
assist and
serue his hienes or lieutennentis havand his Maiesties          #
authorite in the
furthsetting thairof aganis al withstandaris of the same. The   #
quhilk to do
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the persones abone writting comperand, takand the burding vpone #
thame
for thame selffis and vtheris that thai haif promysit for as    #
said is, hes
faythfullie bund oblist and sworne thame selffis ay thai will   #
ansuer to God,
and vnder the pane of periurie defamatioun and tinsall of       #
perpetuale estimatioun
and credit, and in cace thai do in the contrare to be comptit
faithles manesworne and defamit for euer and sall never haif    #
place to stand
in jugement or to beir office and witnes, bot to be haldand as  #
tratouris and
infidelis perpetualie.  Attour my lord regentis grace and       #
counsale ordanis
and commandis the forsaidis persones comperand as said is to    #
communicat
thir conditiones to the remanent inhabitantis of the said burgh #
of Peblis, and
to tak the like aith of thame for obseruatioun of the samin,    #
and in cace
ony mak refuis that it be reportit agane to his grace and       #
counsale that
ordour may be takin with thame as appertenis. (\Extractum de    #
libro
actorum secreti consilii supremi D.N. Regis per me Alexandrum   #
Hay
deputatum clerici eiusdem, sub meis signo et subscriptione      #
manualibus. 
Sic subscribitur: Alexander Hay\). Of the productioun           #
publissing and
reding of the samin the baillies desyrit the samin inhabitantis #
of the said
burgh to obtemper and obey the said writting, conforme to the   #
contentis
thairof, quha all in ane voce maid thair aithis to fulfill the  #
samin as said
is, and in signe and taking of thair said obedience and         #
acknawleging of
our Souerane his graces regent and authorite as dewtifull       #
subiectis, the
saidis baillies and inhabitantis hes subscriuit the samin in    #
maner following
day yere and place foirsaidis. (\Sic subscribitur\).              
 

[}12 MARCH 1571.}]
   The inqueist ordanis the prebendariis to produce thair       #
giftis of thair
prebendis betuix this and the nixt court.
   Item, ordanis the baillies to write to my lord for the key   #
of the commoun
kist quhilk he hes in keping, and haif his ansuer thairupone,   #
that
the commoun buikis and vtheris evidentis may be sychtit.
   Item, ordanis the baillies to pvnis all regratouris conforme #
to the auld
actis maid thairupone of before, vtherwayis thai will nocht cum #
apone
inqueist or assise.
   The inqueist ordanis the baillies to elect ane counsale to   #
decerne apone
all actiones concernyng commoun effaris, and thairefter Adam    #
Dik to mak
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his bill and gif into the provest and counsale anentis that     #
part of land that
he desyris in fewferme in Sanct Michaell wynde.
   Item, the inqueist ordanis the baillies to assist the        #
ordinances of the
kirk and actis of parliament anentis the pvnisment of           #
excommunicat
persones.
   Item, ordanis Dauid Creichtoun, scoilmaister for the tyme,   #
to be payit
his fiall safar as he maid seruis vndischargit, compt and       #
rakkynning beand
first maid of his ressait.
   Item, ordanis Andro Frank to mak compt and rakkynning of the #
pulder
and leid that he ressauit and thairefter to tak ordour          #
thairwith.
   The inqueist ordanis the minister, Mr Thomas Cranstoun, to   #
vse his
assignatioun maid to him be the collectour anentis his stipend.

[}31 MARCH 1572.}]
   The baillies, with avise of ane certane honest men, convenit #
for the commoun
welth of the tovne, statutis and ordanis that the haill half    #
tovne
walk nychtle, begynnand at nyne houris at evin, and remane      #
quhill
v houris on the morne, to that effect the swische sall strike   #
at thair entres
and at thair departing, having thir viij men to be quarter      #
maisteris,
viz., Alexander Gowane, Patrik Dikesone, James Gowane younger,  #
James
Hoppringill; for the vther quarter, Mertyn Hay, Johne Wychtman, 
William Bell, George Horsbruk; for the vther quarter, Patrik    #
Vache,
Thomas Hesilhope, James Tuedy, Johne Scot; and for the last     #
quarter,
Hectour Cranstoun, Thomas Tuedy, Johne Horsbruk, Adam Dikesone; 
quha sall tak attendance to the said wauchis euirilk nycht,     #
baith out and
in, that thai do thair diligence as thai will ansuer first to   #
God, the King
and commoun welth of the tovne. Provyding that quhen ane fray   #
occurris
and warnyng maid be the wauche euery man without exceptioun of
persones salbe reddy apone the Hie Gait with his armour ather   #
at the
stryking of the swysche or ringing of the commoun bell          #
incontinent, vnder
the pane of ten li. the first falt, the secund falt xx li., the #
thrid falt [^blank^];
and for obseruing of this ordour in tymes cuming the swische to #
strike at
the Eist Port and the bell to ring at the West Port, and the    #
panis to be
vpliftit be the baillies incontinent efter the falt, and in     #
cace thai failye the
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baillies to pay the pane of the falt of thair awne gudis;       #
provyding alwayis
that the out wauchis salbe ordourit be appoyntement of the      #
quarter
maisteris and gif thai be found necligent to be pvnist at the   #
baillies
sycht.
   Siclike, it is statute and ordanit that the haill            #
inhabitantis of the said
[{toun{] euery ane to big thair awne heid-rovme betuix the      #
Tolbuth to Peblis
brig and sua about the south syde of the tovne to the Eist      #
Werk, the haill
communite to help to big it with dry stanis sasone and safare   #
as is within
thame selffis, and quhair superabundance of stanis is to help   #
vtheris thairwith
that mistaris, and this to be done within viij nychtis, and     #
quha
failyeis heirintill to pay xl s. of pane, provyding alwayis     #
that all the inhabitantis
betuix the Tolbuith and the Eist Port transport the dykis       #
within the
wall to the work to be layit in dyke and wall that the          #
interprisaris of the
work may big the samin and clois the port as efferis.
   And siclike ordanis Johne Wychtman, accumpanit with thre     #
vtheris
nychtbouris as the baillies and honest men sall think           #
expedient, with the
tovne commissioun, to pas to Leith and to gif in ane bill to    #
my lord regent
grace and counsale to lament our heirschippis as salbe geving   #
in writting
to thame.

[}7 APRIL 1572.}]
   The baillies and communite ordanis to send tua honest men    #
with thair
commissioun to the regent grace and lordis of counsale to       #
lament thair
heirschippis and reiffis, and siclike to tak ordour quhow the   #
pulder salbe
payit and disponit. Ordanis the slatis of all the portis and    #
Briggait wicket
to be bandit with irne, and ordanis the Briggait port to be     #
biggit vp and
condampnit. Siclik, ordanis to provide Adam Hog to keip the     #
gunnis in
the Eist Port. James Kid to vse the swische. Item, to caus mak  #
the
crukkis to the port in the new wall. Siclik ordanis to sycht    #
the landis of
Caidmuir newlie rewin furth on Hundelishope syde and thairefter #
to
despone as thai think expedient.

[}18 APRIL 1572.}]
   The baillies and honest men of the tovne beand present for   #
the tyme
ordanis to elect iiij or viij young men to poynd for the        #
absence and dissobedience 
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of the wauche as quarter maisteris havand power thairof without 
partialite to poynd viij s. vnforgeving, the ane half thairof   #
to drink, the vther
to the commoun welth to be applyit. Ordanis to tak ordour with  #
Johne
Ra in the stepill. Ordanis to put ane gunner to the Eist Werk   #
to furnis
pulder to the gunnis.
   The electing of the scoilmaister to the counsale.
   And the quarter maister is to caus compell poynd and         #
destrenye all thame
quha ar nocht bent for the defence of the tovne, baith in body  #
and gudis,
wappynis fortalices and dykis; and to caus Sir Johne Allane and #
Thomas
Lawder set fordwart the walling of the tovne with expeditioun,  #
and that all
the inhabitantis within the burgh do as thai ar oblist to bring #
in thair carechis
of lyme restand bygane and to cum for furthsetting of the samin.
Item, to caus the Briggat Port to be biggit vp and              #
condampnit.... And
caus the interprisaris of the werk to be ansuerit thairof       #
conforme to the
indentis maid thairupone.
   Siclike, ordanis the baillies and communite to write to my   #
lord provest of
all effairis concernyng commoun welth, conforme to the actis    #
maid of before
be the ordinances and deliuerances of diuers inqueistis and     #
haill communite,
to cum and assist ws as our superiour and ourisman incontinent, #
with certificatioun
and his lordschip cum nocht thai will do the nixt best for the  
commoun welth of the tovne and discharge him of ony office in   #
tymes cumming,
and to cheis ane counsale on Weddynisday nixt to cum without    #
ony
continewatioun.
   The names of the travellaris that is admittit be the provest #
and baillies
to cary victualis to Drumfreis as faithfull trew men: [^LIST OF
NAMES OMITTED^] .

[}30 APRIL 1572.}]
   The inqueist ordanis the Venlaw to be let in gerssowmes to   #
the maist
availl for this present yere, becaus thai applyit thair haill   #
commoun gudis to
the walling of the tovne, and to hald all bestiall thairof and  #
keip the samin
for all gudis quhill it be sett in sowmes vnder the pane of     #
viij s.
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   The inqueist ordanis that na wautsche pas to ony part fra    #
the setting
thairof to the scaling of the samin bot as the quarter          #
maisteris commandis,
vnder the pane of viij s. vnforgeving; and that nane pas to     #
drink in tyme of
watsching, vnder the pane forsaid, and the oistlare that sellis #
to ony of the
wautsche ony drink sall pay viij s. of vnlaw vnforgeving.
   And that na crelis be vsit in the milnis the tyme of         #
smoltis, vnder the
pane of viij s. vnlaw and cutting of the creill set.
   Ordanis to discharge ony meill to be sald in Innerlethane in #
tymes cuming,
except it be to fremen, by the mercat day of the burgh of       #
Peblis, vnder
the pane of eschaeting of the samin.

[}10 MAY 1572.}]
   William Kello, burges of Peblis, is becumit causcioun and    #
souerte to
deliuer the pavaleoun of the burgh of Peblis, and all           #
necessariis pertenand
thairto, within the said burgh agane in the commoun hous        #
thairof, quhilk my
lord provest borrowit to the perambuling of his landis of       #
Gladmur, Vpstoun
and Crabrovne, within xv dayis nixt thairefter, vnder the pane  #
of fourty
pundis; and the said provest bunding for the said William Kello #
releif,
before thir witnes: William Lawder and Sir Johne Allane notare  #
publict.

[^19 MAY 1572 OMITTED INCL. A LIST OF WEAPONS^]

<P 342>
[}26 MAY 1572.}]
   The said day, James Wilsone baillie, in absence of William   #
Dikesone his
college, causit convene the haill nychtbouris and inhabitantis  #
of the burgh
of Peblis be thair officiaris to treit vpone commoun effaris,   #
and speciale
to avoid this inconvenient now laitlie falling betuix the burgh #
of Peblis and
the bordouris thevis and revaris, and haif tane four sworne men #
as speciale
to be principall chargearis and commandaris of the inhabitantis #
vtouth the
tovne in fra and following and to assist within the burgh with  #
the maiestratis
for pvnisment of dissobeyaris, and becaus the said baillie wes  #
vnabill
of his awne persone offerit to ony abill man that wald accept   #
his office he
wald gif largelie of his awne geir, viz., ane kow with ane      #
followare, his baillie
fee and vtheris accidentis that appertenit to his office, and   #
nane wald accept
his office of his hand nochtwithstanding the offer foirsaid,    #
and than incontinent
thairefter the said baillie, with avise of the nychtbouris      #
present for
the tyme ordanit the saidis nychtbouris and inhabitantis of the #
said burgh
of Peblis, to convene in the tolbutht thairof on Weddynnisday   #
nixtocum be
ix houris forro novne, vnder the pane of viij s. vnforgeing,    #
and protestit gif
ony inconvenient happynnit to fall in the meyntyme that he war  #
blameles
thairof becaus he culd haif na obedience of the saidis          #
nychtbouris.

[}28 MAY 1572.}]
   The counsale sworne for this present yere to Michaelmes      #
nixtocum: - My
lord provest; [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
Subscriuit
be my lord provest and baillies; and thir persones              #
vnderwritting chosing to
augment the nowmer for forthir setting furth of commone welth   #
as efter
followis: - [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
<P 343>
   The counsale abone writting ordanis the wauche to stand as   #
it wes of
befoir till my lord incuming in the cuntre, and thairefter to   #
tak ordour
thairof as the counsale thinkis expedient, and ordanis ane      #
blynd man to be
suttit and quhat ressonabill compositioun thai mak to releif    #
the sutour
thairof; and ordanis Johne Hay, James Hoppringill, Johne        #
Horsbruk, Patrik
Vache, Gilbert Tuedy, Thomas Tuedy to sut diligently the said   #
blind
man.
   Ordanis the Eist Werk to be kepit and the artailyerie to be  #
schot be
Adam Hog, and to be oursene be Patrik Newtoun, quhilk Patrik    #
sall distribute
the pulder as necessite occurris. Ordanis Johne Portus to be    #
conducit
to walk nychtlie on the Eist Wark, enterand at ix houris at     #
ewin quhill thre
houris in the mornyng quhill the nycht grow langar, and         #
thairefter Johne
Wilsone to pas to the hous heid and till remain quhill vij      #
houris in the
mornyng; and that the Eist Port be nocht opynnit quhill v       #
houris in the
mornyng, and steik the samin at ix houris at ewin quhill the    #
nycht grow 
langare; and that gunnaris that may nocht furnys thameself      #
pulder to haif
sum pairt of the townis expensis in tyme of frayis and neid.
   The brekaris of the iij=xx= li. taxt for commoun effaris: -  #
[^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   The vesyaris of the wappynnis and armour of the burgh of     #
Peblis as
efter followis: - [^LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]
   Item, it is statut and ordanit that na man nor bestiall, sic #
as scheip hors
swyne nolt, be found within vtheris yardis in tymes cuming, and #
to clois vp
thair yaird futtis within the closis to keip the samin, vnder   #
the pane of viij s.
of vnlaw vnforgeving.
   Item, ordanis all the heid dykis betuix Sanct Michaell Wynde #
and Peblis
brig to be sufficientlie biggit with all diligence betuix this  #
and Sonday nixtocum,
vnder the pane of viij s.
   Item, ordanis ane new port to be biggit to the new wall of   #
the reddyest
tymber of the kirk tymmer, and to fall to wirk the morne, and   #
ordanis Sir
Johne Allane and Thomas Lawder to fall to the bigging of the    #
werk the
morn and to begyn quhair thai left.
<P 344>
[}9 JUNE 1572.}]
   Ordanis the merchis of Caidmuir to be ridding, ald vsit and  #
wont, efter
novne, and all inhabitantis within the said burgh to be reddy   #
to pas with
the provest and baillies at the stryking of the swische efter   #
novne, ilk persone
vnder the pane of viij s. of vnlaw vnforgeving.
   Ordanis the provest and baillies to caus serce and seik all  #
vagabundis that
hantis or resortis inwith the liberte of burgh that thai may be #
notit and 
dischargit the tovne in all tymes cuming.
   The provest baillies and thair assessouris present for the   #
tyme fyndis that
ather Stene Robesone and James Hoppringill in ane wrang in      #
trubling of the
court the fourt day of Junii instant, and for that caus the     #
saidis persones
respectiue referris thame in the provest and baillies will for  #
amendement to
be maid at thair plesour.  

[}19 JUNE 1572.}]
   The ordinances of the counsale, viz., [^LIST OF NAMES        #
OMITTED^]
   The counsale ordanis Sir Johne Allane and Thomas Lauder to   #
enter to the
wark the morne, and to big safare as lyme is reddy or may be    #
performit, and
to wirk continewalie quhill lyme may be had, and failyene of    #
lyme to lay
dry werk in all places necessar quhair the counsale thinkis     #
maist expedient
and maist danger, and ordanis all that ar addettit in payment   #
of carechis of 
lyme to the wirk, baith Auld Towne and vtheris, to send hors    #
that hes thame
or than fe hors on thair expensis to bring in thair carache to  #
the werk as
thai salbe chargit be the officiaris, or than gif siluer to the #
interprisaris for
ilk carache as the interprisaris of the werk payis thame self   #
to the lyme
men, viz., for ilk careche thre s., vnder the pane of dowble    #
vnlaw by the 
price of the lyme that hes nocht brocht in thair careche the    #
first yere to the
werk.
   Item, ordanis the tovne to be dividit in thre quarteris      #
begynnand first at
Johne Ecfurd in North-gait to Patrik Dikesone, fra Patrik       #
Dikesone to
Wille Ecfurd, fra Wille Ecfurd to Johne Ecfurd; and to enter to #
the day
<P 345>
wauche at v houris in the mornyng and in the middis of the day  #
to lok the
portis be the kepare thairof in tyme of dyner, or ellis to put  #
ane kepare to
the port, and he that kepis the port that day salbe dischargit  #
of the nycht
wautsche, and quha failyeis sall pay dowble vnlaw; and gif thai #
sie ony men
rydand or gangand to the tovne, to steik the portis vnto the    #
tyme it be
knawin quhat thai ar, quhidder freindis or fayis, and quhair    #
thai luge and
takkis harbery the maister of the hous to cum to the baillies   #
and fynd
souerte that thai salbe honest and faithfull men.
   And siclike ordanis the cornes on Caidmuir that is           #
wranguslie sawin to be
eting or thai be schorne quhen the provest and baillis makkis   #
aduertisment
be the stryking of the swische or ringing of the commoun bell,  #
vnder the
pane of dowble wnlaw vnforgeving.
   Item, ordanis Adam Hog and Gawin Charteris to gang to the    #
Eist Port
nychtlie and remane thair, enterand at nyne houris and to       #
remane quhill five
houris in the mornyng, and Hectour Cranstoun and Dauid Ecfurd   #
to enter
to Johne Hay chalmer and remane as said is, and Patrik Lowys    #
and Andro
Frank to pas and keip the stepill as said is, vnder the panes   #
foirsaid.

[}2 JULY 1572.}]
   William Dikesone of Winkestoun, takkand the burding in and   #
vpone him
for himself his kin freindis sones barnes assistaris and        #
parttakkaris, bindis
thame in presens of my lord Yester provest and baillies         #
counsale and communite
of the burgh of Peblis, byndis thame nouthir to molest cummer
perturbe [{or{] to mak ony inquietatioun ony maner of way to    #
ony persone or
persones to invaid thame or ony of thame in tymes cuming,       #
outhir in thair
persones or gudis bot as law requiris.  And siclike the         #
baillies and communite
bindis thame in like maner that thai nor nane of thame sall     #
molest
perturbe truble nor cummer the said lard of Winkeston nor his   #
freindis foirsaidis
in body or gudis in all caussis and caces concernyng thair      #
commoun
welth, but ilk ane assist vtheris as kyndlie and hartlie        #
nychtbouris vnder the
pane of periurie.

[}30 AUGUST 1572.}]
   My lord provest baillies counsale and communite of the burgh #
of Peblis
ordanis the first taxt gadderit to mak compt of the desponyng   #
thairof, and
<P 346>
the vther taxt to be collectit and gadderit quhilk wes ordanit  #
for crukkis of
the port and bandis, for pulder, blynd man and watschis and     #
vtheris commoun
effaris, the tane half thairof on Monunday nixtocum and to be   #
deliuerit to
Patrik Newtoun and the vther half thairof within viij day, and  #
the said
Patrik to despone the samin be avise of the provest baillies    #
counsale and
communite.
   And ordanis ane of the baillies, with ane honest man and     #
nychtbour, pas
to Striveling to the conventioun and to pay the chakkare.
   Ordanis the crukkis of the port to be payit to James         #
Wilsone, baillie,
and his vtheris small comptis that he hes deburset sen he wes   #
baillie.
   My lord confessis to deliuer the key of the commoun kist     #
quhilk he hes 
in keping to the baillies and counsale and communite.
   Item, ordanis thame that is vtouth the new north port that   #
will nocht
obey to watsche inwith the tovne to pas to the vtmost north     #
port ilk nycht
thair cours about and walk thair as the rest of the tovne dois  #
nychtlie,
kepand the hour of thair entre and departing, vnder the pane of #
x s. vnforgeving;
and als ordanis ane watsche to be nychtlie on the eist port on  #
the
tovne expensis.  

[}6 OCTOBER 1572.}]
   The said day, Alexander Gowane and Johne Horsbruk wes        #
electit baillies,
sworne and admittit. The said day Johne Fraser messinger        #
producit our
Souerane Lord letteres that na man suld be electit in office    #
except thame 
that wes innocent of kirk graith, commoun geir and actuale      #
merchandice,
alanerlie.
   The said [{day{] William lord Hay of Yester wes electit and  #
chosing provest
for ane yere alanerlie; and Sir Johne Allane ratifiit clerk in  #
his office thairof,
conforme to his gift vnder the tovne commoun seill; and         #
thairupone the said
persones askit instrument.

[}16 OCTOBER 1572.}]
   The haill inqueist ordanis ane quarter of the maist honest   #
men of the
tovne walk nychtlie, and the baillies to ressaue the foir       #
watsche, and thai to
deput ane honest man nychtlie to direct the hind wauche, and to #
remane
quhill the hinder watsche be on fut and enter, and ane of the   #
hind watsche
<P 347>
to attend quhill the sone ryse on the morne, and thre of ilk    #
quarter to enter
in the glomyng and to remane quhill the nycht watsche be set.   #
And
ordanis the wobstaris to keip thair watsche siclik quarterlie   #
as afore. And
thame that is vtouth the new north port to walk.
   Ordanis the compt of the taxt to be maid on Saturday         #
nixtocum, and the
rest that is nocht payit to be poyndit for.
   Ordanis the knok to be rewillit in auld maner vsit and wont, #
and to gar
hir stryke nychtlie, and to ring coverfyre xij houris and sax   #
houris vsit
and wont.
   Ordanis the watsche nychtlie to be on the eist port; and the #
key of the
eist port to be geving in keping to Alexander Gowane baillie,   #
the key of
the north port to Johne Fresall to be kepit, the key of the     #
wikket to Johne
Mathosone; and to steik the portis with day lycht and opping    #
thame on the
morne at day lycht alsweill the portis as wickettis.
   Ordanis all that lepis the wall to be pvnist be warding of   #
thair bodyis in
irnes xxiiij houris the first falt, the secund falt banissing   #
of the tovne, the
thrid falt deid, etc.
   Ordanis all berne durris that standis with the wall to be    #
ramforcit and
condampnit vnder the pane of viij s. als oft as thai failye.
   Continewis the scoilmaister chesing to the haill counsale.
   Ordanis the haill inhabitantis of the tovne of Peblis to     #
convene at sevin
houris at morne, ane of euirilk hous, with barrowis and mandis  #
to beir
stanis with to the wall rownd about to be heichtit with dry     #
stane, begynnand
at the eist port, ilk persone vnder the pane of ane vnlaw.
   Ordanis the palyeone to be brocht hame, and failyene thairof #
to poynd
Wille Kelle thairfore.
   The inqueist findis Gilbert Andersone and Johne Edmond ilk   #
ane in ane
wrang in trubling of the watsche in Youle last wes.
   The inqueist fyndis Makkyn in the wrang in trubling of the   #
tovne and
makkyn bargane with Johne Makke, and findis the said Makkin ane #
vagabund
and ordanis him to be banist the tovne.
<P 348>
   The witnes of Besse Craufurd sow slaying: John Kirkwod       #
solutus, of the
age of xxviij yeris or thairby, sworne and admittit, deponis    #
that he is innocent
of the slauchter of the said sow and knawis nocht the stryking  #
thairof.
William Tempill, spousit; Arche Patersone, solutus; William     #
Andersone,
solutus; Niniane Portus, mariit; and Johne Hendersone, solutus, #
[{severally
depone{] with the said witnes in all thingis.

[}23 OCTOBER 1572.}]
   The inqueist fyndis Jonet Patersone in the wrang for         #
invading of Thomas
Ewmond wif, casting stanis at hir beseging hir in hir awne      #
hous, quhairthrouch
scho is lyand in danger of hir life.
   The inqueist findis baith James Lowys and Eduard Gowane in   #
the wrang in 
trubling of the tovne, makkand provocatioun of wordis and ilk   #
ane casting
stanis till vtheris, and dome geving thairupone.

[}5 NOVEMBER 1572.}]
   The juges refusis to sit apone Johne Stensone actioun        #
persewit aganis
Johne Fairle anentis the hurting of him and modifying of the    #
expensis in
curing of his hurt sustenit be him thairintill to the           #
barbouris, and thairupone
the said Johne askit instrument and protestit for remeid of     #
law.
   The said day, in the actioun and caus persewit be Johne      #
Tuedy student,
prebendar of the Rude aulter and Haily Blude situat within the  #
college kirk
of Sanct Andro the Apostle in Peblis, aganis thir persones      #
respectiue vnder
writting, heretouris and occupiaris of the landis vnder         #
specifiit, makkand
mentioun quhair the said Johne is lauchfulle providit to the    #
prebendarie of
the said Rude and Haly Blude, be vertu of the quhilk the landis #
annuell
rentis dewiteis fewis fermes and emolimentis pertenyng to the   #
said prebendarie
pertenis to the said Johne Tuedy, and it is of verite that the  #
said
Johne hes bene in peciabill possessioun of the vptakin of the   #
maist pairt
of the dewiteis respectiue thairof sen the deceis of vmquhile   #
Sir James
Dauidsone his predecessour, quha decessit in the moneth of      #
Februare (\anno\)
1568, and howbeit the annuellis rentis and dewiteis of the      #
landis after following,
pertenyng and occupiit be the persones efter specifiit,         #
pertenis to the
said Johne prebendare foirsaid, and his vmquhile predecessour   #
Sir James
<P 349>
Dauidsone and vtheris his predecessouris of befor wes in        #
peceabill possessioun
thairof during thair lifetyme, viz., in peciable vptaking and   #
lifting of
vij s. of annuell rent yerelie furth of ane foir buth pertenand #
to Mertyn
Craufurd lyand at the eist port at the north syde of the samin  #
within the
burgh of Peblis, furth of the commoun milnis or commoun gudis   #
of the
burgh of Peblis yerelie fourty s. of annualrent yerelie, furth  #
of the lands
of Dauid Dikesone in Cunye Nuke yerelie xiij s. iiij d. of      #
annualrent, furth
of the landis of Johne Andersone lyand on the est syde of the   #
Northgait
on the north syde of the new port xiiij s. iiij d. yerelie of   #
annualrent, furth
of the land of Sanct Peter and Paule vtouth the north port v s. #
of annuell
rent yerelie, furth of the landis of vmquhile Michaell Smyth    #
lyand in the
Auld Tovne iij s. of annuell yerelie; item, the haill croce     #
house at the eist
port; furth of the landis of William Gledstanis now             #
heretabillie pertenyng
to Helene Robesone vj s. viij d..... ane acre of land in        #
Smeithfeild 
pertenand in patrimony to the said altare callit the Rude Acre; #
item, ane
rude of land occupiit be vmquhile Johne Dikesone at the north   #
port pertenand
in patrimony to the said altare; item, ane acre of land lyand   #
on the
south syde of Sanct Andro Kirk pertenand in patrimony to the    #
said altare;
[^EDITOR'S COMMENT OMITTED^]
The persones respectiue abone writting beand callit and         #
convenit afore the
provest and baillies of the burgh of Peblis to heir and se      #
decretis be geving
at the instance of the said Johne Tuedy, prebendare foirsaid,   #
and the landis
abone specifiit to be poyndit be thair officiaris for the byrun #
annuellis abone
mentionat sen the deceis of the said vmquhile Sir James         #
Dauidsone his
predecessour, and siclike yerelie and termelie in tyme cuming,  #
conforme to
the desyre of the said Johne clame, and the foirsaidis persones #
comperand
in jugement denyit the said clame, and syne beand admittit to   #
the said
Johne probatioun, sindry dayis being assignit for probatioun    #
thairof, the said
Johne sufficientlie provit the samin, as the actis and proceis  #
deducit and led
thairupone mair cleirlie proportis: Thairfore the saidis        #
baillies being ryplie
avisit with the saidis proces and depositiones of witnes        #
foirsaidis decernit
decretit and ordanit thair officiaris to pas poynd and          #
distrenye the reddyest
gudis and geir being vpone the ground of the saidis landis      #
respectiue abone
writting or ony part thairof and mak the said Johne Tuedy,      #
prebendare
foirsaid, payment of the saidis annuellis and dewiteis abone    #
mentionat respectiue
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sen the deceis of the said vmquhile Sir James Dauidsone his     #
predecessour
restand awand vnpayit as is abone specifiit, and siclike        #
yerelie
and termelie in tymes cuming, conforme to the said Johne        #
provisioun clame
and rentale producit thairupone, and ordanit preceptis of       #
poynding to be
direct heirapone as efferis; and thairupone the said Johne      #
Tuedy prebendare
foirsaid askit instrument and protestit for the rolment of      #
court on his
expensis.

[}10 NOVEMBER 1572.}]
   The counsale ordanis Johne Wychtman to ansuer Johne Hog for  #
his warnyng of the hoist thevis cuming about the tovne of       #
Peblis in somer, xxx
s.; and the rest of his taxt to be payit to the out watschis.
   Item, that na flesche be blawin, vnder the panis contenit in #
the act of
parliament.
   That sufficient aittis be sauld na darrare nor xvj d. the    #
pek, and that thai
be sauld with custum met.
   The counsale ordanis the baillies, accumpanit with the       #
counsale, pas to
my lord provest at his nixt cuming to Nepeth quhow sone he      #
cumis in the
cuntre, to haif his vter mynde quhidder the tovne and           #
inhabitantis thairof
be in my lord assurance or nocht, and quhat his lordship will   #
do to thame
considering he is our superiour, and thairefter seik the nixt   #
best, and to haif
his ansuer thairupone
   Ordanis to cast the erd fra the new wall rownd about the     #
tovne at siclike
as the heid yardis on Tuede Grene and Peblis Walter syde, and   #
to lay dry
stanis on the new werk as thai think expedient, vnder the pane  #
of viij s.

[}6 JANUARY 1572.}]
   The baillies and counsale and communite of the burgh of      #
Peblis hes inhibit
Hary Thomsone in tymes cuming to be found within the liberte of #
the
burgh of Peblis, becaus it wes notourlie knawin that he wes at  #
the reif of
the tovne of Peblis on the xxvij day of Merche yere of God      #
foirsaid, and
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in cace he be fund heirefter to be pvnist as accordis to ane    #
commoun theif
and revare.

[}16 JANUARY 1572.}]
   The counsall ordanis the auld taxt to be poyndit for and     #
gadderit in, and
to pay the owtwautchis thairwith sa far as it will reik.
   And siclike ordanit ane of the baillies accumpanit with ane  #
honest man
pas done to Edinburgh with thair commissioun to the parliament, #
and thair
expensis to be payit of the reddyest of thair commoun gudis as  #
it beis gotting
in.
   Siclike, the counsale constitutis Johne Allane and Thomas    #
Lauder, interprisaris 
of the wall of the tovne, officiaris in thair awne caussis for  #
the
gaddering in of the multuris that the inhabitantis of the burgh #
of Peblis
wes abstractit is abstractit or salbe abstractit fra the milnis #
in thair hurt
sen thai first interprisit the said wirk vnto the ische of      #
thair tak, and
affirmis the auld actis of the multuris of the milnis maid of   #
before.

[}4 FEBRUARY 1572.}]
   The inqueist ordanis the baillies to writt or ellis gang to  #
my lord for the
key of the commoun kist as of before, makkand certificatioun to #
him and
his lordschip will nocht deliuer the said key thai will mak the #
kingis keyis,
becaus thai haif greit mister of the saidis keyis to haif       #
inspectioun of thair
evidentis and commoun writtingnis inclusit in thair commoun     #
kist that concernis
commoun weill, and for inlaik of the saidis keyis can haif na   #
inspectioun 
thairof.
   The inqueist ordanis the watsche, ilk ane nychtlie to keip   #
thair awne
quarter as thai will ansuer on thair livis to the authorite and #
the tovne, and
tua quarter maisteris to be chosing on ilk quarter, and gif ony #
fray or
skry risis to pas to thair quarter with thair quarter maisters  #
quhill thai se 
quhar the fray cumis fra for debait of the tovne.
   Patrik Stensone protestit that the calling of Robert Brovne, #
tennent to
my lord Yester, at the instance of Johne Horsbruk suld nocht be #
preiudiciale
to my lord Yester his maister privelege.
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   The custum of the burgh of Peblis, being ropit be thre       #
sindry court dayis
to the maist availl for the commoun weill, the samin is set be  #
avise of the
provest baillies counsale and communite to Stene Robesone       #
burges of Peblis
for ane yere nixt heirefter followyng, for the payment of       #
fiftie five pundis
gude and vsuale money of Scotland, the tane half thairof to be  #
payit at Beltane
nixtocum the vther half at Lammes to the chakker; and hes       #
ressauit [\blank\] 
firlotis and [\blank\] pekkis and weyis and wey balkis and      #
wechtis, and bindis
and oblissis [{him{] to vphald the samin sufficientlie .....

[}7 FEBRUARY 1572.}]
   The maist pairt of the counsale ordanis all induellaris,     #
houshaldaris within
the burgh of Peblis, alsweill poore as rische, to walk nychtlie #
in tymes cuming
as thai salbe chargit be the officiaris vnder the panes         #
contenit in the
actis maid of before, outhir the principale of the hous or      #
thane ane sufficient
man for thame, and na boyis nor lawdis to be admittit, and to   #
walk 
quhair thair buthis is, and als ordanis that na drink be sauld  #
to the wautsche
be ony oistlaris in tymes cuming vnder the pane of viij s.      #
vnlaw vnforgeving,
and that na centralis remoif of the wautsche quhill vtheris cum #
and be enterit
in thair places vnder the pane of viij s.
   Siclike, it is statut and ordanit that na sheip swyne nor    #
vther bestiale be
fund within the yardis in tymes cuming, vnder the pane of       #
warding of the
awnariis of the gudis in the tolbuth, and thair to remane       #
quhill thai fynd
causioun that all nychtbouris salbe skaithles in all tymes      #
cuming, vnder the
pane of xl s. vnforgeving and paying of the skaith to thame     #
that is hurt
the first falt, and als oft as thai be found in ony of the      #
yardis the secund
falt escheting of the gudis being apprehendit within ony of the #
saidis
yardis.
   Siclike, it is statut and ordanit that all thame that hes    #
gunnis to haif
thame at all tymes baith nycht and day in ane reddynes with     #
sufficient
pulder and bullettis.
   Siclike, it is statut and ordanit that ane of the baillies,  #
accumpanit with
tua honest men officiare and clerk, pas throuch the tovne to    #
the honest men
thairof and tak thair hand write and promis quhat thai or ony   #
of thame
will gif benevolentle to ane qualifiit scoilmaister to mak      #
dailie continewale
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residence and await vpone the instructing and teching of the    #
barneis and
youth quhairby thai may incres in wisdome and knawlege for the  #
common
welth of the towne, and to mak ane register thairof to be       #
yerelie payit to
the said scoilmaister quhill thair commoun gudis be fre, or at  #
the leist thai
may haif als mekle common gudis as will satify the said         #
scoilmaister, that
it may conduce the said scoilmaister incontinent to be his      #
yerelie feall, etc.
   Siclike, the counsale ordanis the baillies to caus by ane    #
quarter of pulder
and to pay it of the reddyest of the taxt or vtheris as it is   #
gotting in.

[}13 FEBRUARY 1572.}]
   The counsale of the burgh of Peblis, all in ane mynde,       #
ordanis to tak ane
addres with the bordour men that thai may do thair besynes in   #
all thingis
without ony feir or truble in tymes cuming, provyding alwayis   #
that the
authorite licence be first obtenit heirto, and failyene thairof #
to seik the nixt
best; and ordanis Johne Hay and Johne Wychtman pas to Edinburgh #
incontinent
vpone Sonday nixtocum to my Lord Regent grace and obtene his    #
graces 
licence and commissioun for seking of the said addres that the  #
inhabitantis
of the burgh of Peblis incure na danger heirefter in cace thai  #
tak addres
with the saidis bordouraris, for eschewing of deidlie feiddis   #
and cummeries
in tymes cuming; and ordanis the said counsale ilkane be        #
thameself to
subscriue this present ordinance for the said Johne Hay and     #
Johne Wychtman
commissionariis for the said towne releif.
   The haill counsale referris all secreit actiones to the      #
baillies with four
secreit men of the counsale, viz., ane of ilk quarter to be     #
electit be the
saidis baillies, and quhat ordour thai tak concerning commoun   #
weltht and
addressing of the bordour for avoyding of cummeris to stand     #
content
thairwith and to appreif the samin, and quhat expensis the      #
baillies debursis
to ony fadis to releif thame thairof, and the counsale and the  #
tovne to assist
the samin in all partis.

[}18 FEBRUARY 1572.}]
   The interloquutour findis that Johne Horsbruk suld haif      #
forthir proceis
aganis Robert Brovne in respect the pactioun wes maid within    #
the burgh
of Peblis, and als in respect that my lord Yester provest afore #
quham the
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said actioun is intentit suld rather assist the said privelege  #
nor dimember the
samin.
   The lard of Romannos protestit in name and behalf of my lord #
Yester
that his privelege be nocht hurt bot he may haif tyme and place #
to say
aganes the interloquutour juges.

[}28 FEBRUARY 1572.}]
   The counsale present for the tyme, for the evading of        #
incursiones of thevis
[{ordanis{] that thair be four out-wauthchis sit dailie, ane on #
the Wenlaw heid,
ane vther on Hammiltoun heid, ane on Downe Knowe abone the      #
park, the
fourt on Carwowris Fald, and to enter on Monunday nixtocum at   #
sax houris in
the mornyng and to remane quhill the sone gang, to ilk quarter  #
of the
tovne ane wauthsche daylie quhill the ait and bear seid be 
sawin, and
ordanis to steik the eist and north portis ilk Sonday in tyme   #
of prayeris. 
             
[}9 APRIL 1573.}]
   The haill inqueist, anentis the failye allegit be the        #
textouris and thair
brethir of craft maid be Patrik Williamsone officiare, findis   #
that the said
Patrik hes maid na failye in respect of the baillie command     #
geving to him
to tak the poynd of the decane hand, allegeand thai haif        #
confirmatioun
vpoun thair liberteis, and thairfore ordanis thame to schaw     #
thair said confirmatioun
on Thursday the xvj of this instant afore the counsale,         #
providing
alwayis that thai be astrictit to kepe ordour in all besynes    #
and commoun
effaris as the rest of the tovne dois quhill the productioun    #
of the said confirmatioun.
And ordanis the quarter of the Auld Tovne few or mony to walk
as the ordour of the tovne is takin in tymes cuming, ay and     #
quhill vther
ordour be takin thairintill.
   The inqueist ordanis the baillies to caus William Kelle to   #
bring and
restore the palyeone hame agane to the stepill, als haill and   #
sufficient as it
wes quhen he become souertie thairfore, within xv dayis, vnder  #
the pane of
payment of the sovme quhairapon he become souertie and causioun #
for the
same.

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[}16 APRIL 1573.}]
   The counsale ordanis the quarter of the tovne to walk        #
nychtlie, the tane
half thair of the foirnycht and the vther half the hindnycht,   #
ilk persone vnder
the pane of ane vnlaw vnforgeving to enter at ix houris and     #
till remane
quhill ane efter midnycht, and the vther wautsche to be raisit  #
or the first
wautsche gang to thair bed, and in absence of the baillie Johne #
Horsbruk
Patrik Williamsone to ressaue the wautsche, and the tovne to    #
satify the said
Patrik for his pane; and the wautsche of the Auld Tovne to do   #
inlikemaner,
and that becaus in respect thai promist to haif schawin thair   #
confirmatioun
this day conforme to the ordinance tane the last inqueist,      #
viz., the ix day of
the instant and schew it nocht.
   Item, that na syde dykes round about the wall be biggit      #
towart the said
wall bot that thair be ane fre passage to the wautsche to walk  #
nychtlie
within the wallis without ony cummer stope or impediment; and   #
that na
scheip nolt nor hors be found, swyne nor ony vther bestiall,    #
within the yardis
in tymes cuming, vnder the pane contenit in the auld actis maid #
of before
vnforgeving.
   Ordanis the Vanelaw to be ropit and set to the maist availl  #
to thame that
will gif maist for it, and in the meyn tyme that it be cryit    #
waist seute
and hanyng without ony pastour of bestiall to be pasturit       #
thairupone quhill
the samin be set, vnder the pane of ilk heid bestiale found     #
thairupone iiij d.

[}6 OCTOBER 1578.}]
   The burro and heid court of the burgh of Peblis haldin in    #
the Tolbuith
of the samyn, the vj day of October 1578, be William lord Hay   #
of Yester,
Johne Wichtman and James Hoppringle, the suttis callit, the     #
court affirmit
the absentis amerciat, Johne Stevinsone, Patrik Williamson      #
officiaris and
Johne Hay clerk.
   (\Electi pro balliuis fiendis\) :- [^LIST OF NAMES AND       #
EDITOR'S COMMENT OMITTED^]
   My lord provest gaif his ayth that he suld vse the office of #
provestrie for
ane yeir trewlie, conforme to the burro lawis and actis of      #
parliament. And
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siclik Johne Hay clerk of court wes creat for ane yeir.  And    #
alsua Johne
Stevinsoun and Patrik Watsoun wes creat officiaris for ane yeir.
   The court continewit to Wedinsday the viij day of this       #
instant. My
lord provest and baillies hes ordanit the counsale of the said  #
burgh to convene
in thair tolbuith, and that for aggrement of thair deidlie feid #
and
vther commoun caussis.
   James Hoppringle and John Wichtman, ald baillies, offerit to #
my lord
provest baillies and counsale being present to abyd compt and   #
rakkyning of
all commoun gudis intromettit be thame sen the acceptatioun of  #
thair
office, and quhat commoditie or office the provest baillies and #
counsale
findis thame to haue ressauit or intromettit with that          #
appertenit thame not
of thair office that thai sall gif compt rakkynnyng and mak     #
payment
thairof presentlie at the command of my lord provest and        #
counsale; and
siclik Johne Wichtman than presentlie protestit that the        #
baillies now
electit suld haif na intromissioun with ony pairt of commoun    #
gudis or geir
in tym cuming nor yit of theyis thingis that thai wer reddy to  #
reforme,
bot the thesaurare of burgh to haue the intromissioun thairwith #
in all
time cuming, and the baillies to haue onlie thair dewtie of     #
office ald vsit
and wont payit and na forthir, quhairof Johne Wichtman baillie  #
in name of
commoun weill desirit act.

[}8 OCTOBER 1578.}]
   My lord provest, baillies counsale and maist pairt of the    #
communitie,
convenit the viij day of October 1578, in their Tolbuith.
   In presens of my lord provest baillies counsale and maist    #
pairt of the
communitie hes all in ane voce aggreit and conducendit that ane #
stent and
taxatioun be gadderit of all and sindrie the inhabitantis of    #
burgh, and that
alsweill of the fremen without burgh as within, the samyn stent #
to be tane
for aggrement of thair deidlie feid of the town with the        #
bordour, and that
poynding pas vpoun euery ane of the inhabitantis foirsaidis     #
alsweill fremen
outwith burgh as within incais of dissobeydiance or refuis be   #
maid be ony
of the saidis personis of thair pairt of the stent and          #
taxatioun thai be
brokin to, quhairof publicatioun salbe maid to thame and euery  #
ane of
thame for thair awin efter the breikin of the samyn, and        #
thairof my lord
provest baillies counsale and maist pairt of the communitie     #
requirit act.


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