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[^EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF STIRLING, 
1519-1752. VOL. I. ED. R. RENWICK.
GLASGOW 1887.
PP. 94.10-120.10^]

<P 94>
[} [\20 FEBRUARY 1600.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall of the said burgh, convenit this   #
day, findis that
Robert Allexander, merchand, hes dispossessit thair liberties   #
in teilling down
of ane part of thair libertie of the peice land lyand besyd the #
Winschelhauch,
appointit for drying of the fischaris nettis repairing thair,   #
quhairof thaj war
in possession within certan merchis quhilk war set thairintill; #
tharfor, all in
ane voice, condescendis that the merchis raisit be the said     #
Robert in the saidis
landis salbe set in agane, and all the boundis betuix that and  #
the walter of
Forthe be keipit in commontie as it wes past memor of man, and  #
usit be the
fischaris in drying of thair nettis, ay and quhill thai be      #
callit and lauchfullie
put thairfra be the law; and to this effect that the haill town #
pas and lay
ouer the ground agane newlie revin out within the boundis       #
forsaidis, to the
effect abon writtin, and thaj to be warnit be the sound of      #
drum; and ordanis
the said Robert Alexander to be warnit to compeir to ansuer for #
contravening
of the former act maid heiranent.

[} [\29 FEBRUARY 1600.\] }]
   The counsall ordanis the first tua entressis of burgessis    #
and gild that
salhappin to be enterit in this burgh to be gewin to maister    #
Patrik Simpsone,
thair minister, for releiffing of him of sum dettis awand be    #
him.

[} [\21 JULY 1600.\] }]
   Comperit Robert Forrester of Boquhan and delyverit and       #
frielie gaiff to
Johnn Gawie, ane of the maistiris of the hospitall, the sowm of #
fiftie merkis,
to be wairit, imployit, and laid on land for yeirlie annuelrent #
to be gottin thairfoir,
<P 95>
to the utilitie and commoditie of the hospitall of the said     #
burgh and puir
being thairintill, present and tocum, be the advyse of the      #
provest, baillies and
counsall of this burgh, and that for the zeill, favour and gud  #
will, quhilk the said
Robert Forrester hes and beiris to this burght and puir of the  #
said hospittall.
   The counsall present, with advyse and consent of sindrie     #
utheris honest
nychtbouris inhabitantis in the said burghe, is content and     #
consentit that
thair libertie be menteinit and summondis of reductioun raisit  #
at thair
instancis for reductioun of the rychtis maid and grantit be our #
Soveran lord
to the townis of Airth and Falkirk, in prejudice of the         #
liberties of this burght,
and thairefter electit and cheisit, the maist pairt of tham,    #
that Archibald
Alschunder, dene of gild, and Johne Hendirson, convenar, sall   #
pass to Edinburgh
to caus with all diligens lybell ane summonds of reductioun.    #
And the
haill craftmen dissasentit fra directing of ony commissioner to #
the effect forsaid
except ane craftisman be direct commissioner, in all tym        #
cuming, for this
burght, with ane uther commissioner, and thairwpon thaj tuik    #
instrument.

[} [\20 AUGUST 1600.\] }]
   The counsall ordanis the thesaurar to pay to Walter Neische  #
the sowm of 
fourtie pundis, debursit be him for ane unlaw for his non       #
compeirance befor
the lordis of chekkar to mak the comptis of this burght at the  #
day appointit.

[} [\15 SEPTEMBER 1600.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall hes electit and nominate Johne     #
Williamson,
schereff clerk of Striviling, in commoun clerk and nychtbour of #
the said burgh,
in place of umquhile Andro Buchannan, last clerk and possessour #
of the said
office, for the space of ane yeir nixtocum.... And the said     #
Johnne sall
caus advyse all questionable processis upoun his expenssis that #
sall occur within
the said burgh during the tyme of his said service.

[} [\24 SEPTEMBER 1600.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, present, nominates and appointis  #
Archiball
Allane, merchand, and Johnne Henrysoun, convenare,              #
commissionares to pas to
Edinburgh, with all diligence, and thair, by advyse of men of   #
law and jugement,
to caus libell and rais ane summond of reductioun at the        #
instance of the
provest, baillies, counsall, deacones of craft, and haill       #
commounitie of the said
burgh, for annulling the richtis and erectiones of the tounes   #
of Falkirk and Airth.

<P 96>
[} [\3 DECEMBER 1600.\] }]
   Johne Broun, induellare of the Cannogait, producit and gaif  #
in the
letter undirwrittin, quhairof the tennour followis:-
   REX: Provest and baillies of our burgh of Striveling. It is  #
our will
that ye ressave heirwith tua quarteris of the lait erle of      #
Gowry and his
brother, our declairit traitouris, and caus thame be sett up on #
the maist
eminent and usuall places within your toun, according to the    #
dome pronuncet
aganest thame be the thrie estaittis, quhairanent this salbe a  #
sufficient
warrand to yow. Subscrivit with our hand at Haliruidhous the    #
xxvij day of
November 1600. (\Sic subscribitur\) : JAMES, REX. And siclike,  #
the said 
Johnne Broun deliverit to the saidis baillies the saidis tua    #
quarteris of the
foirsaid vmquhile Erle of Gowry, and his said brother. For      #
obedience of the
command of the quhilkis letteres, the saidis baillies and       #
counsall ordinit the
saidis tua quarteris of the said umquhile [{erle of Gowry and   #
his{] brother to
be sett up on the stipell of the tolbuith of the said burgh as  #
the maist
eminent place within the same.
   Robert Seytoun, brother to the laird of Touche, is enterit   #
to the libertie
and fredome of ane burges and gild brother of this burgh, quha  #
maid faith
(\more solito\) ; and that frelie, without any compositione     #
payet or to be payed be
him thairfoir, inrespect of the grite panes and travellis tane  #
be the said Robert
in the beitting and repairing of the brig of Tullibody, quhilk  #
he undertuik at
desyre of the baillies and counsall of the said burgh.

[} [\20 DECEMBER 1600.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall convenit, voites, nominates and    #
apointis,
Archibald Alschunder and Williame Edmond, baillies, with all    #
diligence, to
pas to the burgh of Perth and thair eirnestlie to insist and    #
deale with the
provest, baillies and counsall thairof, for the len and use of  #
the commoun
charter and evident granted to the merchandis and inhabitantis  #
of the haill
frie burghis of this realme be King David the [\Second\],       #
quhilk is of the dait
the [\28 March, 1364\], to the effect the said evident may be   #
producit and used
befoir the lordis of sessioun in the actioun and caus of        #
susspensioun persewit
<P 97>
be the induellaris of the villages of Falkirk and Airth aganes  #
the provest,
baillies, and counsall of the said burgh of Striveling,         #
concerning the lait erectiones
of the saidis villages in burghis of baronie.

[} [\25 DECEMBER 1600.\] }]
   Archibald Alschunder and Williame Edmond, for reporte of the #
commissioun 
gevin to thame upoun the xx day of December instant, producet   #
and
deliverit to James Schorte, deane of gild, and George Norwell,  #
thesaurare, in
name of the haill counsall, the commoun charter and evident     #
grantet be King
David the [\Second\] to the haill merchandis of frie burghis    #
within this realme,
quhilk wes in the handis and custodie of the provest, baillies, #
and counsall of
the burghe of Perthe, fra quhome the saidis commissioneris, in  #
name and
behalf foirsaidis, hes borrowit and resavit the same, for the   #
caus and effect
specifeit in the said commissioun, off the quhilk charter and   #
evident the saidis
James Schorte and George Norwell, in name and behalf of the     #
said counsall,
grantis the ressait fra the saidis commissioneris, and          #
discharges thame thairof
for ever, in respect the saidis Archibald Alschunder and        #
William Edmond ar
bund and obleist to redeliuer the said evident agane to the     #
saidis provest, baillies,
and counsall of the said burgh of Perthe, betuix and the last   #
day of Februar
nixtocum.

[} [\28 JANUARY 1601.\] }]
   [\The baillies and counsall, "Robert Forestare of Boquhane,  #
ald provest," and
seven others,\] being convenit in the counsalhous of the said   #
burgh to confer and
intreate upoun the commoun effairis of the said burgh, all in   #
ane voce, for
thair awin pairtis, voitit and concludet to prosequute and      #
defend the actioun
and caus persewit and depending befoir the lordis of counsall   #
at the instance
of the inhabitantes of the villages of Falkirk and Airth aganes #
the provest,
baillies, and commountie of the said burgh, anent the           #
erectiones of the saidis
villages in burghes of baronie; and for that effect the saidis  #
baillies, counsall,
and deacones of craft, and uther persones forsaidis, agreit,    #
votet and concludet,
all in ane voce, for thair awin pairtes, to provyde, lift and   #
uptak the soume of
tua hundreth pundis money as the samyn may be maist             #
convenientlie had,
viz., that the saidis foure baillies, upoun thair awin          #
obligatione, borrow the said
soume of tua hundreth pundis for profite quhair it may be had,  #
quhill the
feist and terme of Witsonday nixtocum, to be deliverit be thame #
to the commissioneris 
<P 98>
of the said burgh as salbe apointit for defence of the said
caus; [\of which personal obligation for four bailies are to be #
relieved out of
the common good.\]
   The saidis baillies and counsall gevis power and commissioun #
to the
moderator and remanent brether of the presbyterie of            #
Striviling, for the better  
provissioun of ane secund minister within the said burgh, to    #
travell with Sir
Thomas Erskene of Gogare, knicht, for the dispositione of his   #
richt, title and
kyndnes, of the burrow mylnes of this burgh, upoun the          #
conditiones offired be
him to thame of befoir.

[} [\28 APRIL 1601.\] }]
   Anent the merche stanes laitlie revin up be Robert           #
Alschunder betuix
the landis of Winschelhauche perteining to the said Robert, on  #
the ane pairte,
and the schoir rowme of the cobill fisching of this burgh be    #
west the brig, on
the uthir pairte, quhairby the said Robert thinkis to           #
appropriate the said schoir
rowme to his saidis landis of Winschelhauche, and sua to mak    #
the said fisching
altogidder unprofittable to this burgh, notwithstanding that    #
the provest,
baillies, and counsall of this burgh, and thair fischeares in   #
thair names hes
bene in possessioun of the said schoir rowme thir mony yeiris   #
bygane past
memorie of man; the baillies and counsall convenit, being weill #
and ryplie
avysit thairanent, decernis and ordinis that, with all          #
diligence, the saidis
merche stanes be of new inpute agane betuix the saidis landis   #
of Winschelhauche
and the said schoir rowme of the cobill fisching of this burgh, #
quhair
they wer of befoir, and for that effect ordinis the haill       #
inhabitantis of this
burgh to be warnit this day eftir none, be sweshe or bell, to   #
accompany the
saidis baillies and counsall in setting and placeing of the     #
saidis stanes agane
in maner foirsaidis.

[} [\1 May 1601.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, nominates and apointis  #
Archibald
Allane, younger, commissionare to pas to Edinburgh, for finding #
cautioun,
souirtie, and lauborrous, actit in the buikis of counsall and   #
sessioun, for
Williame Foirlie [\and others\] contenit in the letteres of     #
lauborrowis raised
and execute be Robert Alschundir aganes thame for his 
indempnitie.... 
[{And also{] to raise ane summondis of contraventioun aganes    #
the said Robert
Alschundir for altering and raising of the merche stanes betuix #
the landis of
Winschelhauche and the fisching shoir rowme of this burgh be    #
west the brig.

<P 99>
[} [\5 MAY 1601.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis tua sufficient, #
apt and
qualifeit doctouris, to be provydet to the grammer scole of     #
this burgh, for
the bettir instructioun of the youthe thairof; and continues    #
the provisioun of
thair fies and sustentatione, with the rest of the ordour       #
requisite to be had for
reformatione of the said grammer scole, unto the auchtene day   #
of Maij instant.

[} [\16 SEPTEMBER 1601.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, for eschewing and       #
preventing of all
farder trouble and inquietnes of this burgh betuix the baxteris #
and maltmen
thairof, ordinis the persones underwrittin, alswell of the      #
baxteris as of the
maltmen, to be charget, with all diligence, to enter thair      #
persones in waird
within the tolbuith of this burgh, and to remane thairintill,   #
upoun thair awin
expenssis, ay and quhile they becum actit and obleist in the    #
commoun buikis
of this burgh, ilk ane for thair awin pairtes, viz., the saidis #
persones of the
baxteris for thame selfis and for the remanent baxteris of this #
burgh, baith
maisteris, prentessis, and servandes, and the saidis persones   #
of the maltmen
for thame selfis and for the remanent maltmen, baith maisteris, #
prentessis, and
servandis, that ather of the saidis craftis, thair wyffes,      #
bairnes, servandis, 
assisteris, and pairt takeris, salbe harmeless and skaithles of #
utheris, and
on nawyis to be molestit nor troublit be utheris, nor na        #
utheris of thair causing,
sending, hounding out, causing, command, assistance, or         #
ratihabitione, quhome
they may stop or lett, directlie or indirectlie, uthirwyis nor  #
be ordour of law
and justice, quhill the auchtene day of October nixtocum, under #
the panes 
following, viz., ilk maister under the pane of fourtie pundis,  #
and ilk prentes
and servand under the pane of tuentie pundis, the ane half      #
thairof to the
saidis provest and baillies, and the uther half to the pairty 
grevit; and gif
thair be ony of the saidis baxteris or maltmen, ather           #
maisteris, prentessis, or
servandis, for quhome the maisteris following will nocht tak    #
burding nor
obleis thame selfis as said is, the saidis baillies and         #
counsall ordinis thair
names to be gevin up to thame, that thairefter they may be      #
apprehendit and
put in waird thame selfis, to remane thairintill ay and quhill  #
they find
cautione and souertie for thame selfis in maner and to the      #
effect foirsaidis.
Followis the names of the saidis maisteris:- For the baxteris,  #
Andro Andersone,
James Archibald, James Michell Christopher Cairnes, Robert Waird
<P 100>
and Alexander Robesoun; for the maltmen, James Stenesoun,       #
Walter Muresoun,
Johnne Layng abone the porte, Duncane Patersone, James          #
Thomesoun
and Alexander Thomesoun.

[} [\18 DECEMBER 1601.\] }]
   Nominates and apointis James Schort commissioner to pas and  #
visie the
toun of Glasgw, and to reporte the trew estait thairof anent    #
the present plaig
of pest and pestilence quhairwith the said toun is infected.

[} [\21 DECEMBER 1601.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall convenit, findis it neidfull and   #
expedient that
fra this furth the barres yett, the burrow mylne, the brig      #
yett, Balnageich and
the plane treis, be daylie keipit and attendit on be the        #
nychtbouris and inhabitantes
of this burgh as followis, viz., be tua persones daylie at the  #
barres
yett, tua at the burrow mylne, ane at the brig yett, ane uther  #
at Balnageich,
and ane uther at the plane treis, and that na straingeris be    #
sufferit to haif
acces or entrie at the saidis passages without sufficient       #
testimoniallis; and
gif ony testimoniall cum fra Glasgw, the baillies and counsall  #
discharges the
keipares of the saidis portes and passages to ressave ony of    #
the saidis testimoniallis
fra Glasgw, or fra ony uther suspect place unto the tyme the    #
baillie
of the quarter be first advertesed; and siclik, the saidis      #
baillies and counsall
nominates and apointes the persones following to be quarter     #
maisteris and
adjonit to the baillies for thair help and ease in viseing and  #
attending on the
saidis portes and passages, and utherwyis to tak heid and       #
advert so far as in
thame lyis that na infectioun of the present plaig of pest      #
arryse within this
burgh, that is to say [\two persons for each quarter\] ; and    #
that the saidis portes
and passages be keipit quarterlie about as it is begun alreddy.

[} [\11 JANUARY 1602.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, statutes and ordinis    #
that fra this
furthe gif ony persoun of the counsall, ather baillie,          #
merchand, or craftisman,
convene nocht preceislie within the counsalhous at the houre    #
apointit to the
quhilk they salhapin to be warnit, ilk persoun absent and nocht #
compeirand
at the apointit houre as said is, sall pay ane unlaw of tua     #
schillingis, to be
unforgevin, and putt in ane box and keipit and maid furthcumand #
be the
clerk to the provest, baillies and counsall.

<P 101>
[} [\13 JANUARY 1602.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall findis and concludes that thair be #
ane stent of
the soume of fiftie pundis ten s. raisit and upliftit of the    #
inhabitantes of this
burgh, according to the accustomate ordour, and that for releif #
of certane the
tounes necessar effairis, speciallie anent the mater of the     #
claith making, and 
that the said soume be upliftit with all diligence.

[} [\10 MAY 1602.\] }]
   Walter Cowane, thesaurer, is appointet commissioner to pas   #
to Edinburgh,
with power to compt, rekin and tak ordour with the burgh of     #
Edinburgh anent
the tounes pairte of the stent raisit of the burrowes for hame  #
bringing of the
strangeris.

[} [\9 JULY 1602.\] }]
   The provest and baillies grantes to the toun for biging of   #
thair peir and
schoir the unlawes following, viz., [\four unlaws, amounting in #
all to +L63 6 s. 8 d.\] .
   Ordinis the thesaurer to gif the Flemyngis the sowme of      #
twentie foure
merkes to by thame tua stane of woll.
   Ordinis the thesaurare to be cautione for the Flemyngis hous #
maillis fra
Witsonday last bipast to Witsonday nixtocum, and the toun sall  #
releve the
thesaurare of the said cautionerie.
   Ordinis the thesaurer to pay fourtie schillingis to James    #
Castellawes wyff
for the len of ane hous to the gude wyff of Pannellis bairnes   #
for the ease of
the Flemyngis.  

[} [\20 AUGUST 1602.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis tua sufficient, #
apt, and qualifeit
doctouris, to be provydit and placed in the grammer scole of    #
this burgh; and, for
thair travellis to be tane be thame thairintill, assignis to    #
everie ane of thame
in stipend the soume of tuentie merkis, thairof ten pundis to   #
be payed to ilk
ane of thame be the toun, at tua termes in the yeir Witsonday   #
and Mertimes
in the winter, be equall portiones, and thrie pundis vj s. viij #
d. to be payed to ilk
ane of thame be the maister of the scole furth of the excres of #
his scollage mair
nor wes first conditionate to him be his contract. And for the  #
saidis doctouris
burde and intertenement, ordinis the haill nychtbouris of this  #
burgh quha
salhappin to present and haif thair bairnes teachit in the said #
scole to gif
the saidis doctouris daylie burding as it salhappin ordourlie   #
to cum athorte.
<P 102>
And for the bettir flurishing of the said scole, ordinis all    #
bairnis within this
burgh exceiding the age of aucht yeiris that ar alreddie or     #
salbe presentit to ony
uther scoles within this burgh, or to ony uther landwert scole  #
about the same
to the quhilk bairnes gang furth in the morning and thairfra    #
cumes hame at
evin. to be removit and alterit furth of the saidis scoles, and #
presentit and putt
to the said grammer scole. And that the maister teache to all   #
bairnes that
salbe presentit fra this furth to him the commoun rudimentis    #
professit and
teachit in all wther scoles, with Pylossois first pairte of     #
grammer and Ramus
Syntax. And for sic bairnes as ar alredie enterit and groundit  #
with Ramus
rudimentis, the counsall promittis the said maister to continew #
and proceid
with thame in the teaching of Ramus grammer and haill pairtes   #
thairof as the said
maister sall think expedient. And this ordour to continew ay    #
and quhill the
generall assemblie of the kirk, or his Maiestie and estaittis,  #
condiscend and
agrie upoun ane universall grammer to be teached throuchout the #
haill realme.
And this act to continew and stand induring the counsallis      #
will.

[} [\4 OCTOBER 1602.\] }]
   In presens of the baillies and counsall, comperit            #
personallie Johnne
Sinclare, commissare of Dunblane, quha declaret that the        #
provest, baillies, and
counsall of this burgh for the tyme, frelie ressavit and        #
admittit him to the
libertie and fredome of ane burges and gild brother of this     #
burgh, and that he
findis the said libertie and fredome to be now unproffitable to #
him, thairfoir of
his awin fre will renuceit and gaif ouer the same to the saidis #
baillies and
counsall to be used and disponit upon be thame at thair         #
plesour.

[} [\15 NOVEMBER 1602.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, ordines Johne  #
Gawie and
Alexander Dawsoun, maisteris of the hospitall, to borrow for    #
proffite and
annuell the soume of tua hundrethe merkis quhill Witsonday      #
nixtocum, that
thairwith the abote of Cambuskenneth may be satisfeit of the    #
byrun maillis
acclamit be him fra the toun and for a perpetuall richt thairof #
to the pure of
the said hospitall in tyme cuming, conforme to the decreit      #
arbitrall pronuncet
betuix the abote and the toun thairanent.
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, conducet, and  #
agreit with
maister James Weland, doctour of the grammer scole, to travell  #
in the said
<P 103>
office quhill Witsonday nixtocum, and ordinis the thesaurare to #
pay him
thairfoir the soume of tuentie merkes. And for the said maister #
James bettir
intertenement ordinis ane roll to be maid of all honest mennis  #
bairnes within
the scole of quhome the said doctour may gudlie tak his         #
intertenement, and
ordinis the parentis of the saidis bairnes the said doctour     #
salbe buirdet to be
advertesed be ane baillie, that gif the doctour be neglectit of #
his intertenement
as he salhapin ordourlie to cum athorte, that for ilk dayis     #
buirde quhairof he
salhapin to be frustrate thair salbe upliftit sex schillingis   #
aucht penneis of ilk
ane of the saidis parentis to be payed to the doctour; and      #
ordinis ane baillie to
poynd thairfoir gif neid be. And, siclike, the counsall, with   #
consent of Alexander
Yule, maister of the said scole, grantis to the said doctour    #
ten schillingis
of scolage of ilk tounes barne, deduceand in payment thairof vj #
s. viij d. aff the
maisteris scollage, sua that fra this furth the said maister    #
sal haif of everie
tounes barne tuentie schillingis and the doctour ten            #
schillingis, and thir scollages
to be payed quarterlie, begynnand at this Mertimes terme last   #
bipast. And
this to continew quhill the said terme of Witsonday nixtocum    #
and langer
induring the counsallis will allanerlie.

[} [\30 JANUARY 1603.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, apointis Archibald       #
Alschunder and maister
Robert Murray to pas, on Wedinsday nixtocum, to the presbiterie #
and to crave
of thame a command to maister Alexander Greif to desist and     #
ceis fra teching
of grammer to ony uther bairnes within this burgh nor to the    #
laird of Gardenes
awin bairnes, and fra all usurping of the maister of scoles     #
calling thairanent.
   Ordinis everie baillie, in thair awin quarter, to assist and #
concur with the
maister of scole in obtening payment of his scollage with sic   #
summer proces as
thay may of law.

[} [\31 MARCH 1603.\] }]
   James Castellaw, Cuthbert Cunyngham, balyeis, and Johnne     #
Williamson,
clark, is ordenit to pas commissioneris, or ony of tham,        #
coniunctlie and seueralie,
to pas to Edinburgh to intrett, conclud, and consult upon the   #
effairis of the
estait of burrowis, becaus of his Maiesteis schortlie remoifing #
to Ingland to
accept the crown thairof, with the remanent commissioneris of   #
burrowis presentlie
convenit in Edinburgh to that effect, conform to the missive    #
lettre
derect fra the counsall of Edinburgh to this burght.

<P 104>
[} [\19 APRIL 1603.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, considering the grete   #
decay of thair
shoir and heavin upoun the watter of Forthe, and for preventing #
of the grite
inconveniencis that be proces of tyme may arryse thairthrow to  #
the weill of
this burgh, thairfoir the saidis baillies and counsall,         #
convenit, representing the 
haill communitie of this burgh, for thame and thair             #
successouris, ordinis fra
this furth that ilk nychtbour and freman within this burgh pay  #
for everie boll
of victuall quhilk salhappin to be inbrocht be sey at the       #
schoir and heavin of
this burgh, tua penneis of schoir maill; and for ilk barrell of #
gudis that salhappin
to be inbrocht or out sent, tua penneis; ilk daiker of hydes,   #
tua penneis;
ilk hundreth shep skynnes, sex penneis; ilk tua hundreth gaitt  #
skynnes, sex
pennies; ilk tuentie tod skynnes, sex pennies; ilk thousand     #
lamb skynnes,
tuelf penneis; ilk fyve hundreth fute fellis, tuelf penneis;    #
ilk double pak of
clayth, tua schillingis; ilk single pak, tuelf penneis, ilk     #
hundreth daillis, tuelf 
penneis; ilk hundreth single sparris, tuelf penneis; ilk        #
hundreth double sparris,
tua schillingis; ilk hundreth knapple, sex penneis; ilk pece of #
wainscott, ane
penny; and ilk hors draucht of all uthir tymmer, ane penny; ilk #
tun of wyne,
sextene penneis; ilk tuentie stane of tallon, sex penneis; ilk  #
leid of bark, ae
penny; ilk chalder of lyme, tuelf penneis. And this custome     #
abonewrittin to
be doublet upoun all unfremen; and to be upliftit be the        #
collectouris that
salhappin to be appointit thairto yeirlie, as followes, viz.,   #
tua for the custom
and schoir maill of all victuall, tymber, and uther waires that #
is commoun for
all men to by and sell, and uther tua for the custome of all    #
staple gudes
quhairwith na unfreman may traffique. And for the better        #
uplifting of the
said schoir maill, ordinis the merchandis of all creires and    #
boittis, immediatelie
efter thair arryving to the said schoir and heavin, and befoir  #
thair loissing, to
enter and gif up befoir ae baillie and the clerk ane trew       #
inventer of the haill 
gudes that salhappin to be within the saidis schippis, creares, #
and boittis, to the
effect that with the responde of the said inventare, the        #
collectour of the said schoir
maill may the better mak compt and rakning of the said          #
collectioun, under the
pane of fyve pundis (\toties quoties\) ; and tua schillingis to #
bepayed to the clerk for
ilk entrie be the boitmaister.

[} [\27 JUNE 1603.\] }]
   Anent the supplicatione gevin be James Duncansoun, redare    #
and vicare
of Striviling, concerning the tyme of entrie and af leving of   #
the salmond fisching
<P 105>
in the water of Forthe, and uptaking of maillis and unlawes at  #
the fischeris
entrie thairto, and certane uther abuses in the said water, as  #
the supplicatione
beiris; the said James being personalie present, on the ane     #
pairt, and William
Edmond and Robert Robertsoun als Tennent, watter baillies of    #
the said 
watter, siclyke personalie present, on the uther pairte, the    #
prouest, baillies 
and counsall, convenit, being weill and ryplie advyset with the #
said supplicatione,
findis and declaires that the saidis watter baillies hes done   #
wrang in
nocht suffering the fischeares of the said watter frelie to     #
haif enterit to
the said fisching this last yeir at the ordiner tyme prescrivit #
thairto be
the act of parliament, viz., at Andersmes the last day of       #
November last
bipast, and thairfoir ordinis the saidis watter baillies, now   #
present and tocum,
to suffer and permit the saidis fischeares frelie to enter to   #
the said salmond
fisching in all tyme cuming yeirlie at the said day callit      #
Andersmes day, but
payment of ony maill or dewtie to the said watter baillies; and #
ordinis the
saidis watter baillies present and tocum to discharg and stay   #
all fischeares
within the tounes fredome fra all furder fisching yeirlie with  #
the fiftene day of
August, callit of ald the Assumptioun of our Ladie, under the   #
panes contenit
in the actis of parliament; and ordinis the saidis watter       #
baillies present and
tocum to do thair exact diligence yeirlie in putting of our     #
Soverane lordis
actis of parliament concerning the Settirdayis slope, and       #
remanent actis quhatsumever 
anent the libertie of the said fisching to dew executione,      #
under the              
panes thairin contenit; and declaires that the jurisdictioun    #
of the saidis watter
baillies present and tocum owir the saidis fischares is nor     #
salbe na farder extendit
owir thame bot to caus thame keip count and plaint gif they be  #
requiret thairto
allanerlie.

[} [\18 JULY 1603.\] }]
   Johne Murray of Touchadam, provest, [\bailies and council\]  #
, Duncan Patersoun,
Andro Cowane, merchandis, and Johnne Henrysoun, baxter, ald     #
convenare,
being convenit in the counsalhous of the said burgh, entrating  #
upoun the
common effaires thairof, all in ane voce, voited, concludit and #
ordinit, that with
all possible and convenient diligence thair salbe ane taxatione #
and stent of the
<P 106>
soume of aucht hundrethe merkis money for making and biging of  #
ane peir
and bulwark to the schoir and heavin of this burgh, upliftit of #
the haill inhabitantis
thairof.

[} [\19 JULY 1603.\] }]
   James Gairdner, burges of the said burgh, for the love and   #
favour quhilk
he hes and beiris to the commoun weill of this burgh,           #
[\renounced the exemption
purchased or granted to him and consented from thenceforth to   #
be\] stentit
with the remanent nychtbouris of this burgh, according to his   #
rank, qualitie
and trade, ... for making, beiting, mending and uphalding of    #
the peir,
bulwark, kirk, portes, wallis, brig, and commoun calsayis of    #
this burgh, and for
the help and intertenement of the ministrie, hospitell, and     #
scules of this burgh.

[} [\9 SEPTEMBER 1603.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis the haill       #
strainger pure presentlie
within this burgh to be removit furth thairof upoun Fryday      #
nixtocum,
and to be haldin furth of the toun induring the kirkis and      #
counsallis will, and
for this effect ordinis tua watchmen to be conducet and fiet,   #
ane be the kirk and
ane uther be the toun, for outkeping of the said pure during    #
the said space.
   Ordinis the brig porte to be locket nychtlie at ten houris,  #
and the keyes
thairof to be brocht oulklie to ane bailyie.

[} [\19 SEPTEMBER 1603.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis fra this furthe #
the barres yett,
burrow mylne, the plane treis, and Balnabrecht, to be daylie    #
keipt and attendit
on be the nychtbouris and inhabitantes of this burgh as         #
followis, viz., tua at the
barres yett, tua at the burrow mylne, ane at the plane treis,   #
and ane at
Balnabrecht; and that na straingeris be sufferit to haif acces  #
or entrie at the
saidis passages, without sufficient testimonialles, and this    #
ordour to be quarterlie
kepit throuch the haill toun, begynnand at the first quarter.

[} [\9 OCTOBER 1603.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall of this burgh, at request #
of my lord
provest, and haifing consideratione of the extraordiner grite   #
and wechtie
effaires that ar liklie to fall out and occur within this burgh #
this yeir tocum,
hes thairfoir electit and chosin Umphra Cunyngham, vicare of    #
Kilmacolme,
and Anthone Bruce, portioner of Levelandis, in extraordinare    #
persones of the
<P 107>
counsall of this burgh for this yeir tocum, but prejudice of    #
the tounes libertie
and custome of electioun in tyme cuming.  Lykeas the saidis     #
provest, baillies
and counsall, at desyre of the deacones of craftis of this      #
burgh, hes grantit
uther tua persones to be extraordinare counsallouris for this   #
yeir tocum,
quhome the saidis deacones sall nominat and present the nixt    #
counsall day,
but prejudice likewyis of thair libertie and custoume of        #
electioun in tyme
cuming.
   The provest, baillies and counsall, hes voted and ordinit    #
Johnne Ker,
tailyeour, Johnne Harte, Thomas Thomesoun, cordiner, Andro      #
Richartsoun,
wricht, Mareon Graham, relict of umquhile Robert Scott,         #
tailyeour, and Christian
Ker, dochter of umquhile Robert Ker, merchand, burges of this   #
burgh, to be
all placet in the hospitell of this burgh for thair lyftymes;   #
and the saidis
Christiane Ker and Mareon Graham, ilk ane of thame, to haif     #
half levrey.

[} [\24 OCTOBER 1603.\] }]
   In presens of the provest, baillies and counsall, of this    #
burgh, convenit
for the tyme, it wes voited, concludit and ordinit, that with   #
all possible diligence,
thair salbe ane lichter boitt provydit to the heavin and schoir #
of this
burgh, and for that effect apointis James Schort to aggrie with #
ane wricht thair
foir, and the toun to relieve him thairof.
   Sett to Williame Stanehope in Salt Prestoun and Johnne       #
Stanehope, his
brother, the custome new and auld, with the anchorage and       #
schoir silver, of
all tymber cuttit and to be cuttit be thame in Murrayes wode    #
this yeir bigane
and thir foure yeiris to cum, with the haill bark and beuche    #
thairof, and farder
salang as it salhappin the said wode to be in cutting and       #
quhilk salhappin to
be transportet and cariit be thame throw this burgh to the      #
schoir thairof, for    
payment [\of 100 merks\] .

[} [\18 NOVEMBER 1603.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall of this burgh, ordinis    #
fra this furth na
inhabitant within this burgh present thair maill cheildrene, of #
quhatsoever
age they be of, to ony uther scole within this burgh uther nor  #
to the grammer 
scole thairof, presentlie teachit be maister Alexander Yule,    #
maister of the 
same, bot that all the saidis maill cheildrene be presentit fra #
this furth to the
said maister Alexander Yule for the better florishing of the    #
said grammer scole
induring the counsallis will; and for the bettir executione of  #
this act, James
<P 108>
Duncansoun and Nicoll Murdoch, now teacheris of the Ingles      #
scolles, being
personallie present, become actit and oblest of thair awin      #
consentis fra this
furth to ressave na kynd of maill childrene, nather tounes      #
bairnes nor utheris,
within thair scoles, ilk ane of thame under the pane of ten     #
pundis to be
unforgevin, and farder to haif thair scole durris staiket up.

[} [\12 MARCH 1604.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, findis gude    #
that the schollares
laft in the kirk be reformed and inlarged at the sicht of the   #
minister and sic
eldares of the kirk as he craves to be adjoyned to him.
   Findis gude and ordinis ane lofte to be maid betuix the      #
laird of Gardenes
lofte and my lord Cambuskennethes lofte; and, with consent of   #
my lord Cambuskenneth,
ordines ane dur to be putt furth throw his loft to the said new 
lofte, provyding the expenssis thairof be defrayed be the       #
provest and baillies  
of thair reddiest unlawes.
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, haifing        #
ressavit of befoir fra
James Kinros of Kippenros, in name and behalf of the richt      #
honorabill Sir
William Edmond, colonell of the Scottis regiment in the law     #
cuntreis the
soume of fyve hundreth pundis Scottis, deduceand thairof the    #
soume of aucht
pundis iij s. iiij d., and that in the spacies of gold and      #
obligatiounis underwrittin,
that is to say, [\57 half nobles and "aucht haill Utrik         #
nobles," - 
+L304 3s. 4d.; an obligation by Robert Edmond, merchant, burges #
of Stirling,
+L159; in the hands of Christopher Porterfeild, +L28 13s. 4d.;  #
making in all 
+L491 16s. 8d.\] Mair, ressavit fra him ane obligatione granted #
be Sir James
Sandelandis of Slamannan, knycht, ... ane hundreth and fiftie   #
gudlingis,
at tuentie stures the gudling. Quhilkis soumes of money         #
particularlie abone
specifiit the said Sir William Edmond haiffing dedicat to the   #
pure of this
burgh, for the manifold merceis of God bestowit on him, it      #
pleasit him laitlie, 
in the moneth of November last bipast, to direct and send to ws #
with umquhile
Johnne Portuous the foirnamit first soume of five hundreth      #
pundis, with the
said Sir James Sandelandis obligatione of ane hundreth and      #
fiftie gudlingis
foirsaid; and the said Johnne of quhat mynd we knaw nocht,      #
haifing conceillit
fra ws the foirnamit soume and obligatione, with the said Sir   #
Williames
missive lettre direct to ws thairanent, be the space of ane     #
moneth and mair or
thairby eftir his arryving thairwith in this cuntrie, quhill    #
thaireftir at the
<P 109>
plesour or God he tuik seiknes and depairtit this lyff, but ony #
significatione
maid be him to ws thairof, sua that, be providence of God, gif  #
James Kinros,
elder of Kippenros, had nocht instantlie the tyme of the said   #
umquhile
Johnnes deceis, or immediatlie thairefter, upoun sum            #
informatione maid to
him be thame that wer in cumpanie with the said umquhile Johnne #
the tyme 
of his hame cuming in presens of his awin brother and utheris   #
quha wer
present for the tyme, had nocht apprehendit under the said      #
Johnes bedsyde
ane purs with the haill gold abonespecifiit thairintill, and    #
the tua obligationes
foirsaidis, with the missive lettre direct to ws thairanent, as #
the said James
Kinros hes declairit to ws upoun his honour, quhilk we notifie  #
to the said Sir
William and all utheris quhome it effeiris ... Lykeas we the    #
saidis
provest, baillies and counsall, being glaidlie movit with the   #
said Sir Williame
Edmondis maist loving and cheritable dealing toward ws, quhome  #
utherwyis
be his valorous lyf he hes sa heichlie honorit and advancit,    #
that of the lyke
nor na uthir birthe few or nane heis heirtofoir preceidit,      #
gevis thairfoir to him
maist hairtlie thankis and wishes that God wald continew and    #
multiplie his
blessingis on him. Lykeas, with all convenient diligence, we    #
faithfullie promitt
to bestow and wair the foirnamit soumes of money upon the       #
particulare use
destinat and apointit thairto be the said Sir William conforme  #
to his missive
lettre direct to ws thairanent and informatione sent be him to  #
Archibald Allane,
thesaurare, for that effect.

[} [\19 MARCH 1604.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, findis gude    #
and concludes
that for the bettir biging of the schoir and peir of this burgh #
thair salbe ane
lichter boitt provydet and coft for careing of stanes and uther #
materiallis
thairto, and committis the bying and provisioun of the said     #
boitt to James
Schorte, baillie, and Duncan Patersone, deane of gild, and      #
assignis to thame for
that effect [\300 merks of fore maill to be paid for the grass  #
of the Brighauch
for three years, with 112 merks to be paid for the anchorage 
and shore maill\] .

[} [\16 APRIL 1604.\] }]
   [\The dean of guild on behalf of the guild brethern, and     #
deacon convener
on behalf of the craftismen, submitted themselves to the        #
provost and bailies\]
anent the devyding and pairting of the tuentie tua stand of     #
armour quhilkis
ar to be sauld and dispersit amangis the inhabitantis of this   #
burgh.
<P 110>
   Apointis Duncan Paterson and Archibald Smyth commissioneris  #
for St.
Johnestoun to ressave the threttie ane stand of armour quhilk   #
the toun hes
componit for with Johnne Jamesoun, factour to Sir Michaell      #
Balfour of Burlie,
knicht, and to do with him thairanent as they sall think        #
expedient.

[} [\2 MAY 1604.\] }]
   It is statut and ordenit that, becaus of the present         #
infectioun of Edinburgh
in the pest and plaig, and for bettir keiping of this burgh,    #
gif it pleis
God, that the portis and wthir comoun placis of this burgh be   #
keipit be the
nychtbouris, and that na inhabitantis of this burgh resaif in   #
thair hous na
persone nor personis, wagaboundis, nor na maner of persone      #
quhill first thai
cum to the bailye of the quarter, wnder the pane of deid; and   #
that the drum
gang throw the town and mak intimatioun heirof; and that na     #
inhabitant
within this burgh pas fra this furth to Edinburgh without       #
licence, and that
na persone within this burgh pres or presume to cum in to the   #
said burgh
att ony pairt thairof bott att the portis onlie; and also that  #
all nychtbouris
repair and mend thair yard heidis and bak yettis, to the effect #
that na
persone cum ouir or in thairatt.
   William Huttoun, cuik, for streking of Johne Brown, officer, #
in presens
of William Ednem, bailye, is ordenit be the haill counsall to   #
be banist this
burgh, and gif he entir in the samin at ony tym heireftir       #
without licence, for
the first to be scurgitt, and thaireftir gif he entir agane     #
eftir he be scurgit, to
be hangitt; and dischargis all inhabitantis within the said     #
burgh to resaif him
in thair housis, or intertein him thairin att ony tym, under    #
the pane of ten li.;
and that intimatioun be made heirof be the drum ganging throw   #
the town;
and thai that hes nocht ten pundis to pey, or is nocht worth    #
the said unlaw, to
be scurgitt; to the quhilk he consentit be cumin in thair will.

[} [\1 JUNE 1604.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis        #
Archibald Allane,
thesaurare, this same day to ryde toward Glasgw, and thair to   #
try thair estaitt
anent the plaigue, and to reporte the same the morne.
   The provest, baillies and counsall, findis gude and          #
concludes that the 
furde at the bak of the abbay and besyd the blak willy be red   #
and clenget of
the stanes that lyis thairintill and stopes the passage of the  #
same, and this to
<P 111>
be done upoun the help of the haill nychtbouris and             #
inhabitantis of this burgh;
and apointes James Short and Duncane Patersoun to be seares of  #
the wark
and furnessouris of warklomes thairto upoun the tounes          #
expenssis.

[} [\4 JUNE 1604.\] }]
   For bettir ordour to be keipit within this burgh during the  #
tym of this
present plaigue, it is ordinit that quarter maisteris [{be{]    #
joyned to the baillies,
and for that effect hes chosin [\four persons for each of the   #
four quarters\] ;
quhilkis persones abone writtin the counsall makes and          #
constitutes baillies in
that pairte for checking of the ordiner watches and causing of  #
thame to attend
on thair charges, and for ressaving of testimoniallis and       #
debarring of all suspect
persones fra entres within this burgh, and for visiting the     #
haill nychtbouris
in the tyme of seiknes or suspicione of seiknes; with power to  #
the saidis
quarter maisteris to inclose and putt furth at thair plesour,   #
and to do all uther
thingis requisite for ane gude and substantious ordour to be    #
keipit and usit
during the tym of this present plaigue.

[} [\18 JUNE 1604.\] }]
   Nominates and apointis Duncane Patersone, deane of gild,     #
commissioner
to pas to Edinburgh, with power to present to the provest       #
[{and{] baillies thairof
the missive lettre to be penned anent the contraversie betuix   #
the toun and
thame.

[} [\16 JULY 1604.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, statutes and   #
ordines that fra
this furth na inhabitant of this burghe tak upoun hand to       #
resorte and travell
toward the burgh of Edinburgh, Cannogait, Leyth, Dalkeyth, nor  #
na uther
suspect place, but leve of the provest and baillies or ony tua  #
of thame, the
provest being always ane, under the pane of tuentie pundis, and #
to be debarred
fra all acces within the toun at thair returne; and that the    #
portmen and
kepares ressave nor admitt nane within thair portis cummand fra #
ony suspect
place, under the said pane, unles the provest and baillies be   #
first advertesett.
   James Schort, baillie, commissioner to the lait conventioun  #
of burrowes,
and Johnne Williamson, clerk, commissioner to the parliament,   #
for report of
the effares done in the said parliament and conventioun,        #
declairit that for the
outreiking of commissioneris for the parte of burrowes to       #
England, to the nomber
<P 112>
of sevin persones, for entreatting in the mater of the unioun,  #
the burrowes
hes voluntarlie consentit and aggreit to ane taxatioun of the   #
soume of sextene
thousand merkes, to be upliftit of the haill burrowes conform   #
to the stent roll
betwix this and the fift day of August nixtocum; for quhilk     #
effect the provest,
baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis ane tax roll to be     #
maid of that pairte of
the said taxatione, extending to the soume of tua hundreth and  #
thrie scoir
pundis, tharof the merchandis the ane half, but prejudice of    #
thair ald libertie,
and the craftismen and (\omnigaddrum\) the uther half.

[} [\17 DECEMBER 1604.\] }]
   It is ordinit be the provest, baillies and counsall,         #
convenit, that fra this
furth in all tyme cuming thair salbe joyned, yeirlie, to the    #
counsall of this
burgh, tua of the ald merchand bailleis, and tua of the         #
(\omnigaddrum\) , as
extraordiner persones of counsall, conforme to use and wount;   #
and thairfoir, of
the (\omnigaddrum\) this yeir they haif electit and chosin      #
Johne Cunynghame
and Andro Kilbowie; and ordinis the deane of gild to present    #
tua ald baillies
the nixt counsall day.

[} [\21 JANUARY 1605.\] }]
   The counsall committis the charge and oursicht of the        #
lichter to James
Schorte for this yeir to cum, and modifeis the fraucht of hir   #
to Alloway and
Airth, be fremen to xlvj s. viij d., and be straingeris to iij  #
li. vj s. viij d.; to
the paittis, be fremen, xxvj s. viij d., and be straingeris xl  #
s.; and that by the
mennis wages that sall labour and roll; to the bak of the       #
abbay, be fremen
xxvj s. viij d., and be straingeres xl s.; by the wark mennis   #
wages, to be payed
be thame that sall employ the lichter.

[} [\4 FEBRUARY 1605.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, haifing        #
consideratione of the
grite charges and expenssis that ar yit requisite to the        #
perfyting of the
schoir and peir of this burgh, and how unable the toun is to    #
sustene and
do the same without supporte and help be tymouslie provydit     #
tharto, thairfoir
it is statute and ordinit that the schoir maill and anchorage   #
of this
burgh be sett for the space of tuentie ane yeiris for foir      #
maill to be payed
thairfoir in hand, to be employed on the said schoir as the     #
counsall sall
apoint.
<P 113>
   Ordinis Archibald Allane, thesaurer, to lay to materiallis   #
of stane, tymber,
lyme and sand, to the almoushous in the heid of the Bak Raw,    #
quhilk salbe
allowit to him in the first end of his intromissioun with the   #
silver destinat and
apointit thairto be Colonell Edmond.

[} [\22 APRIL 1605.\] }]
   Ordanes that everie persone that enteris to the libertie and #
fredome of ane
burges and gild of this burgh fra this furth sall pay to the    #
thesaurare the soume
of lx li., and siclyk that everie persone that enteris to the   #
libertie and fredome
of ane nychtbour and burges, nocht being ane nychtbouris sone,  #
sall pay the
soume of viij li.

[} [\3 MAY 1605.\] }]
   The baillies, counsall and deacones of craft, convenit,      #
ordinis fra this furthe  
the brig porte to be daylie keipit and watchet for the bettir   #
preservatione of
the toun fra this feirfull plaig of pest quhairwith sindrie     #
pairtes of Fyff ar
now, at the plesour of God, infectit, and that tua keipares be  #
putt to the said
porte quarterlie throw the haill toun, to begin at the north    #
eist quarter; and
ordinis publicatione to be maid heirof be the drum or bell that #
nane be sufferit
to haif entres at the said brig porte cuming fra Sanctandrois,  #
Seres, Kirkaldy,
Kinghorne, and Torryburne; and ordinis all strainger pure to be #
putt and
haldin af the toun.

[} [\27 MAY 1605.\] }]
   The proveist, baillies and counsall, convenit, ratifies and  #
appreves the act
and ordinance of the sessioun of the kirk anent the breking of  #
the flure in the
eist end of the kirk for buriall of ony corpes thairintill,     #
quhairby it is provydet
that in cais ony persoun will presume obstinatlie to do in the  #
contrair, they sall
pay (\ad pios vsus\) , befoir the breking of the eirthe, the    #
soume of fourtie pundis
money; and ordinis the said act to be observit and keipit in    #
all tyme cuming. 
   It is statute and ordinit that, heireftir, na banisched      #
persoun be resett nor
reponit to thair libertie agane within this burghe unto the     #
tyme licence be had of
the provest, baillies and counsall thairto, gif the banischment #
be for a civill caus,
and of the sessioun of the kirk gif it be for ony caus          #
belangand to thair discipline.
   It is statute and ordinit that fra this furthe na inhabitant #
within this burgh
tak upoun hand to by in grite and tap out in small ony tymber,  #
victuell, viveres,
or uther unstaple waires that salhappin to cum be sey upoun     #
aventure seikand
mercatt to the schoir of this burgh, or to ony pairte abone the #
Rudder brig.

<P 114>
[} [\21 OCTOBER 1605.\] }]
   Ordeanes Archibald Allane, thesaurare, to pay yeirlie to     #
Moses Fergussoun, 
in feall, for uptaking of the psalmes within the kirk of this   #
burgh, the
soume of fourtie pundis yeirlie.

[} [\4 APRIL 1606.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, allowes and approves    #
James Schorte,
maister of wark to the shoir, in his discharge of the said wark #
sa far as yit is
proceidit thairintill; and gif ony nychtbour traduce and        #
sclander the said
James of the neglect of ony point of the said wark in contrair  #
the tennour of
this his approbatione thairof foirsaid, the persone, traducer   #
and sclanderare of
him, sall pay for the first falt fyve pundis, and for the       #
secund falt ten pundis,
and utherwyis wardit and punishit in thair persones at the will #
of the counsall;
and ordinis publicatione to be maid heirof be bell or drum that #
nane pretend
ignorance thairof.

[} [\23 JUNE 1606.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, statutes and   #
ordinis for the
bettir reparatione of the shoir, that thair be aucht serving    #
men or wemane
daylie and ilk day sent to the schoir be the inhabitantis of    #
this burgh, as they
salbe warnit be the baillie of thair quarter, for bering of red #
as the maister of
wark sall direct to thame; and gif ony nychtbour refuis to send #
ane servand,
being requirit, ordinis fyve shillingis to be poyndit that      #
thairwith ane uther
may be feit in thair places; and siclike ordinis ane            #
gildbrother and ane craftisman
to attend ilk ane of thame thair day about on the work of the   #
shoir,
under the pane of ten s. to be poyndit of the dean of gild and  #
convener for the
contravener.

[} [\4 AUGUST 1606.\] }]
   Nominates and apointes James Short [\and five others\] to    #
visit the ile
called Patersones ile, and to report thair advyse how the kirk  #
foiranent the said
ile salbe theikit, and to meitt this day and to reporte on      #
Fryday nixtocum.
   Ordinis Archibald Allane, thesaurare, to borrow tua hundreth #
pundis on
proffite, quhill Mertimes nixtocum, to sett fordwart the wark   #
of the almoushous.

[} [\16 OCTOBER 1606.\] }]
   The saidis provest, balyeis and counsall, band and obleist   #
tham and thair
successouris to warrand, relief, and keip skaithles Archibald   #
Allane, thair
<P 115>
thesaurer, of the sowm of xlviij li. money for the price of     #
j=e= daillis bocht att
thair command fra Georg Norvell and Alexander Patersoun, tobe   #
lugis to thair
diseisit and seik personis in the Brighauch, in the present     #
visitatioun.

[} [\30 JANUARY 1607.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, ordinis the    #
haill effaires that
salhappin fra this furth to be intreated in counsall to be      #
inrollit and callit be
the roll ordourlie as it salbe left att, begynnand at the       #
effaires of the kirk and
Goddis service, thaireftir of the toun, and last at sic         #
particulares as sall occur.
   Ordinis the baillie of ilk quarter agane the nixt counsall   #
day to visite
thair quarteris and to tak up ane cathologe of all the persones #
quhais houssis
hes bene infectit of this visitatione of the pest, with the     #
nomber of the persones
deceissit and of thame quha hes mendit of that seiknes, that    #
ordour may
be tane thairwithe.

[} [\9 FEBRUARY 1607.\] }]
   In presens of the provest and baillies and counsall,         #
convenit, thair is producet
be ilk baillie a roll of all persones deceissit in his awin     #
quarter in this
last visitatione of pest, to the number of sex hundreth         #
[\blanco\] persones in the
haill, by and attour the number of [\blanco\] persones quha     #
amendit and convalessit of the seiknes.

[} [\14 FEBRUARY 1607.\] }]
   Ordinis the haill clengeares, except James Broun, to be      #
clenget and send
hame, and ordinis the thesaurer to gif thame drink silver at    #
the provest and
baillies discretione.
   Johnne Williamsone is suorne in the office of clerkship for  #
this yeir tocum,
as use is, and the counsall ratifies all thingis that he hes    #
done sen the tym of
his last admissioun.

[} [\13 FEBRUARY 1607.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, haifing consideratione  #
of the grete
desolatione of this burghe this yeir bigane be resson of the    #
pest, quhairthrow
thair hes bene litell or na tred within the samyn during the    #
tyme of the said
seiknes, thairfoir defalkis and discharges to the takismen of   #
the tounes customes
and rentis underwrittin as eftir followis, [to the executouris  #
of umquhile
Janet Neilsoun, of the peckis sett for +L45, +L11, 9s. 2 d.; to #
Archibald Smythe,
for the gait dichtingis sett for 140 merks, 60 merks; to the    #
executouris of
<P 116>
umquhile Johne Young, for the fische skemmillis sett for +L6,   #
30s.; to George
Aikman and Johne Crawfurde, for the small customes sett for 
+L120, +L40] [^EDITOR'S BRACKETS^] ...

[} [\20 FEBRUARY 1607.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, statutes and ordinis    #
that in tyme
cuming the burges and fyne of extranear burgessis salbe sextene #
pundis, but
ony downgeving; and burges bairnes to pay conforme to the last  #
act, viz.,
foure pundis.

[} [\9 MARCH 1607.\] }]
   Laurence Thomsoun, George Cairnes, David Wilsoun, Patrik     #
Alexander,
and William Robertsoun, baxteris, become in the counsallis will #
for inquieting
the toun on Fryday last at nicht, be moking of the buriallis of #
thame quha
deit of the pest, in hie contempt of God.

[} [\20 MARCH 1607.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall, convenit, declaires thair will on #
Laurence Thomsoun,
baxter, and his complices as followis, viz., that on ane        #
mercatt day the  
said Laurence salbe cariet in ane sled throw the toun, beir     #
futtit and beir
heidit, with ane quhite sark on him and ane paper on his heid   #
beiring the
caus of his punishment, and the rest of his complices to gang   #
beir futtit and
beir heidit throw the toun, and thaireftir to be brocht and     #
bund at the croce,
to stand thair during the baillies will.
   William Donaldsoun confessit that on Mononday last, the      #
sextene day of
Marche instant, he dispersonit Johnne Scherare, baillie, in his #
office, saying
gif he war out of his bailliarie he sould haif said mair to     #
him; and being 
charget and committet to waird thairfoir, confessit that he     #
brak waird and
eshepit furth of the tolbuth, and thaireftir being commandit to #
wairde agane
be Archibald Smyth, bailly, disobeyit and withstud him in his   #
office, drew and
myntet ane suord to him, and preissit to haif eshepit furth of  #
his handis, and
gaif him mony injurous wordis; for the quhilkis offences he     #
becomes in the
provest, baillies, and counsallis will; quha being advyset      #
thairwith be thair will
declaires and ordinis the said William Donaldsoun to be putt    #
thairfoir in the
irones, and thaireftir to be kepit in fast waird on breid and   #
watter induring 
the provest and baillies will, and ay and quhill they find him  #
penitent for his
offences, and to pay to the commoun wark of the toun the soume  #
of fourtie
<P 117>
pundis, and at his releif out of wairde sall find caution never #
to committ
trublance agane within this burgh, under the pane of ane        #
hundreth pundis for
the first falt and the nixt falt, and for the nixt falt to be   #
banishet the toun,
and to seik the saidis tua bailleis forgivenes at the croce.

[} [\23 MARCH 1607.\] }]
   The baillies and counsall convenit, ordinis fra this furth,  #
ilk officiar his xv
dayes about, to keip the keyes of the tolbuith, and to be       #
ansuerable during that
space for the saidis keyes, and to suffer nane to haif acces to #
the wairderis but
leve of the baillies, under the pane of deprivatione of the     #
saidis officiares of
thair offices.

[} [\6 APRIL 1607.\] }]
   The provest, baillies and counsall, convenit, haifing        #
consideratione of the
grite panes and travellis tane be maister Patrik Symsone in his #
office of
ministrie in the kirk of God within this burgh thir [\blanco\]  #
yeiris bygane, and
that the said maister Patrik throw his extraordiner panes and   #
travellis is now
becum unable him allane to discharge the cure of his said       #
ministrie, and the
said provest, baillies and counsall, being weill pleaset and    #
satisfyt with the
literature, knawleg, and giftis of maister Robert Mure, thinkes #
him meitt and
able to serve in the office of a secund minister of this        #
burghe, desyres thairfoir
the said maister Patrik Symsoun to travell and deale with the   #
said maister
Robert Mure, quhairby he may be inducet to accept on him the    #
said
ministrie, and for that effect to offir to him in the tounes    #
name ane stipend
of tua hundreth pundis yeirlie.
   Discharges Archibald Soirlie and Andro Fergussoun,           #
officiares, of thair
saidis offices, and of all farder using thairof in tyme cuming, #
and ordinis thame
to be putt in the irones to remane thairin dureing the provest  #
and baillies willis,
and that for the wrang and injurie done be thame to maister     #
Johnne Aissoun,
minister, in wairding of him but command or directioun of the   #
magistrattis.

[} [\1 MAY 1607.\] }]
   The baillies, counsall and deacones of craftis of this       #
burgh, being convenit
in the tolbuith thairof to entreate upoun the commoun effaires  #
of the same, and
considering that it being the gude will and plesour of God      #
laitlie to visite this
burgh with the feirfull seiknes and contagioun of pest, the     #
cours quhairof began
<P 118>
sa violent that, for stanching the same, the provest, baillies, #
and counsall of this
burgh for the tyme, wer forcett to send for ane grite number of #
clengeares furth
of the pairtes of Edinburgh, Linlythqw and Leyth, with quhome   #
conditione and
pactioun was maid that for thair travellis they sould haif had  #
ane certane grite
soume of money, quhairof as yit they haif gottin nor can get na #
payment; and
thairwith considering the grite soumes of money quhairintill    #
the thesaurare of 
this burgh is superexpendit of the commoun rent thairof in      #
furnessing of ludges,
elding to the caldrones, and uther materiallis necessar to the  #
clengeing, besyde
the grite expenssis disbursit be him in susteining ane grite    #
number of pure,
baithe within and without the toun in the hauche; and knawing   #
na bettir nor
uther meane how to releif and defray the saidis grite chargis   #
and expenssis
nor be uplifting ane stent of the soume of money underwrittin;  #
thairfoir the
saidis baillies, counsall, and deacones of craft of this        #
burghe, representing the
haill commounitie, all in ane voce, votes, concludis and        #
ordinis for relief of the
soumes of money abonespecefijt that thair salbe ane stent of    #
the soume of tua
thousand merkis usuall money of Scotland raised and uplifted of #
the haill inhabitantes 
of this burghe betuix the day and dait heirof and the first day #
of
Junij nixtocum.

[} [\20 JULY 1607.\] }]
   Ordinis the thesaurare to provyde and furnes George          #
Crawfurde, drummare,
and Johnne Forbes, pyper, ilk ane of thame, with breikis and    #
schankis of ryd
stemmyng.

[} [\25 SEPTEMBER 1607.\] }]
   Anent the supplicatione gevin in be maister Alexander Yule,  #
maister of
the grammer scole, makand mentioun that forsamekle as he hes    #
barganit with
Adame Abercrombie for the few of ane of his town landis in      #
Ireland, the
transsumpt of quhais richt and placing sum servandis thair and  #
accomplishment 
of uther necesser turnes will craif his awin presens the space  #
of nyne or
ten oulkis thairby, the doctour and pedagoges during this tyme  #
will hald the
bairnes exercesit in leirning the lections of thair authouris   #
he hes pairtlie
alreddie teachet thame, and will farder follow furthe, desyres  #
thair licence for
the said spaice, or farder as his necessitie sall require,      #
utherwyis it will redound
to his grite hurt. The counsall continewis the ansuer of his    #
supplicatione to
the nixt counsall day.

<P 119>
[} [\1 FEBRUARY 1608.\] }]
   James Finlasoun, of his awin consent, for infirmitie and     #
disease of bodie,
banishes and exyles him self this burgh; and gif he be fund     #
within the same
agane to be scurgit for the first falt and hangit for the nixt  #
falt, except he
obtene the counsallis gude will and licence thairto.

[} [\18 APRIL 1608.\] }]
   Statutes and ordinis that fra this furth the kairteris and   #
sledmen of this
burgh tak na mair for thair cariage fra the shoir nor efter     #
followis, viz., for ane
single dracht of tymber, stanes, and uthir waris, ten d.; for   #
ane double dracht,
tuentie d.; for ane punshoun of wyne, iiij s.; for ane pipe of  #
sek, x s.; ane pak
of mader, x s.; ane les pak vj s. vij d.; ane bun of beir, xvj  #
d.; ane barrell of 
Osmond wine, xx d.; and ane leid of lyme and victuall, viij d.; #
under the pane
of five pund of unlaw, (\toties quoties\) .

[} [\30 MAY 1608.\] }]
   Apointes Christopher Alexander and Johne Williamson          #
commissioneris
to pas to the counsall in Linlythqw, thair to intreate and      #
deale with thame for  
sum ease and ordour to be tane anent the raid apointet towardis #
the Iles.

[} [\6 JUNE 1608.\] }]
   Apointis Duncan Patersone, den of gild, to beir the townis   #
ansenyie or
standart on the xiiij day of Junij instant, quhilk is the       #
wapinschawin day; and
the nixt wapinschawin day, quhen it hapinis, the berer of the   #
said ansenyie to
be siclyk chosin be the counsall, in all yeiris cuming.
   
[} [\27 JUNE 1608.\] }]
   The provest, baillies, and counsall of this burghe, haifing  #
consideratioune
that thair is sindrie persones, induellares of this burgh, quha #
sittis up, under
cloude of nicht, drinking and playing in uther mennis houssis   #
and disabusing
thame selfis, to the offence of God and evill exemple of        #
nychtbouris; thairfoir
it is statut and ordinit that na person nor personis,           #
induellaris within this 
burgh, nor utheris resorting thairto, tak upoun hand fra this   #
furthe to sit up
drinking or playing or walking on the strettis eftir ten houris #
at evin. Nather
yet, in thair communicationes, that they tak upoun hand to      #
calumniate, traduce
or dispersone ony of the magistrattis, or speake unreverentlie  #
of thame,
<P 120>
under the pane of fourtie pundis (\toties quoties\) . And that  #
na browstare,  
oystlare, nor ventare or wyne or meitt, sell ather drink or     #
meitt, nor ressait ony
persone within thair houssis after the said hour, under the     #
pane foirsaid.
   William Young, notare, become in will for dispersoning of    #
Johnne
Scherare, baillie, in calling him base borne swyngour; and      #
thairfoir the
provest, baillies and counsall, ordinnis him to remane in waird #
quhill Thuresday
nixtocum efter the sermone, and thaireftir to cum to the croce  #
on his
kneis and seik the said baillies forgivenes; and gif evir he do #
the lyke to the
magistrates of this burgh he salbe banishet this burgh for      #
evir, of his awin consent.



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