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[^EXTRACTS FROM THE COUNCIL REGISTER OF THE BURGH OF ABERDEEN,
1625-, 2 VOLS., SCOTTISH BURGH RECORDS SOCIETY, 1871-1872.

SAMPLE 1: 185.15-220.13
SAMPLE 2: 258.17-275.22^]

<S SAMPLE 1>
<P 185>
[}18 JANUARY 1660.}]
   The said day, the provest held out to the counsell befor     #
convenit,
that James Vicount of Frendrat being with James Crichtoun of    #
Kinardie,
his father, imprisonit within the Tolbuith of this burghe at    #
the instance of
certane persons, ther creditors, for certane sowms of money and #
other
onerous caussis containit in the severall actis of              #
incarceratioun maid thairanent,
haid vpon the seventent day of Januar instant, betwixt four and 
fyue hours efternoon, maid escape out of prisone at the         #
Tolbuith dor, by
neglect of William Garich, Alexander Smith, and George Pratt,   #
town
officers, then keepers of the dores, they being abusit by       #
drink; and that
for regaining the said prisoners the magistrats haid bein       #
vseing all the
dilligence and moyen they culd, and haid sent Baillie Alexander #
and Baille
Mollisoun, accompanied with certane of the ablest men of the    #
toune, for
macking furth ane inquirie for and efter the said Vicount, and  #
haid
<P 186>
wretin leters to the capitane of the watch for the shyr and     #
others, giving
notice of the said escape, and craveing their assistance, and   #
desyrit the
new and old counsellis ther approbatioun of the premissis, and  #
that they
wold advyse the magistrats what further they suld doe in the    #
said business.
The new and old counsell abov convenit, approvit of the         #
magistrats
ther proceeding in the premisses, and recomendit to thame to    #
caus
giue notice by leters to Banff, Invernes, Elgin, and other      #
burghes they suld
think requisit, and also to the Capitane of Dunoter Castle, and #
Governour
of Invernes, for ther assistance in regaineing the said         #
prisoner, and geting
passes stopit, that he suld not mack escape out of the natioun.

[}22 FEBRUARY 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioune that   #
all former
attempts and essayes gone about and vseit anent the regaineing  #
of James
Vicount of Frendrat, who did vpon the seventeint day of March   #
[\January\]
last, escape furth of the Tolbuith of this burghe, haid provine #
ineffectuall and
to no purpose; and yet, notwithstanding, resolveing not to giue #
over but
further to act in anything conduceable thereanent, they have    #
impowerit
and authorized, and does impower and authorize the magistrats   #
to act and
goe about any further dilligence in regaineing of the said      #
Vicount they
sall find expedient; and what the magistrats sall doe theranent #
the counsell
to holde firme and stable, and wheranent thir presents to be    #
warrand.

[}30 MAY 1660.}]
   The said day, the provest, baillies, and counsell            #
understanding that
our Soverane Lord the Kings Maiestie, to the great rejoiceing   #
of ther hearts,
wes now efter a long banishment from the enjoyment of his       #
dominions of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, by the wonderfull mercies of    #
God and ouer
ruleing hand of Providence happily restorit to the just and     #
good governement
of his saids dominions, and wes in a peaceable maner, without   #
hostilitie
<P 187>
and war arryvit in England, and that ther wes a sweit comon and #
concord
betwixt his Maiestie and the Parliament, which, as it wes       #
exceeding great
mater of rejoiceing and incitement vpon the hearts of all his   #
Maiesties
subjects to be much in prayer for his Maiestie, and in blissing #
and praiseing
the God of heaven for so wonderfull and great a mercie to thes  #
his
Maiesties dominions, and to this burghe in particular, as one   #
small part and
incorporation theroff, who haid in his Maiesties absence beine  #
vnder verie
great thraldome, bondage, and slauerie, so it wes ther dewtie,  #
and they
haid great mater to expres and manifest ther joy to all the     #
world in the
most solemne outward maner they wer able to expres and win to;  #
tharfor
the provest, baillies, and counsell haue appointit and ordanit, #
and does
ordaine and appoint Master John Patersone, ane of ther          #
ministers, and Mr
John Mengzes, professor of divinitie, to mack ane sermon of     #
thanksgiving,
the on in the Old Church, and the other in the New Church, vpon #
the
[^BLANK^] day of [^BLANK^] nixt, and his Maiesties loft in the  #
Old
Church to be all hung ouer with tapestrie in the best maner can #
be devysit
against the said day, and that the haill inhabitants of this    #
brughe be warnit
at the mercat croce and throw the haill streits of the toune be #
sound of
trumpet and beat of drum, to assemble themselues and be in      #
readines in
their best armes at sevin o'clock in the morneing, in the       #
churchyard the
said day, and ther to leave and lay doune their armes in order, #
and goe to
the church and attend the sermons, and giue most humble and     #
heartie
thanks to God for his Maiesties happie restauration and         #
wonderfull mercie
to his dominions; and that the mercat croce of this brughe be   #
all hung
about with tapestrie in the best maner can be devysit, haveing  #
wpon the
top therof musicianars skilfull in singing and playing, and ane #
long table
to be sett therat, and all sorts of confections set theron, and #
the magistrats
and most worthie men of the toune to be set and placit          #
therabout, and that
tuo peece of wyne be broucht to the croce, the on claret and    #
the vther
whyte wyne, and run therat and givin to all that pleases to     #
call for the
samen, and ane great number of glasses to be cassin and brokin, #
and that
the haill inhabitants come from the churches in ther armes, the #
magistrats
<P 188>
being befor, singing songis and praiseing with such scripturall #
psalms as
the minister sall appoint, and that the whole bells in the      #
toune be rung
the whole day, and bonfyrs put on, and the inhabitants efter    #
ther comeing
from the church to the croce singing and praising God as        #
aforsaid, to draw
up in order in ther armes wpon the Castellgatt Streit, befoir   #
the magistrats
and others, who sall be about the table at the croce, and       #
orderlie giue such
volies and shots as sall be appointit to them be the magistrats #
and ther
respective commanders heirefter nominat, and the trumpets and   #
drums
sounding and beating according to the respective orders to be   #
givin therfor,
and that efter disolveing from the croce the inhabitants spend  #
the
remanent of the day in shooteing and goeing thorow the streets  #
of the
toune, and that they vse all civill and godlie merriement and   #
joy, that may
evidence and expres the joy and glaidnes of ther hearts; and    #
for the beter
ordering of the inhabitants vnder ther armes in goeing about    #
the forsaid
work, ordanit the inhabitants be devydit in four companies      #
according to
their respective quarters, and each company to haue their owne  #
capitanes
and wther commanders in maner efter specifeit, viz.: for the    #
companie of the
Futtie quarter, Thomas Melvill, lait dean of gild, capitane,    #
George Melvill
his levtennent, and Robert Gray, second lawfull sone of the     #
deceist Mr
Thomas, lait provest, ensigne bearer: (^Item^), for the company #
of the Grein
quarter, Alexander Burnet of Skethoksley, capitane; John        #
Scott, lait deane
of gild, levtennent; and Robert Burnet, sone to Alexander       #
Burnet, lait
baillie, ensigne bearer: (^Item^), for the company of the       #
Crookit quarter,
William Cuthbert, burges of Aberdein, capitane; Walter Innes,   #
burges thair,
levtennent; and James Robertson, sone to Alexr. Robertsone,     #
lait baillie,
ensigne bearer; and for the Evin quarter, Master Robert Patrie, #
lait baillie,
capitane; Arthour Dalgardno, burges, thair levtennent; and Mr   #
Thomas
Buck, ensigne bearer; with power to the saids capitans to       #
choose sergeands
and wthers neidfull theranent, and appointit the dean of gild   #
to sie and
caus the premisses accordinglie be performit, and what charges  #
and expenssis
sall be expent and debursit theron, the samen to be allowit in  #
his accompts.
<P 189>
[}6 JUNE 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell appoints the magistrats to caus   #
wret, draw
vp, and subscriue for themselues, and in name of the counsell   #
and communitie
of this burghe, and ample leter and humble addres to his        #
Majestie,
in the best forme can be falne vpon, and to delyuer the samen   #
to the Laird
of Drum, who is goeing wp to his Majestie, to be delyverit in   #
their name.

[}4 JULY 1660.}]
   The said day, anent the complaint givin in to the counsell   #
be Doctor
James Lesly, doctor of medicine, [^A LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] 
burgesses of Abirdein, against Mr Andro Cant, minister of the   #
said
burghe, mentioning that wher upon the last day of solemnitie    #
for congratulating
his Majesties hapie restauratioun to his just rights, the       #
compleners
finding in on of ther numbers custodie ane tresonable and       #
seditious book
in Inglish, callit (^Lex Rex^), publishit without author or     #
authoritie, being
stuffit with no les treasone and rebellion then ane serpent     #
full of poysone,
wheras by the lawes of this kingdome, Queen Marys Parliament 5, #
Act 27,
the publishing of any books without publict authoritie is       #
expresly forbiddin;
lykways it wes clear be the Acts of Parliament efter mentionat, 
that the hearing and concealling of treasone, tresonabil books  #
or wrets, in
prejudice of his Maiestie, is declarit to be hich tresone, the  #
compleeners
esteeming it ther duetie as a work suteable for that day, and   #
the mor to
testifie ther loyaltie, did destroy that book which properly    #
did belong to
them, that others micht not be insnarit therwith, leaving the   #
censur of all
such infernall peeces and ther authors to suprem authoritie;    #
yit, nevertheless,
the said Mr Andro Cant, upon the last Lords day, being the      #
first of
Julii instant, did publictly, in his sermon, to ther honors     #
hearing, vindicat
<P 190>
and declair that the author of the said book wes ane holy,      #
learnit, gracious,
and pious man as euer this natioun brought furth, and did most  #
uncristianly
utter cursses and imprecatiouns against the compleeners, viz.,  #
God
rub shame upon them, and to set his mark upon them, which he    #
declarit
to be his prayers in privat, and calling us villanes and actors #
of villanies,
praying lykways that the said mark micht be affixit on ther     #
bodies, that
ther soulls micht be savit in the day of the Lord, contrar to   #
Christs rule,
who comands ws blis and curs not; and seeing that by Act of     #
Parliament
K. James VI., Parliament 14, Act 205, It is appointit that the  #
authors of all
treasonable books or wrets sall not be conceallit, but that all #
persons ar
holdin to declair the samen to the sheriff, provest, or         #
baillie, within brugh,
under paine of treasone; and the said Mr Andro haveing so       #
friely and
publictly preachit to the vindicatioun and praiss of the author #
of the said
book, it is presumit that he himselff is the author, or         #
otherways he can
condiscend upon some other: lastly, in respect by other Acts of #
Parliament,
King Charles I., Parliament 3, 84=th= , Act 8=th= ; and also in #
the Act
King Charles I., the 2=nd= triennial Parliament, session        #
2=nd= , Act 20=th= , It is appointit
that quhatsomeuer persone or persons suld be hard to curs, they
suld be punishit by seueral fines, and if he wer ane minister,  #
he suld los
the fyft part of his yeirly stipend, tharfor desyring the       #
counsell to convein
the said Mr Andro to ansuer to the abone writin bill; and they  #
wold
consider that Gods glorie, the kings honour, the peoples        #
saifitie, being so
much interestit therin, and the dangerous consequences that     #
micht follow
if this opportunitie suld be omittit, and efter full            #
examination, that they
wold grant justice as accordis in law, and ordaine him to       #
condiscend upon
the author of the book, and censur him for his cursing; which   #
supplicatioun
and complaint the counsell haueing hard, appointit the baillies #
to
goe on and try the particulars contanit in the bill, and to     #
report to the
counsell.

<P 191>
[}15 AUGUST 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell appoints the sermons preachit in  #
the
churches of this brughe be Mr John Paterson, minister of this   #
brughe, and
Mr John Mengzes, professor of divinitie, vpon the [^BLANK^] day #
of [^BLANK^]
last, for the Kings Majesties happie restauration to the just   #
governement
of his dominions, to be put to the presse and printit with all  #
convenient
dilligence, wpon the charges of the toune, and appoints the     #
ministers to be
aquaint for puting the saids sermons in order for the forsaid   #
effect; as also
that the forme and maner of the solemnitie be the inhabitants   #
of this
burghe the said day for the forsaid effect, be siclyk put to    #
the press, and
printit vpon the tounes charges, and that the samen be put in   #
good order
therfor.

[}17 AUGUST 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideration that Mr  #
Andro
Cant, one of the ministers of this burghe, haid this week       #
removit himselff,
with his wyff, familie, goods, and geir, to the south, for      #
macking, as they
wer informit, his residence ther, and that he haid left his     #
charge of the
ministerie heir vacant, and haid not acquantit the counsell of  #
his removeall;
as also considdering that being informit in respect of the said #
Mr Andro
his seeknes, weaknes, and old aige, he wes to remove, they haid #
causit the
baillies goe to him for knowing his intentione theranent, and   #
desyring him
that he wold caus suplie his charge of the ministerie heir in   #
some good
maner, so long as he suld be absent, and that he haid [\given\] #
no satisfactioun
theranent, but haid removit and left his charge vacand, as said #
is,
therfor they haue appointit, and does appoint, the said Mr      #
Andro Cant to
be persewit befor the presbitrie with all convenient dilligence #
in the ordinarie
way, according to the rules of the Church of Scotland, for      #
being decernit
to supplie his charge of the ministerie within this bruche by   #
himselff   
allon, or with the assistance and help of ane sufficient, able, #
qualified
<P 192>
persone, or otherways the place to be declairit vacand: and the #
counsell
does commissionat and appoint Gilbert Gray and Alexander        #
Alexander,
baillies, to goe about the prosecutione of the said mater befor #
the presbitrie
to the finall closur theroff.

[}29 AUGUST 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell, in consideratioun of the         #
unseasonable
and tempestuous weather, appoints ane fast to be keepit within  #
this burghe
be the haill inhabitants of this burghe, for begging ane        #
blessing to the
ensueing harvest, upon the [^BLANK^] day of [^BLANK^] nixt, and #
appointit
the ministers to be acquaint therwith.

[}12 SEPTEMBER 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell taking to consideration that the  #
provest
and baillies haid beine verie active in goeing about the vsing  #
all possible
meanes for regaineing of James Vicount of Frendrat, who did     #
escape the
Tolbuith and prisone of this brughe vpon the [^BLANK^] day of   #
[^BLANK^] last,
and that they haid done exact dilligence theranent, in so far   #
as wes in ther
power, as also that the said Vicount did mack his escape furth  #
at the dore
of the said Tolbuith thorow the neglect of the officers then    #
keepers of the
dores of the prisone, sua that his escape culd not be imput to  #
the magistrats,
the Tolbuith being all round about clos in ewrie part theroff;  #
tharfor the
counsell all in ane woce haue declarit, and does declair, the   #
provest and
baillies, as magistrats for the tyme, frie of all and           #
whatsomeuer hazard
and prejudice may follow vpon the said Vicount his escape, and  #
that the
samen is not to be imput to them in any maner of way.

<P 193>
[}12 SEPTEMBER 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun that    #
the dasks
within the churches of this brughe wer much takin wp and maid   #
wse of by
certane women within the samen, and that certane inhabitants    #
who haid
the libertie and priviledge of daskis for ther awne wses, did   #
bring ther
wyffis with them to ther dasks, which wes not, nether hes bein  #
in tyme
bygane the practice of this brughe, it being only practicable   #
within the
samen that the men did posses and mack wse of the dasks, and    #
the women
did sit wpon the floor or in the body of the churches in litle  #
handsome
chaires, or such comodious seats as they fand expedient and wes #
permissable
be the counsell to be maid wse of; thairfor the counsell for    #
tacking
away of the said abusse in tyme comeing, ordaines and appoints  #
that the
wyffe or no inhabitant within this brughe or others whosomeuer, #
posses,
tack wp, or sit in any dask within the churches of this brughe  #
in tyme
comeing, with certificatioune to any that sall contraveine the  #
premisses,
being thrie tymes prohibit and forbiddin be the sacrister or    #
churchwarden,
or be any others the counsell sall appoint, sall pay the sowme  #
of fyve
punds money to the deane of gild for the wse of the toune,      #
(\toties quoties\), as
they sall be fund to contraveine, efter admonitioun in maner    #
abovewrettin;
and it is heirby declarit that this present act sall nowayes    #
haue effect, nor
is not understood to be maid against the laidies of Earles,     #
Lordes, Barrones,
and other honorable women, but it sall be lesome to them to     #
haue access
to the dasks within the churches of this brughe als friely as   #
befor the
macking heiroff.

[}26 SEPTEMBER 1660.}]
   The said day, the provest, baillies, and counsell of the     #
burghe of
Aberdeine, ... being convenit within the counsellhous ... as    #
wpone the ordinar
day of electioun of the magistrats, counsell, and officemen,    #
for electing
and chooseing of the new counsell of this burghe for the yeir   #
to come, ...
<P 194>
and the act of burrowes wnderwritten being producit and         #
publictly red in
counsell, quheroff the tenour followes:  At Edinburghe, the     #
fyftent day of
September 1660 yeirs, the which day the Commissioners of        #
Burrowes now
convenit haueing receavit ane leter derect to them from the     #
Lord Chancellar,
which wes red, and efter serious consideratioun thereof they    #
thocht
fitt the samen suld be recordit, wheroff the tenor followes:    #
Right Worthie,
haueing hard of ane meiting of the burrows, and considdering of #
how
much importance it may be to his Majesties service that tymely  #
cair may
be takin, that at ther nixt election of ther magistrats and     #
counsell in ther
seuerall burghes, such only may be maid choose of as ar of      #
knovin fidelitie
and loyaltie towards his Majestie, though I haue good reasone   #
to be
confident that in thankfulnes of so great ane mercie which God  #
hes
manifestit to ws all in the happie restauratione of our most    #
gracious
Soverane, nane of yow will be wanting in that duety yow owe to  #
his
sacred Majestie in your stationes, yit I conceave it to be my   #
duetie to put
yow in mind of that which his Majestie doeth expect of your     #
affectione
and zeall to his service, and which may be ane lasting evidence #
of the
Burrowes of Scotland ther loyaltie, and rubing of the many      #
reproaches
that hes beine laid upon all this kingdome, occasionit by the   #
former
practisses of a few disloyall persones who prosperit in ther    #
wickednes
for ane tyme, and that they may be the easier discoverit and    #
renderit
unworthie of any trust among loyall subjects; but as I noways   #
doubt of
your good resolutiones in this, so I at this tyme sall give yow #
no mor
truble, but that this and all other purposes that may concerne  #
his Majesties
service may be recomendit to your meiting, from your            #
affectionat freind
and servand, Glencairne:  In persewance wheroff the present     #
Commissioners
finding themselues bund to indevor that no disaffected person   #
to
his Majesties government be in any place or power in ther       #
respective
corporations, did ordaine, and heirby ordaines, that in the     #
ensueing electione
of magistrats, counsell, and all other offices within burghe,   #
no persone or
persons who contryved or subscryvit the remonstrance or         #
associatiouns,
or concurrit in the prosecutioun of any cours for promoveing    #
the ends
<P 195>
theroff, or ther determinatiouns since anno 1650, or any        #
otherways disaffectit
to his Majesties government, or indevors by factioun or         #
seditioun
to the disturbance of his Majesties peace, or desertit any      #
charge of his
Majesties armes without ane lawfull warrand, that non such be   #
admittit
to any place of magistracie, counsell, or any other office of   #
deacon within
brughe; and ordaines this act to be speedilie comunicated to    #
ilk burghe,
that non pretend ignorance, and ilk brughe to returne thair     #
dilligence to
the nixt conventioun of burrows, wnder the paine of twentie     #
pundis, and
this to be ane head of the nixt missive: The counsell, conforme #
to the
acts of parliament decret, arbitrall, and act of burrowes above #
wretin, efter
invocatioun of the name of God, procedit to the said electione.

[}4 OCTOBER 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun that    #
Capitane
Johne Strachan, ane of his Majesties attenders residenter at    #
London, culd
be verie serviceable to this burghe, and that he haid promist   #
be his lettre
so to be, ordanit the thesaurer to furnish or caus mack with    #
all convenient
dilligence ane handsome cup of siluer, wechand tuentie fyve     #
unces, as
also to furnish and caus mak wp tuo barrell of good and         #
sufficient salmond,
the said cup and salmond to be sent to the said John in tokin   #
of the touns
respect to him.

[}31 OCTOBER 1660.}]
   The said day, the counsell appoints John Bennet, thesaurer,  #
to caus
mack ane badge of silver to Alexr. Gray, post, indweller of     #
this brughe,
with the tounes armes theron, for demonstrating him to be comon #
post
for this burghe, and that the said badge be of weght,           #
quantitie, and forme
of the badge givin be the toune to George Godsman, post, and    #
what
charges sall be deburst thereon, the samen to be allowit in the #
thesaurers
accompt.

<P 196>
[}25 FEBRUARY 1661.}]
   The said day, the counsell haveing informatione from Doctor  #
James
Lesley, doctor of medicine, that it was signified to him from   #
Edinburgh
by Capitane George Melvill, that it wes the desyr of ane noble  #
and potent
Earle James Marques of Montrose, that that dismemberit part of  #
the bodie
of the lait murtherit Marques of Montrose, his father, suld be  #
socht out of
the place of the church of this burghe wher the samen wes       #
interrit efter
it wes takin doune from of the pinacle wher it wes put up by    #
the enimies
of the said Marques, and that the samen suld be takin vp and    #
preservit
till order suld come for transporting the samen to the bodie;   #
and the
magistrats and councell haveing givin order for the forsaid     #
effect, and
report being maid to them that the said member wes fund out in  #
the place
of the said church wher it had beine interrit, and being most   #
willing and
desyrous to tack wp and preserue the same in the most decent    #
and convenient
maner culd be gone about, have appointit, and does appoint, the 
inhabitants of this burghe to be warnit be beat of drum and     #
sound of
trumpet for conveining this day about tuelff oclok, in ther     #
best armes
and array, for accompanieing the magistrats and councell to the #
church
for tacking wp the said member; and that the samen be takin wp  #
and
put in ane coffin, to be coverit with ane reid crimpsone velvet #
cloth, and
caried be Harie Grahame, son to the Laird of Morphye, from the  #
church
doun the Braid streit to the touns publict house, accompanied   #
be the magistrats
and counsell, and with the inhabitants of the toune going       #
befoir
in armes to the touns publict hous with sound of trumpet and    #
beat of
drum, ther to be keepit vnder custodie of the magistrats in the #
hich counsell
hous till such tyme as order suld be sent for transporting      #
theroff, and
appoints the inhabitants to discharge ther guns and shoot       #
vollies at and
about the mercat croce at ther comeing thervnto, and delyverie  #
of the said
member to the magistrats.

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[}6 MARCH 1661.}]
   The said day, anent the supplicatioun givin in to the        #
counsell be
Alexander Andersone, lawfull sone to William Andersone, elder,  #
burges of
Aberdein, schoweing that wher dureing his younger yeirs in      #
burghe it
pleasit the Lord to wouchsafe vpon him some learneing in        #
reading and
wreating, which thrie yeirs bygane he had employit in teaching  #
of young
children in the country; and sieing that John Browne, ane of    #
their honors
schooll masters, was to remove, therfor desyring that the       #
counsell wold
grant him libertie to discharge the said dutie in this brughe,  #
promiseing
to goe about the samen carefully and dilligently to the         #
contentment of
all concernit, according to his abilitie, as in the             #
supplicatioun wes contanit.
The counsell haveing hard the supplicatioun, grantit the        #
supplicants
desyr dureing his good cariage and service in the said          #
imployment.

[}17 APRIL 1661.}]
   The said day, the provest, baillies, and counsell,           #
understanding the
tuentie thrid of this instant wes appointit be the Parliament   #
of England
for our Soverane Lord the King his Maiesties coronatioun, and   #
receaving
the crown of his kingdome of England; and considdering that it  #
was the
duetie of all his Majesties subjects not onlie in that his      #
kingdome of England,
but also thorow out all his other dominions, to testifie and    #
mack
known to the world ther hearts rejoiceing and solemnitie for    #
that happie
and so long wishit for day in the most solemne and publict      #
maner they
wer able to doe the samen, and that it wes the duetie of this   #
brughe, as on
of his Majesties royall burrows of this kingdome, to goe about  #
the same in
alse solemne and magnificent ane way as possibly they wer able  #
to expres:
thairfor the provest, baillies, and counsell ordaines and       #
appoints
Master John Patersone, minister, and Mr John Mengzes, professor #
of
divinitie, to mack ane sermon of thanksgiving, the on in the    #
Old Church
and the other in the New, the said day, and his Majesties loft  #
in the Old
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Church to be all coverit and hung over with tapestrie in the    #
best forme,
and that the haill inhabitants of this brughe be warnit at the  #
mercat croce,
and throw the haill streits of the toune be sound of trumpet    #
and beat of
drum, to assemble themselves and be in readines in their best   #
armes and
abulzement at sewin oclok in the morneing at the church the     #
said day,
for blissing God for his Majesties happie coronatioune, and     #
that the mercat
croce of this brughe be all coverit and hung with tapestrie,    #
haveing vpon
the top therof musicianars skilfull in singing and playing, and #
ane long
table to be set thereat, and all sorts of confections set       #
therone, and the
magistrats and most worthie men of the toune to be set and      #
placit therabout,
and that wyne be broucht to the croce in barrellis in great     #
abundance,
and let out to all that pleases; and glasses to be brokin and   #
cassin;
and the inhabitants come from church in order under armes, the  #
magistrats
being befor all, singing and praising with such scriptural      #
psalms as the
ministers sall appoint, and that the whole bells be rung the    #
haill day, and
bonfyres put on, and the inhabitants, efter thair comeing from  #
the church
as aforsaid, to draw vp in order at the croce, and give such    #
volies and
shots as sall be appointit to them, and the trumpets and drums  #
to sound
and beat as they sall be orderit, and that efter comeing from   #
the croce
they spend the remanent of the day in shooting volies, and that #
they vse
all civill and godlie merriment becoming the work of the day;   #
and for the
beter ordering the inhabitants in their armes, ordanit the      #
haill toun to be
devydit in four companies according to ther respective          #
quarters, and each 
company to haue their owne capitane and other officers in maner #
efter
specifeit, viz., for the company of the Futtie quarter, Thomas  #
Melvill, lait
dean of gild, to be capitane; Arthour Dalgardno, his            #
levtennent; and Mr
Thomas Buck, sone of the deceast Thomas Buck, ensigne bearer.   #
(^Item^) ,
for the company of the Grein quarter, John Scott, lait dean of  #
gild, capitane;
Alexr. Burnet, younger, levtennent; and Master Thomas Forbes,   #
sone to
Robert Forbes, lait baillie, ensigne bearer. (^Item^) , for the #
Cruikit quarter,
William Cuthbert capitan; Walter Innes levtennent; and James    #
Robertsone,
son to Alexr. Robertsone, bailly, ensigne bearer. (^Item^) ,    #
for the Evin
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quarter, [^BLANK^] capitane; [^BLANK^]
levtennant; and Wm. Robertson, son to Charles Robertsone,       #
ensigne
bearer; with power to the saids capitans to choose serjeands    #
whom they
suld think expedient; and appointit the dean of gild to caus    #
the premisse
be accordinglie observit, and what charges suld be debursit     #
therone the
same to be allowit in his accompts.

[}1 MAY 1661.}]
   The said day, anent the supplicatioun given in to the        #
counsell be
James Schewane, burges of Aberdein, schewing that wher be       #
deceas of
James Duncan, lait possessor of the hous and master of the      #
scooll in the
Scoollhill belonging to their honours, the samen wes now vacand #
and at
your honours disposall, and sieing he wes ane burges of gild    #
and tounes
barne, and hopit by the grace of God to be somewhat aible to    #
goe about
the said duetie; thairfor desyring the counsell to tack his     #
present meane
conditione to consideratione, and to admitt and receave him to  #
the said
charge, and to grant him the benefite of the said scoollhous    #
for teaching
young ons in reading and wreiting, promissing to doe faithfull  #
duetie
thairin according to his abilitie, as in the supplicatioun wes  #
contanit: The
counsell haveing hard and considderit the supplicatioune, and   #
being
advysit therwith, gives and grants to the supplicant the        #
benefite of the
scoollhous in the Scoolhill befoir injoyit be the said James    #
Duncan for
teaching and instructing the young ones in reading and          #
wreiting, with
power to him to imploy and mack wse of the said hous and scooll #
for the
said effect dureing his good service and the counsellis         #
pleasour.

[}4 SEPTEMBER 1661.}]
   The said day, the counsell wpon the supplicatioun of Master  #
William
Aidy, presentit to them, grants libertie and licence to him to  #
teach and
instruct young scollers entering the colledg, or enterit befor, #
in the Greek
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toung, at such convenient hours and occasions as sall not be    #
prejudiciall
to ther instructioun and attendance in the gramar scooll and    #
colledg,
dureing the said Mr William his good service and the counsellis #
pleasour,
and the counsell continues ther ansuer to that part of his      #
supplicatioun
anent his chamber maill to ther further consideration.

[}16 OCTOBER 1661.}]
   The said day, the counsell ordains ane day of thanksgiveing  #
to be
keipit within this burghe be the haill inhabitants theroff, the #
[^BLANK^]
day of October instant, in consideration of the good harvest,   #
and the
ministers to be acquaint theranent.

[} (\EODEM DIE.\) }]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun that    #
Master
James Gordoun, minister at Rothiemay, haid beine at great       #
paines in
draughting wpone ane meikle cairt of paper, this burghe and     #
fredome and
other pairts adjacent neir therto, which he haid this day       #
delyverit to the
counsell weell done; tharfor in tokin of ther thankfulnes,      #
ordains the
deane of gild to buy or caus mack ane silver peece or cup,      #
wechtand
tuentie unces, and to buy ane silk hatt, and delyuer to the     #
said Mr James,
with ane silk govn to his bedfellow, quheranent thir presentis  #
to be
warrand.

[}18 DECEMBER 1661.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun that    #
ther wes
many good and laudable acts and ordinances maid be ther         #
predicessors
anent keeping secret the counsell of this brught much slichtit  #
and neglectit,
and the counsell effairs much devulgit; tharfor ordanit and
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appointit that in tyme comeing, whatsomeuer persone or persons  #
sall be
fund to devulge any of the effairs of the counsell of this      #
brught, to be
depryvit of ther fredome efter the first convictioun (\ipso     #
facto\) .

[}8 FEBRUARY 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideration that     #
the
Inglish and reading scoollis within this burghe haid bein this  #
seuerall
yeirs bygane much neglectit and abusit by the too many persons  #
who
haid no abilitie ther haueing libertie to exerce the duetie     #
theroff, as also
taking to consideratioun that laitly this burgh haid causit     #
John Gormak,
ane able qualified man in reading and wreiting, come from       #
Edinburghe
for discharge of the said imployment; thairfor to the effect    #
the scoollis
may be beter regulat, and the youth instructit in tyme comeing, #
ordaines
and appoints to haue ane scooll for teaching young ons in       #
reading and
wreting, and Robert Webster, who hes also the libertie of ane   #
scooll, to
haue the scooll for teaching and instructing young ons in       #
reading and
arithmetik, and John Moubray, to haue the libertie of ane       #
scooll for teaching
and instructing young children of Futtie and in the             #
Castellgett, and
discharges all other persons from haueing any Inglish scoollis  #
for reading,
wreting, or arithmetik within this burgh, except such woman as  #
the
counsall sall permitt for instructing young ons in the grounds  #
of reading.

[}19 MARCH 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell admitts Barbara Mollysone, relict #
of the
deceast Archibald Muschet, burges of Aberdein, and dauchter to  #
the
deceast Mr Thomas Mollysone, sometyme toun clerk of the said    #
burgh,
mistres for learneing of young ones in reading, wreting, and    #
seweing in
the scooll foundit within this burgh be the Laidie Rothemay.

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[}26 MARCH 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell ordaines the magistrats to        #
delyuer to
Robert Burnet, who is now goeing to Holland, the draucht and    #
stans of
this brughe and fredome and others therin exprest, drawin wpon  #
paper
with pen and ink be Mr James Gordone, minister at Rothemay, and #
the
said Robert to advyse in Holland what way and at what rate the  #
said
draucht sall be most handsome and convenientlie done, and to    #
acquant
the toune therwith.

[}24 MAY 1662.}]
   The said day, the magistrats haueing signified to the        #
counsell that
they had receavit ane leter from ther commissioners at          #
parliament, schewing
that the Quens Majestie wes arryvit at Portsmouthe, and that    #
the
burghe of Edinburghe haid already keepit ane day of rejoiceing  #
for her
happie arryvell, and therfor thought it expedient that this     #
burghe to the
effect they suld nocht be deficient in ther duetie, suld        #
speidilie set about
their duetie in the lyk: The counsell haweing hard the said     #
leter, with
the magistrats proposall forsaid, haue appointit, and does      #
appoint, the
tounes inhabitants to be all convenit in arms at thrie hours    #
this day in
the efternoone, by beat of drum, and that the croce be hung all #
about,
and wyne and confections broucht therto in great abundance, and #
that
the inhabitants discharge and give volies as they suld be       #
appointit by their
seuerall commanders, and that bonfyres be set on thorow the     #
haill streits.

[}29 MAY 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun that    #
notwithstanding
of ane laudable practise of ther predicessors, that all         #
entering
burgessis, als weill burgessis of gild as craftismen at the     #
tyme of ther
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admissione, wer in wse to present befor the counsell ane        #
musket with
bandeleir conforme, or ane pick, or the ordinar pryce           #
(^respective^) of the
samen, for advancement of the commone magazine of this burghe,  #
by the
last confusioun of the tymes the samen had been out of wse for  #
divers yeirs
bygane; as also tacking to consideration that the touns haill   #
magazine
wes plunderit and tackin away by the enemies and vsurpers:      #
thairfor
ordaines and appoints that euerie burges of gild at the tyme of #
admission,
present befor the counsell ane sufficient musket with bandeleir #
conforme,
and that ewrie craftsman, the tyme of thair admission, present  #
ane sufficient
pick, or then that they pey to the deane of gild the ordinar    #
pryce
(^respective^) of the samen, to the effect the touns common     #
magazin may be
againe provydit.

[}15 AUGUST 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell nominats and appoints Robert      #
Gray,
secund laufull sone to the decest Mr Thomas Gray, sometyme      #
provest of
Aberdein, bearer of the tounes standart and ensigne at ther     #
conventione
and perambulatione of the utter land merches, to be riddin and  #
perambulat
the [^BLANK^] day of this instant.

[}15 OCTOBER 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell appoints threten shilling four    #
pennies
money to be given weekly out of the moneys belonging to the     #
sessione to
William Brutchie ... and appoints the tuo litle housses under   #
the Gallowgait
Port to be ane duelling hous to the said scurger dureing his    #
service.

[}29 OCTOBER 1662.}]
    The said day, the counsell ordains the fyft of November     #
nixt to be
keepit and observit within this brughe as ane day of solemne    #
thanksgiveing
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to the Lord for preservatioun of his Majestie King James the    #
sext of
happie memory from the gune powder treasone, and ordanes        #
bonfyres to
be set on in the afternoone by the inhabitants.

[}29 OCTOBER 1662.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to ther serious           #
consideratioun
that it hath pleasit Almightie God to remove from this mortall  #
lyffe William
Gray, present provest of this brughe, yesternight about seven   #
hours,
and it being incumbent upon them, and the haill inhabitants of  #
this brughe,
to confer upon him relateing to his buriall, all honor and due  #
respect in
ther power, to the effect the samen may be decentlie gone       #
about, ordains
the haill persons of counsell to be in mourneing for convoying  #
of the corps,
and the haill bells in the toune to be rung and tollit in ane   #
mourneing
sound befor, at, and efter, interring the corps; and alse       #
appoint the magistrats
to caus conveine vnder comand of ane captaine ane hundreth
and fiftie men of the inhabitants, to be in arms for convoying  #
the said
corps, and that they discharge thrie tyms at interring the      #
corps.

[}4 JANUARY 1663.}]
   The said day, forsamekle as Alexr. Charles, wright, burges   #
of Aberdein,
being imployit be Thomas Mitchell and John Rosse, merchant      #
burgesses
of Aberdein, to mack and set vp ane malt coble in ane barne     #
belonging
to them within the Old Toun of Aberdein for ther proper wse,
and he and his servants being about the said work within the    #
Old Toune,
they wer wpon the [^BLANK^] day of [^BLANK^] last bypast,       #
interrupt
and impedit thairin, and their workloumes takin from them by on #
Robert
Brown, in Old Aberdein, with certain others of the inhabitants  #
assisting
him, assemblit in armes, haveing order from the baillies of the #
said toune, 
wherewpon the said Thomas Mitchell and John Rosse, and the said #
Alexander
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Charles, and the provest and baillies of this burghe for thair  #
entres,
finding the privileges of the burghe incroachit vpon and        #
violatit be the
said Old Toune inhabitants and ther baillies, meanit themselues #
to the
Lords of Privy Counsell, and raised summonds against the said   #
Old Toune
baillies therfor, and for the said ryot, wherwpon letters of    #
horneing and
captioun haveing followit against them therin, it was earnestly #
supplicatit
and humbly desyrit by ane reverend father in God, Dauid, Bishop #
of
Aberdein, and by the baillies of the said Old Toune, Robert     #
Broune and
others his associats, that the said mater might be amicablie    #
composit, and
freinds for each partie micht be chosin for that effect; and    #
for beter effectuating,
therof, did nominat Thomas Gordoun, shireff depute of Aberdein, 
and Mr Androw Moor, professor of medicine in the King's         #
Colledge, their
freinds and amicable compositors, wherwpon the magistrats and   #
counsell
being willing to settle freindlie with the said Old Toune for   #
the said ryot,
nowayes questioneing their vndoubted privileges, haue           #
condiscendit to the
said reverend father in God, and the said Old Toune their       #
desyre, and for
their part nominats and appoints ane reverend father in God,    #
John bishop
of Rosse, and Doctor James Leslie, principall of the New        #
Colledge of
Aberdein, freinds and amicable compositors for them in the said #
mater in
so far as might concerne the said ryot and wrong done be the    #
said Robert
Broune, and be the saids baillies ordering them, with full      #
power to them
to meit with the freinds nominat be the said Old Toune, and to  #
determine
therin according as they sall find expedient, and ordaines ane  #
submission
to be drawin wp, and extendit theranent in the maner and for    #
the forsaid
effect, to be subscriuit be all parties haueing entres,         #
promissing to stand
and abyd at what they suld determine theranent.

[}18 FEBRUARY 1663.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun the     #
great paines
Master James Gordone, minister at Rothemay, hes beine at in     #
drawing
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the draucht of this brughe and teritories therof, by way of     #
card, with the
discriptioun theroff, which now is perfittit and closit,        #
ordaines tuentie
punds sterlin of gold to be givin to him for his forsaids       #
paines, and
ordaines Gilbert Divy, master of mortificatiouns, to goe to     #
Rothemay and
delyver the samen to him, and to receave the discriptioun which #
is yit in
his hands.

[}18 MARCH 1663.}]
   The said day, the counsell appoints Thomas Mitchell, deane   #
of gild,
to pay to John Forbes, stationer, the sowme of ane hundreth     #
merks Scotts
money for his paines in printing certane musicall songs dedicat #
to the
counsell.

[}10 JUNE 1663.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratione that Mr #
John
Forbes, professor of humanitie, wes electit master of gramar    #
scooll of this
burgh, and haid acceptit the said charge, and being desyrous    #
and willing
that the said Mr John suld haue ane competent provisione of     #
mantenance,
grants to the said Master John yeirlie the soume of two         #
hundreth
pundisScotts money, to be payit be equall portions at Witsonday #
and Mertimes,
beginand the first terms payment at Mertimes nixt to come,      #
togidder with
the hous and yard possest be Mr Alexander Straquhan, last       #
master, or the
soume of [^BLANK^] for mailling ane hous within this burgh to   
the said Mr John in his optione, and ordains ane contract to be #
extendit
thervpon (\ad vitam vel ad culpam\) , with conditiones          #
containit in the former
contract past betuixt the toune and the said Mr Alexander       #
Straquhan,
beareing also speciall conditioun that each partie sall haue    #
libertie to quyt
others at Lambes 1666 yeirs.

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[}24 JUNE 1663.}]
   The said day, the counsell ordains the deane of gild to pay  #
to John
Elsmer, ane distrest preacher in Polland, laitly come to this   #
brught, the   
sowme of two hundreth merks Scotts money for his supplie.

[}16 DECEMBER 1663.}]
   The said day, the counsell [\ordains\] Mr George Keith, Wm.  #
Neper,
skipper, and William Stuart, thrie traffiquying Quakers, to be  #
conveyit out 
of the toune be the officers, with certificatione if they       #
returne therto,
againe to be conveyit be the hangman and punishit in thair      #
bodies as the
counsell sall find expedient, and ordains that no inhabitant    #
within this
brugh recept any of the forsaids persons or any such persons,   #
in their
houssis or families, or permitt any of thair meetings or        #
conventicles therin,
with certification to any that salbe fund to contraveine, that  #
the master of
the familie knowin to the said transgressions and               #
countenanceing the
samen sall pay to the deane of gild for ilk transgression in    #
recepting as
aforsaid, the particular fyns efter following, viz.: Ilk burges #
of gild thrie
scor punds, ilk tradsman thretie punds, and ilk person of the   #
meiner sort
ten punds; and for ilk transgression anent meitings or          #
conventicles, the
sowme of fyve hundreth merks, (\toties quoties\) , as they sall #
be fund to contraveine,
the master of the familie always haveing knowledge of any such
meiting or conventione and accessarie therto, and ordains       #
Alexr. Gelly to
be convenit, and the acts of parliament and councell theranent  #
intimat to
him, and he desyrit to give obedience therto, vnder             #
certificatione therin
specifeit.

[}18 JANUARY 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell takeing to consideratione that    #
ther predecessors,
by former acts for the good and preservatione of this burghe,
had appoynted and ordanit that no merchand within this burgh    #
should
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haue any more pouder in ther booth but tuo pund weicht for the  #
tyme,
haue ratefied and approvine the said former act in the tenor    #
and contents
theroff abovewritten, and now as then ordaines that no merchand #
within
this burgh, especiallie in the narrow wynds or narrow parts of  #
the street,
or wnder the Tolbuith, sall haue at on tyme more puder in ther  #
booth bot
at most two punds weicht, under paine of fourtie pund Scotis    #
money to be
payit to the dean of gild; and furder, ordaines that no puder   #
be sold in
any booth within this burgh wnder night with candle light,      #
wnder paine
of ane hundereth pund, to be payit be ilk persone               #
contraveinand, and
ordaines publicatione to be maid heirof by the drum through the #
haill
streets of the toun, that non pretand ignorance.

[}2 MARCH 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell taking to consideratione that     #
notwithstanding
this burgh was ane of the most antient royall burghes of this
kingdome, the mercat croce therof, which should be ane ornament #
therin,
was farr inferior to many meaner burghes; therfor ordaines the  #
deane of
gild to cause make wp the mercat croce of the said burgh in the #
west end
of the Castlegait, with hewin and cut stones, according to the  #
stanse and
forme of the mercat croce of the burgh of Edinburgh, and to     #
cause bring
home cut stones, and to do euerie thing requisite theranent.

[}23 MARCH 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell haveing informatione from his     #
Maiesties
Privie Counsell that the plague of pestilence was rageing in    #
Holland, and
withall ordering them to be cairfull that no shippes or goods   #
arryued from
thence at this port without dew tryall, ordaines to the effect  #
this burght
may be furder secureit and his Majesties counsell ther ordour   #
observit, ane
nightlie watch to be set at the Blockhous for taking notice of  #
all shippes
from Holland coming to this burghe.

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[}23 MARCH 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell for good considerationes moveing  #
them,
and to the effect the tounes magazine may be againe made wp,    #
ordanes
that all persones craveing the libertie of freemen, before they #
may be
admittit therto, present in the high counsell hous of this      #
burgh the particular
armour following, viz.: Ilk entring burges of gild, ane         #
sufficient
muskett and bandileir, or ten pund therfor; and ilk entring     #
tradsman, ane
sufficient pick, or four pund therfor, and no admissione of     #
them to be while
the samen be done.

[} (\EODEM DIE.\) }]
   The said day, the counsell wnderstanding that the Earle of   #
Marr and
certaine wther noblemen and freeholders wpon the watter of Done #
ware
with their associats convenit in armes, being about tuo         #
thousand fyve
hundereth men, horse and foott, at Kintor or Halforrest, for    #
breacking
downe the croves laitlie buildit and renewed vpon the water of  #
Done,
wherof this burghe was superior; therfor, to the effect         #
accommodatione
may be theranent, and the townes priviledges preserved,         #
ordaines Gilbert
Gray, provest, Mr Alexr. Davidson, advocat, with the clerk, to  #
goe to
Kintor, or the forrest, wher the said conventione is, and to    #
offer to them all
reasonable satisfactione of any supposed wrong in the said      #
croves, if any
sall be found, and to desyr that they wold not incroch wpon the #
townes
priviledges, whervnto if they refuse to obtemper, to protest    #
and take
instruments wpon what lose or prejudice may follow vpon their   #
illegal
procedour and convocatione as aforsaid.

[}6 APRIL 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell grants libertie to Allexander     #
Thomsone,
pyper, to goe throug the towne with his pype at such tymes as   #
the
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drummer goes with his drum, and that during the counsells       #
pleasur, for
which service he is to have such payment as wthers in the lyke  #
imployment
had before.

[}8 JUNE 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell takeing to consideratione that    #
the Earle of
Marr with certaine wther noblemen and heritors wpone the water  #
of Done,
being convocat in armes about tuo thousand and fyve hundreth    #
men, horse
and foott, had come doune vpon Thursday last, the tuentie saxt  #
day of this
instant, and haveing brockin doune the croves vpon the watter   #
of
Done, belonging to severall inhabitants of this burgh, and the  #
counsell for
securitie of the burgh haveing appoyntit the inhabitants to be  #
in armes
within the toun for defence thereof in cace of any invasione    #
through the
said convocatione, many did absent themselues, and wthers did   #
remove
being once convenit; therefore ordaines all persones absent or  #
removeing
as aforesaid, to be convenit, and being convict, to be amerceit #
in the
soume of fyve punds Scots money, ilk ane without exemptione to  #
any, except
vpon the account of sickness, or prior absence furth of the     #
toune.

[}15 JUNE 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell ordaines Alexr. Baillie thair     #
commissioner, to
signifie to the meeting of burrowes at Edinburgh, that the      #
Earle of Marr,
and certaine wther noblemen and freeholders wpon the water of   #
Done,
with ther associats and attenders had laitlie convocat in armes #
about tuo
thousand and fyve hundereth men, horss and foott, and had come  #
doune
and violentlie brockin doune the croves vpon the water of Done  #
belonging
to the said burgh, and thereby incroched vpon the tounes        #
privileges
and liberties, they being superiors of the saids croves, and    #
judges commissionat
for cognosceing vpon and rectifieing of any abuses therein, and 
to desyre the burrowes ther assistance by money and moyen, for  #
repeiratione
of the said wrong, as being ane publict concernment.

<P 211>
[}14 SEPTEMBER 1664.}]
   The said day the heritors of the cruves fishing, wpon the    #
water of
Done, haveing held out to the counsell that they ware           #
wrongouslie
troubled and molestit befor the Lords be the noblemen,          #
barrones, and
gentlemen, wpon the water of Done, in ther heretable legall     #
rights and
possessiones of the said croves, and therefor desyreing the     #
counsell as
their superiors to manteine and assist them in ther just rights #
and possessiones;
the counsell haveing considderit the premisses, ordaines the
heritours of the saids croves to be maintenit and assistit in   #
thair said just
and legall rights, and possessiones of the said croves, in      #
quhatsumever
actione may be intentit against them theranent; and ordaines    #
ane letter
to be wryt to baillie Alexr. their commissioner at Edinburgh,   #
for imploying
the touns advocats and agents for that effect.

[} (\EODEM DIE.\) }]
   The said day, the provest presentit to the counsell ane      #
letter from the
Lords of his Maiesties Privie Counsell, daitit at Edinburgh the #
secund day
of this instant monethe, for the affect after specifeit, which  #
being read in
counsell, the tenour thereof is as follows:  Loveing friends,   #
in obedience
to the Kings order sent to ws for seising on all Dutch          #
veshellis within
any harbors within this kingdome, we requyre yow immediately    #
vpon
sight heirof, that ye seise upon all and ewerie Dutch veshellis #
lyand
within your ports and harbors, and that yow take thair ruthers  #
and saills
from them till furder ordor, whereof we expect ane speedie      #
accompt from
yow: Lykwayes his Maiestie is gracouslie pleased in ordor to    #
your
saffitie and preservatione from hazard, to ordane intimatione   #
to be gevin
to all whom it may concerne, not to send out any shipes till    #
convoyes be
provydit, whereoff we thocht fitt to giue yow notice and        #
tymeous warning,
and prevent any prejudice you may suffer. By Dutch veshellis    #
yow are
to wnderstand onlie veshellis belonging to the Vnited           #
provinces. We rest
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your loveing friends, (\sic subscribitur\) . [^A LIST OF NAMES  #
OMITTED^]
Direct thus  For the provest and baillies of Aberdein.
In obedience to the which order, the magistrats and counsell    #
haveing instentlie
causit make search at the port and harbor, fand no shippes within
the samen at present belonging to the states of the Vnited      #
provinces, and 
appoynted speedie returne to be giuen therof to his Maiesties   #
counsell,
which was accordinglie done.

[}23 NOVEMBER 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell takeing to consideration that     #
Wm. Forbes,
present doctor of the musick schooll of this burgh, had thir    #
severall yeirs
bygane done good service in the said schooll for instructione   #
of the inhabitants 
children of this burgh and wthers, as he had occasion, to the
contentment of the counsell and wthers interestit, and that not #
withstanding
therof, Thomas Davidsone, present maister of the said schooll,  #
did
wrongouslie alledge that the said William Forbes was not his    #
doctor, but
that he had power and libertie to place ane doctor at his       #
pleasure, and
theropon did not grant to the said William such libertie and    #
freedome in
the said schooll for going about his charge as doctor as he     #
desyreit and
aught to have had, have therfor declairit and ordanit, and be   #
thir presents
ordaines and declaires the said William Forbes to be doctor of  #
the
musick schoole of this burgh, during his good service and the   #
counsells
pleasour, with power to him to intromett with and receave the   #
ordinarie
deus and schoollage as doctor aforsaid, and to teach and        #
instruct the
schollars and children of this burgh in the said schooll in     #
playing and
singing, and to doe euerie wther thing relateing to his charge  #
and abilitie
as doctor, both high and laich in the said schooll, alse weell  #
the master
being present as absent, as the said schollares of the said     #
schooll stand
in neid, and as may haue occation, whereanent this present to   #
haue
sufficient warrand.

<P 213>
[}21 DECEMBER 1664.}]
   The said day, the counsell tacking to consideratioun that    #
ther predicessors
for good considderatiouns moveing them, by ther act had         #
appoynted
that no inhabitant within this burgh [\of\] whatsumever         #
qualitie,
rank or degree, should invite at any tyme any more persones to  #
be witnesses
to any of ther bairnes bot four men, and four weemen at most,   #
and
sex weemen to be imployit to convoy the bairne to and from the  #
kirk
wnder the payne of fourtie punds Scots, to be payed be ilk      #
persone contraveining,
and yet notwithstanding, the said act was much contravenit and
abuseit to the prejudice of good ordor, and of many honest      #
families and
householders, in ther meanes, bodies and goods, therefore the   #
counsell, in
consideratione whereof have ratified and aproven the said       #
former act ...
with certificatione to any who sall contraveine the premisses   #
that they
sall pay to the deane of gild of the burgh the soume of fourtie #
punds, (\toties
quoties\) ... and ordaines this act to be intimat from pulpit   #
in both kirks,
to the effect non pretend ignorance, which was accordinglie     #
done.

[} (\EODEM DIE. \) }]
   The said day, the counsell taking to consideratione that the #
pewes in
the midle part of the old kirk was much abuseit and takine wp   #
be servant
women and wthers who had no right therto: therfor ordaines that #
no
servant women sall enter within the tirlies or baras dores of   #
the saids
pewes, and that no inhabitants wyfe bring in her servant within #
the saids
baras dores, with certificatione to all and everie on that sall #
contraveine,
they sall pay to the deane of gild furtie shilling Scots,       #
(\toties quoties\) ...
and also that no bairnes nor young children be brought to the   #
kirk till
they be capable to hear the Word and attend the ordinances; and #
ordaines
this act to be intimat from pulpit, which was accordinglie      #
done.

<P 214>
[}22 FEBRUARY 1665.}]
   The said day, the counsell vnderstanding that not onlie      #
this coast, but
also this burgh and harbour, through his Majesties ingadgment   #
of warr
with Holland, might possiblie be invadeit and molestit be the   #
Hollanders;
therefor, for better securitie thairanent, ordaines the deane   #
of gild to causs
repaire the blockhous, and put the samen in such good ordour as #
sall be
found expedient, and that he borrow vpon hand from the owners   #
of Johne
Annand's shippe the four guns thairin, and cause put the samen  #
wpon
the blockhous, and ordanes the drum to goe through the toune    #
for warneing
the haill inhabitants to be in readines with sufficient armes   #
vpon
the first call and advertisment.

[}8 MARCH 1665.}]
   The said day, the counsell appoynts George Melvill, with     #
Arthur Dalgardno,
and Walter Innes, to receave at this burgh such number of       #
seamen
as ar heir secureit and provydit be the magistrats, and to      #
convoy
the samen to Edinburgh, and ther to receave from baillie        #
Alexander, the
tounes commissioner, alse money as sall make wp (the samen      #
before
haueing beine secureit thair be him) the number of fourtein as  #
this burghs
proportione imposit for his Maiesties present service at sea,   #
and to delyuer
the said haill number to his Maiesties commiossioner, his       #
grace, or others
appoyntit for recept thereof, conforme to the instructiones to  #
be given to
them theranent be the magistrats; and that they receive         #
sufficient discharges
thereon, and to bring the samen with them; and ordanes the
thesaurer or dein of gild to advance such moneyes as sall be    #
neidfull for
defraying of thair charges.

<P 215>
[}15 MARCH 1665.}]
   The said day, the counsell in respect they ware with all     #
dilligence to
imploy the correctione housse for the wse they ware appoyntit,  #
and to
erect and sett vp ane manufactorie therin, ordaines the master  #
of mortificationes
not to sett any part of the samen to any tennent for this       #
present
yeir.

[} (\EODEM DIE. \) }]
   The said day, the counsell takeing to consideratione, that   #
ther being
fourteine sea men imposit vpone this burgh, as their            #
proportione for his
Maiesties present service at sea, and that they ware appoyntit  #
to be sent
ouer and delyverit at Edinburgh to his Maiesties commissioner,  #
before the
fyfteint day of this instant, and notwithstanding the           #
magistrats and
counsell had wseit all the effectual meines they could, for     #
procureing the
said number, and had offerit the best incouradgements they      #
could to any
who wold undertake the said service, yet many of the most able  #
seamen
within this burgh had deserted and left the toune, and absentit #
themselves 
from wndertaking the said service, wher through the counsell    #
had bene
at much charges and dificultie in furnishing thair said         #
proportione, and
these who had removed and absented themselves, did what they    #
could to
indanger the toune in the sume of fyue hundreyth merkes for ilk #
man not
made up; lykas in consideratione of all which, the counsell did #
before,
cause issue out proclamatione desyreing all seamen within and   #
belonging
to this burgh who had deserted the toune and absented           #
themselves as
aforesaid, to make their appeirance before the magistrats       #
before Fryday
last at ten houres in the foirnoone, with certificatioun that   #
all not appeiring
they and their wyves should be depryued of all benefite and     #
libertie of
brewing within this burgh, and of the wther liberteis and       #
immunities they
had before, and their names to be given to his Maiestie as      #
fugitives and
disloyal persones, and affixed wpon the croce as runeawayes;    #
and with
<P 216>
all finding that non of the persones who did absent themselves  #
had given
appeirance, whairby they had incurrit the certification of ther #
former proclamation,
which the counsell finds sua to be, and ordaines the samen to
be observed in euerie poynt as is aboue written, with           #
conditione alwayes
that if they sall betwixt and the nixt counsall day present     #
themselves to
the magistrats, and find sufficient cautione, ilk one wnder the #
payne of fyve
hundreth merks, that they sall appear when soeuer callit, and   #
alse sall pay
all and whatsomeuer charges the toune has beine at in           #
furnishing ther said
proportione, that then they sall incure no furder prejudice;    #
and with all
ordanes the dean of gild to cause sease vpon the brew loomes    #
belonging
to ilk one of the persones sua absenting themselues, ay and     #
while the premisses
be observed.

[}22 MARCH 1665.}]
   The said day, the provest producit before the counsell, the  #
lords of
secreit councell thair warrand and ordour for puting this burgh #
in ane
defensive postur, wherof the tenour followes:  Wheras the       #
magistrats of
the burgh of Aberdein, wpon thair apprehensione of danger by    #
the Dutch,
did petition the Privie Counsell for a libertie to put          #
themselves in ane
posture of defence by buying of cannon, armes, and amounitione, #
wher they     
can be convenentlie furnished, the said toune being at present  #
obnoxious
to the violence and malice of the Hollanders; and the Privie    #
Councell haweing
remitted the bussines to me, and finding their desyre most      #
reasonable,
thase are therfor to give full power and libertie to the        #
magistrats of
Aberdein, to furnish themselves wpon the cost of the said       #
toune, with
all sorts of armes and amunitione fitt for that purpose of      #
defending their
toune, blockhous, and harbour mouth, and to put the inhabitants #
of the
said toune wnder command of officers, that so there may be      #
ordour among
them when they sall be put to it; and for your so doeing this   #
sall be ane
sufficient warrand. Given wnder my hand, day and place forsaid, #
(\sic subscribitur \) ,
Rothes; daitit at Holiroudhous the sixteint day of March 1665,
<P 217>
conforme whervnto the counsell ordaines the samen to be         #
observed in sua
far as is possible for them, and that the blockhouse be         #
repaired, and the
inhabitants causit provyde themselues with swords and musketts  #
wnder
payne of deprivatione, and the baillies to goe throw the        #
severall quarters
for taking notice of all haveing or wanting armes, and that the #
toune
with all [\diligence\] be convenit for the effect the premisses #
may be intimat
to them.

[}29 MARCH 1665.}]
   The said day, the councell appoynts the baillies of the four #
severall
quarters to goe before and march wpon the heid of ther          #
quarters, with the
captaines to be afternamed to be wnder them for each quarter,   #
and nominatis
and appoyntis the severall captaines and ensigne bearers        #
wnderwritten
for the severall quarters, wnder the magistrats, viz., for      #
Futtie quarter,
Thomas Mercer, lait dean of gild, captain, and Robert Gray,     #
ensigne; for the
Grene quarter, Francis Andersone, captane, Mr Thomas Forbes,    #
ensigne;
for the Crucked quarter, Arthur Dulgardno, captaine, James      #
Robertsone,
ensigne; for the Evin quarter, Walter Innes, in absence of      #
George Melvill,
captaine, and John Hay, ensigne; and remits to the magistrats   #
and captaines
above named to choise and appoynt lievtennents wnder them as    #
they sall
find expedient, and Alexander Bruce to be lievtennent of the    #
Grein quarter
in absence of Alexr. Burnet Buchanes; and in respect the feires #
of the
Hollanders invasione did daylie encrease, ordaines as before    #
that the haill
inhabitants be in readines with sufficient armour, and that non #
be exemptit
from personall appearance whensoever requyrit, except the old   #
baillies and
magistrats and phisitians, who are to be assisting in advyce to #
the magistrats
and counsell in what may concerne the militarie part.

[} (\EODEM DIE.\) }]
   The said day, the councell finding that James Fuird, towne   #
serjand,
wes convict of disobedience to the provest and baillies, in sua #
far as he
<P 218>
being desyred to take into his hous for ane short tyme ane      #
poore man
named Alexr. Donald, who being comeing throw the wall of the    #
Tolbuith
by ane holl which he and wthers did make therin, had brockine   #
his back
and on of his legs, he denyed to doe the samen, no not altho he #
should
losse his coat; therfor, and alse finding the said James to be  #
cairles and
negligent in his office, haue depryvit, and be thir presents    #
depryues him
of his office of serjandrie within this burgh, and of all       #
benefite and comoditie
therof, and ordaines his coat to be instantlie takin from him,  #
which was
accordinglie done.

[}12 APRIL 1665.}]
   The said day, the said George Melvill, with the wther        #
persones
appoynted for delyverie of the tounes proportione of seamen to  #
his
Maiesties commissioner at Edinburgh for his Maiesties service,  #
haveing
returned, made report of the said commission, and produceit     #
discharge of
the fourtein seamen furnished be this burgh as ther proportion  #
for the
forsaid effect, which report and discharge the counsell haveing #
hard, approved
therof, and rendered the said George hartie thanks.

[} (\EODEM DIE.\) }]
   The said day, the councell taking to consideratione that     #
Johne Beg
and Johne Gawin, to seamen who did wndertake for the toune to   #
goe on
in his Maiesties service had made escape, ordaines them to be   #
apprehendit,
and imprisoned ay and whill they find sovertie wnder payne of   #
fyue
hundreth merks ilk ane, to compeir before the magistrats        #
whensoever
they sall be callit; and in the meanetyme depryves them of all  #
freedom
and libertie of brewing within this burgh; and also the         #
councell ratifies
and approves ane former act maid be thame of the dait the       #
fyftent day of
March last, anent seamen absenting themselves, in respect       #
notwithstanding
proclamationes conforme thairto, they did not giue appearance.

<P 219>
[}19 APRIL 1665.}]
   The said day, the counsell haveing appoynted for better      #
preservatione
of the burgh that ane watch should be keeped nightlie at the    #
Blockhouse
for fear of the Hollanders invasione, and finding that the      #
number appoynted
nightlie did not attend nor convein, ordaines ilk ane absent,   #
being able, to
pay fywe pund for ilk tyme, and such as are found absent        #
wnable, to be
tyed neck and heells before the guard be the tounes servands.

[}31 MAY 1665.}]
   The said day, anent the supplicatione given in to the        #
councell be the
deacone and hamermen trade of this burgh, desyring that they    #
might have
libertie grantit to them to hang wp befor and above the foir    #
part of ther
loft in the Old Church, ane bracine hearse, which wold not      #
onlie tend for
ther accomodatione but also for decorment of the church, and    #
therfor desyring
the councell to come and take inspectione of the premisses for  #
the
foirsaid effect, as in the supplicatione wes contenit: The      #
councell haveing
come to the said church and takine inspectione of the           #
supplicants desyre,
and being advysed therwith, have giuen and grantit, and be thir #
presents
giues and grantis libertie to them to put wp and hang the said  #
hearse
abowe and before the foir part of ther said loft for ther       #
better accomodatione.

[}21 JUNE 1665.}]
   The said day, the councell haveing receaved suir             #
informatione of the
happie and much desired victorie of his Majesties navie against #
the Hollanders,
and of the wonderfull preservatione of his Highnes the Duke of
York, to the effect they may as in deutie bund testifie thair   #
joy therfor,
ordaines the haill bells of the toune to be rung for ane        #
considerable tyme
in the most joyfull maner that can be, and that bonfyres be     #
sett doune
throw the streetts of the toune.

<P 220>
[}5 JULY 1665.}]
   The said day, the councell haveing receaved the Lords of his #
Maiesties
Privie Counsell ther ordour and warrand appoynting ane day of   #
thanksgiving
to be keeped and solemnized throughout the kingdome wpon the
thritenit day of this instant, being Thursday, for the happie   #
victorie of his
Majesties navie against the Hollanders, and wonderfull          #
preservatione of
his Highnes the Duke of Yorke; therfor to the effect this burgh #
may not
be deficient in such ane so much desyred work, bot may testifie #
ther
thankfulnes therfor with wther his Maiesties subjects and       #
royall burghs,
ordaines sermones suitable to the day to be made in both kirks  #
of the said
burgh be the ministers therof in the foir and after noones, and #
therafter
that bonefyres be put on throw the haill streets of the toune,  #
and the rest
of the day to be spent as becomes.

<S SAMPLE 2>
<P 258>

[}26 JANUARY 1670.}]
   Francis Irvine, brother german to the Laird Drum, against    #
whom by
ane former act sumonds is ordanit to be raisit befor the Lords  #
of Privie
Counsell for the reasones therin exprest, did vpon the morrow   #
after comitting
of that abuss goe south, notwithstanding of the counsellis      #
favor in
being willing of ane freindlie setlement, and raised sumonds    # 

against the
magistrats, wharethrow they ware necessitat to insist against   #
him for
legall reparatione, and both parties appeiring before the saids #
Lords the
magistrats obtainit decreit before them against the said        #
Francis Irvine
which is as followes:
<P 259>
   Att Edinburgh the elevinth day of November, j=m= vi=ce=      #
thriescoire nyne
yeirs, anent our Soveraigne Lords letters raisit at the         #
instance of Mr
Robert Patrie of Portlethin, provest of Aberdeine, Alexr.       #
Alexander, Gilbert
Mollesone, Johne Duncan, and Walter Robertsone, baillies of the #
said
brughe, for themselues and in name of the counsell and          #
communitie therof,
makand mentione, that wher albeit be the lawes and acts of      #
parliement of
this realme, the injureine and abuseing of any persone, but     #
especiallie the
affronting and injureing of magistrats in office, be a cryme of #
a high
nature, and sevirlie punishable; nevertheles it is of veritie   #
that Francis
Irvine, brother german to the laird of Drum, haveing designed   #
to put ane
publict affront and disgrace vpon the magistratis of the said   #
brughe, being
the tuentie sevint day of September last bypast, betwixt sevin  #
and
aught o'cloake at night within the brughe of Aberdein, in the   #
house of
Thomas Lumsden, burges, wher Walter Robertsone, one of the      #
baillies,
were present about thair lunchfull affaires; he, without the    #
least offence      
or provocatione given to him, fell out in the most disdainfull  #
and reproachfull
speeches and expressiones against the magistrats of the said    #
brughe of
Aberdein, boasting that he would cause his footman take of the  #
provests
hat of his head at the crose, and cause him kik him in the erse #
with his
foott, and called the said Walter Robertsone, baillie, with     #
whom he wes
in company, ane base villan and raskell, and said to him that   #
in testimonie
he wold cause doe to the provest as he said he wold cause the   #
baillies hat
ly amongst his feet; lykeas he instantlie pulled of the         #
baillies hat and
threw the same to the ground, and agane called him base         #
raskell, and
lousie knaue, and the said baillie takeing wp his hatt and      #
puting the
same on his head, he did agane take the same of and threw it    #
against the
wall, and on of the company desyreing Francis to be more civill #
to a
magistrat of the brugh, he layed hold on his sword to haue      #
drawin the
same, but being impedit, drew a whingher and persewed the       #
baillie thairwith
for his lyfe, and had not failzied to haue done greater         #
mischeiff if he
had not bein hindred, and the said baillie haveing in a sober   #
maner in his
Maiesties name as ane magistrat and justice of peace, desyred   #
the said
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Francis Irving to behaue himselfe more civillie, he said he     #
wold pish vpon
the justices and all the magistrats of Aberdein, wtering many   #
wther disdainfull
and base expressiones, wherby the said Francis Irvine is        #
guiltie
of ane oppin and manifest ryot, comitted be him in high and     #
proud contempt 
of his Maiesties authoritie and lawes, and ought therfor to be  
exemplorlie punished in his persone and goods, to the terror of #
others to
comitt and doe the lyke in time comeing; and anent the charge   #
given to
the said Francis Irvine, to haue compeared personallie to haue  #
answered
to the forsaid complaint, and to haue heard and seen such       #
ordour takine
theranent as apperteinit, vnder the payne of rebellione, &c.,   #
as the saids
letters, executiones, and indorsationes therof, at lenth        #
proport, whilks being
callit and both parties compeirand personallie, the Lords of    #
his Maiesties
Privie Counsell haueing hard and considderit the forsaid        #
complaint, and
ansuers maid therto, togither with the depositiones of severall #
famous
witnesses, led and adduced be the persewers for proveing of the #
said complaint,
doe find the forsaid lybell sufficientlie provin to infer a     #
ryot against
the said Francis Irvine, and therfor decernes and ordaines him  #
to crave
pardon at the barr of the said provest of Aberdein, and these   #
of the magistrats
of the said brughe that are present, for the wrong and offence  #
done
to them by him; lykeas in obedience therto the said Francis     #
Irvine did
accordinglie craue them pardone; and furder the said lords      #
ordaines the
defender to be caried prisoner to the tolbooth of Edinburgh,    #
ther to remayne
this night, and ay and whill he sall be released by warrand of  #
the
lord commissioner his grace, and find cautione vnder payne of   #
fyue thousand
merkes, that he and his tuo servandis, and all wther his        #
mentennentis
and servantis sall keepe the peace, and sall not harme the      #
magistrats, and
inhabitants of Aberdein; as alse the said Lords modifies fyue   #
rix dollouris
to be payit be the said Francis Irvine to ilk ane of the        #
witnesses cited
and deponeing in the mutual complaints perseued be ather        #
parties, lykeas
Alexr. Alexander, baillie of Aberdein, having produceit         #
discharges for fyue
of the witnesses, did receaue up their expenssis for thair      #
behove. Extract
by me, (\Sic subscribitur\) , Thomas Hay.

<P 261>
[}16 FEBRUARY 1670.}]
   The said day, the counsell takeing to considderatione that   #
notwithstanding
of acts of parliament, and of the Lords of his Majesties Privie
Councell, and of the acts of councell of this brughe groundit   #
therupon, ordaneing
that no inhabitant within the same sould recept, supplie,       #
intertaine,
or furnish meat or drink to, or keepe correspondence with, or   #
sett
houssis or chambers to jesuits, preists, or trafficquing        #
strangers, papists
or quakers, vnder payne of fyve hundereth merkes Scots money,   #
by and
attour wther censure and punishment to be inflictit vpon them   #
according
to thair severall qualities and degrees, vpon the first legall  #
convictione
theranent; and that no papist or quaker resideing within this   #
brughe, or
wther inhabitant within the same, sould recept in thair         #
houssis, ludge or
intertaine any papist or quaker, or any persone suspect of      #
ather of the
same, till first they did acquaint the magistrats therwith, and #
had thair
libertie and varrand therfor, vnder the penalty and             #
certificatione exprest
in the said act, as the same duelie proclameit thorrow the      #
toune beares;
and albeit the saids provest, baillies, and councell did,       #
according to the
said act, and grounds of the same aforsaid, expect some due     #
observance
from all concerneit theranent, nevertheles it is found that the #
same is
much contemnit and neglectit, and that papists and quakers are  #
resett and
intertanit, and have their frequent meetings and conventicles   #
within this
brughe, to the great contempt of authoritie and scandall of the #
gospell,
and of all trew Christians within this brughe; therfor for      #
further evidencing
the magistrats and counsell of the same ther willingnes to      #
reclame
all within thair boundis who are obstinat and disobedient to    #
the just and
good government and lawes of this kingdome, and acts of         #
counsell of this
brughe foundit thervpon, and if otherwayes that they may be the #
more
inexcusable, therfor ordanit and appoyntit that no inhabitant   #
within this
brughe resett, supplie, intertaine, or furnish meat and drink,  #
and keepe
correspondence with, or sett houssis, or chambers, to jesuists, #
priests, or
traffiquing strangers, papists, or quakers, or permitt them to  #
keepe meetings
<P 262>
or conventicles within thair houssis vpon whatsumever pretext,  #
vnder
payne of fyve hundereth merkes money, by and attour             #
deprivatione of
thair freedomes, and if vnfree, of being removeit out of the    #
toune after lawfull
convictione; and alse that no papist, or quaker, or wther       #
inhabitant
whatsumever, resett or ludge in thair housses any such persons, #
or any
suspect theranent, till first they acquant the magistrats, and  #
giue wp ther
names nightlie, and as occasione offeris, and obtaine thair     #
libertie for that
effect, with certificatione that the persone contraveining sall #
pay three
pund to the dean of gild, alse oft as found guiltie, and        #
ordaines this present
act to be intimat throw the toune by the drum, which was        #
accordinglie
done.

[}16 FEBRUARY 1670.}]
   The said day, the counsell considering that ther wer         #
severall defunct
persons put in the chapill wpon the Castlehill, and in the Gray #
Freir Kirk,
brought from the countrie and keepit ther for ane nights tyme,  #
which did
tend greatlie to the accomodatione of them that ware concerneit #
in the 
said defunct persons, and the toune nowayes benefited therby;   #
therfor ordaines
that the relationes of any defunct persons, or who desyres the  #
said
libertie for them, sall pey for the said libertie, aither in    #
the chappill or Gray
Freir Kirk, ten merkes Scots money, without any exceptione of   #
the defunct
persons, which is to be imployed for wpholding of the said      #
chappill and
Gray Freir Kirk, in sua far as the same may extend, and to be   #
addit to
the respective charges.

[}23 FEBRUARY 1670.}]
   The said day, the councell takeing to considertione that     #
the dyet
appoyntit be the programe formerlie issued out for planting the #
place of
principall master of gramer scooll of this brughe, wes Tuesday  #
nixt the
first of March, and that by the mortificatione of the deceist   #
Patrick Dune,
doctor of medicine, relateing thervnto, the tryall of the       #
qualificatione of
the haill maisters of the said scooll, wes committit to tuo of  #
the ministers
<P 263>
of the said brughe, to be nominat be the councell, and to the   #
principall
and four regentis within the new colledge in the same, who      #
being solemnlie
sworne in presence of the councell, sould testifie the          #
presentit, ane or
mae, to be worthie and sufficientlie learnit and qualified for  #
such ane place;
therfor the councell nominat Mr John Menzies, professor of      #
divinitie, and
Mr David Lyell ane of the ministers of this burghe, with the    #
said principall
and regentis, to try the qualificatione of the persons that     #
sall compet for
the place of the principall master of the said scooll, and      #
recomends to the
councell to conveine the said day, and they to be acquant       #
tymouslie for
the effect aboue written.

[}1 MARCH 1670.}]
   The said day, anent the petitione given in to the counsell   #
and the
other patrons of the mortificatione of the deceist Mr Patrick   #
Dune, doctor
of medicine, to the gramar scooll of this burghe, be Mr Johne   #
Lyell, sone
to [^BLANK^] Lyell, ane of the subtennants of the lands of      #
Ferriehill, showing
that wher by the said mortificatione it wes speciallie          #
provydit, that if
any of the mortifiers owin surname, or any of the sones of the  #
tennents of
Ferriehill, sould be found qualified for the place of master of #
gramar scooll
in the said brughe, that they sould be preferrit without any    #
contestatione;
therfor seing he wes ane of the sonnes of the tennents of the   #
lands of
Ferriehill, humblie desyreing that they wold caus take tryall   #
of his qualificatione,
and being found qualified wold admitt him to the said charge
without competitione or contestatione, conforme to the          #
mortificatione:
which petitione and mortificatione the counsell and patrons     #
aforsaid
haveing hard and considerit, finds the said Mr Johne Lyell not  #
to be the
sone of ane of the tennents of the lands of Ferriehill, his     #
father being onlie
ane graseman and subtennent, and had no laboring but ane craft  #
of land,
and was not ther tennent of the same but their taksmans; and    #
therfor
declaires him not preferrable, albeit qualified, without        #
competitione, and
in respect of his appeirance conforme to the edict, admitts him #
to tryall
<P 264>
with others that sall compeir for that effect, and if           #
qualified, (\ceteris paribus\) ,
to haue what is due by the mortificatione. Thomas Merser, late  #
dean of
gild, ane of the counsell, protestit in the contrar, alleadging #
the said
Master John to be ane tennents sone, and therfor preferrable as #
aforsaid;
the provest, for himselfe and in name of the counsell and       #
patrons aforsaid,
protestit in the contrar, for the reasones forsaid.

[}9 MARCH 1670.}]
   The said day, anent the petitione given in to the counsell   #
by Master
Alexander Skeene of Newtyll, late baillie of the said brughe,   #
showing that
considdering everie bleessing bestowit be God on any place      #
should be
improvin for the publict good, and seing that medicinall wall   #
at the
Womanhill, commonly called the Wall of Spae, had been much      #
neglectit 
thes severall yeires bygone, since the same wes stopit by the   #
violent torrent
of wateris which overturned it, after the same had been         #
cairfullie buildit
by ane inhabitant of this brughe, who had good prooff in his    #
owne persone
in cureing him of the stone, in memorie wherof be translated    #
the same in
ane more hansome way, with the portrature of sex apostles       #
raisit on each
syde of ane long hewin stone, with which ornaments it had been  #
sett forth
for the notable vertues with which thes wateris ware indued, in #
heiling
such varietie of diseases, as ane printed book, set out by      #
Doctor William
Barklay in the year 1615, did demonstrat; and now the said      #
spring
appeiring in its wonted place, and the wateris found to be of   #
the same
qualitie, according to the said doctor his marks and prescryvit #
meines of
tryall, and it being found that the said wall had not beene     #
onlie ane former
great bleessing, but evin many at this tyme had felt the good   #
effectis
therof in cureing the gravill, and stone in the kidnes and      #
blader, the collicks
in the stomack, when so violent that nothing else could, and    #
also
despirat lyke hydropsies; therfor desyreing the counsell that   #
they wold be
pleasit to permitt him to caus rebuild the said wall, in as     #
comlie ane way
as befor it had been, without any charge to them or the toune,  #
and which
<P 265>
being done, that they wold take it as ther owne and preserve    #
and manteine 
it in tyme comeing; and also that they wold caus reprint the    #
said Doctor
Barklayes book, which wold be about ane sheet of paper, with    #
such testimonies
as ther present phisitianes sould, at ther desyre, from thair   #
knowledge
and experience annex, wherby seeklie strangeris knowing of such
ane free offer of health might make the more frequent resort to #
this brughe,
and be made partakeris of the same goodnes of God with others,  #
as in the
petitione wes contenit.

[}16 MARCH 1670.}]
   The said day, the counsell takeing to considderatione that   #
notwithstanding
of all former acts emittit against the quakers for keeping of   #
thair
meetings within this brughe, yet they did still continue in     #
keeping of their
saids meetings; therfor ordaines them of the men Quakers who    #
sall be
found at ane nixt meiting within this brughe to be apprehendit  #
and
imprisonit, ay and whill they obleidge themselves to forbear;   #
and least
notwithstanding the weeman Quakers may also conveine, ordaines  #
the
dores of the housses wher they ordinarlie meit to be keipit     #
close, and the
keyes therof takine from them, wherthrow this brughe may be     #
free of
thair conventiones.

[}30 MARCH 1670.}]
   The said day, compeirit in presence of the councell and      #
remanent
patrons befor namit of the mortificatione of the deceist Mr     #
Patrick Dune,
doctor of medicine, Mr James Leslie, principall of the Colledge #
Marischall
in this burghe, Mr Johne Menzies, professor of divinitie, Mr    #
David Lyell,
ane of the ministers of the same, Masters Alexander Alexander,  #
Robert
Bruce, Robert Patersone, and Thomas Gray, regentis in the said  #
Colledge,
wha, conforme to the said mortificatione and the councells      #
former act
theranent, ware nominat for takeing tryall of the persones      #
qualificatioune
<P 266>
and abilitie for planting the vacand place of principall master #
of gramer
scooll of this brughe, and maid report, that according to the   #
said nominatioune
and oath formarlie tenderit to them be the counsell, they had   #
at
severall dyets and occasiones, wpon mature deliberatioune,      #
prescryvit
seuerall poyntis of tryall, suitable and convenient, to Master  #
Robert Skeine,
scoolmaster at Banchorie, the onlie persone appeiring for the   #
forsaid effect,
and fund him qualified and capable for the charge of the        #
principall master
of the said scooll, which they declarit to be of treuth be      #
uerteu of thair
great oath, as said is: With the which report the counsell and  #
remanent
patrons above nameit of the said mortificatione being ryplie    #
advysit, and
therby finding the said Mr Robert Skeen able and qualified for  #
the said
charge; and withall, considering that by the forsaid            #
mortificatione it wes
ordanit and appoyntit that the intrant master, before his       #
admissione to
the said charge, sould giue oath to promove the good of the     #
Colledge
Marischall in this brughe, and to advyse his scollars to come   #
to the same,
and to preferr the same to all other colledges; and having      #
callit the said
Mr Robert befor them and accordinglie tenderit to him the said  #
oath, as
also signified to him the councells act before written,         #
relateing to his
abydeing in the said schooll: All which he willinglie accepting #
of, the
councell and remanent patrons above nameit haue admittit and    #
receavit,
and be this present act admitts and receaues, the said Master   #
Robert
Skeine principall master of the said gramer scooll in this      #
brughe, (\ad vitam
vel ad culpam\) , or at least for the space of aught yeires,    #
with and wpon the
other conditiones, restrictiones, and provisiones particularlie #
aboue set   
doune, and exprest in the mortificatione of the said deceist    #
Master Patrick
Dune, and acts of counsell before mentionat, made theranent,    #
and ordaines
ane contract to be extendit theranent, in ample forme, to be    #
subscryvit be
the prouest, baillies, councell, and remanent patrons of the    #
said mortificatione,
and the said Master Robert Skein on the ane and wther parts.

<P 267>
[}27 APRIL 1670.}]
   The said day, anent the petitione given in to the counsell   #
be Thomas
Boyes, Mathew Lumsden, John Nicolsone, Alexander Lumsden,       #
William
Harper, and William Taylour, skipperis, burgesses of the said   #
brughe, for
themselues, and in name of the remanent skipperis, and sea      #
fairing men
belonging to the same, mentioning that wher, as wes evidentlie  #
knowin,
persones of ther calling and imployment in all the royall       #
brughes and incorporationes
of this kingdome had ther accomodationes and seats in the
churches allowit to them, yet never the les the skipperis and   #
sea fairing men
of this burghe, albeit ane considerable number, and that they   #
did bear considerable
burdine with thair neightbours, were altogither destitute of    #
the
lyke accomodatione; therfor desyreing the counsell that they    #
wold be
pleasit to consider the premisses, and to fall wpon some        #
effectuall course
for ther ease theranent; and seing ther wes comodious places    #
betwixt the
pillers in the south syde of the new church, wher with ther     #
permissione
they sould make wp ane loft in decent maner for the forsaid     #
effect, which
sould not in the leist be any wayes prejudiciall to the lights  #
of the kirk,
but rather tend to the decorement therof, that they wold be     #
pleasit to
grant them libertie to make wp ane loft betwixt any of the      #
saids pillars,
or in any wther place within the said church they sould find    #
convenient,
in such forme and maner as they sould set doune, which sould    #
incourige
them to carie and behave themselves as became, as in the        #
petitione wes
contenit: The counsell haveing come to the said new church, and #
haveing
takine particular inspectione of the petitioners desyres, they  #
find it is
verie convenient they be accomodat, and have ane proper seat,   #
and roume
allotit and allowit to them for the effect above mentionat, and #
therfor
haveing hard and considderit the supplicatione, and being       #
maturlie advysit
thairanent, they have given and grantit, and be these presents  #
giues
and grantis libertie and licence to the petitioners for         #
themselues, and in
name and for the behoove of the haill remanent skipperis and    #
mariners
<P 268>
within the said brughe, to erect and make wp ane loft in        #
decent forme
and maner, in the west most end of the said new church,         #
directlie aboue
the gramar schooll loft within the same, with power to them to  #
bring ane
rine jest towards the floor of the said church mid pillar on    #
both sydes, to
which the foir breist of the said loft is to come out, and no   #
further, as also
with power to them to make laigher the said gramer scooll loft  #
if found
neidfull for thair accomodatione, the same being alwayes done   #
and made
wp as before, wpon ther proper charges and expenssis, provyding #
alwayes
that the said gramer scooll loft, if made lower, sall be of     #
such hight as that
persones of the highest stature may walk and stand wnder the    #
same; as
also that the said new loft to be made wp be the petitioners,   #
be of lyke
distance from the floor of the said gramer scooll loft, and     #
recomends to
the master of kirkwark to sie the premisses accordinglie done   #
and observit
in euerie poynt and conditione, as is above written.

[}18 MAY 1670.}]
   The said day, the counsell considering that ther wes         #
certaine abusses
latlie comittit at the buriall of the laird of Drum's daughter, #
within the kirks
of this brughe, betuixt ten and elevin houres at night, tuo     #
persons being
woundit, and as was informeit seuerall superstitious ceremonies #
vseit, and
that the same wes partlie occasioned by the permissione of the  #
lyke at
such untymous occasiones, and not keeping closs the kirk dores  #
before or
after sunesetting; therfor for preventing the lyke in tyme      #
comeing, ordaines
that no defunct persons whither strangers or inhabitants of     #
this
brughe be buried or interred within the kirks, or kirk yeard of #
the same, or
territories therof, except betwixt the ryseing and setting of   #
the sune, both
in the summer and winter tymes, wnder the payne of three        #
hundreth
merks Scots monie, to be payit be the contraveiners...

<P 269>
[}6 JULY 1670.}]
   The said day, anent the supplicatione given in to the        #
counsell be
Alexander Ettershank, deacone convenair of the traids of the    #
said brughe, 
William George, deacone of the hamermen, Alexander Charles,     #
deacone of
the wrights and couperis, William Chapman, deacon of the        #
baxteris, Patrick
Walker, deacone of the taylouris, and Robert Menie, deacone of  #
the
shoemakeris, of the same for themselues, and in name and        #
behalfe of the
freemen of thair seuerall traids, mentioning that wher they had #
seuerall
tymes supplicat the councell of the said brughe to nominat and  #
appoynt
ane fitt persone to catechise and instruct the people of the    #
samen in the
Trinite Chappill, which hitherto had provin ineffectuall;       #
therfor againe
renewing thair desyres, and humblie intreating that the         #
counsell wold be
pleasit to nominat and elect ane qualified persone to officiat  #
in the said
deutie vnce in the week, wpon any day they sould find           #
expedient, and
wheron ther sould be no publict worshipe in any other of the    #
tounes
churches, and to appoynt to him ane hundreth punds Scotis money #
yeirlie,
of present sallarie, payable be them vntill they sould be       #
further able, and
that the offerings that sould be collectitt, at the said        #
church dore, be
honest persons of the respectiue traids, might be applyed, the  #
on halfe for
manteining and wphalding the fabrick of the said chappill, and  #
the other
halfe of the same to such wse as the counsell sould find        #
expedient, as in
the said petitione subscryvit with thair hands at lenth wes     #
contenit; which
petitione the counsell having hard and considerit, and haueing  #
made ane
list of certaine able persons, fitt and qualified for going     #
about the said
deutie, they nominat and elect Master William Mitchell,         #
preacher of the
gospell, to be catechist and lectorer in the said Trinitie      #
Chappill, during the
counsellis pleasure, wpon such ane weeklie dyet as heirafter    #
sall be condiscendit
wpon be the counsell, with and vpon the conditions above
written, and others to be aggreed wpon betuixt the counsell and #
the
saids traids, and remitts to the magistrats to caus extend ane  #
formall contract
theranent.

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[}22 SEPTEMBER 1670.}]
   The said day, the councell approves of ane protestatioun     #
takin be the
provest ther comissioner at parliament against ane              #
ratificatione of the
priviledges of the Kings Colledge of Aberdeine, and recomends   #
to the
provest to cause extract the same to be putt among the records  #
of this
brughe.

[}27 OCTOBER 1670.}]
   The said day, the councell considering that the fleshers     #
within this
brughe, notwithstanding of former acts and prohibitiones, did   #
kill ther
fleshes wpon the streets, and did hing out the same befor and   #
under
staires, towards the foir street, which wes verie vndecent to   #
be seene in 
ane civill incorporatione and burghe; therfor of new ordaines   #
... that no
flesher within this brughe kill or slay any of the fleshes upon #
the streets,
or befor ther dores looking therunto, or hing out the same      #
wnder foirstaires
in tyme comeing...

[}22 FEBRUARY 1671.}]
   The said day, the councell taking to consideratione certain  #
overtures
proposit by Mr Alexr. Skeine, ane of the baillies of the said   #
brughe, and
others of ther number, appoyntit visitours of the scoollis of   #
the same for
this yeir, for redres of severall abuses laitlie arisen         #
therein, and particularlie
in the gramer scool, whereby the scollars therof sustainit      #
great prejudice
and stop of their learneing, first, in that the doctors did     #
change from
one class to another each quarter: therfor that it wold be      #
expedient that
euerie on of the saids doctors in the said scool sould begine   #
with the scollars
that he receaves at the four respective quarters of each yeir,  #
and teach them
their rudiments and gramer untill they ware fitt to ascend to   #
the masters
class; and seing in the three years tyme the scollars comeing   #
at the Rude
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Day and Lambmes cannot be so far advanceit as thay that come at #
Hallowday
and Candlemes, that ther doctor haveing delyverit wp the        #
hallowdayes
scollars to the masteris class, he may begine to receave the    #
new scollars in
the elementarie at the hallowday, as also perfect the rest of   #
his former
classis, and alwayas as he receaves euerie quarter a new class, #
so he may
giue of the class of his former course everie quarter to the    #
masters; and if
any boy, thorow neglect or hardnes of ingyne, come short of his #
fellow, be
advyce of the visitors, he ought to discend, or with consent of #
the parents,
to be vnder the other master that teaches nixt to that class,   #
and so euerie
thrid yeir, each doctor of the said scool is to receave the     #
scollars of ane haill
year, and at the four generall quarters (\per vices\) , and     #
this is to goe wp
with his owine scollaris to the masteris class; as also the     #
said scollers sustainit
prejudice by the principall master and doctors ther appoynting  #
ane
of the said doctors hepdomatar in the said school weeklie, for  #
exercising
of discipline, wherby the same wes onlie done but vpon Saturday #
each
week, in the foirnoone: therfor that it ware expedient that the #
principall
master and doctors of the said scooll exercise discipline once  #
everie tuentie
four hours vpon the scollars vnder ther respective charges; and #
further,
that for the saids doctors better accomodatione and             #
incouragement, that
it ware expedient that each on of them sould have libertie      #
everie thrid
week to prosecute ther privat studies in their chambers,        #
provyding they
did all punctuallie keepe their dyets of teacheing, examining,  #
and discipline
each day in the said scooll, so that the principall master and  #
tuo of the
doctors ar alwayes to atend in the said scooll; and the forsaid #
indulgence
is fitt to be grantit to them in respect that place is not      #
possiblie alwayes
to be setlit vpon them; and to the effect they may not be       #
tempted to
neglect their dutie weeklie, they ar to have the said three     #
weeks indulgence;
and siclyke ther was ane abuse in the said scooll, the          #
principall
masters nor doctors did not come to ther atendance therein      #
whill sevin or
aught hours in the morneing each day: Therfor it ware expedient #
that on
of the saids doctors sould each day be in the said scooll at    #
sex hours in
the morneing, and the scollars when they came to the scool      #
sould not be
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idle, and that the principall master and remanent doctors sould #
all convein
in the said scooll each day befor sevin hours in the morneing;  #
as
also, that upon the ordinar play dayes, and at other tymes,     #
when the
schollars of the said scholl did get the play, it was informed  #
that by ther
not having the principall master, or at least on of the doctors #
constantlie
with them, they did not onlie make disturbances and             #
outbreakings among
themselves, but also with the schollars of the gramer schooll   #
of the old toune,
as was latlie fund: therefor that it ware expedient that the    #
principall master,
or at least on of the vnder masters or doctoris, or more of the #
same, sould
be at such tymes constantlie attending the said schollars, and  #
sould cause
them keepe the ordinarie places of playing, and vseing such     #
recreations as
sould not be prejudiciall to themselues or ther fellowes; all   #
which the
counsell having hard, and having takine the same to ther        #
consideratione,
finds the forsaid overtures and proposallis very expedient and  #
necessar to
be observit for remeid of the forsaid abussis, and therfor      #
approves of the
same, and ordains and appoynts that in tyme coming they be      #
accordinglie
performed; and leist the forsaid present change sould breid     #
debait and
animosities among the said doctors, allows them to continue     #
with ther
classes for this present quarter whill the rude day nixt as     #
they ar at present,
and therafter to observe the forsaid rules prescryvit           #
theranent.

[}22 MARCH 1671.}]
   The said day, anent the petitione gevin in to the councell   #
be William
Scott, wright, as deacone convener of the traids of the said    #
brughe, for
himselfe, and in thair name, mentioning that wher the saids     #
traides ware
of intentione, with the councells libertie and permissione, to  #
improve that
mortificatione left to the Trinitie Chappill, at leist by       #
haueing ane qualified
persone to read ane portione of Scripture, with the ordinarie   #
prayers
morneing and evening each day therin, and therfor did nominat,  #
by thair
said petitione to the counsell, tuo persons, viz., John Gormack #
and Alexr. 
Andersone, scoolmasteris in this burghe, that the counsell      #
might choise
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and authorise on of them for the forsaid effect, as also that   #
they wold
appoynt the bell of the said Trinitie Chappill to be rung at    #
the ordinar
dyets therof, as in the petitione wes conteinit, which the      #
counsell considdering,
they heirby nominat and elect the said Alexander Andersone
to exercise the forsaid deutie in the said chappill, and        #
remitts him to the
traids of the said brughe to geue him such sallarie for his     #
service as they
sall find convenient.

[}2 MAY 1671.}]
   The said day, the counsell understanding that the Lords      #
Commissioners
of Justiciarie for the circuit court wer vpon their journey,    #
and to
be heir tomorrow, finds it incumbent vpon them to giue them due #
attendance
as supream judges vnder his Maiestie, and therfor recomends to
the magistrats to wait vpon them at the Bowbridge, for          #
conveying them
to thair lodgings, and the toune serjands to goe before them    #
with their
halberts discoverit, and about ane hundreth of the inhabitants  #
to be in good
ordour in armes for thair receptione and convayence to thair    #
lodgings,
and fyftein out of each quarter to atend in the day time, as    #
ane guard, as
also that the militia company atend thair receptione bewest the #
Bow bridge
for that effect; and Arthur Dalgardnoe, to be Leivtennent to    #
the militia
company, and John Wells to the tounes company, and Master       #
Thomas
Forbes, sone to Robert Forbes, baillie, to be ensigne bearer to #
the tounes
company, and Master Alexr. Robertsone, clerk depute, to be      #
ensigne to the
militia companie, and the mariadge dask, and dask vpon the eist #
part therof,
in the old kirk, as also the Chalmers dask ther, and the Reid   #
loft, as also
the mariadge, Menzes, and Rutherfurds dasks in the new church   #
to be
coverit with cushoons and carpits, in handsome forme wpon the   #
Lords
day, and week dayes, and other occasions neidfull.

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[}22 MAY 1671.}]
   The said day, the councell appoynts Gilbert Mollesone,       #
baillie, to
attend the muster at Kintoir, vpon Tuesday nixt, of the militia #
regiment of
this shyre, and advert that this brughe be not prejudgit in any #
thing relating
to ther company, and the thesaurer to pay his charges which     #
sall be
allowit in his accompts.

[} (\EDOM DIE.\) }]
   The said day, the councell nominats and elects Arthur        #
Dalgardno,
burges of this brughe, ensigne bearer of the tounes militia     #
company, and
recomends to the magistrats to call for him for accepting of    #
the said charge.

[}5 JULY 1671.}]
   The said day, the magistrats and councell of the said        #
brughe, taking
to consideratione that notwithstanding of seuerall former acts  #
and statutes,
made be ther predecessoris, appoynting onlie four witnesses of  #
men, and
alse many of weemen to be at the baptisme of ilk child baptised #
within the
kirks of this brughe, yet neuertheles the saids acts ware       #
greatlie contraveined,
and it was ofttime fund that by too great conventiones of       #
persones
vpon that accompt, alse weell of men as weemen, both the        #
inviters and the
invited ware at more then necessar charges; therfor the saids   #
magistrats
and councell not onlie ratifies and approves the former acts    #
and statuts
of their predecessors in that behalfe, but also of new statutes #
and
ordaines, that no inhabitant within this brughe, of what        #
someuer qualitie
or conditione, invite or desyre any further witnessis to the    #
baptisme of
their childerin, but onlie four men and four weemen, with four  #
weemen
more to accompany the child to and from the church, with        #
certificatione
to all persones, inviters or any in their names who sall be     #
found to contraveine,
that they sall pay ane vnlaw of ane rex dollour to the dean of
gild of this burghe, for ilk persone aboue that number, to be   #
wptakine without
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any forbearance, and ordaines thir presents to be intimat from  #
the
pulpits the nixt Lords day, to the effect non pretend           #
ignorance.

[}5 JULY 1671.}]
   The said day, the saids magistrats and councell alse         #
considdering that
ther wes ane abusse within this burghe, too long tollerat, to   #
the prejudice
of the inhabitants of the same, in that prentessis, servants,   #
and people of
miner sort entering in mariadge togither, did make comone       #
brydells, and
did frequentlie invite great numbers of persones to the same,   #
who not
onlie to ther own great loss, but also to the prejudice of the  #
commone
weell of this burghe, did too larglie give out ther meines,     #
albeit many of
them had no relatione to the parties maried, but onlie          #
following the
example of them who possiblie ware nearlie concerneit; Therfor, #
for
remeid quherof the magistrats and councell heirby statutes,     #
inacts, and
ordaines that no persone whatsomeuer invited or present at any  #
such
brydells or maradges within this brughe, in tyme comeing, pay   #
or giue out
any more money vpon the forsaid accompt then threttein shilling #
four
pennies ilk persone at most, whither at dennar or supper, with  #
certificatione
to all who sall contraveine, that the persone contraveineing    #
sall pay ten
merks money forsaid, quherof the one halfe to the dean of gild  #
of this
brughe, for the vse of the toune, and the vther halfe to the    #
dilatour, which
is to be exactly takin wp without any diminutione, and ordaines #
thir
presents to be intimat thorrow the toune by the drum.





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